36″ x 36″
Oil on Canvas
Available

On Monday April 2nd 2012 Paula has been invited to be a guest speaker at a HAPA (Holistic Approach Professional Association) round table discussion entitled ”A conversation encompassing psychology, spirituality and our well being.”

Paula will talk about “Spirit. Breath. Colour” the power and oneness of our human spirit and the expression of this spirit through sound and colour.
The creative process is not an act of the will but rather an act of submission; surrendering our intellect over to the power of divine revelation. It is the gradual movement out of self consciousness  and the eternal movement into the awakening of the divine within us that begins a process of refinement which allows us to experience as a collective creative mind, the restoration of our oneness and pureness of spirit.

24″ x 20″
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection – Toronto, ON
Inspired by Prokofiev’s “Romeo & Juliet” (Op. 64)

16″ x 20″
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
Available

Based on

Photograph by Emma Kassirer

48″ x 54″
Oil on Canvas
Available

48″ x 54″
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Available

After Degas’

study for war scene in the middle ages

21″ x 25″
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection – New York, NY

your heart

what can be said but all the things unsaid,
what is to be done but the things we have not?
i have so few words from you,
that my heart must journey long to reach them
and the path between myself and my heart grows too great
for this heart to know my thoughts and to teach them
the various pleasures due,
that no words at all, in that infinite distance
seem closer to accurate,
in that such estrangement with that heart
puts you closer to my words,
and deigns you all the more than I, it’s mate

2010

Poem by Micah Kessel

54″ x 36″
Oil on Canvas
Available

Rose. After Lempicka’s Seated nude with raised arms

54″ x 48″
Oil on Canvas
Available
Pines of Rome is a….

Pines of Rome (Italian Pini di Roma) is a symphonic poem written in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and, together with Fontane di Roma and Feste Romane, forms what is sometimes loosely referred to as his “Roman trilogy”. Each movement depicts the pine trees in different locations in Rome at different times of day.

Pines of Rome, Movement IV, The Pines of the Appian Way – performed by The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – Conducted by Georges Pretre

The first performance was given under conductor Bernardino Molinari in the Augusteo, Rome, on December 14, 1924.

when I think of the Pines of Rome I like to imagine the bark and the rings of the tree trunks as they grow. the history that those rings represent, the events those pines have witnessed. Especially in a city like Rome! with its rich history of philosophy, music and art. I feel the cyclical connection of time in those rings.
- Paula Arciniega

It is no small wonder that I am always carried on the transports of a kind of configuring-energy when taking brush to hand facing an empty canvas. Albeit the work is accomplished through seeing images, shapes, color and structures, a painting for me is ill-planned if I premeditate its final state. It always comes to the screen of my consciousness as a vivid vision.

Paula Arciniega