Find the seahorse!!! Vision of the Seahorse’s Prayer for Africa, is another mystical paintings that wanted to come through. I simply began by not having a preconceived image before I started. Starting with Prayer and meditation, I burned sacred essences, and as always I used musical instruments and chants to bring certain energies in to work with.

Originally the title of the painting was “Prayer for Africa”. At an art show where my painting was first exhibited in Malibu, CA., a woman called me over to ask if I had glued a real Seahorse onto the canvas. No I did not, but when I looked, sure enough a perfect image of a Seahorse had formed in the paint untouched by my conscious intension. I was truly amazed, I went on to explain to her a little story of when the first Seahorse came to me.

I was sitting meditating with the fire one night (not on psychedelics), and I saw a fairie in the flames of the fire, and she was holding a five-pointed star. As I stared at her in amazement, (I had only seen a fairie once before), she turned into a Seahorse, and then faded away. It surprised me because I had never encountered a Seahorse in my work with Spirit animals, and didn’t know about them. The first thing the next morning a friend called and said, “I don’t know what it is about the Seahorse, I keep feeling the Seahorse. The male carries the babies, you know! It’s the men these days’, they need to look at the Seahorse. We need to find the Seahorse in our men.”

Because of that vision, I painted a Seahorse, but unhappy with the quality of Spirit in it, eventually I covered it over with paint to begin a new one, resulting in, “Vision of the Seahorse’s Prayer for Africa”.

Spirit images of the elephant, the giraffe, and the gazelle were already in the painting after the base was laid out; I just brought the details to life. The Buddha is serene in his meditation. An African Eagle flies toward us pulling a string connected to the Buddha’s lower earlobe, which is activating the Spiritual reflex point to the pineal gland in the brain, opening his inner vision. He is Praying for Africa, he is praying for us all.