Art and Artists

Art is the Great Opener of the Mind, the Heart, the Soul.

Art is the Bridge, the Gate, the Door to seeing, hearing, feeling Life as ‘So Much More’.

Artists are Creators, ReCreators, Transformers-

selves expressing the Self in many varied ways-

lives expressing Life in the sublime and mundane.

Artists are bridges, gates and doors,

revealers, inspirers, motivators, communicators

of the wonders and true magic of Life.

Art is Life expressing Itself in us-

we who open to Art as Life Itself in us.

Only Closed Minds and Hearts and Souls

limit, restrict, confine, deny Art as Life in us-

God’s own glory flowing through us,

measured and filtered though it be.

August 14, 2025

Shelley A. Wilson

Haileybury, Ontario

Every Artist Has

Every Artist Has

Every Artist has a Heart-Song

you can hear and feel and see,

a symmetrical or asymmetrical

rhythm and harmony creating

through their signature frequencies

identifiable, recognizable Art

resonating with others or not.

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Every Artist has a Heart-Song

with simple or complex themes

communicating their experiences,

their views, their loves, their dreams

through spectrums and scales

of light and sound and matter,

telling us who they are and wish to be.

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We all hear an Artist’s Heart-Song.

All our Senses help us to know

when an Artist is truly free

to go where their Heart takes them,

to fulfill their chosen destiny

amidst a world of distractions,

of needs and desires met or not.

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So many Artists craft their Arts

now in the present simultaneously-

now in the past of our history-

now in the future expressions-

manifesting creative energy,

all singing their own Heart-Songs

that work to shape world views.

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Artists can advance our evolution,

create change, even revolution

in Understandings of who we are,

revealing through their imagination

glimpses of who we might be

co-creating as one in harmony

yet different as we can be.

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Is it really any wonder

that any militant, dictatorial power

forces Artists to conform or cower

fearful of their own Heart-Songs

expressing their beauty creatively,

expressing their themes and dreams,

seen as threats to such Authority.

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When Political, Religious, Commercial-

national and global bodies-

groups of people, systems and entities

are confident, secure, of their positions,

they pose no threat, no danger

to any Artists and their Heart-Songs

expressing Life freely and joyously.

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February 22, 2023

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Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC

Celebrated Arts

Perhaps, like me, you’ve come to see

the Artists we most Celebrate,

in every Art that we create,

succeed through geographical Location

and supporting networks-Association.

How often Celebrated Art is a case

depending on glue and glamour of place,

depending on who it is Artists know,

spreading that glamour wherever they go.

On the global ‘Web’ I’ve come to see

Artistic Treasures to buy or admire for free

by Artists outside the Great Art Game,

not following the rules for Fortune and Fame

or knowing those who invest to profit and win

more wealth through Art and Artists now ‘in’.

I Celebrate Artists who stand apart

quietly creating their wondrous Art.

February 7, 2021

Shelley Wilson