SLEEPY MORNING- TIME.

St. Paul's Bay-early morning.

We have just returned from the morning walk, It's a beautiful day, -the first day of Advent, and so a fitting time for The Oasis News for Winter.

The summer here was exhaustingly hot, and I think everyone suffered in varying degrees! Autumn has been erratic, but at the moment we are experiencing calm, rather mellow sunshine days, for me ,days of drinking in that fading, warm glow that helps me through the winter.

We continue to enjoy the Oasis Studio as a simple expansion of the Oasis Vision and Way of Life. It's lovely to enjoy the sense of freedom that the creativity of painting gives me, and it's lovely to be able to share moments with friends in a peaceful , sunny work -place. I think that Joe is enjoying working with the plants in the small outside setting ,-(good exercise too!)

Increasingly we try to simplify and to follow, as trustingly as we can The Oasis guidelines for living:- that simple, positive, balanced, loving , caring,happy, wholesome format that has been offered over the years.Despite the pressure, confusion, and pain that is so much a part of life at the moment, this really does give us a sense of peace.

Christmas will soon be upon us again, and I have to say that it's my favourite time. Somehow the wonder has never left me, and I feel it so deeply as a time of Hope! Don't we all need this hope to sustain us? The week leading up to Christmas we hope to be at the studio- mornings-10-00am-12-00. We will be delighted to see you , hear your news and enjoy a Christmas drink with you.

So may this Christmas be for you a time of deep Peace and Love, and may The Holy Family guide and protect us all in the New Year to follow.

Maureen

LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE.!

Having morning coffee at our local coffee shop is always an interesting experience! Joe the proprietor has usually some surprises in store . At the moment he is re-vamping the interior, and because he is a designer at heart this allows him scope to give his creativity free reign .No mean result! The scene on entering is rainbow-like with a splendid array of subtle lighting--- at once you are floating on air or drifting underwater,---just right for early morning,- and the coffee is good too!! Keep up the good work Joe!

TODAY'S PAINTING----GIRL IN WHITE DRESS.

Girl in White Dress----Textured acrylic on stretched canvas. €590---28"x36"

My paintings are simple and hopefully uncluttered, probably because this is how I feel life should be. We seem to weigh ourselves down with so many complications and often unnecessary baggage that the sense of freedom and carefree living increasingly disappears.I'm sure that true living shouldn't be this way and I suppose I am always searching for that real peace that can only come with a genuine feeling of being at one with God, oneself , everyone and everything. Doesn't this demand such faith, hope and love? --'Girl in White Dress' tries to say this, I think she is an expression of my deep longing!

JOE'S PICTURES OF THE STUDIO.

Joe's Pictures.

Last week there were some lovely,bright mornings and friends visited us at the studio: Joe-(of the 'Great Catch!)- and Ingrid.Ofcourse there was also Joe's camera. With camera in hand he can't sit still and the result -some lovely pictures of the studio.---The sun streamed through the windows bathing us in light and I think he has really captured the glow. Thankyou Joe!

'Live in rooms full of light.'

Cornelius Celsius.

TODAY'S PAINTING----DREAM-BOAT.

Dream-Boat.---Acrylic/oil pastel on stretched canvas.---24X30 ins. -750 USD.

My paintings come largely from my imagination and my vision of Life. When I paint a scene I find nearly always that I want to include a figure. Somehow I feel that I am projecting myself into the picture, and I always hope that whoever takes that painting away will do the same thing.---There is something personal and subjective there and I want it to keep alive.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.