 Because
the healing process itself is archetypal, other people with
similar soul needs may participate in the healing aspects as
viewers -- as those drinking from a deep well. The artist digs
the well, and all who thirst after that water may drink. The
process of making a work of art is that of creating a center
around which the energies and forces of the larger life of the
soul gather. Thus, the process, and the painting itself, begins
to heal the split, the lack of connection with the divine, which
is the root of all disease.
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Lee Lawson's gifts as an
artist are evident not only in her superb technical skills,
nor only in the ethereal palette she creates for her works.
Even more so, her gifts derive from an ability that is older
than time --the ability to envision. She has clear memory of
things that dance, hide, misbehave, dream, sleep, appear and
disappear in the human psyche.
In myths and dreams, the unconscious ---both collective and
personal-- is often symbolically portrayed as a great body
of water. Lee Lawson's work clearly reflects those oceans
that surge and thrive beneath our mundane consciousness. She
is much shape changer as she is artist: a human being one
movement, a sea creature the next.
Only the person who navigates the interior life on a regular
basis can consistently bring such spare but evocative images
to canvas. Her work most richly viewed with both outer and
inner seeing, testifies to the fact that she is a rare artist
especially skilled in bringing to the surface mysterious,
yet clearly stated, first-person accounts of the deep imaginal
world.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph. D
Author of Women Who Run with the Wolves
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