Soul-Portraits: April 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Postcards and prints of Toby's work for sale

This section of the blog is dedicated to images of soul portrait work that Toby has done that can be purchased in print or postcard format. If you are interested in buying individual or sets of the prints, you can obtain a pricelist and order from by emailing me: tobyouvry@gmail.com

Soul Portraits of the Planetary Masters
The set of images below are based around the archetypal energies of certain spiritual masters who were and are renowned for particular qualities. For example some of the images embody spiritual power, others divine love, the arts and beauty, science & the intellect, and so on.

Soul Portraits of the Seven Ray Archangels
The set of seven images below are based around meditations upon the Archangels of the seven great rays. The seven great rays are fundamental energies within creation, and are said to have an angelic hierarchy that overlights them, at the head of which are the fourteen ray archangels(a male and female Archangel for each ray).

Soul Portraits of Cosmic or Universal Themes
The set images immeditately below are based around meditations on universal or cosmic levels of energy, I enjoyed the process of trying to describe in the format of a flat page ideas that are really somewhat limitless!

Enery Signatures of the Seven Chakras
The seven images in the slideshow below are a free flowing attempt to render visual images that correspond to the seven chakras, or principal energy centres that reside within the human body.

Energy Signatures of the Twelve Astrological Signs and Schools of Life
Like the chakras, in the images of the astrological signs below, I have attempted a free flowing set of circularcompositions, based around the colours and symbols of each of the twelve signs.
These twelve images are avaliable only as a postcard set, price: €11

Energy Signatures of the Seven Ray Symbols
As well as having actual spiritual masters and angelic forces associated with the seven rays, they also have traditional symbols associated with them that I have depicted below, the contemplation or visualization of which can be used as right-brained or intuitive method for absorbing the higher qualities of that particular ray.

What Are Soul Portraits?

I have been drawing and painting soul portraits now for about five years; this blog has been created to display the body of artwork that has been created over that time
Almost everybody understands what a portrait is, but if we ask ‘what is the soul?’ the answer may not be as clear. Therefore, in asking the question ‘what is a soul portrait?’ the main key lies in understanding what we mean by the soul. When working on my soul portraits, the definition of ‘soul’ that I work with is as follows:
“The soul is the interface between the spirit and the personality of a person, animal or other form of living being.”
The spirit of a person is the formless essence or primal life/light that lies at the very core of an individuals being. It is this divine spark of spirit from which the other less subtle and more distinctive aspects of the individual arise. To say that the spirit of a person is formless is to say that it has no physical, emotional or mental characteristics. It cannot be known or perceived directly with our senses. It can however be sensed or felt by quieting the mind and entering into a silent or non-conceptual state of being such as can be cultivated in various forms of meditation.
The personality of a person is the form level of a person, that is to say their physical, mental and emotional characteristics. Each person is unique, and this uniqueness is seen through their physical appearance, their speech, the way they think, feel and express themselves. All of these things are the personality level of a person. When we say ‘I know so and so, she is like this and this…’ we are referring to the personality of that person.
So then, the soul is the interface between these two levels of our being, between the formless essence of our spirit, and the form level of our personality. As such the soul of a person partakes of both worlds. It has access to the limitless light and spaciousness of our spirit, but at the same time the soul can be said to have form and structure. However this form and structure is on a more subtle and abstract level than the manifest thoughts, feelings and physical appearances of the personality level of our being. So, when we talk about creating a soul portrait, what we are trying to portray through lines, forms and colours is the relatively abstract energy of a persons soul matrix or ‘energy signature’. These are the key energetic patterns and themes that are present in a person’s soul. To give an analogy, in the same way that everyone has a written signature, we all also have a soul energy signature, or a particular arrangement of patterns and energies within us that are unique and characteristic to our particular soul.It is these ‘soul energies’ that I am trying to tap into and portray when I do someone’s soul portrait.
It should be noted also that the soul can be both an individual and/or collective phenomenon. In the same way that you can have soul of an individual, you can also have a ‘collective soul’ of a group of beings, such as a family of humans or a species of animal.

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