DOROTHY BURY SHAW © April 2023
Size of original: 22” x 30”
Medium: archival inks, water color and colored pencil with collage elements on premium cotton rag paper.
Becoming
asks for a lifetime
to undo, rewrite, and peel away,
to bandage the broken,
to stand brave,
gazing into the unknown…
© August 2021
Size of original: 15” x 22”
Medium: archival inks, water color and colored pencil with collage elements on premium cotton rag paper
Midnight gathers me
into its ever-deepening,
slowly-sinking folds…
DOROTHY BURY SHAW © March 2021
Size of original: 30” x 22”
Medium: archival inks, water color and colored pencil with collage elements on premium cotton rag paper
In the presence of You
I forget this day and tomorrow.
You speak my name and
I tumble into your Heart…
15" x 22"
Archival inks, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on archival cotton rag paper.
Created in October of 2022
Walking the trail,
tuned to the murmurs of the trees,
I’m pulled toward the one that knows me best…
© 2019
14 1/8" x 26 3/8"
Archival ink, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on cotton rag paper.
At the dawn of creation there was Love
saturating every hum of the vast stillness
even as a blazing burst of light scattered the heavens.
Infant earth was hurled into orbit
and came to rest in lazy circles around the sun.
© 2020
17 3/4" x 28 1/4"
Archival ink, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on cotton rag paper.
This very place
with precise coordinates
in time and space,
optimum longitude, breathtaking latitude,
pristine sound, caressing light,
proximity to a congress of angels,
coveted by the smitten moon,
and encircled by the stars,
it was chosen for you.
© 2020
14" x 20"
Archival ink, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on cotton rag paper.
We wait,
our tired wings ragged and limp.
From the heights of our longing
we have opened.
From the depths of our listening
we are hushed.
A soft voice reminds us.
© 2019
17 3/4" x 22 3/4"
Archival ink, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on cotton rag paper.
Each woman is a land unto herself.
Do not expect to know the language spoken there,
or how the laws of the land were written.
Tread gently, taking time to observe, listen, understand.
Take care to not touch her too soon.
This is a sacred province,
© 2018
6 3/4" x 9 1/8"
Archival ink, watercolor and colored pencil on cotton rag paper
Standing here, everything seems different.
Looking ‘round, nothing’s really changed.
Can it be between one breath and another
an entire world’s been rearranged?
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© 2018
14 3/4" x 17 7/8"
Archival ink, watercolor and colored pencil on cotton rag paper.
In your dreams you are falling,
a swift descent into a dark unknown.
Yet, the bottom never comes.
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Open Heart
© 2018
10 1/2" x 13 1/2"
Archival ink, watercolor, and colored pencil on cotton rag paper.
My darling child,
there is but one of you in all creation.
Search the ages and comb the skies.
Never before, and never again
will you find another you.
© 2017
9 1/3" x 16 1/8"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper
She fears not these dark days,
nor the molecular marvels of her underworld.
Real as they might appear, they hold no place
in the wakening spectrum of her consciousness.
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© 2017
9 1/3" x 16 1/8"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper.
The little seed lamented …
“You planted me in somber waters
where life had shed its skin
amidst the forsaken and unseen.
Then you called to me.”
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© 2018
16 1/8" x 19 5/8"
Archival ink, watercolor, colored pencil, and collage elements on cotton rag paper.
You lifted your eyes, brave one,
to face the cyclone of your darkest fears.
You turned to the Light
even as a curtain of clouds closed over it
© 2016
16" x 32"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper
She called his name and Mercy answered.
It took a while,
but what is time but a learning curve
on life’s winding journey?
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Truth Landed Lightly
© 2021
11" x 11"
Fly to me,
Truth.
One word at a time.
Land softly
upon each petal
of my flowering heart
© 2017
21 3/4" x 35"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper
Somewhere, between day and night,
as the fledgling tucks her beak beneath ruffled wings …
Someplace, between yesterday and tomorrow,
as the gold-dusted honey bee returns to the hive …
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© 2016
9" x 12"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper.
Dear ones, loved ones
near and far, long gone and newly born
of the ancients and from unknown tribes,
carried to me on prevailing winds,
or fished from distant seas,
it only matters that we met.
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© 2015
9" x 12"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on rag paper
She had traveled many miles with many more to go.
Wearily, she paused to rest.
A dragonfly with prism wings landed on her wrist.
She smiled at her old friend.
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© 2014
11" x 14"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
She met Him
in the space between two horizons
and called out,
“Here I am.”
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© 2018
6 3/4" x 9 1/8"
Archival ink, watercolor and colored pencil on cotton rag paper.
Summer’s high, riotous colors,
exuberant street music and wine-drenched laughter,
boisterous blooms and insects humming
leave her laughing with a wanton sense of freedom.
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© 2013
9" x 12"
Archival ink, Prismacolor ink and watercolor on Strathmore paper
A man of simple needs and few words,
he held no malice in his heart.
The hidden nook he built for himself in the clock tower
was stacked with books which left no room for dreams or dragons. Read full poem...
7 1/2" x 10"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
AWARD WINNER: Selected for the "Best of the Best Exhibit - 2015", Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, Illinois
A woman, a songbird
and the morning sun
burst into song.
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© 2014
8" x 10"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
Gone… the thief’s hungry reach for her dreams.
Silenced… the inner voices that deceived her.
Banished… the fear that followed each mistake.
© 2013
9" x 12"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
AWARD WINNER: Charles Vickery Award for Best in Theme, Sailor's Delight Exhibition, La Grange Art League Gallery, January 2016. First Place, Brigantine Fine Art Gallery, Downers Grove, Illinois, May 2015.
The sea was angry that day.
Strong and fearless, she was not amused.
In an instant she would disappear
into those flashing waters…
down, down…
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© 2014
11" x 14"
Archival inks, watercolor and colored pencil on aqua board.
Close as we could ever be
to All that was and All yet to be,
In hallowed depths that no one sees
I touch you and you touch me.
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© 2014
9" x 12"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
It began long before her child was born…
the deep sense of knowing.
The spark of life within her
held divine purpose.
© 2014
8" x 10"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper.
With love she learned …
Reaching is touching.
Letting go is letting in.
Opening wide is holding close.
Thinking is choosing.
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© 2013
8" x 10"
Archival inks and watercolor on premium paper
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