Lady, you have filled these exile days of mine

Guest by Rabbindranath Tagore

Lady, you have filled these exile days of mine

With sweetness, made a foreign traveler your own

As easily as these unfamiliar stars, quietly,

Coolly smiling from heaven, have likewise given me

Welcome. When I stood at this window and stared

At the southern sky, a message seemed to slide

Into my soul from the harmony of the stars,

A solemn music that said, "We know you are ours-

Guest of our light from the day you passed

From darkness into the world, always our guest."

Lady, your kindness is a star, the same solemn tune

In your glance seems to say, "I know you are mine."

I do not know your language, but I hear your melody:

"Poet, guest of my love, my guest eternally."

From Selected Poems, Translated by William Radice (Penguin Classics, 2005)

 

All Artworks © Robert Burton. Artworks are available in a large number of formats including framed and unframed limited edition prints and original artworks. Please contact The Shaman for more information.

The Shaman presents... new inspirational artworks

A Garment of Light and Stars.... A Walk in the Night Garden

At night the temple walls glow and the sky fills with a cloak of stars

Persia

"Look", he said. "See how love shines through all things in the Universe".

"Joy, Joy, all is Joy".

Hermitage

We look into living light walking a pathway between the seen and the unseen.

Lila

Sweet Divine Mother, the light before me reveals the way to your heart.

Moving Light


In the garden we would sit at night in the warm evening air watching the boat of the heavens sail through the stars.

Selene

And walking back through the shadows you held my hand... Divine Lady, I embrace your Love.

In The Garden

In you we begin, through you we are preserved and in you we are changed... we are of the earth but every day we wear the coat of stars.

Arising

All artworks can be purchased in a wide range of formats - fine art limited edition prints, as a series of limited edition greetings cards, limited edition canvas prints and  textile accessories (scarves - men and women's -textile hangings ). For further information please contact The Shaman.

Jai Guru Dev

Om Shanti

Namaste

All Images © Robert Burton

Words from the Shaman

A podcast to introduce the principles of Shamanism and featuring some of my artworks.



My workshop - 'An Introduction to Shamanism' - will take place at Yoga Ananda on Sunday, 17th October, 2010.

AVAILABLE NOW - finest quality silk scarves and handkerchiefs

The Shaman is pleased to announce a collection of digital artworks are now available as unique limited-edition, high-quality digitally printed silk scarves and handkerchiefs. These are made to order and are strictly limited to editions of 50.

The following images are available on luscious silk twill, high-quality digital print as 90cm x 90cm scarves with hand rolled edges; and as 40cm x 40cm handkerchiefs with flat hemmed edges.

A New Mandala for Tibet

 

Crystal Hermitage

Zen Lotus

Christo

Lahiri

Mesopotamia

Scarves can be purchased for £80 (plus £10 P&P in UK) and the handkerchiefs can be purchased for £40 (plus £10 P&P in UK)

This following series of images can purchased for £90 each (plus £10 P&P in UK) with the images beautifully recreated on flowing silk chiffon (70cm by 200cm).

Shivas Dance

 

Deep Yellow

 May the joy of the love and light always walk with you!

Image © Georgie Clarke; Performance by Stav Bee

Namaste.

The Kriya Masters and the Babaji dress

The images for this dress - which the Shaman named Babaji - were part of a series of artworks based on the inspiration of Kriya yoga and the bringing together of the journey to self-realisation, and the actual journey through time and our connection to the land. The beauty of a flower shining with the beauty of the soul. It is a series of artworks that have the images of the masters layered with drawings that are manifestations in imagery of the flow of energies and a photos of nature.

The Shaman was staying at Ananda in California as artist-in-residence producing a series of works culminating with a major exhibition of artworks inspired by the Kriya yoga tradition and the community. The landscape at Ananda is amazing and fills one with awe - a wonderful place to set up a community based on the principals of raja yoga and self realisation. In the farthest corner of the village there is the beautiful crystal hermitage blooming with flowers high up above the valley of the Yuba river. The Shaman sat in the garden breathing in the peace of the warm California days before committing to paper and computer the energies of creativity flowing through him.

The series of four artworks feature the images of the masters and each captures the sensibility of gurus as they appeared before him. Two of these were used for the garment. Lahiri Mahasaya is at the front with the sterner countenance of Sri Yukteswar Giri at the back.

The idea was never really to produce a dress but that the imagery might take the form of ritual shirts as worn for prayer. This evolved into a more wearable garment that is evocative and decorative. In the Shaman's work, his desire is to bring together the sensibilities of the journey to self-realisation and the earthiness of our place on this planet. In this way he perceives the imagery as ethereal and non-existent being placed in time, and space on the body - the representation of our foundation and roots in the earth.

The garment is a one off wearable art piece. It is digitally printed in finest quality silk beautifully made. It is a UK size 10 -12 and is for sale. Please email The Shaman for further details and price.

All original artworks are available as limited edition greetings cards, limited edition fine art prints and one off works on canvas. See side bar for further details.

 If you are interested in commissioning artworks or bespoke printed garments please contact The Shaman.

All images © Robert Burton

Artworks inspired by the Shaman's journeys in India

India - a vibrating land of beauty and inspiration. The following artworks were all borne out of the Shaman's love for the energies and beauty of the cradle of God; and by his travels with sadhus in Varanasi, Buddhist monks in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal and the awe-inspiring spaces in which they reside - whether they be in nature or within buildings.

Lotus on the Ganga

Mother Ganges flows from her rising in the high Himalayas through the home of the wise ones in Rishikesh and later through the holy city of Varanasi, the city of Shiva, god of change and movement.

The dancing Shiva, Shiva Nataraj, the Indian Shaman dancing the worlds into being. And where does the river flow........it flows to the sea where all our dreams are but tiny drops in the ocean.

The Egoless Mind

Mcleod Ganj is cold in January but the sun rises with a diffused light. The Tibetan communities now reside there after leaving their homeland.

This image was created as a prayer that all humanity may live in peace connected in joy released of man's ego that binds him.

A Universe of Consciousness

We are all part of the land.

Divine mother and the earth unite in one great song that resonates through the leaves on the trees through roots and branches to all that is One.

Inner Temple

The sun rose over the Mehrali-Gurgaon Road as we turned right perceiving the beauty of the temples in the diffused light with their soft marble sculptures their reflect in form devotion and the sensibilities of India's many gods.

A New Mandala for Tibet

On a steep outcrop in Darjeeling lies a small monastery. The Shaman enters and a monk proudly asks if he would like to see 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' brought from Tibet and now stored under the floorboards. This is a rare event as it is seldom seen only now it is being restored and soon to be laid to rest again.

Every morning at 6am the sun rises over Everest and Kanchenjunga, the highest mountain in India, and on the hillside below in Ghoom the monks begin prayers to the sounds of Himalayan horns and cymbal.

All images © Robert Burton