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Lorraine van Wyk
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Painter, Photographer, Shapeshifter

Inside my elemental world. #theelements #air #ea

Inside my elemental world.

#theelements #air #earth by the #sea #sun #sounds #blissmode 🌊♒️☀️

So long Marianne… 🪽 I drew a picture of beaut

So long Marianne… 🪽
I drew a picture of beautiful you…

#rip #mariannefaithfull

SALIG 1189 X 841mm #Sage #Prayer #contemporaryart

SALIG
1189 X 841mm

#Sage #Prayer #contemporaryart #portraitart #wetpaint #contemporaryportrait #lvwww

The vessel in the vessel.
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

🎥📷 @pz_visualcontent

#NewMoonInAquarius
#VenusInPisces
#LorraineInTheBath
#WaterIsLife
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

…amusings… #WIP #Midnight #Musings

…amusings…

#WIP #Midnight #Musings

How not to stop… Keep going. 😎🛹🪽 @pz_v

How not to stop…
Keep going.
😎🛹🪽
@pz_visualcontent Thanks for watching my back and for being part of my gang! 💰🤩😂❤️
#DontStop #KeepGoing #YouGotThis and #HaveANiceDay 😊

The Tide of the Song Weaver She stood at the wate

The Tide of the Song Weaver

She stood at the water’s edge, where the moonlight touched the restless waves. The Cancer Full Moon hung high, casting its silver glow across the sea, echoing the depth of her soul’s yearning for home. Above, the stars aligned in silent rhythm, a celestial event unfolding, unnoticed.

A melody rose from the water, soft, floaty, mournful, and hauntingly familiar. Aphrodite recognized it as Amphitrite’s call, the Song of the Weaver. It spoke of undone threads, salt, sorrow, and patterns yet to be formed. Without hesitation, she stepped into her sister’s realm.

Amphitrite rose from the sea, her robes flowing like the tides, her eyes a deep night shade, as deep as the ocean floor. She held a net woven from starlight and eternity. “You’ve cast your arrow into the void,” she said. “Now, weave what remains.”

Aphrodite stepped forward, herself born of ocean foam, carrying a translucent rose, fragile as a tear. “Will you help me weave it into something new, or let the tides carry it away?”

Together, they knelt by the water, weaving each thread into a tapestry of light and shadow, grief and love, forgotten dreams, and new hopes.

When they rose, the tide had stilled. Amphitrite smiled as the waves receded, revealing a shimmering path of sand. “What you weave now will guide your future.”

Aphrodite’s voice was soft, like a sigh. “To weave is to trust, to find beauty in saltwater and tears, and to believe in what is unseen until it reveals.”

Under the Full Moon’s glow, the two stood as sisters, united by the ocean’s depth, the light of their bond, and the eternal rhythm of creation.

#FullMoonInCancer #VenusInPisces #Weavers #Mermaids #LoveAndAlchemy #MysticalJourney #LoveNotWar #ConstellationConsolation #Astronomy #CosmicTransformation #TheHeroineJourney #MythicDreams #lvwww

The Dream of the Water Bearer She wandered the m

The Dream of the Water Bearer

She wandered the misted plains at the base of Devil’s Peak, where the air shimmered of the Black Moon. From the distance came a melody -Some Dreams You Never Wake Up From. The notes rose from the earth, threading through the night like fireflies, drawing her onward.

Chiron, the centaur emerged. He carried both the weight of time and the lightness of stars. He stood still, his gaze a sideways question. “We meet again,” he said, his voice like a shadow against the wind.

Aphrodite held a white rose in her hand, its petals trembling. The pull of the water urged her to move forward, to scatter the burdens of the past into the waves. Yet the ground beneath her, the mountains rising behind her, spoke of endurance, of the necessity to shape her dreams with rooted hands.

“Have you found the courage to dream, in the dark?” He asked.
She turned to him. “I’ve dreamed. But they follow me like shadows, inescapable dreams, no matter how far I wander.”
He offered her a silver arrow. Its length was smooth and ageless, forged of starfire. “Then shoot them,” he said. “Dreams are not meant to haunt; they are meant to guide. What you fear is often the keeper of your light.”

Taking the arrow, she knelt and placed the white rose in the hollow of a goat skull, she grounded her resolve. Rising, she notched the arrow, and with the fire, the strength, and the vision, she let it fly forward. The arrow vanished into the void, and for a moment, the sky held its breath. She released it. The sky split open, starlight pouring like rain. In its glow, the rose shimmered—a promise of renewal, a symbol of what she had learned and what she would build. Chiron’s form began to dissolve into constellations. His voice lingered, steady as the earth: To heal is to honor the wound and the journey.

She stood alone quiet by the water’s edge, the breeze stirring her hair. The melody played on, soft and insistent: Some dreams you never wake up from.
She smiled, to living inside the Dream.

#BlackMoonInCapricorn#VenusInAquarius#SilverArrow#ChironDirect#TheWaterBearer #WaterIsLife NewMoonSagittarius #DoubleNewMoon #lvwww

31 December 2024 @ 1:30am ,
Devil’s Peak, Cape Town

Favourite Colours #green #gold #blue #black #Lor

Favourite Colours
#green #gold #blue #black
#LorraineVanWykPortrait #ContemporaryPortraitArt #ForTheLoveOfArt #Impasto #WetPaint #lvwww

“Let yourself be silently drawn by that which yo

“Let yourself be silently drawn by that which you truly love. “

#FullMoonInTaurus #VenusInCapricorn #NatureIsMyNature #Earth #SmellTheRoses #lvwww

The Garden of Nostalgia:
A Midnight Reverie… 🌑

Death and Love are two wings that bear the soul to Heaven.

#NewMoonInScorpio #VenusInSagittarius #FullCircle #AnemoneBloom #SeedsOfRenewal #LoveInTheDark #PhoenixRising #Astronomy #CosmicTransformation #MysticalJourney #LoveAndAlchemy #lvwww

Story time… 🌕 She had to be drawn from the d

Story time… 🌕

She had to be drawn from the darkness…

After Aphrodite’s descent into the underworld, her heart weighed by grief and loss, her beauty had faded, and she believed she was bound to the shadows forever until one day, Chiron, a fierce centaur, appeared. Half horse, half man, with a mane wild as a forest fire, he carried arrows forged from the stars.

Chiron recognized the grief in Aphrodite’s eyes and spoke to her, “You are Aphrodite, goddess of love, but your heart is bound to shadows. Come with me, and I will show you the way to freedom.” She mounted his back, and together they galloped through untamed wilderness and uncharted skies. For the first time in a long time, she felt her spirit rise and a sense of liberation revived. She remembered that life was not only about love’s sorrows but also about the thrill of adventure and new horizons.

Chiron taught Aphrodite the art of archery, telling her that aiming an arrow was like aiming her heart toward hope. With each arrow released, Aphrodite let go of her past. And with one final shot, her arrow turned into a shooting star, realising her transformation under the red flaming Aries moon.

She embraced her wild power, no longer bound by grief, but rejoicing in her new purpose. She realized that love, like the arrows she now wielded, was meant to radiate, unbounded into the unknown and beyond. Her beauty returned, but it was different now—deeper, more powerful. She was no longer just the goddess of love (and sorrow) but also the goddess of freedom, adventure, and endless possibility.

🌕☄️💫❤️🪽🏹✨

#FullMoonInAries #VenusEntersSagittarius #Chiron #thewoundedhealer #symbolism #HuntersMoon #CherokeeRose #CosmicTransformation #ShootingStarDestiny #graphite #lvwww

Story time! 🌚 With the eclipse, Libra new moo

Story time! 🌚

With the eclipse, Libra new moon, and Venus still in Scorpio, I took Aphrodite on a trip to the Underworld. Reminded me of *Aphrodite & Adonis*: They fall madly in love, he’s off hunting, gets fatally injured by a wild boar (ouch), and his soul ends up with Persephone. Aphrodite is heartbroken, so she ventures into the Underworld to get him back. Zeus steps in—now Adonis spends half the year with each goddess. But love wins: Adonis becomes a anemone flower, blooming eternally. Moral? True love isn’t about time—it’s about depth. 🌸

Spring is blooming, I’m in love, and hey—better to pick flowers than resurrect the dead. I drew some anemones at the bottom. Also, if you look closely, you might spot a psychotic smiley face... 😝

#venusinscorpio #newmooninlibra #transformornot #mythology #artiftheday #graphite #artnouveaugalore #springblooms #loveandflowers #lvwww

The Lovers 🖤 Nobody will stop you from creatin

The Lovers 🖤

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.
Kurt Vonnegut

#thelovers
#loveisall
#bealover
#artaday
#lvwww

I recently had the pleasure of sitting with my fri

I recently had the pleasure of sitting with my friend Gershan (aka Khoisan Boyman). To sit with him is as peaceful as I feel this image portrays. I met him 6 years ago and later that year we drove together to Swaziland (aka Eswatini). He blessed my journey with his peaceful focused presence, stories and songs. Happy Heritage Day to our beautiful and diverse country, South Africa, our people, a place we strive to celebrate the unique cultures of many, in acceptance and curiosity. Let’s light the🔥🔥🔥

#heritageday #diversity #unity #braaiday #culture #peace #southafrica #khoisanart #contemporaryportrait #Southafricanartist #lorrainevanwykart #lvwww

Kissing and running away #twilighthour #heaven #p

Kissing and running away

#twilighthour #heaven #psychoharry

My keeper #spiritanimal #lvwww

My keeper
#spiritanimal #lvwww

We stay blessed neverthelessed… #natureismynatur

We stay blessed neverthelessed…
#natureismynature #waterislife #makelovenotwar

Cape Town Perspective A point of view

Cape Town
Perspective
A point of view

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