Ivette’s Art

Tucked into a diary, I found a folded sheet of paper dated May 6th – 22nd, 2023. It contained these 18 haiku under the heading "writing dharma haiku". In our 3rd Irish residence in County Clare, my listening room for work was right behind Ivette's office where she did all her graphic work and writing. Here […]

From Deidre M.  Tears of gratitude. I’m so so moved, moved to tears. I’m just looking at the time you sent me this message and at the exact time I was looking at this image of the deer sculpture and thought of Ivette. It spoke volumes to me. The words filled me completely and I […]

This series of images makes up a little book which Ivette called her Fairy Tale Book.

Whilst Ivette referred to these images as botanical backgrounds, they remind me very much of the screensavers she made for me. If you agree that their painterly and pastel qualities lend themselves to being strategically populated wit hovering nav icons, here are some more in both landscape and portrait mode to suit PC/Mac as well […]

These images from the Book of Hours folder are examples of Ivette's interest in making decks of cards, here repurposing classic paintings.

This series of cosmic images was inspired by Swami Devageet's Aegina/Greece workshop on the transomatic past-life healing process he developed following a personal transmission from Osho in Poona 2.

This page combines images from Ivette's 4 Noble Truths and Ballina Arts Show folders.

The very large images on this page are from various of Ivette's folders so neither chronological nor necessarily meant to be part of a group. Culling through literally thousands upon thousands of files on her computer, that's simply how this cookie crumbled.

These images come from a folder called Phantom. Don't ask me why that title. Ivette loved to work to themes some of which were influenced by the seasons.

Given my work's focus on music and the gear used to play it back in the home, Ivette made this small set of six images. At the beginning of her immersion in photography, she developed her own negatives in a darkroom so had a real affinity for the richness of hues in classic black 'n' […]

Entitled tryptich, the images in this folder on Ivette's computer seem to have been meant for a little book of prayers as in other versions of them, some are already overlaid with text. I've chosen the purely visual renders to remain non-denominational so more universal.

Like most women, Ivette loved shop windows and also found the androgynous slightly otherworldly feel of mannequins interesting to embed them in some of her layered montages. She also loved ancient sculptures and temples. These are big print-ready files so right-click to open at full size.

This is an example excerpt

Ivette's work desk in our 2nd Irish residence in Liscarney/Mayo, facing the mountain Croagh Patrick. * * * one lifetime, and a thousand faces pass me * * * this journey taken by two ends with one * * * weighed down by snow bamboo in a garden of sadness * * * in the […]

One day I asked my wife whether she could make me a screensaver for my desktop computer. It wasn't long that day until she had made three. If you like them as much as I do, make them your own.

For a few years Ivette and I lived in Taos, New Mexico. As we were fond of saying, people in that region were not afraid of colour. Ivette's visual senses were inspired by that as you'll appreciate here. Whilst in Taos, she worked at the University of New Mexico with remedial students from troubled families. […]

For 30 cherished years, Ivette was my beloved wife and companion. Since she has passed on February 28th 2025, the art across these pages is what she left to now share with us all. "I write my stories with images not in words. Each composition of several layers of photographs is merged to fit like […]

Here is a set of four images Ivette did for this site with licensed photographs.

Ivette designed, printed and laminated very many decks of cards, some inspired by the ancient tarot. Here is a set of four image files for such cards I found.

This is a series of layered photo montages which Ivette created after her month-long stay in Paris learning at the city's culinary Lenôtre institute and taking private baking classes with an aged doyenne of the French kitchen. The attentive looker will see Ivette in a few of them.

The art form of haibun combines a haiku with visual imagery. In this series we see how the remaining resonance of Ivette's former life in feudal Japan still influenced her imagination.

Here are a few samples of Ivette's Nalanda Miksang photos. This type of photography tends to not be for display. It's simply the by-product of practicing the 'flash of perception' via a camera from which can develop a new way of seeing the world. There are exercises to look for simply shape; or colour; or pattern; […]

On December 24th 2023, Ivette sent these haiku to David Jacobs, editor of the Red Moon Press, to be considered for inclusion in a book on contemporary haiku. It's fair to think that she felt this collection to be her finest work in a modern English take on an ancient Japanese art form. Ivette's desktop […]

In January 2017, Ivette created this series of images attached to which was a haiku. "Haiku poems consist of no more than two images written in very few words. Tiny poems recited in the present tense, emotional yet never sentimental, without the use of rhyme or metaphor. Contemplative haiku experiences, when they arise, are as spontaneous […]