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 a jigsaw puzzle whose story develops before your eyes. As a visual storyteller, I know what the image means to me and why it manifested. How you interpret what you see depends on what you bring to it and how you feel in the moment."
The right image from her Power of Faith exhibit at the Ballina Arts Center of County Mayo on May 3rd 2019 exemplifies why I want to here share these mages with the world. As hinted at in the tribute on the next page, Ivette made art to transmit spirit. This is in the tradition of her teacher Adi Da Samraj [left] who made art from a realizer's perspective in his Naitauba island hermitage on Fiji; and Chögyam Trungpa [below right] whose Nalanda Miksang way of contemplative photography she learnt then taught.
Some of the images in these pages are very small. Most of those are from her website A Mirror Self and a time when she worried about theft so people downloading her work without permission. That's no longer any concern. All images on this moon of Ivette's Art are shared freely. Creating them was her gift and pleasure. Her one regret was that not more people got to see and enjoy them. All artists hope for an appreciative audience. Now it's my great pleasure to remove the limitation of our isolated life circumstance in rural Ireland via the freedom of the Internet.
If you wish to download any of Ivette's images because you enjoy their luminous multi-dimensional quality, feel free to print and frame them, embed them as a screensaver or find other uses. Except for a few with her signature overlaid, most are uncredited. We trust that you'll still respect their authorship.
Here are the links to the various galleries including poetry. Her tribute is on the next page. I recommend you read it before you proceed to the galleries. And before you do the latter, a word of advice and explanation: Looking at these images is not optimized for the size of a smartphone or the download speeds and quotas of cellular service. At the thumbnail sizes appropriate for mobile use, you'd miss out on the many subtle details Ivette conscientiously embedded in her art. She didn't work for quick consumption but for timeless contemplation. She wants us to unhurriedly sit with any image that speaks to us; to really gaze, notice then merge. You can't expect the flavour and nutrition of slow cooking from a nuked microwave meal.
Transmission is about allowing ourselves to be touched by something from the beyond. It's not part of the rapid thumb acrobatics of the inveterate multi-tasking speed browser. So take your time before a monitor screen of suitable scale. For that you want images in high resolution and of large size. If that puts you out because your access to the Internet is limited by speed or screen size, I apologize. These galleries are simply not optimized for your use. For those with the appropriate circumstance, right-click any large image to open at full size in a new tab, then 'save as'. Enjoy. But there's more, a set of seven books…
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| small | tarot sketches | consolation sample | tryptich |
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… which Ivette published on Solentro. Click on the covers to peruse the books. Should you wish to place an order, all the necessary information is there. These transactions will be directly between you and the publishing house to bypass 6moons entirely. For Miksang/haiku inspiration, Ivette also still has this website active. On June 15th 2025 so nearly four months after her passing, on the very day that the Romanian couple of Laurent and Bianca from Galway came to our house to collect Ivette's office desk, computer, monitor, printer, speakers and lamps to set up a work space for Bianca to write a book, I found this note in a binder in one of Ivette's very many packed book cases: "Soul question for my inner artist. What my heart is asking for: Spirit-infused art; that when you look at forms, at colours, you perceive the depth of what is sacred; sacred at the moment of creation because in that moment lives the spark which makes me feel at one with God and I am fearless." On the reverse of it was this: "Soul question for my inner monk. With the passing of each year, I find myself growing more and more reclusive. This movement feels good, right and regenerative; as if a need is being fufilled. For my inner Monk to survive, how do I approach the world, express and sustain this intimate part without sacrificing or withdrawing from the space where solitude meets Grace?"
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