"Penny is an amazing healer. She listens to you and inquires until she feels that she understands what you want and need .... Many years ago I placed my intention in becoming a compassionate human being, and the White Tara that Penny created brings it into my home, my psyche and heart." - Kathryn Payne, Vashon Island, WA

"PennyLea is a delight to work with ... accommodating, skillful, a true artist in every sense of the word." - Sister Patricia Mulvaney, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise

A new series of prints will be available in the Sacred Images Gallery in late June of 2010! Please come back to see what’s new!

Currently I am working on illustrations for a translation of the Bhagavad Gita with Sanskrit scholar and author Amla Sanghvi. More information regarding the publishing of this book will appear in this section later in 2010.

New work in progress also includes the five Buddhist Taras, painted in egg tempra on wooden panels in icon-style, a series of yantra representing the nine planets, and a series of small yantra on calfskin vellum, this series will be housed between two plates of glass and set in a stand to allow for display/use or tabletop. My offering of yantra contribute in bringing personal balance based on your individual Vedic Astrologic makeup. For more information on Vedic Astrology, please visit the Northwest Institute of Vedic Sciences.

I recently finished working on a project for Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. My contributions to the new Spes Unica academic building included an installation piece in the entry, a series of crosses designed for a cross placed outside the entry of each classroom, a large stained glass window and leaded glass door in the Reflection/Meditation room, and a series of icon-style panels to represent the Great Religions of the World. Photos of this project can be seen on the Sacred Images Collection page.

As a founding member and board member of a new, collaborative arts organization in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, I invite you to take a moment to visit the Treasure Valley Artist’s Alliance at www.treasurevalleyartistsalliance.org and join us for events! Please consider ways in which you can support the visual arts in your own area.

The extended Sacred Images Collection brings you even more choices in sacred imagery. These images span several cultures:  the Americas, East Indian, Egypt, Buddhist, and Christian.  As with Yantra and Feng Shui, these images are designed to bring awareness to your personal sacred space, or to be used as a balancing tool in your home and work environments.

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Public Installations

Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame IN

Penny designed and installed several areas in the new Spes Unica academic building on the Saint Mary's campus. These include a 10x15 foot fused glass window, a leaded glass door, a tryptich of paintings in the entry foyer, crosses installed at the entry to each classroom, and a suite of icon-style paintings to celebrate the great world religions.

"She’s professional, creative, insightful, imaginative, sensitive, rigorous, precise, punctual and passionate! This is Penny Mackie, artist!

"Penny was absolutely meticulous in her preparation for designing projects for our new academic building that was dedicated in October, 2008. She studied the Saint Mary’s College campus that is ‘rich with design and architectural elements that repeat throughout the buildings throughout the 165-year history of the College.’ Penny used symbols already part of the design and architecture on campus and proposed a foyer design that stitches together the Christian and Catholic roots along with the mission charged by *Blessed Basil Moreau in establishing Saint Mary’s College. Every design was completed with such precise detail it was possible to join Penny’s art (from Boise, ID) with The Frame Factory (South Bend, IN) and Architectural Glass Art, Inc. (Lousiville, KY) to complete the projects with one-hundred percent satisfaction.

"The simplicity of the lines used in the painted panels of the foyer is echoed again in the glass panels of the Reflection Room and the twelve crosses installed at the entry to each classroom. The exquisite, framed crosses are interpretations of crosses from a variety of cultures and countries.

"Working with PennyLea Mackie has been an opportunity to better understand an artist at work and to experience a person who is not only committed to her professional life but is a caring woman . The completion of three projects has been most rewarding because of PennyLea Mackie’s expertise."

Sister Agnes Anne Roberts, CSC
Sister Rose Anne Schultz, CSC

* Blessed Basil Moreau is the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who founded and sponsored Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN.

Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID 

As part of new construction/major expansion, St. Alphonsus included art that complimented the intention to create conscious spaces of healing.  These pictures reflect four installation areas in the new wing of the hospital that were contributed by Penny. 

 

"PennyLea is a delight to work with ... accommodating, skillful, a true artist in every sense of the word. I met Penny when we at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Boise, ID., were just beginning to select artists for our new Central Tower . We used many of her works including two beautiful representations of the Blessed Mother, some delicate herbs uniquely framed to display them at their best and an unusual series of crosses placed on a wall near the cafeteria to enable employees, staff and visitors to see and appreciate them. One of our sisters was so impressed with the crosses she engaged Penny to make additional crosses for a new academic building at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Penny is a gifted artist, a joy to work with." 

-- Sister Patricia Mulvaney, Mission Advisor

The Ross Institute Center for Well Being, Easthampton, NY 

 

Penny designed the sequence of yantra that were then installed as pebble mosaic in the supporting wall of the Center for Well Being on the Ross Institute campus.  The mosaic, installed by Italian mosaic artist Elinor Schiele, was executed using local river rock.

Private Commissions

Kathryn Payne, Vashon Island, WA

 

"First and foremost, Penny is an amazing healer. She listens to you and inquires until she feels that she understands what you want and need. Never once did I feel steered in anything but an authentic path during the collaboration process of choosing a piece from her gorgeous inventory of work. I have to admit, I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted. I wasn’t even sure if art had anything to do with healing. I just wanted something beautiful for my foyer!  

"When the piece arrived, meticulously packaged and framed in a fit-for-royalty gold-gilded frame, my personal journey with the Goddess of Compassion, White Tara, began.  As the years go by and White Tara hangs in full view from the many angles of my home, I am touched by her grace and benefic aura.  Many years ago I placed my intention in becoming a compassionate human being, and the White Tara that Penny created brings it into my home, my psyche and heart. In retrospect I think Penny painted that piece for me long before I understood the implications of having White Tara in my home.  And now that she is a permanent resident,  I feel continually supported by her presence and tender reminders to live according to my deepest values."