"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.

A Yantra is a geometric composition that reveals a particular energy configuration whose power increases in exact proportion to the abstraction and precision of the diagram. Used together with mantra, or seed sound syllables, each Yantra displays the patterns of force heard in the mantra.

         

The discipline of Yantra has its roots in the ancient vedic traditions of southeast Asia, or present day India. A Mandala is a structural matrix, through and from which flow a succession of changes. It consists of a series of concentric forms representing a passage, or a portal to the Self. The mandala form exists in the visual healing traditions of the majority of indigenous cultures globally.

         

Following the patterns within a Yantra or Mandala while moving towards the center-point, enlivens in our consciousness corresponding experiences, feelings and recognitions of harmony with the eternal rhythms of nature and the cosmos.

The Yantric images presented here were created following the rules and precepts consistent with this ancient discipline.