Teacher Plant cheapest Mandala Canvas Prints

"Teacher Plant Mandala" is an original hand-done piece I completed in 2017.
Oil pastel on board, 1.2m diameter, approx. 60hrs.
These square stretched canvases are printed and framed in Australia and are available in differing sizes.
They are high quality digital prints of the original that come ready to hang!
Apon receiving your order and payment I will place the order with the printers in Melbourne who will post direct to you!
Thankyou for your order!
If you wish to know more about my take on this piece please feel free to read on...however I warn you its quite a long-winded spiel!...

I see this piece as a co-creation as it was commissioned by my friend Jilli Manning for her shop Happy High Herbs in Cairns, Lake St. Check it out, she has some beautiful things in there!
Jilli requested a mandala of all the psychedelic plants depicted, in rainbow spectrum if possible, radiating out from base chakra red (amonita), based around the American Indian Prayer Wheel.
The composition and research involved in rendering all of these elements to make it ‘work', is what I do. I added crystals to give it charge, and feathers to give it movement and a dynamic. The day I was finally ready to begin it, both the black and the white cockatoos were sharing in the gum nuts above my art shed…their feathers alighted in my work!
Obviously, for any who know their plants, this is a full power piece, so for those who are interested to know more, I urge you to read on as i wish to share my take on it.
It's actually going to be a triptych, this being the major part, there are 2 more circles to come, a medium one and a small one…dot, dot, dot…as in much of my art…to be continued! As does life! I see it as a prayer for the world, and all who come in contact with this piece…that although things may erupt further before healing occurs, they will ultimately find peace and balance, amidst the ever-flow of nature! Such is the way of things that nature has crafted for millennia on this planet! I wish that all who come in contact with this piece also find balance and peace, in our bodies, minds, spirit, “Divine aliiiignment” ! ;-)
I find that 'sitting with' or gazing at any natural element, sometimes its essence can have an effect. Inherent sacred geometry, colour, form etc.
So it was quite a journey working on this! It took a couple of months due to my energy being spread between so many other things.
But when i did focus in…sometimes found myself chanting quietly, ancient sounding things I know not from where, sometimes guttural, sometimes sounding like the icaros sung over me in Peru. One week I got a bug going around, purged like I haven't in a long time. Another week the coming together in celebration of a dear old mates 40th birthday and all the acknowledgements of connection and life achievements therein…peace and forgiveness finally found and affirmed after years in a rare meeting with my ex-husband who always remains in my heart tho' we live distant lives now…another evening deep and bodily release of old past grief I'd not even known still dwelled at some cellular level...and ultimately utter gratitude for my life and all I find in it these days, appreciation and immense love for my beautiful partner Lochy Burgess who has stood sturdily by my side through our shared journeys since meeting, and for his soul level understanding of all the crazy and beautiful journeys that formed me!
The ultimate word that comes with this piece is RESPECT!
For all their beauty I do not advocate that people go out and ingest these powerful plants without first gaining a full and grounded understanding of them. And even then different plant medicines work differently with different people.
Bar a few, most of the plants depicted here are psychedelic, and are just some of the better known ones from around the globe. These plants are powerful tools of perception which I believe when used correctly and respectfully can heal or open mentally blocked pathways that in turn may create dis-ease. They may show us harmonious ways of looking at all of life with respect for our place within it.
The Damiana flowers are simply a gentle balancer in all these strong plants, a tonic for kidneys, nervous system and the sexual organs…so perhaps to help it all move through, to cleanse, gently, and a hint of procreation needed for the ever-flow!
The Ayahuasca vine is a powerful MAO inhibitor, working with the Chakruna leaves, holding the sacred earthy colours of White- (North,Winter, Spiritual, Elders, night), Yellow- (East, Spring, spirit, baby, sun, morning), Red-(South, Summer, youth, emotion/love, afternoon), Black-(West, Autumn,physical, adult, evening).
The blue lotus is also an MAOI.
With some plants, like Datura it can be enough to simply smell the flowers! At cheapest my home of once upon a time it grew not far from my bed, a frame of beautiful trumpets dropping angelically at the edge of my verandah…my dreams were enhanced and vivid! A horticulturist once explained to me the proper technique for actually using them safely and medicinally…yet still he said “but be aware, she can be a seductress!”
And perhaps this is why I subconsciously placed the marijuana leaves along with her…another potential seductress!
To my understanding MJane is not psychedelic, though some may argue this. Lots of her cannabinoids can be credited with many healing properties, but most certainly her THC content is both psychoactive and powerful. I know many who believe this plant to be quite benign, and I agree that used moderately it can be a beautiful tool to relax and enhance, but to my experience it is not harmless when used excessively. It is the one plant in this spectrum that I have witnessed can be highly addictive for those prone, and perhaps it is an addiction to a state of mind, more then a physical one.
I firmly believe that EVERYTHING has a use, a place, a purpose…but in excess it will go to its flip-side. Balance and moderation are key.
I guarantee you that in the case of addiction to any powerful substance, be you aware of it or not, some other area of your life will begin to lack, be it your connection with your emotions thereby affecting intimate relationships, your mental state, energy levels, health or finances...and you may not even notice while all your attention is on the primary relationship with your substance. When mental pathways have become hard-wired and we find ourselves 'stuck', it is via some of the beautiful psychedelic plant tools in this mandala that along with our own will and the necessary work we may free ourselves from patterns that no longer serve.
In drawing I prayed for balance and harmony in all aspects of ourselves that it may reflect for the good of our planet! Some of us most sensitive fear our feelings, torrents of emotion, but nay we must not shut it down as I believe this is what gives us not just empathy but the actual charge that helps manifest our thoughts!
Our awareness and sensitivity at this time on the planet is crucial, to open up our mind-sets and see the all with clarity, lighten our energetic bodies by recognition of the fact we live in a physical body intrinsically linked with a physical symbiotic planet...layered and embedded with many realms we may only be privileged to perceive via some of these Teacher plants!

If I still have your attention I wish to share a poem that came spontaneously to verbally compliment this Mandala. T'was in reaction to a poem my mate Pete sent me one eve in his newly discovered talent of wordsmithing! I share his powerful poem first as parts of my own answer it, much as i went on a tangent that is in dire need of editing, I will share the raw version anyway...

'One Mob'

Momentary confusion
Western illusion of
Grandeur - not of soul, nor mind
Hindsight bears no means to rewind
Torrents of thought stir winds of contemplation
Ground approaches saturation, as
Rivers of remorse begin to run
Asking the question - 'What have we done?'
The need to understand
All belong in these lands
Borders and boundaries?
Assimilation absorbing the
Custodians of country for thousands of years
Dreamtime sidelined - repression and fear
Great southern lands of racism and hatred
Royals irrelevant yet commonwealth instated
Red, white & blue? Nah - black, yellow & red
To handle our own, a republic instead
Feet pound the earth red dust fills the air
One mob together - Advance Australia - fair
By Pete Blay 2017

My response...
Holy fuk Pete! Thanku brutha, ppl need to read that! Sitting here goosebumps from that heart channel the storms broughtchya!...straight up true way hey hey
Your word weavings are powerful for their sheerness, succinct, concise!...Unlike myself! Bah hah, now that I've finished the download I can lodge in this pre-slot that I tend to take the long way around! Haa sorry...but here it rolled the more I wrote, hope u can decipher, triggered by your words yet 'tis a prayer for the world along with the Mandala I just finished for Jilli...

Like auto flash of mind my eyes skirt around,
those words about red, white n blue don't resound, no joy to abound,
but truths in your rhyme in these pertinent times,
coz we're still chewing and choking on old paradigms!...that served those most fortunate...deliberate ignorance is no comfort!
Well I thought of the piece I been honing..to ground...with pastel on board, mandala absorbed, of psychedelic plants...oh the mental tangents that downloaded some fragments...in its midst a prayer wheel, All Native, 4 colours to heal by one red blood in the centre, spirit or placenta, amonita and gills, heart chakra bled...tools of perception, in balance please heal our hearts and our heads, a chicken or egg...
are we leaders or led, by all cycles unfurled, ever-expanding world...rainbow spectrum Indigo edged. I make a pledge to protect and respect. Privileged as we are.
All these thoughts in a blink and there your next line, the way to realign- "Red black n yellow! All on the same page of signs, our kin and fellow, intertwine. There my thoughts did a'light, coz here also is the white! Aye nay 'ere is also the white. And the plight...of the planet?
Foresight is needed, no way forward for the greedy creating more needy individuals! Your I-phone I-pad your I this I that! Clickity clack, your all that? Think it's time to reassess coz fuck that! We are WE! Individual beings in community, intrinsically linked remember to see. So in respect, may this visual prayer take flight, for all who do sight, this mandala bright!
Ingestion by eye alone may suffice to put a spin on your mission, tongue pointed past your chin, like a tribal mask, proud stance yet submission to lore divine, simply says "Be gone that is not mine!", purging and restoring fresh channels realign and peace be found, in your own sweet time, with genuine concern send it all a'round!, healing n balance on this sacred ground! Purging out thru our spectrum, in true life reflection, then full appreciation!...inner to outa on an ancient swastika- well-being wheel of life- cockatoo feathers for the ever-know and flight, in balance in flow, in Earths teacher plants know.
Whatever has been, whatever we've seen, cellular memory may it be cleaned. Divine alignment in our choices prevail, may common sense and kindness fill our sails!
Live and love, responsibility in this our humanity tale...just a glimpse, no way to rehearse! Oh the lifetime of a Universe...just a blink to coerce...the journeys of our hearts n hearths, in health n stealth, respect for all elders, all nature, true way creatures, evolved, problems can only be solved, with feet on the Earth, take heed of your berth!...eyes open up wide! Let all truth reside inside and rise and the strife subside!...does start within with attitude, for what it's worth, joy exude!
And yet here! the 'Apothecine' a prediction, new epoch name, obscene!
Humanity literally dulling with screens, for what we may perceive...
So here 'tis a prayer, on a wish and a wing and all the good things, true may it ring....For all of nature and each other care, and self too our vessel...oh yes right there...take a deep breath.........
Now here...
let it all out...
i,
Can only speak for myself and yet it's a common ground that be comin around.
I feel telepathic lines openin wide, this rapidity in our stride, may it abide, in harmony...
peace within you n peace within me... Aho.