Nature Forces

Working with the plants has increased my ability to work at a very subtle level mediumistically with my art. This has mainly manifested in attunment to the traditions of working with the Orixas ~ an African pantheon of divine nature forces.

This has happened naturally through my connection to plants, and through my dreams. I feel very humbled by the connection and African Brazilian culture that has supported this connection. The plants, visions, songs, dance and rhythms dedicated to these natural forces makes me make art.

This work to date is a study. I am refinining it. I have many pieces but how I am working alongside the plants, and this mediumistic process with the Orixas is still in a process.

Below is a selection - also please see instagram where I post a few images. If any touch you, I’d love to know, and most pieces are available as a print or original. Just get in touch direct. Thank you, Elle.

  • Iemanja, Ewa, Oxum ~ watercolour

  • Mother of the Ibeiji, 2024 ~ ink

  • Preta Velha of the Rosemary ~ charcoal, 2025

  • PombaGira, 2024 ~ charcoal

  • Eleyin Omo Yemoja, 2023 ~ Charocoal a1

  • Xango Love in the Mountain, 2025 ~ acrylic on wooden panel

Yemanjá fine art print
Yemanjá fine art print
from £95.00
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Last night I dreamt of the Orixá Nanã, I was putting my hands through the road to get to the mud underneath the tarmac so I could paint my face with her clay. A choir sang, all with mud on their faces. Draped in a purple cloak she ent
Last night I dreamt of the Orixá Nanã, I was putting my hands through the road to get to the mud underneath the tarmac so I could paint my face with her clay. A choir sang, all with mud on their faces. Draped in a purple cloak she entered my energy field and became me, or, I became her. I found myself taking a woman into my arms, wrapping her in the purple cloak and rocking her to heal her while singing to Exu. It was so strong I began to wake up to lights flashing in my room...but holding onto the dream, my father then arrived, and told me before I woke up and the dream ended I had to receive some markings from Obaluae...they were like stickers and preceded with urgency to attach these markings to my left wrist, as tools to remember to use to heal others. Trusting the magic of these dreams ♡ In awe of this tradition and the spiritual world. #nanaboroque #nanaburuku #Obaluae #exu #dreams #mediumship #orixás #nanãburuquê #ancestor ~ watercolour on paper "Nanã at work" ♡
Sketching, becomes story-making. From unconscious places, spirits make themselves known. Inner nature, finding it's way through. The Orishas touching me from a place of dream-like-somatic-reality that is simply unexplainable other than understanding
Sketching, becomes story-making. From unconscious places, spirits make themselves known. Inner nature, finding it's way through. The Orishas touching me from a place of dream-like-somatic-reality that is simply unexplainable other than understanding the subtle field of energies, ancestral pulses, electricity. Formless, becomes form. Trusting in creativity....☆ #mediumship #art #spiritualworld
#Jurema #cabocla From singing to her...~~~~~○●When I feel them, I draw. #automaticdrawing
#Jurema #cabocla From singing to her...~~~~~○●When I feel them, I draw. #automaticdrawing
A surrender in reverence to Omolu & Iemanja. Holy guides. A series of drawings made in 2022 from an encounter with their immense magnetism. A passage in the heart, from Earth to Star, Sun to Moon, Soul to Service. Here, we are, to create...to gi
A surrender in reverence to Omolu & Iemanja. Holy guides. A series of drawings made in 2022 from an encounter with their immense magnetism. A passage in the heart, from Earth to Star, Sun to Moon, Soul to Service. Here, we are, to create...to give birth again. A flowering. #omolu #iemanjá
Mini watercolour postcard size Iansa.....! Thank the heavens for her. #Iansã #movement
Mini watercolour postcard size Iansa.....! Thank the heavens for her. #Iansã #movement
#Oxala. Prayer for peace.
#Oxala. Prayer for peace.
#iemanjá. Note-taking. This doesn't feel like the art I want to make, but at the moment i am just letting the information come.
#iemanjá. Note-taking. This doesn't feel like the art I want to make, but at the moment i am just letting the information come.
Rose in the heart, Rose in the crown.
Rose in the heart, Rose in the crown.
Ogum. Drawings from a few years ago... #ogum #ogumbeiramar #sãojorge
Ogum. Drawings from a few years ago... #ogum #ogumbeiramar #sãojorge
Luckily there are ancestral guides to keep you from the ego mind, your own - and that of others. Through the dream, they drop you to the body, they encourage you to empty and enjoy the love that is in freedom beyond all memories and limiting ideas o
Luckily there are ancestral guides to keep you from the ego mind, your own - and that of others. Through the dream, they drop you to the body, they encourage you to empty and enjoy the love that is in freedom beyond all memories and limiting ideas or judgements.............. from that place the dance dances you........ #ancestors Acrylic on wood
Last night I dreamt of the Orixá Nanã, I was putting my hands through the road to get to the mud underneath the tarmac so I could paint my face with her clay. A choir sang, all with mud on their faces. Draped in a purple cloak she ent Sketching, becomes story-making. From unconscious places, spirits make themselves known. Inner nature, finding it's way through. The Orishas touching me from a place of dream-like-somatic-reality that is simply unexplainable other than understanding #Jurema #cabocla From singing to her...~~~~~○●When I feel them, I draw. #automaticdrawing A surrender in reverence to Omolu & Iemanja. Holy guides. A series of drawings made in 2022 from an encounter with their immense magnetism. A passage in the heart, from Earth to Star, Sun to Moon, Soul to Service. Here, we are, to create...to gi Mini watercolour postcard size Iansa.....! Thank the heavens for her. #Iansã #movement #Oxala. Prayer for peace. #iemanjá. Note-taking. This doesn't feel like the art I want to make, but at the moment i am just letting the information come. Rose in the heart, Rose in the crown. Ogum. Drawings from a few years ago... #ogum #ogumbeiramar #sãojorge Luckily there are ancestral guides to keep you from the ego mind, your own - and that of others. Through the dream, they drop you to the body, they encourage you to empty and enjoy the love that is in freedom beyond all memories and limiting ideas o