Glowing Roots Art Blog - Intuitive, Visionary and Whimsical Art by Rika Dehombreux

Hi friends, If you would like to get to know me a little better, I warmly invite you to watch this interview with my artist friend Jules Ostara from Thrive True. We talk about art, creativity, intuition, inspiration, and the ideas that have guided my creative journey over the years. Although the interview was recorded a few years ago, it still reflects the heart of my work and the joy I find in exploring creativity with curiosity and wonder. My artwork includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, mixed-media art, creative journals, and grimoires, alongside many other creative explorations inspired by nature, folklore, mythology, symbolism, and the magic of everyday life. 🎥 Watch the interview on YouTube:  Inner View with Rika Dehombreux about Art & Intuition : Thrive True with Jules Ostara Thank you for visiting Glowing Roots. I hope you enjoy the conversation, and perhaps it will inspire you to follow your own creative path with curiosity, joy, and a sense of wonder. Love, Rika ...

Some paintings begin with a carefully planned idea. Others quietly find their own way into the world. Fawn belongs to the second kind. ‘Fawn’, Watercolors on Paper, Image: 23 x 31 cm, framed: 36 × 44 × 2 cm,  Intuitive Painting by Rika Dehombreux, 2015 Painted in watercolour on paper in 2015, this piece was created during my Unorthodox Watercolour Painting course with Jan Nesbitt at the London Art College. The assignment invited us to combine several reference photographs into a new composition. I chose three photographs by my husband Sam: a young fawn, an American landscape, and the grapevine growing in our Belgian garden. ‘Grapes’, Sint-Pieters-Kapelle, Belgium, 2015, Photography by Samuel T. Woodbury As the painting developed, it gradually transformed into something more dreamlike than realistic. The little fawn found itself beneath a canopy of grapes, overlooking distant blue hills wrapped in mist. It became less a real place and more a peaceful landscape of the imagination. ...

Hi everybody, Our guest today on 'Chatting about Intuitive Art' is my artist friend Karimeen from India. We met on Instagram while enjoying each other's work. Karimeen is creating wonderful imaginary drawings and paintings. Her work is beautiful, colorful and full of happiness. Let's pass the word to Karimeen! Could you tell us a bit more about yourself and how you became an artist? Karimeen

  Introduction My grimoires are not created as finished art objects from the outset. They are working books that grow through research, experimentation, and use, and are completed over time. They are not intended as spiritual manuals for rituals or spells per se. I use the word ‘grimoire’ in a personal, interspiritual way — as a poetic container for creative practice and research — while honoring that the term carries different meanings in other contexts and traditions. Originally intended as: a sketchbook for life drawing and observation Working title: Sketchbook 2001 Within the grimoire ecosystem: intuitive transformation, visual reflection, and existential writing layered over long-term observation Artist: Rika Dehombreux Year: 2001 - ongoing : The book is still in progress but as a grimoire now From categorization to coherence For many years, I struggled with categorizing my creative work. I kept separate sketchbooks, art journals, glue books, research notebooks, color stud...

Introduction I’ve often wondered whether intuitive art is a spiritual or a psychological phenomenon, or something else entirely. It’s a question I’ve returned to many times, and my answer has shifted over the years—not because my work changed, but because my relationship with its meaning deepened. I no longer feel the need to choose a single explanation. What I see clearly now is that my creative practice moves between intuitive and visionary modes—and very often, both are present within the same artwork. Intuitive art, for me, is not a style or a technique. It is a way of listening. I experience this listening as an openness to something larger than myself—a quiet receptivity to a divine presence and to what wants to come through. ‘Guardian Fairy’, Intuitive Painting, Watercolors, Gouache and Pencils on Paper, by Rika Dehombreux, 2009 Imagination or Something More For a long time, I spoke carefully about intuition. I would say that what appeared in my work could be imagination—images...

Today I would like to share some highlights with you from my first solo art show called Magical Times.  Happy me next to my roll-up informing about the show With this exhibition I wanted to let people take a peek into my magical and mystical world of fairies, light beings and ascended masters. I believe I succeeded. I saw lots of happy faces and many have told me how they enjoyed the magical energy and atmosphere I created.  My mom, me and hubby  For me it was a dream come true. I showed work created over fifteen years. Since I started making intuitive art in 2008, I had many ups and downs. I was lucky to have been surrounded by supportive and loving people including my parents, my husband, my friends and my online community. Thank you so much! Hubby taking a picture of one of the display tables I thought organizing an art show would be quite a stressful happening but not at all. I enjoyed it all the way! This is due to my wonderful collaborators who just as me put their ...