Alice Shapiro

REIKI 1 showed up in my mind's eye during a Reiki session with Ann-Marie of Mind Body Spirit Healing Room in Wilmington, Delaware. She also taught me to become a Reiki 1 Practitioner for self-healing and to infuse my artwork with the Reiki energy intention and techniques.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

 Universal Love is a thought form seen in meditation. After I made another painting called "Heartbroken," I wanted something to balance the heaviness of sadness, especially in times of external chaos. This very light feeling image arrived in my mind's eye. Light is always a good uplifter.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.

Waterfall in this piece shows a futuristic abstract landscape. The androgenous-appearing person reflects the all-encompasing nature of water. Water accepts all beings, plants, and animals equally. It is the Switzerland of the elements. Water heals, especially when you have gratitude.My experience with water scarcity helped me appreciate the value of daily free-flowing water.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Sleeping Beauty 1. While sketching the preliminary drawing of a reclining woman I noticed the abstract shape of her body was like the zigzag I saw in Reiki 1. The zigzag also shows up in Stop Jealousy's Anger.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram. 

Spiral Wind came as a simple whirling spiral. Added elements sprung from spontaneous drawing. In Reiki it is taught that energy blocks look like spiral tornados.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.

Handlebars first came as a solid vertical wavy pattern. I didn't act on it right away and the image showed up several days later and I recognized the need to make a work out of the design. The first iteration was plainly geometric and simple. I liked it but after a few days and a few added lines I felt it needed more. Using the erasure technique the curved grid became the wavy pattern that now exhibits more movement than the first static design. Because the figure is precariously standing on a moving surface I attached him to the two lines above him to provide stability.

Having something to hold onto during chaos is emotionally balancing.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Finding Someone. I was asked to find a relative of a man who was adopted. In my meditation a suggestion that he look at yearbook pictures came in  to tell if anyone resonated with him. I was aiming for the larger visual reference but the asset landed on a smaller one. So I left it there. The lines in the book mimic a word cloud which is the visual I get when writing a poem. It is the field of everything I am inside of, and sometimes the more hidden words are the more interesting ones. If you are missing someone, something, or even a neglected part of yourself, Finding Someone might help you release some emotion and by redirecting your attention so you may actively seek with more balanced focus.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram

The Roof At 101 is the peaceful amenity space where I live and sometimes go to practice Reiki outdoors, get inspired by the sunshine, and feel grateful.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.

Stop Jealousy's Anger. During morning quiet time I asked the Universe what the world needed to know. A vision appeared in my mind's eye as a zig zag. The first emotion that I felt when I saw the shape was jealousy, which quickly turned to anger. A few minutes after, while I was making the digital image, an email arrived from a poet in my writing group. The poem expressed severe emotion with the word angry on every line of his long poem! I quickly released that energy and returned to making the art.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram

The M In Camel is my inagination's idea of how the letter "M" was first conceived by cave drawings to represent a camel (caMel) because of its zigzag humps.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.

India Pups. On my first visit to India I was walking to meet a now deceased traveler and suddenly from nowhere a large group of puppies surrounded my legs all happily jumping up and down. I had to lift my legs carefully to move forward without stepping on them, but if I wasn't being watched I would have laid down on the ground and let them jump all over ne. Maybe it has something to do with being born in a Chinese Zodiac Dog Year? The extra images show my process from digital hand-drawn sketch, finding stock photos, and the final version.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.

Who's There was a dream I had. It was so intense that I had to have a very long conversation with AI to interpret the essence. What I got was a sort of Individuation experience about the male/female parts of me looking forward to the imminent integration by letting in the mysterious unknown thing reaching for my doorknob.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Selfi 2026. In my new Reiki practice I'm throwing out my negative attachments, bringing in the Universal Love energy, and being surprised at how much the ancient Egyptian princess found in the Met Museum Open Source Collection looks like my Mom.

Features:

• Inks: Printed using water-based pigment inks, which provide high fade resistance under normal indoor lighting compared to standard dye inks.
• Canvas Base: Built on an acid-free, pH-neutral poly-cotton base, designed to prevent yellowing or degradation over time.

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Follow me on Instagram.