RECENT CHAK-ROKS FROM GARIWERD N.P.

MY ATTEMPT TO COPY LIESBET'S 

'SUN-TREE' PAINTING ON A ROCK

 LIESBET'S 'SUN-TREE' PAINTING, 

BELGIUM, SEPT-OCT 2012

 ONE OF LIESBET'S STRIKING DESIGNS, 

HER ORIGINAL ON RIGHT, MY COPY ON RIGHT

 ANOTHER OF LIESBET'S UNIQUE MOTIFS, 

HERS  RIGHT, MINE ON LEFT

 A SPECIAL 'SEA-ENTITY' ROCK I PAINTED FOR LIESBET, 

ORIGINAL ON RIGHT, SECOND VERSION ON LEFT

 A 'TOTEM-POLE' ROCK, SOME PACIFIC NW and 

CENTRAL NATIVE AMERCIAN INFLUENCE

 'SEA-ENTITY' ROCK WITH 'ULTIMATE SEA-LIFE' 

PAINTING IN BACKGROUND

A SPECIAL SET OF ROCKS, 

MOST GIFTS FOR VERY SPECIAL FRIENDS

Here are some photos of rocks I've painted in the past couple weeks.  Two are copies of Liesbet's original designs, and one is an attempted translation of a medium-sized painting she did, 'Sun-tree', onto a rock. I think it turned out ok.  We often 'copy' each other's styles or designs, and we don't even charge licensing fees to each other!

These rocks are all from the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and we have to thank our dear friends Barry Brailsford and Cushla Denton for telling us about these special beaches, and to Philip Kennedy and Anneka de Leur for the use of their Honda Starlet two years ago which made it possible for us to access these remote places. Immense thanks also to Jack Oldridge of Kaiapoi for unfailing assistance at storing our rocks and getting them to us wherever we may be.

YOU ALL ROCK AND SO DO YOU, MOTHER EARTH!

THANK YOU FOR LETTING US ALL GET SO STONED!

JEFF PHILLIPS

'BUDGA BUDGA'

GARIWERD NATIONAL PARK

WESTERN VICTORIA

AUSTRALIA

MEET OUR CHILDREN...40,000 + :)

Here is an assortment of rocks that Liesbet and I have painted over the past few years.  Most were done by either her or myself alone, but some of them are joint efforts!

https://picasaweb.google.com/103250190528562753850/CHAKROKSByJeffLiesbet

INTRODUCING 'THE ROCKISTS' Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten

 ON THE ROAD TO LOVEROCKS

LIESBET & JEFF:  TWO 'STONERS'

ABOUT THE ROCKISTS
Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten 
 

For five years we have been on a unique and wonderful journey, travelling together, creating and honouring life on Mother Earth.  Our visual art, photography, film-making, music and networking combine into a synergetic whole dedicated to carrying the torch of a true spiritual vision based on sharing and love.  We have hitch-hiked extensively around Australia and New Zealand, connecting with the land and the people; our inspiration comes directly from the land, sea and sky; the Earth, moon and sun; our fellow beings both human and non-human, the cosmos, and eternal consciousness.  We are of the P.O.O.H. tribe, the 'people of one heart.'

What we are really about is creativity in harmony with our highest spiritual path.  Our mission as crew members of Mothership Earth is not only to honour the beauty and power of nature, but to create awareness of the ways that humanity is destroying our planet through ways of ‘living’ that are incompatible with life and to re-navigate our overall process towards a more conscious and coherent reality in which lethal contradictions have been resolved, in which mitakuye oyasin, ‘all our relations’ can truly flourish.

Together we’ve painted several thousand rocks and hundreds of paintings and murals, made tens of thousands of photos and four films, play heaps of music and share the fruits of our creativity with friends all over the world.  We have very deep and special connections with indigenous people of land and sea, in particular, the native Americans, the Australian aborigines, and the whales and dolphins.

Jeff is a native of the Carolinas and hitch-hiked over 150,000 miles all over North America before coming ‘down under.’ His back-ground is in interdisciplinary science, mainly physics, zoology, and psychology. He has recorded several cd’s of original music and had articles published in several magazines, part of on-going ‘information activism.’

Liesbet is a native of Belgium and holds a degree in film-making.  She plays native American cedar flute, has a brilliant photographic eye and artistic sensitivity, and is also a specialist in nutritional and culinary creativity.  She is very much a dolphin in the form of a lovely human being.