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A Quiet Expansion


There are seasons when creation is visible, expressive, and outward.
And there are seasons when the work happens quietly — beneath form, beneath language, beneath what can be easily shared.

This past year has been one of those quieter seasons for me.

While there may have been less movement on the surface, much was unfolding within — a period of listening, recalibration, and deep inner refinement. I learned again that not all growth announces itself. Some of the most meaningful shifts arrive in stillness, asking only for patience and trust.

I’ve come to honor these pauses not as absences, but as thresholds.

During this time, my relationship with energy, presence, and subtle healing currents deepened in ways that felt inseparable from my creative path. Art, silence, and healing revealed themselves as different expressions of the same living field — one that responds not to effort, but to attunement.

From this listening, a new space quietly took form.

Energy Essence emerged as a gentle sanctuary for distance Reiki and light-encoded energetic support — created not as something separate from my art, but as a continuation of the same intention that has always guided my work: to offer spaces of harmony, balance, and reconnection.

I share this now not as an announcement, but as an opening.

An opening for those who feel resonance to step closer.
And an opening for myself — to allow what has been growing quietly to begin breathing in its own rhythm.

There is no urgency here.
Only presence.
Only trust in the timing of what wishes to unfold.

With gratitude for the pauses,
and for the unseen support that never wavered.

Energy Essence

With gentle presence,
Carolina

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A Quiet Closing

“Beneath the quiet sky, the soul pauses and remembers its own light.”

As the year draws toward its final breaths, there is a gentle hush in the air.
The kind of stillness that doesn’t ask for reflection, only for noticing.

This year did not move loudly for me.
It did not unfold in visible milestones or outward momentum.
Instead, it worked beneath the surface — in silence, in pauses, in the spaces where nothing needed to be produced or proven.

There were moments of deep listening.
Moments of release.
Moments where the most important work was simply staying present with what was unfolding within.

I have come to understand that not all years are meant for expression.
Some are meant for integration.
For allowing what has already been lived, learned, and felt to settle into the body, the heart, and the soul.

This year asked for trust.
Trust in the unseen movement.
Trust in the quiet currents reshaping direction without urgency.
Trust that rest, too, is a form of becoming.

As the threshold of a new year approaches, I do not feel the need to name intentions or define what comes next.
What wishes to arrive will do so in its own time — gently, naturally, and with clarity.

For now, I offer gratitude.

For the lessons that required patience.
For the pauses that brought deeper truth.
For the unseen support that never wavered.

May this closing be soft.
May it be complete without finality.
May we all enter the next cycle a little more embodied, a little more honest, and a little more attuned to the quiet wisdom within.

With warmth and gentle light,
Carolina

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Happy New Year 2025!

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Happy New Year! 🌟🎉

As we step into this bright new year, I want to thank you for being a part of my journey. May 2025 bring you abundant joy, creativity, and inspiration. Let’s continue to grow, create, and share the beauty of art and life together.

Wishing you a year filled with love, success, and endless possibilities. Cheers to new beginnings and exciting adventures ahead!

Happy New Year 2025!
With gratitude and creativity

Thank You!

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Happy New Year 2024!

Happy New Year
Wishing you all a Wonderful Happy New Year 2024!
Let’s bring some positive energy of change in our World!
May this year be filled with Love, Peace, Truth
and never stop Dreaming,
all the changes are starting first within us!

Thank You!

>> Credits Image: found on Pinterest

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Pre Sale Prints: Divine Light

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New Release: Pre Sale Limited Edition Prints 
Watercolor Painting: Divine Light

Limited Time Pre-Sale Prints!

I am happy to announce that the Limited Edition of only 30 Fine Art Prints of my new watercolor painting Reiki Infused ” Divine Light” is now available for Pre-Order in my Etsy Shop for a limited time!
 
💖 These prints are Giclee’ size 8×10 inch professionally printed that’s why Is needed a pre-order! Price $45 Shipped CONUS

💖 You can Pre – Order your print from Oct 24 until Oct 30 at 12pm PT when the Pre Sale will end! 

ETSY Shop link:
💖 If you prefer to order your print directly from me, I am open to do that Contact me via email for details!


If you missed my previous post here you can read the Story of this painting!
There is also something beautiful that I like to share about my work. Since I become a Usui Reiki Master I love to infuse my paintings with Reiki energy from the starting process when I begin to create to the end!  This specific painting has an amazing story that surprised me beyond my expectations! First let me tell you that I don’t plan any of my landscape paintings! I have created and mastered my own painting technique that is based on my intuition and energy while I let the colors and water blend together in a unique way on the paper.  I mostly use a painting knife for these paintings more than brushes! So it is almost impossible to anticipate the beautiful outcome! Each painting is unique and an amazing surprise for me! When I started this painting I connected first with my heart and with God purest light energy  to connect and activate the Reiki Universal energy force to infuse the painting while I was creating it! When I had finished, I observed the painting and I saw that beautiful yellow light in the middle coming from the sky! I couldn’t believe when I saw it!!! In my process I didn’t do anything to create it, the light just formed while the water and colors blended! I think the title “Divine Light”  couldn’t be more appropriate and true! I love this painting! 
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Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee’ Prints are now available for Pre-Order! Pre Sale ends October 30 at 12pm PT

Thank you for your kind support and for sharing my Art! 
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Thank You!


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New Release: Divine Light

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New Painting Release! 

I know has been a while that I haven’t post here but today I am very excited to share my work and announce the release of my new landscape painting “Divine Light” 

This painting is the first of a new watercolor Landscapes Collection that I will be working on.  Would be similar to my previous Collection “Fields and Waters” released last year in October, you might remember it or if you’re a new follower you can see and read about it Here
There is also something beautiful that I like to share about my work. Since I become a Usui Reiki Master I love to infuse my paintings with Reiki energy from the starting process when I begin to create to the end! 

This specific painting has an amazing story that surprised me beyond my expectations!

First let me tell you that I don’t plan any of my landscape paintings! I have created and mastered my own painting technique that is based on my intuition and energy while I let the colors and water blend together in a unique way on the paper.  I mostly use a painting knife for these paintings more than brushes! So it is almost impossible to anticipate the beautiful outcome! Each painting is unique and an amazing surprise for me! When I started this painting I connected first with my heart and with God purest light energy  to connect and activate the Reiki Universal energy force to infuse the painting while I was creating it! When I had finished, I observed the painting and I saw that beautiful yellow light in the middle coming from the sky! I couldn’t believe when I saw it!!! In my process I didn’t do anything to create it, the light just formed while the water and colors blended! I think the title “Divine Light”  couldn’t be more appropriate and true! I love this painting! 
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if you follow me on Instagram @carolinarussoart you probably saw  a glimpse of the work in progress. This painting is very special to me for many reasons. I love the Fall colors and the mood of this landscape, The warm color palette with a hint of cool blue and the subtle glowing touch of gold. Divine Light 2

To stay up to date, sign up to my Collector’s List  if you haven’t already.
Limited Edition Fine Art Prints would be available for Pre-Order soon!

Thank you always for your kind support and for sharing my Art! I hope this painting resonates with your heart, let me know in the comments how it makes you feel when you look at it! 
I wish you a wonderful Sunday!
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Thank You!


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In Memory of my Dad

For Papa' 26 July 2023

♥️ The month of July left and it took my Dad, my Papa’ with him!

In a warm Wednesday on the 26 of July, he peacefully left embraced by my Mom and Brother. A day that we never wanted to arrive, our hearts are broken but it was expected during last month! My mom took great care of him! I am so grateful that I was able briefly to talk to my dad last time two days before. I will always miss the ways he used to greet me on the phone, the sound of his happy voice calling my name and the funny laugh together. I missed twenty one years of my Dad and Mom and Brother, because we live so far away. I am in California and they are in my native country Italy! Not easy to see each other but we talk daily! My Dad was an amazing artist his oil paintings and his limitless creativity fascinated me since I was a child.
His Art gene is in me and right now his Art continues to live through my watercolor paintings. He used to tell me ” Carolina you’re brave you choose watercolor, it is much more difficult than oil painting!” My dad was a free spirit, he loved to create from anything, he loved nature, especially the sea and loved fishing, he was an athlete in his young age he played Soccer professionally and he loved Tennis which he practiced and wanted me and my brother to practice since kids and we did with great results! Now my brother is a Professional Coach! He was a wonderful father he worked hard all his life and with my mom he took care his family, a man of loyalty and integrity a great husband. He was the friend of my friends “the eternal young in spirit” like they called him! A gentle heart, I will miss him every day but I know he is with us!
Shine your Light Papa’!
I love you

Thank You!

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New Release: Magical Pond

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New Painting Release! 

Today I am very happy to announce the Official Release of my  latest landscape watercolor painting. The title is “Magical Pond” if you follow me on Instagram @carolinarussoart you probably saw my posts as the work in progress. And if you are in my Collector’s List  a few days ago you received my Newsletter with a preview.  This painting is very special to me for many personal reasons. I love the mood of this ethereal landscape, the minimal color palette and the beautiful touch of gold. It is a magical place where the trees and the rocks are embracing the pond, the delicate sound of the the water and the light reflection in it are peacefully calming. An intimate  place where you can connect with your soul and thoughts.  
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This painting is very similar from the ones included in my latest Collection released last October. A series of landscapes and seascapes paintings  inspired by powerful natural elements, “Water and Earth” and created in appreciation for our gorgeous nature on this Earth. The new  painting is a continuation of that series. I will paint more of these. I hope you love it as I do.

Limited Edition Fine Art Prints are now available for Pre-Order!

  • Limited Edition fine art Giclee prints
     
    > Print Sizes  8×10  inches 
    > Limited Edition run to 30 prints
    > Each print is signed and numbered out of 30.
    > Include a Certificate of Authenticity
    > Free Shipping within US
    Prints are made to order please allow 1-2 weeks to ship.
    .>>>> You can purchase the Print Here on the Blog or  in my ETSY Shop

Thank you for your support and for sharing I wish you a wonderful weekend!
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Happy New Year 2023!

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Wish you all a Wonderful and Happy New Year!

New Year
The time is flowing away
rain drops are slowly falling like tears
new beginning the New Year

Haiku 5.7.5 ©Carolina Russo

Thank You!

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Fields and Waters Collection Release

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Official Release and New Shop Opening!

Today I am very excited to announce the Official Release of my  watercolor landscapes and seascapes Collection titled “Fields and Waters”.  Twelve small watercolor paintings. This series is inspired by the calming beauty found in nature. While painting this series I focused on landscapes and seascapes inspired by two very important and powerful natural elements, Water and Earth with appreciation, gratitude and thankfulness for the beautiful nature that surround us. 
I loved to paint each painting they all means so much to me.  I am happy to be able to share them with you at this time. With love and gratitude from my heart to yours.

Down below you can see a Gallery of all the 12 painting click on each photo to view them enlarged, you can see all the beautiful textures and details. All the original paintings are unique and painted on 100% Cotton watercolor paper, hand torn by me.

You can now browse and purchase the whole collection in my New SHOP 

❤ All the Original paintings are available for purchase
Paintings are size 3×4.5 and 4.5×6 and 3×9 inches

Limited Edition fine art Giclee prints are available
Print Sizes 5×7 8×10 11×14 inches (made to order)

  • Limited Edition to 30 prints
  • Each print is signed and numbered out of 30.
  • Include a Certificate of Authenticity.

Collection Release date October 22, 2022

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Thank you for your support and I wish you a wonderful weekend!
Let me know which painting is your favorite?

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Thank You!


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