Paintings and Drawings by Savanna

Beautiful Sea Turtles come to me in my dreams... This one, I drew after a wonderful day of diving, and a night of turtle dreams. The day was incredible, diving in a bay filled with turtles, all returning, in mass to nest (a rare site anywhere in the world). That night, I dreamed that I was swimming with a beautiful old turtle with a compass pattern on its shell. Another turtle from this same dream had intricate hieroglyphic designs on his shell (possible saying the same things in dream-speak) giving me direction. In Chinese mythology, the turtle or tortoise is the symbol of unchanging stability and longevity. As I drew this turtle, I was setting on the beach in the shadow of a big Buddha, smelling the light scent of the floral offerings mixed in the sea air. Like many of my ink drawings, this turtle emerged completely with its own style. When drawings flow from my fingertips, with what seems like no thoughts of my own - except to hold the pen, it is magical - as if powers greater than me are having fun drawing and creating… and the day is as solidly etched in my mind forever.