Dream Traveler; TIger 

Julie Bell’s painting presents a tiger in an oneiric landscape of swirling foliage. The tiger, throughout history, has been a symbol of power, strength, and primal energy, often associated with royalty and divinity in Eastern cultures. Consider the tiger's symbolic journey: from ancient Mesopotamian carvings, where felines guard sacred spaces, to the art of the Mughal Empire, where tigers embodied imperial might. Over time, this symbolism has been internalized, with the tiger representing untamed aspects of the human psyche. Here, Bell presents the tiger as a ‘Dream Traveler.’ Jung might say this tiger embodies the powerful, instinctual forces of the collective unconscious. The surrounding vegetation, rendered in dreamlike strokes, heightens the scene's emotional intensity, engaging viewers on a subconscious level with the potent symbolism of the tiger. The tiger's image, rooted in ancient fears and reverence, resurfaces, evolving in meaning yet retaining its primal impact across millennia.