Julia Weaver, MFT is the founder of Art and Soul, a resource center for sacred and healing arts. She is an Environmental Arts Educator, combining the mandala process with tree planting and gardening to promote community revitalization and global healing. Julia is also a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, incorporating the arts as a healing modality, as well as an exhibiting artist who has produced a beautiful line of radiant mandala cards and archival museum quality prints



She facilitates workshops for children, teens and adults and lead weeklong retreats combining meditation, mandalas and movement.
http://mandalaweaver.com

Visionary and spiritual oil paintings and prints inspired by Nature, mythology and the Divine Feminine. Visionary artist Marcia Snedecor uses archetypal symbols as psychic touchstones for spiritual expression. These deeply moving images have emerged as visions from the soul. She believes that the universal language of symbols, created by and uniting humanity, has the power to speak directly to our souls. Her artwork will touch, nourish and inspire.
http://www.etherealart.com

Victoria Christian is a self taught oil painter whose mission is to create images that deeply move her audience on emotional and spiritual levels. Through her paintings she is attempting to tap into the mystical sensation of “awe” aroused in her while in nature. Victoria received a bachelors and masters degree in sociology and is compiling her thesis research on women artists and identity into a book. She currently resides in Flagstaff, Arizona and is pursuing a diverse career as an artist, writer and sociologist.


http://www.victoriachristian.com

Acrylic medium on canvas, canvasboard, wood. Main interets, traditional folk art, landscapes, southwestern indians, animals both domestic and wild.
http://www.artbydeborah.com

Unique color coded geometric mandalas to awaken the Spirit, uplift consciousness, support health, and enhance peace and well-being. Available as notecards, prints, murals, and quilts. Use for your home, business, Feng Shui,and meditation.Classes & Workshops.
http://www.AwakeningImages.org

The work of B. M. Husband III can only be described as a beautiful expression of the human form, encompasing a gestural use of line, color and from.


http://www.bmhusband.50megs.com

Our wildlife and nature art gallery includes many birds, both common and more exotic species. Each beautifully framed bird fine art print portrays a bird set against a full moon and a darkened skyline and can be purchased with either a color coordinated background, or with a deep blue night sky as a background. Each print is a new reproduction of an original signed drawing in a 13" x 16" frame, ready for hanging.


http://www.babybirdproductions.com/bbpfinearts.html

Three galleries online currently, featuring works by Ben Avant and others. Our physical gallery, known as Avant Studio and Gallery, is located in El Paso, Texas and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, encaustics, watercolors, and jewelry. All items in the online galleries are for sale and currently available. Portraits and illustrations commissioned; classes in all media; also figure drawing with live models.

Ben Avant's work consists of oil paintings and drawings in several genre; surrealism, realism, impressionism and semi-abstract. Subject matter ranges from imaginary to the more traditional such as plein air (landscapes),figures, architecture, portraits; spiritual art, pigeons, and some political art.

http://bill-nelson.com

Artist’s Statement

My paintings are about what is underneath the cityscape, landscape, and still life. I explore the subterranean world by representing what sits on top. My work questions what holds objects in place; what stabilizes form. Even the most watery of landscape, such as Venice, Italy, is held in form by energy. In my paintings I explore the substance behind the form and how it directs movement. Through the purposeful application of paint movement can be uncovered.

Over the past twenty years I have explored the use of color and its affect on the body and mind. I have found that mixing and applying color on a canvas permanently alters one’s perceptions of the world. I bring a blend of curiosity and movement to my canvases. Vitality can be created by the action of applying paint.

Cities inspire me, particularly Boston, Venice, Florence and Paris. The Renaissance painters have had a dynamic influence on my work. Their curiosity, adventurousness, unique perspective, and spirituality are revealed in their paintings in a way that is palpable on the surface.

I am a practitioner and teacher of yoga. Through a daily practice of movement I am able to access what lies under the surface of places and objects. This awareness is what I capture on canvas. I also do this for clients who commission works for their home or business.

I also explore the theme of footwear through time. Shoes represent how we walk through life and our feet help us move forward. They record our life experiences. I also examine the feminine through objects that are closely related to the concept of femininity. I am also interested in putting inanimate objects in cityscapes such as vintage shoes to make it part of the flow of the buildings and streets.

I work in oils and pastels and use a glossy medium. At times I use oils on decorative paper to represent a certain element or mood. The Venice paintings are an example of the use of paper and oil. I use a palette knife and small beads to create texture. My vintage shoes are an example of this technique.

Carmit is an artist and teacher. Her specialty
and pleasure is in the illustration of childrens
The illustration here is from the book; "Good Bear Night", printed and published in Israel.
books.
http://gallery.passion4art.com/members/carmit/index.html

essentially a reformed abstract expressionist doing mostly figurative and plein air landscape work in pastel and acrylic, sometimes rather tight otherwise "loose as a goose". Just being myself as honestly as I can. I like to play so not everything looks the same. My murals have been customer dominated and thus realistic as most of my commission work is, including sculpture commissions. I have work in collections all over the south, both private and corporate.
http://www.charlespeck.com

"Clarabell the Clown" 2004,

Framed Mixed Media on Paper. 32" x 22"

$700.00
http://www.cherylfinfrock.com

The arts are therapeutic, in and of themselves....used as a vehicle for communication of thoughts, feelings and for the purpose of developing insight and resolving emotional conflicts. Art in this way is process-oriented...the product and technical ability to make art are less important than the experience of making art. Our lives gain meaning through the creative experience. The arts used for personal growth experience at Chrysalis Personal Development is open to individuals, couples, groups, workshops. Please subscribe to my newsletter on the Phoenix Healer pages with The By Region Network. ....first issue out now.

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