Martin Stensaas approaches archetypal subjects in his painting, with a whorling, dynamic, energy, layered with iconic scriptures arrayed in the appearance of multidimensional holograms. In this interview, we talk about the development and themes running through his art.
This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.
Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.
The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art has just launched, offering courses, full academy training, exhibitions, publications and more. It is very significant in that it establishes a permanent center of operation for the re-emergence of sacred and visionary art into Western culture.
May this sacred art expand our vision of how we are connected to each other, Mother Earth and Great spirit. May we free our mind of all self accepted or socially imposed limitations, allowing our Spirits to delve more deeply into the realms of dream, divine possibility, and childlike wonder
Colin Christian is a full time artist, renowned for his sculptures, which drawy inspiration from sci-fi movies, anime, ambient electronic music and H.P. Lovecraft. We talk to him about his life, inspirations and artistic process.
This singular story, told across all cultures and religions since the beginning, has a much deeper cosmological interpretation when seen through myth and archetype.
From the forges of the far western wing of the Elvish Nation in Canadia, comes an innovative new incarnation of the galactik trading card oracle complex.
The “sacred plants”, which are often called hallucinogens and psychedelics, have played important roles in ancient and contemporary societies, evoking powerful spiritual, emotional, social and cognitive reactions. Their importance for humanity is attested to by findings in many areas.
Ritual can also be seen as a material ‘scaffolding’ that facilitates movement through immaterial informational fields (what Jung could call the collective unconscious). This scaffolding is deliberately designed to facilitate one or more of the natural (inherent in all human consciousness and culture) processes of change.
The worlds visited by the shaman, the seer, the sibyl, and the prophet are all outposts of the mundus imaginalis. But this imaginal world is also produced through the labor of traditional sacred artists, who have incarnated these visions in the mythic maps, sacred geometries, and iconographies of tribes and cultures the world over.
The intention of this study is to demonstrate the occurrence of mystical experience in the English Romantic and American Transcendental literary traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The characteristics of this phenomenon are explored and identified in the analysis and their influence is assessed
In visions and visionary art we often witness a sensibility that is not really a conventional beauty. It may be elegant, enchanting, intricate, but it challenges rather than succours us, it does not key into sentimentalised or strictly culture bound notions of beauty, but touches upon the ‘full cycle’.
As a manifestation of this emerging culture, an Alpine eco-village in Italy will become the backdrop this summer to the 4th annual gathering of Visionary artists, creating a space in which the artists can collaborate, share visions and techniques of the sacred, and re-vision the global matrix.
UK Visionary art workshop using the mediums of oil, tempera and glazes as expression for the sacred impulse, to bring vision into form.
This is an opportunity and call to action for the exhibition of ideas, visions and leaders who are ahead of their time. Numerous gallery exhibitions and cultural happenings are being scheduled in Colorado during the month of May.
This invitation to donate is dedicated in support of our beloved sister, artist and wise-woman Yvonne, as she bravely embarks on her healing journey after having a serious car accident in Scotland. Yvonne McGillivray, wise woman, visionary artist, and friend to many, has suffered serious injuries from a car accident — multiple fractures and in(…)
The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art has just launched, offering courses, full academy training, exhibitions, publications and more. It is very significant in that it establishes a permanent center of operation for the re-emergence of sacred and visionary art into Western culture.
From Russia to Australia to London, Paris and Vienna to the West coast of the United States, these twelve artists (7 men and 5 women) unite on a quest to evoke the sacred.
When people tap into “the muse,” they make contact with a higher source of creative inspiration. It is in this spirit that the artists represented in this show offer their work and the life of their art at this groundbreaking exhibition in Vienna.
