Discussing the creative process and the phenomenology of the imaginal realms and relationship to nature with practicing artists.
The art of Amanda Sage portrays in great style both the ‘everyday’ and multidimensional aspect of humanness in harmonious balance. Her skills in portraiture serve as the scaffolding for transpersonal energies and realms, depicted in a manner containing both energetic depth and strongly contemporary resonance.
Plumbing this mystery is difficult says Gil: “Although we may not be able to ultimately express the mystery, to locate it in time and space, we can approach it with a vocabulary of images and metaphors through art and mythology and dream in which we collectively and individually participate.”
Satoshi Sakamoto, a visionary painter from Japan, discusses the development of his refined and mindblowing images.
The incredible painter Ann McCoy guides us first hand through the powerful archetypal imagery of her paintings, recounting a major initiatory passage catylised by her mothers death. Highly recommended viewing.
Steve uses his own compelling experience with meeting and knowing Mestizo Ayahuasca shamans to thread together a detailed understanding of the rituals and worldview of the Ayahuasquero, expressing his understanding of the deep aspects of his subject, such as the realms, entities and forces of the shamanic realms, with a refreshing phenomenological purity, humility, and respect for the mysteries.
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Horacio Bustos is an artist who’s originality lies in a sidereal fusion of warrior-like, religious, medieval, fetishistic and gothic influences.
The common motif across McGillivray’s vast body of work is the inter-relationship of humanity with the plant realm. The human form is frequently depicted as interpenetrated by root, rhizome, vine and leaf. These icon paintings of the deep ecological plant realm are the productions of a ‘vegetalista’, a plant-shaman.
Interview with talented Australian visionary painter Kuba Fiedorowicz, about life, spirit, his time with Ernst Fuchs and the nature of sacred art and its creation.
Karen Hsiao is a shamanic or magical artist whose work veers between beauty and the grotesque. Primarily a figurative painter in her early years, Hsiao has since explored the body and its space through various mediums, creating pieces that are both tactile and intuitive. We talk to her about her intriguing and disturbing series ‘Transmogrification’.
“Chet’s art is beautiful & scary. His style has a modern twist crashing into a classical approach. I think Chet is a master painter on his way to making a great mark in our little world. Wanna do something smart with your money? Invest in a Chet Zar painting.” – Adam Jones (TOOL Band)
Steven Eye is that rare breed of artist who manages to create extraordinary work while supporting other artists. His remarkable masks and sculptures are beautiful and archetypal at once.
Donald Pass is a visionary artist in the sense that he belongs to those men who still see visions. Hailed as a modern William Blake, he has often sighted angels and has experienced an overwhelming vision that irrevocably changed the nature of his work. His exquisite renderings in watercolour invoke the power and mystery of that vision.
It is with great honor that Lila is able to present Maura Holden’s latest finished work, Divisions of Neptune, accompanied by a work of mytho-prose reflective of some of the originating feelings and meditations contained within this unique painting.
A master of 21st century sacred art, Oleg Korolev generously shares and discusses his latest work, ‘Michael’ with Lila.
The artist Dean Fleming interviewed by Daniel Mirante
Where does the artistic process begin for you ?
I get most of my inspiration from looking at art. It can be anything from architecture to ancient Mayan pottery. I’ll begin by sketching with a big brush in order to create vague shapes that I use like a [...]
My art is an attempt to bring out in drawing my visions from entheogenic experiences. Ever since my first major entheogenic journey (which are always via Tryptamines, either mushrooms or Ayahuasca), Ive felt an enormous push in a certain direction for the aesthetics of my artwork. The visions I saw were so beautiful that I almost had no choice but to try and draw them, I felt like a conduit for the stuff to come out.
Pablo Amaringo is one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, and is renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Howard and Peter met with Pablo at the school which he founded (Usko-Ayar school of painting) in Pucullpa where he lives and paints, and interviewed Pablo about his life as a shaman and artist.
Working collaboratively can be an experience of ecstatic bliss and union of consciousness… and it can also be an exercise in patience and non-attachment. Simultaneous collaboration involves a particular mindset wherein we must surrender attachment to the final result, letting go of the egoic aspect of creation and becoming fully absorbed in the act of harmonious co:creation.
Updated Jan 2008. Interview with Maura Holden by Daniel Mirante
Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations, the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime
Interview conducted by Lunaya Shekinah of Lightscience with prolific artist / writer / curator, Daniel Mirante, discussing possible futures, and the nature of the imagination.
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