Originally from Belgrade, Serbia, Sofia has lived in the U.K., the East coast and all over California where she sailed on the Pacific. She now lives in Boulder, Colorado, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the spine of the Dragon. “I derive great inspiration from being in Nature, from traveling and and cross-cultural experiences. I believe true artists function as shamans and alchemists of the society at large. Painting is my commitment, meditation, expression of the awe and mystery of life. I am an instrument tuned to the flow of energies around me, an interface between the personal self and collective consciousness, and an antenna for higher visions for the purpose of personal and hopefully global healing and evolution. By receiving and trusting the visions — “the language of light” — the rational mind is bypassed. Yet its work consists of striving to capture some of their essence and, improving the methods to do so. This work is an effort towards Union between the intuitive and the rational mind, as I sense and believe the Universe is a constant dynamic interplay of polar opposites. The Divine Feminine Principle has never truly left and She/Gaia/Shakti is calling us back. The [...]
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Chad Haarman is a recent art school graduate who has shown at NYC Decompression and Burning Man in Entheon Village. We love the way Chad’s paintings express the personal experience of transcendent bliss across lines of gender, culture and and the generations, and we are stoked to share him with you.
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I believe that art is a technology that can communicate and transform the collective consciousness. If we begin to integrate what our sciences and ancient philosophies are telling us about Holographic Reality we learn that everything is energy vibrating. With the integration of the knowledge of subtle energies in our every day lives, the artist becomes more than a transmitter of images. The artist becomes a technician of the visible wavelength, using it to receive, transmit, and amplify the subtle energies in ways that could be beneficial for the evolution of consciousness as well as for the health and vitality of any being. The paintings are not the message, nor are they holding the message within their content. The paintings are the device that assists you in bringing out the message. The message is already there, it is inside you. “Artists are the Antennae”- we are allowing energy to flow through us and this energy is activating our capacity to interpret the messages within us. Likewise, the paintings activate the viewer’s capacity to decode their own messages lingering within, waiting for them to relearn their own native tongue. This is why it is so great- instead of having to mean [...]
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Christina Wagonblast is a popular live painter who loves painting late at night at festivals all over the West Coast. This is her second summer painting in the Mystic Garden. You can read more about her at http://wagonblastart.ning.com/
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Darren Minke is an accomplished digital artist, commercial artist and fine art painter who has shown art at Mystic Garden for several years as a vendor. We are pleased to showcase him as a Featured Artist this year and have his sacred and goddess art grace our stages and altars. Darren has shown at Sacred Spaces Village and Red Lightning at Burning Man and is constantly touring and showing at music festivals along the West Coast.
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Yurik Riegel was born in the small coastal town of Half Moon Bay, California. He received his first formal art training at the local high school. Though art was his first love, he also spent a great deal of his time away from class doing physical exercise. It was here in the vigorous physical training of running in the school’s Track and Cross Country teams and practicing the martial art of Hapkido, that the seeds of personal evolution first took root in his soul. Yurik attended San Jose State University where he received a degree in Illustration. At the age of 22, after experiencing a panic attack, he began to read books on personal growth, why people suffer, and the relation of psychology to art. Upon graduation, he traveled across the U.S. in search of classical figurative training at the Arts Students League of New York City, under the instruction of Peter Cox, Greg Kreutz, and Michael Burban. After returning to San Francisco, he was hired by his childhood inspiration, the Lucas companies. It was in this time period, in the wake of 911, that Yurik was more formerly introduced to the world of course work and meditation. He dove [...]
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We are pleased to welcome back Roman as one of our featured artists. Roman has been showing in the Visionary Arts Village since our first Mystic Garden five years ago. Roman represents a harmonious universe portrayed by dancing beings, galactic councils, sychromystics and other enlightened perspectives symbolizing the ever-changing moment he calls the eternal party. Roman loves to make art but ultimately he believes it’s a duty to his community and our existence as a visual representation of the world we want or have. He invites everyone to participate in a conscious movement declaring interdependence through the act of creating it.
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Adam Fu – Yukauye Adam Fu currently resides in Northern California. Growing up, Adam was exposed to many different cultures visiting both the maternal side of his family in Taiwan and the paternal side of his family in Mexico. From early on Adam Fu felt a strong calling to study the traditional plant medicine ways of the indigenous peoples of America. Adam has lived with and continues to visit families from different indigenous nations of both North and South America - learning from and supporting their art and ways of life. From the jungle dwelling Shipibo-Conibo and Matses – Jaguar tribe to the high desert Huichol Deer Tribe of Northern Mexico “All of these tribes have intimately touched me and influenced me as a being – Artistically and Spiritually.” Adam Fu has been ordained and authorized as a Peyote Roadman and Minister for the Native American Church of the North America Contient through Chief Leonard Emmanuel Crowdog – Chief of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate and 562 Federally recognized Tribal Nations here in the North American Continent. In addition to the honor of carrying this medicine altar from respected tribal chiefs of the North- Adam continues to study and work under [...]
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“My oeuvre bridges the material and ethereal realms through the essential integration of art and society. In an effort to restore the lost harmonic equilibrium, I portray the emergence of a new cosmology I am witnessing. Through diffusion and cross-cultural exchange between the East and West, we are building a deeper sense of connection and understanding in accordance with the natural world and global community. We are myth-makers, visionary practitioners, mystic sound, and holistic healers. Through the recognition of the divine within, we present our various works with bodhisattva-like intentions of aiding spiritual awakening and eliciting a strong sense of positive social and environmental responsibility. I strive to combine technical proficiency with visionary imagination. My paintings are visual manifestations of the archetypal energies which guide my path as well as divine reflections of ascension. They do not deny the sorrows of the temporal plane, rather symbolize our capacity for transcendence.”
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Sergey Rytov was born and grew up in Central Russia but I always felt an inexplicable interest to ancient eastern philosophies and their culture. His art was inspired by magical journey to India in 2006, a mystic country which manifests variety of miracles even nowadays. Sergey’s art is symbolic with themes that are taken from classical Tibetan Buddhism. Transparent canvas symbolizes infinite space and emptiness – it’s a basis from which everything is manifested. And image – the union of deities, accomplished with fluorescent paints in a Drops Style is a spontaneous game of energies in this space – like emanating illusory vibrations of light and sound, which we can perceive by an innate mind in its particular natural initial state of purity. The creation of art for Sergey is an act of self discovery. The transfer of a certain emotional experience, of energy, pours out into the composition. The artist becomes like a conductor – he participates in the process, and is not involved at the same time. This approach is similar to ancient and cult arts in all traditions and in all nations, especially vividly expressed in the East, in the art of Ancient India, Tibet, China and [...]
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Ecoartopia Sacred Art Collective
The 2011 Visionary Arts Village at Mystic is curated and produced by the Ecoartopia sacred arts collective — an international visionary arts hub for artists devoted to “ecovisionary” art that expresses a more sustainable and harmonious world for us all to share. Ecoartopia’s art temples, stage design and art installations have been featured at festivals throughout the West Coast (including San Diego Earth Day, Bhakti Fest, Deep Green, Harmony Festival, Rejeuvenation, Burning Man and Mystic Garden. These elaborate installations showcase visionary art by renowned and upcoming new artists from around the world and often include fountains, crystal matrixes, lasers, altars of natural materials, visual projections, technology and sculptural art installations. These temples provide a sacred container for the personal experience of the divine and are created from a collaborative group process that makes them unique to the needs of a particular community or event. Art from the Ecoartopia collective can also be purchased online as prints on demand and merchandise made to order. www.ecoartopia.com
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Clay Chollar grew up in a very creative household in Santa Cruz, CA, where he was saturated by art and music from day one. For Clay, Art isn’t just something you Do- it’s something you Live. Clay is here to Inspire people by constantly creating & manifesting his dreams on a daily basis! Live Visionary Airbrushing is a truly interactive experience. You can watch as the paint comes to life before your very eyes, but if you get too close he might turn you into the canvas. Clay can be seen Painting Live, Djing, BodyPainting and setting up Interactive Installations at festivals, art events, and underground shows all over the west coast & beyond. Also in the works is MIndAltar an all original Audio/Visual Dj set….. It will be a Multimedia Journey through the Psychedelic nature of our minds, Blending Art ,Video, Music & Live Performers to Create a Visionary Dance Portal…
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Forrest Boden of Planting Yogi Studios comes from 25 years of creative arts, gardening and teaching while studying the relationships of culture, consciousness, and community and its place in the ecology. This studio is a place that cultivates the living culture making its way back through our colonized mind by representing it visually and planting it in the gardens of our imagination, hearts, homes and yards. “My images are a gesture of gratitude and reverence to the intelligent forces within and around us. With my work I hope to inspire, celebrate and evoke the emerging eco-creative culture birthing from within each of us. I dedicate my work to the reconciliation of our collective history, to the restoration of harmony and to the designs of a living story for our future.” Inspiration and passion unite to forge the creative power and consciousness that awakens and generates the beauty of our evolution. Welcome the Earth’s Renaissance from your own body and heart. The old paradigm of dominance and subservience is dissolving as we Re-Member ourselves back to communion in Earth and with each other.
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Lindy Kehoe lives and paints on the majestic Rogue River in southern Oregon. Her work is both magical and alive, revealing ancient stories through her myriad characters. Her illustrations were awarded the silver Nautilus award with her collaboration with Star Hawk in “The Last Wild Witch”. She has been published for six years with the We’Moon Date Calendar. Her paintings are offerings of healing and enchantment; portals into worlds remembered through the heart’s doorway.
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In Qahiraʻs own words: My images attempt to evoke magic…spiraling and emerging through the sacred symbology of the Divine source, the Great Mother, the One. I have a passion for reaching into the essence of what is deeper than words, making pictures of what is beneath the surface, behind the veil, healing what arises from the depths of the world soul, activating the powers of intention, creating magic and revealing transcendence. I feel that the role of the “artist” in this time is to be a shaman in the very deepest sense of that word, working to dispel commonly held illusions and delusions – perhaps through the creation of”illusions” and to help bring about a true healing to her/his culture: to nurture and feed the world soul.
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With her imagery, Ishka reveals a world of the eternal Beauty that is all things. A river of elementals, cosmic beings, and magical beasts swirl together in one great flood of light and shadow, emanating the shapes and colors illuminated within the Beloved’s kaleidoscope. With every turning of the wheel, an ever-changing cycle of Life appears. Dawn spills into the night sky, a blossom falls as a cherry grows; and the movement in our mind trickles down into a land where thoughts kneel before a pool of peaceful waters, watching silently, as Spirit emerges from the depths. Visit her website and online gallery at: www.ishkanexus.com
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Having done commissioned work and raised a family, I had not created “my own” work for years. But whenever someone asked what I would paint I would say mandalas. Predictably, I am now painting iconic mandalas (a purposeful hybrid) and I am affirmed in my intuition: mandalas are a wonderful way of transforming the individual and the group. Helping to align us to a greater power and purpose, mandalas create balance and understanding: a sense of atONEment through which we may heal ourselves and our world. An Art History major, I have always been drawn to the cross cultural constants—the intersections of truth that bind us together. The trinity, as an expression of sacred numerology, geometry, and art, emerges within all cultures as the embodiment of the human family. At this time of global crisis and unification, I have chosen the trinity as a tool for integration—a celebration of diversity and unity, embracing all peoples from around the globe and all life on our planet. While previously anonymous, I have chosen to include some images to help connect the viewer with the process of creation. Here I am with my most recent (not quite finished) acrylic. Enjoy, Heather Taylor, Full [...]
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The Awakening Freedom Experience w/ Davin Infinity
Davin Infinity is a visionary artist / film-maker/ human potential guide who has trained in several lineages of shamanic practice and is an experienced and powerful metaphysical guide into the Quest of awakened transformation. He has received initiations into the Ancient & Modern Mystery Schools and several shamanic lineages. He is alive to resurrect the fires of love for human ascension. This work is a major influence in his visionary art and films.
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