Archive: Workshop your Artist Statement!

[Anahata Ishaya]

Hi Everyone;

Here is my Artist Statement as I feel it now and I welcome any comments.

From an early age, I was always attempting to bring about color balance and beauty through  clothes and interior design. Producing early artworks copying masters’ paintings soon began my love affair with depicting Light and the sublime.

After a brief time at art school, I was led to study with a Buddhist master artist, Andy Weber, who taught me the ancient art of painting East Indian deities or Tibetan Thangkas.  I then learned another ancient process called iconography; the painting or ‘writing’ of Christian religious images.  I found myself connecting with these deities energetically and simply assisted them to materialize into form.  This moved me deeply into myself and started to shape my personal artistry.

These sacred processes first begin with a laying down of dark colors moving forwards into light, layer by layer; a metaphor for life.  This preparatory work also revealed my life’s purpose; that of presenting different aspects of the Divine or Source into the world through design.

These artworks are vehicles or signposts to help us connect more deeply with our Higher Sacred Self, each other, the world, and ourselves. Connecting has helped me evolve my approach to the work from art school processes to a more intuitive-based one. It also guided me to start expressing the artwork from doing only small minute detail works to broader brushwork and larger canvasses.  I am attempting to achieve intrigue, inner reflection, self-inquiry and assistance for the viewer to more clearly feel that deep ‘Longing to Know’.

[Deleted User]

Hi Anahataishaya – is that a full name or first? It is beautiful! What a wonderfully interesting statement and story, I loved reading it. I would like to know a bit more about your style, medium and relationship with colour as I am intrigued when looking at your work, which is amazing by the way!

[Anahata Ishaya]

Hi Lily;

 

My name is Anahata Ishaya which is a name given to me by my enlightened teacher back in 1996. Thank you!

I use gouache for the thangkas with gold leaf and the icons. Otherwise it is acrylic and some mixed media but not too much.

Thank you very much for your comment. We work in a vacuum and don’t know what impact our art has on others so I appreciate the feedback; any of it actually. I do want to affect others with their deep emotional connection to their Source.

Blessings,

Anahata

[Antonella Sigismondi – (Coochie Mondi)]

HI Everyone!  So here is my Artist Statement for my paintings overall.

It’s important for me to express the essence and strength of life through my works, showing movement, emotion and energy. I like to think that amung us all, there is a human connection; that each of us are linked to a cosmic whole, like creating a symbiotic relationship with our surrounding reality. My colorful style is reminiscent of impressionism with a modern twist. The technical approach of my aggressive strokes serve to express movement, and depict our inner strength. I’m inspired by; people, theatre, nature, and The Avant Garde Cinema. The use of glitter and metallic paint allows me to unleash the interior light of my subjects, all in pop style.

Antonella Sigismondi