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Having
grown up with the smell of oil paint, surrounded my father's art
exhibitions and the beautific artistry of old Europe,
art and beauty has always been a necessary part of my life. I managed
an art gallery for several years in South Florida
and decided to support the inspiring work of artists near and far.
For serious inquiry please contact me. Thank you.
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Phil
Battaglia was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago.
In 1956 he was drafted into the Army Security Agency and
sent to Korea. While in Korea he was recruited by the Department
of State and upon his discharge from the Army, was employed
by the State Department. He studied diplomacy and languages
at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia.
He has since worked and lived in Colombia, Cuba, Korea,
Thailand, France, Spain, Italy, Jamaica, Israel, Saudi Arabia,
Trinidad & Tobago and Mexico. He studied art in Washington
D.C., and with prominent teachers in all of the European
countries in which he lived. He has had several exhibits
overseas and since his retirement from government service
has exhibited and sold his work mainly in Florida. The richness
and breadth of Phillip's life experiences has afforded him
a unique platform from which to develop his paintings over
the last 40 years.
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Phil Battaglia
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MANDALAS
BY RAMPAL - The Tantric Spiritual Art of NADEAN O'BRIEN |
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I
was born a creative child, but showed little
interest in drawing or painting. My parents who met at an
art gallery sustained hope that I would follow in the footsteps
of my talented aunt, noted for her lovely landscapes. However,
I had other worlds to explore before discovering the beautiful
and sensuous meditative art of Asia and Tibet, as well as
the work of Carl Jung, the eminent Swiss psychologist and
artist, who introduced the "personal mandala" to
the western world. Here was art with power, passion and purpose,
the art of self-realization and enlightenment, an art form
that caught my imagination and gave my life focus!
As
I picked up my brush and began to paint, I became caught up
in my own transformation as artist and healer. I expressed
this metamorphosis on canvas through Tantric symbolism depicting
the sacred union of our inner masculine (method) and feminine
(wisdom) principles. The mystical "yab yum" (literally
father mother) is often mistaken to represent human sexuality,
but instead graphically portrays
the inner wholeness or balance we must first achieve
to realize our highest human potential. This message is most
relevant today. I love both painting and explaining the meaning
of my mandalas to receptive audiences.
Contact
Nadean at info@jeweledlotus.com or Telephone:
(714) 968-8614
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& ACRYLIC PAINTINGS By Norma Wirtz
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I
appeared
on this planet in 1963. Since I could hold a pencil in my
hand drawing the beauty of the world has been one of my
favourite past times. At first drawing was more entertainment
that later became an obsession. But, like all good kids
in Germany I went to school and later learned a profession.
I became a public servant/office holder, which did not take
long to see that it was not for me. After a long journey
through a maze of different professions I landed a job with
a financial magazine and stayed with the company for a decade.
No matter where I have been in my professional journey drawing
has always accompanied me.
In
January 2001, I met Ralph who brought me to my path, passion
and obsession. His father was a painter of landscapes in
the Old Dutch way and to my sorrow he died two years later.
This lovely man left a studio full of oil colours, canvases
and paintbrushes. His studio was the desire of every painter’s
heart and dream, which was my first contact with oil colours
and the beginning of my obsession. Three months later I
was diagnosed with Multiple Scleroses. I felt this was a
signal to change my life’s direction. I decided to
leave the financial magazine to step into my true vocation
as a painter, a self-taught painter.
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My
themes are the beauty of nature and mind. I am inspired every
time I walk through the forest over the grassland and fields
near my house. The beauty in the refraction of light upon
substance makes me speechless and I see that spirit is present
in all things. Sometimes when I read a book the magic of fantasy
fills me with awe. All the while images are appearing in my
mind that burn me to paint.
The idea of Healing Paintings was borne in a church during
a mass in sacred song. The song contained the words “a
cathedral of green.” It was then that an imagery of
big beautiful beech trees came to me with rays of golden evening
light shimmering through their leaves. It was the light rays
that struck the meaning of healing for me.
Light
and colours are healing powers given to us as a gift from
spirit. My returning of the gift from spirit is through my
paintings that I hope will inspire people to open their eyes
to the healing beauty around and near them. As healing power
is conveyed in the human psyche through the power of fantasy
and imagination, my paintings may be used as symbolic gestures
in meditation, relaxation and inspiration.
Light
and Love,
Normael
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