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Helen Kagan PhD, a scientist, psychologist, holistic healer, spiritual counselor, published author, a visionary artist pioneering in intentional art for healing, is a creator of her unique HealingArts™ for 30 years. Her vision and mission is to encourage healing through art, as a severe PTSD survivor who dedicated her life helping others in many ways, she understands from the inside out the true meaning, importance, and value of art for healing.
My art is intended to make the viewers think, but my delivery is intended to make the viewers listen to their own inner voice. It makes people, including myself, think beyond reality and into the essence of reality. As I look back on that afternoon so long ago that presented my life, When remembering the experience of seeing the interconnected nature of all things.. The flash point of all creation in the present moment is immortality.
Kat Kleinman is a photographer and collage artist from the Sacramento, California area. She began her career as an artist in 2016, after she retired as a psychotherapist, working with homeless people for 20 years. Her past work is referenced because it does inform her current work with a focus on positivity and making people feel better with each new work.
Michael K Owino is a Danish-Tanzanian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, literature, music, and mixed media. As a self-taught and deeply expressive creator, he has exhibited his art across the globe in major cities and prestigious venues. His visual language is rooted in storytelling, often reflecting on themes of love, connection, and the overlooked beauty in everyday life.
Claire Davenhall is an internationally recognised visual artist whose sculptural and photographic works explore themes of migration, memory, and transformation. With a background in fine art and education, her multidisciplinary practice combines underwater photography, environmental storytelling, and socially engaged art.
Most of my landscape artworks are from my residential area and from north Italy. I use various techniques but mostly oil on canvas. The landscape I observe changes I keep in my memory and spell it out like an archive story.
Since 2013, using only her camera as one would a painter’s brush and natural light as color source, E Bee Bantug literally paints abstract conceptual images aiming to penetrate beyond surface realities; somehow unveiling cosmic energies at play in liminal time space.
Ramón Rivas's creativity thrives on being different and developing artistic proposals that surprise and captivate the viewer. He applies his vivid imagination to create innovative works that interact with the audience, displaying precision, density, and captivating depth in his images. In his personal style, he prefers mixed media. The content of his works is designed for large formats with the aim of inspiring viewers to wander throughout the entire space of the painting and become creative artists during their journey across the stage and for as long as the images remain engraved in their retinas.
Art is a universal language. It transcends boundaries. It allows us to communicate, find meaning, and share the complexities of our interconnected human experience. In May of 2020, Gayle Printz picked up her first paintbrush to reflect upon the beauty remaining in a world darkened by the pandemic. Her uniquely recognizable style immediately caught the eye of the international art community and, five months later, her work was part of the Permanent Collection of Le Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou in France.
Deep emotion and bold expression at the heart of nordic contemporary art. Harry Salmi (b. 1980, Hollola) is a visual artist from Lahti, Finland, whose works combine and transport the layers of abstract contemporary art, street art and surrealism into a unique visual world. As a painter, Harry likes the feeling of freedom and peace which he can experience again and again with his new works.
Born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), surrounded by great medieval and modern art and artists that caused his desire to create.
From early childhood, he enjoyed drawing and later painting; as a young man, he focused mainly on surrealism. His artistic attitude was shaped by many art clubs in childhood, followed by art training by MgA Milos Saska and work in set production of the Realistic Theatre.
IRIS was born in Romania and has been living in Austria for many years. A graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Design she has worked for many years as a furniture designer. Since 2018 she has experienced a whole new style inspired by the organic forms that fluids create in their movement. She called this new style "IRIS-FLUIDISM
His artistic career began early in New York, where he formed a close friendship with the artist Salome, co-founder of the Neue Wilde (New Wild Ones). Michael Kopplstätter was infected by the spontaneous and expressive elements of the Neue Wilde at an early age.
I work with a variety of materials. For physical works, these include pieces of computer circuit board, ceramics, silicon and technical elements. When it comes to digital works, I use various software and draw on my iPad, embracing both analogue and digital work processes without boundaries. Art is my weapon of choice when it comes to confronting the future.
Pushing the boundaries of light, color and design, Bette Ridgeway is best known for her large-scale, luminous poured canvases, which, in recent years have garnered international recognition.
Tatyana Palchuk was born on December 6, 1954, in Riga, Latvia, EU (then part of the Latvian SSR (Soviet Union). Her father was a Soviet soldier who died shortly after World War II, and she was raised by her mother under modest circumstances. Despite financial hardship, her mother encouraged cultural pursuits—Tatyana studied piano and fostered an early love of artistic expression where music notably influenced her later visual art.
Her Paintings and Energizers are all Vastu Based with high frequency Positive Energy that acts as a remedy, medium and décor to shift the Energy of Space and also the Energy of human Aura. Apart from being an Elite Décor and Aesthetically balancing spaces, her Paintings and Energizers shift the frequency of the space from low – Negative to High Positive. She is a multifaceted artist and well-known consultant who blends spiritual practice with art and holistic healing.
“When I make art, I try to think about it as something separate from the normal world - as if art is a world of its own. My goal is to create artwork that is meaningful, powerful, influential, symbolic and will have an impact in the world. I explore humanity through my thoughts, feelings, and emotions subjectively.
Her art blends raw emotion with dreamlike symbolism, offering intimate reflections on healing, identity, and inner strength. With a background rooted in storytelling and spiritual depth, Marlene creates powerful visual narratives that resonate with those navigating their journeys of reinvention. Now based in Texas, she continues to share her work through galleries, collaborations, and her creative studio.
Massimo Vito Avantaggiato is an Italian composer, writer, and visual artist. He is a professor of Electroacoustic Composition and History of Electronic Music at Italian conservatories. His interdisciplinary practice explores the spiritual dimension of existence, using music and visual art as means to reveal and communicate the inner essence of all things.
