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Britt Michaelian Creates Transcendent Paintings Infused With Healing Energy

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Love  Is The Truth. Life Is The Illusion Heart Chakra: unconditional love, forgiveness, compassion, respect. Solar Plexus Chakra: personal power, confidence, motivation. Throat Chakra: communication, expression, integrity. Energy healing, crushed minerals, sage, and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48".

Britt Michaelian is a contemporary abstract painter and a quintessential artist/healer. Her transformative paintings are infused with spiritual intuition and healing modalities. They emanate a universal and eternal presence of equilibrium, tranquility, and restoration. The large enveloping scale of Britt’s paintings embraces us with an immersive and transcendent presence. … [Read more...]

Rajul Shah Creates Meditative and Empowering “Renewal” Paintings

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Courage, acrylic and 23kt gold leaf on wood, 12” x 12”

Rajul Shah is a versatile abstract color field artist renowned for her ability to reinterpret spiritual spheres of knowledge and manifest them into innovative contemporary artistic expressions. Her healing art immediately arouses a transcendent experience for the viewer. She offers us a meditative journey toward personal growth and transformation. Rajul’s inspirational … [Read more...]

Liisa Viima Creates Inspirational Art with Messages of Resilience, Triumph, and Hope

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Liisa Viima, Agassio, mixed media, 39.37” x 27.55 x 1.37

Liisa Viima creates aesthetically beautiful inspirational art that transmits an immediate healing energy for the viewer. Her enlightened expressions originate from a wellspring of authenticity and convey her desire to share joyful and empowering messages of resilience, triumph, and hope. One of Liisa’s many admirable attributes is her creative versatility to reveal … [Read more...]

Artist Members Share Exciting Plans for 2024

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Roses, watercolor, 19x19

Three Artists Share Their Plans It's always exciting to ask the members of The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS online gallery what are you excited about in the coming year? When we asked them in December 2023, we received replies from these members and are delighted to share the news with you.  Please visit the artists' pages and their websites to view more of their art … [Read more...]

The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope 2023-24 Exhibition

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Love in Hout Bay, acrylic on canvas, 33.1" x 23.3"

An International Juried Art Competition To Inspire You & Bring Peace & Comfort This exhibition was presented November 27, 2023 through February 29, 2024 "The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope" online exhibition featured 57 Artists from around the world. It was organized to provide a place of healing and comfort for you. This page presents some of … [Read more...]

Video for “The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope Exhibition”

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video cover for "The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope Exhibition"

Watch A Spectacular Video on the Manhattan Arts International YouTube Channel More than 20 Contemporary Artists and several Master Artists are in the video including Elliot Appel, Gail Bach, Deborah Ann Baker, Sandra Belitza-Vazquez, Dr. Michael Durst, Patrick Fleming, Nanette Fluhr, Lisa Freidus, Sharon Grimes, Diane Fleisch Hughes, Fadia Haddad Jawdat, Karen Johnston, … [Read more...]

Sharon Grimes Creates Gorgeous Abstract Expressionist Paintings

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“Two Moons and A Vessel”, oil on a 2" cradled birch panel textured with black edges and gloss finish, 40" x 40"

Sharon Grimes creates gorgeous abstract expressionist paintings that are imbued with a radiant evanescent glow, rhythmic forms, and luscious tactile surfaces. They immediately captivate us with an alluring atmospheric and ethereal energy that activates a transformative experience. Sharon creates her works of art from her studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Longview, … [Read more...]

Romeo Varga Creates Transformative “Relinquish”, “Non-Finito” Portraits

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Paths and Choices, digital fine art

Romeo Varga is a contemporary artist who is making an indelible mark on art history. He has taken giant steps forward with innovative artistic vision. His art conveys profound insight into humanity and resonates on an individual and universal level. The art shown here is from Romeo’s new and growing “Relinquish”, “non-finito” (“not finished”) portrait series. The … [Read more...]

Susan Jarecky Creates Luminous, Awe-Inspiring Paintings of Nature

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Farm Life painting by Susan Jarecky

Susan Jarecky creates breathtaking, awe-inspiring paintings that are imbued with extraordinary luminosity. She extols the many sublime virtues of the American West and shares her reverence for the natural world. Her spiritually uplifting paintings may be defined as visual poetry. She captures reflected colors of water ripples, transient effects of light, and tactile surface … [Read more...]

Tanis Bula

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Amazing Blooming Flowers, watercolor, 20" x 20"

Masterful Watercolor Paintings of Florals About Tanis Bula: Tanis Bula is an internationally renowned watercolorist.  Her awe-inspiring masterful paintings of nature are endowed with a healing symphony of hues, light and shadow. She creates life-affirming  floral bouquets, serene landscapes and other subjects that delight and enchant us; however, she is best known for her … [Read more...]

Anastessia Bettas Creates “Rewilding” Paintings that Activate Positive Change

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"Walking on the Plains", encaustic on panel, 30" x 30".

Anastessia Bettas is a remarkable, award-winning artist from Canada who has exhibited extensively there and in the U.S. She applies her inimitable creative talent and passion to raise awareness. Most notably, her “Rewilding” series is “a visual response to natural and urban environments in harmony with inner landscapes to balance chaos and order.” She explains that "Rewilding” … [Read more...]

Artist Members Tell Us What Inspired Their Works of Art

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Roses, watercolor, 19x19

Enjoy This Delightful Article! It is an honor and pleasure to present "Artist Members Tell Us What Inspired Their Works of Art".  All members of The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS online gallery were invited to choose one of the works of art that is presented on their membership page and tell us what inspired it. We received replies from 4 members. They are Peter N. Van … [Read more...]

Carole Claude T. Enlightens Us As An Artist and Storyteller

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We Trust drawing by Carole Claude T

Artistic Expressions of Awe, Love, and Interconnections Carole Claude T. is a multi-talented artist and writer whose quintessential artistic style embraces her powerful intuition and her innate talent as an imaginative storyteller. Her narratives enlighten us and ignite our sense of childlike curiosity and awe about the universe, spirituality, human experience, and … [Read more...]

Call for Artists “The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope” ~ Entry Deadline Nov 13

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video cover for "The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope Exhibition"

About “The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope" online exhibition: It was on view November 27, 2023 - January 31, 2024. It included 57 contemporary artists and 15 master artists whose art expresses ideas and feelings about these vital aspirations --  Love, Peace, Unity & Hope. Art by Dr. Michael Durst, Bren Sibilsky and Sandra Duran Wilson Curator: … [Read more...]

Interview with Agnes Jorgensen and Andre Chatelain, Artists and Founders of Painting A New World

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Victory, painting by Andre Chatelain

"We are artists helping artists, painting a new world, one brushstroke at a time." Agnes Jorgensen and Andre Chatelain are extraordinary artists who have received many accolades for their masterful paintings in realism. The dynamic married couple share a deeply felt humanitarian spirit, a passion for Africa and its people, and have combined their talents to create Painting … [Read more...]

The Healing Power of Elements Exhibition

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Art from Elements Exhibition

Earth, Water, Air & Fire “The Healing Power of Elements” exhibition was on view September 4 – November 4, 2023. It featured 75 artists. The superior works of art on view revealed the many physical aspects of the four elements in addition to their emotive, symbolic, and healing qualities. This important exhibition continues our series of nature-related projects that raise … [Read more...]

Fadia Haddad Jawdat Creates Beautiful and Profound Narrative Works of Art

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Flight, acrylic, pumice gel, painted and found paper, 8.5” x 8.5”

Fadia Haddad Jawdat is a remarkable storyteller with a profound artistic vision. Her art is infused with meaningful visual concepts that evoke myriad visceral and thought-provoking interpretations. With compelling beauty and insight she conveys personal memories about living in the Middle East and observations about the often-complex human experience. With unerring … [Read more...]

Beth Shadur, Barbara Brown and Mark Weller Received Special Recognition Art Awards

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Beth Shadur

As the curator of “The Healing Power of Elements: Earth, Water, Air & Fire" 2023 juried exhibition I selected Beth Shadur, Barbara Brown, and Mark Weller to receive Special Recognition Art Awards and I am delighted to share this Featured Article about them. They deserve to receive our attention and acknowledgement for their many achievements and valuable impact on our … [Read more...]

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The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS (HPAA) is an initiative of Manhattan Arts International, NYC, NY. It was founded in 2015 by Renée Phillips, artists’ advocate & mentor, and also Founder, Director & Curator of Manhattan Arts International. As a community of artists, writers and advocates we believe ART & ARTISTS are positive catalysts for enhancing the well-being of individuals, society and the environment. ART & ARTISTS have the power to bring positive change to the world.

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