An Invitational Exhibition April 7 - June 7, 2024 About Us: The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS is a global community of artists, advocates, and writers dedicated to raising awareness about how art serves as a positive catalyst for enhancing the well-being of individuals, society and the environment. It is an initiative of Manhattan Arts International, NYC, NY. Read … [Read more...]
Britt Michaelian Creates Transcendent Paintings Infused With Healing Energy
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
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...]
Eco-Artist Natalie Oliphant Transforms Recycled Materials Into Life-Affirming Sculptures
Natalie Oliphant is an important eco-artist who lives in Canada. She has an extraordinary talent for transforming body forms and mannequins and other discarded items into new life-affirming sculptures. Destined for obscurity in landfills that harm our environment found objects become mixed media works of art that resonate with symbolic and metaphorical references. They will … [Read more...]
Liisa Viima Creates Inspirational Art with Messages of Resilience, Triumph, and Hope
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...]
Interview with Andre Chatelain, Recipient of The Special Recognition Art Award
Manhattan Arts International Proudly Presents Andre Chatelain with this Award in Our “Love, Peace, Unity & Hope” 2025 Exhibition As a masterful artist and humanitarian Andre Chatelain reminds us that we can all take steps to improve the world. He embodies the vital and admirable human attributes of love, peace, unity and hope. In this interview he shares his beliefs, his … [Read more...]
Artist Members Share Exciting Plans for 2024
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
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”
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
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
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
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
Masterful Watercolor Paintings of Florals About Tanis Bula: Tanis Bula is an internationally renowned watercolorist who excels in the style of contemporary realism 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 … [Read more...]
Anastessia Bettas Creates “Rewilding” Paintings that Activate Positive Change
Creating Art to Raise Awareness 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 … [Read more...]
Artist Members Tell Us What Inspired Their Works of Art
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
Artistic Expressions of Awe, Love, and Interconnections Carole Claude T. is a multi-talented artist and writer whose quintessential artistic style embraces her wisdom, 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
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
"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...]