Alison Thomas creates nature-inspired “Serenity Scenes” that deliver a sublime spiritual experience for viewers. She shares her profound lifelong reverence and connection with nature, her sensitivity, and talent to express its myriad healing qualities. In the presence of Alison’s works of art, we immediately enter a realm of resplendence. Her breathtaking scenes are bathed … [Read more...]
The Healing Power of Color 2024 Exhibition
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...]
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...]
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...]
Chalda Maloff Creates Life-Affirming and Inspirational “Botanic Abstracts”
Chalda Maloff creates life-affirming, nature-inspired artwork enriched with arresting luminosity and spatial depth. She conveys a profound understanding of our multi-faceted relationship with co-existing life forces and their empowering energies as they impact human experience and emotions. Shown here are her extraordinary works of art "Desire", "Breath", and "October" from her … [Read more...]
Dozens of Facts About The Power of Color
For this article I spent hundreds of exhilarating hours over the years doing research and compiling information. It contains dozens of facts about the power of color. The power of color is inescapable. Color affects your behavior, moods, and thoughts. Your reactions to colors are often deeply personal and rooted in your own experiences. A certain color has the ability to … [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...]
Gina Klawitter, Patrick Fleming, and Lynn Sposito Are Special Recognition Art Award Winners
When I discover artists who use their talents and skills to forge into new inspirational realms it offers me an opportunity to honor and reward them with international exposure. As the curator for “The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope” juried exhibition I chose 57 artists from around the world. I also selected artists to receive Special Recognition Art … [Read more...]
Artist Members Share Exciting Plans for 2024
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. We hope to hear from more members in the near future and will add them to this article. Please visit the … [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...]
Diane Fleisch Hughes, Rebecca Sobin and Atousa Raissyan Are Special Recognition Art Award Winners
As the curator for "The Healing Power of Art: Love, Peace, Unity & Hope" juried exhibition I chose 57 artists from around the world. I also selected artists to receive Special Recognition Art Awards. Three of them are featured here: Diane Fleisch Hughes; Rebecca Sobin; and Atousa Raissyan. Their aspirations and accomplishments extend beyond their visual creations and they … [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 … [Read more...]
Anastessia Bettas Creates “Rewilding” Paintings that Activate Positive Change
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
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 5 members. It is always a delight to learn what lies in the … [Read more...]
Carole Claude T. Enlightens Us As An Artist and Storyteller
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 wonder and curiosity about the universe, spirituality, human experience, and nature. Her original drawings are created with colored … [Read more...]