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Wild Heart Queen Chris Zydel

Wild Heart Queen Chris Zydel

Susun interviews Chris Zydel.
Chris Zydel, AKA the Wild Heart Queen, is head creative goddess at Creative Juices Arts She has over 40 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide and an unshakeable faith in the power of creativity to heal hearts and change lives. She knows deep in her bones that everyone is deeply, wonderfully and gloriously creative and is on a relentlessly love-soaked mission to prove that to the world. She performs this magic by providing nurturing and joy-filled creative sanctuaries overflowing with encouragement, permission and trust in the sacred energy of play and creativity that lives inside of us all.

Soul Reader & Artist Kathy Crabbe

Soul Reader & Artist Kathy Crabbe

Susun interviews Kathy Crabbe.
Soul Reader, artist and Lefty Oracle Deck creator, Kathy Crabbe helps awaken your intuition, break through creative blocks and identify your gifts. Kathy’s work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine and San Diego Women’s History Museum. She has taught Divine Feminine Moon Classes at Wise Woman University, Mt. San Jacinto College and appeared on HGTV along with starting a writer’s group and artist’s circle in her town. Kathy lives in Temecula, California with her two dogs and architect husband in an adobe style home they built themselves. Catch Kathy’s moonthly art giveaways in her New Moon Museletter at www.kathycrabbe.com Kathy’s newest project is her 54-card Lefty Oracle Deck, painted entirely with her non dominant left hand to help you strengthen your intuition, break through creative blocks and identify your gifts. Perfect for individuals and groups!



this episode Q&A includes:
• possible type 1 herpes in the mouth- swollen gums and sores- hypericum tincture..
• brain aneurysm and bringing someone out of a coma- moral choice, laughter, annoyance, inspiration..
• comfrey- where to purchase, what variety?
• osteoporosis- do not treat the disease, treat ability to be flexible- walk, gentle yoga, tai chi, chi kung- consume yogurt..
• shiitake mushrooms as a source of vitamin D..
• grain alcohol is 99% alcohol- if you want to use tinctures freely and safely, use 100 proof vodka..
• sleep issues and achieving meditative calmness..
• giardia- antibiotics and wormwood..
• starting a women's circle- shaman, priestess, witch- hold steady and lead..

Tattoos for Breast cancer survivors

For some breast cancer survivors, losing their breasts was the only option. For a woman, that is a devastating loss. One tattoo artist is on a mission to help them turn their grief into confidence and hope through beautiful tattoos.

P.ink was founded with a simple mission, to provide another option for women who had lost their breasts to breast cancer. Noel Franus founded the organization after his sister in law suffered from the disease and asked a tattoo artist to help her afterwards, instead of a plastic surgeon. P.ink was created to supply women who had mastectomies with other options by covering their chest with beautiful art. They are to serve as reminders that they are survivors, warriors and to never give up.

Now, after bringing 50+ mastectomy tattoos to life, the organization continues to expand across North America for survivors everywhere. They currently work with a small network of 10 pre-screened artists across North America. Through donations survivors can book time with the artists to transform their wounds into warrior marks!

I hope you enjoy and agree it's a touching piece to share:

 

Art by Gaia

Art by Gaia

 

About The Artist

 

With deliberate, minute brush strokes, Gaia creates compelling geometric patterns with bold colors. Nature, global and figurative motifs coalesce and harmonize together in the spirit of wholeness and infinity. Her paintings beckon the viewer to relax and contemplate, explore, and discover the inner and outer worlds of existence.

In sharing the artwork and connecting with others she discovered that these transformational themes are part of a larger visionary movement that is active in society today... as deep ecology, social justice, conscious politic, alternative economy, and so on...
Uniting our vision and natural talents can become a catalyst for individual and collective change so that we can move together toward a healthier humanity.
 
Gaia Orion has received international acclaim for her visionary paintings and for her participation in many worldwide projects that strive for positive change. The artist, who currently lives in Ontario, Canada was born in Paris, France and graduated with honors from Ecole des Beaux Arts as an architect. For more information and to view her art visit www.gaiaorion.com

For more info about Gaia Orion you can read articles and interviews that have been published in various magazine:

- Read the article on Visionary Arts by Gaia Orion for Lila Magazine, March 2012 
- Read the interview for Un Nouveau Monde En Marche, January 2012 (in French)
- Read the Yoga magazine March 2007 article
- Read the Alternative Trends Autumn 2009 interview
- Read the article in Touch Magazine, February 2010
- Read the interview for Planet Shifter Magazine, September 2010

The Art of Cindy Thorrington Haggerty

The Art of Cindy Thorrington Haggerty

 

Cindy Thorrington Haggerty is a certified Jeweler/Designer/Artist. She has decades of art and design experience. She has been a very successful artist that creates art and then turns this fine art into jewelry.

She has designed the jewelry line for the famous Easryrider Motorcycle Roadware Company and worked with many world wide artists at making art jewelry from their art. Cindy has been featured in other countries besides the USA and has been in magazines, catalogs and many news papers and web sites.

She is a Disabled American Indian that creates Fantasy Art of her Indian Little People Fairy Spirits. She uses many different styles for her medium to use and create recycled art. This meaning she likes to use things that would otherwise be thrown away to add to her original painting to make it a one of kind piece.

She also takes old retired art and makes into new art by mathematical and digitized methods called her Kaleidoscope/Mandela Art and Healing Orbs.  She is known for having deep hidden messages in her art. She loves to please people all over the world with what she creates.  Loves Motorcycle Art and Red Hat Art too.  Main Art is FANTASY. 

Visit her website at www.theywhisperart.com

Indigene Art Forms

Indigene Art Forms

Artist Statement

“My identities as a woman and as an artist are intrinsically linked. My work explores issues of spirituality, myths, symbolism and universal womanhood.

By painting the many faces of women, I connect to the archetypal types that celebrate women’s energy, thoughts, dreams, memories and spirits.

As I create my art, through paintings, drawings, art journals and altered books, I reveal aspects of myself and my connection to womanhood.

My art speaks a language of many cultures and I feel immense reverence in being able to translate my individuality into this multitude. My unique and stylized way of creating art comes through in all my creations.”

Visit http://indigeneart.com and 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/IndigeneArtForms

The Art of Julie Fain

JULIE FAIN ART

Julie uses a variety of techniques for her vibrant fantasy silhouette art work. Her unique style features beautiful fairy and mermaid silhouettes set against vibrant night sky and brightly lit sunset backgrounds, offering a new and exciting take on the fairy and fantasy realm.

She has been linked to the realm of fairy art for many years, specializing in graphic and web design for many fairy artists such as Jessica Galbreth, Linda Ravenscroft, and Nene Thomas.

This was the seed that planted Julie's love of fairy art, and encouraged her to try her hand at her own original creations. Julie plans to add to her art collection often, so watch this site for new additions and exciting updates.

 

The Art of Kim Saul

the art of kim saul

 

http://www.kimsaul.com

Excerpts from:
the PAPER,  June 2002 
Paint like her, Artist's canvasses reflect the creator
by David and Mary Verzi

…Feminine archetypes spring from the earth, rocks, and trees", said Saul.  At her easel, working from photographs and her memory, Saul incorporates images for fine-featured modern models with the potent spirit of her imagined, untamed, forest found prototypes.

...Though occasionally using watercolors, Saul usually paints in warm, soft-toned acrylics glazed with vibrant oils, yielding fragile gut full-blooded femininity, both sweet and strong.  Saul's tender tough nature and the mild-wild breeding of her debutantes is reminiscent of the Anglo-Italian, Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82).

...Of unsettled personal sensibilities, Rossetti, inspired by legendary  goddesses, reflected his complexity in depicting women who were romantically delicate and, simultaneously, mystically robust. 

...Since Saul has instinctively mated fairytale illustration with that which examines the ancient female psyche, it is no wonder she and her women seem ready to run with both the wolves and Little Red Riding Hoods.

 

 

The Artwork of Leah Bearce Guérin

The Artwork of Leah Bearce Guérin

From the Artist's Website: http://www.leahguerin.com and visit her blog at: http://www.leahguerin.com/blog/

As a potter, I am attempting to create functional and unique artwork for the home. Each piece is either, thrown on the potters wheel and altered or hand built from slabs of clay.

In my current work I am focused on the form and utilizing it as a starting point for surface embellishment. I treat the ceramic form like a canvas being layered with decorative colors and patterns.

I find inspiration from the constant movement and colors found in nature as well as from textile prints. I strive for a balance between the purposeful way I apply the multi-color glazes within the pattern and controlling how the glazes soften and flow together during the process of firing.

I work slowly and methodically, because this balance between the form and its decoration is difficult to achieve. I don’t want to create an arena of competition between the two, but to create a dialogue about movement and the graceful intermingling of the form and its surface.

I hand make every glaze from non-toxic and lead free ingredients. Once the work is fired the glazed surface is dishwasher and microwave safe.

Please contact us for more information about our ceramics

The Art of Ragen Mendenhall

The Art of Ragen Mendenhall

Ragen Mendenhall creates beautiful and ethereal visionary artworks

Her soulful paintings reflect vibrant interpretations of the human experience. Often they feature beautiful women merging with nature, animals and elaborate decoration, incorporating elements of the Art Nouveau style as well as traditional realism.
 

Surrealistic and dreamlike, The primary focus within Ragen's artwork emphasizes dynamic human emotion and celebrates the connection of soul to body, alluding to the presence of an unseen spirit beyond the shell of the physical world.

Visit Ragen at http://www.ragensart.com/