Sahaja Yoga Arts

Just a quick post to let everybody know that this website is always open to new artists. Actually we are very keen to have as many Sahaj artists from all over the world involved in the website.

If you would like to have a page on this site, there is no charge at all – just send images around 1 mb per image and a CV or Artists statement if you have one.

So what’s the first step? Just send a message expressing your interest through the contact page (click here) of this website. We look forward to hearing from you all, we would love to hear Sahaj artists from every country.

For the artists that already have a page, please feel free to send us information about your latest exhibitions or just interesting quotes or art articles you have collected. Also feel free to send us images of your new work so we can update your page. And Please – if you know any other artists please let them know about the site.

Lastly, some good news – we hope to have a forum up and running on this website in the next few weeks so that we can all communicate with one another.

The Sahaja-Yoga-Arts  web team.

We have two great new additions – Jyoti bhardwaj from Rajasthan, India and Letizia Cortini from Rome, Italy. Please check out their pages and feel free to leave comments.

A warm welcome from Gabrielle (Ellen) Marlow to the following joint exhibition in which she is taking part.

Berrima Plein-Air Painters Exhibition
When? Opening Night 25th Sept 4.30 to 6.30pm and then daily 10.30 am to 4.00 pm until 5th October.
Where? Harpers Mansion on the Hill at Berrima, Southern Highlands, NSW.

Artists: Don Talintyre, Jack Davis, Gabrielle Marlow, John Macey and Bob Harper.

Several years ago while attending a Sahaja Yoga Birthday Puja seminar in India, I came across a Russian yogini selling her paintings.

What a nice surprise!  And she was selling them very cheap. I was that taken that I  bought as many of them as i could with the money I had in my kurta pocket.

One of these works now hangs on my bedroom wall – a beautiful painting done in oil paint on cardboard, depicting a snowy winter scene – similar to the one pictured above. Within the cold looking forest – a fire is burning. It’s such a profound and poetic image! The paint work and colours are also great. I get a lot out of it.
Unfortunately I did not get any of the artists contact details. Can anyone out there identify the artist by the signature on the bottom right-hand corner of the painting above? It would be great to have her work on this site. Would any Russian speakers be so kind as to translate this name to English for me? Or if anyone does know her please ask her to contact us through this website’s ‘contact’ page.

Thanks in advance!

We have a new addition to the site – Maria Rojas, born in Bolivia now living in Spain. Click on the picture to see more of her work. Enjoy!

Angela Beaumont
Bliss, Peace and Harmony
Wednesday 6 May – Sunday 24th May, 2009

Featuring paintings of Indian deities and scenes from the Ramayana

Opening, Friday 16 May, 4 – 6pm

Moreland Gallery, 105a Isabella St Wingham 2429,NSW, Australia, ph: (02) 65570374
Gallery hours – Wed – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 2pm, Sun 11am – 2pm

To see more of Angela’s previous works on this site click here.

We have two great new additions to this website – Painter Shivani Gupta from Madhyapradesh, india; and sculptor/woodworker Oleg Babukhin of Russia. Enjoy!

Shivani Gupta

Oleg Babukhin

This feeling that you are Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Brahma samajis etc., has no base. You are nothing but a human being, you are born a human. You have branded yourself that you are something. You are neither Bengali nor Marathi. You are just a human being. By branding yourself you create more problems. This brand becomes so important that you cannot see anything beyond it. Till this catch does not release this blindness will not go because you see everything in such away that only your way is right. In the west it is even more so. If you put anything into their brains and tell them that are good, then they will follow it blindly. The critics there also criticize every art form so much. Another critic will refute what the first critic has refuted. Nothing comes to you from within yourself and your brain. Whatever others have filled in is accepted. Each is branded. By this the ego rises and a person thinks that he is very great personality and very unique from others. He becomes an individual. The essence of truth is that we are all one, are Whole, are a totality. When we go in the opposite to it then you become individualistic and go on becoming more and more separate. This is true that one leaf does not resemble another but all of them are on the same tree. They are all a part and parcel of the Virata. When we separate ourselves then the Swaraswati tattwa, which should become Maha Swaraswati tattwa does not.

When you live in the MahaSaraswati tattwa you start seeing in your daily life that you are the Whole, and we are one. So when an artist creates he makes some such things that one accepts from the heart. All the works that we do of Saraswati should be dedicated and surrendered to the Divine. If this happens then all such works will be immortal. All poems, music, songs, art forms which were offered in the name of God are still living today. Like today’s film music comes and dies down. But the songs of Kabir, Gyaneshwara are still remembered. Through their self-realization they obtained the MahaSaraswati Shakti and whatever they wrote or created that light was of a unique kind. These were creations that united the world into one. One should not only move on Saraswati tattwa as this limits you. One should move on the MahaSaraswati tattwa. If Saraswati tattwa is the seed then the tree is MahaSaraswati. Till you do not make this seed into the MahaSaraswati till then you cannot merge with MahaLakshmi. The gift of MahaLakshmi within you is that you get your self-realization. All the three, MahaLakshmi, MahaSaraswati, and MahaKali, meet at Agnya.

H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Shri MahaSaraswati Puja, Calcutta, India, 3/2/92

This article was published in July 2008 in the US based “Art News Blog” and it an article, in my humble opinion, that should be brought to attention because it raises a lot of issues that many have been afraid or reluctant to talk about publicly for many years. This is a must read as it is perhaps a future seminal text on the art of the early 21st Century. I also recommend people to read the comments below each part of the article because these provide an insight into the thoughts and minds of a fairly informed art audience of today from a cross-range of varying viewpoints.

It is very interesting to note the paradigm shifts that are currently taking place in the art world as well as the world at large. As many have suggested, what happens in the art/arts world, or even by unknown artists is part of a big call and response. What happens in the arts radiates out into society and vice-versa, the artist responds overtly or sensitively to what is happening in the world around him(her). The Arts are both a signifier of the times as well as an indicator of the direction culture and social values are moving. Here is how the article starts:

Imperial Clothing by Donald Frazell

Marketing The Cult of Individualism
This basically sums up the state of “Art” in America. Why? Because as with the Romans and British before us, America is a place of commerce, engineers and industry. We are a practical people, with one great genius. Selling a product. Coca Cola, Chevrolet, or the NFL, our marketing leads the world. It takes what it can use, from evangelism in religion, to music from our ethnic populations, to modernism for advertising; business brings to the world what it can convince them they need……..Read on here at the Art News Blog

Canadian artist Louise Ruelland is the newest addition to the Sahaja Yoga Arts website. Click here to view more of her beautifully colourful and energetic landscapes.