Sahaja Yoga Arts

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran

(Painting by Gabrielle Marlow)

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.

Myths are the world’s dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render… the ‘radiance’ of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

American mythology professor, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Enso, Zen circle, by Hakuin Ekaku Zenji (1686-1769)

What is it in an artwork that enables it to transcend the limitations of the culture in which it was created, giving it a universal appeal? Why do the works of Shakespeare, Michaelangelo or Mozart have the ability to move audiences so powerfully, hundreds of years after they were produced, in a culture and society with vastly different values and preoccupations to that of their original audience?

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“Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!”

William Blake, from Jerusalem (written 1880-1820)

Painter Beverley Budgen has recently been invited by the Cairns Regional Gallery in Australia to hold a solo retrospective exhibition that will including a selection from previous 20 solo shows from over 35 years, plus new works. The show is due to open in May 2010. The Gallery has allotted the large gallery space for this major retrospective of Beverley‘s work.

MEREDITH COOPER

2008 EXHIBITION @ LOUMAX GALLERY
10 MAY – 10 JUNE 2008

Loumax Gallery, 56a Lovel Street, Katoomba.

10.00am – 5.00pm Thursday to Sunday
(02) 4782 3490
loumaxgallery@aapt.net.au

Click here to see more of Meredith’s work

They are the loveliest flowers of creation, sweetest dreams of the Creator, the dearest parts of the human society. Perhaps they do not know how they are loved, worshiped and followed by their spectators.

If an artist finds his countrymen being unpatriotic or cowardly, he can, through his art, inspire them and can serve the role of a brave soldier. Thus he can serve the society through others, by creating a deep impact on their minds. Such is the motivating force of an artist.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Art has something to do with your heart and not with your brain.
(Shri Mataji, Shri Hanuman Puja 1989)

All creations which were dedicated to God in the olden times are being today very much respected, and people pay a lot of money for that. Maybe at that time the artists must have suffered, but they understood. Innocent artists understood very much that “If we have to express, we must truthfully do it not to please” not to please the people, not to please anyone, but to please God.

Shri Ganesha Puja 1993