Exquisite Arts Magazine Vol 7: Fall Issue- Oct/2017 | Page 33

You create pieces that are very vibrant, beautiful and full of depth. What initially prompted your interest in art and how did you get started? Always! Since I can remember, I have been drawing away as a child. It was first with Crayola crayons, markers, and then later pastels, oils, and now digital art. I had a fantastic imagination, and a need to express it. I have always been drawn to vivid, bright, and expressive colors. To me reality paled in comparison to inner vision, and what could be painted with the brush. I believed that world could become better by creative inspiration. Due to my passion for the arts, I pursued my education by attending Rhode Island School of Design & The University of Arts. I acquired a degree in the Fine Arts with minors in Film and Animation. In addition, I hold a certification in Theta Healing. Your artistic style is very unique; some may even describe it as “eccentric”. Your artistic practice incorporates the use of Psychometry and Theta Healing. How important are these modalities to you and does your artistic style include the use of other types of spiritual or healing practices? Yes, absolutely they are essentially what my work is about. I am what is known as a mental/spiritual medium which allows me to see, hear and feel subtle levels of communication. By utilizing psychometry (the ability to read energies in photos and objects), while working on my painting, I will connect and focus on the subtle life energies contained in photographs of the subjects I intend to paint. I then use my intuitive sense to channel them into my work, which is most apparent with the eyes of my portraits. I am able to create high frequency work by inducing a higher vibration within myself through yogic breath work to achieve a Theta state (a state of very deep relaxation). I then use my inherent channeling abilities to transfer energy into my work to facilitate assistance in wellness. It is my heartfelt desire to help inspire and heal through my art. My ultimate goal is to aid others to reach GOD Source within themselves to raise their vibrational frequency to a place where only wellbeing, and bliss can exist so they may live happier filling lives, and in extension help contribute to a joyous universe. Colour and light are integral to the creation of your work. Does the colour used in your art hold a specific meaning? Is there a methodology to your use of colour and light? Very much so, yes everything is vibration, color, and light are different variations of frequencies of vibration that can be connected to our spiritual centers the chakras. In regards to my paintings, the black and white component of my work represents the everyday 'world consciousness'. Regarding brainwave frequencies, this is 'Beta State.' My use of color is to express the high levels of consciousness more associated with higher Source frequency, e.g. The 'Theta State, which leads to elevated levels of being. The color pink is very personal to me, it symbolizes the thought process of creation, combining the upper and lower chakras in “Heart Coherence”. A term coined by the Heartmath institute. "Heart Coherence is the state when the heart, mind, and emotions are in energetic alignment and in cooperation to create harmonies outcomes." Color and light along with the Theta modality are my vehicles for altering consciousness by provoking the Law of Attraction: Like energy attracts like energy. Therefore, the higher frequency color/vibration will attract higher-level states of being. Page 32