Interviews & Featured Artists
Charting the movement and the artists who have made marks and helped define Visionary Art.
Red K Elders Interview
Daniel Mirante
Red K Elders has honoured us with her time and energy to give an interview into the nature of her skillful, potent and aesthetic imagery that invokes powerful principle archetypes, energies and entities of pan-European and Mediterranean mythologies. We hope dear reader you will enjoy this conversation which seeks to explore deep into the practice of this remarkable artist.
Read Red K Elders Interview »Tags: Hellenism, Hellenistic, Pagan, Paganism, theurgy
Elisabeth Landgraf Interview – Trancing the Sacred
Daniel Mirante
Elisabeth Landgraf is a remarkable artist whose life journey weaves from the mountainous landscapes of South Korea to the bustling streets of Paris and the picturesque vistas of Scotland. A journey not just across continents, but through the realms of self-discovery
Added on September 18, 2023
Tags: dance, lineage, painting, shamanism, tradition
An Introduction to Ernst Fuchs
Daniel Mirante
Ernst Fuchs was an extraordinarily talented and multifaceted Austrian artist born on February 13, 1930. He was a master of several mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, and he also ventured into architecture, stage designing, poetry, and singing. Fuchs was a pivotal figure in the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, a movement he co-founded. His legacy places him as one of the pivotal founders of contemporary visionary art and one of the great preservers and reinvigorators of the timeless legacy of sacred art.
Added on September 9, 2023
Igor Volos Interview
Daniel Mirante
Igor Volos stands as a bridge between the past and the present. His artworks embody a deep reverence for the traditional forms and artistic techniques of various cultures, while infusing them with his own unique vision and contemporary interpretation, inviting viewers to contemplate the intertwining threads of history, culture, and the ever-evolving nature of artistic expression.
Added on June 21, 2023
Tags: contemporary, fine art, lineage, painting, shamanism, symbolism, tradition
Kuba Ambrose – An Interview (2022)
Daniel Mirante
The paintings of Kuba Ambrose explore the timeless and ongoing relationship between humankind and the Creator. We are very grateful to Kuba Ambrose for taking time from his paintings to participate in an interview about his thoughts on art, history and prayer.
Added on October 20, 2022
The Art of Summer Gillett
Daniel Mirante
Summer Gillett is an Australian artist practicing in Northern Rivers, New South Wales Australia. Her work is strikingly beautiful and resonates with aesthetic sensibilities that are pre-modern and to a certain extent traditional, but not provincial – imbued with an esoteric dimension that reflects on contemporary spiritual concerns about the role of the priestess figure or oracle in the contemporary world.
Added on August 14, 2022
Tags: painting, summer gillett, symbolism
The Kafno Ikon – An Exploration
Tanya Maria Semaan
Biblical and Historical Explanation for the First Original Monumental KAFNO Icon painted by Tanya Maria Semaan who generously provided this exegesis of the Ikon.
Added on June 7, 2022
Tags: christian, historical painting, ikon
Moses and the Burning Bush by Rick Jacobi
Daniel Mirante
Contemporary painter Rick Jacobi describes the coming about of the biblical symbolism ‘Moses and the Burning Bush’ painting
Added on May 27, 2022
Peresvet, Oslyabya, Divine Gloom
Oleg Korolev
The key to understanding the symbolism of the painting’s composition is found in the interpretations of the “Mystical Theology” of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite. As you maybe aware, the most Luminous Darkness, of the Divine Gloom is a theological term from the Orthodox Apophatic theology, which is based on the” negative” way of perception on it’s way of the search for the Ultimate truth through the denial of everything that which is not It.
Added on January 23, 2021
Tags: christian, contemporary, Oleg Korolev, orthodox
An Interview with Pablo Amaringo
Howard Charing
The late Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. Pablo left us this November 2009, and this interview is posted in homage to this great Artist and great Man.
Added on October 24, 2020
Tags: amazon, ayahuasca, pablo amaringo, usko ayar
Flowing Light – The Art of A. Andrew Gonzalez
Daniel Mirante
A. Andrew Gonzalez, of San Antonio, Texas, has been depicting the human form “as temple and vessel sublimed by transformative forces” for over 15 years. Empowered by an artistic mission to “transform the collective imagination”,
Added on October 19, 2020
Tags: airbrush, andrew gonzalez, angel, sophia
Interview with Brigid Marlin for the “Science and Religion” magazine
Oleg Korolev
Interview with Brigid Marlin for the “Science and Religion” magazine; Moscow, Russiaby by Oleg Korolev, and prepared by Dmitry Zhukov.
Added on May 23, 2020
Ana Suromai by Amanda Sage
Carrie Ann Baade
On a rainy night in downtown Los Angles, I was invited to the studio of Amanda Sage. Amanda pulls something out that had been tucked away. Unrolling the large linen surface, there was something quite unlike any of her other spiritual, psychedelic work
Added on November 2, 2019