Interviews & Featured Artists
Charting the movement and the artists who have made marks and helped define Visionary Art.
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.
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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
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