Our Temple of Divine Reflections will display a collection of works exploring the essence that connects us all. We will be showcasing artists who invite us to transcend limitations, remember source, and experience joy.

Eric Nez • Adam Scott Miller • Autumn Skye Morrison • Fora Bowley
Jonathan Weber • Heather Taylor • Arun Joseph Ragan
Jacob Mckean • Ben Barta • Stevee Postman
Nature • Benjamin Braun • Jivanesha
Qahira Lynn

Eric Nez Painting was a gift given to Eric Nez at an early age. His parents (an artist and a Yogini, both lovers of life) ensured that he had plenty of tools to express his innermost realms. A devoted artist-mystic, Nez is both a visionary and a cultivator of the soul. Tending the garden of personal transformation… offering to the sacred self: nurturing environments, wholesome nutrients, divine light, and love in order to grow the fruit of the spirit and share it with the Universe.

The Muses of yoga, plant medicines, alchemy, and magic lay their offerings at the feet of Nez. His creative process is deeply influenced by transpersonal psychology and the spiritual sciences, as well as intergalactic experiences. The spirits of the mystics all gather around Eric’s studio to whisper in his ear and guide his hand as he paints.

The art of Eric Nez is both a stepping-stone and a chronicle of his evolution of consciousness. Explorations of distinctly different worlds, powerful life experiences, and teachings from ascended masters… all of these find a home in the work of Nez. His every painting is offered up to the universal collective as a catalyst for transformation. ericnez.com

Adam Scott Miller is an acute lifelong visionary artist, has come through art academia with a BFA in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art. Throughout, he has integrated key principles of insight from art, science, and mysticism towards the road less-traveled of honest devotion to limitless growth and dilating creativity.

Adam’s paintings are praised globally for their transcendetail and the elegant envisioning of reality as emergent from the unified-field ecology of energy. This integral creative work is how he processes his perceptions of the visible world and the energetic fields from which it blooms forth into numinous vision. The 'numinous' is characterized by the quintessential qualities of the sacred: mystery, awe, fascination, satisfaction, and inspiration. He understands that art serves as a reflection of our context, and achieves its maximum potential in the intention to improve and benefit the whole. corpuscallosum.cc

Autumn Skye Morrison "My purpose is to create. In that process I find stillness and rhythm, my teacher and passion. I believe that art can be a life shaking experience, or an intimate rendezvous. For me it is both. I place intention in what I create. Either through words, actions, thoughts, or artwork, I aim to share honesty and awakening. To celebrate this fantastic adventure. To inspire and be inspired.

I begin with planting seeds of ideas, and intuitively progress through the piece. I go on a journey with each painting; evolving together. I am constantly surprised and inspired by what is translated by my imagination and hands. Thereafter, your story is whispered. A reflection of light and shadow of your human beauty, your geometric perfection, and your ancient divinity." autumnskyemorrison.com

Flora Bowley has dedicated the past 15 years to creating art that honors and celebrates the natural world and a deep connection to all living things. Through playful spontaneous layering, Flora weaves together bold colors, organic forms, resonant words and delicate drawings to create magical new “landscapes.” Inspired by both microscopic and macroscopic elements, the paintings offer a glimpse into a Universe that is connected and alive, full of possibility, and rich with color, soul and imagination. Flora considers her paintings to flow from a source much greater than herself and to be a celebration of the present moment; chaotic, subtle, mystical and ever-changing.

Flora lives and works as a full-time painter in Portland, OR, where she finds deep inspiration from her garden, the lush Northwest forests, her yoga practice and a vibrant community of fellow artists and healers. Flora also teaches workshops entitled, “Bloom True” and has recently collaborated with Papaya!, to create cards, calendars, prints and journals. Flora’s easily recognizable work is shown in galleries and collected by art lovers across the world. She is eternally grateful for the opportunity to blend her life’s passion with her life’s work. florasbowley.com

"My art explores the mystery of life and nature through its interconnectedness. I like to blend technology with the organic in ways that communicate these mysteries through a kind of techno-paganism. My creative process is a sort of prayer for me, an offering."

Stevee Postman Stevee's visionary artwork has developed a cult following. His Cosmic Tribe Tarot has sold over 15,000 copies. His images have also appeared on The Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s CD Superlingua, astrologer Rob Brezny’s book The Televisionary Oracle, magazine covers for Gnosis and Magical Blend, event images for four years of Mind States conferences, and calendars published by Soho Galleries.

Stevee is also the web and print designer for Beloved: Sacred Art & Music Festival. His images are created by taking initial photos, mixing, layering, and transmogrifying with Photoshop wizardry.

In the introduction to The Cosmic Tribe Tarot, Eric Ganther describes Postman’s images as "synthesized from a variety of cultural traditions… Stevee is less interested in the written strictures of a particular path, preferring to let the images, liberated from their cultural moorings, speak for themselves. In this way he draws on the treasure trove of the world’s images." stevee.com

 

Heather Taylor Having done commissioned work and raised a family, I had not created "my own" work for years. But whenever someone asked what I would paint I would say mandalas. Predictably, I am now painting iconic mandalas (a purposeful hybrid) and I am affirmed in my intuition: mandalas are a wonderful way of transforming the individual and the group. Helping to align us to a greater power and purpose, mandalas create balance and understanding: a sense of atONEment through which we may heal ourselves and our world.

An Art History major, I have always been drawn to the cross cultural constants—the intersections of truth that bind us together. The trinity, as an expression of sacred numerology, geometry, and art, emerges within all cultures as the embodiment of the human family. At this time of global crisis and unification, I have chosen the trinity as a tool for integration—a celebration of diversity and unity, embracing all peoples from around the globe and all life on our planet. full circle mandalas online

Jonathan Weber was born in Salem, OR, and started painting at the age of 8. He has worked as a professional illustrator, painter, and portrait artist for over 10 years. His experience as a teacher and student of yoga, Buddhism, and meditation has influenced his unique style of modern visionary iconography and portraiture.

Jonathan's "Goddess Portraits" series has been published throughout the Pacific Northwest in many magazines and books. These portraits can also been seen on altars and walls throughout the country. He now lives in Norway with his son, Bodhi.

He can be contacted at the email address: altarimage@hotmail.com

Arun Joseph-Ragan spent his awkward larval years in a series of Southern states before moving to the voluptuous garden of Portland Oregon. Here he found the intricately interwoven family of dancers, devotees, Devas and Daemons that encourage his perpetual process of mutation.

Arun will be presenting fabrics that he printed with images that he drew by hand. These icons were inspired by the pantheon of forces that animate the many worlds within and around us, as they reveal themselves through one peculiar nervous system." thearuniverse.com | back to top

 

 

Jacob mckean With years of experience in color photography, sculpture, light projection and video, Jacob continually augments his prolific collection of photography and video footage to inspire his audience to a state of wonder.

McKean’s work gives us a fresh perspective on the beauty of nature. From his experiences of climbing the mountains of Africa, to his journeys through the jungles of Peru, Jacob honors the processes involved in creating a series of work dedicated to the Natural world and the various cultures that surround it. jacoballtrades.com | back to top

 

Qahira Lynn is a visionary spiritual artist, a mystic muralist of the Dreamtime.
With her images, she attempts to evoke magic…spiraling and emerging through the sacred symbology of the Divine Source, the Great Mother, the One. She has a passion for reaching into the Essence to what is deeper than words, making pictures of what is beneath the surface, behind the veil and healing what arises from the depths of the World Soul, activating the powers of intention, creating magic and revealing transcendence.

Qahira's work has been described as Goddess oriented, womanly, soft, blooming, unfolding, encompassing the lush, dank darkness and the majestic openness of the void, as well as the bright and and beautiful Light of the Divine. She feels that the role of the "artist" in this time is to be a shaman in the very deepest sense of that word, working to dispel commonly held illusions and delusions - perhaps through the creation of "illusions" and to help bring about a true healing to her/his culture: to nurture and feed the world soul. It is her
intention to create intuitive, shamanic art that awakens the inner fires: burning, transmuting and healing, bringing life and color into a world that has become hardened, bland and overly linear. qahiralynn.com

Jonathan Weber was born in Salem, OR, and started painting at the age of 8. He has worked as a professional illustrator, painter, and portrait artist for over 10 years. His strong interest in yoga, Buddhism, and meditation has influenced his unique style of modern visionary iconography and portraiture.

The Goddess series has been published throughout the Pacific Northwest. He now lives in Norway with his son, Bodhi. He can be contacted at the email address: altarimage@hotmail.com

 

Ben Barta has been painting thangkas to provide a support to practitioners engaged in the visualization of Buddhist deities.

Following the Karma Gadri school of thangka painting as taught by his teachers Sanje Elliott and Lama Tsondru Sangpo at Gonjang monastery in India.
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Nature is an emerging visionary permaculture artist whose primary medium is the natural world always growing, expanding, and spreading his angelic wings.
He wishes to sing in your ear,
bring tears of joy to your eye,
make you laugh and wonder why,
dance with the divine,
play everyday,
love in every way, say what you mean,
and dream, dream, DREAM!

Nature’s mission and vision as an artist is to co-create a dream reality that manifests Heaven on Earth in all it’s shapes and forms. He feels that the power of intention times the power of imagination equals infinite possibilities of peace. Nature strives to live in a state of ecstatic bliss consciousness and unconditional love.
He hopes to evolve into a being beyond words. naturesdreams.info

Benjamin Braun aims to dreamingly beautify everything to the core with
magical greens, blues, purples and highlights of subtle teals and yellows. With these vivid colors, his art tunnels through deep jungle havens of explosive kaleidoscopic landscapes, and you may find your inner vision, emotions and feelings spiraling outward along with them. From within this landscape I extend to it the body of the humanoid female form, seeping warm vibrational energies of spirit caressing the everything. And behind it the vibrantly colorful cosmic landscapes of nature deepest emotions and desires. Simultaneously, from the archetypal human the ancestral spirit's whisper. They echo the animal, plant, mystical and alien realms. The serpents, the trees and the galaxies, all dancing independently and together as one. sheelfmagic.com

Jiivanesha brings you artwork after much planning and scheming to be divinely inspired. With this intention an acquiescent meditation is pursued and painting becomes more about following impulses toward a noble unveiling than knowing the outcome and achieving an artistic goal in a methodical, planned way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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