Artists and Installations

Robert Venosa

Please join us in honoring the occasion of the first anniversary of Robert Venossa’s transition on August 9th 2011. We will be offering a special film presentation of his Biography, “In His Own Words “

Martina Hoffman, his wife, has created a special digital address to be played prior to the film and there will be a Commemorative Alter created in the Artists Gallery along with a representation of both Martina and Roberts’s work.

This intimate piece was produced and edited by his wife and fellow artist Martina Hoffman on the occasion of Robert's memorial / life celebration last year. This is a rare perspective into the life of a deeply spiritual man who is a recognized as an outstanding master of Fantastic/Visionary Art and who was a leader in the Visonary art Awakening. In this highly visual film including images of his work, you will hear “In his own words “about his life’s journey artistically, spiritually and the years that were potent to him. He also discusses his inspirations and how he became an artist. The film consists of excerpts taken from lectures, interviews and talks such as a conversation with Albert Hofmann about their belief systems concerning the afterlife. Robert Venossa’s visionary art has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy. In addition to painting, sculpting and film design His work has been the subject of three books, as well as being featured in numerous publications - and on a number of CD covers, including those of Santana, Kitaro, Ornette Coleman and others. In loving memory and with open hearts participate in the magic!

Johnathan Singer

When I realized my heart was no longer in static media I began experimenting with the fascinating fluidity of light—how it related to music, how they flowed together into a visual language my computer could speak and then I could project. I realized the correlation between an open heart to the divine and the alchemical combination of light and color. There are no limitations with an imagination.

The entrepreneurial spirit drove Johnathan Singer from an early age. By 24, he’d begun a career in publishing a socially conscious lifestyle magazine in Southern California called “West Side Life.” This exposed him to a wide range of artists, musicians, presenters and live performance personnel.

Moved to become an artist in his own right, Singer began performing real-time multimedia light shows for the musicians he’d met while publishing the magazine. Pushing the boundaries of technology, his performances lead to a new art form incorporating computer-generated images, texture maps, custom 3D animations and special effects to inspire his audiences visual and auditory experience. Now an innovative Video Performance Artist, Singer has grown his own business performing around the world, mixing and integrating live visionary art with video to live music.

Along with creating content for world renowned Lighting Designers and VJs, Johnathan is designing and producing DVDs for music producers, musicians and visionary artists.

Flora Bowley

Flora Bowley (pronounced bowl-lee) is an internationally celebrated painter, teacher, author and inspirationalist. Her vibrant paintings can be found in numerous galleries, on album covers and in public spaces around the world, as well as on a variety of unique products made in collaboration with Papaya Art. Flora combines eighteen years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor and massage therapist to infuse her teaching and painting style with a deep connection to body, mind and spirit. By honoring intuition and celebrating the present moment, Flora encourages her students to overcome fear and welcome joyful spontaneous expression back into the creative process. Her transformational approach to painting (and living) and has inspired thousands of people to “let go, be bold and unfold.” Flora’s book, “Brave Intuitive Painting” has been a best seller since it’s release in May, 2012. Gratefully, Flora splits her time between painting, teaching and traveling to colorful locations around the world and living among a community of artists in Portland, OR.

www.florabowley.com
www.braveintuitiveyou.com

Joshua Levin

pssst… Say “yes” to that adventure that calls to your heart. Perhaps I’ll see you there and we can celebrate art-fully, beautifully, awake and alive, content and inspired in the brilliance of it all. Nurture your dreams with your practice. Fulfill the promise of all that you are. Love yourself that you may genuinely love others.

That’s what I’m on about. My art, my music, my teaching and life reflects that. If you’re interested in the details of my doings, you can read a bit about them here:

art.joshualevin.org
mythfits.com/bio.html

I’m excited and delighted to be a part of the inspiration and celebration of Beloved. I look forward to sharing the experience with you!

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. Placing intention in every creation, I aim to share honesty and awakening. To celebrate this fantastic adventure. To inspire and be inspired.

Starting with seeds of ideas, I work intuitively, not clinging to a preconceived outcome or a completed concept. Texture, colour, and mixed media bring the image into our physical space, creating an interactive and sensory experience. Each canvas takes me on a journey, and as my paintbrush follows, each time I am lead back to my center. Through exploration of "being woman" and "being human" I express my journey and my highest realization of who we are, through the language of paint.

In this shifting, and challenging Time, I aim to inspire those around me to see the boundless potential in the each moment. May my paintings be a mirror, a reflection of your universal light, your human essence, and your timeless divinity.

Autumn Skye lives and paints in her home North of Powell River, overlooking a sweeping expanse of ocean, islands, mountains, and sky. She considers herself among the blessed of the blessed, and lives each day in gratitude and joy of being able to share her art and inspiration.

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, calendars published by Soho Galleries and all the Beloved Flyers. He has also created all of the design language and imagery for every year of Beloved: Sacred Art & Music Festival.

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

JAH Ishka Lha

With her imagery, Ishka reveals a world of the eternal Beauty that is all things. A river of elementals, cosmic beings, and magical beasts swirl together in one great flood of light and shadow, emanating the shapes and colors illuminated within the Beloved’s kaleidoscope. With every turning of the wheel, an ever-changing cycle of Life appears. Dawn spills into the night sky, a blossom falls as a cherry grows; and the movement in our mind trickles down into a land where thoughts kneel before a pool of peaceful waters, watching silently, as Spirit emerges from the depths.

Ishka was born in 1982, and grew up in Northern California. She earned her Professional B.A. in Architecture (Cal Poly, SLO) in 2006. During her fourth year in college, she spent a year studying abroad in France, and traveled all over western Europe. Her experience of life outside the U.S. transformed her entire perception of art and community, and for the last five years she has been dedicated to the upliftment of humanity through art as a spiritual practice. ishkanexus.com

Raul Casillas

Raul Casillas Romo is a Mexican-Canadian artist living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. Long with painting and sculpting, Raul works in the film industry in set decoration department. Raul grew up practicing sports, break dancing, and studying Physio-Therapy. He later studied marine biology, sailing the Caribbean on the research vessel “Heraclitus”working with U.K.’s Institute of Ecotechnics on marine research and coral reef surveys for the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation.

As an artist Raul has been influenced by all the countries & cultures he has experienced. Raul is a self-taught artist who expresses himself in many mediums, constantly in the process of expanding and polishing his creative skills. Approaching painting as a form of meditation, his journey has recently entered into new realms that push the boundaries of his patience to new levels. His style of fantastic realism focuses on the organic interconnection between universal consciousness and nature, while grounding consciously in the present reality of our worlds big picture.

“Expressing myself through Art enables me to reach deep down into my “True Essential Self” to share that state of Interconnectedness that represents our evolving global consciousness. I meditate on global issues and I am inspired to improve my life and that of my community to help manifest a better planet, where we can coexist in true sustainable abundance and synchronic harmony with each other and nature”. – Raul Casillas

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Ashely Foreman

“We create because we are Creators. To create, is God-like. There is no reason, no agenda, no purpose. It is not for money, not for fame. We do not do it to convert anyone to anything. It is an on-going process, never-ending, and you are doing it, even now.

Simply “tuning-in” to the creation that is around us and pulling a reflection from the hologram, the process reflects each and every journey to know thyself. Like a dream, maybe it will have a message, maybe it won’t. All is possible, yet only certain creations are likely, depending on our belief systems and the stories we identify with. Reflection upon reflection, each piece is like a single facet of the inter-dimensional diamond of our Beingness.”

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Ben Barta

In 1992 I began studying thangka painting with Sanje Elliott in Portland, Oregon.  Sanje became a guiding force in the realms of painting and dharma practice for me. Through his encouragement and inspiration I traveled to India and Nepal eventually taking refuge there and meeting many wonderful teachers.  After several trips to India, I made it to Gonjang Gompa near Darjeeling to study with the master painters Lama Tsondru Sangpo and Rigzin Norbu for several months. During this time much of the focus was on processing mineral and vegetable pigments and dyes, an element of thangka painting which is often very time consuming, expensive and  seldom employed in the west. Since that time I have continued dharma practice and painting, completing several commissioned thangkas and a year long retreat.

For most practitioners engaged in tantric deity practice it is very helpful to have a visual image that is correct according to the particular sadhana that one is practicing and at the same time inspiring. One that allows the mind to be deeply at rest and wide awake simultaneously through the clarity and the natural rhythm of form and color. It is with this intention and aspiration and the love and gratitude that has been instilled in me that I attempt to engage each painting.

There are different lineages or schools of painting within the Tibetan tradition. Each with its variants of color, tone and compositional flavor. The one that I adhere to is called Karma Ghadri or the camp style of the Karma Kagyu school. This refers to the camp culture of the early Karmapa lamas, in which large groups of followers would travel from place to place with them, camping along the way,  creating their own customs and traditions.  The seventh Karmapa, Chodrak Gyatso is particularly well known for this.  As far as the painting style itself is concerned, it incorporates elements from three principle countries. The forms were in accordance with Indian standards, the colors and texture, Chinese, and the composition, Tibetan. The painter Namka Tashi (from the court of the Ninth Karmapa) is credited for the birth of this style in the sixteenth century. The most extraordinary and inspiring of the Karma Ghadri painters to me personally however was Situ Panchen (1700-1774) who revived the Karma Ghadri style in the kingdom of Derge and was essentially a Tibetan “renaissance man” who excelled in many areas of his life.

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Arun

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

Metagnosis

meta: From Greek, a prefix meaning ”beyond” or “after.”

gnosis: From Greek, a suffix meaning “received [divine] wisdom” or “knowledge.”

In recent use, Metagnosis has come to mean “transcending present knowledge and understanding.” Metagnosis is a company devoted to the sale, promotion and production of media that documents and supports both personal and societal transformation. We invite individuals to explore new possibilities for inner growth and to redefine their identity through a thoughtful process of self-directed evolution.

We actively seek creative partnerships with a wide range of artists and media hubs in order to build a diverse inventory and spread innovative and transformative ideas in an environment of mutual benefit and respect.

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Todji Sculpture

Todji is an international artist who works out of Portland Oregon and Rio De Janeiro Brazil.  He is known for his dynamic monumental figurative sculptures with exaggerated appendages sculpted in forced perspective style. 

Todji also produces participatory installation sculptures designed to be activated by diverse communities at seasonal markings such as solstices, events and festivals.  Todji works with the intention of celebrating the divinity of all life by creating beautiful and imaginative works of art with his hands.

Nature Dreamweaver

Nature is a dreamer, an artist, a performer, a healer, a yogi, a multidimensional artist of love and light here to grow, awaken, evolve, and master the art of living LOVE. Nature Dreamweaver has been touring for five years going to festivals and building art installations out of whatever he can find in the immediate environment. Nature is now embarking on his 6th national tour, continuing to create sacred space and dance the dream awake. In order to touch more people with his He-ART, Nature has started a reality show called “The Nature of Reality.” He is also working on a book of his art and several other creative projects. To find out more about Nature Dreamweaver, you can find him online at: www.naturesdreams.info, www.dreamcatcher.net/nature

Oasis Mobile Bathhouse

The Oasis Express is a pioneer in mobile bathhouse environments. Our passion is inspiring well-being, transformation, and community building.

Come cleanse in the beautiful mobile sauna, rejuvenate in our deluxe hot showers, and lush out in our tea lounge. Remember to take care of your body....

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Christopher Reitmaier

Somniative is the pseudonym for Christopher Reitmaier--a maker of things--whose raw materials are culled from places both near and far where the discarded and unused lie, awaiting the return to the realm of human caring in celebration of life, beauty, freedom, and joy.

It is thru the merger of these materials and the magic that they endure that trifling pieces of finery are created. May they bring you joy. www.somniative.com