Cathleene's bio Cathleene’s Art as a Spiritual Path journey began several years ago when her Art and Spiritual Paths merged. Integrating Wisdom and Experience from intimate journeys with Brooks Greene-Barton (Art of God), and Mandala Master Paul Huesenstamm, and inspired by teachers such as Mandala Master Judith Cornell, Deepak Chopra, Adyashanti, and Michael Beckwith (just to name a few) Cathleene’s approach to the Art Experience is from a perspective of Universal Presence. Her achievements include a BA. In Applied Arts and Science and many freelance Art projects in the San Diego area. Today Cathleene is a Mandala Painter and the Creator and Facilitator ot "The Artist is You Mandala Experience".
OriginsWhen I was a very young artist around 13 or 14, I was obsessed with painting geometric patterns. My Mom's social worker friends would come and evaluate my work and say things like "chaos striving for order." I knew my work as a Reality that I just called "The Truth". A little later I began reading writings on meta-physics which explained to me in words what I already knew in my beingness. That the Universe was a grand patterning of molecules and atoms and sub-atomic particles and well....... just Vibrating Space..........It made me feel good and whole and happy to be intimately connected with it. It still does.
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The Artist is You Philosophy Several years ago my Art and Spiritual Paths merged and the “Artist is You” philosophy represents that marriage. I realized that the thing that I was looking for in my Art experience was the very thing I was also looking for on my Spiritual Path…and It wasn’t out there. It was within me……and it was me.
And it is Within You Too....... Creativity is an eternal quality of Spirit. This means that it is not a temporal quality of this dimensional reality, it does not happen intermittently, it does not exist over there but not over here, it is not given to some people and not others and it never gets used up!! Creativity is a non-local occurrence, outside of time and space, existing as an inherent part of Life and Consciousness, crafted into the very fabric of the Universe and is Always Happening! All my offerings are based upon this philosophy and if you are ready to Ignite Your Inner Artist I'd love to see you at a "Mandala Experience" I would Love to share a few words by beloved Mandala Teacher Judith Cornell........... "Creativity has been viewed as the prerogative or anomaly of a few, rather than as a divine gift and potential within all souls. Our present view of the artist needs to expand from a narrow definition of “one who paints or sculpts” to one who is in the process of self –realization. This expanded definition of creativity makes it a function in all people and a process that unfolds throughout all fields of endeavor. " |