11/6/2009 - First Friday Art Show Opening: "Images of the Sacred" by Augusta Lucas-Andreae

The Staff & Volunteers of RVML Present:

First Friday Art Walk in Ashland's Railroad District:
"Images of the Sacred" by Augusta Lucas-Andreae, MA, CHT

Opens First Friday, November 6, 5:00-8:00 pm
Exhibit Runs November 7-29, 10-6 Daily

Description:

Painting mandalas has been a profound inner experience, and the most healing form of art I have so far attempted. It has required a willingness to let go of all preconceived ideas and a surrender into unknown regions of deep, still, formless inner space. This is like going into "the crack between the worlds", and I have heard it said that this is where the Great Spirit lives. It does feel like tapping into a source which appears to hold an inexhaustible supply of imagery, if I can only be still and receptive enough to receive it.

This process creates the most intimate connection with what I experience to be the Essence, or Self, and evokes a deep feeling of love for the work and a strong sense of dedication to bring it about, no matter how difficult it is sometimes to bring vision into form. When the center of a mandala is allowed to emerge in this way it will evolve from the inside outward, each image-idea following from the previous one, until it completes itself in its round shape.

I hold the round shape of the mandala to be imminently sacred. It has been perceived as such since ancient times in many areas of the world. To quote Black Elk (Oglala Sioux Indian): "Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle......"

Artist's Biography:

Augusta Lucas-Andreae, MA, CHT, is an artist, teacher and therapist. Trained in hypnotherapy and psycho synthesis as well as in the arts, she combines many years of experience in the visual arts with work in the healing arts. Augusta holds a Master of Arts in Design from the University of California, Berkeley. She was also educated in the arts at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague, The Netherlands, and at the College for Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.

Her work has been exhibited around the San Francisco Bay Area, in private facilities as well as at the Atrium Gallery in Marin County, the C.G.Jung Institute in San Francisco, the First Annual Festival of Visionary Arts in the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, in the Maple Hall Gallery in the San Pablo Civic Center, in Metro Pictures in New York and in several venues in Ashland, OR. Her work has been published in the "Mountain Astrologer" magazine as well as on the magazine covers of "Cosmic Link" and "The Psychic Reader". It has appeared on 2 book covers: Cathy Holt's "Circle of Healing, and "Returning to Oneness" by Leslie Temple -Thurston and Brad Laughlin.

Augusta has been conducting mandala drawing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Ashland, OR, and has given them as well at the Mt. Madonna Center in Watsonville, Califonia, and The Living Enrichment Center in Wilsonville, Oregon, as well as in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Prints and greeting cards of her work are available from her studio in Ashland, Oregon.

More Information: e-mail [email protected], phone (541) 488-0512

Website at http://www.rosemandala.com

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