Archetypal processes in Nature A sequence of nature moods exploring the inner essence of Nature’s processes. Below is an online exhibition of works by Fiona Campbell based on the Nine Training Sketches given by Rudolf Steiner to the artist Henny Geck in 1922 to inspire a new impulse in art.
A Christmas contemplation on the two different portrayals of the Madonna in St Matthew and St Luke This is a synopsis of an hour-long visual presentation for the 2nd Sunday in Advent. Using paintings from the great masters, Rudolf Steiner’s motifs and my interpretations, I explore this intriguing theme –
Reflections on the anthroposophical approach to art ‘ … because it is light filled as well, the nature of watercolour gives a luminosity to the picture which I think gives it an innately spiritual quality’ Sue Cramer, curator of Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW.
2020 saw the virtual world begin to take on equal importance, if not more, with the real world, for most of us, stuck in lockdown for months. We went online for work, for family, for education and for socialising. For many unaccustomed to living in a virtual world, it was
The Lived Experience of a Pandemic was the follow-up online community gathering for the ASinA building on the success of our first event. Here is some of the feedback we received: “A real warming this cold digital world was experienced” “Thank you for the Easter talk, it supplied nourishment in
Recently, I found myself hosting online gatherings for an Australia-wide community I belong to – on and off. I say “found myself” because it’s not something I planned as future career direction, and yet, here I am, quite happily developing a host persona. This takes some work, unless you are
I found I was working in another space. The mind wasn’t judging, but rather, wondering. Since completing my doctorate in 2018, I have been developing a practice-based program promoting a new approach to creativity and cognition. Rather than writing academic papers, I’ve been giving lectures and workshops at colleges, schools
“I never made a painting as a work of art, it’s all research” (Pablo Picasso) Here is a short, very academic reflection upon art as a research process. It’s from my doctoral thesis, with a few adaptions. Making art is not so much a form of self-expression as a process
A picture of yourself as a living piece of artwork, as a path to self-knowledge and transformation. In 2016 and 2017 I ran a series of consecutive weekend workshops exploring biography using therapeutic painting with a medical basis. These workshops were specifically aimed at people in the second half of
A lived experience I want to write about the lived experience of being creative, so I sit down at my desk with pen and paper to gather my thoughts. But I am immediately beset with what I know, crowding out what I feel or what I experience. Deep immersion into so many theories¹
Painted Space 