Short Articles
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Art as a spiritual practice
The temple of higher cognition is not surrounded by walls, it is protected by the colours of the soul: of silence that listens to the spirit, of forgetting that casts off external impressions, of remembering that is borne upon welling streams of creative power. Herbert Witzenmann[i] Art is a wonderful medium for self-expression, for Read more
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What can water science contribute to our understanding of creativity?
Exploring Schwenk’s understanding of thinking as a dynamic water process The activity of thinking is essentially an expression of flowing movement. Only when thinking dwells on a particular content, a particular form, does it order itself accordingly and create an idea. Every idea – like every organic form – arises Read more
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The Two Jesuses
An Advent art contemplation on the two different portrayals of the Christ as described in the New Testament, particularly St Matthew and St Luke This is a synopsis of an hour-long visual presentation for the 3rd Sunday in Advent this year. A sequel to the Two Marys contemplation I led Read more
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Sun, Moon and Trees: a video exhibition
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. Read more
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The Two Marys
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 – Read more
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An immersive, colour-led process
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 In 2021, I was interviewed by the ABC’s Radio National program Soul Search Read more
Painted Space 