Now on display at the Christian Community
Paintings and Light & Darkness Charcoal work • The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
By Artist and Art Therapist Martha Loving Orgain
Since 1991 I have been working artistically and therapeutically with the methods developed by Master Painter Liane Collot d’Herbois in Light, Color, and Darkness, based on the universal laws of nature. In the Collot work, one concentrates on Light and Darkness as a structure behind what one is painting. The form comes out of the color towards the last stages of the painting. The objective working of Light and Darkness is healing for the artist as well as for the viewer.
For 25+ years I have been working with Goethe's fairytale, a tale of transformation. When you work with it, somehow one begins to know you are IN the Great Mystery. Choosing this story, I worked in two assisted living facilities with elders with Alzheimer's and Dementia for one year, painting more than once on the same wet-on-wet paintings, repeating sections of the story. As I began telling the tale, one elder would pipe up about say, "She's talking about the Grim Reaper". And at the other facility, "She's talking about the death man." "And we're all going there." What is remarkable is that these elders would remember the story through visual memory of having watched me painting.
The veil painting, "The Time is at Hand" I can tell you came straight out of the Spiritual World. I had no preconceived idea of what forms would be in the painting. Usually, in the background, the goal was to paint the turquoise in the foreground. The turquoise is the coldest of all the colors and became the prison of the prince until the man with the lantern came. Biting her tail, the Green Snake holds the circle, as the prince hovers between the worlds.
In "Queen of the Sun on the Abyss" the queen bee and butterflies are on the precipice. We almost lost the Eagle as a result of DDT. Will we lose all the pollinators and insects and our blue-green planet? And all humanity?
Please help me continue to bring this work into the world by donating to my GoFundMe Campaign to build the tiny house mobile art studio:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/uaa3e-help-her-continue-to-help-others
Thank you for your interest in my work and I hope you enjoy the exhibition. For further information, sales, commissions, and educational opportunities please contact:
Martha Loving Orgain
martha@lovingcolor.org
(434) 865-5330