Resilient Heart Art: The healing power of art (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780997021530)

Katelyn is not your ordinary artist. She is a shamanic artist who paints images that transform the viewer. She is a visionary artist as well as a trained expressive arts therapist with training in art therapy, sandplay therapy and play therapy. Katelyn studied fine arts at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. She received her Masters Degree in Human Development from St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota. For 26 years Katelyn has pursued both a career in Art and has worked as a psychotherapist. Katelyn started her own publishing company three years ago and has published 3 books. This is her 4th book. Her award winning books are intended to empower adults and children to live better lives. See her books at Mystick Creek Publishing. In 1985 changed her life and the way she created art. This experience brought her in touch with deeper dimensions in life and on higher planes. It also brought her into a deeper relationship with The Creator, through the aspect of the Divine Feminine. Visionary art is a shamanic process where the artist goes to higher realms, comes back with new information and brings it to life through an image on the blank canvas. Katelyn has been a student of metaphysics for many years. She has explored shamanic traditions throughout the world including Native American and Australian Aboriginal. she has studied with a shaman from Peru, a Cherokee lineage holder a Chilean Medicine woman and a teacher in Hawaii. Incorporated into that is a study of the writings of Rudolf Steiner, Tibetan teachings, mythology, numerology and other metaphysical subjects. Katelyn has traveled extensively in Mexico studying sacred sites. Katelyn uses a shamanic/intuitive means of creating art that gives form to the sacred. The artwork is intended to reach inner levels so an energetic dialog can begin between the art and the viewer. Katelyn's original watercolor paintings are fresh, playful, whimsical and yet deep and powerful. For more information about her creative process see articles included in Creative Expression section. In 2012 Katelyn began studying the Mischetechnik with Philip Rubinov-Jacobson who study for years with Ernst Fuchs, Austrian leading in this painting movement.