Maura Holden Interview on Lila

topic posted Thu, September 14, 2006 - 7:40 AM by  offlinedaniel mirante
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Maura Holden : Painting from the Hypersea of Spirit
Dialogue between Maura Holden and Daniel Mirante


Maura Holden, born in Pennsylvania in 1967, is emerging as one of the most powerful and interesting visionary or transpersonal artists of the present time. Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations (see Travellers Moon), the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime, and, in one of her paintings, Thanatos Wave, (below) what looks like the sudden, mass-onset of transpersonal awareness or surfacing of deep unconscious material (represented by deep sea fish and ocean) overthrowing old and stagnant orders of being.

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