Kali Painting

Claudia N.N. was born and raised in Europe and has actively pursued painting as an art form since she was a young teenager. Artist Statement: The painting I sometimes call: InnerScapes. Movements from the inner planes surfacing and finding themselves in colour on white canvas of various sizes. The process of painting is a visible making of something that becomes known to me first on the inside and nothing can be done to speed up or bring about this visible making. A certain receptivity is required ... Rainer Maria Rilke, who considered the waiting to be an essential part of the creative process, describes this with the following words: "All process, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything. Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of ones own intelligence, and with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artists life: in understanding as in creating. There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still wide and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: Patience is everything!" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Her languages are German, Italian, English and Astrology. Beginner level of Spanish and French. She studied in England, Switzerland and Germany and traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and North and Central America and lived in India before settling in California in 1991. In 2017 she moved to other shores yet again. Claudia took drawing lessons for one semester at a renowned Berkeley college but has otherwise decided not to enrol in any other art school and rather prefers learning with a mentor. In the year 2000 she started her series of oil-paintings (canvas or paper) with favorite subjects being Spirals, Desert Views & Architecture and most recently: Archetypes of the Greek mythology.