About

Your questions answered

Have you always painted?

No, but I've experimented with many different arts and crafts. The inspiration to bein my art business cam whilst I was working as a scrapbook and photography teacher and at the same time running an intuitive healing business from home. A series of dreams prompted me to create mandalas (circular artworks) from my photography. Eventually, I self-published "The Mandala Oracle" cards which became very popular and landed me work as a freelance illustrator.

This experience was the catalyst that changed my world. It was probably the first time that I had listened to and allowed my intuition to guide my path in life.

I began to receive amazing feedback on my mandalas and illustrations from clients and customers, describing how they could feel powerful energy literally emanating from my work. This prompted me to study the healing power of light, colour and symbols. It also motivated me to learn to paint - which is something I never thought I could do. I learnt to tune in to spirit with my art, in the same way I did with my healing work. I began to paint from my intuition, not my mind and eventually found that I had created a whole new modality for healing.

So it's only been in the last few years that I've actually considered myself an artist. Now I've overcome the dreaded "imposter syndrome" I can't imagine my life without art.

How does your art offer healing?

I believe that all art carries energy through its colours, shapes and symbols. The original art that I create also infuses a channelled energy intended to bring healing to its new owner in some way. If a piece of art is drawing you in, you are feeling those intentions through the vibrations belonging to that piece. I also feel these healing vibrations as I receive and infuse them into my createions.

These days, I use a combination of different arts for my won personal healing practice - painting, writing, dance

What inspires you?

I'm inspired every time I dip my brush into the paint because I know I'm not just doing it for me. I know that what I create will find its way to its new owner and that it will play a part in their healing journey. This is both a privilege and an honour for me. It's why I rarely plan my paintings. Often, their true purpose is not clear to me until they land in the arms of those who are meant to receive them. And while I may never truly know how my paintings are received, below is one story that inspires me every time I think about it:

A woman who had recently lost her husband, saw one of my paintings and felt it spoke to her in a way that whe hadn't experienced before. She purchased it and hung it in her home and ended up redecorating her room around it. She had been unable to move forward, feeling stuck and weighed down with grief, but seeing the painting several times a day, gave her the confidence to lift herself up and carry on. Soon, she was able to sort her husband's belongings and felt a sense of lightness and freedom return to her life.

The opportunity to offer others the space to heal in some way is truly inspirational for me and I will always be grateful for that. I love empowering others to lead a better life. In my wellbeing workshops, I often see the weight lifting from peoples shoulders, or catch that spark of an "aha" moment in their eyes. Nothing can heal quite like art can and nothing inspires me more, or gives me more joy, than seeing it do just that.

Do you teach?

Yes! I believe that everyone is blessed with a creative soul and I'm passionate about helping to ignite that creativity within everyone who attends my classes. We focus on the perfectly imperfect creative process, and I feel so much joy when a student creates something that they never believed was already inside them.

My art and wellbeing workshops allow those who need healing to receive it in their own way - through their own creativity. This is the art of healing in action.

What else is important to you, besides your art?

Well I've been married to my childhood sweetheart, Livio, for 35 years. We've been together for 8 years longer than that. We live on a beautiful farm where we grow sugar cane and soy beans. It used to be a tobacco farm and I've converted some of the buildings to my teaching studios.
My home is of the utmost importance. It gives me space to be me. Home is at the opposite end of the farm to my teaching space giving me some distance from work. This helps to create a good balance in life. My home studio space gives me the perfect inspiration to continue to pursue my art, especialy with Hector the Studio Dog (a caboodle) at my feet.
Livio, and I have two married children and two grandsons. Being GiGi and GiPa is very important right now.
I love books and VW kombis and people would describe me as a bit of a bohemian hermit! I love my own space.

Jane Marin Artist CV