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Kellianne O'Brien
Kellianne O'Brien paints and sculpts spiritual energy, image, and colour. As an undergraduate student of French and Philosophy, she spent a year studying in Nice, France absorbing the majestic beauty and light of the Mediterranean.
In 1994 Kellianne began a journey of recovery through the healing power of art. While enduring a “Dark Night of the Soul”, through a series of painful emotional experiences, Kellianne discovered that they were the beginning of a profound spiritual awakening that only painting could heal and subsequently reflect. Her art evolved along with her recovery. In 1998 she became the first Advocate for People with Psychiatric Disorders to be hired by the State of Wisconsin.
In 1999 Kellianne participated in the International Mental Health Network Conference in Ennis, Ireland and returned home breathlessly in love with the colours of Ireland. She created a series of paintings reflecting the beauty of the country and the rich spirit of her ancestors.
Kellianne continues to express her soul through the mediums of paint and sculpture. She enjoys a life filled with joy and gratitude. Her art expresses not only the divinity within her, but seems to express the divine spirit that lives in colour itself and within all of life.
Kellianne’s artwork has been exhibited at the Ninth Life Fine Art Gallery in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; the Sala Barna and the Art Cubic Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; the Art-Domain Gallery in Mallorca, Spain; the Omma Centre of Contemporary Art in Crete, Greece; the Galerie Gora in Montreal, Canada; and the Vittoriano in Rome, Italy.
Artist Statement
My relationship to Art is spontaneous and intuitive. Each painting is created by smoothing colours on the canvas, without sketching or drawing an idea first. When I paint, I work directly with the colours themselves to create expressions of emotion and the Passion of Light. My art attempts to capture momentary experiences of Rapture--a state of being in complete union with the Source. I call this rapturous experience, Mergence. Mergence is what facilitates being able to see, as I paint, the gradual development of harmony and balance with colour. In my work with sculpture, Mergence allows me to feel the becoming of a subject and gradually see its unveiling.
For me, Art is immediate, passionate and ecstatic. I work with the Inner Light, the source of my connection with divinity. Meditation helps me to Merge with the Source, and provides me the freedom necessary to work in an intuitive, spontaneous way. My sessions are intense experiences of Rapture, the results of which are always unpredictable creative emergences. |
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