The study of the Universal Laws of Nature, of Light,
Color and Darkness, in relationship to painting therapy, has its foundation in the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749
- 1832), German Scientist, Geologist and Poet, and Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925), Austrian Scientist, Educator and Philosopher.
Steiner founds a philosophical movement called Anthroposophy, which literally means wisdom of the human being.
We have to thank Ita Wegman (1876 - 1943), a Dutch woman and the first Anthroposophical Doctor, and Liane Collot d'Herbois
(1907-1999), a Scottish/French Artist, for developing this method of painting therapy. Collot d'Herbois, who begins painting
at age 16 and paints until nearly 92, has the seed ideas for this method when she is 25. Wegman and Collot d'Herbois further
develop painting therapy between 1927 and 1943, until Wegman's death.
Over the years many people came to Collot d'Herbois, and went with her influences. With each person she gave specific exercises,
sometimes artistically oriented and sometimes therapeutically integrated. So there does exist a myriad of Collot d'Herbois
exercises, each with a different slant or influence given by different people. Within the laws, one must penetrate the work
and make it their own.
These exercises reside with teachers/therapists or students of teachers in different countries, mostly in the USA and Europe.
Though there isn't a place or person or compilation of all the exercises put together anywhere, YET, much is being done to
further the work in the artistic realm with several artists teaching Collot d'Herbois' artistic methods in veil painting around
the world.
There is one school furthering the therapeutic work of Collot d'Herbois, the Emerald Foundation in Den Haag, The Netherlands,
which is recognized by the Dutch Society for Art Therapy and the Medical Section of the First Class of the School of Spiritual
Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT:
NEW INITIATIVE IN PAINTING THERAPY IN AMERICA
Please contact Pamela Whitman
Or Marielle Levin:
Pamela Whitman
+1.530.477.7794
pamela@lightdarknessandcolor.org
Marielle Levin
+1.303.698.0530
marielle@lightdarknessandcolor.org
