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Light, Darkness, and Color
in Painting Therapy
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
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
31 MAY 2009 "Colors of Cancer" - intro workshop followed
by classes 8-weeks June & July For everyone touched by cancer Especially for doctors, therapists and
healthcare providers. EasternView Integrated Medicine So. Burlington, VT Registration: Call Dhatri Foundation 802.862.2333
6 JUNE 2009 "Open
to Grace: The Divine Feminine Sophia" Watercolor and meditation workshop. Anthroposophy New York City Registration
call: Phoebe Alexander 212.744.0257
5 - 10 AUGUST 2009 "Light, Darkness, and
Color in WATERcolor painting: Developing Device-less Dowsing" Killington Grand Resort, Vermont Register: ASD
website: www.dowsers.org
PAINTING THERAPY SUMMER 2009
VERMONT Private
client appointments in Shelburne VT. For more information call
Martha Loving: 434.865.5330
WINTER
2009-10 Virginia
Past schedules: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
with
Martha Loving: WINTER 2008 Falls Church, VA Graham Elementary School
AUTUMN
2007 THE NETHERLANDS contact via email: lovingcolor@earthlink.net
PAINTING
THERAPY PAAM Doctors Course SUMMER 2007 Sunbridge College Spring Valley, NY
March
and May 2007 Anthroposophy New York City two painting workshops.
Current
offiliated Waldorf schools:
Lake Champlain Waldorf School
Shelburne, VT
and
Orchard Valley School
E. Montpelier, VT
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"Spirit into Matter, Matter into Spirit" Veil paintings, photographs, prints, and STAR CHART TALISMANS ARTWORKS
by Martha Loving Orgain
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Solo Exhibition in New York City Spring
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Anthroposophy – NYC & The Rudolf Steiner Bookstore 138
West 15th Street (btw. 6th & 7th) in Chelsea ALWAYS call ahead
- 212-242-8945
To view virtual exhibition, sampling of the show, click here
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VIRGINIA:
Thinking with the Heart
P. O. Box 98
Alberta, VA 23821 USA
Phone: 434.865.5330 (cell)
VERMONT:
Thinking with the Heart
P. O. Box 422
Shelburne, VT 05482 USA
802.985.9850 studio
434.865.5330 (cell)
Email:
lovingcolor@earthlink.net
Copyright © 2009-10, all rights reserved.
Images and/or text may not be copied, reprinted, translated, or otherwise distributed by any means without express written
permission from the artist, Martha Loving Orgain, MFA.
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