Thinking with the Heart

MARTHA LOVING ORGAIN Thinking with the Heart

"Magenta Angel"

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

color spectrum

UPCOMING SCHEDULE:

TRANSFORMATION

9/11/2010 All Souls Interfaith Gathering

FREE event featuring:

Yoga, yoga dance, inspiring lectures of transforming,

I will be doing Astrology readings, intro painting therapy, and

Oneness Blessings

SHELBURNE POND STUDIOS

OPEN HOUSE - 16 October 2010

Come join us: 13 Artists, food, wine tasting, music, and lots of ART!

5-7 November 2010

Watercolor and meditation workshop

Anthroposophy New York City

Registration call:

Phoebe Alexander 212.744.0257

VERMONT - PAINTING THERAPY

Ongoing Private client appointments

in Shelburne VT.

For more information call
Martha Loving: 434.865.5330

Lecture - Developing Super-sensible Organs of Perception through

Light, Darkness, and Color for Device-less Dowsing

American Dowsers Society Convention

ASD website: www.dowsers.org

May 2010

Color Oneness

Anthroposophy New York City

Registration:

Phoebe Alexander 212.744.0257

"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

Sponsored by Dhatri Foundation

"Open to Grace: The Divine Feminine Sophia"

Watercolor and meditation workshop

Anthroposophy New York City

5 - 10 AUGUST 2009

"Light, Darkness, and Color in WATERcolor

painting: Developing Device-less Dowsing"

Killington Grand Resort, Vermont

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

with Martha Loving:

Falls Church, VA

Graham Elementary School

THE NETHERLANDS

contact via email:

lovingcolor@earthlink.net

PAINTING THERAPY

PAAM Doctors Course

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

"Spirit into Matter, Matter into Spirit"
Veil paintings, photographs, prints, and
STAR CHART TALISMANS
ARTWORKS by Martha Loving Orgain

Rene's Book Cover - Victorious Spirit- detail

Solo Exhibition in New York City

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

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

434.865.5330 (cell)

Email:

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