What is painting from the source?
What is
Painting From The Source®?
Painting From The Source® is a Process Painting (or drawing) method often facilitated in a workshop or retreat, where a group of people paint, share, move, sound, and do ritual together for between 2 to 7 days and nights. No prior art experience is necessary.
MORE ABOUT PAINTING FROM THE SOURCE®
Creativity and sacred presence emanate from the same Source. The natural and ancient way to create authentic Art is healing to the maker, viewer and community. Similar to meditation, yoga, trance dance, chanting, and dream tending Spontaneous Painting is a potent and effective means to mystical revelatory states of consciousness with the bonus of a stirring visual record.
Painting From The Source® falls into a unique category of its own in which process painting is just one of many techniques. These techniques include Marathon painting, Gestalt therapy techniques, Jungian Active Imagination, principles of children’s art education, art therapy, catharsis, body awareness, energy healing, art as experience, channeling,
PFTS is also a great way to learn to paint for beginners and a great method to recharge and stimulate the imagination for professional painters.
How Did Aviva develop painting from the source®
After the trauma of my divorce with three young boys, I was always seeking to return to the bliss and magic of painting as a young child. Formal Art Training and life separated me from the free natural un-self-conscious expression of childhood. I attended and experimented with many therapeutic and spiritual experiences, such as Art Therapy Masters Degree, Yoga, Gestalt Therapy, became a Psychoanalyst, Dream Interpretation Jungian Analysis, Art Expression workshops, Primal Scream, Holotropic Breath Work, Group Therapy and so much more. But I could not find the teacher or creative reparation experience I was so fervently seeking.
“Beauty occurs in art and life the very instant you allow your deepest soul truth to be expressed” ~Aviva Gold
In 1981 I had a breakthrough in a “process painting” retreat led by skilled teachers. I saw in a flash how I could use this method of painting with children’s paint and paper in combination with all my art, spiritual, and therapeutic studies and experiences to create the reparative painting experience that I wanted to attend. I could paint with you, my spirit family. I understood from my own experience that under the right conditions one could fall into a safe altered state of consciousness with no hallucinogens just from painting. And thus tap into a spiritual Source of images and colors like in a dream, but awake. I was on fire. Little did I know that all the experiences of my life prepared me to this experience I could share with the world. The rest is history. My book which goes into much more detail was published by Harper Collins all over the world in 1998.
What is the Purpose of Painting From The Source®?
The natural and ancient way to create authentic Art is healing and spiritually uplifting to the maker, viewer, and community. similar to Carl Jung’s “Active Imagination”, or mediation, yoga, trance dance, chanting, and dream tending, the Arts, (particularly spontaneous painting and drawing) are a potent and effective means to achieve mystical revelatory states of consciousness with the bonus of stirring visual record. Painting taps into both the personal and collective flow of mysterious archetypical imagery, which empowers, inspires, and transforms the painter.
WHO IS PAINTING FROM THE SOURCE® FOR?
PFTS is designed to aid all contemporary people in reconnecting with nature and the original Source of life. In turn, this leads to benefits such as improved relationships, health, and work. Further benefits are a heart opening for deepening community and
an intro to the pFTS process
A Sample From a workshop
Aviva Interview
KCXI Community Radio “Broad Perspectives” Tucson, AZ