Every situation can be helped by expressing the deeper issue in a painting. THE SITUATION: I have been renting a good seize apartment in Ojai for 10 years where with great effort and tedious furniture moving I offer workshops. A few months ago my rent went up 25% ! … so I am pushed to pursue...
For years workshop participants have asked me to teach them to do what I do. In 1999 I jumped at the challenge, but did not really know what would happen. It was a grand experiment. Today, after training six groups, about 60 people, I have some answers. I can very effectively offer a safe...
As you contemplate your painting in the days, weeks, and months following its completion, you may become aware of a deeper message lurking at its edges, or you may be overtaken by a sudden rush of comprehension, a spine-tickling “aha” that washes over you as every element comes together to make...
Listen to our interview with Dr. Catherine Svehla, producer of Myth in the Mohave. Interview Link: http://www.mythinthemojave.com/painting-from-the-source-tap-in/ This exchange is invigorating and can be life-changing. Our guest on this week’s program is Aviva Gold, a woman with...
After that first breakthrough painting, I found myself unable to paint anything but images of women with their legs splayed, birthing all sorts of creatures—scaled serpents, feathered birds, furry mammals, and strange humanoid creatures—in every imaginable setting—still woodland ponds, the dark...
Let me tell you how I recovered the rapturous absorption in creativity that I’d known only in the play and painting of my early childhood. I was one of those children rescued by imagination and natural creativity from a dysfunctional and unaware family. I also suffered from dyslexia...
from Art Times:A Literary Journal and Resource for All the Arts WE'VE ALL HAD experiences with our innate "Inner Wisdom" such as the process of a cold coming and going in its own time, the unexpected gift of a dream (maybe a nightmare) to guide us, or the inspired solution, seemingly out of...
In the late 1980’s to mid 90’s my own personal search for meaning and healing brought me face-to-face with the “Wild Woman Archetype”, an energy and being who has disrupted, guided and reassured me in my life journey. Powerful female figures birthing creatures of all sorts had shown up in my...
Interview with Aviva Gold from The Artful Mind TAM: What is Painting From The Source? AG: Painting From The Source is a name I gave to a very ancient and natural process that people have been doing since the beginning of humankind. It's creating from this very divine, magical...
Creative Soul Lives in the Shadow The following essay by Aviva Gold, is excerpted from the newly published book, "THE SOUL OF CREATIVITY, INSIGHTS INTO THE CREATIVE PROCESS" edited by Tona Pearce Myers (New World Library, April 1999.) Those of us called to create authentic art in Western Culture...