About the Artists
Below a short introduction of the collaborators of the Atelier team, who live in Springen, as well as, other outside artists who regularly support our projects.
Mataji Jaahnvi (Judit Hildebrandt) lives at Springen
- Head of the Art Institute and Atelier, Coordinator of Art Projects
-Art courses: icon painting and intuitive art
-own spiritual paintings
A freelance artist, painter, teacher for 30 years, with own distribution of fine art cards and reproductions. Variety of experience in many artistic areas: Textile design, porcelain, silk painting, old master oil techniques, spiritual paintings, icons, stage and costume design, combined spiritual art, music and dance performance concept.
Exhibiting since 1988 nationally and internationally in Rome, Budapest, Munich, Baden-Baden, Zurich, Lucerne among others. Participation in exhibitions and fairs also in collaboration with several spiritual artists.
A member of Swami Vishwananda’s spiritual community since 2003. Since that time, intensive collaboration with Guruji’s projects. Painting of the Chapel at Steffenshof, icons for further chapels, original paintings for illustrations, Hindu deities, etc. A permanent resident and head of the atelier in Springen, since November 2009. Further projects currently being planned for Shree Peetha Nilaya Center.
Contact: jaahnvi@bhaktimarga.org - web. www.judit-hildebrandt.de
or (+49) (0) 6124 6059127
see the curriculum of mataji Janvi here: curriculum.pdf
Mataji Gitanjili /
- She is natural from Portugal, and early beginning to paint and
- She do exhibitions, and paints for divine inspiration the Solar Angel , and Sacred Art
- she teaches Meditative Painting (Art-Yoga).
Art - yoga - Meditative painting
The Art - Yoga is a connection technique with our Self through the painting and of the meditation.
The practice of the painting develops and active the right hemisphere of the brain, the study of the explanations of the symbols stimulates the left hemisphere, unifying and aligning the analytical mind and the creative mind in each level of the being.
The painting works as a tuner and a portal, for the divine energy. The observer receives that energy acted in the screens, through the symbols and of the colors, that it puts it in contact with extremely high energies; being a help in the spiritual road. The painting is then a secret key to establish resonance with the energies of the macrocosm, because she alters the beings' vibrations and of the atmospheres. The field of force of a sacred painting modifies our energy in several levels, it stimulates the mind, it balances the emotions being like this a cure source.
The painting is never the end in himself, but a middle, a portal between the sky and the earth.
The meditative painting (art-yoga) it is a method to unify the analytical mind and the creative mind. Or be the left hemisphere of our brain and the right, for the unification it interns.
1st - THE practice of the painting active the right hemisphere of the brain.
2nd - THE study of the symbolic explanations stimulates the left hemisphere.
3rd - THE practice of the Meditation (the concentration in the 3rd eye), it takes to resolution of this duality and it unifies. she develops the intuition, she opens the vision to take a bath in the eternal beauty of the inside world.
Sita
Having studied art and theatre I am now a painter and teacher in school. While studying I started to learn the classical indian dance Bharatanatyam. In my paintings the geometrical elements of dance connect with rhytm and power of colour. When I met swamiji in 04 he asked me to paint icons. He awakened my secret love for icons which made me regularly travel to greece. Diving into the cosmos of the image remaines possiblewhether it is formless abstract painting or strictly traditional formed like an icon. As well as in dance the traditional form wants to be filled with devotion to become a mysterious univers.
Mataji Meenakumari / Susanne Mathes
In 1985 I began to paint in a new way, which questioned everything I had achieved so far and made color itself, liberated from objective realism, the focal point. Through extensive experimentation with various techniques color emerged as direct expression. It became a means of communication for me, a mirror, a source of meditation, which invites the viewer in to engage with the picture.
Pictures look: www.susanne-mathes.de
Mataji Padmakshi / Martha Anna Böhm
Freelance arts and craft worker.
-specialised textile crafts for religious articles: Altar coverings, clothes for Murtis, embroidery for priestly robes.
Training in tapestry work – Budapest 1992-94
Textile work: wall hangings, screens, clothing and head wear. Everything created and made according to own original designs.
Embroidery: tapestry, silk embroidery and beadwork onto velvet and silk.
Rajani / Miriam Hinz
During the last couple of years I, and some other artists, have been painting icons for our chapels in Steffenshof and Springen
These chapels are completed now, which gives me time to study further. At the moment I am studying restoration and conservation of decorative surfaces on wooden and metal substrates. Within my studies I am learning a lot about traditional painting techniques and materials which is advantageous for our icon-painting.
I am very much looking forward to share my new skills with all those who are interested in learning how to prepare gesso the traditional way, or how to paint with eggs and pigments or even how to do water-gilding.
Uma
Studies: Stage design and stage painting in Prague / Czech Republic
Free painting in Wiesbaden (graduated designer in 1972)
Occupation at the national theatre Wiesbaden and the national theatre Stuttgart, additional exhibitions of my own works.
Theatre has been my main domain for many years, either in setting up a framework for the staging or by participating as a member in a small theatre group which enriches the cultural life in Wiesbaden for decades with its specific Czech technique of Black Theatre.
Since meeting Sri Swami Vishwananda in 2002, icon painting became the central focus of my artistic activity at his suggestion.
Participation in the wall and icon painting in both chapels of Steffenshof.
Painting of numerous icons for the chapel in Shree Peetha Nilaya, Springen, on behalf of Sri Swami Vishwananda.
Contact e-mail:uma@bhaktimarga.org
