ARTIST'S BIO

Meet PATRICIA GILMORE

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Patricia is a native New Englander and Environmental Artist. She has been creating art since the age of one. When presented with her first birthday cake she took one look at it and decided it was clay. Rather than eat the cake she immediately dug both hands in and and started to sculpt. Soon she moved on to mud pies, painted rocks and constructions of “stuff” that she found in the woods.

Her love for 3D and texture resulted in creating body sculptures on the island of Corfu in Greece in the 80's, body casting the OCC crew team in southern California and creating large marionettes and small and large fantasy characters which were featured in galleries in Cambridge, Providence and Newport, RI.

In 2005 Patricia's lifestyle became nomadic spanning three continents. Now she visits Massachusetts on occasion, nests in Central Florida and spends the rest of her time creating and teaching in North and South America and Europe. When Patricia became a “gypsy artist” she once again began to make art out of “stuff” that she found in the woods. These powerfully energetic site specific environmental art pieces are called Nature Mandalas. The outdoor mandalas are transient and they disperse in the wind. She captures their images with digital photography. Her photos have been juried in and and sold at national art shows and her constructions have won national awards. Her installations have been featured on historical properties, in state parks and retreat centers/ resorts. She also draws and paints mandalas and shares their meanings and history with the world.

AMES MANSION INSTALLATION SUMMER 2014

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Patricia facilitates several workshops including Art Therapy Sessions that incorporate nature, drawing, collage and meditation.  For more information contact her at 617-834-3182 or email her at gilmore444@gmail.com.  BEBEST.COM - GETIN2NATURE.COM


What is a MANDALA?

A FUN WOMAN*DALA - "BIKINI BEACH"
CELEBRATING ALL SHAPES AND COLORS

“The word "mandala" is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean "circle," a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself--a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds. Describing both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community.” (mandalaprojectorg)

"Mandala art has been used throughout the world for self-expression, spiritual transformation, and personal growth... It is used by Native Americans in healing rituals and in Christian cathedrals the labyrinth is a mandalic pattern used as a tool for meditation. An archetypal symbol of wholeness, the mandala was used as a therapeutic art tool by psychologist Carl Jung, who believed creating mandalas helped patients to make the unconscious conscious.”   (Bailey Cunningham)

“When I draw mandalas I prefer to do so with soft instrumental music or silence. There is symmetry to the design. When my mind wanders I lose focus away from the design and I can make an incorrect mark or color placement. It is a reminder to re-focus back to the process of drawing, quiet the mind and be in the now. Making mandalas is extremely relaxing and meditative. When creating my earth art in nature it is as if the compositions are created through me. I am simply the instrument. In the woods or by the ocean with all the materials at arm's reach and without modern distractions, being in the artistic flow is easy and natural.”

DETAIL OF A MANDALA CORE

WATERCOLOR AND PERMANENT INK

Patricia Gilmore, C.M.Ht., A.B.T. 
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