Healing Heartistry podcast is a conversation with artists related to Healing, Authenticity and Art. In these series we explore: How to find spiritual direction, wisdom and healing through making art. Integrating meditative awareness into the art making process. What is non-judgmental art. Surrendering and letting go of control through drawing.

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Maria Ortega Garcia is the founder of Compass Spanish, a Spanish Language and Culture business. She creates engaging experiences for her clients to deepen their understanding of Spanish language and culture in ways that feel personal to them.She is a deep thinker, language lover and very interested in how the mind works, including authentic self-expression and poetry. She calls Spain and Ireland home. Spanish is her mother tongue, and English is the language she currently express herself better in.She writes multilingual poetry and essays. She loves dancing, moving her body and being in nature.<a href="https://mariaortegagarcia.com" rel="nofollow">https://mariaortegagarcia.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Maria Ortega Garcia

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VISUAL ARTIST Barbara O’ Meara is a professional artist with a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Fine Art Painting and a Post Graduate Higher Diploma in Community Arts Education both from the National College of Art &amp; Design. She also works in print, textiles and installation art and is a writer of both poetry and prose with a particular interest in contemporary Celtic Shamanism.She connects deeply with areas of land that are of sacred, historical or geographical interest. Walking the shamanic pathway has always been at the heart of her work, a sense of connection which transcends time and place and focuses on our very existence, our ancestors and the fragility of life. Her paintings, which offer a journey beyond the immediate reality of our world, created in a deeply meditative and solitary process are rooted in a wildness she seeks to capture with a purity of expression beyond the physical act of painting. Believing in the healing power of creativity, this is incorporated into her teaching practice, where she designs and facilitates workshops such as The Art of Soul Journaling.With two decades as a professional artist her numerous solo exhibitions include: Loughcrew Megalithic Centre, The Excel Arts Centre Tipperary, The Ulster Hall, The Waterside Arts Centre Derry, The Market Place Arts Centre Armagh, The Alley Arts Centre Strabane, The Five Lamps Arts Festival- 2016; where as part of the centenary commemorations for the Easter Rising she exhibited ‘Na Leanai’ Children of 1916 reimagining the lives of the children who were killed and in 2017; B.O.R.N a social commentary concerning the plight of women and children worldwide inspired by media coverage of real events at The Point Village in Dublin. Her work has been selected to exhibit in many open submission competitions and features in private and public collections including Microsoft, ESB, Dept Foreign Affairs, Irish Life, Impact Trade Union, Bologna District Council, Behaviour and Attitudes. In 2012 she was one of six Irish artists selected to exhibit at Lockhart Gallery New York in ‘Contemporary Irish Art’. Her work was part of a two year worldwide touring exhibition of 100 International Artists – ‘The Drawing Box’ exhibiting in Europe, America and the Far East and is now part of the ‘NIVAL’ Collection. In 2016 she spent time in a remote area of Iceland on an artist’s residency resulting in a two person show ‘Radljost- Enough Light to Navigate by’ at the Russell Gallery in the Burren Co. Clare which she also considers to be a spiritual homeHer work as a qualified community artist includes various collaborative and socially engaged projects such as ‘Portraits of Pain’, N.C.A.D.’s Public Art Placement Programme exhibiting with Coolmine Addiction Group at I.M.M.A, Northern Ireland’s Re-Generate Project, artist in residence at Tallaght Children’s Arts Festival with Alternative Entertainments in 2015, 2016 &amp; 2019. In the past she has worked extensively with ADVIC – Advocates of Victims of Homicide, a bereavement support charity. Her most recent community arts project ‘Stitched With Love’ 2017-2019, a two year voluntary project where hundreds of participants nationwide hand crafted white baby squares to commemorate the Tuam Babies creating a baby blanket of 796 squares entitled ‘The Covering’ which, in 2018, was laid out over burial site at Tuam by survivors and families during a healing ceremony in collaboration with Karen Ward of Moon Mna Women’s Celtic Circles.‘Sort Our Smears Campaign Art As Activism facilitated by Barbara O’Meara is an open call to make a piece of art highlighting the isssues of the Smear Test Scandal in Women’s Healthcare in Ireland. This installation art piece with over 150 pieces to-date was exhibited at Rua Red Arts Centre in 2019 in an Installation Mandala with a healing ceremony performed by Moon Mna Women’s Celtic Circles .<a href="https://barbaraomearaartist.com" rel="nofollow">https://barbaraomearaartist.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Barbara O'Meara

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Tura Arutura is a Zimbabwean/Irish national who has lived in Ireland for nearly 30 years. As an accomplished Communicator, multi-discipline performing artist, social activist and dance teacher Tura has been an active proponent of cultural and cross-cultural activities in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the United States. Possibly, uniquely, he is a Gaelic speaker, singer songwriter, poet, dancer, choreographer with a passion for all aspects of mystic and healing arts. Tura has immersed himself in Gaelic culture, poetry, music and dance. Also a presenter on BBC Northern Ireland, Tura is no stranger to RTE and International News, performing or as an activist on issues such as equity, equality for Black Live Matter, artists and cultural platforms. In 2002 he won the Broadcasting Diversity Award for Different Worlds, a magazine programme featuring multi-cultural and social issues. In 2013 Steip le Tura a documentary about Cuthbert learning the ancient dance of Ireland was nominated for a Celtic Media Award. In 1994 he founded the African Cultural Centre (NIACC) for the improvement of African diaspora living in Northern Ireland. Tura has played an active in the Peace and Reconciliation process involving Northern Ireland Cross Community. He was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities in 1997. In 2002 he was awarded Top 40 Under 40 in Ireland followed, early in 2018, following an invitation by Culture Ireland and Comhaltas Tura performed in England in his show promoting Irish culture alongside his Africa diaspora heritage. Further recognition of his communication, mediation and reconciliation skills came with a request to speak and dance at the Republic of Irelands Croke Park in front of His Holiness Pope Francis in August 2018. He gave a testimony at this event, known as the Families of the World, under the theme “The Gift of Freedom”. <a href="http://www.turaarutura.com/" rel="nofollow">www.turaarutura.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Tura Arutura - Part 2

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Tura Arutura is a Zimbabwean/Irish national who has lived in Ireland for nearly 30 years. As an accomplished Communicator, multi-discipline performing artist, social activist and dance teacher Tura has been an active proponent of cultural and cross-cultural activities in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the United States. Possibly, uniquely, he is a Gaelic speaker, singer songwriter, poet, dancer, choreographer with a passion for all aspects of mystic and healing arts. Tura has immersed himself in Gaelic culture, poetry, music and dance. Also a presenter on BBC Northern Ireland, Tura is no stranger to RTE and International News, performing or as an activist on issues such as equity, equality for Black Live Matter, artists and cultural platforms. In 2002 he won the Broadcasting Diversity Award for Different Worlds, a magazine programme featuring multi-cultural and social issues. In 2013 Steip le Tura a documentary about Cuthbert learning the ancient dance of Ireland was nominated for a Celtic Media Award. In 1994 he founded the African Cultural Centre (NIACC) for the improvement of African diaspora living in Northern Ireland. Tura has played an active in the Peace and Reconciliation process involving Northern Ireland Cross Community. He was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities in 1997. In 2002 he was awarded Top 40 Under 40 in Ireland followed, early in 2018, following an invitation by Culture Ireland and Comhaltas Tura performed in England in his show promoting Irish culture alongside his Africa diaspora heritage. Further recognition of his communication, mediation and reconciliation skills came with a request to speak and dance at the Republic of Irelands Croke Park in front of His Holiness Pope Francis in August 2018. He gave a testimony at this event, known as the Families of the World, under the theme “The Gift of Freedom”. <a href="http://www.turaarutura.com" rel="nofollow">www.turaarutura.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Tura Arutura - Part 1

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Yael Kaplan is a photographer, painter and installation artist. Kaplan offers a blend of media in order to create presentations of private dialogues that lean on memories and biography as a starting point.Kaplan was born in the colony Atlit. Her adult education started at the Beit-berl Faculty of Art with painting and drawing lessons. She graduated the HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts at 2004 with an excellence scholarship in art photography.  Kaplan&#39;s work has been exhibited around the world, including shows in Berlin, Miami, New York, Paris, Finland, Turkey, Canada, Italy, London, Spain, Amsterdam &amp; more. Exhibited also at Israel Museum, Jerusalem, La Créche at Berliner Kunstsalon Art Fair, and are in private and public collections.Kaplan is still active in the art community, lives and works in a small village near Tel Aviv.<a href="https://www.yaelkaplan.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.yaelkaplan.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Yael Kaplan

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Laura Hepworth is a Conceptual Artist based in Crofton Park, South East London.Her practice explores the processes of creativity and connection, as a means to transform her own energy into an emotive language that speaks through vibrant bursts of colour and mark making. Over the years, her art practice has been on quite a journey. Starting out as an emerging artist where she was using a limited palette of black and white, her current work explores colour to the furthest point of the spectrum. All of which tells a story of the ways she interprets her surroundings, from her home in London to the natural beauty of the Cornish coastline. Now, Laura sees her practice as being at the heart of her being, an essential way of living. Through painting, She has formed a series of habits and repeated rituals that provide distraction to the mind and an allowance to be present. <a href="https://laurahepworth-conceptualart.weebly.com" rel="nofollow">https://laurahepworth-conceptualart.weebly.com</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Laura Hepworth

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Marion Stern is an intuitive artist who reconnected with art in 2016 and has used this creative outlet as an expression of her own journey of self discovery and healing. Her goal is to inspire others to reconnect to that creative force within themselves and to provide space for profound healing through expression.Marion works with a number of different mediums. She creates 3D artworks using natural and recycled materials. She creates custom drums and guitars. She also works with fineliners creating detailed works and illustrations. Her process is intuitive as she expresses herself through these artistic mediums.In this reconnection to her creativity, Marion has found her voice.  <a href="https://www.intuitiveart.me" rel="nofollow">https://www.intuitiveart.me</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Marion Stern

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Melanie Hodge is an American-born, British-based artist living in West Sussex. She paints in oils on glass in a reverse technique she was introduced to while living in Croatia. Melanie balances her art practice with caring for her two children, one of whom has Autism. Her works fit within naïve, outsider, and folk art traditions. Melanie became a member of the Association of British Naïve Artists in 2016 and in 2018 joined Outside In. Her art plays an essential role in maintaining her mental wellbeing, &#34;it is both my escape from the world and my strength within it&#34;. <a href="https://mjhodgeart.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https://mjhodgeart.co.uk</a> She is also the founder of Creative Carers. With her expansive experience, she offers workshops, coaching and [offers activities for local] Carer pamper days to other Carers, [giving them a chance] to try something new or, maybe, come back to a much loved hobby from the past.<a href="http://creativecarers.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://creativecarers.co.uk</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Melanie Hodge

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My guest today is Caroline Banks, a visual artist based in London. She exhibits regularly in the UK and internationally. Her work can also be found in private, public and corporate collections.  In her work, she aims to capture the energy and memory of gesture, to grasp something important yet intangible, and to connect the elemental qualities of life using the language of abstraction.Caroline is also the founder of Play With Drawing, a project facilitating creativity.<a href="https://www.carolinebanks.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https://www.carolinebanks.co.uk</a> Music: iordAnis Sidiropoulos - Staring the Ancient Sky<a href="https://iordanismusic.com" rel="nofollow">https://iordanismusic.com</a>

Caroline Banks

A conversation with artist

Healing Heartistry podcast is a conversation with artists related to Healing, Authenticity and Art. In these series we explore: How to find spiritual direction, wisdom and healing through making art. Integrating meditative awareness into the art making process. What is non-judgmental art. Surrendering and letting go of control through drawing.