Spiritual Paintings

A Fish in The Head

2008-09-28T17:53:00.002+01:00

If you live in the World, you have world in your head, but you can perceive in a different way, if you know that.

In the Kettle

2008-09-12T07:19:00.003+01:00

Original art on canvas by painter Jan Karpíšek "In the Kettle" is a view inside the copper kettle on its bottom several beings stand around a little kettle while their heads are small kettles as well. The kettles around a kettle in the kettle refers to the fact of impermanence of the physical plain where "heating" is our future. Details made in the glossy metallic color mean the holy Fire.

Shakuhachi freestyle

2008-06-16T18:49:00.002+01:00

Original painting by Jan Karpíšek "Shakuhachi freestyle" shows miscellaneous beings floating on the ocean of world, the islands of Gold shines afar, we're breathing into shakuhachi flutes, somebody's even drowning, but bodhisattva is skating on water with a skate of water he himself made of water as well. Painting looks unfinished but author said: FINISHED! and rather demonstrates that mind creates judgements and criteria than shows a perfectly completed picture. aum :)

Whose hand and the rest in flowing of time?

2008-06-16T18:40:00.003+01:00

Original painting by Jan Karpíšek "Whose hand and the rest in flowing of time?" shows a being in the world of phenomenons who is entangled in the same substance he is made of. We see his blood and flesh and thoughts. Well, whose hand is that, grandpa?

Arunachala

2008-05-31T12:20:00.003+01:00

Original painting by Jan Karpíšek "Arunachala" refers to the holy mountain in south India, by which Sri Ramana Maharshi lived. Arunachala mountain represents Shiva, terminator of illusion that we are bodies and minds. Shiva is a master of all yogis, holy Lord and the most inner Self, except Him nothing exists and ever existed. Aum Tat Sat :) Even the tears of suffering pumpkins originated in the most Firm Mountain! Be aware that you're not a craving pumpkin! :) More about Sri Arunachala.

La Marche du serpent aveugle vers la vérité

2008-04-11T19:17:00.001+01:00

Original painting by Jan Karpíšek inspired by the shape of coincidental tea blot which associated The Pilgrimage of a Blind Snake to the Truth, nihilist philosophical novel by Ladislav Klíma.

Ramesh Balsekar

2008-02-06T05:04:00.000+01:00

Now you're just one click away from the great videos and homepage of amazing contemporary Advaita master - Ramesh Balsekar. :-) Enjoy! I'd like to paint what I've accepted and I accept what I've ever painted.

New Exhibition in the Radikala Gallery

2008-01-18T20:30:00.000+01:00

The latest exhibition in the Radikala Web Gallery shows paintings by Czech artist Martina Lupačová Švarcová (MLŠ). She creates spiritual paintings very often as she really is deeply spiritual woman. See Martina's homepage and her virtual exhibition on radikala.cz (Radikala is an internet project dedicated to contemporary and authentic fine arts. This concept is to be considered as Radical in the age of ego-and-money-in-art.)

Aikido in contemporary Art - Shihonage by Jan Karpisek

2008-01-09T01:19:00.000+01:00

Original painting by Jan Karpíšek titled Shihonage depicts an eleven year old girl who has complete control over a man with a knife who attacked her in a poppy field. She is using the Aikido technique and this work of art is a tribute to Aikido; a way of harmony, japanese martial art, and author's wish: May all weak who are in the right win over strong who come with violence and delict!!! Girl Power!

Christmas commission: child portrait

2008-01-09T01:13:00.000+01:00

Julinka and the Hedgehogs, Christmas commission for Mr. M.K., acryl on canvas, 100x120 cm, 2007

Petr Kožíšek

2007-12-09T19:58:00.000+01:00

Petr Kožíšek, Milena in Paris II, 2007, 140x135 cm, tempera, email and acryl on canvas

Painter Petr Kožíšek (1972) created this painting of Czech emigrant Milena and realized then the portrait is very similar to my face. And that's true! Sometimes we're surprised with the results of our art explorations. And this made me happy. Thank you Peter! :)
See also his latest web show on Radikála, where is also published his latest real exhibition in the Dolmen Gallery.

Pavla Kislerová is in India

2007-12-09T19:23:00.000+01:00

One day we made a trip to the Holštejn Cave with my fellows from Punkwa Art Group and Dr. Václav Cílek (I wrote about it on this blog and on my site) I was lying on the stone inside the cave when someone came to me and said: "Can I ask you something? Aren't you cold?" :) It was Pavla and that's how we've met. Nowadays she's in Kashmir with her english friend. Good luck pilgrims! Look at her blog, website, fellow student Klarisa, boyfriend and video. I think she's cool and spiritual. :)

Invitation to Cuba and the Google videos from April

2007-12-09T18:00:00.000+01:00

I'm in touch with Ms. Karina Hernandez-Boodhoo from Holguin, Cuba for few months. The Culture Ministry of Holguin is willing to communicate with the artists worldwide and invite them to Festivals which they organize. Just read the latest invitation letter. And here are some short videos on Google by Alice Hilmarová from the ARSkontakt Balance exhibition opening in April 2007 at the South Wing of The Brno City-Hall: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 For your information ARSkontakt is an art competition for artists under 26 years, founded by curator Kateřina Tučková.

Camilo Villanueva

2007-12-06T07:00:00.000+01:00

Today I'd like to introduce Camilo Villanueva, a painter from Argentina. Camilo creates colorful paintings which remind me crystals of energy behind the closed eyes or different dimensions and layers of physical space. His original style is based on sensitively composed colors in bright clean facets and auras. Find more on his websites www.camilovillanueva.com

Latest finds

2007-11-30T03:17:00.000+01:00

Have a look at the angels around The Throne of the Lord from The Paris Apocalypse and these plasmatic elves on wonderful paintings by Martin Mainer. Oh, those colours!

Video of JK's Ostrava exhibition opening

2007-11-29T00:18:00.000+01:00

Marie Polaskova

2007-11-27T19:22:00.000+01:00

I had a very special dream tonight. I met there my former fellow student Marie, who I haven't seen for years neither in the real life nor in my dreamings. It was a surprise, when she, a teacher of yoga, Tensegrity and other psycho-physical exercises within the scope of her graduant study at FaVU, caught my hand on a meadow where a lot of practitioners were having their places in the midnight. She steered me to her blanket in front of all the others (she was a leader of the rest of people) - it was my place. Then she sidled away...for a while. But I fell asleep earlier than she moved back. When I woke up in the dream she started kindly comment my actual estate of life, lovely criticize my actual spiritual situation. Then it became a lucid dreaming. Maybe the most stupid but most common approach, at least which I do, is a trying to contact the person in this watchful kind of sleep. I tried to do that again and saw some visions in a "window" or through "a channel" but I think little of that. Then it slowly and continuously changed to the perfect awareness. I woke up physically but still be in bed, without any vestige of sleepiness but restful and meditating. The message was clear. Imagine yourself five years ago and compare your ideals to your actual life. Maybe I was reading too much the recent auction results, omitting the spirit these days. To be here and now! OK, thank you my dear inner voice, I'll be more careful. I started with making today a fasting day. Btw. Marie is definitely very interesting painter and I'd name her a spiritual artist as well. See her websites www.e-marie.cz and her Stuart Page. Anyway I think that the topic of my awaking dream was not herself as a person. :)

Stuck in the Middle of November - a few pictures from the art exhibition opening

2007-11-17T20:31:00.000+01:00

From the Bottom Up and Invitation to Stuck in the Middle of November

2007-11-11T20:26:00.001+01:00

The latest painting which I created and exhibited (in the Gallery Minikino in Ostrava) is a watercolor on paper titled From the Bottom Up (Zdola nahoru) and it's a view from the underground point in a direction up, to the light, by and through many tiny roots of plants and the earthworms with similar body structure. It's a brush drawing inspired by an idea which came to me during gardening. When I try to remember about the initial inspiration one vision is always coming on my mind: the skeletons from my painting The Mass Loan in Progress (about temporality of our physical bodies loan) lying below a tree, viewed from the top of the tree. From another pocket: I'd like to invite those of you who live or visit Prague in the middle of November to the opening of interesting selection of contemporary Czech painting which will take place in a prestigious Topic's Salon (Topičův salon) on the National Avenue (Národní třída 9), a jump from the National Theatre building which stands on the Vltava riverside. Since 1895 there were organized many important exhibitions and in May 2007 the second most expensive Czech painting ever was auctioned off there (The Abstract Composition by František Kupka for 13,4 million crowns). The show in November is titled Stuck in the Middle of November and its core consists of Prague Stuckists, Czech section of british artistic movement - Stuckism and it's curated by Robert Janás PhD. and sponsored by the Dolmen Gallery. I'm not in the Stuckists art group but I'm glad to be selected to exhibit with them, some of them are my good friends. A representational catalogue was printed on the occasion of this exhibition. The second huge auction of modern Czech art by Gallery Dolmen will take place in the Topic's salon on the November 25th but you can see the hundreds of auction lots already now. Come and join the party. :)

Silvia Harambalova

2007-10-26T16:52:00.000+01:00

Silvia Harambalova is a contemporary Bulgarian artist, a painter and a textile artist. Silvia and her husband Borislav manage international retreats in two houses (atelier and house + yard for 40 Euro per night) in a beautifual area at the foot of the Rhodopa Mountain in Bulgaria. In fact she wrote me because of this offer. I like her colourful watercolors.

Jaison Cianelli

2007-09-17T22:44:00.000+01:00

Here comes the second artist who answered our free offer: Jaison Cianelli creating imaginative illustrations of spiritual thoughts which he likes playing with letters like a calligraphy painter, colourful oil pastels, kind narrative sketches and also photography. He's a very good example of "more than decoration" quote sticking well to the meaning. Welcome, Jaison!

Maristha Schellink

2007-08-30T17:30:00.000+01:00

It's a pleasure for me to invite here Maristha Schellink, 39 years old artist and healer from South Africa. Maristha stated on her websites about her work that she paints who and what she is, so as she changed, her paintings changed too. She is interested in Reiki, alternative healing methods, runes, tai chi... Her colourful paintings often created on a triangular surface represents her own spiritual aspirations and journey. These are full of energy and subtile beauty. Most of all I like her figurative drawings of the "Isa series" where I see the strongest (or maybe most palpable) message. I was glad when I found some similar shapes and topics in her art as Lukas Karbus or I have created. Please take a while and have a look at maristha.blogspot.com. There is a lot of light. Welcome, Maristha!

An open offer for all spiritual artists - free presentation and about video Cosmos by Pavel Magda Prazak

2007-08-21T00:10:00.000+01:00

Greetings!
Well, as I see, Google Search resulted this website as No.1 for "spiritual paintings" phrase though I didn't add any new content so I'd like to invite all of you for participation in this project. The Radikala lesson taught me that successful web community requires a lot of pro-active effort. And I don't want to work on any web project now when I bought the garden as well as so many paintings are waiting to be finished. I offer this place for every spiritual artist - you and your works can be the new content here on SpiritualPaintings.org! Just write me an email or response to this post. Send me your pictures or address of your online portfolio and I will probably publish a post about you (if it will be proper content). Imagine how some art enthusiast types "spiritual paintings" in Google and in few clicks he will see your works. Yes, it's possible that we will loose the first position in Google. This fall happens usually and maybe you have heard about it. But does it matter? :) I want to find some new friends. For an inspiration I add below three parts of great video by my friend Pavel Magda. It's a pitty that he hasn't won the Start Point Prize for that and he was just a bit out of winning! By the way it's me who whistles the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's melody and imitates frog's quackeling with a sling hanged on his neck (in the second part). ;)

See more his videos on YouTube.

New Spiritual Paintings

2007-05-17T23:49:00.000+01:00

I have overpainted The Landscape made in 2002 with "a time raster". Stroke by stroke I covered all the dirty sky in this small picture. Now it looks much better. This kind of raster gave name to whole series where the process is more important than result. Or do I actually know what is more important? I can be only aware of the simple painting approach and watch its accuracy as well as my thoughts. This concentration allows me sometimes to realize basic background, a moment without thoughts. But no hurry. It's coming slowly. Something what has never gone and is only hidden. /Maybe it's a problem that I like the metaphors in art so much./ ;) Prior remake of this landscape I created several pieces on paper. My favourite result is a small (10,5 x 15 cm) Wool of Time with orange watercolour, cheap black ink and tea lines rotates. This black ink changed color into grey with green tones when contacted with water..but I'd like to keep the whole principle of its origin hidden. I really enjoyed it. Anyway the most important using of time raster came later on a light-blue canvas where few beings are looking for their own meaning of life. Are they aware of their most beloved activity like animals or better? An ugly slim model watching her beauty in a mirror and a fat rich man holding his money watching only profit and its unlimited rising. :) A marihuana smoker, rasta pothead is not focusing on any subject much on this painting. He is smoked and his consciousness foggy. Above these three being are others who have deeper knowledge of reality. They're better connected with the blueness (oneness, background of existence) and also a contact with outside the frame is present but something is covering them. It's a time raster but its meaning is not strictly Time allthough its title is The Spiritual Painting with Time. I just haven't found a better name yet. :) Similar combination of blue and brown is used on the last painting I want to mention today. The wise fool Frei Jack is dancing while his body shaped with link of unpainted yute. This principle of inverted line is another material-metaphor I've already used (e.g. in Insect and The Bearded Man). Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, one of important advaita masters of our era was speaking often about the Essence of Being and the observer of this elementary prerequisite of all other deeds and phenomenons. It is a pure background of canvas in my art. Maharaj said that only who realized the source of this essence, of counsciousness of self is free. (But no hurry...) Fool Frei Jack knows the source of essence of being (certainely it's not a matter of knowing, thoughts and words but live experience) he has no future so he is only dancing. Dance, dance, dance now and here! :)

Cílek, Kožíšek and the others in March

2007-03-31T16:03:00.000+01:00

I wrote an email to painter Petr Kožíšek (1971) offering him an opportunity to join this website and other virtual places managed by me for free because I consider his works as highly spiritual. It's been more than a week he didn't respond to me. But never mind...

While a huge response in many dimensions and spheres came to me for the trip with Václav Cílek and other eight people to The Dungeon Cave in Holštejn last Saturday. I don't want to publish my thoughts and feelings from there, some of them are too private and actually it's also a problem to draw up some words. :) Have a look at the photos from this trip and if you live not so far than don't wait and go to Holštejn too. The Cave itslef is a big space inside a grey (white?) rock placed on the tableland above the village. Dr. Cílek has wonderful knowledge and very kind character. I like him.

Currently I do paint more often than in January for example (but now I still suffer from missing the aikido trainings - while on the last one I passed successfuly through the 6th kyu tests). I make mainly watercolors and inks on paper, but the canvases continue too, whereas I took a fancy to the long term being with. Never before I lived with my paintings for months, walked by them and met them during most of the ordinary days. This long-lasting liaison seems to be the benefit, with time I see what is important, fascination by particular success disappears, yes - liaison, I create the paintings and they create me through their presence, the externalised interior speaks from outside to inside about itself to itself, all is one anyway.

Especially I rejoice the Green canvas which is about Jack in the Green, spirit of wood as well as about the awareness which reject nothing of its focus. It's not finished yet and I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it until the important show on April the 18th (ARSkontakt balancing at 6 pm in the South Wing of New city hall in Brno) where it will be presented until the 15th May. (The show repetition will take place in Prague between 10th October and 10th November.) ARSkontakt is a new name of Artkontakt, competition of young artists, whereas I was awarded by the 2nd Prize in 2004. Before the green one I created a small orange called One Energy. Five days prior the ARSkontakt show there will be a huge benefit auction AMARO JILO in the Brno House of Art whereas I donated Parsley and Time of Woman. Probably they won't be available for such a discounted prices (21 and 12 thousands CZK) anymore but also I think that only one of them will be sold. This auction profit will support mending of parish center for gypsy kids by Zbrojovka factory, which I walked many times around when we had a studio with Punkwa Art Group there.

Once we read in horoscope that Pisces zodiacal sign are characteristic with their unhappiness and dissatisfaction and here it applies to me, I'm still not satisfied with how much I paint but it's good, hopefully the pain will force me to paint more. Someday I looked at our kitchen unit desk, yellowing and browning of superior tea preparing everyday several times, a deed which I do most properly, so I put a piece of carton on it and thereby another big time art project started, reminiscent to The Oranges in my graduation work. Soul of Fish must relax sometimes and this will help certainly, well now I do paint few times a day. :D An expression of flux evidential of this Fishness is also my liking of music by Karate (from Massachusetts), even some of their solo I do not much love, more I like e.g. Samiam in fact. These days I'm enjoying the new release by Lifetime and Květy.

Well strange today I wanted Barbara to shoot me with a camera as I was preparing Gyokuro tea but she said that it's really stupid to present myself as "the right guy" with "the right alternative hobbies". I thought that it would be a nice visual work dedicated to tea and tea-painting-timeness (I use a carton below the pot to record time) and I felt it's natural and fine idea. She feels that self-presenation as a "Japanofil" is silly and this is natural and fine as well. :) So we made nothing. Never mind... :)

I made some new pictures of the badly documented early works like for example great common paintings with Alfred Symůnek from January 2003 as well as "Tracking for One Snail and Four Drosophila Flies" and again found photo of The Japanese Garden (Waterfall).

And how are you? Send me a comment. :)