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Marina Petro-
Artist
I am driven by an insatiable passion to create.
Art enables us to
glimpse and experience Divine Manifestation. The
"Great Creator" continuing the spirit of
creation through the world's artists. Painting,
and the inescapable force which impels and flows
through me, is my essential link to the sacred
and to my soul.
The majority of my paintings are created through
my imagination. Painting from my inner world
demands existing in the moment-- responding to
impulses and impressions as they arise and seek
external life. My still life pieces and more
realistic landscapes and florals are painted
from life or photographs. This provides the
dynamic of a visual reference point in the
external world--a radically different
experience. One is my internal, spiritual world
brought forth into visibility. The other brings
the external world into, and through me, for
expression. Each is a great adventure, providing
unlimited possibilities for creative discovery.
I perceive my attempts at art to lay in vain, in
light of what I know is possible to express. So,
I continue to paint. Each work, always
incomplete, never quite fully expressing what I
sense is possible. But, I am driven to continue
to extend myself--to go beyond where I have
been--to practice--to unfold--to stay open and
alert--aspiring to the masterpiece that may some
day come close to expressing the inexpressible.
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