EARTHDANCE 2007 HIGHLIGHTS

 
Paintings for Peace
Since 2002, Earthdance has been recreating an innovative media concept where live art meets live music.  During every musical performance on the main stage, artists capture the energy by creating spontaneous paintings alongside the bands.  These paintings are exhibited in a special gallery on site and will be sold to the public via a silent auction with 50% of the proceeds being donated to the Earthdance Foundation.
Nikki Anderson
Nikki Anderson is a 28 year-old artist from Santa Cruz, CA. Passionate about her art she also teaches art to youth at alternative education schools, juvenile hall, group homes, and at a community center in downtown Santa Cruz. She has been oil painting since the age of eight and continues to explore and express through painting, drawing and new mediums like jewelry, ceramics and photography. Nikki has a BA. in Fine Arts from UCSC with a focus in painting and drawing.
Matt Jones
Fishing, waves, love and of course good music have always been an energy that runs through my paintings. The most important ingredient in my art is getting out of the way of myself and channeling the universe through me, which is something I had to discover myself, I couldn't learn it in school. I consider myself a self taught artist with some inspiring teachers along the way. My stlye include everything from commissioned photo realism, portraits, landscapes trout art and my latest genre is Live Art in front of live music. I first participated in Paintings for Peace in 2004, at the Earthdance festival northern California.
Xavi Panneton

i feel Art has the power to heal. My intent is to create harmonious, colorful flowing forms and
spaces that all interact with each other through a geometric language of creation formulas. These formulas are evident in cell structure, snow flakes, bubbles, honey combs, atoms, molecules, and beyond. Seeing large luminous paintings, depicting our source structural intention can help set us back into alignment. I see Art through the eyes that see the world around me. It is a world of unfathomable creation and magnitude. So, I see the creation of Art that attempts to reflect the true power and beauty of its own source. My ultimate goal is to create large scale works of art that blow open the new visionary horizons and remind people of how much beauty there is deep inside our battered hearts." Xavi creates in San Francisco, Ca

Luke Brown
Luke Brown is an intrepid explorer, part of a new generation of visionaries recontructing the templates of culture as we know it. His art speaks of the spiritual mysteries in the human imagination. Mystical experiences, dreams, medicine journeys, and channelled lucid dialogues with the source of creativity itself, seem to guide and be guided by the colourful symmetries and living surfaces of his art. Much of his work emerges from a graceful synthesis of digital and painting mediums. Developing his work through mix and remix technologies, Luke is constantly redefining his style as a spiritual medium for growth. He is intent on mapping his hyperspatial experiences with utmost accuracy, with whichever medium seems best suited, as a form of multidimensional cartography.

His art has been shown internationally with such visionary heavyweights such as Alex Grey, HR Giger, Robert Venosa and Ernst Fuchs. He is currently a resident of the lush Elfinstone rainforest in BC Canada, one of an infinite number of parallel universes in which he resides within simultaneously.

Carey Thompson

Carey much of his inspiration exploring countless natural power spots and Mesoamerican sacred sites where he developed a keen interest in ancient cultures and their expression through the arts and cosmology. He currently resides in San Francisco, California where he now focuses on his artistic endeavors. Carey describes his work as holomorphic transmission vision crystals. The imagery channels through, sourced from the universal matrix, and crystallizes into form onto templates based on sacred geometry and other patterns of nature. Beginning usually with only a seed of intention, the color and form evolve unconsciously to create the finished art. Revealing the interconnectedness of all things is the primary intention of Carey's artwork.

David Heskin

through endless vision questing and a transfixation on multidimensionality, combining symbolic imagery with deep memory and aligning with the Alloneness of our Sacred Source.. David represents this altarworldly journey Through a lens which acknowledges simultaneously infinite largeness and infinite smallness His paintings always illuminate deeper synchronicity than premeditation would allow for, achieved by stepping out of the way and into the Way, becoming a channel for Pure Creativity to pour forth

Roman Villagrana
Roman Villagrana creates art as a campaign to inspire visionary community, setting out to influence others to create by portraying a universal and harmonic culture he calls "Tribe13" is his mission. Believing in the representation of myth creating reality powered by faith is his message. Art to him is a reflection of life and it's infinite potential. Roman has help bring forth Tribe13 and the Interdimensional Art Movement as platforms for visionary community building and harmonic culture manifesting and hosts the annual Interdimensional Art Show in Seattle showcasing leading visionary art, music and fashion from around the world. You can see Roman at art shows or live performance painting at conscious events throughout the west coast and abroad including Canada and England. Check out www.artbyroman.com for schedules and booking.
Tom Griffin
Tom has enjoyed art in one form or another for most of his life. His paintings have a dream like
quality to them much like the childhood he remembers. Some of his paintings are as simple as a flower with a butterfly and others are more complex with deeper spiritual feeling and meaning.

What excites Tom most about creating art is the knowing that every brush stroke has the potential for something amazing. This is also the manner in which he chooses to live his life. Tom hopes that his work can bring inspiration to the ones that view it so they can take that and turn it into something for themselves. Tom currently lives amongst the trees on beautiful Whidbey Island with his wife and son where he can still be caught from time to time staring at those big wonderful bumblebees.

Carmel Reyes
Carmel Reyes have been living, loving, painting, and playing in Humboldt County since 1996.
My art is highly influenced by the plant, animal, and elemental enregies of Northern California. My art also draws much of it's energy from the local music and dance culture.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:

Prayer for Peace | Activist Alley | Divine Comedy | Earth Mandala
Healing Village | Paintings for Peace | Lotus Temple | The Gandhi Tour | Speakers' Forum
Workshops | Theater | Midnight Ritual | MagiKidz Village | Storytelling Tipi
Earthdance Film Festival