VERONICA WINTERS | A WORLD OF BALANCE, JOY, AND HEALING

A WORLD OF BALANCE, JOY, AND HEALING
BY VERONICA WINTERS

“My symbolic art is one of self-discovery. Using my emotions, thoughts, events, history, and travel as an amalgam for inspiration, I create colorful, figurative art on paper and canvas. A collection of recent paintings and drawings is a meditation on the meaning of life, recorded out of my need to experience feelings of love, balance, joy, healing, and connection. I promised myself to paint the world I want to see, feel, and create, free of pain, judgment, and fear. I aim to inspire people to connect to their souls and light to form a heart-centered world.”

Through figurative oil paintings and colored pencil art, Veronica Winters, MFA, transports her viewers to another realm. In color, figure, and symbols, the artist explores the interconnectedness of everything living in the Universe to understand the meaning of life and the systems that support it. She enjoys painting the relationship between mind, body, and spirit, seeking to capture the secrets of the Universe.
Symbolic and influenced by classical artistic traditions, Winters’ work serves as a tool—for herself and her viewers alike—to experience the healing potential of painting. Winters combines her imagination, realist training, and divine guidance painting visual stories in the art that contribute to creating a heart-centered world filled with light.

Born in Russia, Winters is a Florida-based portrait artist, instructor, and book author who is nationally recognized for her colored pencil drawing with the publication of the art instruction books titled The Colored Pencil Manual and How to Color Like an Artist by Dover Publications, NY. Veronica’s art and writing have been published in numerous magazines and art books, including Strokes of Genius, Leisure Painter, Colored Pencil Magazine, the Guide Artists, the Artist, the American Art Collector, and the International Artist Magazine.
The artist studied art at OSU (BFA), Penn State (MFA), the Grand Central Academy of Art, and the Art Students League in New York.

“The colored pencil drawing titled Omnipresent mind signifies the relationship between consciousness and existence expressed through human beings. The omnipresent mind is everywhere and in everything.“

“It’s important to feel good to do anything you want in life. Feeling good and thinking beautiful thoughts puts you in a light state that allows you to be confident and productive. I constantly train my mind to stay in the zone. Whenever I catch a thought that puts me down (like I’ll never be able to do this or that), I replace this thought with something more positive, like “it’s ok to stumble. I can try it again tomorrow” or “let me do something fun now to come back to it with a different perspective.” I also start my day thinking about what I’m grateful for while I’m still half asleep. This allows me to wake up in a better mood to deal with the challenges I face during the day. So this painting features a mandala-like circle that moves colors in a kaleidoscopic fashion. Focus on your positive thoughts. Focus on colors. Focus on your intent. Focus on ideas. Focus.”

A WORLD OF BALANCE, JOY, AND HEALING

“We respond to art when we find something that touches us emotionally. It’s simply the fact that we see a part of us reflected in art. It could be anger, love, care, inspiration, a memory of a person or a place, or perhaps something totally different. Some of us deeply dive inside our thoughts and emotions to make sense of our inner life and understand the world around us.
Art speaks to our senses that we shouldn’t hide or reject. Emotions make us human. The flow of water is similar to the flow of our feelings. Some are light and live on the surface of it. Others are dark and deep. The deeper we can dive inside ourselves, the more discoveries we can make about who we are. This, in turn, enriches our soul giving more meaning to what we do in our work.

My drawing titled “Child of Love” was visually and musically inspired by various sources. Much inspiration came from a beautiful but sad song, “Child of Love,” by Alvaro Santamaria and Jessica Om. The spirit and emotion of this song mirrored the feelings I experienced at the moment in time when my son was going through severe difficulties in life. When I designed the image based on my references, the main subject was my photo of a classical sculpture of a boy I took somewhere in Italy. The sculpture looked alive, so I turned it into my artwork, designing other elements and colors around the figure. The drawing ended up representing childhood dreams, magic, and hope, with a bit of melancholy captured in the boy’s eyes. It’s a large, 100 percent colored pencil drawing that takes a month of full-time work.

Using my emotions, thoughts, events, history, and travel as an amalgam for inspiration, I create colorful, figurative art on paper and canvas. A collection of recent paintings and drawings is a meditation on the meaning of life, recorded out of my need to experience feelings of love, balance, joy, healing, and connection.”
– Veronica Winters

See the full article in Art Market Magazine Issue #79