Angel of Healing Mandala

Angel of Healing Mandala

Fine art prints are available for sale at http://artwakenmandala.com/online.htm or email info@ArtWakenMandala.com

ArtWaken Mandala May 09 Lucky Draw

Join our mailing list and enter our monthly lucky draw to win a mandala print. It is a "play until you win" lucky draw. All existing and new subscribers, except past prize winners, will be re-entered the lucky draw automatically.

Prize of May 09 lucky draw is "Buddha Face" Mandala Art Print, worth US$40.

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Buddha Face Mandala Print
Unstretched canvas, 8" x 8"

Buddha Face Mandala was created on 17 Dec 2005 during a mandala painting workshop. The image of Buddha Face was painted from a photo, which was taken during a ceremony when someone saw a Buddha Face appeared in the sky.

Happy Buddha's Birthday!

Light Purple Lotus Mandala

Light Purple Lotus Mandala is my 27th mandala painting. Light purple Lotus Mandala reflects lightness, illumination and feminine energy. Purple colour is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.

Light Purple Lotus Mandala is a Commissioned Mandala Painting and the original painting was sold.

Light Purple Lotus Mandala

20" x 20", Acrylic on canvas

Dated 12 Apr 2009

Available as giclee prints, click here to purchase.

About Purple Colour

Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic. Purple is made up of equal amounts of red and blue. Red is considered the warmest color while blue is the coolest and together they create a perfect color.

According to surveys, almost 75 percent of pre-adolescent children prefer purple to all other colors. Purple is a very rare color in nature; some people consider it to be artificial.

Light purple is a good choice for a feminine design. You can use bright purple when promoting children's products.

Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Dark purple evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.

BioGenesis Mandala

BioGenesis Mandala is my 26th mandala painting. It is also a Corporate Mandala Painting, which incorporates the energy healing tools of BioGenesis.

BioGenesis Mandala

24" x 24", acrylic on canvas

Dated 30 Mar 2009

Available as giclee prints, click here to purchase.

Wheels of Genesis (center of the mandala):
There are 27 wheels of Genesis, along with the three Red Rings of Genesis. First Rays, Clear / Transparent, Dark Violet, Light Violet, Sunrise Energy, Green, Full Rays, Dark Blue and Aqua Blue.

BioGenesis Pyramid (the four corners):
The BioGenesis Pyramid is the foundation stone of BioGenesis, which educates the environment and restores harmony.

Other BioGeneis tools (silver glitters on four corners):
BioAmplifier, BioOscillator, BioTranslator, Flame of Genesis, Wand of Genesis, Wings of Genesis, 8 side Pyramid and Shield of Genesis.

Available as giclee prints. Please click here to order.

Anna Cheung Solo Exhibition 2009

Last night, I went to the opening ceremony of Anna Cheung's first solo art exhibition - the Art of Illumination.

Congratulations to Anna. I was deeply touched by her passion and talents. She is an amazing spiritual artist. It's an extraordinary art exhibition.

Thanks Anna. Thanks for introducing mandala painting to me. Thank you for sharing all the stunning paintings and beautiful website. Mandalas definitely transformed my life. I really can't imagine what my life would be without mandalas.

About the exhibition

"An ordinary woman free of religion or beliefs used her brush to paint the story of her trek through the Himalayas to Tibet's Mount Kailash. It is more than an exhibition of art. It is more than the record of a personal journey. It is a visual account of prilgrimage that illuminated her life."

Date: 10th - 19 April 2009 (Closed on 14 April 2009)
Time: 10am - 9pm
Venue: Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, 7A Kennedy Road, Central
Map: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Apo/en/aboutvac.html

About Anna Cheung

Visit her website at http://www.anna-art.hk/ or http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/annasacheung

ArtWaken Mandala April 09 Lucky Draw

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Prize of April lucky draw is "Bali Lotus" Mandala Art Print, worth US$60.

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Bali Lotus was created in Sep 2006 during a mandala painting retreat in Bali. The Buddha is associated with the pink lotus, the supreme flower. A closed blossom signifies the potential for enlightenment. An open blossom signifies full enlightenment.

ArtWaken Mandala March 09 Lucky Draw Results

The March 09 lucky draw results.

Mystic Wheels Mandala Print

Winner: Sandra Charlap

Congratulations!

ArtWaken Corporate Mandala Paintings

Commission a unique Corporate Mandala Painting that paint your company's mission, values and vision on canvas. This one-of-a-kind corporate mandala incorporates your company's logo and theme colors. It serves as a strong focal point for meditation in your workplace which enhances peace of mind and eases problem-solving with whole-minded brain activity. Meditation is also an ideal way to calm the mind, reduce stress levels, bring clarity into your every-day life and to further inspire you to greater creativity.

Discuss with me with your ideas of painting - size, subject matter and any other details. I will give you an estimated time frame for production. Click here for price list.

To order a Commissioned Corporate Mandala Painting, email Maria at info@ArtWakenMandala.com.

Zama Mandala was a gift to a former naturopathic healing center in HK called "Zama International Limited", founded by Michelle Tanmizi and Jennifer Walker.

"Zama" is an ancient Mayan word meaning Dawn - the birth of a new day; a new beginning and the opportunity to make a fresh start - in any area of our lives.

This painting incorporates:
- Company logo: Silver fern
- Theme wall colors of the center: Red, Light Green and Gold
- Furniture color: Wooden Brown

The "Sunrise" image at the center of the mandala resonates to the meaning of the Mayan word "Zama" and signifies the cycle of life.

Press Release: 2009 - The Year of Awakening

Press Release: 2009: The Year of Awakening (click here for pdf version)
26 Jan 2009

For immediate release

ArtWaken Mandala Gallery is launched to promote art in a spiritual way that brings inner peace and transformation.

“Are you ready to fly?” asked by Maria Ng, founder of ArtWaken Mandala Gallery.

Despite the global economic challenges, Maria Ng emphasized that 2009 is a great year welcoming unlimited prosperity.

As a self representing mandala artist, Maria Ng launched an online art gallery – ArtWaken Mandala Gallery which promotes art in a spiritual way through creating mandalas. Maria painted her first mandala painting in 2004 and was spiritually awakened with continuous art creations. Maria said that “Most people are spiritually sleeping. They don’t know what they really want and always complain about their lives. Thus our society is filled with negative emotions. The truth is that the outside world is a reflection of our inner world. Our emotional conflict has created chaos in our lives, not the circumstances. To change the world, we must change our thoughts and seek inner peace.”

Mandala is a word comes from Sanskrit means circle or center. Creating mandalas is an expressive art that allows the artists to be away from analytical thinking and truly connected with their hearts. Maria believed that everyone is an artist and is able to paint mandalas without art training. She recommended that it is best to keep some mandala coloring books together with art materials at home and office so that you can create anytime, anywhere. “Art brings healing at the deepest level. If you allow yourself to do something creative for just 10 minutes a day, your life will be transformed gradually. You attract prosperity and abundance only when you have an open heart and open mind”, Maria explained.

To celebrate the launch of ArtWaken Mandala Gallery, Maria is giving away a free mandala art print through monthly lucky draw as well as free download of mandala coloring images on her website. She concluded, “Mandala is a great meditation tool that relaxes our mind. One of the best ways to do mandala meditation is simply to hang it close to your computer monitor, look at it while you are waiting during the process of downloading, printing or scanning files. You will find yourself more focused and productive.”

Be creative. Prosperity comes to our way for sure.

About ArtWaken Mandala Gallery

ArtWaken Mandala Gallery is founded by Maria Ng, a Hong Kong based artist who is passionate about promoting inner peace and awaken people’s inner creativity through creating personal mandalas.

For more information about ArtWaken Mandala Gallery, please visit http://www.artwakenmandala.com/ or http://artwakenmandala.blogspot.com/

Mandala: dancing around the center

About mandalas

The word mandala comes from Sanskrit means circle, center, circumference, sacred circle or magic circle. In eastern spiritual traditions, a mandala is a form of sacred art that depicts the totality of the self. Swiss-German psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung found the mandala – an ancient archetypal manifestation that appears in Eastern and Western religions, mythology and rituals – to be a powerful tool for growth and transformation, a symbol of wholeness. Seeing the mandala as representing both the self and world.

The universe itself is a mandala. The earth, sun and moon are round. Everything alive – plants, animals and human beings – consists of cells. Each cell is a mandala. Even the seasons and the life cycle of human beings is a circle, so it is in everything where power moves.

Circle is the symbol of one, wholeness and centering. It represents infinity and eternity, having no beginning and no end.

Finding your true center

We perceive the conscious experience of our center as indescribable happiness. To help to feel one’s own center is to stay conscious, no matter what might happen, no matter what one does at any time, to watch oneself consciously. When we are truly got in touch with our true center, we are in total peace. Imagine you are sitting in the eye of hurricane, you feel the sense of peace, stillness and calmness. If you begin to move away from the center, everything will be chaotic and distorted. And until you return your true center, you can never gain true perceptions.

Physical movements like dancing are a great to way to find one’s true center, especially the whirling dance of the Islamic dervishes. They spin and whirl in order to find in their center the calmness. If we do not succeed to finding the center, we become dizzy. When we connect our center and dance, we are able to spin around almost without limit and self-forgettingly with music.

Creating mandalas as a self-healing tool

Mandala connects us with our true center and fully in the energy of NOW – the present moment. Creating mandalas is an active meditation for the purpose of personal growth and self healing. When we work with the mandala we may experience moments of clarity and a reality of harmony, peace and inner happiness.

The best place of creating mandalas is a private space where you will not be interrupted for at least one hour. Light a candle and play some meditation music may heighten your ability to concentrate.

To begin drawing a mandala, select any coloring materials that you like, e.g. color pencil, crayon, acrylic paint, water color etc. It can be done on a white drawing paper, canvas or a cloth.

Do a short meditation to relax your mind before you start. You may notice forms, colors, and shapes dancing before your mind’s eye. Using as little thought as possible; select a color, form, or feeling from your heart as the starting point for your mandala. As guided by your inner voice, you may feel that the color chooses you.

Draw a circle and begin to fill it with colors and forms. You may begin in the center or around the edge of the center. There is no right or wrong of creating a mandala. Work until you feel the mandala is completed.

Dating your mandala for future reference. You may end your meditation here, or to feel what you have experienced. Then give your mandala a title and write down the messages it delivers.

Creating a mandala without thought and fully experience the present moment is the key of self awakening. Listen to your heart and guided by your intuition, the mandala reflects your true self. That is a perfect way to reconnect your inner creativity. You will be amazed how effortless you could create a beautiful mandala painting.

Mandala journey begins....

In Dec 2004, I got a chance to attend a Mandala Painting Workshop without knowing what mandala is. It was my first time to create a big acrylic painting. After a 4-day workshop, I completed my first mandala called "Tree of Life". Unlike formal art training class, no painting experience is neccessary to learn mandala painting. In fact, everybody could paint mandala, which resonates to what I believed - Everyone is an Artist.

Mandala painting, for me, is a meditative process which allows me to get in touch with my heart. I realized that "mind as a skillful painter". Imagine canvas is the outside world, our thoughts and feelings are colors and brushes. The painting is a reflection of what we believed and desired to see. It is absolutely our free will and responsibility of choosing our life paths. Mandala painting guides me to remember who I am - a creator of my own destiny. We could change the world only by shifting the perception on how we see ourselves.

"Mandala found me!". I listened to my inner voice and followed a different path which makes my heart sing. I have no idea on what would happened next. The truth is I trust this is the path toward self awakening.

Tree of Life, Dec 2004