Heart Interpreter in Nature

September 20 – 24, 2010

Ciel Bergman, Painter

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Workshop Overview

Through guided visualization, participants of this intuitive painting workshop will learn to paint from The Sacred Within and connect with themselves and nature to facilitate inner transformation.  Choice of oil, pastel, watercolor or acrylic as one’s medium.

As we enter into the 21st Century everything has changed, but ourselves, in our relationship to our sacred environment. We thought IT could handle all the garbage we dump into it and onto it since the beginning of Industrialization. This we know today is not the case. This is our objective, to locate The Sacred Within, that place in each of us which is cellularly connected to our natural surroundings: in a few hours of solitude, of transformation, we will in meditation ask to surrender to the Deep Feminine that resides within us all. We look through ‘reality’ and listen for inner guidance for being an instrument of healing and beauty.

With guided visualization, Ciel Bergman will help you enter your active imagination, during your time together in the beautiful natural surroundings in mysterious places around Abiquiu

Artist Statement

Paint is liquid matter; therefore the only limitation on its use is the human imagination. Having experimented freely in my early years, I find I am fundamentally interested in what paint, wielded as it has been for centuries, is still able to communicate.

Philosophically and politically, it is my opinion that one of the major tasks of the Arts in the 21st Century is to re-link Nature and Culture. We are interdependent upon the natural world. I find it tragic to live in a culture where scientific imagination is applauded and artistic imagination is suspect, for the two disciplines are motivated by the eternal need to understand who we are, to comprehend where we have come from and to speculate upon where we might be going.

“The struggle to recover what is lost’ and ‘the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing’ are two phrases from T.S. Eliot that seem wholly contemporary to our environmental circumstances. These are some of the issues we will be dealing with.

Biography

Bergman has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at galleries and museums in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Brussels and London. Her work is in a number of public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. Several corporate collections hold work: The Gap, The Capitol Group, Banco di Roma and Atlantic Richfield, among others.

She earned an MFA with Honors in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute under Fred Martin in 1973, the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a SECA Award in painting from the SFMOMA and was included in the Whitney Biennial of American Art in 1975. She has received fellowships from the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, the Vermont Art Colony and was invited to submit for the American Academy of Arts and Letters and most recently was awarded a residency at The Djerassi Foundation. She taught at UCB, several other institutions of higher learning before joining the University of California Santa Barbara where she remained for 18 years after which she left her tenure as Full Professor. She moved to the quiet wilderness of Northern New Mexico where she built a studio at the base of Cerro Pedernal in the vicinity of Abiquiu. In 2006, she moved into Santa Fe.

Ms. Bergman’s work is discussed in several books, including, The Art of Engagement, Visual Politics in California and Beyond, Dr. Peter Selz, 2005, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, Barbara J. Love, 2006,  The Reenchantment of Art, Suzi Gablik, 1991, Who’s Is Who in American Women, 1998,  The Once and Future Goddess, Elinor Gaddon, 1989, Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, Sylvia Moore, 1989 and California Painters, Dr. Henry Hopkins, 1989: (preface page.)

Bergman has delivered lectures and accepted speaking engagements throughout the United States. “Notes on a Pilgrimage to Beauty” was delivered in 1993 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City at the opening for the conference, Transcending Contemporary Taboos: Reawakening to Beauty, Wonder and Sacred Values through the Arts. This talk is her only published writing and is included in the catalogue, Blood, Milk and Water, available for the website www.cielbergman.com

Who Should Attend

Enthusiast, Advanced Amateurs and Professionals who have a working knowledge of their chosen medium. This workshop is not for beginners.

What Should You Know

Principles of color and design, w/ freedom of expression in your chosen medium.

What Should You Bring

You should bring whatever needed for outdoor painting, depending upon your chosen medium to work in. French easle, brushes, pallet knifes, solvents, pencils, note book or journal for thoughts and ideas, hat, gloves, collapsible stool and etc.

Remember we will be working outside in the environment.

Lodging

Participants will have to make their own reservations at:

The Abiquiu Inn
Building 21120, Hwy 85
Abiquiu, NM 87510
Phone: 505.686-4378
email: abiquiuinn@zianet.com
web site: www.abiquiuinn.com

Meals

Price includes breakfast and box lunch only.
Dinner is not included in price.
On arrival The Abiquiu Inn will host a light buffet and “Champagne Reception at My Blue Heaven”.
Closing dinner will be at Jasper Ranch, at the base of Pedernal Mt., hosted by the workshops.

Tuition

$800.00 Reduced Rate: