Christina Kieltyka, artist

 

 

In Christina's words.......

Often times I am asked: how do you choose what to paint?

Or, how do you see things or know how to paint in a certain way?
I think that my most effective paintings, the ones that are exactly what I want, are acts of prayer, the result of the stillness of my spirit.
They are a celebration of life and beauty
and our collective relationship to the Divine.
But then I have wondered, can other people buy what another person has offered or been given as a Prayer?
I'd like to think that this is similar, maybe, to the offering of Tibetan prayer flags, or to a mandala, one act of fragile beauty - created for the intention of many. I believe that this painting-as-prayer concept speaks perhaps - in a visual way - to someone else's yearning for connection with something larger than themselves.