Modern Art by Valeria Fulop

Exhibition

original modern art

Please come along and visit my exhibition in the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre (at Barton Hill).

- Starting from 6th February for 6-8 weeks -

It has been a unique and valuable experience for me both personally and artistically to work with mums and babies in the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre. As a professional artist I have been painting portraits for nearly 10 years. I've always been fascinated by the human body, the emotions and expressions that a simple movement can transmit. Witnessing this special connection between mother and child, this very special bound was very inspiring for me.

As an artist I always observe and pay attention to the details. I try to understand what I see and interpret it to a visual language. On the session I have seen and felt a lot of love, patience and caring. This unexplainable feeling of motherhood was present in the air. This is what I tried to capture in the drawings the way the mums were holding their babies, or just sitting next to them but always with them watching and guarding. At first when the sessions started I could see that the mum's were a little bit shy and maybe scared to see themselves on a drawing, worrying how they may look, not having enough confidence. Then I could hear them sometimes saying surprised: 'Oh you draw me so beautiful'. As I spent more time with the group I could see their confidence getting stronger, and the mums were a lot more comfortable being a 'model'.

What is WWOOF?

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

http://www.wwoof.hu/

Healing colours - Blue

I want to talk about colours and how important they are. I don't want to talk about artificially generated and manipulated colours that all around us in the city. The real colours are made by nature and mother Earth.

Some of you might think it is not so important, but unfortunately the human race lost connection a long time ago with this natural source. But, it is still not late to get it back...

Sky blue:

Have you noticed that your mood changes when you can see the sky in the morning and you wake up for a lovely sunshine? This is the colour blue. When you are fortunate enough to have a nice day like this, take a few minutes and look at the sky. Just stare at the colour without trying to think of anything else. This will fill you up with piece. It will give you energy to start your day with honesty and helps you to say what is on your mind.

Blue is the colour of communication.

'Golden Sun' (Valera Fulop 2009)

Invitation

Red Lion

I have been reading a brilliant book lately, (Maria Szepes: The Red Lion & The Elixir of Eternal Life), if you interested in spirituality even a little bit it is a must to read....

This is a very helpful review by Dennis Waterman:
This book can be read as a novel and on that level it is quite entertaining as it follows the five primary lifetimes of our protagonist in a 300 plus year span of a maturing Europe. During these lifetimes our main character deals with the manifestation of most human qualities; the lower ones such as lust, greed, ignorance, passions, and anger and also the higher ones such as the desire for knowledge, health, long-life, wisdom, a still mind, and energetic calm. The author spells out the karmic consequences of these strengths and frailties so that the reader cannot possibly overlook them. Beyond these unveilings there are philosophical insights such as, “The body’s weapons are passion, desire, sensuality, and yearning after beauty. The spirit’s weapons are aftereffects of these desires---nausea, disillusionment, suffering, aging, and death. The soul is the bridge on which the two forces fight continuously.”

This tome is valued highly by the worldwide alchemy community for its in-depth understanding of the science of the soul as well as the science of the body. It is an impressive work that alludes to what is real while keeping the important information out of the everyday reader’s hands.

This three hundred and seventy seven page journey begins with the following stern warning:

“No one should start thoughtlessly down the path of the arcane sciences, for once he starts he must persevere to the goal. Otherwise, he will be lost. Once on the path, a single doubt will produce madness, a single stop will cause a fall, a single attempt to shrink back will plunge the luckless soul into a bottomless abyss.

You who are now beginning to read this book will be either a king or a madman once you have finished. You can do what you want to with it; you will never hate or forget it. If your heart is pure, it will be a shining torch; if your heart is strong, it will be a weapon in your hand. If your heart is wise, it will become still wiser. But if your heart is base, this book will be hellfire to you; it will brand your soul and weigh your conscience with eternal sorrow and restlessness.”
--Eliphas Levi

It is unclear to me if Levi is writing about this particular book or one of his own, and although I am no great fan of Levi, take his warning to be real, Szepes must have wanted you to or she would not have placed it up front. Of course if you are reading this review you must have some interest in the subject matter already. I believe that all human beings are on this path from the beginning it is just that sometimes their connection to the path is temporarily misplaced. My final counterpoint is that although the consequences of slipping from the original intention of liberating yourself are indeed more severe than minor failings of the will they will not send you to a ‘bottomless abyss’. Since we live quite naturally in a magical universe it amazes me when individuals use the spoken or written word to create such dramatic exaggerations. Or is it that in his dualistic reality such is indeed true for him? For those with an education (including religious indoctrination) dualism seems natural. From my viewpoint it is natural for those that dwell largely in the left brain and much of what I (Dennis Waterman) write is an attempt to get the reader to break with this (accepted) pattern. I have chosen this moment to spell it out for you so that those that need to hang on to their precious answers can make their break for the exits.

Late in the book the main character becomes an assistant and student of the Count Saint-Germaine, as the Count (possibly) leaves this earthly plane he reveals ‘The Eleven Rules’: which are

Love God above all else.
Use your time to develop your soul.
Be completely unselfish.
Be sober, humble, active, and silent.
Learn the origins of the ‘metals’ in you.
Beware of charlatans and liars.
Constantly revere the highest good.
Learn the theory before you try to practice.
Practice charity toward all beings.
Read the ancient books of wisdom.
Strive to understand their secret meaning.

I applaud this advice wholeheartedly and know that insofar as all of us are able to follow this guidance the world will be a better place to live. As regards ‘lists’, ‘commandments’, and all other forms of guidance I wish to mention my memory of a fragment of the gospel of Thomas (censored from the current bible for centuries). In it Christ is asked, “Why do you give us only two commandments, whereas Moses gave us ten?” The profound answer from Christ is, “If you understand not even one commandment is necessary. If you have no understanding not even ten times ten times ten commandments will be enough.”

The signposts that real teachers leave for us are called Truth, Love, and Peace. Follow your heart!

New Portrait, Paris


Hello again, It's been a while.... I wanted to share with you my wonderful experiences in the capital of ART, yes it is Paris. I spent only a long weekend there, but I still managed to visit some beautiful artistic places.	I always wanted to visit the Rodin museum and finally a dream came true :) (Thank you S., again) If you are an artist and keen to learn the Rodin museum (Museé Rodin) is a perfect place to stay and do sketches for a couple of hours. Wonderful experience.	So here are some pictures....

	I've made a new portrait for Julien and Christelle who just got married and lives in Paris, congratulations again!
This is the original photo:	and the oil painting:

New work stuff - origami

Hi everyone,

I wanted to post this a long time ago but have been busy with many other things.....

I have made some new paintings being inspired by my loved one, Sebastien -by the way he is a very talented photographer - he made some origami the other day and I just felt that I need to do something about it, so here it comes:

Paintworks Art Market

Did you know by the way that 8th of March is the International Women's Day?

So this was the same day of the Spring Art Market at Paintworks, Bristol.