16.5″x11.8″; handcrafted paper collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Teresa Goodin: Alchemy of Love
Online at Visual TART
8 March-30 April 2023
“Love faileth never”
“Alchemy of Love” is an apocalyptic love story that explores the power of universal love and its profound ability to heal and transform oneself and the world. This new work is the sequel to a series of handcrafted collages Teresa created in 2018 titled “Venus Excelsus”.
Teresa Goodin is an Artist & Alchemist based in Taranaki, New Zealand. She creates handcrafted paper collages drawing inspiration from ancient cultures, esoteric traditions and the beauty of the natural world. Her work is influenced and informed by her studies and training in Plant Medicine, Alchemy, Psychosynthesis, Esoteric Hypnosis, Buddhism and Shamanic Healing.
16.5″x11.8″; handcrafted paper collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
She is a spiritual counsellor and a specialist in the Sacred Plant Medicine of Aotearoa. An experienced meditator, she has completed several intensive meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition over the past ten years in New Zealand, India and Nepal. She is also a Buddhist Chaplain apprentice trained to support people to pass peacefully.
Teresa is co-founder of LUMEN Studios & Gallery where she makes art and organises exhibitions, workshops and holiday programmes. Teresa graduated from Whanganui’s Quay School of the Arts in 2000, where she specialised in printmaking, antique photographic processes and silver based photography. In 2007, she graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Art and Design from Auckland University of Technology.
(text adapted from the artist’s press materials)
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