www.heathersvisionarygallery.co.uk
Email - heather_m_charnley@hotmail.com
DESCRIPTION OF MY WORK PHILOSOPHY FOR PAINTINGS
My work is generally based on meditations and dreams, and is my personal method of exploration into the nature of other realms through sensing and portraying the visual forms and energies in various places and states of being.
My themes are based on nature in its various aspects, such as cloudscapes, inspiring mountains, aspects of water, as well as sacred sites, stone circles and the planets of our solar system. I have also done many sacred sites and wells, homeopathic remedy images, and crystals.
My interest and concern is that the paintings are of a healing and inspiring nature, for I have always been just as interested in healing as I have in art. I would like to think that I am focusing harmony and healing through the paintings as an offering of service and pleasure to others. When I go to a sacred site I can see and feel the energy present like a shining presence coming through me, and I can also pick up this quality from a site through a photograph too.
Visionary painting for me is part of a soul searching, universal searching into realms of discovery within the portals of God's creation, echoing the energies seen in meditation or visions. For on the physical level energies do not seem a reality for all is slow and little vibrancy is apparent. However, on other levels everything sparkles and vibrates like bright sunlight on water, or transforming fluid patterns, for all is in motion, singing and dancing, and that the universe dances like the Song Celestial.
ART & CRAFT WORK
I do paintings, greeting cards, posters and mounted prints. Please see the Gallery page. I also do murals and painted furniture. Please see the painted furniture page.
PURPLE SPIRIT PRESS
My mother and I are involved with starting the new venture of Purple Spirit Press, the little publishing press with work by my mother Beryl Charnley and I. We are publishing my mother's channelled teachings by ascended masters and extraterrestrials, and the books are for beginners. My books are of poetry with inspirational images, the planets of the solar system with the visionary illustrations of them (as seen on this website), and meditations. Much more is planned to be published this year and in the future. Please see the Purple Spirit Press page.
MY BOOKS
2006 saw the publishing of "Sacred Sites and Places of Power" a meditative handbook on ancient sites containing clairvoyant images of 40 sites, with meditations and Neolithic history. Book two of the series is on its way to being published, and is an inspired story based in Northumberland. It is called "Amaleina's Journey", about an apprentice to a wise woman who travels around many ancient sites throughout the county, and the ancient sites information is based on my own experiences at these sites. Please see Book List page.
My latest project is a trilogy of channelled stories from Atlantean times. The first is "Seeds of Amaranth-Recovering the Caskets". A mysterious casket is found by two woman on a beach and the crystals within it hold memories of the fabled continent. I am starting the second Atlantis book, "Seeds of Amaranth-Reactivating the Codes", and the third book, in due course I anticipate as being called "Seeds of Amaranth-Resuming the Eternal Legacy".
Accompanying the books will be a set of Atlantean codes or glyphs, which I am working on at present. These work on the chakras of the body to balance it, and intuitively portray the methods used by the subtle bodies to enhance our lives. These are being channelled by Merlin, as he was a also a sage from Atlantean times. You are welcome to contact me to find out more about these cards if you wish.
INTUITIVE DRAWING & PAINTING SESSIONS
I plan to take sessions with individuals or a group to local ancient sites which I know and love, when the weather is good. We can meditate there and do creative work whilst there, and/or back at a chosen venue (my house or a booked room if required). No need to know much about meditation or drawing, just enjoy the idea of exploring new concepts or having a relaxing time! Please contact me via contact details given above if you are interested.
INTUITIVE READINGS
I can offer postal readings to give encouragement and inspiration. Please give me a question that you would like some help in answering, and I shall make intuitive drawings or paintings of images and guides for you. I can also use the runes, animal oracle cards, the Merlin tarot, crystals and my Chakra cards and some visionquesting, as the reading requires. The cost of the reading is £20. Please contact me via contact details given above if you are interested.
OTHER LINKS TO VISIT
There are links to other websites of artist and healers who I know, and are well worth visiting, please look on the Contact Me page.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
I studied furniture design at Newcastle Polytechnic and obtained a BA Hons degree in Industrial Design Furniture in 1975.
I have worked as a textile design assistant in London and as a potter for about five years around the country. I have done other work such as office jobs and care assistant work, and studied various complementary therapies.
In recent years I have done various computer courses, including – desktop publishing using PageMaker up to stage 3, digital imaging level 2, a diploma in networking and web design (level 2), and a course in Internet Technologies level 1. Also done basic counselling and a diploma in creative writing, and a course in crystal healing - I have strongly connected healing & art for a while.
I have exhibited with the Free Painters and Sculptors, London in 1980, and at Wetheriggs Pottery, Penrith in 1986. I have shown work at the Lakeland Guild Galleries in Keswick and Coniston, with Gossipgate Garden and Gaslight Galleries in Carlisle and Alston, and the Theatre in the Forest all in 1987.
I have exhibited at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, and Coquetdale Gallery, Rothbury in 1988.
Down in Bath I exhibited in Huckleberry's Restaurant, and various shops and galleries in Glastonbury in 1990-91, then at Lancaster Museum Gallery in 1991.
Then, when I moved north I exhibited at the Forum 28, Barrow in Furness in 1994; Llangefni Library Gallery on Anglesey in 1995; the Complementary Health Centre, the Gill, Ulverston; and the Manjushri Institute near Ulverston in 1998. I also did several murals for Furness General Hospital.
I then exhibited at the Tolbooth Arts Centre, Kirkcudbright in Scotland in 1999; and exhibited with the Artesian visionary arts group in Edinburgh in 2001, and then again in spring 2003.
I have been in the Aurora Project, which is based in Morpeth and have exhibited with them every year. They had an exhibition at The Art Works in 2004, in Newcastle to celebrate their new website launch. In 2005 I exhibited at the Arena in the spring and at Cornucopia Gallery, Hexham during the summer months. Also in Almonds & Raisins, the Supernatural Cafe in Princess Square, Newcastle upon Tyne in Autumn 2005 to 2007. I have exhibited some of my work with Minerva Screen Printers at Newcastle City Library on occasions and also recently, an exhibition of digital imagery at Wallington in the Clock Tower Restaurant, September to October 2008. I have some of my art work at Precious Cargo, a gift shop in Brampton, Cumbria.