by Mathilde Berry | Oct 28, 2018 | Behind the scenes, Books, Painting and Healing
I’ve devoured this book (and its predecessors “The War of art” and “Turning Pro” too)… as if it’s been written just for me! Art as a calling From the “ordinary world” to “the call” to “the mentor...
by Mathilde Berry | Mar 25, 2018 | My paintings, Painting and Healing
Feeling the Light – my artist statement I’m so eager to share this with you: the video about the essence of my art. It has subtitles in English and closed captions in French and German. Here‘s word for word what I’m saying in the interview: “I am Mathilde Berry....
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 29, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
This particular painting has had a deeply healing impact on me. Painting „Plus jamais ça“ („Never again“) brought up a lot of pain to the surface which I had tried to keep buried inside of me for a long time. After painting my previous painting „Souffrance“...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 29, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
„Souffrance“ („Suffering“) is another painting that helped me access some deep emotions and make truly visible that not everything in my life was light and love but also darkness and pain. I avoided feeling a lot of my own pain for a long time and kept „busy“ instead,...
by Mathilde Berry | Dec 29, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
It took me a while to accept this painting in my life. I hid it for a long time from public view and did not display it on my website either. This painting was truly a healing experience for me, very intimate as well. One day, I took all the courage that I could...
by Mathilde Berry | Nov 26, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
I started this painting while listening to a recording of an online course by Lisa Schrader, my mentor of the course “Awakening Shakti”. Lisa had a beautiful New Year meditation which I listened to in the background as I was painting and setting intentions for the...
by Mathilde Berry | Nov 26, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
I started this particular painting “Wounded soul” during the traditional Christmas break, where time slows down, at least for me. I’d been deeply affected in my soul by the terrorist attack on the French concert hall The Bataclan in November 2015, particularly as a...
by Mathilde Berry | Nov 26, 2017 | 2016 paintings, Healer Series, My paintings, Painting and Healing
The following five paintings are at the heart of my Healer painting series. As I wrote in my blog post Painting and Healing, the five paintings below revealed consciously to me how healing (my) art could be. I started them between the traditional Christmas break of...
by Mathilde Berry | Oct 28, 2017 | Healer Series, Painting and Healing
This is a tough post for me to write, but a very important one. I have put it off for a very long time because I did not feel ready, because I was not stable enough mentally and emotionally to write it. Why? Because… Until the year 2017, “ghosts from the past”...
