About The Artist
Marina Petro
My studio and gallery is located at my country home in Saratoga Springs, NY. Saratoga Springs is world known for the healing waters flowing from springs all around the city and its thoroughbred summer racing season.
I am primarily a self-taught artist, clairvoyant and present workshops in Intuitive Painting and Developing Intuition and Psychic gifts.
I work primarily with oil on canvas, with the exception of my bold abstract “From The Zone” Series which are rendered with mixed media on canvas. My paintings range from visionary and celestial, spiritual, cosmic art, to realistic landscapes, still life and abstract works. I've created a line of greeting cards and fine art reproductions of my original artwork.
I participate with ‘The Daily Painters’ movement and have recently been honored to exhibit with the Daily Painters International Art Gallery. We are a group of artists worldwide who typically paint (almost) daily and post each piece as it is created at our painting blogs. I have accepted an invitation to participate in the international "Bridging Heaven & Earth" project. This is a collaboration of artists all over the world creating a work of art with the theme of bridging heaven and earth - the spiritual with the earthly. It is considered a world wide energy amplifying process, using art and the collective energies of many, to bring more light and love into this world.
My artwork has been used to illustrate magazine articles, music CD’s, wine bottles, business stationery, and featured in a variety of publications and national magazines. My paintings and prints are in private collections worldwide.
Artist Statement
I am driven to create. It is an inescapable force that flows from the very depths of my being. Art enables us to glimpse and experience Divine Manifestation. The "Great Creator" continuing the spirit of creation through the world's artists. Painting is my essential link to the sacred.
Many of my paintings are created intuitively from my imagination and spirit. Painting from my inner world demands existing in the moment--responding to impulses and impressions as they arise and seek external life. My still life pieces and more realistic landscapes and florals are painted from life or photographs. This provides the dynamic of a visual reference point in the external world--a radically different experience. One is my internal, spiritual world brought forth into visibility. The other brings the external world into, and through me, for expression. Each is a great adventure, providing unlimited possibilities for creative discovery.
My attempts at art lay in vain, in light of what I know is possible to express. Each work, always incomplete, never quite fully expressing what I sense is possible. I continue to extend myself--to go beyond where I have been--to practice--to unfold--to stay open and alert--aspiring to the masterpiece that may some day come close to expressing the inexpressible beauty of the world we can see and the worlds just hidden from view.
