ESPOIRE Painting

Fujan is an abstract artist based between her hometown Melbourne, Australia and Los Angeles, California. A self- taught artist inspired by her love of colours and textures from our natural world. Her work mirrors her inner journey and her creativity she says "is an expression of love". Her pieces are elegant and striking with layers upon layers of resin creating great depth. "I love how resin is so unpredictable. It can be a challenging medium to work with but each piece ends up looking so different and unique". She believes sometimes the most challenging art produces the most beautiful results. "Once I recognise I am working with a difficult piece, I transform my frustration to love and this I've found has produced some of my best work". Effect of emotion in art Emotion in art is not an end but a means. By carefully designing a work of art with the intention of inducing an experience in which the participant’s emotions are selectively aroused and oriented, the artist can help ensure that the spiritual content of his or her work is effectively communicated, vividly felt, long remembered, and therefore the more likely to help broaden the vision, deepen the understanding, spiritualize the sentiments, and affect the thought and even the conduct of those who wish to receive it. Beauty Reflected in the Creation and in Art Beauty is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Its purpose in the world of creation is to draw the human soul into a spiral of spiritual growth, carried upward on the wings of love toward the kingdom of the most great Beauty. Its purpose in the realm of human creativity is the same. Art attracts the soul, through beauty, to a work in which the knowledge of things divine is imparted, by which attitudes to life are spiritualized, morality is strengthened, and service is rendered to the cause of spiritual growth. Acting as an agent of spiritual attraction, beauty thus plays all essential role in the process whereby art seeks to help ennoble the human soul. Excerpts taken from an article titled "The Spiritual Role of Art" written by Ludwig Tuman, 1991. *This article is a modified version of one of twelve chapters in a book by the same author. The book, entitled Mirror of the Divine: Art in the Bahá’í World Community Her works are available for delivery worldwide.