Nartana Thomas Holzweiler

Artist Statement
"˜The need for creativity has always been with me. There is such an intimacy and freedom, when
I paint or rather when painting happens! It's not always pretty. At times it seems, that the most perfect thing is the white, clean and sqare canvas. Still there is something else there not yet visible, but slowly to be unveiled, and so the journey begins. It can be tremendously chaotic at first; it can also flow harmoniously from the start. It can feel destructive and constructive within a moment of time........always balancing light and dark to create something unique and beautiful.' Nartana


During Nartana's formative years he frequented the Art Museums, which provided a sanctuary for a young man witness to a war-divided Germany. At the age of 16, he began his formal education in art at Fachoberschule fuer Gestaltung, followed by Fachhochschule fuer visuelle Kommunikation (College for Visual Communication).
From childhood onwards Nartana painted. What began as a means of escape, became for him a method of meditation. The immediacy of paint provided Nartana with a medium through which he
could encapsulate moments; recording, as you will in a diary, transient states of being; striving, always
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During Nartana’s formative years he frequented the Art Museums, which provided a sanctuary for a young man witness to a war-divided Germany. At the age of 16, he began his formal education in art at Fachoberschule fuer Gestaltung, followed by Fachhochschule fuer visuelle Kommunikation (College for Visual Communication).
From childhood onwards Nartana painted. What began as a means of escape, became for him a method of meditation. The immediacy of paint provided Nartana with a medium through which he
could encapsulate moments; recording, as you will in a diary, transient states of being; striving, always
for the state of ‘no mind’. Prompted by an increasing dedication to his spiritual life Nartana left
Germany and traveled with paint and brushes extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas,
eventually establishing himself as an artist and member of the Counsel or the Arts and the Society of
Artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Nartana invites the viewer to engage on a more subconscious level,
through form, texture, color and space, endeavoring to create a place in which viewers can enter into
their own dialogue.
His work has been exhibited in galleries in Aachen, Berlin, Amsterdam, India and throughout the
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1986 Exhibition at Sawdust festival - Laguna Beach, CA
1989 Solo show at Blue moon gallery - Santa Fe,
1990 Showing at Teresa’s art gallery - Chimayo, NM
1992 Exhibit at Fired works gallery - Alamosa , NM
1992 Group show at Fuller lodge gallery - Los Alamos. NM
1994 Exhibit at Madrid Art gallery - Madrid, NM
1995 Exhibit at Orion gallery - Atlanta, GA
1996 show at Satsang house - Lucknow, India
1996-2000 Juried member of Santa FE society of artists and Santa Fe council of the Arts
numerous group exhibitions in and around Santa Fe.
2006 Solo show at Red House - Bophut, Thailand
2007-08 Exhibition at Kamalaya gallery - Koh Samui, Thailand
2007 Group show at CERA - Maenam. Thailand
2007 Exhibition at  Wilderness Gate - Santa Fe, NM
2008 Two-person show at Opium Gallery - Pattaya, Thailand
2008 Three men exhibition at Kush bar/restaurant Chaweng, Thailand
2009 Exhibition at ‘Red House” hotel/boutique Bophut, Thailand
2009 ongoing exhibition at Tamarind Springs Spa, Lamai, Thailand
2010-2011 Renaissance Hotel Samui, Thailand
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