Marilyn Wells

I begin my art work with a line of poetry, a prose quote, an emotion, or a piece of music.

I want to know this concept on a deeper level of consciousness than the intellect alone. I go into my body. I listen to a deeper voice within me, not my head voice.

I get very quiet in front of a piece of rice paper or canvas. I respond with my brush and my ink or color out of this deeper space, the place of heart and soul. The image is painted—almost, it seems, of its own accord.

When I share this artwork, I find the viewer also stops for a moment and does the same. As they sit with the work, something takes shape within themselves, resonates in their own depths.

Healing comes from that contemplative depth.

The viewer’s own insights can then be released, freely given back into the world.

It’s a combination of the printed concept and the abstract image. It feels magical.

This is the way of the feminine, a way of knowing with more wholeness, with
heart and soul.

This work comes from a contemplative depth of meditation, both Zen Buddhist and Contemplative Christian, and from studying Zen artists, poets and Western abstract artists from Kokoschka through Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and all the ab...

Advanced Degrees

M.Ed. Major in Art Education
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Martin Buber, I-Thou
Dialogical Relationships
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Ph.D. Jungian Psychotherapeutic Studies and Dream Analysis
Greenwich University, Hawaii

Jungian Psychotherapy
Certification Archetypos
Denver, Colorado

As an artist, I have most recently been spotlighted in Margot Elena Design Studios 2017, the Aurora Arts and Cultural Center 2018, and had a One-Woman art show, "Inviting the Mystic", at Metropolitan Frame Co., Denver 2019. My CV is available upon request.