Artist’s statement:

Recently I have been painting layered, “Dream Gardens“. These came out of a vision I had which combines my many years of painting murals, botanical studies and faux finishing. What developed is a look into multi-dimensional layers of reality. I show one layer, a realistic representation of a garden or landscape and intermingle this with an etheric, transparent layer, which indicates another reality. Sometimes, I use the human form as a symbol of the psyche, and imbed an ‘inner landscape’ within it and /or around it. The human mind can focus on multiple layers of meaning and reality, and this is one thing I like to explore in my work. I also love to create ‘mirrors’ for the soul to show itself more about its purpose and begin to reveal a few mysteries.

I also like to let loose with my painting; it’s very freeing and opens new doors into the other, more surreal work. It’s important for me to let my soul express without a lot of left brain interference, so then come the Rainbow Cats and Dogs and Horses. Nature provides great subjects for my responsive expressionism.

BIO:

Patty Ray Avalon is a professional artist working in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She has her artwork in private and public collections around the world. She has shown her work in the World Bank in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Botanical Garden, The Mellon Foundation, and has had her faux finishing used in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

She has had her work featured in the Washington Post Home Section, Metropolitan Home, Country Living, House and Garden, and other popular magazines. She represents herself, and has created her artwork and murals for Architects and Interior Designers around the country for the past 20 years.

Ms. Avalon has a B.F.A and an M.F.A from Indiana University. She has studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Central School of Art and Design in London.

She is also a graduate of the Barbara Brennan College of Healing in Miami Florida, and is a former faculty member. In addition to these studies, she has been through all of the Monroe Institute Consciousness programs and is currently a Residential Facilitator at the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia.

Putting her work together in a larger perspective, Ms. Avalon feels that her true work in life, as a visionary artist, an energy healer and a facilitator of consciousness studies is that she helps “Make the Invisible Visible”.

She has just produced a CD series with Monroe Products called Positively Ageless with Hemi-Sync® available on this website.