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West Hardin | Create Your Badge
I have been painting and drawing my spiritual experiences and insights most of my life, as a kind of journal to my development. I have experienced vivid dreams most of my life and have had moments when I see auras, energies and spirit beings. In my 20s I learned shamanic journeying, crystal and stone work and rune lore. I also learned the practice of Reiki and BodyTalk. All of these have helped me understand my relationship to the world more and our energy body more and because of these shifts in awareness they have also influenced my artwork.

I’m living and working in Columbus, Ohio. I have been selling my work over the years through different venues, but my website and blog have now become the center point in sharing not only my artwork but also my spiritual experiences with collectors.

The process of creating my artwork is individual to what I seek to create. But the overall reason I create art is that it helps me understand my spiritual experiences more. Sometimes in the creation process I reveal something new that gives me more insight to the experience. My hope in sharing my art is that the viewers are able to connect with the imagery and maybe awaken and stir their own inner vision of this reality.

I have a couple of recurring images in my work concentric circles and the monoliths. The concentric circles in my work represent spirit. I had a dream long ago where I remember walking back to my car in the dark and I could feel light behind me and see it in the corner of my eye. I remember saying show your self to me and I willed myself to turn and I saw a group of these spheres zip off into the woods. The monoliths, stone steel forms with their markings are the manifestation of Will with each holding it’s own story.

You can follow me on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/wildmanstudio#!/pages/Wildmanstudio/4399...
and
www.facebook.com/west.hardin

Thanks for visiting and viewing my work.