Interview with Maryia Walker
Could you share the story of how you began your career as an energy artist? What were the pivotal moments or influences that led you to pursue this unique artistic path?
I began my career 5 years ago as an abstract artist while working as an accountant. It was the hobby for me at first and I was learning different painting languages by copying paintings from famous artists like Van Gogh or Claude Monet. It was a relaxing time for me. Then later I developed my own abstract taste and started looking at the art deeper than just a visual object. Some artworks were like a door that invites to the different worlds, a portal to the different layer of reality that coexists with the current one. And later on, I started exploring new worlds and expressing messages from it in a new form of art which allows me to be my most vulnerable and open self in a form of a sacred energy art.
I was influenced by the careers of two artists – Anna Miklashevich and Anush Artist. Anna helped me to polish my technical skills and Anush guided me in the energy structure. Her paintings are full of high vibrational energies and I was immediately drawn to her style, her works influenced me the most. Later on I studied biography of Hilma af Klint and found lots of inspirations in her style and approach.
To my mind the art is mostly about the artist, the personality of the artist and the state that artworks are created in is what makes artworks transformative. It is the continuation of an artist, being all in, with the heart and the soul in the process, forgetting who you are and then remembering yourself back. The world of irrational living that serves the truth: one is art.
How do you tap into the specific energy vibrations you wish to convey in your paintings, and how do you ensure they are accurately represented on the canvas?
There are a few steps or rules I follow to allow certain vibrations to pass through me. If the emotional body is clear as the glass it is easy to reflect the energies surrounding it. Before I start painting, I usually meditate to connect with my inner source of the flow, ease the mind and manifest specific states. Through meditation I feel like I am connecting to the parts of the world that existed long before me and I get the energy from it. Nothing is ever truly gone, past and future coexist at the same time granting an access to form the present.
It is important to keep focus on the body which becomes the main tool for expressing the vibrations. It serves both as a holder of the energy and as a brush I am using to shift it onto the real canvas. Lots of my deepest paintings are created in the flow intuitive state where you just trust the process. Once the artwork is finished, I feel how it corresponds to my body and which parts of it are responding to it. With the very subtle focus on it I am able to tell that the energy is captured and specific chakras (or all) are reacting to the final result. There is no analyzing involved at this step, I just trust my feelings that are being transformed throughout the process.
In your artistic process, how do you balance the intuitive and emotional aspects with the technical skills required for painting?
Over the last few years, I developed technical skills that allow me to express my feelings and help me convey the messages I like to show in art. I studied color work and different techniques through other artists that help me to work with the oil colors.
But when it comes to the actual painting process it is a sacred part for me. Listening to the soul messages hidden in the moment, tuning with the dark feminine part of myself and allowing myself to surrender to the spirit that lived long before my existence and that will live after me. Through art I feel like travelling many worlds and touching many realities enriching my present being with the richness of them all.
It is important to keep the mind working and using the experiences and technical compound of the process but at the same time it is important for me to dissolve the ego part of it and treat the creative process as the process that is existing outside of thinking and you just join it.
Could you share more about your experience with integrating poetry and visual art? How do these two forms of expression complement and enhance each other in your work?
I love poetry with all my heart. Before I became an artist, I have always been writing poems and this part of art has been a crucial part of my self-expression and feeling the world. One time when I was painting a poem was born in the process of it, deepening the inspired state I was in at that moment. Both poetry and visual art is a wonderful combination to shape the beautiful wisdom, inspiration and explore the world at more enriched level. Sometimes the word can add what the color can’t, and sometimes color can say more than the word. When the artistic impulse to share creativity is born, I use all the means I have to let my soul fly: painting with one wing and writing with another ☺
What techniques or practices do you use to maintain such a deep level of sensitive and subtle perception, and how do you think it impacts your artwork?
Art helps me to open up the strength and power to stay true to myself, be fierce and bold increasing the space to invite more things and opportunities in life. Longing for the wild self to be explored and revealed. Being yourself and being the force in the steps opening a door to a pure protection of higher forces and acceptance of a true nature of my being.
Can you describe a particularly memorable moment or piece where you felt a profound connection between the energy in your artwork and the audience's response?
Yes, I have a particular painting called “Life. Hidden Treasure” that received vast responses from the audience. Now I can see that it serves as a portal to the spiritual reality. I was getting messages that people feel the energy of the artwork, someone felt the messages coming from their ancestors giving the guidance around their life, someone felt expanding feeling in the heart chakra wanting to start painting too, and another person saw the spiritual animal captured in the abstract artwork. One of my famous responses was that the feeling of freedom was captured in the artwork embracing the way that painting was created by “the One”. This painting has not left anyone indifferent and influenced audience in different ways. This became a turning point in my painting path because I realized that artworks done in a specific state can invite people to multiple discoveries, exploring spiritual worlds and transforming the experience of living.
Then I did the next painting that has received the strong response too. The painting itself is relatively minimalistic with the highlight on the harmonious and accentual color combination. It is called “Sun Came Out” done right after I mediated at the sun. When I look at the painting, I feel very strong and warm feeling in my legs as if I am standing in the warm lake boosting refreshing state.
I think the response from the audience is also a very significant tool that help me to see which energy the artwork has captured.
In your journey as an energy artist, how have your experiences and understandings of the connection between people and nature evolved, and how has this evolution influenced your artistic expression?
The power of flow painting is healing and grounding speaking to the immersive and expanding part of the human nature wanting to be expressed diversely. Creativity in any form is a passive and meditative structure of the energy which is a resemblance of the energy of a mother nature. When connected to the creative irrational part of ourselves I am as an artist guided to my roots and feel grounded and connected to the nature. This planet is pure source of magnetic force. Lots of my abstract ideas are coming to me when sunbathing, the nature us talking to us, through this, we are the nature.
Intelligence is where nature meets the soul. And art is one of the most luxuries form of expressing it.
As noted in one of my short poems devoted to the creative art:
To the very deep and unseen
Part of my arising soul
That find its living, so sweet,
In the most luxurious form.
Receiving the "Woman Essence International Art Award" in April 2023 is a remarkable accomplishment. How does this recognition align with your artistic vision, particularly in relation to your focus on energy and the connection between people and nature?
The award resignated with my idea that I deeply cherish in my heart – the state of flow is the powerful source for women to deepen their beauty and explore magical yin energy that embraces everyone to live, create and play. As soon as I pick up a brush my inner woman dives into a soft and flowing nurturing state and this is the moment when I realize the resemblance of a woman figure with the earth and nature.
Woman’s mind is the brush with the thoughts similarly to brush strokes passing through the mind. Whatever woman thinks about becomes her reality, the biggest canvas out of all. We can’t hold it but it is in front of our eyes and our artistic signature of the creator is intervened in each event, word, action, person we meet. With that message a woman has endless power and access to become a creator of the life.
The woman is reflected in the earth, being the daughter of the nature and a mother of abundance. Her true essence of light, beautiful, grateful, magical and full of pleasure energy is what makes her to be the source of all.
