The Avalonlady

  I painted this just before the winter solstice. It shows how working with energies like Reiki and Magic feels and looks like to me.

Sheela in progress

Went to my favorite shop to get whites and found myself a set of foxes bones. Always liked to make studies of bones.

One of my Shelas from the Gods series : The fear Shela na gig.
You pass threw her portal  by letting go of your fears. Than she will take all your pain and sorrow, everything shitty, the whole lot. No bother. If you concentrate on the eyes you will see your fear concentrate on the moon, you will let go.

work in progress

Workspace with several paintings. I always need to have at least 10 paintings i am working on.

Sketches of seals transforming into Selchie, part of a painting of the burning ship.

The Merman is 20 years old and just recently i decided he wasn’t finished. So he looks like this now. I need to only finish little details here and there and he can go and breath his own air.

4 stages of the Phoenix. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. I find the 4 elements in it as well with earth, water, fire and air.

A quite funny one between my so serious work. I called it “Freediving” and everybody liking the water can surely relate to it. I think the pattern of people develops conveniently.

The first set up of a figure in stone.I like particulary the 3 dimensional look of the leg .

Growing wings. the first set up

online shop

like to invite you, to have a look in my online shop:

http://shop.astridadler.com/index.php?route=common/home

You will find numbered limited edition prints of the paintings “Scattery Island” and “Wedding cross”. There is a range of postcards of my work with price reductions on sets of 10 and 50. Why not send an art-postcard for Xmas and Winters-Solstice.

There are felted scarfs and the fabulous felt-hats. All 100% wool, some with integrated lace.

For the children you find a full page illustrated book about fairies. As a thank you for sticking your head in the door, I have a present for you: There is a printable version of the celtic shaman art “Dragon” easy to download completely for free.

While you are there, you might want to have a look at all the updates on my official website as well. In the visual art section, you’ll find two films of work before the year 2000. There is a first entry into the projects with documentation from the “Search for the divine female project” and some quotes in the text section. Cata Isle Mime Theatre updates under mime with easy to download brochure, the Irish Times front page and more photos featuring the solo show premiere in Temple Bar.

I like to give a big thank you to my indoorwebdesigner from Artvaark-design, Kilrush, who made all this possible.

Art challenge

12 pieces of work in 12 hours minimum of 6 mediums

10 artists participated and I won the overall!

These are some of the results. Reception Saturday 4th of September 7.00pm in the Butter Market Gallery, The Marine Hotel, Kilkee. Work of the participating artists will be on display till 1 week after date. All work is for sale.

Art Exhibition: “No Style”

Astrid Adler is showing the Art-Exhibition: ”NO STYLE” during the Doonbeg Jazz Festival

The artist put this exhibition together to show the diversity of her work. Exploring abstract ancient symbols with charcoal and chalk on big tinted papers creating the look of stone, than, catapulting Celtic Art full colour into the 21st Century, where its construction takes completely different rules; you find Materialism still confused with Surrealism, Andre Breton still discussing with Salvador Dali if he is one, over Illustrations of local fairy tails to some study in pastels of the Stanley range, coming home to prints in Outsider Art “Scattery Island” and old favorite “The Weddingcross”.

Openings hours are: Friday 8-10pm, Saturday 2-5pm and Monday 2-3pm. Artist will be present. Venue: Strandcamping Doonbeg.

The Weddingcross

The upper part of the cross shows

The seasons to live through

At the bottom the bare winter sun

To the left the unwinding spring sun

At the top the powerful summer sun

To the right the dying off

autumn sun

The first image on the stem of the cross shows two persons holding hands and running over the summit of a mountain

The only way to go in the same time. Not one first and the other following

But if one lets go, both will fall.

The butterfly stands for the being in love, keep seeing the magic, the unknown in the other

Ying and Yang

The moon stands for intuition,

Sharing and similarity

On the contrary to the sun meaning individualism

Under the moon two people holding their heart

At their feet the Celtic tree of life

We grow quicker in honest, loving relationships

All of it resting on the Old Turtle

Who carries the world

Surrounded by the tamed dragon to

protect her

>Available as limited edition offset print on acid free paper,

numbered, signed: €25

In  local and  handmade frame: €50

Metarealistic/Surrealistic work

Astrid Adler and her Metarealistic work.

As a young girl, she attended art classes in the birth town Brühl, near Cologne,of Dada grounder Max Ernst. The study of Surrealistic painters where part of her secundary education.

 To achieve dreamlike effects upon canvas, Ernst invented many techniques. One of these, first noted by Leonardo da Vinci, is that of observing strange shapes in natural objects. Salvador Dali, called that the “paranoic Method”. It is an interpretation of the image, depending on the level of imagination of the viewer, where in the one image, there can be seen different motives.

To achieve this very imaginative dream landscapes automatic painting is one of the surrealistic technieques used. The hand is allowed to move absent-mindedly over  the canvas and by doing so letting the subconscios emerge. The artist can then develop images based on what is seen.

Adlers work is clearly influenced by the Surrealistic painters. But she developed  a practice with the unconscios, which allowes her to guide her mind to archetype images.

That is what makes  her work Metarealistic. It does not show subconcios randomness but moves beyond psychological consciousness.

It tells of old mythology and wilderness, it is a spiritual interpretation of other dimensions. It shows us, that there is more to reality than appears at first sight.

www.astridadler.com  surrealistic and metarealistic work