A warm welcome to all English-language friends and newly interested people!
Special event: Taiwan Art Gathering
Next opportunity on Sunday 24th March, 2024
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Translation is provided. You can also invite a friend and join the meeting together!
Taiwan time: 15:30 hrs until no later than 18.30h – please adjust for your country and time zone.
In agreement with the friends, mainly in Taiwan but also Japan – (you can join from other countries!!) the session consists of three parts.
Early in the meeting, I will present some content related to Anthroposophy, for example, certain virtues or aspects of inner practice, or an overview/summary of a relevant text by Rudolf Steiner.
Then there will be questions and/or time to talk about this, and time to paint, and time to share painting. Also we have the new ’space‘ for participants to share their experiences or questions, or exchange news on upcoming events, in Mandarin language only.
Please set up for painting before the meeting begins, this saves time in the session. Materials are usually water colour or pastel, or colour pencil – whatever YOU wish to use. We will have about one hour to paint. When you paint, please sit away from the computer. The painting theme relates the theme of the day, and serves to enjoy but also to strengthen, our individual process. In Art and in Life!
Let others know about this announcement. And always feel that you can share the content with others and even try the painting processes with them.
Please let me or ChiuHsiang know if you want to join, at: kontakt@claerekunze.art
We will send you the link during the week before the event.
There is no fixed fee for this ART gathering but a DONATION is welcome. You can transfer to a TW Account, please ask. Or use PayPal with the recipient c.kunze25@gmail.com
Some more reflections below:
It is my impression that the Art Gathering is a good platform to experience a connection to the renewing streams of spirit, art, and like-minded people. After over fifteen meetings, I can only say that I am overwhelmed and grateful how you, the participants find their connection to the given theme, and create individual and rich paintings during this short session. AND enrich each other with comments on their experience.
AND PLEASE create opportunities IN REAL LIFE to share what you have heard, painted and discovered – so that we can spread out further in a gesture of goodwill and spiritual companionship.
This quote from Rudolf Steiner, remains very important. “ We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards us out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a (spiritual) world-directive full of wisdom. „
Please know that anxiety and fear will keep the ‚good things‘ from reaching us, so in spite of all that is happening (and it is world-wide) please try to cleanse the fear from your innermost soul and stay in ‚your middle‘ with positive expectations,
Hope to see you next time, to share more soul and spirit food.
In Celebration of ‚900‘ and the Year 2023
You will remember: the origins of the Daily Dose lay in the beginning of the so-called pandemic. We now know that life has changed perhaps irrevocably, since then.
In the spring of 2020, we knew that ‘food for the soul’ would be needed so we would weather the lockdown, the coercion, the lies, the unforeseen loss of friendships. So the Daily Dose of Art was born. Food for the soul, and evidence of the presence of spirit.
I carried on and continue a weekly mail-out to whoever shows an interest. This constitutes an important activity – at the end of each week, I send off what my painting life has given me, and give it to others. For me, it is also a moment when I remember individually, those people who are ‘everywhere’ from Germany to Taiwan. The responses show me that each painting means something different, but that a meaning is there.
Now a selection of the year 2023 has been posted in the web site gallery (Galerie). The theme of ‘above and below’ is strong, the theme of ‘staying connected’ and – brought on by the fateful conflict between Ukraine and Russia – ‘prayers for peace’, which extend to the emerging war in the Near East.
There was a pause from June to September because I broke my left arm. I resumed and pictures started coming again (from 868)
I was nervous of painting the picture “900” – it would have to be special. Then I heard of the death of a GP who practiced Anthroposophical Medicine and who was my doctor when I lived at Lake Constance. A ‘Memorial’ came very simply and quickly. No more questions – this was it. ‘Memorial images’ become important to me and there is at least one more in the selection. (859)
This one is for the retired professor of Pathology, Dr. Arne Burkhardt who came forward with exceptional research about the vaccine and what it does to people.
In so far as we can have a valid perception of a person only seen ‘online’, I feel a deep, conscientious soul, completely devoid of vanity. I am touched when I think of him, and he is surely part of a circle of brave and committed souls which, unintentionally, have formed a connection with each other and with us, during the years since 2020.
These connections will live on, no matter what difficult and devastating times we will see in the next years; they will live on as spirit force and when those people come back again (probably fairly soon) they will join forces for what can only be called the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
In these ‘Goethe’ words is encapsulated everything we can possibly strive for.
So please receive my small contribution to ‘saving the soul’ and ‘maintaining and cultivating awareness of the spirit’.
My approach to art and to teaching
I am an artist. This website offers my pictures and courses. I teach art in a process-inspired way which I have described in my CD-published book.
“Colour Pathways for the Soul may well constitute the best use of pdf media ever presented to the world. Cläre Kunze’s beautiful book would, in the world of paper printing, cost several times its current price in order to render each painting or drawing in all her exercises and examples at a size and quality that would be both informative and inspiring. The content of her book is wonderful to behold. I have never encountered a better explanation of the conversational, soul building, heart opening qualities that are truly what anthroposophical painting and drawing is all about. When one listens with love to the colours and forms that emerge on paper, beauty springs forth with a joy that makes the heart sing. Cläre’s teaching takes you into this world and gives you the process and instruction you need to set out on this journey of discovery and growth.“ (©Nancy Parsons 2011, with many thanks)
I see my work as „a space between“. A space of calm and focus in an ever more scattered and shattering world. I paint every day since the world events have imposed restrictions. The pictures can be seen on the gallery page (Galerie) under “A daily dose of Art”, and in my Blog ‘Kunst SOS’ where some contributions will also appear in English.
Personal Development
In addition, I make myself available to assist you in your personal development
… as a guide in loss and sadness (bereavement counseling),
…as a guide through the mysteries of your biography (biographical integration),
…and as a teacher of an every-day method of clearing your inner space called, Focusing.
I am available in person, if you are local, or online, if you are not.
I acquired an MA in American Literature in 1980. My later qualifications include ten years of private study in a ‘Goethean’ approach to art; a Diploma in Art Therapy, teaching experience at college level and in public classes, since 1998, a Certificate in Person-Centered counseling, a qualification to conduct bereavement counseling and, more recently, I became a certified Focusing Guide.
I am available for workshops ONLINE internationally. And hopefully, one day, again in person.
Let’s talk: together, we will discover appropriate themes to match your interests.
I am really happy to answer any questions, or point you to further information, in English, about aspects of my work.