Welcome to Myndscaping, the personal website of the artist Kathi Schmieder. To navigate the site, just click on the links to the right. Home in the upper right will always take you back here. Be sure and check out the galleries!
A little about the Art:
"The most beautiful thing in the world is the mysterious; it is the source of all art and science." -- Einstein
This work is an exploration of intangible inner realities, what I think of as the "mindscape", the realm of memory, metaphor and
imagination which underpins, colors, and ultimately contours human experience.
My job as a visionary artist, I've learned, is to turn off the chatter of my critical reasoning mind and intuit, feel the next
line or color or image, allow the art, which seems to have a life of its own, to lead and teach me. Creativity demands trust in
the process itself, a willingness to go with the flow of an often hidden and unpredictable stream. I've undertaken this journey
in the hopes of awakening awareness of the deep psychological resources of imagination and creativity with which reality may be
mindfully enriched and altered in any moment.
All I can really take credit for is being a willing vessel for this art, being patient enough to solve technical problems and
fill in the details as inspiration bestows its mysterious gifts in fleeting but potent glimpses of rich inner worlds.
Kathleen Stutler Schmieder 2008