Transpersonal art will continue as a growing trend among academics; because it focuses on self-realization and design psychology, it will be the tool used increasingly to create inspiring places. 

It is well known that paints and pigments can be approached as ritual objects, magical energetic substances to help create a space for manifestation. Painting or the ownership of them can be a meditative ritual, a ritual of affirmation and manifestation. With transpersonal art and in life, there is space and opportunity at every phase for invention, as with life no part of the art creation should be merely rushing from A to Z without appreciating the journey in its fullness along the way because every moment is complete in itself.  

"We recognized the role of imagination and ritual that is shared between contemporary psychotherapies and all ancient traditions. It was also evident that the arts are the bridging existential phenomena that unite ritual, imagination and dream-world in a way that no other activity can do." -Paulo Knill (p50 in Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy)

The mind and body is more than just an extremely complex machine. We are also spiritual beings learning from life, searching for meaning in birth, death, and all that precedes and follows our life cycle.  Within the narrative portions of this website  we will attempt to examine in very broad strokes the purpose of design psychology and how it works to create environments that reflect an individual or group as well as encourage positive change; the origins and purpose of art therapy.

Woody's paintings are not derived from drawings, they are organic memory, spontaneous reactions to color and movement. As stated by: Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi (1996) "when the artist is "there" the image s/he has discovered 'appears".  His paintings are developed from his vision, not evolved from a pre-determined expectation, most of his works are considered interactive, allowing the viewer to find within the image their own reality.  We are making this point because some academics have defined his paintings as a derivative of the Action Art Movement.  "Action Art" is a term first coined by Harold Rosenberg, it refers to unconventional techniques of applying paint to a canvas and connected to the Abstract Expressionist movement. More precise in its meaning, Action Painters believe in the expressive power held in the actual act of painting as much as in the finished product. Rosenberg defined the notion of the canvas as seen by the artists in this movement as being not a picture but an event.

Special Announcement: "Woody" is now  accepting select commercial and private commissioned projects .

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