Mandalas can help reduce anxiety, improve focus, and create a sense of calm by combining structured geometric patterns with color. Research suggests that circular, repetitive designs engage attention in a way that quiets mental noise and restores clarity, making mandalas a simple but effective tool for mindfulness and mental balance.
I like to push the work beyond what I can control. Sometimes pigments flow, paper crumples, or I paint with pine needles. These little accidents remind me that life refuses to follow the grid. They are the moments where the work begins to breathe.
I adore Japan. If you have visited you probably do too. If you haven’t this will help!
In 1986 I traveled to Israel to take part in sacred rituals in the city of Safed (Tzfat), the historic “City of Kabbalah” and a center of Jewish mysticism.
At its core, Echelons of Ascension is a visual story of progress. Each echelon, or level, in the piece symbolizes a step forward—a moment of reflection, growth, and improvement. It’s a reminder to pause and recognize the strides we make, whether they’re major breakthroughs or subtle shifts.
1. What do you do? My preferred medium is working with acrylic paint, which I apply on canvas, metal, wood and paper. Most of my work is abstract but tends to have a landscape feel. The one thing that always comes back are my woman figures, sometimes on their own […]
Most often drawn with black in on white paper the ensō is at once simple and complex, part of the beauty is the varieties of personal expression are endless. Ensō evoke power, dynamism, movement, stillness and so much more.
Known for paintings depicting anonymous subjects who have their backs to the viewers, as well as domestic urban architecture, Salomón’s works delve deep into his past and bring light to the darkness.