Aleksandr Gordeev is a Russian multidisciplinary artist, based in Berlin. In 2015 he graduated from veterinary academy and moved from Russia to work as a high fashion model, traveling all around the world, from 2020 he started to develop his artist career with exhibiting his work in Russia, South Korea and France.
His main body of work is focused on the "self" and its reflection in one's character, fashion, all of the personal traits formed by one's relation to spirituality/faith in modern day culture. This exploration mainly depicted through digital illustration, performance, poetry and sculpture.

https://www.instagram.com/poppanda94/ https://aleksandrgordeev.com/

I practice Kundalini yoga. Essential Pranayam, Meditations, Mantras. I study Kundalini yoga with RA MA institute with their office studio in Mallorca, Spain.

Allie Joy is a digital artist and entrepreneur, her practice revolves around the human psyche and the upliftment of the human condition through resonation of metaphor.

https://www.instagram.com/alliejoyartist

www.alliejoy.co.uk

A mix of Spirituality and Humanism

Visual artist and educator, Saiful Abu Bakar's works deal with interlacing ideas inspired from everyday norms, current affairs, fusion of cultures, social behaviours and finding connection to the human spirit.

Motivated to foster respect, responsibility, discipline, confidence and grit in community and students. He is also interested in creating an interdependent society, ecosystem and structure across various industries as we move forward together.

https://www.instagram.com/aaawkwaaard/

aaaawkwaaaard.carbonmade.com

Islam

I am a self-taught artist based in Singapore and uses art as a form of self help and meaning making. Currently I worked with both the digital and traditional medium (watercolour, pen.) I have participated in mural paintings with Participate in Design (P!D) Singapore and have exhibited my works with The Starving Artist at Fluid Spaces show Edition 2. I hope my artworks can inspire you, give you hope that the sorrows of life can be transformed via creativity.

https://bittergodart.com/

I am an artist. My primary medium is acrylic and mixed media on canvas. I am interested in bringing the worlds within me into the light of this one. Creating things my eyes cannot recognise but my spirit deeply does. Art as the deepest possible expression. What is, isn't, what can never be and what always has been. I draw inspiration from all parts of my life experience. From my relationships to my readings. Psychology, spirituality, the nature of reality, of Love and the reach of religion in fearful minds are some of the topics I indulge in.

https://www.instagram.com/divya.lotliker/?hl=en

As a Buddhist-non-Buddhist I would like to add some words here too. I have found deepest truth in Love as the essence of life. Buddhist writings and thinkers have played an important role in getting me here.

https://www.instagram.com/fakkaeu/
https://www.instagram.com/meekfreak

An amatuer art lover who work as a mental health professional. I used expressive arts as one of the methods o help individuals manage mental and emotional issues. Art is a medium for individuals to attune within. I have benefitted from art to help cope with my own stressos as well. I started practicing art as an amatuer 8 years ago when I was facing caregiving stress for my father with dementia.

The underlying theme in my art is the spiritual realm, pondering the mystic inner world, be it my personal experience of the inner world, or a more broad approach for example regarding our relation to nature and ecology. Meditation and spiritual practice is a very important part of my art making.

https://www.instagram.com/gunziholmstrom/ http://gunholmstrom.com

I belong to the Lutheran church in Finland (choir, prayer group), but I'm constantly studying other spiritual traditions. All my art is based on spirituality and mysticism, but not affiliated to a specific religious tradition.

An invitation to my dreams and fantasies…

https://facebook.com/livingthecanvas

Born in Cologne, Germany. Studied at Dun Laogharie School of Art and Design, (IADT) Dublin, Ireland. Currently lives in The Hague (NL) and Berlin (D). Works in the field of: Video, performance, photography, installation and printmaking. Regularly participation in exhibitions and art festivals including : Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South Americas and Africa. During his stay in Asia from 1990-1996 his art visions and art work get influence by Buddhist philosophy and Zen concepts. In 2014 begins to focus on interdisciplinary collaboration projects. Since than conducted several collaboration projects among others with solo dancer Tsai Hsing-Ying, Tainan, Taiwan Theater Group DFT, St. Petersburg, Russia and with dancer Jana Schmück, tanzART, Bautzen, Germany,

https://www.johannesgerard.com
https://www.facebook.com/johannes.gerard3

In terms of a really practicing Buddhist, such going regularly to a temple I have to answer no. However I believe in the philosophy of the Buddhism and try to live after it but without following a certain school. As well I have a small altar in my house. If I go to a temple from time to time it is the He Hua Tempel (Mahayana) in Amsterdam, Netherlands or Fo-Guang-Shan Temple in Berlin, Germany

John Vo is a working artist that paints to connect to people. Through classes and workshops they create space to explore different processes for art making. In their studio practice they could be described as a materialist, sourcing textiles with a story and origin. Their latest works are on Cone denim and Vietnamese silk and explores Vo’s family narrative as a poetic understanding of history in development.

https://www.byjohnvo.com
https://www.instagram.com/by_johnvo

I am a Buddhist. The tradition I am more inclined towards is Mahayana.

Shikha Baheti Lohia is an emerging artist from Hyderabad, India making predominantly achromatic drawings in pen and ink on paper under the pseudonym Kalam Dhari meaning ‘Pen Wielder’ in Hindi. Shikha's drawings are in a way a dated journal, acting as a visual synopsis of her musings and tenets about facets of nature that are not just aesthetic but existential. Apart from the evident aesthete, nature for her is about survival, hunger, the circle of dying and living again. She looks beyond the stereotypical visualization of plant life and emphasizes the underlying biology. What captures her imagination is the very life force that creates and connects all elements in nature and everything derived from it; deeming all materials, compounds, flora and fauna equal and alive.

Her use of black ink is inspired not only by her education background in architecture but she uses black ink also because as colors black and white are all encompassing and in her opinion are the most pure, humble and true colors.

www.shikhabaheti.com

http://www.instagram.com/kalam_dhari

I am born in a Hindu family. I am not a religious person per se.

Creative expression has always been my focus. In the past as a musician, today primarily as a visual artist, I invent my very own (image) language. My modern, poppy artworks often deal with spiritual and psychological themes.When an area occupies me more deeply, I create multi- parted series. In bigger terms of content, I am also concerned with the zeitgeist, as well as people in their development, different types of society (and their specific forms of living/ psychological profiles), the belief in something higher than the small humanity can be, and the - nevertheless- enormous abilities of the human spirit.
What drives us in life, how does the un(sub)conscious influence our actions and reactions? Can we make our own decisions, or are we more like remote-controlled ants, running around this planet? Can we be creators in this world- and how to deal with the special issues of the time and sphere we live in? I devote myself to these questions in international art projects and my artworks.Technically, my works -mainly acrylic paintings, but also 3 D-installations out of varried materials and clay modelled figuratives- are compositions in 2 main directions - figurative and geometric-abstract. My penchant for drawing comics can be seen in the figurative, sometimes humorous works. As a person and artist, I always strive for development and growth and like to work with different experimental materials, such as upcycling, and to try out new forms of expression.
Im working as a professional visual artist since 2016, before i was a fulltime musician then my creativity suddenly changed the way of expression.

https://www.instagram.com/kunstundklartext/ https://www.kunstundklartext.de/

I believe that it makes a difference how we live. We are pure consciousness and have the chance to take a higher perspective and decide in many ways - "what are my values, who do I want to be?" I think everything is interconnected and so every decision has consequences. (- Karma, you reap what you plant.) But I don't think it's a judging God who punishes and rewards, but our own parts want to have certain experiences to evolve and just find out what they want to embody. And in the grand scheme of things there is always balance - if there is a lot of poverty on one side, there must be a lot of wealth elsewhere. Unfortunately, the distribution in our time is very unjust, and the balance between humans and nature has also been shaken by many stupid decisions. Now it is all the more time for each individual to ask himself this question - who do I want to be? I believe that we have the choice and that the primal essence, call it God, Buddha, Allah or whatever, wants our best. But the responsibility lies with us.

https://www.instagram.com/kazmiermaslanka http://www.kazmaslanka.com

I am a practitioner of Korean Seon (Zen) and a student of Hyon Gak Sunim

"My name is Lim Yu Cheng, I am 9 years old. This is my painting of a scenery of lotuses in a pond at dawn. The water is undisturbed and there is a slight mist surrounding the pond. I enjoy the peace and calm feeling from this lotus pond scenery. I hope it will be helpful for anyone who needs a reminder to breathe deep and find stillness in our hectic life.

https://www.instagram.com/szeweithegreat

I started working with Procreate - an iPad app, about a year ago, to express some of the visions I've seen. Had to learn a lot - it's been great fun, very enjoyable.

http://www.tybeedigital.art

I’ am raised as a protestant Christian. In the beginning that was also not being open to other religions but as I grew older luckyly that changed. Good for me cause I had so many questions especially when I discovered other religions and believes.

During my first big trip abroad long ago, with my by then boyfriend (now my husband for 35 years). We met some Buddhist monks in Thailand who took us on a journey for 3 days visiting some monasteries and that meeting made a life long impression.

For my project about silence I studied the book silence by Thich Nhat Hanh for a year to prepare for not speaking 6 days. Since then I follow a lot of the now available online information from Plum village. At the moment the podcast ;The way out is in.

I hope my work reflects a little bit what these meeting with buddhist ment to me and by sending it to you I hope to be able to share it with more people.

Little side note I live in the Netherlands but I have a multicultural background, and my father and grandmother are born in Indonesia

https://www.instagram.com/portfolioliprints/

Yinghan is a Singaporean art practitioner with a multi-disciplinary arts background. She holds a Diploma in Western Painting from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and a BFA(Hons) Degree in Digital Animation from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and was a digital visual effects artist working on feature films for over a decade. From a young age, Yinghan has been deeply touched by the teachings of the Buddha. She is particularly interested in the Buddhist teachings on impermanence and emptiness/ interconnectedness of all phenomena, and is deeply inspired by the teachings on mindfulness by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Lately, she has been exploring the healing effect of mindfulness and intuitive art-making, which she feels could provide solace and possibly inspire solutions in a modern life that is filled with challenges and uncertainty

Yes I'm a Buddhist. I'm inclined to the Mahayana tradition in particular to the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

My name is Lucy, I am an independent artist and illustrator currently living in Singapore. I always loved drawing from a very early age. If I wasn't climbing up trees or going on expeditions with a bag full of jars to collect different bugs, I was drawing. I was convinced by everyone around me that I could not make a living as an artist so I went on to study Corporate Law followed by a Master of Fashion and Luxury Business Management with a focus on sustainability and abandoned art for most of my college years. In 2013 I started experimenting with spray paint, pencils, and acrylics again. At around 2015 I created an Instagram account just for fun and to keep me motivated to draw each day. Today I have developed a keen interest in illustration and have taken my art on a digital journey, having illustrated a number of children’s books.

https://Www.atlucys.com
https://www.instagram.com/at_lucys

I am not a Buddhist but developed a keen interest in the last 10 years, which has led ,me to doing my own study and having a regular Shamatha meditation practice as well as loving kindness meditations. I have also done a few retreats in Dzogchen Beara Tibetan Buddhist centre in Ireland where I used to live. In summary I have not grown up a Buddhist but I have grown to relate Buddhism the most spiritually and philosophically.

I am Mariana, 22 years old and a recent graduate in Fine Arts and Multimedia. Since very early I realized that my path is art and until this moment I have always studied it. I not only have a passion for manual and digital drawing, but also for photography, illustration and design.

https://www.instagram.com/monteirostudioo/ https://marianamonteiro.portfoliobox.net

I consider religion to be a very intimate part of each person. I believe in the universe, energies, and destiny. I respect all religions, however the way I identify myself best is this way.

Michael Cu Fua (b. 1970, Philippines) is a Singaporean artist, his artistic philosophy is influenced by wabi-sabi, it is the acceptance of flaws in life and recognizing them as beautiful, it's also an appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.
Fua had solo exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Manila, and Singapore. His artworks are in private collections in Asia, Europe, and the USA.

""Clarity and Mindfulness"" series
Artist's statement
I admired the voice of this book ""Fragrant Palm Leaves - Journals 1962 - 1966"" by Thich Nhat Hanh, a four-year diary entry of a Vietnamese Buddist Monk and a peace activist, during his years as a student and teaching assistant at Princeton and Columbia University. A lot of the reminiscence writing was about ""Fragrant Palm Leaves"" a retreat space established by him and his friends in the forest, and also his observances in the US during his exile.
A beautiful empathetic read, one need not be a Buddhist to enjoy this book, just be in the ""Mindfulness"" realm, it is full of beauty, wisdom, and poetry.
This series is also inspired by ""Ensō"" a sacred symbol in Zen Buddhism meaning circle, or sometimes, circle of togetherness. It is traditionally drawn using only one brushstroke as a meditative practice in letting go of the mind and allowing the body to create, as the singular brushstroke allows for no modifications, these are the reasons why I created this series.

https://www.cufua.com
https://www.instagram.com/cufuamichael
https://www.facebook.com/cufua

I am an atheist. But I admire the practice and Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings.

Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.

I make art under the pseudonym 'Michelle Exhales' because I am a psychologist in my ""day job"". Creating and viewing art continues to be one of my passions. I've been making art since ... forever ... but officially started with a community college course in ceramics in 2001. I have presented solo art exhibitions, curated exhibitions, participated in group shows and contributed to the Sydney art community. My regular and improvisational art practice currently includes drawing, painting, installation, ceramics, photography and experimenting with many different mediums in response to a creative prompt. I also run a tiny exhibition space known as 'Nix Gallery' and support people's creativity as a coach at 'Creative Conversations'. I am a contemplative artist in that I make art as a meditation, for reflection, an act of kindness, as a prayer, and as a way of investigating and understanding my own nature and the nature of the cosmos. And just for the fun and joy of it! I am a contemporary artist in that I completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. We cannot help but interpret and shape information that we receive through the senses in terms of ideas, our passions, and our psyche, and this is what I am investigating and expressing through my practice.

https://www.instagram.com/michelle.exhales/
https://michelle-exhales.com/

Myrthe Biesheuvel is a visual artist born and raised in The Netherlands. She studied for a BFA with a concentration in Painting at the University of North Carolina Charlotte in the USA and got a diploma in Classical Painting and Drawing Techniques at the Wackers academie in Amsterdam. Myrthe currently lives and works in Singapore. In August 2021 she had her first solo exhibition, Dreamscapes, at the Gillman Barracks in Singapore.

Myrthe uses all kinds of mediums but oil paint is her favourite: 'I love the tactile quality and the directness of paint. In a world where we spend many hours a day on our phones and computer, it is liberating to use other senses like smell and touch and soothing to focus on one image for a longer period of time.'

https://www.myrthebiesheuvel.com
https://www.instagram.com/myrthe_biesheuvel

I don't consider myself to be a Buddhist but read about Buddhism and have always feel attracted to it.
Please tell us more about your faith?That is a hard question. I guess I'm still trying to figure this out. I'm interested in the development of the (spiritual) self and the idea of overall interconnectedness strongly speaks to me.

It has become customary for me to speak from a female face. Draw and explain the feelings that I wanted to express. Or vice versa - first feel, and then draw. Creating an alter ego, especially if it is of the opposite sex, makes it possible to stretch your feelings and develop empathy. It becomes a good way to become a little more tolerant in a world in which hostility and violence are growing like a snowball.

When I draw, I pass through a woman's story, there is not only fear, pain or despair, but also desires, hopes, light. A journey into another image as a chance to live a second life when everyone is content with one.

https://artsillustrated.com/oleg-khe-artist/

https://www.instagram.com/kheoleg/

After all, I am closer to Buddhism. And I really like yoga.

Ow Yeong Wai Kit is an educator who has edited four poetry anthologies, including the nature poetry anthology From Walden to Woodlands. Formerly the president of the NUS Buddhist Society, he serves as youth committee head of Poh Ming Tse Temple. He holds an MA from University College London, and he is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth in Education Award by the Ministry of Education. A founding board member of the Centre for Interfaith Understanding, he serves as an interfaith harmony advocate in the Holland-Bukit Timah Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circle (IRCC).

https://www.owyeongwaikit.org

I am a cardiologist working in Mumbai and self driven artist . I started painting 2 years back and they are reflections of my soul

Humanism

Art Bio:
Teck Ee, who holds a bachelor degree in architecture and a master in social sciences, has participated in local and overseas exhibitions organised by the Singapore Art Society, Modern Art Society, and other corporate organisations. His works received awards, certificates of distinction and highly commendations such as UOB Painting of the Year, Philippe Charriol Foundation Contemporary Art Competition, Phillip Morris Art Competition, Singapore Telecom Expression in Art Competition, Defence Art Competition and Dr Tan Tsze Chor Western Art Competition. His works are also among the collections of local Institutions and Corporations.

Artist Statement:
Our society is characterized with increasing sense of disaffection and disorientation which tends to negate anything that is old and obsolete in pursue of sensory pleasures and in the name of ‘progress’…
As a result, we are gradually becoming less aware of the value and subconscious influence of internalized references.

I endeavour to re-connect viewers to such inherent internalized references through distancing by de-familiarizing the past through alienation effect by altering the familiar symbols, natural phenomenon and others. Thus, creating a fresh perception by the use of material, texture, expressions; and reconstructing our subliminal mind by transforming the experiences.

Terry Murray is an Associate Professor Emeritus at SUNY New Paltz who taught in the Humanistic/ Multicultural Education Program full and part time for 35 years. Over the past 15 years, his research and writing interests have focused on self-knowledge development, contemplative practices in teaching and learning, and the integration of contemplative education and social justice/equity work. In his retirement, Terry and his wife have taught for a month each year from 2028 to 2020 in Chongqing, China as part of a SUNY New Paltz education partnership program.

Terry has worked to integrate contemplative and mindfulness philosophies and practices in teaching a range of graduate and undergraduate course courses, and has collaborated with colleagues across the U.S. to establish mindful communities on college and university campuses. He is a co-founder of the SUNY New Paltz Faculty/Staff Contemplative Group , which is now in its tenth year, and an active member of the Budding Flower Sangha in Thich Nhat Hahn’s tradition.

In addition to his work as a college professor, over the past 45 years Terry has facilitated workshops regionally and nationally around a broad range of topics and with a wide range of groups.

A practicing artist and labyrinth designer, Terry’s paintings and sculptural pieces have been exhibited throughout the Hudson Valley. He has designed and constructed labyrinths at the Heritage Middle School in New Windsor New York and the Cornwall Grail Center in Cornwall New York.

www.creativepilgrimjourney.com

Jennifer Teo is a cultural worker who works primarily as an artist and curator. She considers herself a global citizen, and enjoys living and working in multiple cities around the world. She has a wide interest in socio-cultural issues, particularly those related to care, climate, community, feminism, food, knowledge, and spirituality.

http://acidiq.wordpress.com

She grew up in a Mahayana Buddhist family, but didn’t take it seriously until 2019 when she took the Chenrezig Initiation by HH the Dalai Lama.

I came into the arts in search of a better way to live and consider my endeavours as part of my research process.

As an extension of my art practice, my curatorial and community art initiatives present speculations on inter-relatedness and pluralism. They are typically organic social experiments that test ideas about liberty and inclusivity through dynamic collaborations. These projects have a spontaneous, ground-up sensibility, and culminate as alternative exhibitions, like publications or websites.

I go by different names but usually meekfreak / Lee Ju-Lyn.

https://meekfreak.com
https://www.instagram.com/meekfreak
https://www.facebook.com/meekfreak

Yes, I am Buddhist, inclining towards Theravada Thai Forest tradition.

Ong Xiao Yun is an artist based in Singapore, trained in both Fine Arts and Buddhist Studies. She is the cofounder of Artists Caravan, an arts collective in Singapore.

http://ongxiaoyun.com
https://www.instagram.com/ong.xiaoyun/

She is a Buddhist and has volunteered with different Buddhist organisations in Singapore. She loves and treasures pilgrim trips and time spend with her kalyanamitta.

T. Shuxia or Tai Shuxia is a Singaporean artist and illustrator. She works with various mediums and is presently exploring storytelling through art. Prior to embarking on a new career in art and illustration, she did research in art education at NIE, NTU and was a manager for her family’s dental business. Shuxia has a multidisciplinary background in cultural studies, community arts and graphic design.

https://www.tshuxia.com/

https://www.instagram.com/t.shuxia/

Shuxia was brought up in a Tibetan Buddhist family. While she was influenced by Buddhism, she didn’t study or practiced it in earnest. In her twenties she began reading up on non-violent resistance for her studies in community arts and came upon Satish Kumar’s book “You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence” and Thich Naht Hanh’s “Love In Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”. From then on, she became more interested in Buddhist philosophy and tries to meditate more often.