Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

Big Sur artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld is a philosopher and evolutionary thinker whose innovative visual art and writing have been used for over twenty years in the fields of human consciousness and creativity.  Born in England , Ms. Kleefeld grew up in Southern California and studied art and psychology at UCLA. In her art, Ms.Kleefeld expresses both the vibrancy of the external world and the inner dimensions and emotional tones of the poet. Her art is in the collections of Ted Turner, Laura Huxley and the Downey Museum of Art, among others.

Over the past two decades, Ms. Kleefeld has crated an extensive and diverse body of visual art, ranging from her earlier large abstract expressionist works to her multidimensional drawings and current figural oil paintings, which evoke the spirit of Romanticism. She translates archetypal worlds into bold explosions of color, sensuality, and spiritual attunement, expressing in symbolic imagery the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic affinity with nature. Ms. Kleefeld paints in a manner that began with the Surrealist, suspending, conscious, pre-conceptions, allowing the intuitive, subconscious realities to manifest. Her art has been featured in galleries, museums, art magazines, and textbooks on art and has been selected for juried exhibitions and awards nationwide.

Fueled by a passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with psychological and spiritual transformation, Ms. Kleefeld is the author of three award-winning poetry books that explore these archetypal themes. They have been used as texts in university classes and have been translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Her most recent book, The Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing Your Personal Mythology, combines her visual art, philosophical prose and poetry. An interview with Ms. Kleefeld was included in the anthology Mavericks of the Mind: Conversations for the New Millennium along with Alan Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other innovative thinkers of our time. Kissing Darkness: Love Poems and Art written in collaboration with David Wayne Dunn, is being published by White Cloud Press and should be available in November, 2002.

Through her expression of universal feelings in an exquisite, vibrant and evocative way, Ms. Kleefeld inspires others to explore their own creative potential. As Ms. Kleefeld says, “Art is love in creation.”

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