Margaret Lindsey is a life-long artist, educator, and facilitator, who practices painting and teaching as a means to facilitate the evolution of human consciousness.

Her personal artmaking, regardless of specific subject matter, is always channeled through her body, and intimately twined with the awareness of universal interconnectedness. She is particularly fascinated with the interplay of seeming opposites, such as sky+water, dark+light, as well as the elements, heart-force, life-force, edge, and liminal places. To her, artmaking is like sunlight and breath—it is necessary nourishment for life.

She has studied art, and consciousness, with a number of indigenous teachers and master artists, seeking to heal herself and help heal the human relationship with the earth. She calls this work “remembering forward”—the art of weaving ancient indigenous wisdom from the past into an integrated imagined future. The sacred geometry that appears in her paintings--mandalas in particular--are examples of this process. She utilizes these ancient cosmological maps as tools for centering, for making connections, and for understanding the archetypal forces of our world. The mandalas focus energy, integrate seemingly opposite qualities, and offer a way to meditate with what is.

She shows her acrylic paintings locally, nationally, and internationally, in galleries and community spaces. She recently brought a show of her work to Norway, and is currently working on several projects to help create world change, specifically healing of the earth, using art as the tool.

Her community work focuses on creating and offering events and processes which allow people to engage in practices that can help develop inner consciousness and promote healing, using art as the transformative path. She works with people in many ways: as faculty in the Art & Consciousness Department at JFK University, Berkeley and at Notre Dame High School Belmont; as a teacher and guide in expressive art and healing workshops; as a collaborator with other artists; and as a coach and mentor to individuals and teens. She is a native of northern California, and lives in the Bay Area, teaching locally and wherever else such work arises.

She has always spent much time outside, painting under the sky whenever possible.

Margaret Lindsey can be reached at 650.787.5531

and by email: margaret@artransforms.com.

Her website: Artransforms.com