About The Artist
Marina Petro
I maintain my studio and gallery at my country home in Saratoga Springs, NY.
I am a self-taught artist, clairvoyant, and teach intuitive painting workshops and intuition and psychic development workshops.
My passion for painting was ignited when I held the first crayon in my two year old hand. I was born in Washington Heights, NYC and grew up in Astoria, NY. Although my high school teachers urged me to pursue an education in art, I was resistant to any form of authority and left school to pursue 'life' on my 16th birthday.
At 18, armed with exceptional secretarial skills, I was hired as secretary to the Research Director at the Marblette Corp. in LIC, NY where I met my husband who was also a psychic. My marriage produced three beautiful daughters--and many adventures. I continued to develop my painting, on my own, through the many challenges.
In 1977 I discovered a highly developed psychic/intuitive capacity and began my career as an intuitive consultant to individuals, healing arts professionals, and businesses. I now have a national and international clientele.
Much of my artwork is painted spontaneously and intuitively, without preconceived ideas. I 'let the spirit move me.' I am currently exploring a new style of painting The Zone Series, which is a radical change from my earlier work.
In 2007 I joined The Daily Painters movement or, "A Painting A Day." We are a group of artists worldwide who typically paint one small painting (almost) daily and post it at our painting blogs for sale.
My paintings and prints are in private collections all over the world.
"I work primarily with oil on canvas. The "Zone" paintings are rendered with acrylic and gouache. My paintings range from visionary and cosmic landscapes to more realistic florals, abstract/outsider art, still life and landscapes. I've developed an exclusive line of greeting cards and fine art prints of my original paintings. They are available above in my Visionary Art Gallery and in a variety of shops, galleries and boutiques nationwide. I've recently become affiliated with ImageKind where most of my paintings are available as high quality reproductions on paper and canvas.
Artist Statement
I am driven by an insatiable passion to create. Art enables us to glimpse and experience Divine Manifestation. The "Great Creator" continuing the spirit of creation through the world's artists. Painting, and the inescapable force which impels and flows through me, is my essential link to the sacred.
The majority of my paintings are created through my imagination. Painting from my inner world demands existing in the moment--responding to impulses and impressions as they arise and seek external life. My still life pieces and more realistic landscapes and florals are painted from life. This provides the dynamic of a visual reference point in the external world--a radically different experience. One is my internal, spiritual world brought forth into visibility. The other brings the external world into, and through me, for expression. Each is a great adventure, providing unlimited possibilities for creative expression and discovery.
Personally, I perceive my attempts at art to lay in vain, in light of what I know is possible to express. So, I continue to paint. Each work, always incomplete, never quite fully expressing what I sense is possible. But, I am driven to continue to extend myself--to go beyond where I have been--to practice--to unfold--to stay open and alert--aspiring to the masterpiece that may some day come close to expressing the inexpressible.
