Mirabai Hayward

I love to sit in front of a blank canvas or paper and start bringing out what I see there. The images just appear and the characters come into life. Sometimes it is form that leads and other times it is color.

Form and color communicate in images that cannot be spoken with words.

I like to create lines that dance and move easily and dynamically creating forms that share beauty and mystery. Art to me is the language of the psyche.

A lot of my images have unfolded from the unseen world of the archetype, the world of fantasy, ideals and spirituality.

A Truth seeker since childhood, I think God is beyond religion, beyond labels and limitations, nevertheless that spirit of the Truth flows wonderfully through some of those beings that have been the focus of traditional religions, higher beings that we know through accounts of their teaching and actions, and that we get to know through our heart.

When I paint angels, I am painting the archetype of what we can all be or can become, what the heart sees.

Some of my angels have swords or a bow and arrows, but I really think the only battle worth winning is the inner battle.

My love for art started when I was a child and used to paint along with my grandfather, who was a classical painter trained at La Sorbonne in Paris.

I learned to paint from watching him. I instinctively knew how to mix colours and how to create all colours from the primary colours.

Aside from paintings, drawings, murals and decorative frescoes, I've worked on printmaking, calligraphy, masks, jewelry, costumes and set design for theatre. My art emerges naturally as an expression of the spirit.

Mirabai Hayward is a fine artist with art in private Canadian, American and international collections as well as many murals in private and public spaces in California.

Mirabai lives with her husband in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, where she paints and does exhibits around the Muskoka area.

If you want to see more Art images as well as Graphic Design and Illustration, please go to my website artbymirabai.com