Art by Ani

Ani was told that she drowned when she was 2 years old.  She’s been an optimist ever since.  Her mother was wonderful!  She modeled healthy body awareness and the honoring of sensuality and femininity.

Growing up in West Virginia, Ani loved the physical things - being outside in nature, running, climbing trees and touch. 

After being a kindergarten teacher and a mother for many years in Atlanta, GA, she took watercolor classes in ’94 but then turned her attention to becoming a massage therapist.  There she was introduced to the concept of the human energy fields – of chakras, auras and frequencies of vibrations.  She took three levels of Reiki and began to incorporate these into her massage practice.  She then began holding the awareness of them during her sexual play.  She began to feel the flow of Reiki energies, or the Divine Flow, like liquid electricity while being intimate.  She studied Tantra and Sacred Sexuality.  The artwork of Alex Grey inspired her to try to paint these energies.

In the year 2000 when she turned 50, she began to paint again - figurative subjects in watercolors showing the energies and Light. She completed three levels of the Priestess Process (www.goddessontheloose.com) and emerged as a Shamanic High Priestess and an ordained minister.

Ani learned to make Ukrainian Pysanky eggs while being a Girl Scout leader in the ‘90’s and has continued practicing and teaching this wonderful art.  She calls them Forgiveness Eggs with the motto that should one break (it is an eggshell, after all), to “Let your second thought be Forgiveness!”

In 2004 she left Atlanta and began painting landscapes in oils on Maui.  She spent two years there and then two years in Hood River, OR and now her home is in Eugene, OR.  Her work is shown in the New Zone Artists’ Cooperative, Emerald Art Center in Springfield, OR, Forever Art in Portland and Collage of the Gorge in White Salmon, WA.

 Priestess Anela

See her other website: www.globalorgasm.org

I love beauty.  I seek peace.  I intend love.  I live truth.

I paint from my heart.