About the Artist - Raphaella Vaisseau
Healthful Living's Reality Sandwich on San Francisco's KPOO 89.5FM, Thursday June 8, 2006 (55 minutes)
Thanks to a teacher in Duluth, Minnesota, who believed Raphaella already was an artist
and told her so, Raphaella painted her first work of art in Kindergarten at five years old.
(In the photo below, Raphaella is in the front row,
third from the right; the large mural behind the class is entirely her own.)
Even so, Raphaella didn't officially take up art
until much later in life, in 1981. Since then, she has consistently
sold her work to collectors around the world. She has been supporting herself with art since 1997 when
she left Los Angeles for Southern Oregon to pursue living her dreams. She later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and opened her first Heartful Art Gallery in Sausalito in 2001.
Born a Norwegian in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1984 she embraced an artist name, Raphaella Vaisseau. Always in love with everything French, she picked the surname “Vaisseau” to more fully express her intention to be “a vessel of Light through which she could express her inner essence: heaven to earth, earth to heaven, people to people, heart to heart.”
In her art, color is her specialty and her love. “I interpret the magic of the natural world, and all things and beings in it, as if I were looking through a crystal portal from another dimension - a dimension where color exists as an end in itself and thereby is a vehicle for transformation.”
In 1991, Raphaella started her commercial art business. Through Heartful Art products with words and quotes, she offers countless opportunities for people everywhere to honor, respect and love each other and themselves, and to embrace and celebrate the diversity within and among us. She offers words and images to express beauty, sincerity, and love between people and all living things. Heartful Art is about “assisting people everywhere to empower themselves and others.”
Raphaella now resides in Asheville, North Carolina and has a gallery in the River Arts District at #104 Riverview Station on 191 Lyman Street. Raphaella's art is archived in the American Folk Art Museum in NYC and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
Washington D.C., and her Heartful Art is available in gift stores and collections throughout the US. Nevertheless, you're welcome to shop right here in our on-line store
from wherever you are in the world.
If you don't find what you're looking for, e-mail Raphaella at
web-rv@heartfulart.com.
Once again, thank you for supporting Heartful Art, yourselves, and each other. Peace.
It may not be reproduced in total or in part without her express written permission.
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