Lauren Catalina is a woman who has an open spirit and enjoys being of service to her community.
She is an AfroLatina and native of California, a heart healer and visionary artist. She has her mother to thank for her artistic DNA and her grandmothers to thank for her connection to Spirit. You might find her doing a variety of things that most others stray away from; midwifing the birthing, the dying, administering Reiki, hosting Red Tents, and creating ceremonies for her beloveds. She considers herself a Sacred Artist, providing a safe space in which others can be held; free from worry or judgement. This is her gift.
Travel, creativity, shamanism and the arts are her lifeline and sacred work. The blank canvas is her portal into the quantum realm where she prays in paint, allowing her Muse to create. She paints the Divine Feminine that comes through the paintbrush over abstract layers of bold colors and symbology. Her passion and purpose as an Artist, are to teach, listen, share story, live in the moment, and embrace being human in all its facets, shades and colors.
As a member of the African diaspora, she is humbled and honored to share what comes through her representations of Black Women As Goddess.
Artist Statement
Lauren’s first acrylic painting, as a teenager, was inspired by a photo in National Geographic. It was of an Indigenous African person standing on one leg with a stick, at sunset. It was graded poorly by her art teacher, devastated, she forgot about it and herself as an artist.
Many years later, guided by her ancestors she studied and practiced shamanism. She created beautiful pieces of art with her hands; drums, baskets, altars and finally she added the canvas and paintbrush to her medicine basket. At the end of her training, by divine providence, her original high school art piece was given back to her as a gift.
Today she finds inspiration from life, trees, nature, and current happenings in the world. She makes marks and adds dots, along with prayers, words, and symbols often unseen. Finally a woman emerges out from the underpainting and boldly, lays witness to God.
