From: Heaven to Earth Art- Bridging Heaven and Earth Art Project- Other Artists' Interpretations of Heaven

Artist:		Marina Petro
Painting Name:		"Heaven's Bridge"
Medium:		Original Oil on Standard 3/4" Stretched Canvas, Painted On All Sides
Size:		11" x 14" (unframed)
Artist Location:		Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Artist Web Site:		http://www.MarinaPetro.com
Price:		$ 599.00 (framed)

Marina talks about "Heaven's Bridge" 

My passion for painting was ignited when I held the first crayon in my two year old hand. I am primarily a self-taught artist, clairvoyant, and present workshops in Intuitive Painting and Intuitive Development. 

I work primarily with oil on canvas, however, my bold, colorful and more abstract intuitive paintings from "The Zone" are rendered with acrylic and mixed water media on canvas. Paintings range from visionary and cosmic art to realistic landscapes, still life and abstract works. I've created a line of greeting cards and fine art reproductions of my original artwork.
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 each piece as it is created at our daily painting blogs for sale.
In 2008 I was invited to participate in the international "Bridging Heaven & Earth" project. This is a collaboration of artists all over the world creating a work of art with the theme of bridging heaven and earth. It is considered a world-wide energy amplifying process, using art and the collective energies of many, to bring more light and love into this world.
My artwork has been used to illustrate magazine articles, music CD covers, wine bottles, business stationery, and featured in a variety of publications and national magazines. My paintings and prints are in private collections all over the world.
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 and to my soul.
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 or photographs. 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 discovery.
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 beauty of the world we can see and the worlds just hidden from view.