Shamanic Artist Collin Elder

Heliopause

Collin Elder began painting after leaving the realm of ecological conservation, which, along with a degree in wildlife biology, has focused his artwork on our deep and often mysterious connections with the natural world.  Collin sees his work as being a transition from conservation and how we relate to the past, into the redesigning of reality, inspiring a shift in our anthropocentric vantage-point. His paintings reflect a yearning to further pursue the depths of our links with the non-human, and hopefully connect their remembering with the health of our human community. In an effort to evoke a vivid sense of direct experience, Collin paints stories of re-inspiring our reciprocity with the fluid and ever-changing natural landscape. These stories are a reflection of an ancient desire to re-unite our mental concepts with our bodily awareness, grounding them in the living world. The paintings play with the idea of looking through our investigations, classifications, sciences and technologies, into active, subjective participation with an integral, holistic and mysterious ecosystem. You can view his art online at Collinelder.com.