The Art of Illumination
The Illumined Heart, 2024
30 x 30 in. on canvas
Fashioned after the exquisite treasure bindings that cover medieval illuminated manuscripts and designed as a family keepsake, this unique artwork is from The New Book of Kells series.
Created on canvas, with ink, pencil, and natural earth & mineral pigments. It is then adorned with Swarovski crystals, recycled metals and ethically sourced gemstones, and gold leaf.
The Artist’s Journey
“Love is a bridge to everything.”
For visionary Aquarian artist Michael Green, the artist’s journey is also a soul journey—a lifelong exploration of this line from the poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, the 13th c. Sufi mystic.
Green's multi-media artwork is both visually stunning and significant. It spans multiple genres from the first book created on a personal computer (Zen and the Art of the Macintosh) to art for The Illuminated Rumi and The Illuminated Hafiz, created with Coleman Barks and Robert Bly. His original fine art can transport a viewer to a medieval Celtic monastery in his New Book of Kells series, the mystical forest of the unicorn in art for his book Unicornis, or into a sustainable future, where people are living in what he calls The Afterculture.
American Visionary Art Museum Exhibit
Healing and the Art of Compassion
(and the Lack Thereof!)
Oct. 9, 2021 - Sep. 4, 2022
RECENT BOOKS
Love Poems for the Journey to Light
translations by Coleman Barks,
Robert Bly, Meher Baba,
Peter Brooks,
foreword by Omid Safi, and essays by Jonathan Granoff
Sounds True, 2019
