Paris 2019 Charity Art Exhibition

Emma Watkinson
Emma was born on Dartmoor, Devon, May 1, 1973. After completing a Diploma in Fine Art
she spent many years traveling and exploring different cultures, and is now based in Sussex, U.K.
Her inspiration comes principally from her explorations in consciousness and esoteric study. She
practices Druidry, Buddhist meditation, Qigong, Kabbalah, and is interested in Jungian psychology.
Initially self taught, researching classical Academy methods of painting, she assisted Ernst Fuchs
(principle founder of Fantastic Realism in 2012 in Vienna, and trained on courses in oil painting in
Italy, Austria and London. She has exhibited widely at festivals, galleries and museums internationally.
The creation of each piece is a journey, initiated by synchronicity, that becomes an invocation of the
chosen archetype or deity, which yields many insights into the nature of the subject as the painting progresses.
This painting is a reflection upon Kali, the Hindu goddess. Kali means “force of time”, as she pierces the veil
beyond mortality, birth and death. She is known as the dark blue or black one, like the night sky, her darkness
is the void from which everything emerged and will return. She is fierce, the destroyer of evil forces, and cuts
off the root of fear, anger and all negativity in the human ego, symbolized by the demon with the severed head.
Thus she is the great liberator, freeing us with divine knowledge to attain Moksha. Through all her fury, she
is a compassionate goddess, also known as the Divine mother and protector in her creative and preservation aspects.
Pictured here in her 10-armed form as Mahakali, legend has it she was called into being by Durga to defeat
demons in battle. She went so wild with bloodlust that she couldn’t stop raging and started killing the humans and
Gods. So her consort, Shiva, lay beneath her peacefully and the sight of him, her love, calmed her down.
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