This exhibition was on view January 31 – March 31, 2026
It featured 66 Artists from around the world.
Shown here is some of the artwork from the exhibition.
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Dr. Michael Durst
Through my fractal impressionism, I explore the healing power of color. The flowing patterns mirror nature’s rhythms, while vibrant hues drawn from sea, sky, and earth restore balance and invite calm. Each brushstroke is a meditation, a reminder that color itself carries energy. Inspired by the infinite palette of the natural world, I create art that transforms pain into possibility, offering viewers a pathway to renewal and connection.
To view more of his art visit his website: michaeldurstfineart.com
Anne Morrison Rabe
As a mobile photographer focused on botanical and landscape subjects, I am consistently inspired by the interplay of color—ranging from vivid hues to tranquil shades of green and blue—and their impact on emotional response. Working in natural environments offers me significant restorative benefits, and my hope is for my images to bring that same feeling to the viewer.
To view more of her art visit her website: annemorrisonrabe.photography
Steevie Jane Parks
I paint the colors that I feel and that I see in my mind’s eye and this is a central feature of all of my work. I often daydream about colors and color combinations when I meditate. Later in the day I go into my studio and attempt to recreate what I saw. Of course the paintings change as they go along, but the original impetus for my work is always about color.
To view more of her art visit her website: steeviejaneparks.com
Poul Nielsen
My current work is an expressive response to and celebration of the light and colour that I experience on a daily basis in my unique prairie environment. I am also influenced by the unique colouration of the indigenous Blackfoot and frequent trips to Peru where I observe the high keyed, saturated hues of the indigenous Quechua mountain people. The invisible made visible through the unique and enduring medium of pastel.
To view more of his art visit his website: psnielsen.com
Rebecca Knaggs
I meet the canvas with curiosity, colours a living conversation, vibrant, shimmering, breathing side by side, multitudinous in their knowing. Contrast leans into deep rich darks, while something luminous insists on rising. Textured as shadows, as water, as flesh, I keep moving. Stop trying to see! Intuitive, dappled with doubt and delight. Form emerges, dissolves, abstraction laughs, slips away. Frivolous magentas flirt, heartache crimson bleeds softly, sun-kissed yellow warms. The painting listens, alive, still forming, becoming.
To view more of her art visit her website: wholeheart.com.au
Barbara Brown
Green! The colour of Hope, of Health, of Heart. The healing nature of the colour green both soothes and inspires us, body and soul. And of course in my work—it being all about the forest and the beauty and wonder to be found there—I embrace whole-heartedly the infinite variety of greens. My spirit is nourished daily by their magical capacity to both calm and refresh simultaneously—and I hope you feel that too upon seeing my work.
To view more of her art visit her website: barbarabrownart.com
Tanis Bula
Color is a way to communicate mood and feeling. I like to choose colors from my watercolor palette that enhance the subject and give it excitement. This might be painting the compliment or just more color pigment. I want the painting to come alive and not just be a 2 dimensional painting. I want to see movement in the painting created by the colors dancing around the painting. I love what color can do!
To view more of her art visit her website: tanisbula.com
Rajul Shah
I am an artist whose work merges Kintsugi, chakric symbolism and inquiries into the balance of energy within the human body. Using the aura color of each chakra, I paint layered tonalities, and luminous golden angular lines to hold fragmented structures together. My art is a metaphor for renewal and the reconstruction of brokenness. I document emotional and physical resilience as an evolutionary process considering the limits of medical intervention while affirming an inherent energetic phenomenon in the healing process.
To view more of her art visit her website: rajulshahart.com
Sandra Belitza-Vazquez
The world is a colorful place. I am impressed, moved, and inspired by the hues and tones in nature and strive to capture them in my photographs. From landscapes, florals, wildlife, and portraits to natural abstracts, color, contrast, and form take center stage in my compositions. The contrasting colors and the lights and darks of the subject attract the viewer’s attention, invite calm contemplation, and, hopefully, a measure of joy.
To view more of her art visit her website: sbvaz.com and sandyscan.com
Cindy Lutz Kornet
I cannot imagine a world without color especially serene blue skies and seas. Nor can I imagine a world without all the healing lush greens of nature and the upcoming growing season. Take a moment to think of one color at a time and what seeing it means to you or what feeling it might evoke. I am going to do the same. Yellow sun warm and cheerful I love to feel your kiss upon my skin, you warm me and help uplift my spirits . Purple passion royal, regal and divine. I love you in every shade be you flowers or textiles.
To view more of her art visit her website: artandsoulofcindylutzkornet.com
Kelly Sooter
Color is the anchor of every work of art. It sets the mood while allowing a story to be told. My imagery reflects life’s journey – its hopes, challenges and healing. Whether painting a mountain or desert riverbed, each was created from harsh conditions and gentle rain. Only color can bring those majestic images to life on a simple white canvas so the viewer can see their own life journey portrayed in every brush stroke.
To view more of her art visit her website: kellysooter.com
Mark Weller
Color is the magic that animates my work—whether in the swirling motion of a native dancer or the bold chroma of a sculptural mobile. It reminds me that I am inseparable from nature itself. Through millions of years of evolution, color has trained us to notice, to feel, to respond. It envelops us, speaks without language, and quietly affirms our place within the living world.
To visit more of his art visit his website: time-stacking.com
Janice Phelps Williams
My brain feels a pleasurable, calming sensation when I place certain colors near each other and match them with lyrical lines. It is difficult to describe, but definitely a motivation for drawing as I do. At times, such as in Neptune’s Fantasia where the orange fish are against blue water, a three-dimensional quality pops out as I am working, and I find that beguiling. Color is the spirit of the visual world.
To view more of her art visit her website: janicephelpswilliams.com
Peter N. Van Giesen
It was the daily drama of sunrises and sunsets that captured my attention. The vibrant sky ablaze with different colors delighted my soul and lifted my spirit. Some of the first oil paintings I completed at the age of 11 years old were based on memories of the hours of transition between darkness and light. To this day I celebrate nature’s rhythms and the lesson that all colors easily harmonize in our interconnected world.
To view more of his art visit his website: peternvangiesen.com
Rachael Reuter
Rooted in the belief that colour and form carry an energetic imprint, my artworks treat colour as sacred medicine. Each work contains vibrations which sooth, realign and awaken. Colour becomes a prayer, and healing unfolds gently, beyond words.
To view more of her art visit her website: rachaelreuter.com
Sheila Grabarsky
As a small child I painted a yellow sun into a blue sky and CREATED GREEN! I remain awe-struck at this always-new discovery of color creation and juxtaposition. I wake up excited about what color i will create each day. My mission as an artist is to show the world what color can do!
To view more of her art visit her website: grabarskystudio.com
Gail Bach
Color is energy and I play with both, like playing a musical instrument. I use my intution and feelings for colors needed and use color for healing, color is like food to me, nourishment n provides energy.
To view more of her art visit her website: gailbachart.com
Art and Statements About Color
by Legendary Artists
Claude Monet
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.
Paul Gauguin
Color! What a deep and mysterious language. It is the language of dreams.
Sonia Delaunay
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
Fernand Leger
The craving for color is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Color is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.
Joan Miro
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Marc Chagall
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Georgia O’Keeffe
I found I could say things with colors that I could not say in any other way, things for which I had no words.
Paul Klee
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Wassily Kandinsky
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
Roy Lichenstein
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
A Few Words from Renee Phillips, the Curator
Bring positive, healing artwork into your life!
The power of color is inescapable. Color affects your behavior, moods, and thoughts. Your reactions to colors are often deeply personal and rooted in your own experiences. A certain color has the ability to soothe your frazzled nerves, agitate a hostile adversary, motivate and empower you to take action, and also to bring healing energy when you need it.
As Wassily Kandinsky proclaimed, “Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.”
The curatorial process for “The Healing Power of Color” was extremely challenging and immensely satisfying. The judging criteria included creative originality, technical skill, and the artists’ statements about their use of color.
My final selections were made after visiting all artists’ websites, several times. It was important to choose artists who have been committed to creating a distinctive and cohesive body of artwork.
Please visit the artists’ websites and contact them directly to purchase their artwork.
~ Renée Phillips, Founder and Director, The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS, an initiative of Manhattan Arts International, NYC, NY
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