Creative Activation

For the first day of the year, I hope that this new year 2022 will be a good one for all, full of fun, creativity and happiness. As an art educator and professional artist of many years, the best way to start the new year is by navigating your steps into the year. This year, I hope to engage my art fans through my vision, my artwork and my art consultation services along with therapeutic art coaching to help budding artists in their development and artistic growth.

From decades of practicing and teaching art, I can tell you as an observer and as an artist that engaging in a creative activity and hobby helps one relax, and even helps in healing in times of stress. Art is very helpful in setting one’s brain in the right side which is the creative non-analytical side by which much of the creative growth occurs.
Art is beneficial for our brain’s health and functionality. Now especially more then ever, as the world sees more variants of COVID from Delta to the latest wide spread Omicron, people need to relax from the continuous toll of bad news that we’ve been hammered with these latest years of living in a pandemic. The pandemic not only affects the health and well being of individuals, but it also created a spiral negative effect affecting the economy form soaring grocery prices, nationwide violence to unemployment and mental health issues. As our humanity is faced by such a deadly disease that continuously puts a strain on the quality of life, one can’t help but ask oneself, how can I make my life meaningful amid such uncertain times? For me, in this new year besides engaging in simple activities with my loved ones such as playing chess or watching a funny movie, I aim to listen to more music intently while drinking my morning cup of coffee. Music from jazzy tunes of Miles Davies and Duke Ellington to classical symphonies of Beethoven are on my mind for this year. I aspire to let my spirit rise high through these beautiful and melodic notes of such world-class composers and musicians. The past year was eye-opening for me in so many ways. I learned through multiple experiences both positive and negative to embrace and cherish my energy. I’ve had a number of solo art exhibitions from “Escapism” to the ongoing “Dreamscapes” exhibition that currently on view at Park View Gallery in the historic Glen Echo Park. “Dreamscapes” exhibition is ongoing till Jan 8, 2022. Park View Gallery is located at the 2nd floor of the Arcade building which is opposite to the iconic carousel. Also, Park View Gallery is located in the same lobby area of the Glen Echo Registrar’s office. Park View Gallery hours are open every day except for Sundays. Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday: 10AM – 4PM.
Park View Gallery’s address: 7300 Macarthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD 20812
Link to exhibition info: https://www.vianborchert.com/e...
Within the exhibition, one can see my latest series of lavender hued paintings depicting cityscapes and some landscapes. With the latest works in his exhibition, I aimed to present to the world what constitutes a dream, be it looking up at the clouds and dreaming the day away, watching a sunset, or looking up at tall skyscrapers that awaken one’s imagination. The art on view illustrates the snapshots of my visual voyages documenting my life through these paintings. In Dreamscapes, I aspire for the world to return to many feel-good emotions: a return to hope, a return to dream, a return to love, and a return to art.
Beginning of 2021, I had made the conscious decision of exclusively working with the color lavender and its purple hues from periwinkle, to violet and purple. I had made numerous paintings such as my “Lavender Fields” series’ paintings that were on exhibit this past Summer 2021 in Manhattan, NYC. The lavender paintings were inspired by my love for my lavender plants that I had planted in my garden at the onset of COVID which have proven resilient and strong in such times. My lavender plant had inspired me so much that I dedicated its hue to be the source of my paintings in 2021. The paintings with the lavender tones were well received and had been covered in numerous national and international publications and press. Although I’ve been doing art for decades – I observed through social media that the world can be a small village, and what I do in my neck of the woods and in my art studio can have a ripple effect on the art world and beyond. I perhaps unlike many artists prefer to keep a low profile and have guarded my privacy through my creative journey rather than be a social media persona with numerous followers. Even though with all the low key approach, I still see that my artistic choices and inventive vision make trends in the art world. Case in point, my color of choice in 2021 (lavender) seems to have been so inspiring for big companies and corporations that it just was announced as the color of the year for 2022. My art fans have observed this pattern for the past couple of years that the color that I solely choose to work with becomes the color of the following year. Same story with my choice of the color blue which I singularly worked with throughout the year 2019, it become the color of the year for 2020. Such findings are truly amazing and makes me feel that my singular innovative artistic vision can create trends in the art world and beyond. This is highly interesting, but as we all know the world is connected, and is after all a small place. Companies do follow artists’ journeys and are inspired by artists’ choices from their color choice to their themes and subject matters. It is nice to see that what happens in one’s art studio can create such waves in the art-world.

Here is a recent short documentary video that embodies the artist's art practice and philosophy.

For more about the national and international art exhibitions by the artist, visit:

https://www.vianborchert.com/e...

Borchert, will be teaching Winter art classes starting around the end of January. The art classes are virtual via Zoom due to the rise of COVID cases. Through the virtual lessons, art students anywhere in the world can enjoy the art class from the comfort of their own homes. Classes in watercolor painting and drawing are offered this Winter semester.
See link for Borchert’s classes’ offerings:

https://www.vianborchert.com/c...