A Creative Year

I hope the new year 2022 will be a good one for all, full of good times, creativity and happiness. As an art educator and working artist of many years, I believe the best way to start the new year is by navigating one's steps into the year. For me, I hope this year to engage my art fans through my vision, my artwork and my art consultation services along with therapeutic art coaching to assist budding artists in their artistic development.

From years of creating and teaching art, I can tell you as an observer and as a professional artist that engaging in a creative activity helps one relax, and facilitates healing in stressful times. 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 and ways of seeing takes place.
Art is beneficial for our brain’s health and functionality. Now especially more than ever, as the world sees more variants of COVID from Delta to the latest wide spread Omicron, people need to find ways to bring calmness into their lives from the continuous toll of bad news that we’ve been subjected to these latest years of living in a pandemic. The pandemic not only affects the health and well being of individuals, but it has also created a downward spiral effect affecting issues such as the economy, higher grocery prices, violence, unemployment and mental health issues. As our humanity is faced by such a deadly disease that continuously puts a damper 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 enjoying 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. 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 currently on view at Park View Gallery till Jan 9, 2022.
Link to the artist's website for the exhibitions' list: www.vianborchert.com
"Dreamscapes" features my latest series of lavender hued paintings depicting cityscapes and some landscapes. With the latest works, 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 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 it 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 at Lichtundfire gallery where one can schedule an appointment with the gallery to view my artwork there.

Link for artwork in NYC: https://www.vianborchert.com/a...

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 visionary seeds 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 that 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 is impactful on the art world and beyond. This is highly interesting, but as we all know the world is more connected than one might think, and is after all a very small place. Companies are watchful of artists’ journeys and are influenced 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 generate such waves in the art-world.

Here is a recent short documentary video that illustrates the artist's art practice and visual poetic artistry and philosophy.

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 upcoming virtual classes: https://www.vianborchert.com/c...