‘CREATRIX, Oil on canvas, 2019

‘THOTH HERMES‘, Oil on canvas, 2017

Martina Hoffmann

A world citizen, who has lived amongst various cultures since her childhood in West Africa. A traveler between many worlds, her paintings are portals into other realms and offers the viewer a detailed glimpse into her inner landscapes - imagery that has been inspired by various expanded states of consciousness such as the dream state, meditation, and shamanic journeys in the Amazonian Rainforest. She studied art education with Professor Kiefer (father of Anselm Kiefer) as well as sculpting with professor Spelmann at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Martina Hoffmann works primarily as a painter. Her interest lies in creating awareness of our global oneness and universal interconnectedness and in portraying the mysterious energy that animates all life. The “Visionary Symbolism” of Martina Hoffmann is decidedly feminine and places the ‘Universal Woman’ in an intimate cosmos. She transcribes her ecstatic experiences but also her reflections on our connection to the ALL in a realistic style which marries the fantastic to the sacred. For 30 years the artist co-created with her late husband, the Fantastic Realist, Robert Venosa, until his departure in 2011. Together, they taught innumerous painting classes on a modern version of the Old Master’s Technique / Misch Technik, as devised by the Brothers’ Van Eyck, at such centers and institutes as Esalen, Omega and CIIS in the US, the Skyros Institute in Greece and internationally in Spain, Brazil, Peru and Portugal. The artist has been a speaker and exhibiting participant at conferences and events such as the 25th ITC - International Transpersonal Conference in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the International Symposium on Altered States of Consciousness at the University of Cuernavaca, Mexico, the Prophets Conference, USA, The Promethean Impulse with Stanislav Grof at the HR Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland, the Women’s Visionary Congress at IONS, USA, The International Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru, Chimeria in France, Burning Man, USA and Boom Festival in Portugal. Her art has been subject to CD, book and magazine covers and she has been published internationally in books such as ‘Modern Consciousness Research and The Understanding of Art’ by Stanislav Grof, ‘The Divine Spark’ by Graham Hancock, ‘Women of Visionary Art’ by David Jay Brown and Rebecca Hill, ‘Feminine Mysticism in Art by Victoria Christian, Lexicon der Phantastischen Künstlerinnen - The International Encyclopedia of the Fantastic, Surrealistic & Symbolist by Gerhard Habarta, et a..Martina Hoffmann has been exhibiting her work since 1985. She is represented in the permanent exhibition of the n‘Naia Museum’ in France and has exhibited at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, France, the HR Giger Museum in Switzerland, the Sainsbury Center for the Visual Arts in the UK and Entheon Museum at CoSM, NY, USA. Her art book, “inner Landscapes’ was first published in 2017.

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‘THE BLESSING’, Oil on canvas 2021

SIRENA’, Oil on canvas, 2024

‘CONTACT II’, Oil on canvas 2024

‘UNIVERSAL MOTHER‘, Oil on canvas, 2015