Margaret Astrid Phanes

Beacon
Margaret Phanes ©01
17" x 11"
Digital Media

Artist's Statement

I have spent 25 years pioneering tools in consciousness and creative
expression. My digital collage combines photographs, computer graphics, and
natural media effects, using animation as a component. I have developed new
forms of digital art as meditation. In the past, my work has contained
archetypal images, but has evolved to express the abstract energetic
elements of the relation between the personal, universal & transcendent. I
continue to explore digital media as an expression of the connection to the
Divine and the soul.

Emanance
Margaret Phanes ©01
17" x 11"
Digital Collage

Evolving Landscape
Margaret Phanes ©99
17" x 11"
Digital Media

Artist's Background

Margaret Astrid Phanes, M.A., MFT, has been an exhibiting artist in
corporate, gallery, and educational venues. As an instructor at UC Extension
at Santa Cruz, she teaches digital photography and computer graphics. She
teaches meditation including digital art presentations. She is a
contributing artist to Collaboration, Journal of the Integral Yoga. Ms.
Phanes is developing a book of her work called The Divine Looking Glass,
Digital Art as Meditation. Her web site http://www.margaretphanes.com
received an award from digitalfinearts.org.

Fire Under Earth
Margaret Phanes ©00
17" x 11"
Digital Collage

2002     Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival,  santacruzdigitalarts.org, Santa Cruz.
2001     The Impact of YLEM, SomArts Gallery,  San Francisco.
2001     Digital & Unusual Photography Exhibit, Synopsys, Aspect Communications, Harmonic.
1999     Digital Visions,   East West Gallery, Mountain View.
1999     Communion,  County Government Center, Santa Cruz.

New Forms
Margaret Phanes ©01
17" x 11"
Digital Collage