DESTIG Magazine - End of 2019 Special Edition

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"A move towards greater intention creates consciousness because the one creating considers all aspects of their creation."

Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure!

You have said that you have always felt you were

A renaissance woman who communicates her

here to serve... how has that informed your art?

philosophy through painting, storytelling and

I have been creating art since I was young as I was

illustrations. For 25 years she has dedicated her soul

raised in an artistic family. Almost everyone was

work to the practice of creativity as a path of

making art, we come from 4 generations of creatives.

transformation and consciousness.

Growing up, art was my refuge, my way of hiding out, and also a place where I felt I could truly be myself.

As a gallery owner, she has represented her own

I started writing poetry and spent lots of time drawing

work, as well as hundreds of women artists.

as a young girl and never stopped. When I graduated

She owns and operates two galleries and a school in

high school I went to art college, because that is what I

Northern California and online. Her paintings are

thought I wanted to be when I grew up. What I didn’t

widely collected around the world.

know is that for me, I didn’t need to go to art school to be an artist, I already was an artist. I stayed in college a

Her message of ‘creating with intention’ has reached

few years and often felt that what they were teaching

tens of thousands, and for some programs, reaches

me wasn’t the art that I wanted to make. The art was

upwards of 500 enrolled students online per month.

inside of me, not something I copied outside. I don’t

Her work is taught in university MA / Phd programs,

recall them mentioning, dreams and imagination, it

the United Nations, and by over 300 Intentional

was more about rendering, and duplicating and skill.

Creativity® Teachers and Coaches.

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