"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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