Leiah Bowden

An Explore Your Spirit with Kala Original! Listen along as visionary artist Leiah Bowden creates a Spiritual Energy Portrait of Kala while she interviews her on her work. The graphic you see here is the finished product that Leiah created of Kala. In this interview, Leiah describes what she sees in Kala's energy fields and chakras.

Lifelong meditator, intuitive artist and visionary, Leiah accesses a realm where our souls are unveiled and, from within a light trance state, creates these spiritual Energy Portraits in pastels as commissioned works of art and healing tools. Each Energy Portrait comes with guidance from the subject's and/or Leiah's higher self or angelic being. In addition to serving as individual tools for healing and personal growth, these remarkable images illustrate the shamanic origin of the crowns, helmets, headresses, and other ritual and costume elements that have come down to us from ancient civilizations.

My best work - whether it's creating paintings, essays or meals - is intuitive. I approach a piece knowing that it already exists somewhere, and what I need to do is to allow it to appear. Something flows through me and out my fingers for which I take only the credit for getting out of the way and knowing how to manage the media. In these moments, I am aware that I am in the altered state of consciousness I call Heaven. I hear - and sometimes sing - beautiful melodies; my left hand (I am right-handed) sometimes flutters or waves with the energy of Faery. Sometimes I am aware of unseen observers and guides. Sometimes I recieve direct, clear, verbal suggestions to use specific colors, to extend a line here or curve a line there. The signature I use on my paintings came to me one winter night after artist friends chided me for not signing my name to my artwork. "You need to sign your work!" they chorused. I felt that my name interfered with the energy flow the painting expressed. Later that night, as I stood ouside on the porch waiting for my dog to return from his errand, I asked All That Is to send me a signature. Immediately I felt and obeyed an urge to lean forward and trace something with my finger in the snow. It was a symbol that felt powerful, grounded, soaring, and mine. And rather than interfering with my work, I feel it seals it the way "Amen" seals a prayer. More at http://www.energyportraits.com