Amanda Sage

Born 1978 in Denver, Colorado Amanda Sage is an artist using her painting as a tool for spiritual and planetary growth and transformation. Her paintings represent multidimensional aspects of humanness in harmonious balance, inspiring a re-membering of an energetic inter-connectedness that is present and shared with all things.

In 1997 she apprenticed for 2 years in classical painting techniques with Michael Fuchs in Vienna Austria. This led to becoming a painting assistant to Ernst Fuchs, founder of Fantastic Realism, for 10 years while developing her own style and portfolio as a resident artist at the culture house WUK in Vienna.

Since 2009 she has been based in Los Angeles and influential in networking artists and initiatives while hosting workshops, lecturing and exhibiting world wide. Her work is mostly in private collections with some pieces also in the permanent collection of the Kirkland Museum in Denver, Colorado.

Today we welcome her as we explore the intersection of consciousness, psychedelics, and creativity! 

QUOTES: 

“I just spoke to my high school art teacher whose a Japanese ‘fantastic realist’, which was my first entry into seeing psychedelic inspired work, which one of my later mentors started, named Ernst Fuchs, whose work is very entheogen influenced”

“I learned how really wield the brush, like an instrument, by practicing until I wasn’t even thinking about it anymore, by letting it just become a reflex, becoming attuned with my instrument” 

“To represent someone, through your own vessel & to show them an aspect of themselves that they weren’t able to see before”

“I’ve had many students who took high doses when they were young which put them in states of like ‘HOLY SHIT’ and we have to unravel that matrix from a different angle”

“Fuchs knew that the clue to help the artist pull out the image from the field of the mystery was by going into these spaces, these mindstates of not knowing. I’d look at his art in this perplexed way, just not knowing how he’d gotten there. It was like he demonstrated a way to listen to the painting, and he was deeply influenced by his entheogen use in the 50’s”

“If you open yourself up to the mystery of spirit, to the Akashic records ha ha, it’ll dance with us, it’ll play with us, and I think this is what happens with art”

“When you catch that wave where you’re totally in sync with your senses & the spirit, you learn how to be adaptive & get beyond the barriers of fear, judgement. You gotta learn how to dance with that weirdness as you collaborate with the divine”

“There’s something about the puzzle, about doing the detective work in figuring out the art I’m making, that’s such an important part of my creative process”

“Most of the psychedelic experiences I’ve had are just SO multi-dimensional, so to try & translate that directly into something tangible in this realm is such a massive thing! So ‘hat’s off’ to artists who’re really able to achieve that, like Alex & Allyson Gray for example”