Last Friday’s ARTScrawl led me to Old Town where I met angel artist, Jo Diane Kasper at Bright Rain Gallery. As the featured artist of the month, Jo’s mystical combinations of oils, pastels and watercolors filled an entire wall at the gallery. Each of her paintings are beautifully framed to accentuate the haunting subtlety of spirituality that runs throughout all of her artwork.
Jo grew up in the mountains of Arizona, studied fine art and photographic art at Arizona State University and the University of Iowa. She lived in New York City for many years working in fine art photography and exploring several fields including horticulture. Jo returned to the Southwest in 1997 and made New Mexico her home.
Growing up in Arizona gave Jo a deep love and appreciation for the subtle and often mysterious beauty of the land and the ancient places of the Southwest. Her angel paintings, watercolors, sepias, and oil paintings of these ancient ruins and sacred places capture the divine and mystical connections between Spirit, Nature, and Humans. Her paintings reflect these connections in a transcendent impressionistic technique; evoking a sense of the precious and eternal oneness of the universe in which we live.
Along with being an angel artist, Jo is also an angel reader. Her gifts include dream interpretation, animal communication, situational assessments and counseling with extended personal sessions of guidance in ongoing life experiences as well as business. Her understanding is that we are all connected to each other, to our planet and to our universe. She believes that the divine energy of Spirit flows through all that is. Jo's specialty is her angel reading and pastel, in which she combines an Angelic psychic reading with a pastel drawing of the Guardian Angel she "sees" with the client.
Jo Diane Kasper’s art show will hang through April 30th, at Bright Rain Gallery located in Old Town’s Patio Market, 206 1/2 San Felipe NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, (505) 843-9176, www.brightraingallery.com
