Spiritual

Esoteric principals are intricately explored and woven throughout Victoria body of work “Mythic Women“. Her recent “The Mystery School of Sophia” intricately explores the rich iconography of The Mystery Schools of ancient cultures as she reinterprets them and brings forth her rich and complex vision for a new generation.

Each painting becomes a form of a mythic journey involving the observation and understanding of nature and human nature. This understanding exists universally in sacred and wisdom stories. It exists within the structure of the art itself. It speaks through the images and iconography she researches and applies. The dualistic ideals for the two pillars that often appear in her works are evident in various world spiritual philosophies. The allusions to Beauty and Strength, Severity and Mercy, Feminine and Masculine, Black and White, active and passive, and other dualistic ideals where most esoteric traditions find the foundation for this Knowledge in regard to the Pillars. - Jamie Forbes, Fine Art Magazine

Mystery School of Sophia
30"w x 48"h // oil on canvas

Sophia, considered the “wisdom’ pillar or Goddess of Wisdom, was honored no less than with the Hagie Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. “Sophia, as the feminine companion to God, symbolizes the womb of creation, which brings forth all life from the sacred marriage of opposing energies: spirit and matter, heaven and earth, intellect and intuition. To know we are creative beings, we must create. Victoria was raised without the familial influence of organized religion and has explored international ethereal and spiritual concepts after a near-death, out of body experience in her early twenties. This experience and her ongoing research continue to influence her works today.

- Jamie Forbes
Fine Art Magazine