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Copyright © 2003 Aline Fourier
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Aline Fourier is a symbolist painter, multimedia artist and writer. She has shown her artwork in galleries in Maine and has been a member of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine and the Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine. Ms. Fourier's works are a translation using movement, color and shape of the exploration of her emotions, dreams and the unconscious. The result is a collection of original paintings that are an evocative combination of abstraction and realism that explore the subtlety of spirit in the natural world. Her paintings are organic and feminine glimpses of life in vivid color or soft pastel that speak of the artist's love of the earth. She is the founder of Creative Response, Inc., whose vision centers on the gathering together of creative persons to work on joint artistic projects that promote beauty and support individual and earth awareness and healing. She has created and produced The Pain Reliever, a healing tape with original music that has been marketed nationally for Hospice and for those persons dealing with pain, physical, emotional or spiritual. For twelve years, Ms. Fourier had a counseling practice in psychospiritual counseling and was the founder of Health Source, a network of health practitioners. She ran support groups for persons dealing with catastrophic illness, as well as grief support groups. Aline Fourier received her Masters Degree in Special Education from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. She completed training in Psychosynthesis Counseling in 1983 and trained in mandala symbolism with Dr. Robert Johnson, author and Jungian therapist. Her background has been quite eclectic, including extensive study in Eastern and Western psychological disciplines and shamanism. Applying this experience, Ms. Fourier has conducted workshops on stress reduction, imagery exploration, meditation and awakening the child who is the spontaneous explorer within us all.She has also taught classes in listening and creating from our inner envisioning. More recently, Ms. Fourier has chosen to concentrate her energies on her creative expressions. She has illustrated her poetry and read at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. She has published prose works in national magazines and established her own self-publishing business through Creative Response, Inc. She is the coauthor, with her son Zachary Burack, of Salt Marsh Reflections, a uniquely-bound book of poetry and photography of the salt marsh where she lived for over 15 years. Salt Marsh Reflections is sold in bookstores throughout Maine as well as nationally. She was co-founder/publisher/designer of the Maine Gallery and Studio Guide, the first statewide guidebook that showcases Maine art, museums, galleries and artists. She has expanded her graphic design work through her business, Creative Media Design, for individuals and businesses desiring promotional materials such as business cards, brochures, websites and advertisements. Aline Fourier recently moved with her husband to a horse farm in Cerrillos, New Mexico, just outside of Santa Fe. For inspiration she overlooks the entire Galisteo basin, the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez and Ortiz Mountains. She shows her art at the Santa Fe Artist Market, plans to run workshops on "creating from within" and is in the process of building her studio/gallery at her home, "La Manera del Corazon" (The Way of the Heart). SHOWS: |