Art And Spirituality - which came first? Podcast 🎧 episode

Press & Media

5 Jun

In a new Podcast 🎧 Aligned, Alive & Shining, Emma Mariah Rose Nyman chats with abstract artist Trudie Tara Moulton about art as a spiritual pathway. Does one lead to the other? And if so, which?!

There was a time I kept quiet about where my art really came from.

A Turner Prize-nominated artist once walked into my art studio, glanced at one of my Meditation paintings, admiring the colour gradations and asked about my inspiration.

When I mentioned spirituality and my experiences in India, he sneered, “Art has nothing to do with spirituality.” He went on about Renaissance commissions and commercial motives - completely dismissing the soul of what I do.

And for a moment… I froze.

Back then... I didn’t know how to defend what I already knew to be true, nor was I able to respond with a hypothesis that the majority of religious art was, in fact, inspired by the Divine.

I wasn’t yet able to articulate the truth that every brushstroke, every choice of colour, every moment of creative flow - is a dialogue with something beyond me.

It’s a communion.

It’s a dialogue with something deeper. A co-creation with something bigger than me.

A communication with something sacred.

I’ve had full body goosebumps while painting.

I’ve felt tingling sensations flood down through my crown.

I’ve dropped into a state where the work feels like it’s creating me, not the other way around.

And maybe… You’ve felt it too.

Maybe you’ve painted something and cried, not knowing why.

Maybe you’ve lost time, or come back to yourself feeling somehow… expanded.

Maybe you’ve always known, deep down, that art isn’t just art - it’s a form of remembering.

For so long, artists were told to keep this part quiet.

To make it conceptual. Detached. Cool. To intellectualise what can’t be reached via the mind.

But I’m not interested in performing disconnection to make it fit in.

I make art from soul. From spirit. From the inside out. I am painting the Light of the Soul.

In fact, I recently had a beautiful conversation about this on the Aligned, Alive and Shining podcast with Emma Mariah Rose Nyman in the Episode titled: From Corporate to Creativity: An Artistic Journey.

We talked about art as a spiritual practice, the journey from corporate to creative, and how surrendering to the Muse changed my life.

You can watch the video recording here → https://rumble.com/v6t5x0d-from-corporate-to-creativity-an-artisitc-journey.html