NJ Artist Michelle Romanelli Paints Toward the Light

DAILY RECORD

Artist painting for exhibition

NEW JERSEY - Celestial light and poetry are all Michelle Lukasiewicz Romanelli needs to start painting a new image for her ongoing impressionist "Light Source" series. Romanelli, who trained at the duCret School of Art in Plainfield said, "Everything in the paintings is growing toward the light. Call it God, nature, light, sun, source, unconditional love. Call it what you will. Without it, there is no growth." Romanelli has original "Light Source" paintings showing through Thursday at the Center for Spiritual Living in Morristown and prints at The Art of the Heart in Chester. The mystical message of each painting is expanded with the addition of a sentence. For instance, a painting entitled "Moon Delight" is accompanied by: " "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.' — Lennon, McCartney." She gathers the sentences from her studies in Science of Mind, Buddhism and Taoism as well as from classical and modern songs and poetry. Romanelli also teaches how she deviates from classic painting technique to achieve the luminosity in her work. Her teaching, she said, is another way to do what Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet, suggested when he wrote, "Keep moving in the adored direction." Toward the light. [link]