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The eCard Gallery ofToshi

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Painting 26

Shiva

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Toshi was born on June 5th under the sign of Gemini/Rat.

In 1980 Toshi became a disciple of the Indian Mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (later known as Osho). Since that day, a well of creativity has kept on streaming to this day. He was given the name Dhyan Anutosho: "Total Contentment". After a few years, Toshi was discovered by Gallery owner Danny Renders, at whose gallery he subsequently exhibited many times.

Toshi: "I call myself a 'naive optimist,' a poet with colours, travelling from here to now. And yes, I regard the Universe as a big tapestry that keeps on growing, and I hope to add my own coloured thread. Searching for the real meaning of life has no use; you cannot find an answer. Life is one big creation and in we are in fact all artists..."

Toshi's Inspirations:

Osho Rajneesh: All people with whom he feels connected to on a certain moment, hour, day month or even years; Zen; Toadstools; Egypt and Her Pyramids; Native Americans; Yin & Yang; Science Fiction; Faeries and Nature spirits; Sexuality is all its forms; Joy and Sorrow; and "all else I am forgetting...."

Painting method:

"I am a very impulsive painter, and rarely have a 'plan' in my head about what I am gonna paint. Reading a book, listening to certain kinds of music, meeting someone who touches me both positively or negatively, deep meditation or a feeling of peace or turmoil, a sexual hint... these are all things that can make me paint. The painting process itself is what I want. If I think the result is good, then I am of course pleased, but to me that is not why I paint. The creation itself, the interaction with colours and the adventure of seeing something being born on paper or canvas."

Andre de Bont about Toshi:

"The source of his creativity lies in his encounter with Osho. In his search for The Light and himself he found guidance in this Indian Mystic. During his stays in the Ashram of Poona, India, he found the the way to deal with emotions and experiences in the form of painting. The evolution of his paintings show his personal progress, emotionally, spiritually and also technically."

Like his first drawings, showing themselves as playful "candystores" with light pastel colours and imagery of clowns, toadstools and little faces, his later work becomes bombastic in colour explosions, from dark menacing flower carpets to stained glass effect; more figurative; drawings and paintings that also show an evolution in technique. The techniques that Toshi uses were self-taught during his artistic evolution. You can clearly see a mad mix of all kinds of techniques and media in almost all his paintings which would make the traditional painter shiver in disgust.

However, the result is warm and spontaneous with a unique style. It is that spontaneity that make Toshi's work so wonderfully different.

The main theme in almost all his work is his interest in esoteric philosophies, inspired by Eastern Masters in Rites, combined with erotic and Toshi's own symbolism that all leads to a new kind of painting called the Naive Optimism.

Toshi's work reflects his moods and emotional states. As he says himself, his paintings are a reflection of how he feels, how he thinks, lives and all the different stadio his life has been through. "A poet with colours, travelling from here to there." To explore the Universe as a big tapestry, like a big pan of soup of which he himself is an ingredient and how he determines in a way how that soup will taste and how the tapestry will look.

Because of his views on life, his continuous hunger for new visions and views, the search for the origin of life, Toshi has a constant stream of inspiration and an enormous productivity, resulting in a large amount of playful, spontaneous and meaningful works of art.

That this source of inspiration also influences other people, translates itself in many exhibitions in various art galleries.

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