Relating to the depths of the psyche through creative expression
From the start I was fascinated by the creative process itself, by the process of projecting and giving shape to unconscious content, and interacting with something that responds to my actions. I learned that the unconscious will help one, because it wants to, if approached in the right way. This process became an ongoing inner dialogue which enriched and contained me consciously. To me the image always had to serve the psyche’s message. Over the course of many years, it linked separate images, or messages, to tell its own story.
“In Wilna van der Walt’s palette becomes the medium and her canvas the reportage of her psychic journey, and the answer to her continuous inner dialogue. Each of these paintings has its own life – a part of the greater puzzle of truths that form part of a wider cosmic understanding.”
Amanda Botha, Art Journalist and Writer
“The Old Woman and the Moon illustrates the remarkable capacity of the psyche to reveal in images the inner process of becoming a more integrated human being.”
John Gosling, Jungian Analyst
Books
The Old Woman and the Moon is an experience of the reality of the psychic world in image. Descriptions are multi-layered and instructive of the underlying creative and psychic processes. In Die Zebravis, the same images are explored in Afrikaans poetry.
Irma Stern Museum
The exhibition at the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town, 2016, depicted my inner journey in image. Walking through 25 years of my life’s images was a wonderful experience. It was opened by Amanda Botha. Read Amanda’s opening words.
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