Javelin Schram - a biography

Javelin Schram was born in 1961 in Essen, Germany. She has been married for 8 years with John Schram, born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, psychotherapist and buddhistic Lama Rympoche (he studied for 10 years to become a Lama in the eldest monastry of the Nijingmapa, in Tibet), died in 2000. Her son Amitaba is born in Emmen, NL.

The style of Javelin Schram is fantastic realism and visionary art, part of surrealism. Her work is based on studies of psychology, buddhism, laws of nature, astrology, symbolism, meditation and visions. On her path to an autodidact artist she was inspired by the fantastic realists in Vienna, especially Arik Brauer, but also Ernst Fuchs and Johfra.

A world that lies just beyond ours
Life is a discovery of ourselves, an adventure in union with the laws of nature. Good and bad are both realities. But in all suffering there is always a golden drop of wisdom gained which can guide us into the light.
As there is music, which can deeply touch our soul, lift us up and bring us to a heightened sense of Self, my art wants to invite you onto a similar journey. A journey into an exploration of other worlds, transcending reality as we know it, connecting us with magic and alternative possibilities of new creations."

As a child, Javelin was already able to travel into dreamworlds of other existences. She started to paint to document her visions. And when she met professor Arik Brauer at the Academy for Fantastic Realism in Vienna in 1989, she found not only a man with similar worldviews but indirect someone who taught her technique how to translate these worlds onto canvas. He recognized her talent and inspired her to keep going deeper. She has been painting ever since and has brought her technique to an organic perfection.

Javelin lives her creations. Every painting is another universe. Already in the groundwork she sees faces appear, animals emerge out of an accidental stroke or a forest coming out of nowhere into her vision. She sees into the deeper layers of her paintings , patiently receiving what wants to be discovered and creates a foundation for a magical world , another reality behind this one, where figures symbolize journeys into other places beyond the ordinarily known but as valid a place as what we call Reality.

 

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Brigid Marlin and Javelin Schram at the opening of Dreamscape Amsterdam.
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