Moksananda is a British born artist living and working in Valencia, Spain.
He explores both abstract and figurative art, and the relationship between them, generally using oils and acrylics along with less refined materials such as charcoal powder, metal, and found objects.
He is largely self-taught, although he studied drawing with the Gaia Art Academy in Valencia and painting with Barry John Raybould at the Virtual Art Academy. He also studied film with the Lights Film School based in New York.
Moksananda’s work is primarily concerned with entering into a fuller relationship with experience, and with the deeper questions that arise when we become more fully aware of our transitory existence. Whether figurative or abstract, or somewhere in between, his art acts as what the ancient Celts called a 'thin place' - a place where the veil that blinds us to deeper realities becomes more attenuated. His paintings hold and communicate a serene strength, and rest in a place of authenticity and questioning.
Denis Taylor, painter and art writer, described Moksananda in Painters Tubes Magazine, as ‘an artist of enormous flexibility [...] an original painter who mixes intelligence, talent and skill with story telling.’ The American abstract artist Ty Nathan Clark, in his introduction to one of Moksananda’s two solo shows in 2023, wrote: ‘The soft flow and almost violent gestures in the artist’s brush strokes create a juxtapose within each painting. The movements almost begging the viewer to walk directly into spiritual questions about the present themes’.
He has been a practicing Buddhist since his early twenties, ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order, and founded the Valencia Buddhist Centre. For more than 30 years he worked and travelled extensively throughout the Hispanic world, teaching and supporting others on the Buddhist path while deepening his own practice and understanding.
Now dedicated full time to art, his life as a meditator feeds into his work. He has been selected for juried group exhibitions and featured in art magazines. His paintings can be found in a growing number of private collections around the world.
He explores both abstract and figurative art, and the relationship between them, generally using oils and acrylics along with less refined materials such as charcoal powder, metal, and found objects.
He is largely self-taught, although he studied drawing with the Gaia Art Academy in Valencia and painting with Barry John Raybould at the Virtual Art Academy. He also studied film with the Lights Film School based in New York.
Moksananda’s work is primarily concerned with entering into a fuller relationship with experience, and with the deeper questions that arise when we become more fully aware of our transitory existence. Whether figurative or abstract, or somewhere in between, his art acts as what the ancient Celts called a 'thin place' - a place where the veil that blinds us to deeper realities becomes more attenuated. His paintings hold and communicate a serene strength, and rest in a place of authenticity and questioning.
Denis Taylor, painter and art writer, described Moksananda in Painters Tubes Magazine, as ‘an artist of enormous flexibility [...] an original painter who mixes intelligence, talent and skill with story telling.’ The American abstract artist Ty Nathan Clark, in his introduction to one of Moksananda’s two solo shows in 2023, wrote: ‘The soft flow and almost violent gestures in the artist’s brush strokes create a juxtapose within each painting. The movements almost begging the viewer to walk directly into spiritual questions about the present themes’.
He has been a practicing Buddhist since his early twenties, ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order, and founded the Valencia Buddhist Centre. For more than 30 years he worked and travelled extensively throughout the Hispanic world, teaching and supporting others on the Buddhist path while deepening his own practice and understanding.
Now dedicated full time to art, his life as a meditator feeds into his work. He has been selected for juried group exhibitions and featured in art magazines. His paintings can be found in a growing number of private collections around the world.
Moksananda’s work is primarily concerned with entering into a fuller relationship with experience, and with the deeper questions that arise when we become more fully aware of our transitory existence. Whether figurative or abstract, or somewhere in between, his art seeks to act as what the ancient Celts called a 'thin place' - a place where the veil that blinds us to deeper realities becomes more attenuated. His paintings hold and communicate a serene strength, resting in a place of authenticity, while also being ambiguous in their abstraction and in their questioning. They emerge from a dynamic process of order and chaos, control and randomness, form and formlessness - a space where things are not so defined and therefore not so separate.
El trabajo de Moksananda se ocupa principalmente de entrar en una relación más plena con la experiencia y de las preguntas que surgen cuando nos volvemos más plenamente conscientes de nuestra existencia transitoria. Ya sea figurativo o abstracto, o algo intermedio, su arte busca actuar como lo que los antiguos celtas llamaban un "lugar delgado": un lugar donde el velo que nos ciega a realidades más profundas se vuelve más atenuado. Sus pinturas mantienen y comunican una fuerza serena, descansando en un lugar de autenticidad, al mismo tiempo que son ambiguas en su abstracción y en su cuestionamiento. Surgen de un proceso dinámico de orden y caos, control y aleatoriedad, forma y ausencia de forma: un espacio donde las cosas no están tan definidas y, por lo tanto, no están tan separadas.