Help Her Continue to Help Others A Visionary’s Task A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is a drudgery. A vision and a task is the hope of the world. –– From a church in Sussex, England, ca. 1730 The Life and Work of Martha Loving Who is Martha? Visionary Artist Martha Loving is a Collot Painting Therapist, Waldorf/Steiner educator, Certified Biofield Tuning Practitioner, elder wisdom keeper, photographer, astrologer, and biodynamic gardening teacher.  She lives a somewhat nomadic life helping and serving people across the country, and at times is called upon to serve the world at large, traveling where and when needed. Martha has done painting therapy for 26 years, helping thousands of others through a myriad of illnesses ranging from ADHD and trauma to cancer and hospice.  She is one of eight women in the USA with a diploma from the Medical Section of the Goetheanum in Switzerland who personally studied under Liane Collot d'Herbois in Light, Darkness, and Color based on the Universal Laws of Nature.  Her work is deeply integrated by her clients and serves to help them overcome or find peace with whatever they are facing, letting go of hindrances. Martha responds readily when a community experiences trauma and the healing arts she brings is instrumental in their coming back to wholeness. “Our class lost a dear classmate through a terrible tragedy that deeply affected the children. Some of them began having noticeable stress and sleep problems. Martha Loving brought us a way through the darkness into the light for the whole class, parents and faculty. Her wisdom and devotion to Collot therapeutic color work brought hope, solace, and transformation for many at the school.”  – Class Teacher, Austin Waldorf School Martha also was mentored and certified by Eileen McKusick in one of her earliest Biofield Tuning classes and incorporates this healing arts method into her practice when needed for the health of her clients. Martha strives to work within the anthroposophical image of the whole human being with doctors, therapists, and other healthcare practitioners and educators. “Martha Loving’s presence in our school has been overwhelmingly positive. In her work with students, faculty and parents, she has brought professionalism, clarity, healing and wisdom. Her knowledge and skills in the Collot painting method is a precious gift to us all.” – Constance Helms, MEd, Educational Support Specialist, Lake Champlain Waldorf School Why Does She Need Help? Martha has been living out of a suitcase and her car for the last several years and has long envisioned a ‘mobile art studio’ that would enable her to take her work wherever she needed to go on a larger scale, while also having a more permanent living space to call her own.  This dream is coming together as the tiny house movement gains momentum, and is providing her with the idea and a way to have a space for both work and living. Martha’s life and work has been severely impacted the last several years by two major factors:  a newly diagnosed auto-immune disease (relating to early childhood trauma) and the state of the economy. Martha is a survivor and has managed to carve out a beautiful, yet simple life up until recently.  She continues to do her work whenever and wherever possible, but has realized the importance of her securing a more stable means of living and working so that she can do the self-care that is needed for her long-term health, as well as for the health of her clients. The tricky part is that the work takes a minimum of 6-weeks to be effective. Having the tiny house mobile art studio means that she can stay for 6-to-8-week blocks, and then go to the next school/community. Why am I asking to support her? I was one of her clients 12 years ago and have greatly benefitted from her work.  After being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress and seeking various standard methods of treatment, I learned of Martha’s work as a painting therapist. I worked with Martha on and off over several years, and found the work highly beneficial in helping me to reduce the overall stress and fear that had captured my life for so long.  And it was through her that I learned to see the world in a different, healthier way through the window of color, light and darkness and through using herbs and growing my own food. Martha’s work is imperative for anyone dealing with trauma, facing the uncertainty of a diagnosed illness or any number of factors in life that require ongoing medication or therapy.  Her own life greatly benefits from the work she does on and for herself, and the pain from her illness is significantly reduced through the various stages of flare-ups. And lastly, a mobile studio would benefit and help increase client work and support everywhere, enabling her to add to her limited monthly income in a significant way.  It would enable her to secure more frequent work and provide an avenue for her to take on clients anywhere in the country for extended periods of time, as it will now serve as her home wherever she goes. “I have noticed a big shift in Nellie since she started painting with Martha. Her feelings are coming to the surface, and most importantly, she is allowing herself to feel sadness. I would say that she is more balanced in general from painting.”   – Class Teacher, Lake Champlain Waldorf School What will the money be used for? Martha’s mobile art studio, the “Emerald HEART Spot”, is in the process of being built.  Having secured a trailer to build upon, she is gathering materials and help to grow this project.  She is receiving help from a young man enrolled in a residential building program who is using this as his project for his senior year.  She is open to receive help wherever she can find it and just had two solar panels donated by a friend to support the project. With winter just around the corner, building this studio as quickly as possible would provide her with a great sense of relief and enable her to take on work wherever she moves it to, rather than relying only on highly scheduled work that would not necessarily allow for critical down time and self-care. All monies would be used to buy materials to assist in the construction of the mobile art studio and any associated expenses with regards to its on-going use, as well as any related to the vehicle necessary to pull it.  The project is being done as consciously and cost effectively as is possible, re-using, recycling, and repurposing as many materials as can be done, while also keeping it environmentally toxin free for the health of herself and her clients. With gratitude for helping to support her work.  And if you would like to learn more about Martha and her work, please visit her website at www.lovingcolor.org. <img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/42359090_1569898688749408_r.jpeg" alt="42359090_1569898688749408_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" />

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