Artist | Author | Poet

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld – Artist, Author, Poet

Artist

Over the past four decades, Carolyn has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of symbolic imagery, Carolyn expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the wilderness she inhabits. Carolyn’s art is featured internationally in galleries, museums, private collections, and multimedia presentations.

The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum opened in February 2022 at California State University Long Beach

Artist

Over the past four decades, Carolyn has created an extensive and diverse body of paintings and drawings, ranging in style from romantic figurative to abstract. In her language of symbolic imagery, Carolyn expresses the passions of the human heart and a pantheistic reverence for the wilderness she inhabits. Carolyn’s art is featured internationally in galleries, museums, private collections, and multimedia presentations.

The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum opened in February 2022 at California State University Long Beach

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld | Books: Climates of the Mind

Author

Carolyn is the author of twenty-five books, a variety of which are used as inspirational texts in universities and healing centers. She is featured along with the writings of seven other acclaimed woman writers in a continuing course, “The Other Half of the Sky: Eight Woman Writers,” at Swansea University in Wales. Her first book, Climates of the Mind, was translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Carolyn’s writings have been translated into over fifteen languages, and three of her publications are available in bilingual and trilingual editions, published internationally.

Author

Carolyn is the author of twenty-five books, a variety of which are used as inspirational texts in universities and healing centers. She is featured along with the writings of seven other acclaimed woman writers in a continuing course, “The Other Half of the Sky: Eight Woman Writers,” at Swansea University in Wales. Her first book, Climates of the Mind, was translated into Braille by the Library of Congress. Carolyn’s writings have been translated into over fifteen languages, and three of her publications are available in bilingual and trilingual editions, published internationally.

Poet

A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual transformation have ignited Carolyn to become an award-winning poet. She writes philosophically, in the tradition of romantic poets who seek to express divine love in erotic, ecstatic, and intimate terms. Her poetry echoes the whispers of nature and illuminates the path toward spiritual transformation. Carolyn’s poetry and prose has been nominated for several awards, including The Pushcart Prize. In addition to her poems being featured in numerous journals and anthologies internationally, Carolyn is world renowned for her poetry books, most of which include her art.

Poet

A passion for creative expression and a lifelong fascination with spiritual transformation have ignited Carolyn to become an award-winning poet. She writes philosophically, in the tradition of romantic poets who seek to express divine love in erotic, ecstatic, and intimate terms. Her poetry echoes the whispers of nature and illuminates the path toward spiritual transformation. Carolyn’s poetry and prose has been nominated for several awards, including The Pushcart Prize. In addition to her poems being featured in numerous journals and anthologies internationally, Carolyn is world renowned for her poetry books, most of which include her art.

Accolades

“She performs a rare literary alchemy, fusing science and sensuality, genetics and generosity, global biology and personal biography…”

— The late Timothy Leary, Ph.D

Clinical Psychologist at Harvard University

“Rich in colors, shapes and texture, the vivid images of the painter-poetess’s vagabond-like fancy range from cyclical rhythms of nature to the timeless spiritual potentialities of the human mind…”

— Prof. Dr. Bernfried Nugel

Director of the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies, University of Münster

“This verse, powerful and deeply moving, is reflective of a penetrating philosophical mind that sees things as they really are to the eye of the Spirit. The metaphorical imagery is astonishingly vivid…”

— The late John Weir Perry, MD

Jungian Psychiatrist and Author

“To enter Carolyn Kleefeld’s “aura artistica” is to recapture the rapture of creation. To see the world through her eyes, her art, and her poetry sanctifies the marriage of Life and Love.”

— Norman Ahu Cohan

Director of Karpeles Manuscript Museum and Library

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