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Marlis Ladurée is a Franco-German artist whose work draws on spiritual traditions from around the world. For more than thirty years, she has developed a singular painting practice in which mandalas, gold leaf and precious stones compose a universe of light. Nourished by the glazing technique and by the heritage of Italian Renaissance painters, she builds her works in successive layers, giving rise to depth, transparency and chromatic intensity. Her work thus traces a passage between art, matter and the sacred dimension.

Her artistic practice is inseparable from an inner quest: each mandala is a meditation in itself, a mapping of the universal soul. Her works have been exhibited at the United Nations in Geneva, at UNESCO in Paris, under the patronage of the Dalai Lama in Berlin, and at numerous international visionary art festivals.

Author of several reference works on mandalas, Marlis Ladurée also shares her art meditation method — ArtMeditate — to accompany each person in a deep and personal meditative practice.