MANDALAS - PAGES FROM MY DIARIES

Jutta Faulds’ Mandalas - Pages From My Diaries was recently launched by the Midlands Arts & Crafts Society in Pietermaritzburg.

Jutta Faulds was introduced to mandalas through a workshop by Kobie Venter. Carl Gustav Jung’s achievement of making a mandala a day for two years started Faulds exploring this concept and she has since incorporated them into her daily routine. Even travelling overseas does not limit her - though she limits herself by only using small sheets of paper and black pen rather than colour with paints or dyes.

“While travelling with Faulds in India, I sometimes watched her draw a mandala with the end result often including small aspects of places we had visited’” explains Wendy Bloy of MACS. “They formed a picture diary or journal that frequently spoke to one more poignantly than my traditional written journal.

“ “Mandala” is a Sanskrit word meaning “circle” and the concept of the circle as a symbol of wholeness, eternity, perfection and ultimately the Divine is accepted universally,” explains Bloy. “My personal fascination with circles or spirals draws me to Faulds’ mandalas, black and white or colour, and through them I revel in the sense of peace or energy that emanates from them. Mandalas - Pages from my Diaries is a small treasure to be carried with one and dipped into from time to time - it is both pleasing to the eye and to the soul.

Copies of the book are available for R115 from MACS at 23 Haldane Road (off Ritchie Road), Pelham, Pietermaritzburg, or phone 033 386 6500, email: macszine@yahoo.com or visit http://midlandsartsandcraftssociety.wordpress.com