As a painter… and psychotherapist,
Jaimie Cahlil’s work is about TRANSFORMATION

Jaimie Cahlil: born in Oxford UK, in 1954

Jaimie Cahlil’s art is very original – in the obvious sense; also, it does not resemble the work of anyone else – therefore tends not to fit any obvious category. And though his paintings are ‘contemporary’ – as in created NOW, his pictures have a timeless presence. Some of Jaimie’s paintings may be viewed as ‘abstract’, though Jaimie himself would not consider them so. And whether or not figurative, each picture conveys the essence of experience and universal pattern – such as found in the ancient mandala. Jaimie Cahlil’s paintings speak directly to our soul, and convey a transpersonal and profoundly transformative effect. As such, they may be called ‘spiritual’; Jaimie’s paintings are far too down-to-earth to comfortably fit in with other ‘spiritual’ or ‘visionary’ art. However, whether his paintings ‘fit’ or not, Jaimie Cahlil’s art IS fine art – composed with the aid of draughtsmanship and painterly skill. Inspired from the many books on fine art in his father’s collection, Jaimie asked his father to teach him to draw. Later on, accepted through his drawings alone, Jamie Cahlil engaged in three years’ training in fine art at Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (UK).