Mahaloness

Contemporary artist specializing in full spectrum painting, mural, animation and digital hybrid art.

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the white lodge

This is the white lodge, a place where I like to go and be one with the wonder, the beauty and the peace. Modern life is a busy life, there is so much going on in the world and it is overwhelming to the senses, the disposition and the constitution. It has been very important to my artistic practice to make an effort to get out of the studio and explore the world around me. The white lodge is where the elders live, it is the place where the eagles soar, and the ravens play. In its winter coat the white lodge sparkles and the air is crisp. I come to here to fill myself with its energy and replenish the soul, and give the heart much needed nature time, so it can recharge and gain strength for this crazy world we humans have created. 

❤️💚💛 Art Event Announcement💛💚❤️ I will be featured at Raw Artists Calgary ‘Envision’ January 18th, 2018! I will be live painting, selling original art, and prints, it is an exciting event with a diverse array of creative people in one room, tickets are $20 and I will have a little something for you on the night, please click here to go to my event page where you can purchase tickets , thank you and Mahaloness. 

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a new minimotion called ‘the white lodge’ with soundscape ‘crystal wonderland’ featuring timelapse footage of an outdoor hockey sesh in this magical place, my home, this is what goes into the art when I return to my studio. 

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it has been really cold, crisp you might say….

a waking life moment

the valley brah, winter wonderland, makes my soul happy


‘mountain magic’ hälts hybrid art combining my fotography with my watercolour WIP ‘raven’


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flower power 

Somedays you just need to stop and smell the flowers, and this is exactly what hälts did. 

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Here are some fotos from hälts moms secret magic garden, it takes a lot of work, care and attention to maintain a garden, this has been a great lesson for hälts and inspires him to put that kind of carr and attention into his art practice.

the elders home in BC, a hidden bit of paradise

hälts stone path completed last summer look as if it’s been there forever

nothing like a good magic garden watercolur sesshin, seen here is hälts WIP ‘painted turtle’s dream’

life is full of everything imaginable and unimaginable, taking the time to sit and let the human spirit express is a key to a healthy life


hälts ink from his white lodge book juxtaposed with his moms summer roses


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peasant art print minimotion special feature 

The journey continues, hälts has been spending a healthy amount of time in the forest realm, visiting lakes and rivers, and looking up to the sky. These experiences bring hälts much joy and the connection to the land, sky and water energizes, bringing a sense of alertness and awareness, which can get comfortable when in the city for long periods of time. In the city realm hälts been working diligently on a live painting project called ‘the healer’ at Calgary New Age Books and Crystals. Each brush stroke is in tune with his natural experiences and mirrors the last part of the painting pilgimage. As ‘the healer’ reaches the completion of its cycle, hälts is drawn into contemplation, remembering all the beautiful people he met along the way, new and old, young and ancient, a blessed experience. At the moment(s) hälts is hosting a print sale at Calgary New Age store, the display features a vast array of artworks, both originals and hybrid art, combining painting and the digital realms. His art is more than just a picture, it is a transmission of story, information, revelations, contemplations, wonder and observations. Come on down and say hello, hälts will be selling his prints, and artworks, and plans on continuing a live painting through to December. Calgary New Age Books and Crystals is located at 104 10 St NW Calgary, hälts is there 12-5 daily, or find him on Instagram for updates, more art, and Mahaloness all the way brah. 

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Shane Haltman aka hälts is a contemporary Canadian artist specializing in visual art: painting, mural, digital and animation. Here is a selection of his work, and a new minimotion called ‘peasant art print sale’ featuring the soundscape ‘pretty relaxed’ and starring in the movie Nature, water, Guy , Rebecca, Anna and hälts print sale at Calgary New Age Books and Crystals (104 10 St NW Calgary 12-5 pm daily) please send hälts a message if you would like to set up a private meeting. prints will be made available online soon. Thank you, Mahaloness and may the Aloha be with us all.  ​​

‘soft whale’ hälts hybrid concept art

the room where it all goes down, up, sideways and in between, hälts art lab, pop up art studio, and ‘the healer’ live painting project and ⚡️PRINT SALE⚡️ at Calgary New Age Books and Crystals


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soul medicine

life offers joy

life brings pain

life brings surprises

and sometimes disdain

no matter what may come

there will be hälts 

making art. 

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A bit of a painful moment in hälts life journey, these moments build character and are essential to feel, whether you be man, woman, or child, give yourself the freedom to let go and feel whatever it is you feel, than write it down, express it through art, or cooking, or dancing, or singing, maybe a little less drinking, whatever it is you do, channel it, this is good medicine.

  

No matter how alone you may feel, there will always come a visitor to remind you that this may not be true. (Praying Mantis friend visitation during a maui mana painting sesshin)

  

When the crow speaks you listen, spending time with Nature, observing Nature is good medicine.

  

Art is a facilatator of joy.

  

‘spirit of a child’ (oaxaca, mexico drawing sesshin )

  

Puerto Escondido street art that brings an ear to ear smile to this artists face.

 
and a hälts ART minimotion picture show called ‘cultural calamity’  for otherside zine. 


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the search

Searching for answers

for the heartache and pain
wondering what lessons have I not yet learned

inner wisdom 

helps to illuminate state 

and Ho’oponopono

to help me get back up with grace. 

I love you

I am sorry

Please forgive me

Thank you.

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a remix of a painting titled ‘INbetween’

  

reflection of sky on lake surface

  

turkey vulture soars high above

  

finding solace in Nature

  

trickster, detail from a painting titled ‘INbetween’

 


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spirit paint

They are some who think paint has the power to dissovle the veil, and magically we can cross over to the other side. Unfortunately the ones who worked with this miraculous paint lived thousands of years ago, so I set out to make a ‘veil dissolver’ paint, although instead of mixing it with saliva like my ancient counterparts, I went with a modern version, acrylic polymer.

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 It all began with a log, which I later I burned and collected the ash and burnt chunks, ground those down, than I ground the quartz with a stone and added the mix to my polymer. I have yet to name the paint, unofficially I will call it spirit paint. A spark in my brain led to this development, perhaps this information was embedded deep within my consciousness, and simply by thinking about it I somehow chanelled ancient wisdom, and voila there it was, my first spirit paint. This is an ongoing social, cultural, anthropological, enthnographical, anthropological and psychological experiment.  Modern cave art….

    

  
  
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