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Analise Rigan was born in 1947 in the United States, to a family fused with karmic intensity on both sides of the Atlantic. In her veins flow a rich heritage: Rigan has Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Gypsy, and Native American blood. A paradoxical culture because it mixes the blood of the world oppressors with it victims, the vanished European and American peoples.
Rigan early understood compassion and felt empathy with human suffering. Ignoring early callings to paint and express herself artistically, she chose to become a nurse and served in intensive care. She at this time both succeeded in, and felt constrained by, Western medicine.
And then she began her quest.
For four years she was the de-facto artist in residence at the famous earth-centered community, Findhorn, in Scotland. In spite of growing acclaim, she returned to medicine but continued painting murals, infused with the healing spirit. That part of the journey was complete and Rigan began again to work full-time as an artist, one who now knew her path. Her painting now shines with a rich, sophisticated and altogether healing understanding of love and inner harmony. In spite of its beauty, the artist’s work is deeply transforming.
Analise Rigan has won the Excellency Award from the London Design Center; has shown at the Laguna Beach Arts Festival; has been nominated for the marquis Who’s Who in American Women, 2000 Millennium edition; and has membership in The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.
“I think of myself as a global citizen,” says Rigan. “Through all of my experiences, through the whole gamut of my life, I had the sense of being prepared for something. I learned at each stage. I learned noble work as a nurse, but its academic rhetoric became my teacher as well. It helped move me on so that I could rediscover myself through the Celts, European icons and pre-Raphaelites — through the expression of art. But the healing and the spiritual quest to serve others has remained with me. And it always will.”