Visionary Painter • Shamanic Healer • Keeper of Sacred Symbols

Mariela de la Paz is a Chilean-born, California-based artist whose life and work are a tapestry of ancestral wisdom, healing, and creative devotion. For nearly four decades, she has walked a path that merges classical oil painting with shamanic practice, creating visionary art that serves as both personal ritual and public offering.

Her paintings—deeply rooted in myth, healing plants, and sacred feminine archetypes—are portals to the unseen. Each canvas is a ceremony in color, prayer, and presence. Influenced by the iconography of Tibetan thangkas, the mysticism of indigenous traditions, and the intimacy of her own healing journey, Mariela’s work invites viewers into a space of inner remembrance and soulful reflection.

A lifelong practitioner of shamanic healing, she studied with the Motherpeace School of Contemporary Female Shamanism and trained as a clairvoyant. Her art and her medicine walk are inseparable; both emerge from a deep commitment to transformation, earth-honoring wisdom, and the restoration of the sacred in everyday life.

She paints surrounded by botanicals she also uses in her handmade tinctures and salves—plants chosen not just for their physical benefits but their spiritual essence. Her lifestyle reflects a reverence for cycles, silence, and simplicity. Meditation, dance, and the tending of altars and gardens are part of her daily rhythm.

Despite serious health challenges in recent years, Mariela continues to create and inspire, believing that art is both sanctuary and salvation. Through her paintings, she offers not just images, but medicine.