Nirlipta Tuli
Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (with Yoga Nidra Network)
Nirlipta Chaitanya Naveen Tuli MA is a maker of visionary sacred art. He has been creating vibrant paintings and illustrations since 1981.
Working at the powerful intersection of dream visions and the traditional devotional art forms of his Indian heritage, Nirlipta uniquely re-imagines South Asian sacred art on a grand, powerful scale for the 21st-century.
From the far boundaries of meditative and cosmic perspectives, Nirlipta draws also upon his training in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA Hons 1996), and his post-graduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (MA Indian Religions, 1998)
Nirlipta‘s mission as an artist and illustrator is to offer a direct visual connection to the immense power of the universal life force.
Since 2022, Nirlipta has embarked on an undertaking that he feels has been assigned to him, and which he is obliged to do. It is in the form of a geas, which can be a gift or a curse, in this case coming from the form of Wisdom Goddess Bhairavi; to begin and complete over the next decade or so, 108 complete sets of the ten images of the Mahavidyas, based on the images of them recovered from (what was the medieval period in Europe), around the tenth century. This will be 1,080 paintings, plus preparatory studies to be made of them over the next decade or so. They are to be of differing sizes, to be created of the best materials possible, with the finest qualities of oil paint and supports, and are to be sold to, or commissioned by, interested individuals and parties. The prices paid for them will be handsome and of substance.
It has been made clear to Nirlipta that these are not decorative paintings, but are in fact objects of power and luck. Their primary purpose is to act as portals for the energies of the Mahavidyas to come from there to here, from their reality to ours.
These are not paintings for everyone, but for people with some intuitive connection to these Wisdom Goddesses, who realise, respect and revere their significance. They will be unique creations, blending themes from diverse sources; from neuroscience (relating to how our eyes and brain can be affected), from traditional oil painting, to shamanic and mystical experience, to meditative transformation from yoga and the philosophy of Samkhya; and from Tantric antecedents, of power, liberation of energy and expansion of consciousness.
Enquiries may be made to umalipta@gmail.com
Sets of paintings will usually take from six months to a year to create once they are commissioned, depending in some cases on the scale of them, from miniatures of six inches square to those of more than ten feet square.
