Loving Kindness

Christel Michielsen

2022 • Portugal • Acrylic, Engraving on Wood

28 x 35 in

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Christel Michielsen

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Medium : Acrylic, Engraving on Wood
Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 27.6x35.4in

About this artwork

In this piece, I explore the quiet strength of being able to bend. Much like the willow tree, these forms arch and curve in response to life’s winds, not with resistance, but with deep, rooted grace.

Each swirling canopy is a network of change, the branches of experience, the veins of growth, the pathways of memory. Life hands us different seasons, and like these trees, I’ve learned to adapt, to move with what comes while staying anchored in what… matters most.

The trunks, painted with layers of color, tell the story of time, the way life leaves its mark, not as damage, but as depth. They lean toward one another, mirroring how we often find balance in relationship, in reflection, in mutual understanding.

This work is a visual mantra: stay rooted, stay flexible. Let yourself sway without breaking. There is elegance in yielding, and great power in softness.

Christel Michielsen

Portugal

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A new chapter : From Crystal to Christel
For eight years in southern India, heat, colour and spirituality seeped into every mark I burned into wood. It was there I found my artistic voice, and became known as Crystal.
Returning to Europe, settling in the ancient Alentejo of Portugal, I return also to my birth name: Christel Michielsen.
The name has changed. The vision has not.
Where India gave me fire and spiritual intensity, the Alentejo, with its megalithic monuments, cork oaks and vast silent skies, speaks a different but equally profound mystical language. Both worlds now live within my paintings, pyrography on birch plywood, layered with acrylics, ink and bister, weaving symbolic narratives through the organic language of wood.
An invitation to journey beyond the ordinary into the sacred.
Christel Michielsen
Estremoz, Portugal — 2026

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Loving Kindness

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