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Christel Michielsen

2023 • Portugal • Acrylic, Engraving on Wood

24 x 31 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 : 24.4x31.5in

About this artwork

I created this piece as a reflection on the influence of the higher on that which lies within me — a quiet, subtle presence that guides the unfolding of the deeper qualities I know are part of me. These are not qualities I can force or shape by will, but ones I can touch gently and nurture over time, in stillness and trust, so they may emerge by themselves.

The white circle represents ever-present awareness, a silent witness that holds and nourishes… the entire process. In this space, I am invited to expand and flower, yet always return to the source from which I came.

This work is part of my ongoing exploration of how the sacred moves through us, how form and formlessness, structure and surrender, come into quiet harmony.

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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