Niradhara Marie  is a visionary outsider  artist with a visceral, process -driven visual voice  emerging in nyc.    She brings  insight  to empowering  the humble stitch  through  creating powerful images of women in Mixed Media  with  use of encaustics,  organic prints,  textile inks, ink-jet prints, beeswax, hand stitchery  in dyed cotton thread  & free-motion stitchery on her assemblages of  over-dyed  vintage linens.  This Fine art in the vernacular form of quilt,  is transcendent Stitchery for mending the fragmented human condition.   

The latest series of work is called  'sutras', in Sanskrit,  this literally means 'thread'. The process of creating this work is a gateway between gravity and grace, Tattooing cloth with thread, marking rites of passage both ceremonial and mundane, as sacred time.

Her series Temporal Coverings are shelter for the human soul, conceptually formed as a quilt using the artist's assemblages of vintage linens which she overdyes, paints, marks and variously hand prints with inks, beeswax, dyes and encaustics and details the work covering it in an elaborate tattooing of stitchery. The new work is about being uncovered, unsheltered, unprotected, unloved. The act of making this work creates a prayer for re-covering and the working title for these pieces is "sutras". Each piece deals with differing social issues of disenfranchised people, and the artist's increasing identification as one of these persons. The work is about creating soul shelters, like a quilt or a tallis or a prayercloset.

Beginning her work in Southwestern PA in the late 1970's and experimenting with cathartic works throughout the 1980"s, she made a move in 1991 and became established for a dozen years living and making art on Nantucket Island year round, where her daughter and son-in-law are now raising a son and expecting another baby in December. Now in New York, for the past 2 years she has been undergoing treatments for neurological and arthritic symptoms of acute Lyme's Disease with complications. Her newest work is about the losses suffered in human relationships when the dynamics are broken due to illness or other traumatic change outside of a person's control. The work is a mending.

Niradhara is a practicing Agnihotrin and Homa Therapist,  and is an Interfaith Minister becoming ordained in June of 2008  please see her blog http://www.agnihotrin.blogspot.com  (then the next paragraph starting “since september 2005 can be all white and blend into the end of this one) Since September 2005, Lynne Marie has been a resident staff member at the Yoga Society of New York’s upstate retreat community, Ananda Ashram.  She has received a Sanskrit name which means “independent” Niradhara (pronounced Nirad- hara).

Niradhara Lynne Marie - Photo by James Ferrara for Michelle Dawson, mehndi artist and author of Mehndi Unveiled