About Mieke Fleurackers
If you've ever felt that there's more to life than what we can see, and that the people we lose are not truly gone, you're in the right place. This is where I paint.
Nigredo: the lead
I have been a painter for over thirty years. I started studying art at fourteen, and I have guided people in painting since 2007. But the deepest lesson came from life itself. When I lost my beautiful son Lars in 2019, only nineteen years old (forever nineteen), I learned what it means to truly feel the heaviest things, to go through the deepest grief a mother can bear. This is the calcination the alchemists spoke of: the moment your old world, and the self you thought you were, burns entirely to the ground.
The gold
Slowly, painting became the place where that grief could transform. Colours and lines on paper and canvas turned into connection, meaning, and a love that keeps going. I trained as a medium for four years at Atelier Ohm in Antwerp, and later at the Arthur Findlay College. There I discovered that art could carry messages from spirit, for myself and for others.
What Art as Alchemy means to me
The old alchemists said: as above, so below. Everything in the physical world resonates in the mystical world, and the other way around. For me, painting sits exactly at that crossing point. It makes invisible processes visible. When you combine painting with spiritual alchemy, it becomes a path of personal transformation: turning what weighs on you into something that shines.
What I do
My own work is born from the mystical, a playful dance between worlds. I simply love to paint: it connects me to all that is, to source.
I also paint messages from spirit in spiritual art readings, and I paint for those who are missed beyond measure. And I teach sensitive souls to paint their own way through, in my online Sanctuary and in Art School for Alchemists.
My training
- Studied fine arts, visual artist for over 30 years
- Qualified art teacher
- Mediumship training at Atelier Ohm, Antwerp, with Robert Cash CSNU and Ria Spanjaard
- Several courses at the Arthur Findlay College since 2023
- Member of the SNU International since 2022
Beyond the studio
I live in Baasrode, Belgium, with my husband Chris and our daughter Amber. I love plants, yoga, travelling and long walks in nature, and I hold a second dan black belt in karate. By day, I work nine to five in prevention and public health. I'm a mother, a woman who has walked through the darkest dark and found the light again, and someone who still believes in wonder. Now more than ever.