13/04/2026
Vedic Art Curt Källman Center
Our Teachers summer 2026 Öland, Sweden
MARYSE ALEN
Continuation Course 18-25 July
The Six Vedangas 18-25 July
About Maryse
Maryse Alen was born in Olen in Belgium. As a child, she spent many hours in the painting studio of her grandfather, who was a landscape artist. She was fascinated by the colours and their magical action on the canvas. One day, she made her first painting. Without giving it any thought, she simply selected the colours that called to her and started playing with light and form and colour. She let develop spontaneously what wanted to be born.
The world of colours was already well known to her for a special reason. Being born with a heart defect, she frequently found herself in an inner cosmos of colour when her heart "forgot to make contact." From very early on, painting became a way to express this space by uniting colour with light. She studied at an art academy and although she gained much in knowledge and skill, she quickly realized this was not the way she had to follow. Painting was so much more for her: as essential as eating or drinking. She couldn't not paint!
At the age of 31 , a diagnosis of her heart condition was at last made. Following heart surgery, her disappearing into the magical world of colours came to an end. Even if her internal colours remained strong and vivid in her paintings, the loss was very great. It was a time of deep sadness.
Then, though, came a phase in which her paintings taught her how to learn to truly live, rather than just survive. After this inner journeying, she ended up in Australia, where she landed with both feet firmly on the ground. She climbed the sacred ancient mountain of Gulaga. For the Aboriginal Australians, Gulaga means "Come Home": the mountain calls you, to come home inside yourself, inside your inner nature, using nature itself. From that moment she became aware of nature and of the creative power everywhere and deep in ourselves.
A year later, she discovered Vedic Art and travelled to Sweden. The circle was complete. Art and life came together and became the art of living.
After completing her training in Öland, she started her first courses in Grobbendonk in 2012, until she found an old farmhouse in Kasterlee in 2013.
Vedic Art expanded.
She became a teacher trainer and coordinator for Belgium and the Netherlands.
Being an adventurer and a born pioneer, she moved to southern Spain (Andalusia) in 2018, where she lived for three years in the mountains at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in Capileira, two years on the Atlantic coast in Los Caños de Meca on the Costa de la Luz, and two years in Frigiliana on the Costa del Sol.
She handed over the role of coordinator for Belgium and the Netherlands in order to focus fully on her new mission as an International Vedic Art teacher & teacher trainer. She organised courses and training programmes in Spain, Romania and Belgium.
After seven wonderful years in Spain, her roots called her back to Belgium and she now lives in Zoerle-Parwijs (Westerlo). Close to her native region, in the heart of the Kempen, where she has her course and training centre. All the courses she offers can be taken in Dutch and English.
This summer, she will also be participating as a teacher in the international programme on Öland.
Maryse Alen
https://maryse-vedicart.weebly.com
Vedic Art Öland
www.vedicart.com
