October marks Long Beach Arts Month and the Long Beach Post has partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach to celebrate the image makers, the painters, the dancers, the designers, the musicians, and the countless other artists who make our city vibrant and cultured. Our homepage will feature an artist’s own unique interpretation of Long Beach daily so make sure to check back every weekday to discover or rediscover a local talent.
Erin Edgar and Virginia Collinwood have been together for a little over a year but have always been artists.
Though they individually have their own portfolios, it was through their love for both the spiritual and one another that drove their art into “the sacred.”
“I’ve been a mandala artist for about three years now,” said Edgar. “Mandalas are meditations essentially, a part of sacred geometry—and Long Beach is a sacred place.”
Through geometry and patterns, endless lines and myriad dots, the pair create dazzling, otherworldly designs and art that easily captivate—and are clearly inspired by and through one another.