About

Maria Jaoudi is Professor of Religious Studies & Humanities at California State University Sacramento. She is the author of Medieval & Renaissance Spirituality and Mindfulness as Sustainability: Lessons from the World's Religions published by SUNY Press. 

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The intuitive insights of the world's mystical traditions are visually integrated in the paintings to form landscapes of the Spirit in nature. These inner and outer worlds are taken from microscopic and telescopic imagery, states of consciousness, and ordinary observations of daily life and nature. Dr. Jaoudi's paintings draw on the philosophic and spiritual traditions of the world in combination with descriptions from biology, astronomy and other illustrations of nature. The texture of earth and skin, a crow in the rain and a nebula born mirror and expand our insights into who we are and how we reverence sentient life.​

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Exhibitions and presentations include: Oxford University, Yale University, Fordham University, Georgia State University with Helen Frankenthaler, Imogen Cunningham, and Judy Chicago; The Crocker Museum and California State University, Sacramento, California; C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco; Hotel Clarice Gallery, Cannes, France. The Spirit & Nature Gallery in Davis, California (formerly in Cannes, France), is the permanent gallery and studio. Beginning in 2016, member of the Harvard Divinity School, The Evolution of Spirituality conferences. In 2025, the theme is Spirituality & the Arts.