Akiane Kramarik: Child Prodigy
By Olivia Dahdah
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The Kramarik family, up until their Akiane turned 4 years old, led a life quite indifferent to any sort of spirituality or religion. This was something that would change though, when their little girl started receiving visions, vivid impressions about invisible realms and great desire to express what she saw through art. Most of her spiritual experience though, she kept secret at first, as to not overwhelm her parents. "It is not time yet for you to know what I see. When that time comes, then you will know.”
Her first works, realistic drawings, mostly of faces, impressed and shocked everyone, and people often couldn’t believe the works had been created by a child so young.
After puzzling her family for a few years with her incredible poetry, self-taught 8 year old Akiane completed her first 5ft long oil paintings, which completely mastered realism. Her first self portrait sold for $10 000. The media immediately took notice and in no time at all, 9 year old Akiane was sharing her story with Oprah Winfrey, and the world.
Akiane explained first to her parents and then to the world that God gave her the visions and the ability to create art and poetry. “I am a self-taught painter. God is my teacher.” her artworks reflect both her visions of heaven and Jesus and her personal connection with God. Both her parents were atheists when her visions started occurring and she started drawing, but soon, they had converted to Christianity.
It was at 8 years old though, that she painted the paintings she is most well known for. Akiane had wanted to paint Jesus for ages, and when finally, after much prayer, a carpenter came to the door looking for work, and she knew she’d found a model to pose for her painting. The man modelled for 2 paintings, Father forgive them, and Prince of Peace, and these were soon known by the world.
Colton Burpo, who went to heaven and came back at the age of 3, when he first saw Prince of Peace, was said to have declared it was the only one (out of the many, many depictions his parents had shown him) that looked like Jesus.
Now 21, Akiane continues to paint, publish her books, and travels with her art and poetry around the world, helping families in need with the funds from her gallery sales and auctions.
"I see ordinary life in an extraordinary world, and I see extraordinary life in an ordinary world. Everything is One. We are all connected. If we experienced the present through eternity and eternity through the present, we would know true Love."
- extract from her upcoming book: Eternity Is Not That Long.
Her first works, realistic drawings, mostly of faces, impressed and shocked everyone, and people often couldn’t believe the works had been created by a child so young.
After puzzling her family for a few years with her incredible poetry, self-taught 8 year old Akiane completed her first 5ft long oil paintings, which completely mastered realism. Her first self portrait sold for $10 000. The media immediately took notice and in no time at all, 9 year old Akiane was sharing her story with Oprah Winfrey, and the world.
Akiane explained first to her parents and then to the world that God gave her the visions and the ability to create art and poetry. “I am a self-taught painter. God is my teacher.” her artworks reflect both her visions of heaven and Jesus and her personal connection with God. Both her parents were atheists when her visions started occurring and she started drawing, but soon, they had converted to Christianity.
It was at 8 years old though, that she painted the paintings she is most well known for. Akiane had wanted to paint Jesus for ages, and when finally, after much prayer, a carpenter came to the door looking for work, and she knew she’d found a model to pose for her painting. The man modelled for 2 paintings, Father forgive them, and Prince of Peace, and these were soon known by the world.
Colton Burpo, who went to heaven and came back at the age of 3, when he first saw Prince of Peace, was said to have declared it was the only one (out of the many, many depictions his parents had shown him) that looked like Jesus.
Now 21, Akiane continues to paint, publish her books, and travels with her art and poetry around the world, helping families in need with the funds from her gallery sales and auctions.
"I see ordinary life in an extraordinary world, and I see extraordinary life in an ordinary world. Everything is One. We are all connected. If we experienced the present through eternity and eternity through the present, we would know true Love."
- extract from her upcoming book: Eternity Is Not That Long.