“Your art is incredibly powerful.  I was particularly drawn to the Persephone piece.  I spent a year utilizing that myth as part of my own healing journey – reclaiming for myself the powerful woman who lived within me, hidden as a result of my own past.  Thank you so much for sharing your work with me.”

Melanie Haro, Psychotherapist specializing in artists and author of ‘Feeding the Starving Artist’ inspirational newsletter

“Ashtoreth’s art does a marvelous job of portraying various qualities of the feminine.  Each image moves the viewer through psychological and spiritual dimensions of a woman’s experience.  The portrait, ‘The Thinking Woman’ honors a woman’s capacity to ponder, intuit, and know.  I am reminded that women have been discouraged from thinking, and this policy still continues in many countries where girls are forbidden education.  Each image asks something of its viewer.  It speaks to something very ancient and very important to address – which is the power of the feminine voice, spirit, power, presence.  My favorite example is ‘Our Lady of the Pomegranate – In Spite of all She Rises’.  It gives hope for the present and the future: a time when women shall rise and help restore a much needed gender balance and assure the well being of our future.  Ashtoreth Valecourt’s art supports this emergence.”

Sharon Mijares, Ph.D, Psychologist, Lecturer, and principle author of the book ‘The Root of All Evil An Exposition of Prejudice, Fundamentalism, and Gender Imbalance