Some people are born with otherworldly talent that seems so remarkable that it must be a gift from God. That is the story of painter Akiane Kramarik, who creates breathtaking works of art of God, heaven, angels, and other faith-based subjects. She says that her inspiration comes from the same place as her talent: God.

Check out this astounding video to see these incredible paintings for yourself.

The video, posted by YouTuber Arabic Christian Hymns, has received almost seven and a half million views. People around the world have been moved by Kramarik’s celestial artwork. And her story is just as inspiring.

According to her website, Akiane’s life began in an unusual way, with an underwater home birth in a shack on the edge of a cornfield. Her mother was a Lithuanian immigrant teacher and her father a chef from Chicago.

Her childhood was solitary. She was homeschooled by her mother. “In their rural Illinois home the family had no friends, no relatives, no television or radio, and their life was quite simple: long walks in nature, open conversations, and hands on explorations of knowledge.”

Akiane says that at the age of four, she “started experiencing vivid impressions about invisible realms and a great desire to express them through art utilizing whatever medium was found on hand: candles, lipstick, fruits, vegetables, charcoal or pencils.”

She kept these visions secret from her family, saying, “It is not time yet for you to know what I see. When that time comes, then you will know.”

“Whether it was Akiane’s vivid imagination or real experiences, her realistic drawings of mostly faces, undoubtedly impressed everybody, and during the first local art exhibitions people often had a hard time believing that the work could actually be created by such a young child. … at the tender age of eight the self-taught prodigy completed her first five-foot long oil paintings mastering realism equal to that of a seasoned artist.”

The media took notice and soon her story traveled around the globe. Oprah Winfrey shared Akiane’s work on her show was Akiane was nine years old.

“Since then, she has been called a genius, a prodigy, a crystal child, an indigo, a messenger, a visionary, an ambassador, and the first true master of the 21st century. Completely unconcerned about all the labels or the accolades about her, Akiane, now seventeen, continues to express herself through art and poetry, inspiring and changing countless lives one person at a time.

… Many of the world’s leaders, royalty, scientists, media, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and celebrities have been acquainted with her art or are collecting it. Her art exhibitions have been held in museums, galleries, embassies, private mansions, universities, institutes, monasteries, churches, hotels and corporations across the world.
The interest in Akiane has reached unprecedented proportions, with over 200 published art works, 800 literary creations, two published best selling books, regular appearances on prime-time TV and radio, such as Oprah Winfrey Show, World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Glen Beck Show/CNN, The View, Fox News, Montel Williams Show, Late Late Show, Lou Dobbs Show/CNN, Hour of Power, and numerous others, top media coverage in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Norway, Lithuania, Ireland, England, Canada, Middle East, and China, with an induction into the Kids Hall Of Fame, and World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, almost 300 million hits a year on www.akiane.com, the main website for Akiane gallery and over 100,000 daily hits on internet searches of the world wide web.”

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