Authenticity in art - The CreativeMindClass Blog

The process of connecting to your authentic self, the essence of what a person is.

Angela Maria Sierra, a Spanish-born artist, portrays true herself and the emotions she's going through. The result is in the form of models with a rich emotional life filled with sensitivity, ease, and joy.

She is known to the art world as Riso Chan - the portrait artist as well as an artist who is currently a teacher within The Netherlands. The artist is about to begin her art journey by creating videos and her very own YouTube channel! This is something she's had wanted to create for quite a long time. With courage and determination, she fought through the discomfort of talking to cameras, she made a fun-to-watch video about herself working, her life, and the creative environment in which she lives.

Riso Chan about embracing her sensitive true self through art:

My work is extremely emotionally charged. I work on portraits that portray the things that I feel. My entire life, I have been a sensitive person. When I was young, it has been something which always made me feel uncomfortable , and I would try to ignore it. (...) As you mature, you realise that actually everything is fine and everybody feels different. I decided to use my emotional energy that I bring to my everyday life to paint. It is a way to boost my imagination and spark fresh ideas. It's amazing that the thing I had been pushing down all my life, all of a sudden I put it down on sheet of paper and it was like a huge relief. There is finally the possibility to make use of this sense, where I can use these emotions as well as joys, sorrows and feelings and put them on paper. This was a truly amazing experience and brought me to a place of gratefulness. It began to resonate with many others. I was opening the door and writing things down onto paper that I had never thought of before. In lieu of trying to be similar to other artists who had already "made it" I was really listening to what I want to express and what I want to express as a person. I took on something that I was not happy with about me and realized that it was actually my greatest strength. I'm very happy to be my true sensitive self.

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