This weeks episode is dedicated to understanding how Lucia created self-discovery through art, where she is guided through art-making processes to explore and understand who she is through her own work. Lucia uses her intuition, her mind, & her subconscious self to let the rhythm of the music lead the way to express her creative flow that reflects in her emotional healing. Lucia uses art as an expression to understand her conscious and subconscious mind, We discuss how art is a way to get clarity on what emotions we are holding back, Lucia’s art is an expression of her emotional and psychological needs.

Through her work, she is supporting a number of mental health institutes dealing with dementia, autism and vulnerable groups.

Lucia is currently the artist in residence at artFix London and exhibits her works at the Black Heath Conservatoire.

Listen out for:

• Art is used to releasing emotional energy
• The lack of female role models and representation of women artist
• Female heroes breaking glass ceilings
• How using intuition, mind, subconscious to evolve through and emotional healing
• How we can get involved to help support local artist and support refugees

About Lucia…

Lucia has painted scenery for different theatre productions (The Gate Theatre /The Young Vic/The Jermyn Street Theatre) and painted theatre costumes for productions of Beauty and the beast /Riverdance and Cats.

Lucia has exhibited regularly at Blackheath and Charlton and North of London at the Menier Gallery  (London Bridge) and The Espacio Gallery (Bethnal Green).

She has taught students rudimentary expression with experimental methods in gesture and freedom at the Strand, King’s College,  London.

Most recently she has lent her talents to the Royal Borough of Greenwich facilitating artworks with local communities, culminating in a successful exhibition of printmaking, sculpture and installation at the Woolwich centre library.

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