A event held at L'Étoile Studio on Sunday 30th March. The event starts at 11:00.
Lucia's paintings are bright, colourful and mystical. Within them, humans and animals dialogue with nature and objects.
Lucia was born in England but grew up in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia and travelled through many countries - she describes herself as having ‘floating roots’.
Perhaps this is why in her paintings you get the impression of transcending reality and travelling into another dimension.
Memories, dreams, and visions come together through moving pictorial textures.
We look forward to seeing you. This is a unique opportunity to get to know this wonderful artist and her beautiful paintings from 20 to 30 March at the étoile studio.
THE SHOW: MUTE EMBRACE
The curtain drawn upon our vision holds our gaze in the
immediacy of our breath. Movement: a bird flying across
the sky, a pin dropped on the street, a cough, give us a
sense of space, of spatial depth. The curtain is a freedom
which protects us behind our eyes. Our breath is the
constant second arm of time passing by. Our hesitations
of taking action with our body or the muscles of our ideas
put into practice, determines our destiny.
In this exhibition, Mute Embrace, I include the decisions
I took and take when experiencing the world and the
obstacles set upon my indecisions. These determine the
future or destiny of the direction, angle and colour of a
brush stroke - its thickness, its speed, the eventual
language it communicates.
The paintings here selected for Mute Embrace hold
personal symbols of movement, sound, rhythm, emotion,
reflection, noise, memory. Choices taken from a poetic
alphabet in which I move within my day to day.
Composition is the result of observation and interruption.
There is no esoteric meaning but the universal or the
evident. However, upside down!
There are no formulas for these paintings, these drawn-
out visual poems. They are what they are in this moment
in time: “a bird does not sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song," - Maya Angelou.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucia Sellars is a poet, an environmental scientist and a quiet observer. She lives in the UK. She published a poetry pamphlet at 18, after winning the Premio Joven Contest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She has also been published in small magazines such as The Response (Fabrica Art Gallery – Brighton), Cronopis (Barcelona) and Alba (London). She started to perform in Oxford in 2014 at The Catweazle and was part of Poetry Can F* Off, by Heathcote Williams in 2015. Her video-poems have been projected at the Athens International Video Poetry Festival 2016. She writes in both English and Spanish. More recently, her poetry collection 'The State of Moving' was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. You can find more of her work here: www.luciasellars.org
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Lucia was born in England but grew up in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia and travelled through many countries - she describes herself as having ‘floating roots’.
Perhaps this is why in her paintings you get the impression of transcending reality and travelling into another dimension.
Memories, dreams, and visions come together through moving pictorial textures.
We look forward to seeing you. This is a unique opportunity to get to know this wonderful artist and her beautiful paintings from 20 to 30 March at the étoile studio.
THE SHOW: MUTE EMBRACE
The curtain drawn upon our vision holds our gaze in the
immediacy of our breath. Movement: a bird flying across
the sky, a pin dropped on the street, a cough, give us a
sense of space, of spatial depth. The curtain is a freedom
which protects us behind our eyes. Our breath is the
constant second arm of time passing by. Our hesitations
of taking action with our body or the muscles of our ideas
put into practice, determines our destiny.
In this exhibition, Mute Embrace, I include the decisions
I took and take when experiencing the world and the
obstacles set upon my indecisions. These determine the
future or destiny of the direction, angle and colour of a
brush stroke - its thickness, its speed, the eventual
language it communicates.
The paintings here selected for Mute Embrace hold
personal symbols of movement, sound, rhythm, emotion,
reflection, noise, memory. Choices taken from a poetic
alphabet in which I move within my day to day.
Composition is the result of observation and interruption.
There is no esoteric meaning but the universal or the
evident. However, upside down!
There are no formulas for these paintings, these drawn-
out visual poems. They are what they are in this moment
in time: “a bird does not sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song," - Maya Angelou.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucia Sellars is a poet, an environmental scientist and a quiet observer. She lives in the UK. She published a poetry pamphlet at 18, after winning the Premio Joven Contest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She has also been published in small magazines such as The Response (Fabrica Art Gallery – Brighton), Cronopis (Barcelona) and Alba (London). She started to perform in Oxford in 2014 at The Catweazle and was part of Poetry Can F* Off, by Heathcote Williams in 2015. Her video-poems have been projected at the Athens International Video Poetry Festival 2016. She writes in both English and Spanish. More recently, her poetry collection 'The State of Moving' was published by Beir Bua Press in 2022. You can find more of her work here: www.luciasellars.org
Entry requirements: no age restrictions