Art and authenticity - The CreativeMindClass Blog

Connecting to your true self. The essence of what a person is.

Angela Maria Sierra, a spanish-born artist who portrays the real herself and the emotions she's going through. This is reflected in figures with rich emotional lives that are full of compassion to ease and pleasure.

She is known to the art world under the name Riso Chan - photographer and artist who is currently a teacher within The Netherlands. Her new venture is just beginning. art journey by creating videos and her very own YouTube channel! This is something she's had wanted to create for a very long time. In bravery, despite the discomfort of talking to a camera, she released a fun-to-watch video about herself, her work, as well as her surroundings for creativity.

Riso Chan talks about accepting her true, sensitive self through her art work:

My work is extremely emotionally charged. My work is based on portraits which depict the emotions I am feeling. I have always been a sensitive individual. Since I was a child, it has been something that made me feel uncomfortable , and I would try to put it down. (...) When you get older and realize that everything is fine and everybody feels differently. I decided to use my emotional energy that I carry into my daily life and start painting. I draw on it to stimulate my creativity and to spark the imagination of others. It's amazing that the thing I had been striving to get rid of all day suddenly I put it down on piece of paper and seemed like a great release. It is now an area where I am able to utilize this feeling, and I can utilize these feelings as well as joys, sorrows and feelings and put them on paper. This was a truly amazing experience and brought me to a state that was filled with gratitude. It began to resonate with lot of people too. I was opening to putting ideas on paper I'd did not think of previously. Instead of trying to be like other artists who were already "made it" I listened on what I would like to express and who I am as a person. I accepted something I did not like about me and realized that it was actually my greatest strength. I am really happy being the most sensitive me.

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