Artistic authenticity: The CreativeMindClass Blog

The process of connecting to your authentic self, the core of who one 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, full of sensitivity to ease and pleasure.

She is known to the art world as Riso Chan, who is the portrait artist as well as an artist who is currently a teacher at The Netherlands. She just started her new artistic journey with videos and her very own YouTube channel! It's something that she had wanted to create for a lengthy period of. With courage and determination, she fought through the awkwardness of speaking to a camera, she released a fun-to-watch video about herself working, her life, and the creative environment in which she lives.

Riso Chan about embracing her true, sensitive self through art:

My work is deeply emotional. My work is based on portraits that portray the things that I feel. I have always been a sensitive individual. From the time I was a kid there was something that made me feel uncomfortable , and I would try to get it out of my system. (...) As you mature, you realise that actually everything is fine and everybody feels differently. I decided to use all the emotional energy I bring to my everyday day life to begin painting. I use it to fuel my creative juices and generate fresh ideas. It's amazing that the thing I had been trying to push down for all of my life, all of a sudden I put it down on sheet of paper and it felt like such a feeling of relief. It is now the possibility to use this sensitivity, I can utilize these feelings pleasures, hurts, and pains and write them down. The experience was truly wonderful and took me to a state where I felt grateful. The experience began to resonate with a number of others too. I was opening to putting ideas onto paper that I had have never considered prior to. In lieu of trying to become like other artists who were already "made it" I was really listening on what I would like to say and what I want to express as a person. I accepted something I was not happy with about myself and I realised it is actually my superpower. I'm very happy to be my true sensitive self.

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Visit her Instagram for glimpses into her daily routine and news on her upcoming projects.

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