We were lucky to catch up with Elisa Rossi recently and have shared our conversation below.
Elisa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s jump back to the first dollar you earned as a creative? What can you share with us about how it happened?
Surprisingly I found my first committed collector while doing deliveries for Postmates during summer 2020. Mr Kelly approached me at Starbucks on Melrose Avenue as his attention got caught by my hand painted backpack. He asked me if I was an artist and I said yes, doing my best.
He said that his astrological newsletter that morning told him that he would have run into an artist and so that is how our friendship started. A few months later he bought 2 paintings of mine and then he kept on buying more pieces in the following years with the last purchase being made in May 2023. In a very unexpected way I built a solid relationship with a patron and we are still friends going around art shows, flea markets and farmers markets. I am very grateful.
Elisa, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I make paintings mostly using oil on canvas. I developed a peculiar style, that I don’t really define. Thinking of what other people told me when looking at my art, they said that my pictures often work as portals and allow the viewer to connect with more ethereal realms. Or simply they said they like the colors.
When it comes to visual arts, I embrace what very established artists stated: if you can talk about an artwork, then you need to work more because it ain’t good art.
I would like my potential new customers to receive a blissful experience when hanging my paintings to their walls and that their relationship to the pictures deepens and develops in time offering inputs for self discoveries or just a pleasant visual ritual.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
It’s the possibility of dissolving oneself into the Sacred, the Unknown, the Soul, the Intangible.
Are there any books, videos or other content that you feel have meaningfully impacted your thinking?
Books
‘The Soul Code. In Search of Character and Calling’, a bestseller written by James Hillman. That reading violently shook me off and made me realize that I had to pursue an artistic path and that all thay I was doing at that time was not authentic, was not my Dharma. I recommend this book to anyone at a bifurcation in life.
‘Art is a way of knowing’ by Pat B. Allen
‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julian Cameron
‘Awakened Imagination’ and ‘Infinite Potential’ by Neville Goddard
‘The War of Art’ by Steven Pressfield
‘Art is life’ by Jerry Saltz
‘The Four Agreements ‘by Don Miguel Ruiz
‘ The Gene Keys’ by Richard Rudd
‘Il libro del drago’ by Athon Veggi
‘Oltre il Velo degli Dei’ by Athon Veggi
‘Bringers of the Dawn’ by Barbara Marciniak
‘Women who run with wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
‘Existential Kink’by Carolyn Elliot, PhD
‘Letting Go’ by David R. Hawkins
‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Documentaries
The BBC documentary ‘Turning the Art World Inside Out’.
‘The Radiant Child’.
‘Beautiful Losers’.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.elisarossiart.com
- Instagram: @ella_blisss
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisa-rossi-51b1257