We recently connected with Elizabeth Colazo and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Elizabeth thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.
Despite having painted most of my life as a hobby it wasn’t so early on that I considered this pastime as professional career. When I first arrived at the United States, I began experimenting with jobs that had nothing to do with my essence, these jobs made me feel like I was going down a path that was not my own. With long hours of work that completely absorbed me, I did not have enough energy to do what I was passionate about, I felt trapped with no way out. This led me to go through a dark time of anguish and it was then that I understood that I had to paint and create again, that was my path. I knew that to focus on myself I had paint because it ultimately is what I have come to express to the world. Taking on this path was not easy, I was met with many inconveniences and hardships, but it was in those moments of stress that I found shelter and peace in my art. Then I began to recreate myself as an artist completely, I established a discipline of hours to paint and perfect myself. I even began researching ways to showcase my work to the world finding through social media many opportunities, contacts, ideas, and exhibitions. This way many new projects arose creating new challenges that make me grow every day a bit more.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I am a Visual Artist specifically dedicated to painting oil on canvas. My art is figurative and realistic, I paint portraits, flowers, boats and everything that can express the beauty of the everyday world. Focusing on conveying beautiful sensations so that my works can create harmonic spaces for others at the same time allowing people to connect with the present moment. I also have branched out into the use of different surfaces such as fabrics, wood, bags, clothes, etc. I began to gain more exposure for my works through the use of social media, this allowed me to start exposing my art in galleries in Europe as well as in Mexico. Social media has allowed me to communicate with interested clients contacting me to purchase of my works.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
The most rewarding thing about being an artist is being able to express my inner world through my paintings. When I create something, I mold, heal and re-invent myself and then I have the opportunity to offer that transformation to the world. As a creator you are showing your truth and your essence, in a painting you are presenting your soul before others awakening thousands of sensations. In the personal, my internal harmony is important, because of that to me being an artist is my everything. I can say that my work is Holistic, since it encompasses me in body, mind, soul and spirit.
: Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
My artistic goal focuses on bringing light to where there is darkness, harmonizing and connecting the viewer with the present. As people we live focused in the future when in reality there is a lot of beauty in the simple. I seek to focus people on the beauty that surrounds us as well with loving nature, which is what contributes so much to our well-being.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.elizabethpainting.com
- Instagram: @elizabethcolazoart
- Facebook: Elizabeth Painting