Experienced Italian painter Sarah Arensi applies spirals of energy and light on the canvas to represent the power of life and its spiritual aspects. Inspired by Sufism, Taoism, Tantra and Shamanism, she harnesses her own spirituality to promote ideals of love and joy through bright colors and textured surfaces. We sat down with the artist to get a deeper understanding of her creative process.
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
First, I drink a cup of warm water with lemon, then I meditate for 30 minutes. I’ll also work out by alternating usually between yoga and cardio dance. After all this, I have my breakfast, do my day-plan, and start painting.
What inspires you to create every day?
Nature inspires me everyday. I live in nature, in a place called “the theater of space”, where there are only green fields and forests. I also draw my inspiration from inner spaces, silence, and everything that comes from the unknown and mysterious field of consciousness.
What does your work space look like?
I have two work spaces. One is in nature, outside in a green garden in Tuscany, and the other is my atelier near Milano, in an ancient building that used to be a silk fabric factory.
Describe the core of your technique or style.
I paint energy in motion, and use colors as portals to open minds, hearts, and consciousness. My aim is to create a better world and well-being inside and outside. I use golden and silver leaves in a raw way by putting them on the canvas with my hands, leaving some pieces hanging, and by doing this, I give movement and high vibes to the paintings.
When I work on commission, I put on canvas the soul essence of my clients. In my opinion, painting can heal your soul and expands spirits. I use art in a shamanic way because art for me is medicine for our life. I see through the eyes of my clients and I paint their divine essence on the canvas.
Sarah Arensi
So when I work on tailored soul paintings, I start a co-creation process with my clients. They become part of the work and are totally indispensable. I come in contact with their energy, so that I can perceive, feel, and see every single nuance.
I work with them on two levels:
1) Liberation on a “soul” and spiritual level to unlock the full realization of their true self.
2) Strengthening, expanding, nurturing, and grounding their luminous essence at multidimensional levels.
My art has the power to generate harmony in the environment and spread very high frequencies, cleaning the soul of those who relate to it and harmonizing the surrounding areas.
When I create my works, I am in the empty space, in that deep silence of being from which truth and pure beauty begin. It is an alchemical and healing process in which the unknown is translated into colors, frequencies, vibrations, and lights through my hands. I become a tool for the realization of one’s spirit in the form of art.
What are your top 3 studio essentials?
Light, silence, and order.
How do you know or decide when an artwork is finished?
I feel it. When I see harmony and balance, my inner voice says ‘ok’, and that means that one cycle is completed. All my paintings continue to regenerate themselves in a never ending process of transmutation. This means that I can have the perception of a finished painting, but the truth is that the painting itself continues to transform.
What do you like to do to unwind after a day’s work?
Walk in nature; see a good movie; meditate for 10 minutes; have a warm bath with rose or neroli oil essence and Himalayan salt.
What’s your overall favorite aspect of the creative process?
Actually, I love all the phases of creative process. If I have to choose, I would say it is when I have the breakthrough, the insight, the idea that allows for the flow of putting colors on the canvas.
