Oshilaja Hemsley's Page

My Role

Visual Artist, Educator, Arts Worker, Artist

My Discipline(s)

Visual Arts, Design

My Specialties

Arts and health - intuitive painting.

About Me And My Work

I'm an intuitive artist and energy practitioner, and run The Creative Well which is an open studio with work that focuses on emotional wellbeing through the creative process.
Oh is my artistic name and I work in soft pastels on paper and acrylics on canvas and paper.

Artistic Experiences I Have Had On My Travels

The seven huge classical paintings by Dali in the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Picasso's works in Barclona.

Places I Would Like To Visit

The beautiful mosque in Djenne made out of mud.

Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With

Would be working with an interior designer who uses the language of colour to create sacred spaces and places of wellbeing.
I would also love to work with a choreographer whereby appropriate paintings would be used in the dance piece.

My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists

Mark Rothko
Pablo Picasso
Bart Prince (architect)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lisa Gerrard
Jan Garbarek
Magdalene Odundo
Alice Kettle
David Blackburn

My Artistic Affiliations

www.artheals.org

My Web link

http://www.the-creative-well.com