Artist Statement – Capturing the simplicity, color and texture is everything for me. As an Illustrator these three components have always been what I remember and look for when I create new artwork. It’s my inspiration. I usually combine different mediums together to form a unique style and still send the message to my audience. When I draw, paint or design, it’s all about keeping it simple, intriguing and captivating. My work draws influence from everyday life, environment nature and animals. I work mostly with colored pencils, watercolor, gouache and acrylic. Although I have the heart for making collages and mixed medias, I also like to make interactive artwork that can be used and touchable because I want people to be able to use more than one sense when looking at my artwork. In the following four artworks submitted, I am representing it as the four main phases that I experienced after being a victim of harassment years ago. All of these four watercolor and colored pencils paintings are very expressive and metaphorically. In each painting, I’ve incorporated the following key terms: fear, remembering, silence, strength, forgetting and forgiving.
Exhibitions: Portraits in Refuge
Biography – Elisandra Lopes is an artist whose work draws influence from everyday life, environment, and nature. She works mostly with colored pencils, watercolor, gouache, acrylic while having the heart for making collages. She likes to make interactive artwork that can be used by kids because in the future she wants to work with children. Elisandra, currently a senior student at Lesley University College of Art and Design is majoring in Illustration and minor in Art Therapy. She plans to have her work displayed online and gallery exhibitions. Three of her current pieces related to immigration are display on the Crossing/Borders Exhibition at Parker’s Gallery in University Hall, Cambridge,MA. Elisandra also enjoys dancing, she participated in the QUEEN club, MSAC (Multicultural Student Advisory Council), Art Therapy Club, and volunteers with Lesley Community Service.