This series of paintings is inspired by the Divine Feminine in connection with music since musical, artistic and poetic inspiration was always thought to spring from this Divinity.
For this series I have used acrylics, embroidery thread and natural linen canvas. I include embroidery in my works as a a tool for female empowerment and peaceful protest, I consider the embroidery as a space of freedom, introspection, self-knowledge and sisterhood.

Women playing music

The Andean Fantasy series of paintings are inspired by the cultural manifestations of the original Peruvian peoples, especially from the Andean region, as part of a personal investigation on the symbolic language of textiles and ceramics inherited by our ancestors. These elements are fused in my work with patterns, shapes and colours from the constant exploration of my own narrative expression, and my own identity.

Andean Fantasy

This series of artworks are inspired in a feeling of calm, tranquility and being with and caring about ourselves. Moon bathing is an ancestral practice of exposing oneself on the light of the moon in an effort to drink in the cooling lunar energy.
In the other hand, The Calathea plants (native to tropical rainforest in South and Central America and the West Indies), symbolise a NEW BEGINNING. For this painting I have used acrylics, embroidery thread and natural linen canvas. I include embroidery in my works as a a tool for female empowerment and peaceful protest, I consider the embroidery as a space of freedom, introspection, self-knowledge and sisterhood.

Moon Bathing

This series of paintings is inspired by nature, especially flora and with which I try to convey a sense of calm, well-being and connection to the earth. The organic shapes in the background have been created by stamping potatoes and carrots painted with gouache. The foreground has been painted freehand and expressively, guided more by feelings than by a visual guide.

Organic Composition

This series of nudes is my way of expressing that feeling of love and care for oneself and for our body. Our body is our greatest support and a companion for life that reflects what happens in our emotional world, from which we are usually disconnected. Thanks to our body we are here, without a body there is no life, when it doesn't work, nothing around us works, but when it works, we are able to reach the moon with our hands.

This work has been created with recycled jute (Latin American coffee bags) and embroidery.

Embracing Myself

Chilling out is as important as being active, taking time out to simply relax or do what you feel like boosts health, creativity and work performance.
This series of nudes is my way of expressing that feeling of love and care for oneself and for our body. 
This work has been created with recycled jute (Latin American coffee bags) and embroidery. I also use embroidery in my works as a tool for female empowerment and peaceful protest, I consider the embroidery as a space of freedom, introspection, self-knowledge and sisterhood.

State of Relaxation

Nature is inspiring all this serie of organic abstracts that I'm working on at the moment.
This work has been created with recycled jute (Latin American coffee bags) and embroidery. Lately I am exploring materials that allow me to create a more sustainable and environmentally conscious art, in my process the recycled jute coffee bags are painted, cut and reconstructed in organic abstracts and arcing contour body silhouettes. I also use embroidery in my works as a tool for female empowerment and peaceful protest, I consider the embroidery as a space of freedom, introspection, self-knowledge and sisterhood.

Nature

In my series of Contemporary Goddesses I try to rescue a more modern version of ancestral goddesses such as Pachamama (Mother Earth) or Venus for their environmental and feminist attributes, as well as turning contemporary activists who protect the earth, activists for equal rights, among others, into goddesses. I consider them "goddesses" because of their importance as "ideals of humanity, environmental protection and feminism", necessary for our contemporary world.

Contemporary Goddesses

This series of nudes of women hugging themselves is my way of expressing that feeling of love and care for oneself and for our body. Our body is our greatest support and also a companion for life that reflects what happens in our emotional world, from which we are usually disconnected. Thanks to our body we are here, without a body there is no life, when it doesn't work, nothing around us works, but when it works we are able to reach the moon with our hands.

These paintings are created with gouache and pastel on handmade recycled cotton paper.
This artwork is framed, the size with frame is 50 x 40 cm

Self Care & Love

Ella (She) is a collection that portraits the image of strong independent women.
Women that are free to make their own choices in live
Confident women that doesn't conform and sets out their own path in the world
Women with wisdom
Women with fire and passion for live
Women of the world...
To create my paintings I use acrylic paint, sprays and paper with essays on women, equality, revolution of women in the new era, etc.

Gisella Stapleton