"Stemming" Painting

This is the artwork gallery of Barbara Parise (outsider artist active since 1980) also known as Lady U. Plush (1999 - 2011) and Cosmic Bird (2011— ). She is an Italo-British multi-disciplinary Visual/ aural artist-creator, cosmic entrepreneur living between the UK and Italy. Currently not accepting unsolicited material, not interested in collaborations, prefer working solo and independently at my own pace and leisure. Creative activities so far: Avant-garde composer, voice, screenwriter/writer/poet, painter, film-maker/director/ photographer, film/theatre director, muse, actress, dancer, performer, producer, editor, expert researcher, sound designer and art/ film curator, entrepreneur, seasoned traveller. Currently I am a Lecturer/ educator in various institutions, and an editor. And all the rest. Previously: Content provider, film and media researcher, event manager, art gallery vintage shop owner, film critic/curator, film historian/consultant. Company director. In my art practice and through my not-so-short life and several decades I have gathered bags of experience of all sorts in different fields. I enjoy experimenting with several mediums, mostly painting, visuals, music and some mix media, art photography. I am inspired by the cosmos, space, the supernatural, mystery, nature and ancient or unpopular things. In the past I took inspiration from dark fairy tales, sci-fi monsters, extraterrestrial lifeforms, magical occurrences, gothic literature realms, pop art, expressionism avantgarde and symbolism. I try to avoid repetition and self complacency and abhor self serving behavioural attitudes and people practicing that, as I find it particularly annoying, boringly uninspiring and dull, likewise wordy rhetorical descriptions of artists' artworks in art. I do not trust AI and people using it. Furthermore, I have been exploring and documenting my passages in places since 1980- sensorial spaces for decades and I express my impressions through visual art/film, music, writing. I do not live in the past but I am happy to have been young and free before the alienating, de-humanising oppressive, destructive digital age of nowadays- and I go forward as a rule of thumb trying to preserve my sanity.