Elisabetta Yoni

Elisabetta Yoni Galluzzi lives and works in the mystical green realm of Tuscany. She choose the art name Yoni
because she believe the source of her creative power to be her uterus. Yoni in Sanskrit means womb, uterus, vagina. She has a degree in art history, but is almost self-thaught as an artist.

Her potraits are figurative but also impalpable. Watercolor and ink washes figures that emerge from a metaphisical kind of place like spirits or ghosts.

For portraits of figurative works she usualy finds inspiration in old and contemporary photos, but works also without a reference. But the most inspiration comes from Nature, because she lives in the woods.

- ARTIST STATEMENT -
When I'm working with a reference, I never want to replicate exactly what I see on the photo. Instead I try to convey the emotion that I felt looking at that particular picture.

I tend to follow the imperceptible, the small details that comes from seeing something with inner eye.

I chant the invisible. I'm interested in occult, esoteric and alchemical studies. Also mithology, shamanism, archeology and of course art.

My imagination is sparkled by the astral realm, with all the entities that live there, and the other invisible dimensions of self. I'm also ...

Università degli Studi di Siena - Storia dell'Arte
Illustrazione - Scuola Internazionale di Comics

2012 - Bianco Ippocampo - Teatrikos Arte (SI) Italy
2014 - Astral - Siena - Italy
2014 - Mostra Collettiva - Corte dei Miracoli (SI) - Italy
2016 - Moleskine Poetry - Siena