Clarissa Reneé is a full-time Abstract Artist and Therapeutic Art Practitioner living and working by the sea with her young son. Trained in Art and Fashion design first at the London College of Fashion, and then a degree in Fashion Design, Clarissa rediscovered her love & passion for drawing and painting again later on in life, surrendering finally to the call to leave her corporate life for good.
She paints with childlike abandon, altering her brainwave state to Theta and painting in trancelike states. References to texture in her work is an homage to her kinesthetic son.
"I hope to translate themes of movement, energetic states, my passion for nature and fond memories of times spent immersed in the culture of my tropical island home, the sea, the laughter and landscapes, food music, and dance. In creating my work, I explore and grapple with the need to control the outcome – a trauma response habit that I used to feel safe and secure by controlling as much of my life and surroundings as I can. Painting, therefore, became a method of healing as I journeyed towards feeling safe even in states of absolute surrender to the creative process.
