I create art to see and heal. As a painter, writer and sound therapist, I use expressive arts as medicine; to restore a sense of unity so that every morning feels like weekend sunshine.
“Imagination is the preview of the life you can build. Creativity, the act to bring it to life.”
— Francesca Ciaudano
ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTing so that every morning feels like weekend sunshine.
I believe ART is a form of medicine, one of the most powerful natural and accessible tools we have for our mental and emotional wellbeing.
Over several years of experimenting spiritual practices to find answers, I came to the understanding that there is nothing as powerful as the ritual of making art to restore a sense of unity with the self. A form of art that is free, visceral, intuitive and abstract in nature, allows a seeing and knowing beyond the seen and the known. The process of making and the interpretation of the creations are key parts in bridging the invisible with the visible and reaching a sense of wellbeing not easily achievable with any other practice.
In my paintings, pigments flow freely, in their own form of primal expression. Or they are liberated into visceral movement flows into a constant state of becoming.
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ARTIST BIO
Francesca Ciaudano is an Italian artist, writer and sound therapist based in Dubai. As a self-taught painter, her work is not conditioned by rules, but is unfiltered and expressive. She treats art-making as a spiritual practice.
Francesca left an international corporate career, tirelessly built over 25 years, to pursue art. She is now a full-time abstract painter on a mission to revolutionise how art is viewed, and to highlight its benefits for mental and emotional wellbeing – a life philosophy she named Beingfullness™.
In 2021, her work was exhibited in Italy (Cisterne Romane, Assessorato alla Cultura) and Paris (193 Gallery and Platforme Planet Earth). She also launched her first NFT (carbon neutral) for Superchief Gallery in New York and the Every Woman Biennial.
Francesca's most recent lecture on Art for Healing was held at FabrianoInAcquarello (a UNESCO Creative City) and garnered over 1700 views on Youtube.
One of her works has been featured in a short film by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldívar, as well as on ikonotv.art and the Global Fine Art Awards channel. Francesca's work was also included in Better Living, a Dubai-based home interiors magazine, and in the first beyond neutral gallery, C2Zero Art in Australia.
In the first half of 2022, she will participate in the exhibitions “Eye of the Beholder” (508 Gallery, London) and “Framing our Future” (virtual exhibition, Artcan), and her work will be showcased in FabrianoInAcquarello (Fabriano, Italy), Platforme Planet Earth (Paris, France) and Cisterne Romane, Assessorato della Cultura (Fermo, Italy). Her work is included in private collections around the world.
Cosmo of being. Mine is messy.
2021
MY STORY
Hello. This is Francesca. Welcome to this page. I’d like to take you back with me to 2019, when my life looked perfect.
May-2019.
I had graduated and happily (not without challenges but that's another story) gotten onto the corporate ladder, and from there initiated into a life defined by numbers. Driving on a readymade path, I was checking all of the numbers on the given shopping list. Successful career. Check. Stylish house. Check. Fancy holidays. Check. ...check...chec...che...c..
So why, today, like yesterday and the day before that... was I counting the minutes left to the last meeting? The hours left for the weekend to arrive? It was undeniable that I have disengaged from my own life. Driving in neutral for far too long, the engine had become separated from the wheels; as much as my heart had become separated from my Mon-to-Thu life.
As I’m sitting at my desk, gazing with a sense of foreboding at my 8-hours-of-daily-meetings calendar, my head is taking a break. For a few moments, it is setting free from its counting marathon to get out of here and instead it is dreaming of the life that could be. My hand knows that this is the right opportunity and it finds the courage to start writing something that resembles a resignation letter.
A few moments after that letter becomes formalised and a 25-year long life vision, a career, its sacrifices and the to-do list get archived. Part of me hopes that my head isn’t returning too quickly from its break to question what I am going to do now with neither a job nor a plan…in the meantime, I pack my suitcase and drive back home.
Since that moment, I have committed to breaking free and to dedicating my life to reclaiming the power of truly seeing and living. I have named this path Beingfullness™. It is a path where life feels fully expressed and lived.
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CV
Mar - Apr 2022 - Eye of the Beholder, group exhibition. 508 Gallery, Chelsea, London. UK
Mar 2022 - Framing the Future. ArtCan Virtual exhibition
Oct 2021 - Art for Climate Change (digital). Platforme Planet Earth, Miami Beach, FL and Gallery 193, Paris, France.
08 - 28, Aug 2021 - Group Exhibition. Citta' di Fermo. Cisterne Romane. Assessorato alla Cultura. Italy
24 Jun - 04 Jul, 2021 Every Woman Biennial. Virtual Exhibition and Superchief Gallery, New York
Jun 2021 - ongoing Member Artist at ArtCan organisation - UK
Jun 2021 - Fabriano in Acquarello. Fabriano Creative City UNESCO - Italy
Apr 2021 - Health and Wellbeing for Art Making - Short Course - Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts - London - UK
Jan 2021 - ongoing Committee Chair - IACAET (International Association for Creative Arts in Education and Therapy)
Summer 2020 - Understanding Contemporary Art - Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London - UK
2002 - 2019 Marketing, Events, Digital Transformation & Public Relations Senior Executive
Summer 2006 - Exhibition and Production & Art Curator - Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Day 0 - to 7 years old. Artist
I had forgotten how to play. Lost that sense of enchantment for life. Day folding into the next while a longing to set myself free, take radical risks and stop playing safe, were getting stronger and stronger. In this journey, art taught me its transformational power, its ability to bridge the visible to the invisible and create unity. The medicine of imagination. Letting curiosity and creativity opening to a world that the adult common eye cannot see anymore. Never able to look at the world with the same eyes again.
I want to be un-ended.