Lucia Boaghe is a London based artist inspired by people and nature and philosophy and psychology. Lucia aims to make the world a better place and to make people happier by exploring emotional and psychological human changes in a new environment through painting and sculpture. Lucia's practice deals with immigration as a psychological experience and as a part of contemporary life. Lucia comes from Moldova, a small country with just about 3.5 million population, which is declining daily and in the last ten years more than 1.2 million people have left the country. Lucia's personal experience with immigration has an emotional impact on the work she creates and her interest in psychology has played an important role as well. The change of national identity in a multinational environment led Lucia to the idea of translating this through painting and sculpture, showing the psychological emptiness in a modified, distorted identity; the disappearance of national identity as a result of assimilation and influence of new cultures.
1) Which art movement do you consider most influential on your practice?
I find myself between abstract and figurative expressionism.
2) Where do you go and when to make your best art?
The inspiration comes frequently to me after art shows.
3) How do you describe your 'creative process'?
Like a meditation.
4) Which artist, living or deceased, is the greatest inspiration to you?
5) If you weren't an artist, what would you do?
Anything creative.
6) What do you listen to for inspiration?
Depends on my mood.
7) If you could own one artwork, and money was no object, which piece would you acquire?
Michelangelo’s David in the garden.
8) If your dream museum or collection owner came calling, which would it be?
The Tate Modern.
9) What is your key piece of advice for artists embarking on a fine art or creative degree today?
Keep doing what you love!
10) What is your favorite book of all time (fiction or non fiction)?
'The Agony and the Ecstasy' by Irving Stone.
11) If you could hang or place your artwork in one non traditional art setting, where would that be?
In front of an orphanage.
12) What was the biggest lesson your university course or time studying taught you?
Be yourself, be kind, help each other!
13) And finally, if we were to fast forward 10 years, where would we find you?
In the Tate Modern!
Learn more about Lucia and discover her collection of paintings.
