{"id":4520,"date":"2023-05-12T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxuryhomemagazine.com\/thepalmbeaches\/blog\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:14:11","slug":"artist-lauren-pilla-into-the-divine-with-the-surrender-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxuryhomemagazine.com\/thepalmbeaches\/blog\/2023\/05\/12\/artist-lauren-pilla-into-the-divine-with-the-surrender-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Lauren Pilla – Into the Divine with the Surrender Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artist Lauren Pilla is a contemporary figurative painter whose work has been focused on painting imagery of herself underwater. As both the artist and the subject, she combines her spiritual practice with painting. Lauren\u2019s work addresses overarching themes in people\u2019s lives around overcoming self-doubt, fear, limiting beliefs and coming back to the essence of who they truly are.<\/p>\n

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Art has always been a part of Lauren Pilla\u2019s life, but it wasn\u2019t until this year that she truly surrendered to it. Change is uncomfortable and jarring at times, but that\u2019s where the growth lies and in her case a return to who she always was \u2013 an artist. She had suppressed her gifts and spent a long time on a path she didn\u2019t belong on, later realizing it was all part of the divine process in order for her to arrive here. Lauren spent most of her career working in male dominated industries where she tried to fit into a mold surrounded by people who wanted her to become their own vision, not hers. She had been stuck in a world driven by masculine energy.<\/p>\n

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After years of being stifled and feeling like she had to prove herself in order to be accepted, she left the corporate world and embarked on her new creative journey; one that became quite healing and magical. She went inward and put the focus back on her, putting herself first. This is the reason she herself is the main subject in her Surrender Series. It all began with vivid dreams about water, from which she started to put the pieces in motion, working with a local photographer to shoot her underwater, capturing moments in time. <\/p>\n

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What is your Style?<\/strong>
\nI am a contemporary figurative oil painter who paints on canvas. My painting process starts with a traditional approach dating back to the old masters, doing an underpainting usually in raw umber, which is a monochromatic painting which functions as the foundation to determine the balance of light and dark areas, before the color layers are applied.\n<\/p>\n

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Share some insight on this series!<\/strong>
\nThe premise of this series is reclaiming the feminine energy. Water is a feminine earth element and the life force of everything in nature. It’s symbolic of the feminine spirit of oneness and receptive energy, which is why the floating poses in water capture a moment of stillness juxtaposed with regeneration. Water is shapeless, formless and cannot be confined, connecting back to the liberating moment of coming back to one’s-self. The fluidity of the chiffon is representative of the fabric of life. The threads that interweave our experiences and one’s pursuit for meaning and happiness.\n<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s Next?<\/strong>
\nI am in the process of planning my next series, which I am very excited about the concept and meaning behind it, stay tuned.\n<\/p>\n

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Artist Lauren Pilla grew up in Gates Mills, Ohio. She received her BFA (Major, Fashion Design) from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After college, she worked for the German fashion house Escada and jewelry brand Ruchi New York. She also worked in venture capital for a private real estate family and EXOR (the holding company of the Agnelli family) in New York. Lauren\u2019s non-linear path has been the culmination that\u2019s led her to discovering her purpose of being an artist. Lauren left the corporate world and moved to Florida at the end of 2021 to pursue oil painting. Lauren is a contemporary figurative painter whose work has been focused on painting imagery of herself underwater. As both the artist and the subject, she combines her spiritual practice with painting.\n<\/p>\n

www.laurenpillaart.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Visit Luxury Home Magazine of The Palm Beaches<\/a> to see more artists.<\/p>\n

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