Interview with the artist Eloah Mestieri —

1. Tell us a little about yourself.
Eloah Mestieri, from São Paulo, psychoanalyst. I studied law at FMU, but I didn’t practice law, because I set up a lingerie company, which I ran for 22 years. In addition to being the owner, I worked as a stylist and I was able to exercise my creativity as a developer of all the collections and all the prints, later also designing prints for weaving in other countries. In childhood I was a student of the artist Innocencio Borghese, I took free art courses at FAAP-Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo/SP and at the Panamericana School of Art also in São Paulo, the last one, last year, with the artist Elias Muradi.

4. What are your favorite themes? What materials do you use in your works?
My favorite themes today are the “solid abstract”, as I define my work, or the “informal figurative”, as it was baptized by a great art collector. I already had some experience with watercolors, I liked it a lot, but my current work is mainly focused on the technique of oil on canvas.

6. Does any artist inspire you?
In reality, despite admiring many artists, my inspiration does not come from any of them. What moves me in my work is creation. Paul Cézanne’s works enchant me, but I could name others as well, such as the futurist Giacomo Balla, and the modernist Georgia O’Keeffe whose works are admirable.