Who is Blueglassesgirl?

Blueglassesgirl is a qualified psychotherapist and self-taught artist who creates mixed media art. 

She expresses her creativity through photography, word and spoken word, performance art, eco-art, abstract sculpture, assemblage, wall art, digital art, outdoor art. 

Blueglassesgirl started creating art in her youth to manage mental pain and she lives with mental illnesses. 

She created the artist identity Blueglassesgirl a few years ago to raise awareness of neurodivergent conditions. She wears Blueglassesgirl due to Irlen's syndrome* . 

Making contemporary art and performance has been part of her mental health recovery.  As a child psychotherapist, she used arts and play to help children recover from trauma and learned that some mental pain can only be expressed non verbally in symbolic form. Her practice is built on her documentation usingwords/text/speech/images/photographs of her lived experience. 

Those written and visual documents of her psychological experiences inspire her work. 

Blueglassesgirl work has a mindful message to encourage the viewer to become more aware of their own mental biases she uses art as a form of social activism, to raise awareness of Disabled artists and reduce ableism.  

Blueglassesgirl encourages the audience to make us see things from another perspective, connect their inner world, with the outer and see how their well-being is linked to the natural world around us. She draws inspiration from her sensory experiences and is interested in the interactivity between the physical and digital world. 

Being a Vegan influences her art practice and process which is a mindful one, natural using recycled, salvaged, discarded. Her work combines natural elements with man-made materials. 

Combining elements found in nature, natural and organic such as natural dyes, plants, wood, water, paper, with man-made materials such as metal, fabric, ink, glue, paint, clay.  She then pulls together these elements to create an abstract mixed media piece based on a concept or theme. 

key themes; Disability, Carer, Motherhood, Women, body positivity, mental illness, eco-art, vegan activism, LGBTQIA, neurodiversity, health, poetry, comedy, performance art.