Breda Stack — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Breda Stack of Lightbridge Art is an Irish artist creating vibrant, soulful abstract artwork. As well as her original acrylic on canvas paintings, she produces a selection of limited-edition giclée prints of her work.
Breda is mainly self-taught. Although she hadn’t painted in over twenty years, she found herself continually looking at Impressionist art and imagining a paintbrush in her hand. She finally took the hint and returned to art in 2018. With a varied professional background including media and IT, since 2010 Breda has been training, coaching, writing and speaking through her innovative “Declutter Therapy” modality that teaches people how to “LET IT GO”. Practising Reiki has been particularly influential on Breda’s energy-based approach to art. She channels “soul vision” messages through her paintings, awakening a part of the viewer that had lain dormant – a thought, an emotion, an image, a memory, a dream. Her paintings are also used as a healing tool by holistic therapists. Breda is passionate about innate, authentic self-expression that’s beyond rigidity, rules and restrictions. In the short time since she began sharing her artwork with the world, many of Breda’s paintings have been awarded and featured in international art competitions and juried exhibitions.

Artist Statement

I don’t set out with a concept or work to any formal painting process. I see the main colours and the energy of the piece in my mind’s eye and I give my hand the freedom it wants. Listening to music that moves me, I layer paint onto the canvas, blending and highlighting using different brush types, sizes and strokes.
Each painting goes through a number of iterations. Continually engaging with the piece as it sits on the easel, I come and go from the canvas over weeks or months to honour what needs to emerge, and I “feel it” when the painting is finished. I hold no expectations for the end result. Yet each completed piece painting reflects part of me that I often can’t put words but know and understand intimately. I love how revealing and magical that abstract art is for both the artist and the viewer. Art is a powerful healing tool and I’m inspired to create “soul vision” messages that offer healing and joy. As a Reiki Master, I find the ability to express through energy and colour very evocative. Painting makes me connected and free in a way that nothing else does.

Website https://lightbridgeart.com

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