Marcela Higgins
About Marcela
Instagram: @marcelabyarts
Marcela Higgins was born in the Brazilian countryside, in a place where life was challenging and dreams had to fight for space.
She learned early on to face absences and challenges, finding in the attentive gaze of nature and the hidden beauty in everyday life her first refuge.
While the world seemed to impose limits, painting allowed her to exist in colors, forms, and emotions. Her journey has been shaped by self-taught learning, driven by an unrelenting desire to transform the everyday into art, to turn the difficult into moving.
Today she has the privilege of attending The New York School Of The Arts, with professor Eric Michelson, who respects her limitations but never treats her as limited.
She also has an incredible mentor — painter Leandro Figueiredo — who inspires her to continue her discovery each and every day. She is blessed to also have the unwavering support of her son Joao Pedro, whose curiosity and encouragement have accompanied her since his childhood. Her husband Kevin, whose curiosity and passion remind her of the strength that resides in quiet dedication. Their presence is part of her art, silent witnesses of her journey.
After a brain-related health challenge that shook her routine, painting returned as an even more intense cry, a rescue of herself. Each canvas became an affirmation of existence, resilience, and sensitivity.
Painting is her dialogue with the world and with herself; it is where she finds solace, challenge, and freedom.
Her art is not only expression: it is life transformed into colors, memories, and emotions, a testament to all she is, all she has been, and all she continues to be.
« My work explores contemporary gestural abstraction, inspired by Abstract Expressionism.
Through layered gestures and intuitive color, each painting becomes a field of energy, recording presence, rhythm, and emotion. » (Marcela Higgins)
