014 The City Can Send You Giddy - RILEXIE RENEE talks about The London Pull

RILEXIE RENEE is an artist and a children’s writer. Her artwork is inspired by her brain’s interpretation of music into seeing colours. This is now known as synesthesia. Renee’s sensitivity to sound and sound frequencies has had a huge impact on her life since she was a child. Renee is a Guyanese Amerindian whose family moved to New York as a result of unsettled times and conflict in Guyana during the country's fledgling years as a Republic - Renee was but a young girl at the time. Renee’s transition from a career in finance in New York City to being an artist in London is but one small part of her fascinating story so far.

 

THIS IS RENEE’S UNIQUE STORY ABOUT LONDON, THE WORLD AND LIFE.

“Embrace the culture of Britain,

Embrace people, embrace yourself.

Surround yourself with good people.

When things go wrong, you take it,

You have to look back in appreciation because it makes you learn.

Without the appreciation for people around me,

Without the people I know and without the people I’ve met along the way,

I probably wouldn’t have loved London.

Along the way you shuffle out of your life the people who are supposed to be there,

and those who are not supposed to be there.

And you find your reason,

I’ve learned all that while I have been in London.

It could be a city that sends you in a giddy because there is so much happening,

So many layers, and we all come for different reasons.”

 

 

RENEE’S CONTACT DETAILS ARE...

Email : rilexier@gmail.com

Website: https://www.rilexier.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rilexier

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rilexie/?hl=en

David Meigh (animator) at Morf Studio: https://morf.studio/

Jose Almeida (illustrator) at https://www.animuz.co/

 

Please, come along to their upcoming exhibitions to support this amazing collective of artists from across the world.

 

Make Space Studios: http://www.makespacestudios.com/

 

The Artists’ Pool contact details are:

Website: https://www.theartistspool.co.uk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/artists_pool

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artistspool/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.artists.pool/?hl=en

 

 

ABOUT THE PODCAST... 

Information on Travelling Through… with Emma can be found at: https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/

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Show notes 014 RILEXIE RENEE Show Notes can be found at this link https://travellingthrough.podbean.com

Thanks to 54 The Gallery http://www.54thegallery.co.uk/ for hosting this podcast recording on 17.07.2020