Episode 122

122: Artist Spotlight: Joanna Cutri

Published on: 8th August, 2023

I’m excited to share another local artist with you this month, Joanna Cutri. She is a visual artist and her work includes painting, drawing, and sculpture. She describes how her love for art developed and how her work has evolved, especially since the pandemic. We also talk about her experience working with interior designers and why she loves this particular type of collaboration.

Joanna’s ability to get quiet, listen, and trust the signs and synchronicities is inspiring, and she shares some stories around that in this episode.

The Design Coven will be doing a studio tour to see Joanna’s work in person. Be sure to follow @thedesigncoven on Instagram or join us at designcoven.com/join to be notified when the tour is scheduled!

About Joanna

Joanna Cutri, a Los Angeles native, has an extensive visual arts background that spans the globe. Her paintings are collected internationally, featured in exclusive design projects, and exhibited in various galleries. She works in various sizes ranging from small, intimate studies to over sized 6-7ft panels. Her complex, personal style combines various mixed mediums and collage elements, resulting in layers upon layers of color, texture and imagery. The recurring theme and signature style of her work is a monochromatic palette, translucent, ethereal layers and fluid, dreamlike shapes that evoke a sense of calm and peace. 

Joanna's exposure to different cultures and world travels have greatly impacted how she creates and approaches her own work. Joanna lived and worked in Bali, Indonesia, for 10 years. Her vision of life and art were deeply inspired by the rich, creative culture and religion of the Balinese people, as well as the exotic, surrounding nature in which she lived in. 

Joanna also lived in the South of France in Biarritz for a year and a half to complete her collection of the Zhang Jie Jia mountains in the Hunan province of central China for her artist in residency program with the Nock Art Foundation in Hong Kong in 2014. 

Joanna has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in southeast Asia, Australia, South Africa as well as in the US and in Europe. Joanna received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in 1998 after studying in Cortona, Italy. ​ 

She currently lives and works in Southern California after having lived in New York City for 3 years.

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Rachel is a Mystic, Reiki Master, Tarot Reader, Feng Shui Practitioner, Energy Healer, and Holistic Interior Designer, whose intimate connection to her intuition and ancestral roots enabled her to rise above a challenging childhood and blossom into the powerful and impassioned healer she is today.

Committed to empowering others by teaching modalities that support connection to intuition, Rachel hosts workshops and retreats focused on the ancient practices of Feng Shui, Tarot, crystals, herbs and oils, ritual and ceremony, astrology and metaphysics — in addition to live and virtual new moon and full moon circles.

Rachel also lends her harmonious and balancing acumen to the creation of energetically aligned spaces through Holistic Interior Design. Since earning her Associates Degree and Certificate in Interior Design 2005, she has created and collaborated on a multitude of award-winning residential and commercial spaces, including Realm of the 52 Remedies (with Onairos Design), all while becoming certified in Classical Flying Stars Feng Shui through the International School of Feng Shui (2015), studying the practices of Land Healing, Ritual, and Ceremony under Amanda Sophia & Alex Stark in Ireland, and with "House Whisperer," Christian Kyriacou.
Rachel's work has been featured in several exhibitions, including KAABOO, a music, comedy, culinary and art festival held in Del Mar, CA, where as part of an experiential art installation by Carly Ealey and Madeleine Tonzi, she created a crystal grid below the piece, clearing the participating auras before entering the installation. Her designs have been published in San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Modern Luxury Magazine, San Diego Magazine, Exquisite Weddings, Style & Decor and Serendipity Magazine.

You may also connect with Rachel on a regular basis through Patreon, where she is is creating Mystical Rituals and Sacred Spaces, providing Tarot Readings, and nurturing spiritual connections.

Her Interior Design Projects can be found here Tigerveil.com