Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by the artist and writer Adrian Neves, where I ask her, how did you become such an amazing artist?

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Vaness, I am beyond excited to welcome our guest this week, but I do just have to like set the stage.

This is a guest who I discovered on Instagram, and I became instantly obsessed to the point where like I actually have chills on my thighs and my triceps.

When I just said that when I was thinking about when I discovered this stunning artist, she is a creator, she's an artist, she is also the founder of the Tissera Arts Collective and Abstractions magazine, which I'm obsessed with.

Welcome to the podcast, Adrian Neves, how are you?

Good, hi, thank you for having me.

Thank you for making time for us now, just I want to just we are we have so much to dive into it.

I just want people to visualize don't close your eyes if you're driving, but if you're not driving listening to this, you can.

But if you can imagine that room that I sit in when I do getting curious and there's this like pink couch and there's this stunning work of art behind the couch.

The artist who made that painting is literally who you're about to be listening to, Adrian, how are you?

I'm well first I'm just feeling very very touched by that lovely introduction and I'm also I mean it got to be honest I'm a little.

I'm just excited and happy and just feeling really good energy so I'm a little like I want to move I want to jump around on dance, but I'm just I'm happy to be here I'm happy to get to like talk with you.

And you know just we get to talk about art I love talking about art.

I am newer to art like I've always liked art, but I never thought I would live in a world where like I could like you know afford it and like know about it and like and it's just so exciting that I can and I just it's so gorgeous.

I love art so much I just never knew it was a world that I would get to like you know dabble in and so when I first saw your work on Instagram, I felt like someone had taken me by the face and like direct in a good way.

And like drag me to this like fantastical gorgeous world I literally usually it takes like figure skating or gymnastics to like get me into an Instagram hole that's really deep.

I went so deep when I found you on Instagram, I think I like went all the way back to your first post and how did this how would you become so multifacetedly talented as an artist and so I'm going to break down the questions because I almost asked like 27 at once.

When did you realize that you wanted to like grow up to be an artist.

Oh well I will say that I did not identify or think of myself as quote unquote an artist until I was almost well no I was 30 years old I was in my 30s my early 30s I grew up knowing that I was a creative kid and that I was a creative person.

I loved reading I loved writing I was one of those really nerdy kids who was like in first grade reading at a fourth grade level writing these very like fantastical stories for my writing assignments like I was all in with writing and reading.

And so my teachers always saw that they always nurtured that in me my head was always in a book and you know I was the kid in junior high who would check out a book one day and turn it in the next day and like the librarian and I became like best friends.

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