EP173- LORETTA LIZZIO

Loretta Lizzio is an Australian painter and muralist whose work draws on themes of femininity, strength, sensuality, nature, and mysticism among other things. After a traumatic bus accident in her late 20’s derailed her from her life path for nearly a year and a half, her world simultaneously fell apart and began to take its full form. Multiple surgeries helped her regain her physical functioning, and speech therapy helped her regain her ability to speak again, but art making during this time truly helped to heal her soul and solidified her decision of what she wanted to do with her life. Not long after her recovery, she was invited to paint her first mural and hasn’t looked back ever since. Her gallery work and large scale murals depict woman submerged in water surrounded by greenery, which she personally photographs using underwater photography techniques that she thought of herself. These otherworldly images balance darkness and euphoria, beauty and tragedy, strength and submission, and are uniquely Loretta’s Lizzio.