Uncover the Therapeutic Power of Mixed Media Art with Noemi Beres

Join artist and creative professional Noemi Beres as she stitches together the therapeutic power of mixed media collages, revealing how the journey of creating art can lead to inner peace and stress relief in the face of emotional trauma. Show Notes | Transcript Art is safe and cannot hurt you... It's much healthier for you to put it out there than keep it bottled inside you. - Noemi Beres For Noemi Beres, art was a powerful force that guided her through some of the darkest moments of her life. Faced with the heartbreak of losing her father and grandmother, along with the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic, Noemi's love for collage-making became a therapeutic outlet for her grief and anxiety. As she upcycled her old canvases and created stunning hand-sewn collages, Noemi experienced a sense of serenity and hope that transcended her pain. Her remarkable journey is a touching example of how engaging with art can foster resilience and emotional well-being, even in the most trying of times. In this episode, you will be able to: Uncover the power of art in aiding mental health recovery and fostering inner tranquility. Delve into Naemi Beres' artistic journey with collages and her affinity for mixed media and repurposing materials. Understand the connection between creative outlets and stress reduction for improved mental health. Realize the value of savoring each step of the creative journey, rather than solely the destination. Learn about other calming pursuits that complement and enhance your artistic experiences. Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: The Art of Living with Martin Arkenstone Healing Power of Fairy Tales with Laura Lewis-Barr Music and Mental Health with Kareem Daniel Ryce Resources: Connect with Noemi here Follow Noemi on Instagram here Follow Noemi on Facebook here Join the Soulful Women's Network here Send me a message here ☕ Support the podcast here ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating here Connect with Gloria: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand Namaste. I am so excited to be with you today. We have got a great guest with us who I've been, I've known for a while through email and it's so lovely to be able to actually meet her in person now. And her name is Noemi Beres and she is best known for her unique and witty mixed media hand sewn collages on canvas made from old photos, postcards, colorful yarn, textiles and old buttons. And she really loves collecting small bits and pieces that she finds fascinating and then incorporates them into this mixed media collage that usually has a vintage vibe. And for those of you watching this today on YouTube, there's a couple of pieces which I'll let her point out in a little bit. But I want to just really welcome you and I'm looking forward to talking about your fascination with art and how you use it in a way that I think will be really interesting for our audience. So welcome to live love engage. Noemi Beres Thank you so much for having me on your show, Gloria. And finally we met virtually in person. Gloria Grace Rand I know, exactly. Yeah. So, hey, let's just put in a plug for your other business before we dive into the art. So how is it that we actually connected? Tell our audience that. Noemi Beres I'm actually the co-owner of the Podcast Connections podcast booking agency and I've been working with Gloria for some time now. I can't even remember when we started working together some like two years ago. And we help entrepreneurs to connect to quality podcast shows. And that's my day job, that's what I do for a living. And I really enjoy connecting these awesome female and male entrepreneurs across the world. I'm based in Cyprus, but I'm originally from Hungary, from Central Europe, and I'm connecting people in the US, Canada, UK. So we are all over the place. Gloria Grace Rand When you told me about, you actually reached out to pitch yourself for a change and I thought that was so cool, and especially when you told me what you did. So I would love for you to start off and tell our audience a little bit about what got you interested in art and especially doing like, collages and things like that. Noemi Beres I was always fascinated by art, Gloria, since I was a kid. And I always did some drawing, painting, jewelry making. I was growing up with art around me, and when my parents took me to other parts of Europe and we went on holidays, we always went to galleries and museums and I was always fascinated by it. So I loved all part of it. But collage making came later on in my life when I was expecting with my son ten years ago, almost eleven, I actually discovered collages. I don't know how it came into my life, but I just used like these old buttons and old pictures and old bits and pieces, as you mentioned at the beginning of the show and I was just so fascinated by it that these small bits and pieces can create a complete piece of work and art. And it was just pretty awesome. So that's when I discovered it. And the hands on collages that I'm making right now, actually, that started in 2020 when COVID hit, life became pretty stressed and I was short of art supplies in Cyprus because we were very strict regulations. We couldn't go to the shops we ordering online. It's not what it's natural thing in Cyprus. And I had started to repurpose my old canvases and I upcycled some of them because I love upcycling. That's when I started to basically hand sew collages and not using glue or anything and not using paper, but using these buttons, these postcards, these photos. And that's how I started to create my handsome collages. But I also make digital collages and I had a couple of group exhibitions in Cyprus, in Italy and I love doing that. And my dream is to have a solo show one day. Yeah, hopefully that's going to happen sooner than later. Gloria Grace Rand Absolutely. Well, I'm sure it'll be wonderful because I too, I think collages are really interesting. I've seen… one of my past clients was an artist, she was a digital artist, but I think some of the things she made sort of incorporated a lot of different symbols and different pictures and things and then would all make this something new. Part of I understand, I think that how you got into art is also helping and I guess especially with COVID, but do you find that it has helped you? Actually, just how has it helped you? Let's say personally, how has that helped you? Noemi Beres Yeah, unfortunately, I lost my dad to cancer in 2019 and right after that it was a long battle with cancer. And after that my grandma passed away because of an accident in the same year after a couple of months. And it was a lot. And then COVID hit and so it was just like, oh, my God is collapsing around me and us and my family. I don't have brothers, I don't have sisters. I only have my mom and my only son. So it was a pretty stressful time of my life and I didn't know how to cope with it. But then I thought, it's like I always turn to art when I had any kind of problem in life. So let's do that now and let's just upcycle these canvases and just start doing something because I need that energy. And that's how I started and that's how it helped me to cope with grief and to cope with loss. I think it's the best way to turn to art because art is such a safe, art is safe and cannot hurt you. And no matter how disturbing you may think your project appears, it's much healthier you to put it out there than keep it bottled inside you because that would just cause stress and trauma and you become ill or anything can happen. And that's how it helped me to cope with grief. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I think that's really great that you were able to do that. And it makes so much sense, too, because when you can focus your attention on something else instead of your problems, and especially when you're doing something creative like that, I think it really takes your mind out of the mundane, day to day things, and you just really get to really connect, I like to say even spiritually connect with your higher self and just be able to bring in something new and beautiful into the world. So it's wonderful that you were able to do that. Have you ever thought about maybe because doing this maybe to help other people as well? Because I know there are some people who do like, they do art therapy or just there's things called like intuitive art and things like that. Have you ever thought about maybe not necessarily right now but maybe down the road doing something in addition to having your show one day? Noemi Beres Yes, actually I did. I'm member of a women network group and I had a chat with a lovely lady from that group and when I told my story to her, she told me, she said exactly the same thing that you told me before. It's like, have you thought about this? I haven't, but now you're telling me it's probably it's a good idea. So that's actually my agenda and one of my goals as well, to help other people because I'm a self taught artist. I never went to school. This is everything just intentional for me and it's coming from my soul, from deep down there. But I suppose if it helped me, it can help other people too. And I can help them as well. Gloria Grace Rand Let me ask you this. The pieces that you create, do you see them as something like there's a certain theme or maybe this one really expresses a certain feeling or is it just in the moment and it's just I just want to just see what I can pull together. What have you found about that? Noemi Beres The funny thing is that, for example, I made some dark collages. I called my dark digital collages. Those were digital collages, especially after my dad passed away. So everything was pretty dark and I couldn't get away from it. I couldn't use colors, I couldn't do anything....