Carmel De’Lisser, also known as Cathartic Brush, is a self-taught intuitive artist whose work is deeply rooted in symbolism, transformation, and spiritual awakenings. She believes that to bare one’s soul through creativity is to breathe life into one’s own story.
Working in a flow state, she incorporates meditation and ritual into her practice, allowing each piece to emerge as a direct response to time, place, and emotional connection. Through painting, sculpture, and storytelling, Carmel explores our relationship with the natural and spiritual world and its place in modern life.
Based in Boscombe, she is passionate about creating safe, inclusive spaces where others can reconnect with their creativity. Through a range of artistic experiences, she fosters self-exploration, expression, and play. “We may rediscover parts of ourselves lost since childhood or even meet parts of ourselves for the first time,” she says.
Carmel De’Lisser
Carmel has moved many times in her life and home hasn’t always been a place a peace and happiness. As she has aged, she has learned that home is in her body, soul and mind, and where peace and stillness can be found. The one place she always finds this is in the forest.
My Soul’s Home is made of the materials that have been part of Carmel’s journey this year so far, found in local woodlands and on her walks to work, being gifted to her by recent storms. Its creation was intuitively guided and there’s a fragility to its shrine-like composition. Calling you to “come close”, it’s a forest made of the forest, Carmel’s soul inside.
HOME:
Deep in the woods
In my bones
The branches of my veins
The soft moss of my flesh
Undulating forms of breath forming connections between the earth beneath my feet to the heavens unseen.
My skin the only barrier between body and trunken forms.
A cocoon of branch and breath
Sweet musky decaying blanket
I know I am home.
