artwork by Chetna Mehta
She uses her expertise in her own life to be a kind, challenging and compassionate mirror and collaborative gardener for the well-being of others in the expansion of self-awareness. --Heaven Harps
Social media has grown into a platform for sharing art that helps audiences navigate their lives and the world around them. Many artists use the platform to showcase their awareness of, appreciation, and often resentment for life, the world and themselves through their art. There are three social-media based female artists, Chetna Mehta, Polly Nor, and Tessa Forrest who exhibit this precisely.
1.Chetna Mehta
Chetna Mehta (@mosaiceye) is the creative consultant for wellness, mixed media artist and creator of the platform Mosaiceye. Her platform (which includes social media posts of her art) encourages psycho-emotional and spiritual wellness through self-actualization and interconnectedness. Her work consists of beautiful Earth-tone colored character subjects who radiate bravery, self-awareness and strength and inspire us to want to heal ourselves. Some people are artists, some people healers. Some people are both. Chetna is both as she creates to encourage psycho-emotional wellness centered around honesty but also gentleness with oneself. Her eye-opening experience in a car crash which disabled her for years has catapulted her into the work that she does today. She uses her expertise in her own life to be a kind, challenging and compassionate mirror and collaborative gardener for the well-being of others in the expansion of self-awareness; to plant the seeds of trustworthy spaciousness, to bring in knowledge through education and reflection, and to ask questions for deep introspection and self-realization.
2. Polly Nor
Polly Nor (@pollynor) is a freelance illustrator based in North West London. Her work is frank and unabashed in its representation of “women and their demons”, as she puts it. Polly is best known for her dark and satirical drawings and her body of work features a range of hand drawn and digital illustrations (of which she posts to social media) sculptures and installation work. Interweaving themes of identity, female sexuality and emotional turmoil throughout her work, Nor is inspired by her own female experience of life in the internet-age. Her illustrations often tell stories of anxiety, complicated relationships and the struggle for self-acceptance, all mostly attributable to demons of the past.
She is inspired by a mixture of things, and says that the subject matter of her drawings generally comes from girl chat, usually about gender issues, sex and relationships. Social media and her dreams also plays a part in her work. She uses the devil to represent different ideas and stories, usually as a figment of the female imagination -- a manifestation of her frustrations, emotions and desires.
She is inspired by a mixture of things, and says that the subject matter of her drawings generally comes from girl chat, usually about gender issues, sex and relationships. Social media and her dreams also plays a part in her work. She uses the devil to represent different ideas and stories, usually as a figment of the female imagination -- a manifestation of her frustrations, emotions and desires.
3. Tessa Forrest
Tessa Forrest (@subliming.jpg) is a graphic designer who creates text fonts and uses pastel and bright-colored backdrops to create her eye-catching renditions of inspirational, world-famous quotes from famous authors, poets, or lyricists or simplistic yet inspiring phrases of her own. “Inspirational quotes for the visually passionate and emotionally confused” reads the bio of Tessa Forrest’s viral instagram account @subliming.jpg. The typography she chooses lifts the words off the page, giving them a more powerful effect than they would just sitting, without embellishment.
She got her start when she had been going through a heavy bout of depression and working at an advertising agency that was producing commercial work. She felt as if she had more to offer and wanted to start working on something that she could have more fun with in order to evolve her style as a designer. Not really knowing where to start or having any clients to do freelance for then, she just quotes that she loved in order to whip up some fun typography graphics. It originally started as a daily challenge for her, just to get a post out each day to exercise my brain and work with fun typefaces and colors and it turned into something even bigger and more beautiful!
She got her start when she had been going through a heavy bout of depression and working at an advertising agency that was producing commercial work. She felt as if she had more to offer and wanted to start working on something that she could have more fun with in order to evolve her style as a designer. Not really knowing where to start or having any clients to do freelance for then, she just quotes that she loved in order to whip up some fun typography graphics. It originally started as a daily challenge for her, just to get a post out each day to exercise my brain and work with fun typefaces and colors and it turned into something even bigger and more beautiful!
