Meet Lily Brick | Muralist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lily Brick and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Lily, how has your work-life balance changed over time?
Balance has always been like the holy grail for me, I have always been searching for it, with the eternal feeling that I would never quite find it. There are weeks when everything worked, I could have time for myself, get home at a reasonable time and unwind the way I wanted, others when I worked from the moment I opened my eyes until I went to bed and sacrificed leisure weekends because a project needed to be delivered. This last year I am making an effort so that my work does not absorb all my time, because I believe that in the end, painting was my own choice, to live happily doing what I like. Without leisure, time to reflect or disconnect, great ideas can’t flourish, I consider that enjoying one’s own time is also conducive to feeding creativity and great ideas flourishing. The theory is simple, but it has cost me a lot to be able to separate my obsession with working the maximum possible hours or understand this decision from the emotional plane, I felt remorse for not working until late at night, or the maximum hours that I could at day. Without a doubt, currently, I am much more productive, because I’m more satisfied with my life and with the balance that exists in it, but it has taken me 8 years to reach this conclusion. 🙂

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
My speciality is painting with the spray technique, but I am always testing new techniques and researching and I also have fun with all kinds of painting techniques, whatever they may be. My style is romantic and colourful, I am used to narrating stories starring characters with deep gazes, gazes that I try to convey a message. Many of my main characters are be red-haired people.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I have always said that a culture or a place must be known for its gastronomy or for its people. One of my favourite places, which I fully recommend, is Camarasa.

A nice place where I would like to take you all, to meet my friends, and kayak around that beautiful spot that so many climbers from all over the world recognize as extraordinary.

Likewise, I would also take you to eat snails, which is our most typical food, at Els Trulls Restaurant, a small charming place in the old town of Lleida.

Or we would go to have a cold beer in Plaça Sant Joan, or Plaça del Flan, which for me is the most beautiful in the city, and then drink down the beer by going up to see the castle that can be seen from all over my city, and it is right above this square, a monument that all of us Lleidatans love, and you cannot leave without climbing to the top of its tower.

Maybe at night we would go for a drink with some artist friends, that’s what I like the most about living here, the people and their generous and festive character, that’s why we would do it at the end of the day. If we did these at the beginning, we won’t do anything else the rest of the day. 🙂

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Since I started my artistic career, I felt very insecure, I didn’t know how it would go. I’m already a very indecisive person, although often with intuitions guide me with certainty, which I know won’t fail. That’s what I felt when I started, that was my thing, it always would be. I was made to paint with spray, nothing in life has pleased me so much, and that is reason enough to continue, right? But returning to my doubts, I always needed someone by my side to tell me that everything was going to be fine, to give me a little love, someone who loved my work, or understood what I was doing. So if I have to thank somebody, first it would be all the people who have been passing through my life to make me shine and chase away my mischievous demons that only said bad things to me, they have given me pushes in necessary moments. And then there are the anonymous ones, people who came to me through social networks excited about my work, or clients who gave me freedom because they believed in me 100%, that’s already amazing, and it still leaves me stunned when it happens. If I have to name artists, at the beginning I felt very attracted to the work of Etam Cru, Belin, Smug One, Inti, Dulk, or Aritz, but I couldn’t meet them, nor did they accompany me along the way.

Website: www.lily.cat

Instagram: @lily__brick

Twitter: @LilyStreetArt

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Images whose file name is a person’s name belong to that author. Images with other titles are my own work.