Thelli – Helenia Tedesco
Born in Bari, she moved to Milan at the age of seven. Since childhood she has displayed a natural talent for drawing and painting inherited from her father, a painter and poet. While growing up, she decided to dedicate herself to other activities and she obtained her degree in public relations, while continuing to paint in her free time. Graduated in Public Relations – Science of Communications, at IULM University, she worked for ten years in the world of communication, at the Del Monte & Partner Comunicazione, Milan. The year 2012 marked the start of a new direction, when Thelli (Helenia’s artistic pseudonym) began to paint on T-shirts with the goal of making wearable art and having it move around the world together with the people wearing it.
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This was the birth of AIM, Thelli’s Art In Movement.In the same year, she opened an on-line shop on Etsy.com, the American platform for handmade goods. In 2013, after a fall from a horse that kept her in bed for 3 months, Thelli decided to leave her job in communication and set out with her son and her partner to Gran Canaria, with the goal of dedicating herself completely to art and creativity. For Thelli, the creative act becomes a ritual of initiation, the experience of death in life in order to reawaken in movement, in the continuous flow of creation. Thelli’s Art In Movement also continues on canvas, where the horse, with which she begins a journey of spiritual growth, is painted red to represent the unstoppable instinct of movement, of life, and of self-knowledge. This is the start of a new adventure for Thelli and Art In Movement.
In 2016 she started studying superfoods like Moringa, Spirulina and Maca to help boosting the energy levels of body and minds and founded a company called MoringaON with her husband. In order focus on this new activity she stopped painting for a while.
Later during the “lockdown” period she started meditating a lot, reading books about the Holy Grail, the Rosicrucian history, the Hermeticism, The Antroposophy, discovering the Philosophy of the Ancient Greek, studying new paintings techniques, falling in love with the “alla prima” oil painting. Finally she restarted taking the brushes and her inner Guide push her to become a brush of the Spirit trying to paint realistic portraits, practicing with alla prima technique with mystic subjects and studying the faces painted by the great painters in history.
In 2023 she joined the art association Gruppo Sirio Milano, founded in 1969.
Currently Thelli is focusing on Alla prima oil portrait and experimenting new kind of creativity playing music on djset.
Studies
- Degree in Public Relations at Communication Science faculty, IULM University, Milan, 2003
- Healing and Inspirational Courses: Reiki Usui Sensei – Japanese Third Degree – Inner Master
- Amorc – Rosicrucian studies
- Studies on drawing and paintings techniques
Sport: Horse Back Riding, tennis
Exhibition and events
- Spruce Meadows Masters – Equi Plex Art Gallery
Calgary, AB – Sept 9-13 2015
- Casa Montesdeoca, Las Palmas de GC -October 20th 2015
Art and Wine in Restaurant
- Un tocco d’arte alla Merlata, Cascina Merlata Milano, 30th April 2023
- Mostra Film & Colore, Biblioteca Via Quarenghi, Milano 18-26 May 2023
- Mostra concorso di pittura, Bollate (Mi) May 28th 2023
- Recital di Poesie, Biblioteca Via Quarenghi, Milano 30th Of September 2023
- Mostra Concorso dal Pensiero all’immagine 5-8 Octuber 2023 – Ex Chiesetta – Villa Scheibler – Via Felice Orsini, 21 Milano
- Mostra e lettura di poesie – Sogno e Fantasia – 18-19 November 2023 – Ex Chiesetta – Villa Scheibler – Via Felice Orsini, 21 Milano
- Arte del Riciclo – Biblioteca Via Quarenghi, Milano – 24 gennaio 2024
- Mostra di pittura – presentazione nuovi soci Gruppo Sirio 17/18 febbraio 2024
- I quattro elementi – Mostra di pittura e scultura -12/25 febbraio 2024 Centrale dell’acqua di Milano, Piazza Diocleziano, 5
- Mostra concorso Espressioni – 16/19 maggio 2024 – Ex Chiesetta – Villa Scheibler – Via Felice Orsini, 21 Milano
- Montmartre della Martesana – 26 maggio 2024 – Martesana, Milano
- L’allattamento tra Arte e Co-scienza – 5-6 ottobre 2024 – Sala Torretta, Villa Scheibler, Via Felice Orsini, 21 Milano
- Marco Polo e la via della seta, 14 – 30 ottobre 2024- Centro Culturale cinese, Via Paolo Sarpi, 26 Milano
She updates her instagram gallery everyday together with her life journey
@hellythelli
To be continued…
