Thelli Art In Movement - Contemporary Paintings

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Welcome to Thelli Art In Movement portfolio.

Thelli was born from the idea of painting artistic T-shirts, allowing art to move with people. From wearable art to paintings of horses, symbols of life and movement, and ultimately to the Face of Jesus Christ, her artistic journey continues to evolve. Art in Movement remains Thelli’s AIM: to spread art around the world.

“The act of creation sets us free from the past and from the future, allowing us to be in the Moment.”

- Thelli

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Biography

Thelli – Helenia Tedesco

During one of her mystical experiences, Thelli recounts hearing Jesus say to her: “Paint and walk.”

These words have taken on a profound meaning in her artistic journey, revealing a spiritual connection with the original vision of Art in Movement: art as a living expression of an ever-evolving inner journey.

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.

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.

Her spiritual and artistic journey has brought her into an increasingly profound relationship with Jesus Christ.

Through personal mystical experiences, dreams, and visions of Jesus, Thelli has found a deep source of inspiration for her paintings. She recounts that, during one of these experiences, Jesus invited her to “paint and walk” — words that have remained at the heart of her artistic calling.

Painting His Face has become a deeply contemplative act, an expression of love, devotion, and prayer. Through light emerging from darkness and the intensity of the human gaze, she seeks to convey the spiritual presence she experiences in her relationship with Him.

For Thelli, these portraits are more than images: they are visual prayers, born from an intimate encounter with the Divine, where art becomes an expression of love, devotion, and inner transformation.

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
Opera e colore – Mostra dedicata a Giacomo Puccini – 14-15 dicembre 2024 Villa Scheibler, Via Felice Orsini, 21 Milano