We’re looking forward to introducing you to Edda Davila. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Edda , thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: When was the last time you felt true joy?
Last week I found myself coming home to an urge to paint. Played load music and started prepping my palette filling it with colors that I felt attracted to at the moment, It could been the right combination or not, but I just placed them. Open a canvas placed on my easel and started throwing colors down. first one, second one, making shapes forms that turned into nothing but they made sense to me. My daughter enter the room, asked me ,Mommy can I paint? told her yes and we continue painting together. As we are following along with dancing and painting my heart felt with joy. We painted like children making a mess in the room, our feet’s filled with paint that felt on the floor. The joy of spending time together doing what I love and making memories with my daughter that will last and she will get to remember I used to paint with mommy in her art studio as I grow old and hold on my own memories of my grandmother in her own art studio. Art and memories will transcend time filling everyday with joy and love, making lasting changes in people we love.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Edda Davila, I’m a realistic abstract painter, art not always came easy to me but I was born into it with my family members filled with creativity especially my grandmother who was an artist but art didn’t start playing a main role until my late 20’s. All along my life I suffered from depression, I remember being about 26 years old and feeling sad, stuck with no purpose and with a feeling of emptiness that nothing filled. I found myself in my room thinking about killing myself… after having like 3 failed attempts early in my teen and 20’s I decided that was not a road I wanted to walk again. I remember having like $20 in my wallet and I went to Michael’s and picked up some paint. when depression and negativity arouse I painted, when sad I painted, when empty I painted. I painted as a therapy to channel all my negative emotions and soon I found myself painting when happy when filled with joy. Art brought me back to life and that was when I decided that I wanted to feel like that for the rest of my life and arts was what I was going to pursue.
it was a long road but about 5 years ago I joined school where I learned to master my craft and that gave me flexibility in what I wanted to paint and how to express myself. I couldn’t believe what my hand could create.
I want to inspired people with my art, and encourage them to live their best life. I believe that human life is meant to be value and each person has a destiny to fulfill, that is what I want to portray with my art.
I currently working on my studio located in fort pierce where I reside, painting a collection of abstract is how I make sense of my life with its current changes with motherhood and being a wife and an artist. Life throws at us challenges but it is in us how we deal with it, trying to approach new day with the best attitude and looking at each day as a blessing and a new beginning, that is what my abstract collection is about.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
I used to believe I was going to be a failure and my life was one. Now I realized there is nothing wrong with failing as long as you got up, failure is what make us grow and if we don’t fail we cant progress or move forward. I see my life as an achievement everyday , with every new challenge ahead, I face it with positivity and endurance. We may fail ,but a failure only defeat us if we don’t moved pass it and it doesn’t define us. I see all that my life has changed and all the progress that I have made in becoming the person that I am today and I am proud.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
Be kind to yourself, you got this, nothing is permanent, you are allowed to make mistakes, be strong and never loose sight of what is important to you. find pleasure in little things, and paint!
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
Art is the project of my life, it doesn’t matter if I don’t make it big or I don’t get to accomplish my standards of what success is I will always keep painting .art is not something it can be taken away from me. I will always paint, the day I die is the day that I will stop painting.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
Nothing, I will do more of what I do every day.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.eddamdavila.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eddamariadavila/?hl=en
