Discover the creation in interiors
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Engraving on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 24x29.9in
About this artwork
In this piece, I embraced the vibrant chaos of life, weaving energy through swirling shapes and radiant orbs.
Shapes are being formed, meet, separate, and touch again — a continuous flow of creation and transformation. Working intuitively, I follow the rhythm of color, line, and gold, allowing each movement to suggest another place, another possibility. Playing reflects the joy of movement, the beauty of connection, and the ever-changing nature… of the worlds we create.
Shapes are being formed, meet, separate, and touch again — a continuous flow of creation and transformation. Working intuitively, I follow the rhythm of color, line, and gold, allowing each movement to suggest another place, another possibility. Playing reflects the joy of movement, the beauty of connection, and the ever-changing nature… of the worlds we create.
Christel Michielsen
Portugal
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
A new chapter : From Crystal to Christel
For eight years in southern India, heat, colour and spirituality seeped into every mark I burned into wood. It was there I found my artistic voice, and became known as Crystal.
Returning to Europe, settling in the ancient Alentejo of Portugal, I return also to my birth name: Christel Michielsen.
The name has changed. The vision has not.
Where India gave me fire and spiritual intensity, the Alentejo, with its megalithic monuments, cork oaks and vast silent skies, speaks a different but equally profound mystical language. Both worlds now live within my paintings, pyrography on birch plywood, layered with acrylics, ink and bister, weaving symbolic narratives through the organic language of wood.
An invitation to journey beyond the ordinary into the sacred.
Christel Michielsen
Estremoz, Portugal — 2026
For eight years in southern India, heat, colour and spirituality seeped into every mark I burned into wood. It was there I found my artistic voice, and became known as Crystal.
Returning to Europe, settling in the ancient Alentejo of Portugal, I return also to my birth name: Christel Michielsen.
The name has changed. The vision has not.
Where India gave me fire and spiritual intensity, the Alentejo, with its megalithic monuments, cork oaks and vast silent skies, speaks a different but equally profound mystical language. Both worlds now live within my paintings, pyrography on birch plywood, layered with acrylics, ink and bister, weaving symbolic narratives through the organic language of wood.
An invitation to journey beyond the ordinary into the sacred.
Christel Michielsen
Estremoz, Portugal — 2026