Exploring the Visionary Art of Lizzie Uamusse from Mozambique

Lizzie and her art

Contemporary visual artist born in Mozambique, Lizzie creates mostly in oil and mixed media. Her art is a bridge between dimensions, as it captures the spirit of everyday life, ancestral memory, and cosmic frequencies. 

“I call my style Arte Daqui ("Art from Here") because it's rooted in this land, but it speaks a universal language,” she declares. Each painting is a spiritual journey, a visual diary of energetic transmissions I receive through meditation, sound, and intuition.

The start of her journey

Lizzie’s passion for art began in her childhood. 

“Drawing was like breathing — something that helped me understand the world and my place within it.” By that time, she realized that painting was more than just an escape. Self-taught artist Lizzie believes her creative energy has always been a gift passed through many lifetimes.

Mozambique and meditation are her art inspirations

Lizzie gets inspired by her native land, Mozambique. Its streets, colours, traditions, dreams, memories, music, the cosmos, and the invisible layers of emotion that people carry. She often receives visual information while in a meditative state or during rituals using tools like divination rods. These experiences help shape her paintings and infuse them with energy beyond what the eye can see. Mozambique is in the textures, the rhythm, and the soul of her work. She paints Maputo's everyday life, its architecture, market scenes, children, and elders, but also carries the echoes of colonial wounds, spiritual wisdom, and the resilience of the Mozambican people. Her art reflects the duality of tradition and transformation.

The colours make the choice

Colours choose her. The choice is not casual; she sometimes hears them in music or feels them in her body. Other times, they arrive as visions — vibrant, electric, tender, or ancestral. Lizzie lets the colours guide the emotional temperature of the painting. Each tone has a vibration and a message.

The impact of travelling`

“Travelling expands my energetic field,” says Lizzie.

 Every place has a spirit, its own colour palette, frequency, and emotion. From Cape Town to Sweden to remote villages in Mozambique, she gathers fragments of light and shadows. These fragments often appear later in the studio, reinterpreted through her own lens.

Art equipment and music

My palette knife is like a sword for her, essential to her art. And she can't create without music; it’s a portal that guides her hand and heart.

Obstacles and challenges

In Mozambique, being an artist, especially a woman artist, is often not understood as a real path. Lizzie had to fight internal battles and external resistance. Financial instability, lack of institutional support, and spiritual fatigue have been her big challenges and obstacles since the beginning. But each challenge carved more strength and clarity into her purpose.

A message to the future artist generation

“Your voice matters, even if no one hears it at first,” Lizzie states. 

“Protect your sensitivity, create from truth, not trends. And don’t be afraid to blend the earthly with the spiritual — you are more than just a maker; you are a channel. Stay loyal to your inner fire.”

Lizzie is currently developing a series of “sigil paintings”—works charged with specific energetic intentions to help activate abundance, healing, and awareness in others. Her art is not only for viewing; it’s also for feeling, transforming, and remembering. This next chapter of her work is about deepening that sacred exchange.

 Lizzie Ana Uamusse Contact ;

based in Maputo, Mozambique

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Email- lizzieartes52@gmail.com

Interview by: Annamaria Ronca.