Hi! My name is Charli Ertl and I create art to express complex emotions. My art name, MourningSoulArt, expresses the word mourning, which is generally defined as the expression of grief. So in my case, my art is just expressing deep emotions that once put on the canvas (or paper), are then released from my soul. Poetic, right? :) So thus, MourningSoulArt was born, and I wish to remove any negative connotation from the word mourning. For me, I simply define it as “to let go.”

I began painting in my adulthood in 2021. My first painting, Blinding Truth, is very special to me as it was the first time I experienced an artistic download and created a piece of work solely based on what was in my head. It was pure adrenaline; the feeling of pouring this image from my mind onto a canvas. It was frustrating as well. I didn’t know how to paint, it was more just as if my hand knew what to do, it was an act of love and expression in its purest form.