About ME

About ME

My name is Krisna Barces, founder of Artchemira — and my path didn’t begin in a studio. It began in boardrooms and strategy sessions, in the fast‑paced environments where stillness rarely fits.
For over twenty years, I moved across countries, built teams, raised children, and reinvented my life more than once. I loved the journey — every move, every challenge, every reinvention — because each one shaped the woman I became. Each chapter was a doorway to a new country, a new language, a new version of myself.
But eventually, the pace settled into my body in ways I couldn’t ignore — a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn’t fix, a quiet fading of the parts of me that once felt alive.
The way back arrived gently: a suggestion from my mother, a doctor’s honest words, and the discovery that making something with your hands can do what the mind alone cannot. Art found me before I knew I was searching.

From Corporate to Creative

From Corporate to Creative

What began with crochet — counting stitches, finding focus — slowly opened into something larger. Painting. Journaling. Scrapbooking. Mixed media. Each practice a little quieter, a little more honest than the last.

Around the same time, I discovered life and transformational coaching. Suddenly, things I had intuitively felt for years had language — words for the quiet truths I had been living.

When I began exploring neuroscience — not through a curriculum, but through deep, restless curiosity — I started to understand why these practices worked: how creativity calms the nervous system, how reflection creates clarity, how our daily rituals either deplete us or restore us.

Life connected the dots in its own time. When the corporate chapter finally closed — through a restructuring that, in hindsight, was exactly the space I needed — everything I had been quietly building had room to become real.

That is how Artchemira was born.

What Artchemira offers

Artchemira sits at the intersection of creative practice, transformational coaching, and the science of why making things matters.

It is not an art class. It is not therapy.
It is the space in between — where picking up a brush, opening a journal, or layering textures on a page becomes a genuine act of coming home to yourself.

Everything here is built from lived experience, not theory. As a multidisciplinary artist, I've spent decades moving through watercolour, mixed media, journaling, stitching, crochet, collage, and scrapbooking — always led by curiosity rather than curriculum. That breadth of practice is not incidental. It's the foundation of every product and workshop Artchemira creates.

When something is designed here, it has been lived first — tested in real creative sessions, refined through personal experience, and chosen because it genuinely works.

Alongside the creative practice, I hold a certification in life and transformational coaching and have spent years in the deep, self-directed study of neuroscience — the kind of learning that happens when you genuinely need to understand something, not just complete a course.

I wanted to know why creativity calms the nervous system. Why journaling regulates emotion. Why making something with your hands can shift what words alone cannot reach.

That understanding shapes everything here.
I don't share what I haven't tested. I don't teach what I haven't lived.

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Who this is for

Artchemira works with individuals and organisations — and the starting point is always the same: slowing down enough to reconnect with what matters.

For individuals — expats navigating transition, professionals who have been "fine" for too long, anyone who feels curious and creative but somewhere along the way stopped making space for it. No experience needed. No performance expected. Just a willingness to begin.

For those in the middle of something — a new city, a new chapter, a relationship that ended, a career that no longer fits. Creative practice doesn't fix those things. But it gives you a place to put them down for a while, and sometimes, what you make in that space shows you more than months of thinking could.

For organisations — teams under sustained pressure, leaders navigating change, companies that understand that human performance begins with human wellbeing. We offer facilitated workshop experiences that blend creative practice with neuroscience-informed reflection. A different kind of team session. One people actually remember.

Whatever brings you here — the door is open. You belong exactly as you are.

"Four beliefs that shape everything we create."

  • Creativityis not a talent. It is a practice.

    You don't need to be good at art for art to be good for you. Creativity done without pressure sends a message of safety to the nervous system — and that changes everything.

  •  Every challenge is a doorway.

    Nothing in this story was wasted. The corporate years, the moves, the reinventions — all of it became the foundation. Artchemira exists because of those chapters, not in spite of them.

  • Rest is not a reward. It is the work.

    Slowing down is not a luxury for people who have earned it. It is a practice available to anyone willing to begin — with whatever five minutes, whatever materials, whatever honest page they have

  • We grow better together.

    Creativity practiced in community does something that solo practice cannot. It reminds us we are not alone in the struggle, the doubt, or the quiet joy of making something. Artchemira exists not just as a set of tools or workshops — but as a space where people who create with intention can find each other.

"Every person who creates with us leaves knowing something they didn't before."

A community for those who create with intention.

A community for those who create with intention.

What I missed most during the years when everything was moving too fast was a shared space — a place to create without judgement, to slow down without guilt, and to do it without feeling alone.

That longing is part of why Artchemira exists.

Not just as a collection of tools and workshops, but as a gathering place — for people who take creativity seriously as self-care. For those who understand that making something, however small or imperfect, is an act of courage and care.

Here, creativity is not a performance. It's a conversation — between your hands, your heart, and the quiet moments that remind you who you are.

Whether you join for a single session or stay for the long journey, you belong here, exactly as you are.

Ready to begin? Explore the workshops and creative kits — or download the free guide and take your first five minutes.

Full collection Free Guide

Where would you like to begin ?

If you're an individual ready to explore, start with our creative tools or book a discovery call.

If you're an organisation curious about what this could look like for your team — let's have a conversation.

And if you'd like to understand the full journey that led here — the years, the turning points, and what it took to arrive at this work — it's all in the blog.

Read my Blog Book a Discovery Call

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Journals & Tools

Guided prompts and creative kits for quiet reflection and gentle self-discovery.
Explore Journaling
Artchemira mixed media art journal page with watercolour background, botanical stamps, and handwritten transformation quote

Creative Mixed Media

Layered, textured, wonderfully imperfect. For the curious hands that need to make something.
Join the inner circle - launching Q3 2026
Close-up of hand painting floral watercolors, showing the intention and care behind creating for others

Watercolour

Slow, fluid, and deeply calming. Let the water move where it wants.
Join the inner circle - launching Q3 2026
Flat‑lay of Artchemira creative journaling workspace with candle, pink flowers, open art journal, pens, washi tapes, and stamps — inspiring mindful creativity and stationery aesthetics

Journals & Tools

Guided prompts and creative kits for quiet reflection and gentle self-discovery.
Explore Journaling
Artchemira mixed media art journal page with watercolour background, botanical stamps, and handwritten transformation quote

Creative Mixed Media

Layered, textured, wonderfully imperfect. For the curious hands that need to make something.
Join the inner circle - launching Q3 2026
Close-up of hand painting floral watercolors, showing the intention and care behind creating for others

Watercolour

Slow, fluid, and deeply calming. Let the water move where it wants.
Join the inner circle - launching Q3 2026

<h2><strong>Experience the practice, live.</strong></h2>

Experience the practice, live.

Artchemira workshops are designed for those ready to go deeper — guided sessions that blend creative practice, reflection, and neuroscience-informed tools in real time.

Available in two formats:

— In-person Zug & Luzern Area, Switzerland
— Online/open to allGroup sessions and private 1-to-1 experiences available.

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