Neuroscience and Asian Painting

Join us at Iberanime Santarem, Portugal on Saturday, May 17, 2025, and in Porto, Portugal on October 13, 2025.

Explore Your Creativity and Neuroscience

At Brain and Brush, we blend Asian painting with interactive neuroscience, offering unique workshops that enhance your personal and professional development. It's not just an artistic technique; it's a practice that deeply engages the brain, stimulating multiple cognitive, emotional, and sensory areas.

Through each stroke, we not only create beauty but also strengthen our neural connections, promote mindfulness, and cultivate inner peace.

"Chinese painting is not just a technique; it is meditation in motion."

Lin Fengmian (Modern Painter):

Fortalecer las conexiones neuronales:

By making precise and controlled strokes, areas of the brain associated with fine motor skills, such as the motor cortex and cerebellum, are activated. This promotes neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to reorganize itself and form new connections.

Benefits of Asian Painting

Reducing Stress and Anxiety

The practice of Asian painting, especially techniques like sumi-e (ink painting), induces a state of mindfulness. This focus on the present moment reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain's center for fear and stress, while increasing the release of serotonin and dopamine, neurotransmitters associated with well-being.

Improving Concentration and Problem-Solving

Asian painting requires a high degree of concentration and planning, activating the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for executive functions such as decision-making and problem-solving. This not only enhances cognitive ability but also fosters creativity.

"In Chinese painting, each stroke is a dialogue between the heart and the mind."

Qi Baishi (Chinese Art Master Painter)

About the teacher

Prof. Lic. Beatriz de Zulliger, Neuroscience communicator and artist specializing in Asian painting. She holds degrees in Psychology and Educational Sciences and teaches Psychology and Educational Sciences. She specializes in Neuroscience and the education and identification of High Abilities and Exceptional Talents.

She has traveled across her country, Argentina, Latin America, Spain, Germany, and Portugal, giving lectures and seminars on training and development of soft skills and executive functions for teachers and companies.

In 2008, she began studying traditional Japanese Sumi-e painting in Valencia and researching neuroesthetics. She later studied Chinese painting with Master Li Chi Pang in Madrid.

She has written numerous works, including “Neuroscience and Education” published by Ed. La Muralla, which has just released its second edition. Other works include “Prompt-it, AI Goes to Class” and “Silicon Synapse” (published by Ed. La Muralla) on the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in classrooms and a comparative analysis of neural networks.