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was catapulted into the mainstream after he
designed the Getty Center complex here in
Los Angeles).
Del Rio flourished, with credits working
on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at
UCLA and the Crystal Cathedral in Anaheim.
With such early success in the first few years
of her career, del Rio began to wonder what
would come next.
“The ego gets in the way, but I promised
myself that in five years, I’m going to resign,”
she says, describing a promise with herself
that she wouldn’t get too caught up in the
fast-paced industry that could consume her
identity if she let it. She kept her promise, and
after five years, she resigned and started her
own company with an old colleague, designing
custom homes. That is, until the 2008 housing
crash. Her company came to a halt as the real
estate industry slowed. Del Rio, not one to
give up, turned to teaching, sharing her skills
with budding designers.
One marriage and a child later, del Rio
decided to take off a few years to be a new
mom. As the time came for her to jump back
into work, she realized her heart was not in
the work like it used to be.
“I was so passionate about architecture, and
I would live it 24/7, and now, it doesn’t make
me come alive,” she realizes. Going through
a divorce, raising her daughter, and trying to
rediscover herself called for a change to be made.
About six months later, she signed up for a
yoga challenge that required all of her attention
and focus to meditate, release, and look inward.
“I took the yoga challenge, and then all this
different imagery, a different language, very
curvy…things came out of me that I was not
familiar with, that I avoided because I avoided
curves for plans all my life,” she says. She put
pencil to paper and began to express these new
shapes and feelings. She began by designing
on coffee filters, working with the stains to
create images.
One day, restless and needing to express
herself, she grabbed a drop cloth, some paint,
and a roller meant from her interior design work
and painted what she was feeling. This was
Rhonna del Rio combines her skill in architecture with her passion for painting to create works of healing.
her first piece that was given a bigger stage,
using paint. This piece is called Community of
the Breath, and it depicts three women, each
with three hearts, with a community of other
women behind them on the verge of exploding,
ready to be empowered. Del Rio says this is
how she felt.
“My college friends would come up to me
and see [my art] and say, ‘What is going on
with you? Where is your architecture? What
is this?’ They still struggle, but it’s hard to
explain; it feels so good,” she says.
Del Rio considers this process healing. It
helped her heal many unaddressed past traumas
within herself, helped her heal from her
divorce, and helped her to find her passion
again. Today, she still practices architecture.
However, she also works in a studio here in
El Segundo that provides different modalities
of healing, from acupuncture to her paintings,
called MindSet Collective.
“I feel called, that anybody who sees the
art needs to have it somehow… tell me your
story, there’s something you’re feeling in the
art, you have to have it,” she says, saying she’d
rather hear a client’s story before discussing
price or size or pickup.
Del Rio has heard many personal stories
and connections through her art, including a
woman who shared that she used her painting
to get through chemo therapy, a woman who
felt comforted by the art after a miscarriage,
and a man who commissioned a map of El
Segundo in the background of his painting
for his wife as they moved out of the city so
they could always remember it.
“My story,” shares del Rio, “is just about
creating harmony, peace, and wellness. My
paintings are just switches and triggers for
them.” •