The Departure
from Innocence
“When I create artwork the veils are peeled back revealing
non-ordinary reality. Welcome to the space between the lines...”
–Orlee Andromedae
This provocative statement is fully confirmed in the dark, surreal artwork of Toronto painter Orlee Andromedae. A superficial
reaction to her paintings may suggest similarities in the somber
tones and twisted figures to the famously eerie work of H.R. Geiger, and even perhaps to the cartoonishly gothic style of Tim
Burton; but this impression is quickly blown away by the deep soul
and uniqueness of her work. Her pale subjects seem to flow and
writhe, like thistles in the cold wind of their own desolate limbos.
And yet there is the [