LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Lucie Duban
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
An artist ' s statement
I work to create dreamlike and playful paintings.
I use oil for its transparency and vibrant pigments. I mix paint in order to obtain material in some places and transparency in others. I look for different depths, volumes and intensity without using perspective, as I want to keep a plane image.
I create paintings which have a playful touch. The plane aspect conveys a feeling of floating which reveals even more the elements related to biomorphism. The idea is to produce a familiar impression at seeing those elements. Also revealing the invisible we tend to forget about.
My aim:
I want to provoke in the viewer a moment of escapism, thanks to the dreamlike element that I tend to inject into all of my works. Offering some visual and sensitive trips.
I also want to invite people to remember our connection to Nature, and to reconnect with their inner child which goes hand in hand with the ability to marvel at our natural surrouding.
What I hope for is to trigger a respect towards our magnificient planet.
My major inspirations come from Odilon Redon and Arshile Gorky. I also admire Kandinsky, Wools, Klee, Khalo and Chagall.
Lucie Duban
Born in Royan( France), she lives and works in Madrid( Spain) since 2011.
She’ s been introduced to art in her childhood with drawing being very present in her family.
Being self-taught, she started to paint seriously around 2008 while living in London.
She works with oil for its transparency and the vibrant pigments.
Nature is at the core of her practice and irrigates her work. Colour is also a major tool in her work.
The biomorphic, playful and dreamy aspects are the major elements of her work.
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