Lucie Duban

France / Spain

Mihai Paul

United Kingdom

Barry Camps

The Netherlands

lives and works in Belgium

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 calling towards such form of expression came quite recently and funny enough, by accident. Just last October( 2014) I got ahold of a broken canvas and decided to see what it would get out of it; it ended up in the piece you see under the name Clar de luna. I got to the conclusion that life is but a tragic comedy, with masks that we create for ourselves in order to better cope with different situations.

After a quite intense, one might say mystical, experience, I started identifying and watched closely my own masks. Slowly they started crumbling and my true self is being discovered a bit more every day at a time.

Image comes from thought; thought form learning and experience; the soul from weighing and evaluating; the authored message from the integrity of soul and the values that it encourages. Dialogue in art first exists in the arena of human experience and perception. Second, is the studio. An object maker is author of content and simultaneously fabricator of physical form aligned with the narrative space carrying the implied communication. The dialogue is finalized in the reception and interpretation of the audience, giving the object of art meaning.

lives and works in Spain

lives and works in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

lives and works in London, United Kingdom

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Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar, Joshua White, Nicolas Vionnet, Genevieve Favre Petroff, Sandra Hunter, MyLoan Dinh, John Moran, Marya Vyrra, Gemma Pepper, Michael Nelson, Hannah Hiaseen and Scarlett Bowman, Yelena York Tonoyan, Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman, Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen.

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