New series of paintings “Wonderland” made in 2020. This is the land of surprises, escapes, discoveries, naughtiness and playfulness. One after another they keep coming back.
Find the complete series here.
This is the Land of Surprises
Author
Aldo Cherres
I am a visual artist specializing in contemporary oil painting. My main interest is to paint people's events including mine, usually in imaginary landscapes.
Weeds: A Painted Story about these Misunderstood Plants
A while ago I started wondering about the importance of weeds in nature and why people take whatever method to get rid of them, including me, I guess this is what our society thought me to do.
It all started while walking in my overgrown garden when I saw weeds flowering when I realized how beautiful these little plants are, specially when blooming. There were so many types, such a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors.
This of course led me to start a new series of paintings, properly titled “Weeds.” But it was a slow start, these little plants started to show up in other paintings before these series, sort of an integration to the compositions I was working at that time, until eventually bloomed into its own series.
Painting Fantastic Landscapes with Digital Tools
Same painting principles, different tools. Feels strange not including people in these compositions, nevertheless interesting to see where my mind goes and also get that human feeling without humans.
For some reason I don’t like to overcrowd my compositions, I feel the need of space, freedom, room to develop, to keep expanding. Sometimes less is more, as the saying goes.
You can find high quality signed prints of these digital landscapes in my shop, which are printed in very small quantities at a time.
My Kingdom Series: The Queenly Queens in Their Own Turf.
In their own world, that’s the idea behind these series of new paintings. Surrounded by fantastic landscapes, these women face no taboos, they can wear whatever they please and can also manipulate their surroundings. These women like to wear leggings, whether they are solid, stripped or dotted. They like to match their clothing to their surroundings, which are extravagant and sometimes capricious. In the meantime strange formations and growings occur, pole-like tree trunks, branches, caves, buildings, stone-bearing plants, mushrooms and much more… while planets, suns and meteor-like flying objects dance in the sky.
If you are interested about these paintings, please contact me for more information, thank you.
Searching for Answers while Painting Mushrooms
Searching for Mushrooms is a series of paintings I made last year in 2017, although not new I’d like to talk about them more in depth.
These series are about our relentless search for something in our lifetimes, whether is something tangible or not. Although the painting is very objective, usually women reaching for mushrooms in rather uncomfortable positions, it is actually describing a deeper meaning. It could well be us looking for answers to questions we all have and many times cannot find, reach or accept.
This idea started while I was walking in my garden and noticed some wild mushrooms growing, bright white hard to miss and of incredibly beautiful shapes. They just appeared from one day to another, right in the middle of my garden, maybe one or two, in small bunches, like they don’t want to be next to the other plants. They made such an impression to me that I have been repeatedly using them in many of my other paintings.
Somewhere along this series I started adding flying objects in the background, to be more precise planets, meteors, comets and the like. I also began to paint some kind of buildings usually in a very abstract way. This is because I want to think these events are taking place somewhere, sometime we don’t know.
As of now, I have painted four works of this series, but after almost a year of working on other themes, I’m starting to get newer ideas to continue this journey.
My Kingdom Series – The Beginning of a Quest
A new series I started this year and one of the longest so far (and still going.) It started with this painting while working at a friend’s studio. He is a sculptor and while I was there I had the chance to give a try at modeling on clay. I made a couple of small clay sculptures, the second one is what gave birth to this painting. I wasn’t intending for this, but one thing led to another. Anyway, I used the clay model to make this painting, which is unusual to me, because I don’t work that way, I mainly paint from imagination, but it was a good and different approach, something that I can add to my arsenal. The theme of these series is about a man or a woman being on worlds of their own, they can dress however they like, act however they like, there are no taboos, no rules, they are free to do as they please, they can even manage to design their worlds.
