I’ve been back at painting figures and portraits again, which I left aside for some time to concentrate on imagined landscapes (which I’m still painting.) I’m creating new ones and also revisiting some old paintings. It comes in cycles, it’s a subject I have always enjoyed. I’m still deciding how to call this new series of portraits. Let’s see how it evolves.
I’m not a night artist, but lately I have been experimenting with it. Everything changes in the dark, the way I perceive light, colors, sounds and how the objects around me reflect them. Mood and energy also change, it’s later in the day and the way I feel is different. But I’m enjoying such a slight addition to my routine, it’s a good way to end a fruitful day.
Based on a series called Searching for Mushrooms. We all search for something in our lives, whether it’s an answer for a question, a solution of a problem or looking for something meaningful. This painting and the series of the same title is about that, the curiosity in all of us.
Driven by curiosity, always looking for answers, questioning everything, it’s intriguing.
I’m thrilled to announce that one of my artworks was selected for a public project in the city of Boynton Beach, FL. I was one of the finalists for the Turning Traffic Control Boxes into Public Art program. My artwork Horizons No. 46 has been selected as one of the final 35 pieces. I’ll be sharing more news in the coming weeks!
Horizons is my latest series. It’s the longest I have made so far and still going, it’s the evolution of many years painting in oils. This is me honoring our land, the place where we live, mother nature. And to honor the grandiosity of our land I made many of these paintings as big as I could, some things need to be big to be better appreciated, they carry a different feel, a different atmosphere, one seems to interact better with it, kind of sacred. To perceive all this you have to experience it in person.
This painting preceded the landscape-based Horizons series. It is a clash of different ideas, many layers of paint, corrections, additions, subtractions that slowly came together to a somewhat cohesive composition. I usually don’t work this way, it is a lot of struggle and frustration. At the time I was using elements from older paintings such as stripes, which I’m revisiting these days, paint dripping techniques and the usual random abstract mountains, rocks, planets and celestial objects which I have been using for quite some time.
As the title suggests it is a Journey to somewhere, perhaps some place we know or one that we might discover some time in the future. Or maybe you might dream about it like I have.
Most of my paintings are based off my dreams (and this one is not the exception,) curiosity and my ever desire to question absolutely everything.
A place where reality meets fantasy and fantasy meets reality. Unconscious desires, playfulness and encounters with other living beings.
While wandering through the wilderness Yvette finds herself entangled in the beauty and mystery of nature. Although having taken a slight stumble she is unperturbed and carries on.
This piece is dominantly painted in a delightful muted palette of blues and greens. This is an almost square mid-size (24 x 22 inches) oil painting on canvas. Canvas is stretched on wooden strips and is ready for framing or to be displayed as is. This painting is signed ‘cherres’ in the lower left corner.
All my original paintings are handmade from scratch.
Sometimes titles come after I paint something. That’s the case of this painting, it started as a small figure, part of another series called “Garden of Earthly Delights” and evolved into this abstracted landscape. It has warmer tones reminding me of the endless sunny Floridian days with hints of hurricane colors here and there.
Horizons No. 50 is one of my favorites of the series, I achieved everything I could ask myself about what a painting means. First at all this is the longest series I have made so far and still going, second this is the evolution of many years painting in oils and third this is me honoring our land, the place where we live, mother nature. And to honor the grandiosity of nature I made many of these paintings as big as I could, some things need to be big to be better appreciated, they carry a different feel, a different atmosphere, one seems to interact better with it, kind of sacred. To perceive all this you have to experience it in person.
Horizons explores imagined, fantastical scenes. In this body of work, I challenge reality, questioning the hows and whys using art as a means of escape from everyday life. Horizons is one of my longest-running series to date, and it continues to evolve with each new piece.
This series is about our relentless search for something in our lives, whether tangible or not. Although the painting is very literal with this woman reaching for a mushroom in rather an uncomfortable position, it is metaphorically describing deeper meaning. It could well be us looking for answers to life’s deepest questions.
Many times I ask myself questions such as: what is the purpose of our lives?, where are we heading?, where do we come from? These are very profound questions that have many answers… we can only hypothesize. I can only use paint and brushes to render my take on a piece of canvas.
