The painting 'A Parisian Girl' is inspired by a scene that we saw in the Parisian tube. A young woman was sitting on a folding seat and she was looking...
The painting "A Parisian Girl" is inspired by a scene that we saw in the Parisian tube. A young woman was sitting on a folding seat and she was looking at her Iphone. She was dressed all in black with very elegant oversized clothes. Only her colorful sneakers were popping out. She looked very majestic and that is how we wanted to depict her. The metal doors which you find in the Parisian tube were reinterpreted into Platinum leaf. The shiny and luxurious background emphasizes the dark matt painted silhouette. Thanks to the golden parts, the painting reminds of a Byzantine icon and it turns this mundane scenery into something graceful and solemn.
-The drawing "BFF" (Best Friends Forever) and “After the shot” are both made with colored pencils on paper. The pigments of the pencils on the surface of the rough textured watercolor paper gives a unique texture which creates an almost pointillism feeling to the drawings.
“BFF” depicts a group of young teenage girls looking at the sea. The landscape is inspired by the French Basque coast near the city of Biarritz. These young women staring at the raging waves is a sort of metaphor. The horizon is the endless possibility that life could offer and the stormy waters are the challenges that these young women will face and overcome. It is a drawing about the beauty of friendship the hopes and dream you have when you are young.
“After the Shot” is inspired by a scene we spotted on the Beach of Nice in south of France. It depicts the moment right after a picture was taken with a smartphone by a man of his girlfriend. In this drawing we wanted to depict the moment after the artificiality of the posing for social media and when the natural behavior is coming back.
