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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