Q: How long have you been an artist? Please tell us a little about your chosen medium? Do you do any other creative arts?
A: I decided at a very young age that art would be a unifying constant throughout my life. As the style and execution of my work have changed and grown, I’ve pursued a career as an exhibiting painter, working with both national and international galleries.
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My passion has always been to create fantasy worlds and fantastic scenery.
I am attracted to everything that is dreamlike, mystical, mysterious and powerful and fortunately I do a job that allows me to introduce, mix and rework, all of these influences that fascinate me in all my creations.
I recently started a series of personal projects, fantastic tales, of which I recreated atmosphere, characters, costumes and settings thanks also to the participation of a fantastic team.
For the aesthetic style of the images of this project (completely shot in the studio) I wanted to imitate the style of Flemish painting with the awesomeness that arouse to us the hybrid and grotesque creatures that appear in some paintings of this kind of art and its use of very dark backgrounds in sharp contrast with the subjects in light.
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My portraits depict a playful engagement with nature in her guise as the eternal feminine. Allegorical figures wear honeycomb garb, butterfly crowns, and caterpillar necklaces. Last summer’s leaves are raiment for their decorative pleasure and metaphoric compost for the eyes. Entomological hats and mythopoetic headgear display life cycles, food sources and sometimes predators as well.
Chie Yoshii’s oil paintings explore timeless psychological themes with a contrasting mix of techniques and styles. On the one hand, the brushstrokes and the luminosity of her panels are reminiscent of traditional Flemish paintings, in which the details, the quality of shading, and the softness of each character’s complexion are presented in a masterly manner. On the other hand, the subtle symbolism and compelling presence of the figures bring an unexpected air of accessible modernity.
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Since earliest childhood I have been fascinated by the spirits and forces swirling around us in their hidden realms—the spectral evidence of ancient beings and their rites and deeds both wicked and noble. It was as though they were calling to me and so I have made a life of trying to bring their voices to light. As a child they manifested in ambitious tales crafted in crayon and crude text all stapled together in handmade books. Now, all these years later, they still haunt me, vying for me to reveal them, to bring them out from the shadows for all to see, only now it is through oil paintings and prose, art books and novels, on and on until the day I can no longer hold a brush—a joy, a purpose, a curse.
