Q: Tell us about your art technique and what first sparked an interest in this medium.
A: I´m a Photomanipulator, I work with real photos of real people, real objects, etc. I combine them, mix them, paint and draw on them… My tools are Photoshop and my Wacom Intuos4 tablet.
Q: Do you use any special materials, or do anything out of the ordinary when you are creating your art, If so could you tell us about it?
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Q: Tell us about your art technique and what first sparked
an interest in this medium.
A: I’ve always gravitated toward portraits – my four year old scribbles were mostly odd faces. But it was the style and thinking process behind the portraits that changed. I used to work mainly with pencil and my goal was recreating a photo as realistically as possible. Around age thirteen, I discovered Photoshop and my world changed. With more freedom to make mistakes (ctrl+alt+del needs to exist everywhere), I loosened up and began experimenting.
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Q: Could you describe the evolution of your pictorial style between byzantine icons and historical avant-garde?
A: I am not sure if it is possible to talk about ‘evolution’ in the style of my paintings. Apart from researching more sophisticated pictorial textures, technically speaking I have always been interested in bodies and portraits. Even today, I am loyal to my ‘first love’, the human figure. I keep interpreting it on one hand by taking inspiration from my cultural background (byzantine art and historical avant-garde); on the other, by everything I discover observing the world and the people surrounding me.
Q: Are you also inspired by other mediums to create your atmospheres and characters?
Q: Could you describe the evolution of your style, and how you arrived to prefer this medium?
A: My artistic journey has been extremely tortuous. I have been drawing in every field; from porno comics to sophisticated comic strips, from creating videogame’s character design to pure illustration. Every single step of my journey pushed me towards a change, an evolution in both style and content. Today, I am using the medium that not only gave me the opportunity to best represent my ‘visions’, but that also made me recognizable among the other artists working with graphite on paper.
As a child living in country Victoria, Australia, my home environment provided natural worlds to play and dream in. Birth, life and death cycles, were seen as natural (and questioned). Life experiences, crisis and trauma’s were treated with loving kindness and wisdom offered.
