Featured Artist for the Months of November & December, 2024
Email: marianapadilla786@gmail.com
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Mariana Padilla
Artist Statement:
Description of my artwork
I’m a Canada-based artist originally from Argentina. My discipline is primarily focused in oil on canvas or panel as well as drawings on paper with charcoal and pencils. I’m drawn to modern realism. Following traditional techniques, my painting is realistic although I firmly believe that every individual has a unique perspective. It’s about a singular feeling or perception that drives my work.
The viewer may see landscapes with roads and rivers, whilst at times certain details such as wildlife can only be discovered at very close range. The natural world is not a given; it’s a treasure that needs our attention and care.
Oftentimes people appear too, immersed in their own thoughts, in an intimate moment either bathing, swimming, reading, enraptured in a calm and safe space.
What inspires my work
I draw inspiration from images evoking my travels around the world, be it the Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo, or Bhutan, the kingdom of happiness.
I conceive life as a road or a river, so these are often present. My works explore the simultaneous co-existence of realities and time as a subjective construct. When I paint I feel as if everything suddenly stood still and I strive to catch that which scurries off the corner of the eye.
In a world dominated by speed, I propose to make a pause and let this wise natural environment we live in be our guide so that we can remember who we really are and what we are here for.
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