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Masks

30/4/2017

This week I present to you a sketch I did considering the following statement from the little book by Kit White: "The human face is not flat"..."Understanding this will help you capture the complex dimensionality of the human face and avoid turning it into a flat mask". I was trying to deal with a very paradoxical situation where I experienced people turning their faces to masks.
For the future I wish there is the life giving energy evident in the faces I encounter. Much light!

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Sean Scully

23/4/2017

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During our visit to Stockholm last summer, we stayed at the Scandic group of hotels right in the centre of the city. The rooms were small and the bed too soft, but the hotel had art prints in every room reminding one of the typical Scandinavian sense of pragmatism: stripes and colour fields in earthy tones. There was no mention of the artist, so I drew myself a scanty sketch of the paintings in an attempt to remember these sublime stripes.
This week I finally ran into an original by the artist, Sean Scully, in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. This week I celebrate this artist: I would like to learn more about him and his creations.
Much light!

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Promise of Renewal

2/4/2017

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I did this sketch of a tree on the first really sunny day this year.
It was still very cold, we wrapped ourselves in blankets and sipped coffee in a Cafe´, seated outside. Something I love about Berlin: its street cafe´s.
As I looked at the sun through the barren branches of gray trees, I felt the promise of renewal of life. As I take off for the next two weeks to celebrate Easter (another promise of renewal) with my family, I wish each one of you the best life has to offer each of us.
Let life flow through you.
Much light!

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Aruna Samivelu

I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create.