-Charmaine Olivia
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I am absolutely, completely and utterly in love with Charmaine Olivia's work. In her world where bones emerge from shoulders and boats float through waves of hair, it is simply wonderful, surreal and above all magical. Her gorgeously rendered female figures who drip off the canvases with an almost feral sense of authority are both ethereal and captivating. With each project she explores different techniques and subject matter. From Indian ink to oil painting, her arcane dream symbols and archetypes of femininity are brought to life through her own artistic view. Anomalous elements in her work challenge viewers to do a double take. "I get bored if I'm just doing a portrait of someone and it's very plain," she says. "When my girls are too pretty, I want to purposely distort something about them, like add extra eyes or a skeletal shape to make them more interesting."
Charmaine claims her influences stem mainly from her childhood and 'growing up with hippies as parents', however, her dreams, myth and religion also play their parts in her work. She likes to play around with each piece as she goes along, letting her subconscious guide her through the journey, often not knowing why she incorporated parts until later on.
Though I have tried, there is absolutely no way I can describe her work in full, you simply must check it out yourself.
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