Anika Firouzman
United in Art:Fine Art from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
June 4 - June 25, 2010
Reception:
Thursday June 10, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Boldly heartened by her intrepid spiritual beliefs, mesmerizing portraitist Anika Firouzman is inspired by her poetic sensitivity to the people around her. Intensely introspective, Firouzman imbues her works with a precise, perceptive sympathy for her subjects. Energetic in color and spirited in form, Firouzman peels away a person’s defensive shells, vivaciously tracing their psyche on her canvases in immediate, effortless brushstrokes. Thick, bravura layers deftly depict her subject’s nuanced consciousnesses. Piercingly sincere in her painting, Firouzman seeks to portray her sitter’s essence, conflated with her own soul. “When I sit in front of a canvas with my paints, I feel like the whole world is in my hands, and my mind is the navigator through this colourful journey,” states Firouzman. Vigorous in her artistic process, Firouzman adroitly calms the world’s storms of chaos in her painterly, expressive portraiture.
Native to Hackney, England, Firouzman completed a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 2009. She lives in London, and plans to attain her master’s degree in Art Psychotherapy.
Artist Statement
I have always loved to get messy in any possible way, hence when I am in my studio, more paint is on the walls and floor than the actual canvas. This expresses the chaos that is around me and inside me, and shows how constructing the negativity releases a positive outcome. I am self driven on a subconscious level, and do not fully understand why I paint, but part of me loves to do something outrageous to cause an effect and reactions from others. I feel a sense of achievement from this, and that is probably where the drive ends, but is restarted again with the next painting. I love to build up colour and have a series of layers to produce the effect I want. Each layer expresses a different feeling and energy, and the more I layer, the greater the outcome and insight into my mind.
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