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Artist Ian Shatilla
Montreal, Canada
The Morning After
Oil Painting
Artist Statement
My recent work explores the intimacy of the everyday. Brightly saturated portraits and still-life environments appear epically romantic in fantastical narratives of passing time. This visual depiction of time passing is executed through a vocabulary of carefully glazed and layered colors, seamless color blends mimicking sunlight and crystal-like finishes, in carefully constructed atmospheric conditions. Although these conditions rely on the ephemerality of time, they also mirror the transient nature of relationships and emotional connections. Through colour and light I capture these overlooked moments of beauty and strive to paint and express a romantic present-day nostalgia.
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