Forest Carnival

Description

Inspired by the discovery of Flora Yuknovich prolific and amazing artwork and further research on her sources of inspiration – namely the Venetian Rococo art of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and her exhibition in Italy curated and hosted by Victoria Miro as well as her inspiration drawn from the equally prolific artist  Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)  a French Rococo painter and printmaker known for his exuberant and hedonistic works.

My current direction follows the inner eye seeing what is hidden within each piece of research, each art work and each piece in progress – some shapes, creatures, human and other-worldly which stand out to greet me and find their way onto the canvas.  What emerges is something completely different to any original.  The style is definitely informed and inspired by my equally prolific artist and mother Renée Chatlani’s Black and white charcoal works as well as some oil paintings . Forest Carnival is a bow to the forest, to carnivals, to forest dwellers, seen and unseen, to nature, and to those great masters who have inspired and continue to inspire us all, and those modern masters whose creativity knows no bounds.