Highlighted artist:
Laura Iosifescu
Laura ,she is made her impact in the art world with her ground braking creation, Blossom Escape, the first ever wearable art to be made completely from paint. Based in London, she graduated from UEL in 2012 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since then Laura’s work has been displayed in more than 50 exhibitions in the UK and abroad including at the Royal College of Art and the Saatchi Gallery where her work appeared alongside that of artists such as Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Idris Khan and Xavier Mascaro. Her work is held in numerous private collections. Laura`s work is contemporary and wide ranging and touches upon themes such as human connection, identity, the natural world, spirituality and the urban environment.
Laura’s highly individual technique features heavy layers of oil paint, giving the work a sculptural dimension and suggesting organic structures blooming from the canvas. Her work breaks down the boundaries between art and onlooker. Instead of sitting on the canvas passively waiting to be seen, the paint becomes an almost living entity, a part of the experienced world which reaches out to us.
“Imagine a painting that is alive; like the plants growing in your window or flowers blossoming in your garden. You witness their transformation and in that brief moment of witnessing you freeze time; establishing a moment of unspoken unity between subject and object. A moment where materiality and possibility are overcome by the imagination.”
Part of Laura’s motivation is a desire to create paintings which dramatically record the "life" of painting itself. Her organic landscapes tell the story of their own creation.
Unlike the expressionists whose work sought a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state, Laura’s work is an attempt to comprehend the experience of being in the world in paint. To this end, in her work, paint acquires different powers; it becomes alive through natural forms. She grows plants from paint with the intention of strengthening the bonds between the self and the world we inhabit.
The juxtaposition of this blurred relationship between the art and the artist, the work and the witness is most clearly contained in Laura’s contribution to fashion- her wearable art.
“My paintings are like a film you’re watching where forms and shapes are moving; literally dancing before your eyes and invoking long-forgotten memories of a childish world with no rules; transporting you back to that world of childhood games” - Laura I.
The distinct energy present in Laura’s relationship to paint as medium comes to fruition in the flux of the natural world, symbolizing the relationship between the artist and her creation. The paint becomes alive through the deliberately-formed, organic shapes which characterise Laura’s radically unique 3D paintings. Sculpted flowers, intertwining leaves and stems are playful manipulations of paint, purposely positioned by the artist, to create the unusual, yet breath-taking beauty present in Laura’s extraordinary accumulations of paint.
The passion and vitality of the final art is overwhelming; the viewer embarks on an aesthetic journey through raw, thick, straight-from-the-tube textures which combine in a cornucopia of colours as dazzling as white light but yet present in their distinctive individual form.
Highlighted artist:
Laura Iosifescu
Laura ,she is made her impact in the art world with her ground braking creation, Blossom Escape, the first ever wearable art to be made completely from paint. Based in London, she graduated from UEL in 2012 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since then Laura’s work has been displayed in more than 50 exhibitions in the UK and abroad including at the Royal College of Art and the Saatchi Gallery where her work appeared alongside that of artists such as Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Idris Khan and Xavier Mascaro. Her work is held in numerous private collections. Laura`s work is contemporary and wide ranging and touches upon themes such as human connection, identity, the natural world, spirituality and the urban environment.
Laura’s highly individual technique features heavy layers of oil paint, giving the work a sculptural dimension and suggesting organic structures blooming from the canvas. Her work breaks down the boundaries between art and onlooker. Instead of sitting on the canvas passively waiting to be seen, the paint becomes an almost living entity, a part of the experienced world which reaches out to us.
“Imagine a painting that is alive; like the plants growing in your window or flowers blossoming in your garden. You witness their transformation and in that brief moment of witnessing you freeze time; establishing a moment of unspoken unity between subject and object. A moment where materiality and possibility are overcome by the imagination.”
Part of Laura’s motivation is a desire to create paintings which dramatically record the "life" of painting itself. Her organic landscapes tell the story of their own creation.
Unlike the expressionists whose work sought a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state, Laura’s work is an attempt to comprehend the experience of being in the world in paint. To this end, in her work, paint acquires different powers; it becomes alive through natural forms. She grows plants from paint with the intention of strengthening the bonds between the self and the world we inhabit.
The juxtaposition of this blurred relationship between the art and the artist, the work and the witness is most clearly contained in Laura’s contribution to fashion- her wearable art.
“My paintings are like a film you’re watching where forms and shapes are moving; literally dancing before your eyes and invoking long-forgotten memories of a childish world with no rules; transporting you back to that world of childhood games” - Laura I.
The distinct energy present in Laura’s relationship to paint as medium comes to fruition in the flux of the natural world, symbolizing the relationship between the artist and her creation. The paint becomes alive through the deliberately-formed, organic shapes which characterise Laura’s radically unique 3D paintings. Sculpted flowers, intertwining leaves and stems are playful manipulations of paint, purposely positioned by the artist, to create the unusual, yet breath-taking beauty present in Laura’s extraordinary accumulations of paint.
The passion and vitality of the final art is overwhelming; the viewer embarks on an aesthetic journey through raw, thick, straight-from-the-tube textures which combine in a cornucopia of colours as dazzling as white light but yet present in their distinctive individual form.
