Paintings

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"Tree Of Frogs by Antria Pelekanou has a great use of colour, style and techniques - more interesting than whatever the piece may be trying to convey." - Fringe Report

Pelekanou’s work is focused upon the obsession to portray the texture and shape of the original imagery, which she finds from newspapers, magazines as well as taking her own staged photographs.

Most of her paintings are composed by several images put together to create one image. The composition and aesthetics play a major role in Pelekanou’s work. Sometimes aesthetics can even be more important than the meaning of the work.

She looks at the way Glenn Brown makes use of bright colours and fine detail and she is inspired by John Currin’s kitsch subjects and compositions.

Pelekanou is very interested in organic shapes, texture and colour. While she is using a large scale canvas, and painting the main figure with a tiny brush, the viewer can see the obsession Pelekanou has with detail. Other parts of her paintings are left painted in a quirky way to create the aesthetics she is after.

Her new body of work titled ‘Funny Bunnies’ is cheerful, positive and entertaining. As an artist it gives her joy to make people laugh or smile.