Gabrielle Mayer

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Who Am I?

Most people call me Gaby. I’m a self taught artist who has explored various mediums of artistic expression from photography to sculpting to wire art. The love of painting began in my late teens, first using oils and now working primarily with acrylics, creating paintings that resonate styles of expressionism and abstraction. Using a painting brush or knife or both to achieve a variety of effects from rough uneven textures to thick or thin sweeping areas of colour in passionate, vibrant and earthy tones. I primarily paint what’s around me which includes a wide array of subjects from landscapes to buildings to people. When the art bug bit me, one of the things I wanted to paint most was people, people are endlessly fascinating, all subjects present a unique challenge, in everyday life doing everyday things. My aim is not to draw a perfect likeness of a person but to capture their thoughts in paintings and to provoke a delight in watching a story come to life on the canvas. For all my subjects I’ve applied styles with harmonizing colours, saturated reds and yellows, earthy tones and healing greens of nature. I paint to emotionally connect people to feel what they see not just see what they look at.

My Philosophy
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, 
but their inward significance”

          ~~Aristotle
                                                                                             
 

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