Second Nature

These beautiful paintings are done with lacquer and enamel. Seeing them today at the Jacana Contemporary Art Gallery was absolutely awe inspiring. Unfortunately it is only on for one more day and I urge you to go see it.

The artist, Thierry Feuz, uses these flowers as a pretext to play with the unmixed colours. The organic changes of the colour intermingle on the canvas, bursting and pouring out into coloured plasmas that tumble and swell in a sometimes dangerous way. At one point the painting evolves into an epidermal pleating and at another it looks like a network of vessels, cellular tissues or veining.

Feuz studied at the Ecole Superior des Beaux Arts in Geneva. His work has been exhibited internationally at galleries in Brussels, Copenhagen, Geneva, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Vancouver and Zurich. Most recently he exhibited at the National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C.