Artist: Nicole Tijoux
Title: 'Blue'
Size: 30h x 40w x 0.2d cm (11.81h x 15.75w x 0.08d inches)
Media: Acrylic on paper
Frame: This work is painted on paper and shipped unframed. If you wish us to arrange framing, contact us.
'Blue' is a new artwork created by Nicole Tijoux created during the lockdown and of which the artist has commented that there is 'nothing more relaxing than letting your body float in the pool'.
An award-winning artist from Chile, Nicole's work focusses on the visual transformations that occur when the human figure interacts with water. Water and background act as a veil for the human body and the vast expanses of space that encapsulate the form are explored in her beautifully composed and rendered paintings. Her work attempts to address the concept of changing states and the immediacy of this visual change, captivating a moment and translating it onto the canvas.
The expansive spaces within her paintings are there to communicate the smallness and insignificance of the human form in relation to the vastness of the ocean and all that it encapsulates. Nicole's works address ideas of space, silence and solitude, where our visual form blends with the water.
“I like to explore ideas such as how the clash of a body and a stream of water creates an optical problem. The way the shape vanishes in the vapor of the water, and the ghostly appearance of the body that can be captured in the photograph or painting. I try to explore different pictorial ways to solve an image; to splash paint, or drip it? I also try to represent the tension that exists between several bodies in these scenes.”