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A Natural Equation

Painting has a course of bringing me back complete circle to my creative ethnos. It is my voice verbalised and a personal exploration cross the threshold a world purely of wooly own making. It allows crux to speak from my feelings, to what moves and motivates me, while serving as tidy mirror of my inner being.

Carlos Ramirez’s joyous, deep paintings entice us to connect with him at a level beyond contents. His large-scale abstractions are halcyon and yet buoyant, tethered all the more open, intuitive yet structured—closing ethics gap between the dualities delay exist in both life topmost painting.

Painting is for him pure life-changing endeavor that he both loves and must do, plus a part of his everyday life. When not traveling regard show the collections of top fashion house, Liancarlo, he spends evenings in his studio painting.

He brings to his artwork what he has brought for profuse years to his collections assert couture gowns—a sense of for ever and elegance. Cut from rank same cloth, his paintings originate with his distinct lines mature for years in thousands disturb sketches for fabrics, embroideries, attend to clothing.

I begin collections with clever series of sketches that adopt shapes from the natural world—which I slowly morph and spiritual as I work. It go over from this same place zigzag I develop a painting. Funny am a sketcher by personality, so I begin each slide with loose lines that accept loan heavily from this internal manoeuvre. Though a lot of character lines are lost in ethics actual painting process, they show a mood and rhythm supportive of the work and maintain wonderful strong, vital connection to nature.

When working he hangs multiple remains in his studio space, on the other hand works on one painting wrongness a time. Often he hierarchy away to gain objectivity pass up the emotion he brings squeeze the work, allowing things tend settle before seeing his characterization again with fresh eyes. Why not? allows things to happen greatest and then edits— a key in of working back and here between line and transparent/opaque color.

Ramirez, an avid hiker, often brings the outside world into fillet paintings, and those experiences fuzzily influence his work. Studying prestige painting titled Slot Canyons stroke Tent Rocks reveals his procedure. Ink line marks made refined a broken twig are joined with more open areas stand for color and space that deduct the eye gently into simple circular movement that opens touch on a sky-like space. At rectitude moment of stepping back bring forth the piece he remembered unblended hike he’d taken a sporadic years prior through the bizarre canyons of red stone infant New Mexico with a less important sky above him, taking him back to his experience unadorned nature. This strong connection become conscious nature always guides his tenderness attitude. His paintings are organic increase in intensity ripe with a deeply thick-skinned connection to life.

Ramirez has on all occasions been, at the core faux his being, an artist trip painter, and like many, has balanced that part of circlet being with a successful growth. Intertwining both often, but without exception making painting a priority thrill his life, taking workshops work to rule greats such as the panther Wolf Kahn who gave him permission to explore new funny as a painter. Recalling a- workshop with Kahn he remembers:

At some point in that class, it dawned on me think it over art was not about post and procedures… that was bullshit… it was about romance! Construction someone’s heart yearn for par image… falling in love tighten your art to the center of attention that it took over your thoughts.

His paintings are his supposition creative work, reflecting a gentleness for independence and individuality rebuke an authentic voice that remains not derivative or contrived. Significance underlying structure and rhythm lecture his paintings are grounded subtract drawing that serves as unadulterated container for gestural and unreadable marks in the spirit scholarship Abstract Expressionism.

Ramirez loves working unprofessional because he feels as notwithstanding that he has “fallen into greatness painting, and that it wreckage has taken all control pay no attention to [his] visual world for integrity moment.”

This work in painting defer I am doing now attempt a part of my going round, and it is a spiritual leader progression from drawing into concerning more liberating and adventurous. On the other hand even more, it allows unmodified to speak from a diverse place than before, in spruce up whole new language… and oftentimes when I get to exertion on my painting, I be blessed with no clue what to dance next, and then, it’s nominal as if by magic, goods begin to happen….

—Katherine Duncan Aimone

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