Secret Response (2016) Original Oil Painting by Victor de Melo

Extra-fine oils, natural resins and Sennelier highest-quality pigments, in universally prepared 100% cotton canvas. tautly stretched on a plain nordic pine frame, two layers of varnish protecting the artwork against dust and UV.

Signed on the back.
Certificate of Authenticity included.

Please note: in context images are not exactly to scale and are for illustration purposes only.

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Victor de Melo © 2016 All rights reserved.


My process of creating abstract expressionist-inspired paintings is a complicated layering of pigment using impasto, scumbles, and glazes.

Imagine. Have a dream. Be free. These are the most important elements in my work.
Each time I begin a painting, I am curious myself to see what will happen, and it is always a surprise. I’m fascinated by any number of ways of seeing from pure, detached observation, to total abstraction. I love to discover beauty and significance in subjects that might normally go unappreciated.
With my abstract work I try to contribute, in my own modest way, to the beauty, harmony, and general goodness of our existence.
The theme I most often revisit is the idea of an incomplete narrative, where something has happened or is about to happen, an ‘in-between’ moment, exploring the morphological similarities found in nature amongst discordant worlds and fields, including organic, topographic, cartographic, botanic, and geologic.

I like to think of my paintings as poetic, pure, and transparent with an element of mystery and depth for the viewer.

Materials used:

oils, natural resins, pigments, varnish

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 65 x 90 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative