 Antria Pelekanou grew up in sunny Cyprus, where she had a series of different pets such as cats, dogs, birds, fish, turtles, hamsters, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and bunnies.
Her grandparents own a small rabbit farm near their residence and as a child it was always a pleasure playing with their wild rabbits and hares. Most of them would kick, scratch or bite, but that didn’t stop her or her sisters from wanting to play with those cute, furry creatures.
Her new body of work titled ‘Funny Bunnies’ is cheerful, positive and entertaining. As an artist it gives her joy to make people laugh or smile. This is her initiative. To create her Funny Bunnies she spends some time researching and finding just the right image and composition. She then makes a drawing of the bunny as a study for the painting to come. She uses oils, ink, watercolour and casting resins to create the texture and aesthetics of Funny Bunnies.
"Tree Of Frogs by Antria Pelekanou has a great use of colour, style and techniques - more interesting than whatever the piece may be trying to convey." - Fringe Report
Pelekanou’s work is focused upon the obsession to portray the texture and shape of the original imagery, which she finds from newspapers, magazines as well as taking her own staged photographs.
Most of her paintings are composed by several images put together to create one image. The composition and aesthetics play a major role in Pelekanou’s work. Sometimes aesthetics can even be more important than the meaning of the work.
She looks at the way Glenn Brown makes use of bright colours and she is inspired by John Currin’s kitsch subjects and compositions.
Pelekanou is very interested in organic shapes, texture and colour and that can be found in her new body of work. While she is using a large scale canvas, and painting the main figure with a tiny brush, the viewer can see the obsession Pelekanou has with detail, while some parts of her paintings are left painted in a quirky way.
Suggestion and innuendoes are strong elements in Pelekanou’s work as this allows the work to become less illustrational and more fictional. As a figurative painter she explores the term “figurative” in her work. Some of her paintings do not include a human figure so instead the figure becomes the tree, or the frogs, spider or the grass.
Her new body of work titled ‘Funny Bunnies’ is cheerful, positive and entertaining. As an artist it gives her joy to make people laugh or smile. Artgallery rating
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Antria Pelekanou
Positive. This artist has received positive feedback from customers regarding reliability and excellence of artistry.
Size: 28.00" x 15.00"
Price: £950.00
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