Clarisa Rakos

I am an abstract/Mixed Media artist and paint in different styles… I get easily bored when I am working too long on one style and I normally have several paintings waiting to be finished as I switch canvases or panels depending on what I feel I want to paint on that day.

I don’t start with a plan, only with a colour palette that I have had in mind and that has inspired me… it could have been an old wall/door… or the colour palette and shapes in a photograph or an image in a magazine, the beautiful and rusty colours on pebbles or rocks…

I love working with Acrylics because Im quite inpatient, I usually combine this with inks, oil pastels, pencils, pigments and charcoal… just love experimenting and combining different mediums … I normally start by making marks and building up layers, adding and subtracting, sometimes using my own painted collage papers… other times scratching the surface to create aged and distressed textures…. I just respond to the painting while it is developing and love how it takes a life of its own.