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INES SOTOMAYOR | Multi-colour Series (The Joy) -- From people to butterflies - Tryptic
ARTIST | Ines Sotomayor
BASED IN | Buenos Aires, Argentina
TITLE | Multi-colour Series (The Joy) -- From people to butterflies - Triptych
SIZE | Two pieces of 105 mm x 245 mm; one piece of 70 x 245 mm
From Multicolor Series (The Joy): From people to butterflies - Triptych
This final series is about gratitude and maturity, and being able to change our notion of belonging.
My father was an architect, but he was also a great artist who created beautiful presentations for buildings to come. He would draw and paint tiny people in the architectonical scenes that he imagined, which always fascinated me. Fortunately, he gave me a lot of his painting materials before he died and recently I used his Ecolines (some of them from the 80's, when he used to paint with the airbrush) to recreate those little persons in his honor.
The colours are inspired by Brazil's flag, the country were I was raised.
Soon I realized that maybe we could metamorphose ourselves if we just allowed us to break free from the ground and be able to finally fly: the whole world is our home.
'From people to butterflies. Belong nowhere to become part of everywhere.'
MEDIUM | Ecoline inks, Rotring Isograph, Dr. Martin's Bleed Proof White, Hahnemühle Expression 100% cotton (300gsm) watercolour paper
OPENING BID | USD 200, Frame is not included - Available during our 48 hour IG Auction (See more)
AUCTION CODE | IS_BUTTERFLIES
ARTIST | Ines Sotomayor
BASED IN | Buenos Aires, Argentina
TITLE | Multi-colour Series (The Joy) -- From people to butterflies - Triptych
SIZE | Two pieces of 105 mm x 245 mm; one piece of 70 x 245 mm
From Multicolor Series (The Joy): From people to butterflies - Triptych
This final series is about gratitude and maturity, and being able to change our notion of belonging.
My father was an architect, but he was also a great artist who created beautiful presentations for buildings to come. He would draw and paint tiny people in the architectonical scenes that he imagined, which always fascinated me. Fortunately, he gave me a lot of his painting materials before he died and recently I used his Ecolines (some of them from the 80's, when he used to paint with the airbrush) to recreate those little persons in his honor.
The colours are inspired by Brazil's flag, the country were I was raised.
Soon I realized that maybe we could metamorphose ourselves if we just allowed us to break free from the ground and be able to finally fly: the whole world is our home.
'From people to butterflies. Belong nowhere to become part of everywhere.'
MEDIUM | Ecoline inks, Rotring Isograph, Dr. Martin's Bleed Proof White, Hahnemühle Expression 100% cotton (300gsm) watercolour paper
OPENING BID | USD 200, Frame is not included - Available during our 48 hour IG Auction (See more)
AUCTION CODE | IS_BUTTERFLIES
ARTIST | Ines Sotomayor
BASED IN | Buenos Aires, Argentina
TITLE | Multi-colour Series (The Joy) -- From people to butterflies - Triptych
SIZE | Two pieces of 105 mm x 245 mm; one piece of 70 x 245 mm
From Multicolor Series (The Joy): From people to butterflies - Triptych
This final series is about gratitude and maturity, and being able to change our notion of belonging.
My father was an architect, but he was also a great artist who created beautiful presentations for buildings to come. He would draw and paint tiny people in the architectonical scenes that he imagined, which always fascinated me. Fortunately, he gave me a lot of his painting materials before he died and recently I used his Ecolines (some of them from the 80's, when he used to paint with the airbrush) to recreate those little persons in his honor.
The colours are inspired by Brazil's flag, the country were I was raised.
Soon I realized that maybe we could metamorphose ourselves if we just allowed us to break free from the ground and be able to finally fly: the whole world is our home.
'From people to butterflies. Belong nowhere to become part of everywhere.'
MEDIUM | Ecoline inks, Rotring Isograph, Dr. Martin's Bleed Proof White, Hahnemühle Expression 100% cotton (300gsm) watercolour paper
OPENING BID | USD 200, Frame is not included - Available during our 48 hour IG Auction (See more)
AUCTION CODE | IS_BUTTERFLIES
About the artist
Ines Sotomayor
Ines Sotomayor might have had an unusual life journey: born in Argentina, her family moved to Brazil where she lived for 15 years. In her final years of high school, they moved again, this time to Portugal, where she graduated in a Spanish school. Finally, in 1993, she came to Buenos Aires and started college right away.
To soothe this immigrant grief, she drew, painted and wrote, and daydreamed that she would someday become a 'real' artist. She didn't attend art school, however, graduating instead as a Graphic Designer and a Front End Developer. She started studying calligraphy formally in 2003 – with Marina Soria, a talented artist, and a passionate, generous teacher – and also began developing websites that year.
For this reason, Ines likes to say she uses both sides of her brain: 'I write code as someone who knits. I write letters as someone who meditates. I write, as someone who breathes.'
Her introduction to calligraphy occurred while a student at the University of Buenos Aires, in typography classes. It was love at first sight! It felt great to learn this skill in the midst of the computer craze in the design field. Her passion for letters grew so strong that she began teaching classes at the university for almost a decade, specialising in Typography. From then, she has never stopped learning every formal hand and expressive calligraphic styles.
She is currently venturing into the world of watercolours, and has been taking classes with the wonderful calligraphers such as Roballos/Naab, Marina Soria, Silvia Cordero Vega, Giovanni De Faccio, Cláudio Gil, Luca Barcellona, Christopher Haanes, Cora Pearl, Amity Parks, Yukimi Annand, Massimo Pollelo, Mike Gold, John Stevens and Brody Neuenschwander.
'I love calligraphy simply because I love the written word and mostly because I crave for more beauty in the world,' she says.