Laura Basterra Sanz

(b 1979, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels)

Transcribing her interior world in paint; Laura Basterra Sanz creates intuitive and naïve compositions of personal significance. For her; each colour resonates with a shade of emotion; each shape is evocative of a mood; be it sharply angled or gently curved. Her collected canvases reveal the changeable nature of being - some bold and brightly hued; others muted and muddied - which together aim at revealing the many shifting facets of a single self. “The way I express myself is pretty intense and polarised; extreme at times; and emotional. Colours can be bright; light; bold; pure; clear; honest and direct. I use a lot of yellow. I like to think that I add a little bit of the sun when mixing my colours. I could say that I need every element or colour to exist for itself; and then collaborate with others”¦When I'm more relaxed colours will fade to grayscale; the in-betweens of pure light and the utter darkness.”