Bevlee Michel
Pleasure and Pain I

Size Framed: 710 x 890mm
Medium: Acrylic and collage on canvas and perspex

In these artworks, “Pleasure and Pain, Bevlee who fluctuates between being very expressive and spontaneous and then very much in control, mixes emotion and formal art training to create these pieces. The work conveys the pain experienced when growing and the pleasure we feel in knowing with a complex materiality emerging through the blending of acrylic on canvas and layering it with painted Perspex and collage. While love and excitement of creativity is obvious, the pain of growing and getting to this point is often not clear as it is never easy to grow, not in any practice or field and not as a human being. These pieces celebrate the culmination of work, themes, symbols and images which all come together to elicit emotion in the viewer. Emotion is expressed in the colour and the clashing shapes that are formed in the layering. The canvas drips with texture and abstract forms.

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