A collection of work from Dutch artist and illustrator Leonie Bo. Based mostly in Amsterdam, Bos has shifted her focus towards portray and drawing by hand after a few years working as an editorial illustrator for publications like The New York Instances and The Guardian. She works primarily with acrylic and wax pastel on paper, creating figurative works from pictures of fleeting moments that catch her consideration. Transferring between commentary and abstraction, Bos in within the rigidity between recognition and transformation—how a really particular picture can progressively turn into one thing much less outlined:
“The pictures I in the end select as the premise for my work all meet sure standards: putting mixtures of shapes, volumes and layers. Outsized clothes, folds of material, or an accumulation of equipment. These components turn into my uncooked supplies. I’m fascinated by the way in which motion can disrupt a well-known kind, how a jacket can lose its recognisable form, how components of the physique can disappear from view, and the way one thing nearly summary can emerge. The layering course of is a necessary a part of this transformation. By working in reverse order, portray what seems to be within the foreground first and what belongs behind it afterward, I create cut-outs and residual shapes that start to operate as unbiased varieties. The portray stays rooted in an actual commentary, whereas the logic of the picture begins to shift. For me, portray is a steady balancing act between staying true to the supply picture and permitting it to rework into one thing new.”
