Video: Fragments of life in unusual drawings by Maura Cluthe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Almost all talented illustrators paint completely funny pictures that rarely leave anyone indifferent. Maura Cluthe is no exception, she skillfully combines cute illustrations with photographs, text and paints, creating in the end not just drawings, but whole fragments of life.
There are such wonderful artists as Irisz Agocs, who draws wonderful children's drawings with watercolors, or guys like Mark Jones, an illustrator who creates his funny drawings with two or three strokes of a pen on paper. monumental works using several means and techniques at once.
Maura Cluthe has been drawing since she was 4 years old and, according to her, does not remember the time when she did not draw. It was at the age of 4 that she and her friend Peter drew the whole world, which, as it seemed to them, existed underground, on a huge sheet of paper. They drew it for ages, and it so engulfed the youngsters that for sure even then there was no longer any doubt about their future activities.
Every Christmas, Maura Cluthe received a new piece of art from her grandmother. Among these items, at first, there were colored pencils, scissors and good paper, and then paints, markers, brushes.
In her current work, Maura is trying to take a little of everything. Combine text, photography, pencil illustrations and ink drawings and more.
Postcards, old photographs influence her work. In her work, she displays fragments of the life of different people, collecting them together. Most of all she enjoys collaborating with other artists. “This makes it possible to move in a new direction and learn something new about yourself,” says the artist.
More Fragments of Life, as well as information on future exhibitions, are available on her website:
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