La Maison.

William Shakespeare once said, people usually are the happiest at home. La Maison is a reminder that this isn’t necessarily true all the time. Far from being idyllic, the home is where a torrential of emotions takes place, such as anger and vulnerability, fear and heartbreak, chaos and quiet. But where there is bad, there must also be good. Laughter and joy, tenderness and devotion are part of this mix, and La Maison aims to explore these unrestricted feelings connected with the home, loose and free-flowing, going far beyond a physical space. It’s clear that La Maison isn’t about painting a picture of the perfect home. It brings stories onto the canvas, stories that flow from the artist’s own experiences and that of those around her. The viewers then bring their own interpretations to the canvas, and new meanings are formed. It is ironic that a theme usually thought of as a confined physical space could be the background against which an assortment of conflicting narratives can be explored. What’s even more interesting is that these narratives often don’t have to be searched for, they come on their own. For the artist, the act of painting itself is an experimental and even therapeutic process. She explores with different materials around the home, creating a myriad of colour combinations, applying layer after layer until the composition feels naturally right, much like how a home is decorated and built, one item at a time. In a sense, much like in her previous solo exhibition, the destination itself is quite unknown at the start, and it’s the case of going with what feels right, until the painting’s true form is finally arrived at.

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Artist short biography

Sylvia was a producer and director before abstract art charmed her into creating loose and free visualisations that blend her innermost feelings with the things around her. Applying bold brush strokes and painting with layers of colours, there is a sense of the intangible and the personal making its way onto the canvas, to be interpreted in its own way by the viewer’s eye. Largely influenced by her day-to-day experiences, she has learnt to appreciate the beauty of life’s surprises. It is this unexpectedness of life that projects itself into her work – some of her paintings might change forms or styles drastically in the middle of its creation, revealing a different story altogether. Casting away the rules has allowed her to create work that is beyond boundaries, capturing a raw fearlessness that is also delicate and feminine. Her journey as an artist is nowhere near finished. From her abstract expressionist style, she is still very much about exploring and going with the flow, and her identity as an artist is still developing. Yet, with the new stories she has to tell, there is the sense of a “center” from which her works are starting to flow from. Only time will tell where she’ll be exploring next. She got her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Arts Academy of Malaysia and currently works at her private studio in Dubai.

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