Patricia Kluwe Derderian

At Home, in Paris | 2021 Acrylic and Charcoal | 36 x 36 in POR

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I’ve always loved to draw, and it was the smell of my uncle’s colored pencils that inspired me to major in architecture (since art was not an option in the little town in Brazil where I grew up). Since then, I used my art to express my projects and ideas. It also became my way of thinking. I like to start drawing freely and loosely, putting color after that, without any commitment to reality, letting the energy flow and the painting tell me what it wants to be. In my Travels series I paint Memories… at the same time, so strong and so faded away. What lasts is exactly what matters to me. That feeling, that energy you feel when you are with someone without the details and diversions our eyes can see. Rio Grande do Sul Brazil