SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Michelle
Bond
USA
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“Growing up in a musically inclined family, my artwork is influenced by classical music, poems, short stories, and works of artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, and Dali.”
Michelle Bond was born in Quezon City Philippines. She is the sixth child of Gracia Ramos and Catalino Cendana, a family of 10 who resided in a suburb just outside of Manila. Michelle and her siblings immigrated to San Francisco in 1980.
While I was overlooking a creek in the middle of the forest, I painted this. It was a depiction of my spiritual connection to the waters and the forests and how nature influences ones total being when creating in its midst.
She writes poetry, plays music, and sketches during her free time. These influences were provided to her by her mother who wrote poetry, sewed her own clothes, and did some carpentry from time to time.
During studio time, I transcend into a realm where my mind is empty. When the mind is empty..it is open to all kinds of possibilities. I found myself in this psyche hemisphere full of color, forms and light creating a space of illuminated dance and rhythm.
Michelle’s creativity sprung up from her maternal side. Her father was also an excellent writer. When she was 6, her mother gave her a set of watercolor paints and encouraged her to paint, draw, and complete crafts. Her mother paid attention to Michelle’s work and nurtured her creativity.
“I move from plane to plane quickly, not knowing where the work will take me.”
Unfortunately, her mother died when she was 11. The family was overcome with grief which produced Michelle's anxiety that has carried through to her artwork. Her paintings are expressions of sounds, music, poems, and events in her daily life. They are depicted in an abstract expressionist way through watercolors, oils, and acrylics.
“I am an artist. I feel and I see. And What I feel and see, I paint. What I paint is history. What touches me in real life, I will convey in some form of abstraction. Taking away what is real, yet painting what is true with colors, lines, and forms, I transcend into a metaphysical realm where I realize that the inspiration of my work is LIFE itself.”
Her paintings are imbued with emotions. The colors are bright often accentuated with black lines and shapes, indicative of her intent to define edges, endings, separations, and changes. Her compositions are intricate, complex, thought-provoking, and integral in her artistic way to communicate her silent stories
When a woman is torn between two sides, she always settles in the middle. The middle has always proven the most pleasing and comfortable place to be... filled with happiness and content.
“I often get lost in the process until I submit to an idea born from a single stroke of line or color.”
When someone has a gut feeling about something.... there is an understory that often surfaces to the top of one's soul revealing their true authenticity.
When She captures these single moments, her painting exposes her psyche and inner personality. By using strange forms, colored or drawn she reveals an outcome that differentiates her style from other artists.
When you cant find the pair to the shoe.... there is something about that shoe.
Art is transcendental, spiritual, and mind-boggling in some ways. The images are evocative, engaging, and often pictorial…thus poetic as a narrative. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on Printmaking and Painting in 1996.
A girl always keeps that old yellow dress hidden with the secrets of her past.
After graduation, she started a landscape construction Company called Thumbelina Gardens She also pursued and finished a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley.
Family is All that Matters.
“What LIFE gives; I express. To express, I create with my heart and mind like a child.”
When a desire is so great, it manifests itself on the plane.
Today, she shares her home with her husband David in San Francisco where she divides her time designing and installing gardens while working on her artwork in her studio.
In a middle of a deluge, when you find yourself by a rising creek, you cant help to think that all that surrounds you... with the sounds that you hear.. you cant help to think that your universe has become larger than you really are.
As Picasso said, ‘painting is just another way of keeping a diary’. She has been keeping a diary all her life. In life, there are challenges, failures, pains, and regrets but love and happiness are also there too. That’s the Poetics of Life captured in Art.
When you look into the mirror, do you see the past or do you see the future. Read the Mirror can help you find your way.