Amel is a self-taught artist and has been painting seriously from the age of 14. She is well known among the painter’s community in Tunisia as she is very productive and often participates in various art exhibitions. She also travels to Europe and occasionally exhibits her work in Italy, Greece & Germany. She paints semi-abstract, landscape, and impressionist work.
Artist’s Statement
So many of us come from a background that told us ‘good art = realistic art”, and it can be hard to break away from that into something more abstract and expressive. And it doesn’t take much exploring to discover that making effective abstract art is a lot harder than it might first appear!
Making a painting more abstract, or, as I would call it, abstractifying, is essentially a process of simplification, which is not to say the result won’t be rich and complex. It involves a combo of intuitive and deliberate decisions, between which you dance as you bring a painting to life.
