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Played a little with the colors and strokes here
I like to leave some areas blank to add light to the composition
I wanted to focus on color and shapes in this artwork
I love the brightness of Sennelier oil pastels
I like to convey forms with few strokes

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Mary Cinque

Italy

Drawing, oil pastel on Paper

Size: 10.6 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Made this portrait of a beautiful, self-confident woman at Andi's in Stoke Newington, a favorite place of mine when I was living in the neighborhood (unfortunately it is now closed). The place was headed by celeb chef and broadcaster Andi Oliver, of ‘Great British Menu’ judging fame. If you’re of a certain age, you might remember her as one part of the punk band Rip Rig + Panic. If you’re a millennial, you’ll know her as Miquita Oliver’s mum. Every time some friends were visiting from abroad we would go there, being it for a quick bite, lunch or breakfast. It was on one of these days, I was there with my friend Shannon (a beautiful, energizing artist in her own right) and this woman was sitting at a table next to us, in the restaurant tiny, lovely garden. I couldn't help but taking a quick photo of her with my mobile and then transform it into an oil pastel on paper. I was struck by the self confidence she radiated and I loved her look. This artwork is also part of a project about portraiture and it was on display at a group show in Los Angeles in 2018. With my art I want to celebrate a different kind of beauty, that can be spotted not only in a conventional beautiful face, but in so many other details, like this woman's shades and outfit and, ultimately, her attitude. I hope this artwork will transport you to London, enjoying a sunny day outside, sipping wine and celebrating life with friends. This, like all the artworks from this series, has been treated with two to three layers of fixing spray; nonetheless I advise to promptly frame it with a glass too. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube, I recommend to take it as soon as possible to a framer, to professionally flatten it back and to provide a frame with a glass, as the oil pastel needs to be protected from the dust.

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Drawing:

oil pastel on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

10.6 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in

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"Mary Cinque is an Italian painter, graphic designer and blogger working and living in the Amalfi Coast. Her works – joyful, bright, colourful painting and drawings – are inspired by this place, as well as her heritage, background and travels. Mary spent her childhood between Italy and Ethiopia. Before moving back to the Amalfi Coast in 2019, she has lived in Naples and Milan, where she attended academies of fine art; and Philadelphia, New York and London where she improved her artistic skills and style. Alongside making art, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with selected brands, working on artistic commissions such as illustrations, labels and showroom design. Cinque’s art develops themes connected with what makes us essentially humans: our habitat – the buildings, the streets, the cities – our bodies, what we eat and how we socialise. Art, in Mary’s paintings, becomes a powerful instrument of philosophical investigation which reveals who we really are by questioning our habits, observing those characteristic traits we share as a species, often without realising it. The artist looks at human beings from a different perspective, making interesting and significant what can seem normal or banal to us in our everyday life: the buildings that populate our cities, the streets we walk, people sitting across our table at a café, strangers on the bus. In this nutshell interview by Giulia Corti, Mary Cinque explores some of the most relevant aspects of her art and reflects on how it offers an intriguing and informative perspective about the way we live as human animals. Mary, your art is colourful and vivid, it mixes human and urban subjects by making use of various techniques (oil painting; pastel drawing, markers, “digital” drawing, print-making etc.) and materials (canvasses, magazine pages, an I-pad screen). How do you choose the means with which to develop an artwork and how do the different materials and techniques influence what you want to convey, if they do? Different subjects call for different techniques. Buildings and urbanscape are always acrylic on canvas, while I prefer to depict people using a quicker, immediate approach, like the one that I can get with markers and oil pastels or digital painting. By looking at the main themes of your art, it is possible to notice what seems to be a tension. On one hand, you portrayed the stillness and artificiality of urban landscapes and buildings (e.g.

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