A - Wibaa

A - Wibaa started his artistic journey after he asked himself if he can do something creative.

Will I be an artist?

Although it seems to be a simple question, it is not because every question has different answers that affect each person differently.

One may paint for a more extended period just to realize how little they know about it.

He approaches the canvas without prejudices and with an open mind. The goal is not to create pictures and images as it is to resolve, crystallize form, colour, and mark into a cohesive totality of a rich experience. he is often befuddled throughout the painting process, trying to find his way out and feeling very much like a novice until that moment of clarity arrives. For a long time, his work has been resolved via the creation of a blighted landscape.

Beneath tectonic plates of hue and shape, spaces of colour and light resembling the mountains and oceans of his journeys open. Sometimes of his soul.

Recently, his work has focused on smaller moments in the environment - not the majestic views of the Italian countryside or the New England coast, but rather his backyard and garden.

A time of intense reflection and personal change has prompted a closer examination of the intimate shapes seen in ...

A - Wibaa approached painting by attending a course at MoMA in New York - In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting – Wibaa could learn about the materials, techniques, and approaches of seven New York School artists who made abstract paintings. The “New York School “including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko. A - Wibaa began to understand what a studio means and how ideas develop by looking closely at the paintings.
Now is the time to pick up the brushes and start mixing colors.