Dane Cortez

From big cats to muscular woman bodies, full of passion and self thought materials used in a very unusual way. To Indian ink, oil pastel and water colour delivers the most confident and yet dangerous detail to suite the daring theme. Dane.A.Cortez's work brings the most unusual and yet spsicolagical art to date.Everything in Dane's gallery can be described as "wild". Her works are intense and evocative, with a tactile sensation and a fierce personality. Spiky, frantic black ink lines are paired with limited bursts of fiery color, and her subjects are often muscular figures or wild cats. But her displays of strength are also accompanied by themes of vulnerability and sensuality, suggesting something far more psychologically complex than any mere power fantasy. This idea can be summed up in Dane's recurring motif of the rose--highly prevalent in Virginity--a flower loved for its sweet scent and delicate petals, and feared for its sharp thorns. Lioness' work suggests that the two ideas are not so mutually