Tan Cat II Print - Limited Edition of 3

My name is Luiz Filipe Crepaldi, I'm a commercial photographer and visual artist. I started studying visual arts at the age of 12. At 15, I entered the graphic design technical school and got to know photography. Since then, photography has become my profession and drawing has been put aside. However, in recent years, mainly because of the lockdown, I have returned to drawing and painting as my main forms of expression. The main themes of my work are psychological landscapes and portraits of ideas and sensations. Perspective, proportion and lights are often outside the formal rules. This is a deliberate choice and I see it, in part, as an opposition to my photographic work, which tends to be very rigorous and controlled compositions. I always work listening to music and it is an important part of my life. All the works you are looking at have a soundtrack: classic rock, punk rock, old heavy metal and jazz. Many strokes, textures and cracks were made to the rhythm of Rush, Apocalyptica, Zappa, Iron Maiden, Tom Waits, Stooges, Lou Reed, among many others. Currently, I have been using digital painting in conjunction with drawing in graphite and china ink (which is my preferred medium). As I value, above all, the gesture, my digital interventions are always made using the pen. I consider myself a contemporary artist - which is pretty vague, I know - with influences from surrealism, street art and expressionism. I identify with the works of Francis Bacon, De Chirico, H.R. Giger, Dave McKean among others.