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María Berrío “My work isn’t autobiographical but I do paint idealised parts of myself in the women I create. These are women I want to be: in harmony with themselves and nature, strong, vulnerable, compassionate and courageous.” - María Berrío, Artist. María Berrío wants to push collage to its limits. She cuts and tears small scraps of patterned paper to build abundant worlds on canvases bigger than herself, where tribes of women and children live in harmony with nature. Always drawn to pattern, Berrío used to conjure designs with wallpaper and fabric samples before she discovered decorative Japanese craft paper and began to collage with it. The majority of her paper collection comes from Japan while the rest is sourced largely from the global south – Brazil, Thailand, Nepal and Mexico. For some artworks she’ll seek out a certain pattern that fits her vision for a piece, for others she lets the beauty of the paper inform what she creates. The designs which appear on Japanese paper were based on the motifs of kimonos. In Berrío’s works the patterns find their way back into clothing in the technicolor dream dresses that grace her women. Instead of using a pattern as it exists Berrío manipulates its symmetry by cutting it into shards and reassembling it so it’s less neat and more organic. Berrío draws on and around the patterns with charcoal, colour pencils and inks to make them even more intricate, dense and detailed. Her ink-stained skies are created in a wash of watercolour. Berrío’s artworks (which she refers to as paintings) are set in lands of blue-marbled mountains or forests of mottled bark where folk tales play out and reality is smudged. You can see Berrío’s work for yourself in her first UK exhibition at ‘Victoria Miro’ in London or via the App Store on ‘Vortic Collect’. ‘María Berrío, A Day’s Cadence’ July 7 - August 8, 2020. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #multimediacollages #paintings #artist #personal #political #folklore #columbia #latinamerica #utopia #victoriamiro #exhibition #maríaberrío (at Victoria Miro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC228pXl9cd/?igshid=k9yluxh6k2e8

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