Odette Farrell

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I am a painter of human landscapes.... yes, the subject of my paintings has been almost solely the figure, because as Mexican writer Octavio Paz says: I search for myself in the others... Since I have memory, starring at paintings has always lead me to fascination.

On year 2000 a painting by E. Schiele touched me so deeply that I decided to pick up the brushes myself, and since then I couldn't stop... I left my job and became a full time painter..... now I can hardly see myself doing something else...

When I am in front of a canvas I loose the sense of time... what I like most is that I may see things I have never seen before, and I enter in a state of joy and pleasure I can hardly explain with words.

My work is influenced by many currents through time, above all German Expressionism....but the artists I find more influential are British painter Euan Uglow, French painter Bernard Cathelin, Mexican painter Pedro Coronel and of course my muse, Austrian painter Egon Schiele. My work has been exhibited in Mexico, Italy, Germany, Ireland and China.'' Odette Farrell