about

Florine Imo is an Austria based German painter currently studying in the Academy of fine Arts, Vienna. Throughout her studies Florine developed a special technique, combining soft pastels, acrylic gel and oil color on canvas. The artist grew up around the Vienna Woods, where she developed her admiration for nature and animals. The buddhistic philosophy and believes, as for example the illusion of duality and the concept of the whole, had a great impact on the artists world view, and therefore on her work. Other strong interests that influence her paintings are poetry, spirituality and psychology.

Coming from many landscape works of high energized places, Florine's feminine figures became the central point of her practice. In her paintings, these figures are most often confronted with a challenging situation. These difficulties change with time. Today Imo's paintings focus on growth and development of the human being, by depicting the individual, but also general human, struggling with it self. By creating multiple, ironically, dual self portraits the artist lets the self interact and play out different personal scenarios that can be also yours.

"It’s important how my figures and objects feel in my pieces, what they wear, how they stand or lay or interact. Each one of them is alive to me. I start with sketching the composition directly on to the canvas. I believe for this part it is crucial to be totally free. That’s also why I don’t make detailed sketches any more, they don’t allow me to fly. Having an idea is good, but never force what you have in your mind on the canvas, just go with the flow and trust yourself. The painting tells you what it needs any ways. For inspiration I look inside myself, what is happening with- and around me. I can get an idea for a piece from a dream or a memory or a poem, but in the end these are just stimulants for my soul, which I later try to unfold on to the canvas."