about

Florine Imo is an Austria based German painter currently studying in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Throughout her studies Florine developed a special technique, combining soft pastels, acrylic gel and oil colour on canvas. Before moving to Vienna Florine grew up around the Vienna Woods, where she developed her admiration for vegetation and nature. Alsongside vegetation, the four elements became a recurring component in Imo’s works. In addition she is influenced by travels, personal experiences, poetry, daily life and buddhistic believes, as for example the illusion of duality and the idea of the whole. In her paintings Florine reflects her own experiences of life, still connecting all of us together in it. Her latest series depicts the individual, but general human, struggle with it self. By creating multiple, ironically, dual self portraits the artist let’s the self interact and play out different personal scenarios that can be also yours.

☆ about my work ☆

"In the beginning of my practice I thought I could only create impactful paintings through brutal or provocative images. Soon I found out that this was me working exactly against myself, so I decided to stop forcing a specific theme for my paintings and just see what comes out. I thought whatever I will paint I will make sure that it comes from myself and is filled with life, emotion and mood. 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 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."