In the Studio

“I capture dark moments and try to make them beautiful in my own unique way. In my work I construct romantic notion of poverty crossed with my dreams , memories and reflections. My art is very autobiographical and I naturally fill sketchbooks with my ideas through the nights and days.”

“My paintings, drawings and prints operate as a personal register of marks that are formed from constructs of memory, emotion and indirect references to place. They suggest a world that we all encounter visually or sensationally, and are imbued with a strong sense of time, depth and ambiguity.” – Laura Menzies

“I would define my work as a continuous searching that becomes frustrating some times; I’m a little obsessed about reaching some way to represent things and matter satisfactorily and definitively.” – Carlos San Millan Photos: Laura Braun.

“Portraiture offers as a genre in itself – it can create a window into memory allowing a moment to be captured and represented in a way that is not as direct as photography for example. The moment is accessed and re-processed, memory and fantasy can become mixed in and what is created isn’t a factual […]