Candace Alexandres, artist

about the artist

Candace Alexandres is an abstract artist from Northern California, though she now lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her love of transparency in painting stems from her early years working with watercolor before transitioning to acrylic and mixed media on canvas.

Creating art is a joyful, grounding practice for Candace, offering both a sense of calm and a way of bringing a physical expression of balance and beauty into an often chaotic world.

About the art

“I love to explore contrast in my art — I play with the concepts of permanence and change, structure and fluidity, and how these opposing elements find harmony. There’s also a nod to personal and natural evolution in each painting. Transparent and opaque layers cause some marks to remain visible, while others fade beneath new layers.

While creating, I challenge my need for control by embracing spontaneous, soft washes and splashes of paint before adding defined forms. This allows me to create a happy marriage between the romance of spontaneity and the pleasure of developing a thoughtful and meaningful composition.

Simply put, as an artist I want to add balance and beauty to the world. My paintings are an invitation to slow down and enjoy a moment of calm reflection amid the chaos of the modern world.

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