In brilliant, spectacular and kaleidoscopic compositions, the French painter and poet Flora portrays expressionist manifestations of emotional states. Each acrylic on canvas composition combines elements of American Abstract Expressionism in the vein of Jackson Pollock and a figurative style rooted in illustration and Pop art. This original combination makes for gripping, sprawling universes whose small details portray characters, animals and various identifiable forms. These characters evoke fragments of fairy tales, representing wondrous and imaginative participants in some magical, unknown story. Their micro-dramas play out within a larger, abstract setting where figurative details fuse and melt into a vast canopy of bright, boiling colors, and rich, textured wax brushstrokes.
 
This wondrous hybrid of styles and subjects might come from Flora’s upbringing by an American father and Italian mother who moved to France when she was 14 years old—where she has lived ever since. Her work boasts a unique and hypnotically multi-layered aesthetic, rewarding different levels of analysis and observation.

From a distance, her canvases resemble especially complex and thick drip paintings; slightly closer, details like bodies and faces begin to emerge from the thicket of colors; and, closer still, Flora reveals imaginative narratives set within sumptuous backdrops. She lets us discover each rich layer at our own pace, providing a uniquely subtle and rewarding experience.

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