Painter and photographer Myscha Oréo grew up in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Asia where she started drawing profusely from a very early age on. Her love for fine arts, inspired by the works of Impressionist and Classical artists is reflected in the style and subject matter of her photography.
Myscha has a singular vision that she relentlessly pursues. Her established eye for drawing and painting merges with her photography. Mostly working with natural light and creating images all in camera, she is challenged by what she calls “the fine line between technical precision and the unexpected freedom of creation”. Myscha is an intuitive artist, a vision comes into her mind’s eye and she works from there.
She searches to give expression to the Anima by portraying women in a mythical way. This is an aspiration to create an image of women, that goes beyond the bounds of the contemporary gaze.
A recurring theme is timelessness, sensuality and intimacy. Her female gaze let’s you into the lives of the women and men she intimately portrays, because they feel at ease with her. Her muses are often artists and dancers and they form an intimate and creative relationship. She is drawn to the form, lines and the shades of colour that she recognises in her subjects, as like colours on a palette.
“A photograph can be as intimate as a life long relationship. To capture true beauty, the artist must have the courage to embrace all light and dark aspects of life. ”
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