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 Modern artists such as Rodin, Klimt, Schiele and Matisse 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 reckless freedom of creation”. Myscha is an intuitive artist, a vision comes into her mind’s eye and she works from there.
Through her art she explores the feminine principles of collective healing. To work in this space, is to be consciously devoted to the transcendent process of translating moments, places and beings that offer an opportunity to retrieve a pearl in the collective unconscious.
She confronts these depths and finds treasure in her subject, diving into the realms of the unseen, and invisible in order to capture that which is often lost to us in our waking reality, gendered sensuality, the sacred feminine, the infinite and the small passages between the dimensions of our existence, the self and the natural world in its many forms.
A recurring theme is 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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