Hello

Steemers!

Here I am in black and white, this is a self-portrait I drew recently using a black marker pen

Me

I am Ana, a Manchester-based (UK) artist based at Mirabel Studios

I am passionate about art, music, life, politics, literature, film, gestalt psychotherapy, learning Spanish and loads more things, so I'll be posting about all sorts of things depending upon where my interest of the moment resides.

Right now, I want to talk about my art and music

Art

My paintings and drawings are often abstract and expressionist explorations of cities, their landscapes, people and cultures.

Manchester is often my muse, I love exploring the remnants of this beautiful, industrial, rainy city... I try to capture the soul that persists, despite the constant attempts to regenerate Manchester into an international identikit city.

Often my paintings, drawings, collages and photographs explore the strange juxtapositions of old and new that you can see all around:

Many of my paintings are built from layers of collage and paint. Starting with abstract shapes and colours, the initial layers are formed through intuition and chance, using papers, printing and colour to create textures, light and dark. Formed from layers of controlled experiments, the paintings follow the directions of the media: the way the paint drips and the paper buckles and tears create the textures and lines of subsequent layers.

Playing Music

I am also obsessed with collecting and playing music and I play records at various venues around Manchester

From the grooviest psychedelia to the deepest darkest disco to the funkiest electronic music, I like to play a wide mix of genres – my thing is often to clash songs/styles that aren’t always played together… At the moment I play lots of psychedelic world music, funk, blues, psychobilly, electronica, krautrock, disco and so on... as long as it has an edge and a groove

This is a photograph taken of my set at The Psychedelic Disco Tech in February 2017 - have a listen to my mix here

If you like what you hear, follow me on mixcloud

For my artwork and photography, check out my blog Controlled Experiments and my instagram
Follow me on Steemit here