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Made K. Bendesa As long as I can remember I have always expressed my self visually. I live in Bali, a landscape dominated by strong light and shadows and bright primary colors. As an intuitive painter, I focus on the energy of line and forms as they define space and movement within the picture plane. I am obsessed with dynamic form and the evocative potential of color. I have developed a personnel style or vision, and a painting technique over time my fast work is constantly altered by the immediate present. I have experimented with various means of applying the acrylic & oil paint on the canvas surface - hand, brushes, rollers, spraying, scraping, and dripping. My subject matter does no pre-exist. It emerges out of my interaction with the paint medium. The often extravagant imagery is rooted in my personnel psychology. That is way and only how my work can be created and why its conclusion cannot be predetermined. A trip to Australia five years ago allowed me to see many examples of western abstract art for the first time. Confronting a painting is different to seeing it reproduced in a book and a magazine. This experience has encouraged me to continue my process of self - discovery. A journey that will continue. I opened my own gallery, THE KEBATH STUDIO on the 9th July 2002. The gallery will house a permanent exhibition of my current painting.
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