Tulip Chicken

Tulip Chicken - sometimes a tulip, sometimes a chicken (one of Charissa's favourite animals!).

It's up to the owner on which way they'd like the paintings in this series to be orientated. It may be a chicken in a kid's room, a tulip at the study table. Charissa hopes her paintings enable stories to be told, perhaps trigger a song or nursery rhyme, bring a smile and inject life and fun into a space.

She wanted to make her children laugh, to make them guess and tilt their heads as to what this was a painting of!

The black brush strokes of the subject reminds Charissa of Chinese calligraphy which she briefly practised in her high school years. This sits on a white washed background, under which lies an abstract piece of expressive mark making and field of colour. Charissa wanted each layer to be able to stand on it's own and yet together create curiosity.

This painting is composed of acrylic and spray paint on canvas. It is signed on the side.

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Charissa is a self-taught artist whose artistic style never really "grew up". She maintained her childish style of drawing through scribbles and doodles in the margins of her notebooks into the corporate world after graduating.

Since becoming a mum in 2013, Charissa re-discovered intuitive mark marking through her observing her children in their play. She is fascinated with the freedom and boundless imagination kids naturally possess in the creation of their works. They inspire her to be free in expression, colour and movement in combination with her 'left-handed state of mind' and abstracted perspectives.

In turn, the themes of her works are centered around her children along with a dose of nostalgia from her own childhood. She wants to gift fun and spark joy through her art.

A maestro once said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." and she is determined to resolve this.