Orlanda Broom
My landscapes tap into a fundamental love and appreciation of nature. They celebrate its beauty but seek to engage with our ever-increasing loss of wild places.
Florid, rich colour creates a visual entrapment in the works of Orlanda Broom. Wildly blossoming, excessive jungles are exuberantly portrayed in a whirlwind of colour. The paintings themselves warn of temptations. Tempestuous juxtapositions are explored through the human desire to explore yet the dangers that we should inevitably fall upon; not just in the nature we explore, but also, consequently in the losing of ourselves. The intoxicating use of colour, may lead us astray with their bewitching beauty. The paintings are a testament to human desire whilst also satisfyingly leaving no proof of our, or other animal existence. These works beseech a world untouched, unblemished, blooming and completely unattainable..
Broom received a MA Fine Art from the University of Barcelona. She has exhibited regularly in London and Internationally. Her paintings have been selected for curated shows and competitions including Threadneedle Prize, NOAC, BEEP and the RA Summer Exhibition. In 2016 Orlanda completed a major commission (4m x 4m) for the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York
Broom lives and works in the UK
“The compositions absolutely evolve out of the process of painting, I work out ideas on the canvas and without any finished composition in my head. My paintings have become more and more layered over the years, I like to be quite brutal about blocking out and over-painting in the early stages so that I can get that point where the painting feels like its a kind of ordered chaos and it’s retained its energy.”
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