Dionne Lausberg
Artist and PARADICE PALASE member Dionne Lausberg creates serene landscapes that depict the beautiful creases and folds between everyday objects.
Lausberg’s paintings are about the boundaries of realism and abstraction. Inspired by seemingly insignificant everyday objects, wrinkled sheets, a little mountain of clothes, rolls of paper at the manufacturer. Turning them into surreal landscapes. Simplified shapes, suggesting organic worlds, rolling hills, deserts, waves of the sea.
Caves, 2018, Oil on canvas, 54 x 36 in
untitled, 2018, Oil on canvas, 54 x 36 in
While enjoying the fast city life, in her paintings she portrays a certain stillness and tranquility. Like the meditative effect of sitting on the beach, looking out over the sea, or on top of a mountain, far away views and horizons. Specially this sense of depth is important in her paintings. Lausberg’s painting practice is layered and timely. She applies many thin layers of oil paint over each other. Starting with a monotone color layer, a grisaille, adding color to it, bit by bit.
Growing Roots, 2018, Oil on canvas, 42 x 72 in
untitled, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in