Series of the Angels

“Series of the Angels” by Barbara Peonia

Throughout her artistic career, Barbara Peonia is not new to representing classical iconography through her style, which has progressively started to include different painting techniques acquired through different artistic experiences.
In this series of artworks we find references to every phase of the research of the self, and to the constant presence of the Divine or Spirituality in the artist’s path.
In some artworks the layers of color seem to represent intense passions that crush against exploded masks, in others the color surrounds angelic beings, giving them Spiritual features. In each case, every shade of color is applied to perfectly emphasize what she wants to emerge, showing technical mastery and a great expositive sensibility. Blacks are used to create lines which link the being to the Divine, and at times become verses and phrases, whereas other times they transform into a skyline where Absolute Sunrises and Sunsets furnish time and space with illusory connotations, useful to be seen for what they are. The consciousness of every single stroke is out of question, and leaves no doubt inside the attentive observer while confusing and silencing the mind. The achievement of this inner condition alone, makes the whole experience worth being lived.
We are undoubtedly looking at an artist who has fully developed her style, and who is getting ready to gift us with the kind of deep emotions that only artists with the capital A can generate.