Visual artist Bruno Mellis Follow.Art Card

About me

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see.
/ Alice, Lewis, I /

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I am a graphic artist by background.
Over time, however, I discovered that graphics no longer fully satisfied my curiosity. I had become too fluent, too certain — and reached a kind of abstract critical point of boredom. Knowing exactly what I was doing began to feel less like freedom and more like limitation.
It seems to me that when people become too skilled, they sometimes lose a certain magical connection with the original source of things.

That is why, for some time now, I have been working with painting (and being challenged by it in return), simply because it does not belong to me yet. This keeps the work open and unpredictable — shaped by mood, weather, moon phases and other uncontrollable factors rather than by routine.
I value this uncertainty, because it frees the work from the obligation to please — including myself.

I have studied and loved architecture, spent many years in graphic design in all its forms, and throughout all of this remained devoted to the feminine.
That is why I paint it.
To me, it embodies something deeply wise and profoundly beautiful, and I believe that painting anything less than “very” is not worth the effort.

Still, a feminine image does not necessarily mean that the story is about a woman.
Women simply know how to tell stories better.
Or perhaps they just appear more convincing while doing so.

That is how it seems to me.