Description
‘Closer’ by Phuong Nguyen
Artist: Phuong Nguyen
Title: ‘Closer’
Medium: Watercolour on Fabriano 300 gsm Artistico Paper
Dimensions: 22″ x 15″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2019
About the Artwork:
“When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.
I want them
to surrender before you
the trembling rhyme of your face
from their deep caskets.”
– Beneath my hands by Leonard Cohen
About the Artist:
Phuong Nguyen (aka Jacquell) is a Vietnamese self-taught painter originally from Saigon, Vietnam and currently living in Bologna, Italy.
Her works focus on feminine beauty and she works mainly with watercolor with a keen dedication for details and delicate brush strokes. Set in a dark yet poetic world, Phuong’s artworks embrace her oriental origin, the harmony between human and nature and how such coexistence embodies certain subtle, clandestine message