Myrna Quiñonez is a talented Mexican artist who currently resides in Bristol, UK. She is best known for her landscape paintings that look familiar and mysterious at the same time.
In her artworks, Quiñonez captures places she has visited and seen before. However, she presents them in a fragmented way, omitting key elements and disguising familiarity with blurry and distorted elements.
The essence of Quiñonez’s approach is her goal of exploring the relationship of people with landscapes in the age of technology. Nowadays, we experience breathtaking sights mostly through screens, distorting our perception and resulting memories of them. Additionally, artists no longer need to go outdoors to create landscape paintings as they are just a few clicks away from accessing a photo of a landscape that shows it in perfect condition.
“I explore landscape, repetitive patterns in nature, traditional oil painting and the impact that new media, screens and technology have on us, changing how we perceive the world,” Quiñonez explains on her website. “As a result my paintings look like images edited on a computer. Absence, fragmentation and movement are characteristics of my work.”
You can check out more of Quiñonez’s intriguing landscape paintings on her social media or by scrolling below.
