LAINE MANARIN

THE ARTIST
PAINTER

Laine is a curator, aspiring interior designer and painter. She is a student studying a Bachelor Honours Degree in Interior Design at RMIT. As a curator, she hopes to always be open to learning and refining my skill in whichever medium she finds herself in. She finds her source of creativity, not just in the everyday, but she is fascinated by the lens of other’s nostalgic experiences through the product of her work.
Laine works primarily with acrylic and oil painting, but she is also fond of explorative freehand sketching. Her art is a space for her to experiment and be surprised by; it is her motivation to learn more about the world around her. Realism, surrealism, abstract, landscape, portraits, she hasn't stuck to one style of painting because she's convinced there’s more to learn and there’s more to be inspired by than just one perspective.
Conscientia(2020)
Oil on Canvas

The work references Freud’s Iceberg, depicting a surreal representation of human consciousness. The probable discomfort as a response to the idea that- Unconscious thought processes affecting and impacting individual personality and behaviour is intentional and encouraged. How well do you really know yourself?
Eleusis (2020)
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

‘Eleusis’ is named after the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone, rituals to celebrate their reunion is rumoured to this day to have partaken in the ingestion of a mysterious sacrament that caused an effect of psychedelic changes. This is ‘Eulesis’, it’s formlessness aims to target individual experience -to reinvent subjective perception.
Emilia (2021)
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

“‘Emilia’ is a strong memory, a moment of nostalgia. Comfort in a space that I’d never seen or visited before, an unpinned familiarity accompanied by the focal subject of all my most fond works. Comfort is found in a place, a person and a memory all at once.”
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