Yara Osorio
Artisan Organization: Yara Osorio
Country: Armenia
"Every human being has an artist inside that is manifest in a variety of forms and in different moments, for example when one is dazzled by the sunset, by interpreting a poem, through emotions and feelings, by transforming dreams into melodies, in the sculpting of images from mass – in giving life to empty canvases.
"Many a time, from childhood into adolescence, I saw myself building images that seemed to come from nowhere - real and unreal symbols that seemed to fill the empty space in my life. Some would stay for a long time, while others disappeared from memory assisted by the pressures of adult life. Soon, the scribbles of childhood and the juvenile themes born from academic life were left behind.
"At the beginning of the 1990s, the need for an artistic expression took me down quick and unsatisfactory paths into the realms of literature, poetry and music. That was until I found the path of painting and the meeting between paint and canvas, and the manipulation of paintbrushes. They brought me closer to the moon's magnetism and the mysteries of the sea - to the fisherman's contemplative mind, to the aroma of flowers, to the birds' free flight and to the sentiments and emotions of humans.
"And thus it was that pensive women began to appear along with the sad, the lonely and the nostalgic - free of clothes and of dreams. Adolescents waking up to life. Playful children with a spark in their eyes. Flowers and colors. Landscapes that evoked dreams and escaped hopes. Old houses or palaces that told of life's histories and dramas. Anonymous characters who laughed or cried at carnival scenes. Copies of reality's transgressors. In all, the perception that a virgin canvas, so mysterious and daring, offered me a world of creativity, of transcendence and liberation, starting from tracery and forms, colors and hues.
"Once the work is finished, one can like or dislike one's work - accept it or reject it. But from then onward, it is out of the creator's domain. Yet the artist is happy. The next creation is already insinuating and restless. The paintbrushes are impatient. They are already alive in the artist's hands….
"I've held several exhibitions through the passing of the years, including the House of Spain International Art Exhibit (2001), where I received a gold medal; the III House of Paraiba Contemporary Art Exhibit (2002), where I received a silver medal and the first Exhibition of Fine Arts at Brazil's Superior School of War (1999), where I received a silver medal.""
