FEEL – IDEATE – CREATE

I am an artist living and working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I make analog and digital drawings, paintings, murals and 3D works.

My latest body of work focuses on natural forms, flowers, plants, animals and insects. It is a representation of my personal vision of beauty, but also of the strength and cruelty in the natural form. Where in earlier collections animals, women, children and child soldiers were the actors on my stage, like puppets in our complicated, insane world, now nature is. Through interventions in form and composition, emphasized with clean linework, I show their power and expressiveness into overdrive. I strive for an overpowering, abundant composition, maybe even visual brutality.

The symbols I like to use have proven to be strong and lasting for our global culture and society, although with different meanings, such as sun, eyes, diamonds, stars, skulls, feathers, etc.

I also make works of art in the private and public space. As a practice, it comes under the heading of art applications, and revolves around thinking about how people experience urban space. In my case, the work varies from murals to light installations.

Read about my work in these two articles
Xamou-art.co.uk
Periferal Arteries