Lot 57 - Gabriela Max - Dawn Bull

Pigment on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Mercedes Lucy

About
Born and raised on a farm in a small countryside town in Brazil, Gabriela holds a Master's in Painting from Wimbledon College of Arts. Her mixed heritage—Spanish, Italian, Lebanese, Lithuanian, British, and Chinese—gives her a sense of enormity that she belongs to the world, but as her choice, the Natural World.

Her work entwines a relationship between humans, animals and the environment, expressing her belief in the foundation of nature.

Only Painting can depict what she wants to say. Her visual language encapsulates the chaos, energy, passion, and hostility of the wild animal she relates to. Travelling outside the studio on solo trips in different countries and connecting with natives allows her to build her own way of interpreting life and land into paint, aiming to create a unique structure and palette for her art.

Being raised without connection to museums and art schools, the artist found her passion in painting through the earth. Inside nature, Gabriela has fallen for colour, texture, pigments, composition, and light. She once lived in a car in New Zealand for months, studying colour in nature through photography. The artist explains that being a solo traveller in remote nature gave her the material and philosophy while experiencing serenity towards immensity and aloneness. That energy is present through her work.

Gabriela believes that to be an artist is to be transparent while uncovering the deep. Like the natural world, she describes her practice laying on changes, allowing the painting to guide her. Observing and living inside nature gave Gabriela’s art a unique colour palette, compositions and essence for her art.

After her Master's in Painting, Gabriela was selected for Clifford Chance with four of her prints and etchings, showing strength in the area. In March 2024, she participated in the exhibition “We Do Not Sleep” in Margate with five other successful woman artists. Later in May, she participated in a two-month Artist Residency in Morocco, Al Maqam, founded by Mohamed Mourabiti.

Gabriela has also been selected as one of the artists for “The Lido Open 2024”.

In Gabriela's words, "The Nature Change, I change".

The symbolism in her art becomes a live presence of her vision, preserving her belief that we are part of The Natural World.