Yannick Ndongmo

Welcome! Bonjour!

I am a painter who explores the psychological power of chroma through use of bold colour applied with different energies. My work, initially spontaneous, is an alchemy of bold acrylic paint applied using a brush as well as my bare hand and ink. Working in a museum and my formative background in Interior Design have had great influence on the colours and composition of my work. My brain tends to see things in metaphor. I am a multi-disciplinary artist and self-taught painter, and am always eager to see what the end result will be as I allow the paint to take me on a journey. A work is never considered complete until I have determined its orientation!

The brush's stroke and application of the paint is what I emphasize using a designer technique of bold outline and I like to treat my canvases as though they are a piece of a whole, much like when one observes through the lens of a microscope at different resolutions. The final result is the possibility of a macro image. My desire is to continue infusing curiosity and wonder. Relationships between colour, texture, patterns and designs, intuitively, subconsciously; I am fascinated with the aspect of creativity that lies in the realm of possibility, transformation, deconstruction and construction. I am most comfortable when given raw or recycled materials to use or create something in an unexpected, new, and unusual way and am constantly reassessing, rediscovering and reprogramming what I thought I knew about how I see and what I see.

As a multi-disciplinary artist, very curious by nature who tends to see things in metaphor, I believe that our instinctive desire to create, comes from our ability to tap into what already exists in our vast universe; we are simply channeling and broadcasting it. Abstract art shows and connects us to worlds we do not easily see and emotions we did not always know we have. As humans beings, we only see within our range of the colour spectrum but this does not mean that no other colour range exists beyond what our brains can detect, much like sound and decibel ranges. The artist in me is always gauging visual information, estimating, classifying, identifying relationships between things, making comparisons or reference to other symbols, concepts and ideas until my brain makes sense of what it has seen or detected, found some point of reference for it, is able to classify it or creates a new classification for it.

Yannick Ndongmo joined Instaprints on November 1st, 2011.