AMEL CHAMANDY

Montreal artist Amel Chamandy’s creativity started at a very young age. At 15 she was passionate about painting and drawing. Her creative evolved with photography, sculpting large scale and designing residential resort projects as well as her own brand of home décor and fashion jewelry. This creative free spirit lives in a world without limits, finding joy in life, beauty and harmony, and expressing herself in every way possible. When working with her camera, she is inspired by the ordinary. She shoots scenes of everyday life, on the street and elsewhere. She then deconstructs the photographs, fragmenting, transposing and layering them. Simple, familiar images thus give rise to astonishingly poetic, mysterious and complex works with a “through the looking glass” feel. Photography is not enough to slake this artist’s thirst for self-expression, which is why sculpture and painting play an equally important role in her artist life. Amel prefers to work on large scale projects to create artworks that have immersive qualities. Her large scale works engage the viewer to experience the color as an overwhelming field and draws the viewer into the art in a sort of hypnotic way. “Regardless of the medium I use, the challenges are the same as I seek a perfect balance between proportion, shape and colour.”