Eleni Mokas – Five Paintings, Mexico.

Orange, red, yellow, shades of black, pink, grey. Geometrical layered city scape.

Composition in Orange and Red, Mexico City
2019
Oil on Canvass
50 x 60 cm

Blue sky with mountains, in foreground a stucco roof, brick and adobe buildings with window, many interesting diagonals and planes, sense of texture and movement.

La Malinche y el paisaje urbano
2023
Oil on Canvass
50 x 100 cm

Bright poppy colours depicting another view out a window onto painted low rise buildings with water towers. Playful, pastel colours: pink, yellow, powder blues, orange, crimson, black -- against a blue sky with soft clouds.

A Still Life; 20 tinacos y un tanque de gas desde el 21 Oriente 1004
2022
Oil on Canvass
40 x 100 cm

A large vertical painting. Near the bottom, the artist is in a window at home wearing a covid-mask, her work-studio in the right pane. above are other adobe homes, geometrical almost otherworldly patterned, with rooftop and a volcano in the right upper painting, grey-blue.

Between COVID 19 and Popocatépetl, When Only the Cat Walks Free
2020
Oil on Canvass
70 x 100 cm

A lush green garden seen through yellow painted windows, patio doors, yellow and umber wall at left, red building behind, a large tree in front of the window-door, a pink-blue awning for a lawn table, chairs, trees and flowers -- a subtle complex vision of peace, a sealed garden, verging on surreal.

The Artists Fortressed Garden, Metaphorically
2023
Oil on Canvass
80 x 120 cm

Artist Statement:

I am a painter who works in oil, from life and photos. Born in the USA, I emigrated to Canada, then moved on to Mexico. My work reflects my travels, and my influences range from Hopper to Impressionism to a Mexican influence of a narrative and color…a realistic style. My interest now is painting the urban landscape where I live. I paint what I see, and through my paintings I witness an urban evolution.

Eleni Mokas lives and works in Mexico with a permanent studio and home in Puebla. She graduated from The University of South Florida, Tampa, with concentrates in painting, sculpture and dance. She also studied painting and sculpture at Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto. Her work is exhibited in the US, Mexico and Canada.

Banner: An excerpt from Eleni Mokas painting, ‘The Artists Fortressed Garden, Metaphorically’ (2023).

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