Artist: Nyssa Sharp
Nyssa Sharp is an artist currently living in Sydney, Australia. She chooses to mainly create portraiture works as an expression of the inner female attitude and dialogue. The way she fuses abstract with realistic portraiture is fascinating to me, as it flows so well and works together beautifully. In Nyssa’s paintings she creates hyper realism style portraiture with broad brush strokes so you can still easily tell it’s a painting whilst giving it a great look. Sharp also usually distorts the face in different ways, and it is this affect which I love about her paintings; the distortion of the face varies from broad brush strokes of contrasting colours smudging from the face, patterns or marks over the face and no face at all with only smudges of what colours would have been used if painting the face. My favourite piece by Nyssa Sharp is "The Girl With The Yellow Skirt", it features a girl who is wiping away her tears but her face is nothing but a smudge across the canvas, even without seeing the girls full face you can see the sad emotion from her posture, from her lips and the way she is rubbing her tears, i think that the smudge for a face adds to this emotion and really brings out the vibe of sadness in this piece, and I think it is captured beautifully.
