Felix Mas - Barcelona, Spain

Carmine Dress

Scarlet Cloak

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Golden Robe

FELIX MAS
Born in Barcelona, Spain

Felix Mas was born in Barcelona. In 1974 he moved to live in Caracas, Venezuela until 1979. He has exhibited extensively the UK, the USA, Spain and Venezuela and now divides his time between Europe and the United States.

Mas' finely balanced compositions of colour lead us through symbolism and fantasy to the realm of beauty in the female figure, a subject matter central to his work.
He is a traditional painter who is fascinated and preoccupied with line, form and the achievement of fine colour harmonies.

His models, clearly his ideal of femininity, fully express the tender beauty of women. They are radiant, graceful, exquisitely dressed and invariably placed in rich opulent settings, surrounded by ornamentation and glossy accessories.

Mas presents a portrait of femininity that is rich and captivating. The combination of rich settings and their physical grace is only achieved through a stronge understanding between the artist and his model. A clear eye is needed to suggest the hidden beauty beneath the layers of finery.

There is a creative tension in the work between his insticitive desire to achieve rich harmonious colour and a self imposed preoccupation with line and form. He uses intimacy as a tool to achieve beauty. In this, Mas takes us well beyond the painting itself. Forgetting the technique and colour, we sense that beneath his lyricism the figures are offered up to us as precious objects for meditation.