I’m Klea.
I’m an INVENTOR.
I’m a painting artist.
I feel I can best accomplish my career goals in the world of abstract paintings, where it’s been a long journey for me to arrive. When I was younger, I was just amazed by artists and admired them. I couldn’t even imagine that one day this would be my world, too. When I was 40, I took a painting course where it became clear to me that this is what I want, this is who I am. And I started to create. I was looking for myself, looking for the realm where I can accomplish this. I ended up in the abstract world. Here I have found all that I can create. The world of colors, envisioning a composition and bringing a motif to life gives me countless opportunities. And I have only started experimenting!
I also started piecing and gluing my painting boards together and one time I really saw something in such a composition. Then I did it again and again, and out of this experimentation the “SCENE-OVER-SCENE PAINTING TREND” was born. This concept means more than anything to me.
It expresses how I imagine the identity of a new painting. Here I step out of the traditional canvas, break the traditional frame, and give my art an all new shape. I use at least 2 painting boards for a single work of art.
Then there’s the visual appearance. How it looks as a whole, and how I can combine different parts into a single unit. It is a very exciting game to emphasize what I really want to, to find out how I can bring it all to life so that its message gets through to my audience in a way that they do enjoy the overall effect and a harmonious overall composition. That’s what my SCENE-OVER-SCENE PAINTING TREND is all about.
I want to introduce the SCENE-OVER-SCENE PAINTING TREND to the planet, so people can get to know it and appreciate it. I would like to present my art at big exhibitions where my paintings can be seen “in person”. This is how I can bring my creations to a large audience.
Gazing at the varied oil and acrylic abstracts from Andrea Albert, one finds both urban-edgy landscapes and designs through to the colourful infusions of flowers and rivers. A landscape as varied as the painter’s birthplace.
Andrea Albert’s art reflects the diverse landscapes of her home city. Raised in the green suburb of Budapest known as the Valley of Roses, the varied city scapes are clearly a source of great inspiration.
Cited by Forbes as ‘Europe’s 7 th most idyllic place to live Budapest is divided by Europe’s second longest river, The Danube. In 2002, Budapest’s city’s Metro 1 underground line was officially an UNESCO Heritage site.
Hungarian abstract painter, Andrea Albert, adored art all her life, especially drawing on inspiration from Gregor Gáll’s sculptures in the Hungarian National Gallery, Veszprem Museum and KOGArt Art Foundation. Yet Klea only discovered and embraced her artistic talents later in life, at a time of both personal and professional transformation which resulted in a new career and direction.
Having worked extensively as a desktop publisher, Andrea Albert’s new career move to full-time painter in 2011 was swiftly followed by a change in name to Klea. ‘Klea’ was more than a name, it was a symbol for Andrea’s personal triumph into becoming the artist she had dreamt of for so long, a name that derives from the Greek word ‘Clea’ meaning ‘triumph’ or ‘glory’. Using the name Klea is powerful message of self-determination.
Self-trained, Klea feels the nature of her work is avisionary calling, both a creative and spiritual journey that started with landscape paintings. Klea’s initial small paintings (20 x10 cm in size) gradually grew as the depth ofthe abstract world matured in her, now painting upwards from the smaller scales to 70×100 cm.
Working a glorious fusion of unusual materials, Klea melds building screws, nails, bake clays, paper, cotton rags, ribbons, and raffia oils and acrylics, all on the same canvas. Rich, textured paintings, mature abstracts with textural diversity and an infusion of majestic colours.
“My goal is to take you on a journey filled with emotions and values… My paintings reflect my out-of- the-way style and personality. I hope my pictures evoke new feelings in the viewer, like going on an adventure.”
Klea now feels she has arrived in her own space, immersing herself in her science and art, where she is constantly learning. Klea’s wish is to pass on whatever she creates for the people of this world.
“I hope is to make the viewer receive the message conveyed by my paintings, and feel their noble purpose.’
Klea is a well-travelled painter and currently lives near London with her two children. When she is not painting, Klea loves to walk through city streets and along coastal promenades for inspiration. You can visit Klea’s gallery.
Written for Klea Art by Angie Lemon: paicepublicity@gmail.com