Paulo Arraiano
The Organic Flow of Drawing
the artwork of Paulo Arraiano | YUP
Paulo Arraiano (1977) lives and works by the sea in Cascais, Portugal. Having first pursued a degree in Organisational Communication, he swapped content for form and followed a career as a Graphic Designer. He currently lives as a full-time Graphic and Visual Artist, with the occasional dabble in design to keep the bills at bay, and both curates exhibitions and showcases his own work regularly. His time is divided between drawing, painting, surfing, skateboarding and the practice of Shiatsu and Qigong.
In the organic flow of lines, characters, shapes, colours and compositions that form Paulo Arraiano’s visual universe, there lies a duality that merges the natural and the artificial, nature and urbanity, emergence and creation. In the intersection between these two seemingly opposite and excluding worlds, he has managed to set a new-found balance that emerges from the primitive energy that flows between one and the other and is at the root of the visual language he has created and so intensely expresses. In this universe, the all-encompassing nom de guerre of Yup is an exclamation of positivity, an exhortation to life at its fullest, to the primeval motion which is channeled forward by means of those same lines, those same meridians that express the subject of drawing in its purest and most essential form… Read More
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