Andre Fontana

Biography

Fontana was born in Greece in 1965 but has lived in Avignon France for the last two decades. Her work is almost exclusively large, bold florals and landscapes that display her love of the open air. Her large canvases veer a fluctuating path between stark white, almost bleached out, backgrounds to the opposite, dense black expanses that almost swallow the floral subjects. Her personal interest in the work of other artists is predominantly that of abstraction. However, Fontana says that whenever she has painted abstract works herself she is always dissatisfied with the results and paints over them!