Damian Elwes
Dusan Damian Cary Elwes (born 10 August 1960) is a British artist with studios in Los Angeles and the Colombian rainforest. His paintings explore themes such as the cycle of life and creativity. These artworks can be monumental and three-dimensional, such as a painting in which visitors walk from room to room on the ground floor of the "Villa La Californie" (2006–2018), to witness the extent of Pablo Picasso's creativity in April, 1956 or an immense landscape painting on the ground, Amazon (1999), on which visitors can walk above the exotic, flowering plants of a cloud forest and search for the source of the river.
Damian Elwes | |
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| Born | Dusan Damian Cary Elwes 10 August 1960 London, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Lewanne Collie (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Dominick Elwes Tessa Kennedy |
| Relatives | Cassian Elwes (brother) Cary Elwes (brother) |
| Website | damianelwes |
In 2018, the Musée en Herbe in Paris hosted "Secrets of the Studio, from Claude Monet to Ai Weiwei," a retrospective of Elwes' Artist Studio paintings. These paintings transport viewers directly into the worlds of creative geniuses from the 19th century to the present. More than one hundred thousand people attended his immersive and interactive exhibition. Visitors could walk through Picasso's Villa in Cannes or roam around in a VR painting of Brancusi's original Montparnasse workshop.