Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia, artist Elicia Edijanto creates beautiful, moody, predominantly black-and-white paintings putting unexpected creatures together in harmony. Exploring the relationship between children (and adults’ child selves) and nature, her artworks feel like illustrations from children’s stories that I, for one, want to read. Her depictions of children and wild animals truly capture my imagination, and make me feel hope for our future.
“Nature inspires me a lot. I hope my art will serve their purposes, remind us of how is human-nature relationship supposed to be, beautiful, harmonious, and living side by side.Using only black watercolour (mostly), I try to create unique relationship between human and nature. My subject are often children and animal because they are honest, sincere, unprejudiced and unpretentious. It will be easier for people to feel the emotions.”
By examining the unique connection between children and animals, Edijanto gives me hope that maybe there’s a way through our planet’s current difficulties, and the next generation is the key.
“There’s an innate relationship between children and the animal kingdom. Our children sing songs about animals, they have toy animals, they have books about animals and they dream about animals.”
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May 26, 2021 at 6:50 am
These paintings are absolutely beautiful. They are dream-like with their use of soft, misty textures and partial silhouette but there is also something haunting about them – in a good way. Like you, I’d love to see a children’s book with these illustrations.
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May 26, 2021 at 2:23 pm
They’re so evocative! I’m really fascinated.
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May 26, 2021 at 7:37 am
I love simple and these are just beautiful.
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May 26, 2021 at 2:23 pm
They are perfect in their simplicity!
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May 26, 2021 at 9:19 am
Oh, Donna–these are all so beautiful. I thought I had a favorite…no. I love too many of them. They are gorgeous.
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May 26, 2021 at 2:24 pm
So glad you like them! I’d love to see them animated.
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May 26, 2021 at 9:46 am
I bet they are a lot harder to do than it seems just looking at them. Great stiff — Love all of them – Hal
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May 26, 2021 at 2:25 pm
I’m so glad!
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