This is my story
TLDR - I'm so woke
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Lakisha McQuany, also known as McDarkart, is an emerging neo-surrealist artist and illustrator. Coming from a family with a lot of creative energy, her love for the arts, especially painting and drawing sprouted from a very young age. Raised on the classics, movies, books and art, there was a solid background to work from.
Throughout the past few years, she has experimented with gaining skills in a lot of painting and drawing mediums, including oil, acrylic, oil pastels, charcoal and more. While not wanting to define a personal style per say she’s more interested in learning new techniques while making the art become what it always was. Using the subconscious, philosophical theories there’s a conjuring of metaphors and symbols weaved within the work that features elements from the goth and fetish subculture, her worldwide roots and a strange flare of retro kitsch, historic antiques, together all of these strange elements relay questions about faith and the unknown, the world around us and how we treat it and each other.
“What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.”ZDZISŁAW BEKSIŃSKI
More recently Lakisha has been working on translating her art onto any surface that she can get paint to stick to, be it meat cleavers, hand saws, ammo boxes, mirrors, banners and her favourite surface, Skateboards! One day she hopes to paint a surfboard and then mural work is only one step away!
Lakisha’s style is characterised by a joyful connection with folklore and the occult, following the techniques of the old (Dutch) masters as well as the pop surreal movement, there’s a mysterious quality even to the more basic pieces. Her work is inspired by history, subcultures and staring into the void.
She is currently living in Ipswich where she’s pursuing a career as a contemporary artist, combining her new skills in creating artwork that is equally beautiful and mysterious.
