Personalized Acrylic Paintings, Sketches, & Mixed-Media or Found-Object works that Evoke Your Unique Passions & Aesthetic
wHEN i WAS 8 YEARS OLD OR SO, i BEGAN TO CAREFULLY sketch graphite pencil copies of the PORTRAITS OF the gods THAT ILLUSTRATED THE PAGES OF D’aulaire’s greek myths.
I have never stopped attempting to represent the divine.
the older I get the more I believe that our domestic and public spaces help us thrive most and most inspire us when they contain paintings and other artworks, illustrations, sculpture, ceramics, graffiti, found treasure, etc. that speak to our unique souls.
At our core, we are all pure consciousness–the ineffable cohesion of every possible iteration of thought, sensation, &experience–but we are all also covered in a unique filament of dust, layering our beings with different degrees of obscurity and clarity, refracting and reflecting our inner lights in an infinity of diverse rays and ways.
for the past fifteen years I have been creating art in various mediums (acrylic paint, including canvases that include found-object elements and mixed-media collage, pen & colored pencil sketches, and repurposed found treasure) for both my own self-expression and for the commissioned expression of the inner-soul aesthetic of family, friends, and various other clients.
We start with a free thirty-minute consultation. we’ll spend about ten minutes discussing what kind of project you’re interested in: what physical form of art would best compliment your space? Then for the rest of the session, i’ll pepper you with a range of aesthetic questions; what color palettes and combinations are you drawn to?; What landscapes and/or geological/meteorological phenomena excite you?; do certain plants or animals speak to you more than others?; do certain types of public buildings or household objects fascinate you?; etc.
the process is as pleasurable as the final product, which the client may keep in their space to excite & thrill their senses for perpetuity. our consultation is a time for you to embrace your role as a conceptual artist: even if you can not for the life of you produce a work of visual or physical artwork, every human being has immense potential as a conceptual artist. even if you can not make the vision come to life alone, you can embrace and feel confident in your vision. as the working artist, i am here to help you make your vision a tangible reality, that you can continue to reflect upon and, seeing it made real, build your concepts even further.
Please enjoy the digital gallery archives of my work, chronologically organized links available at the top of the page. You can view recent works and works in process here. Many of the pieces were created based on the consultation process described above (although many are simply the divine images that my aphantasia-afflicted imagination would like to see outside of my blind mind’s eye in full color)
to schedule your free thirty minute consultation and begin to engage with your inner divine aesthetic, email cykcustoms@gmail.com
in-person consultations are available for the greater Philadelphia/delaware/southjersey area.
you can also reach out through the site here.
You’re in a museum bored to death, strolling through the galleries, when you see it: the painting on the far wall. Its visual content draws you in before you can even articulate what you are seeing. As you move closer, the combination of specific shades of paint does something to your psyche. Not that you…
Custom Art by Carla Yengo-Kahn 