Inspiration number Two: Japanese prints

                                           Hawase Kasui, Asano River

                                                      Hawase Kasui, Korakuen park

Why the sign HPL?

A question that every person that i know, curious on my works, is "what does HPL mean?". Well it's simple and hard to tell: H.P.L stands for H.P.Lovecraft's acronim, who gaved me lots of inspirations, but it's not like if i'd like to be him, i'm a huge fan of him of course, but that's not the idea. I wanted to have, first of all, a nice and short readable sign, not my full name, not even only my name alone or my last name or even only my nicknam, wich i really don't have! I wanted to have something unusual, something new, so when i was in 9th grade at school, i made a sign for a "stupid" comic strip about Cthulhu (a Lovecraftian creature made comic and humoristic) so i tried with H.P.L, and in the days, weeks, months and years to come, i didn't see that i had made me an own, different and unusual sign for my paintings. I will never and never going to change my sign, already tried to, but it's hard to get use to it! But that's another story...
H.P.L for me stands for a need to escape from reality to the dream world, one of Lovecraft's main theme, the dream world.

The Exercise period

                                          "The spirits of the north" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm

                                    "Dremscapes from far away" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm

                                  "A banal landscape in the fog" oil on canvas grain paper 24x32 cm


These paintings were made during a what I call "exercise period", a period when i had to choose or elaborate an own style. It follows the "impressionist period".

"Ancient memories"

This was made about in 2009, so it was one of my first (the third i think, or maybe the second).
In this i already tried to get an own identity and i tried to get better in making shadows and lights.

Inspiration number one: Lawren Harris, the group of seven

One of my most important influences is the group of seven, a group of seven canadian artists (at the beginning) who thought to get Canada an own artistic identity, wich at that time had only painters and styles brought from europe, such as the romantic landscape style from Great Britain. Here is the link from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven_(artists)

"The solitude"

A man who walks alone through a barren desert, the challenges he has to face after every dune he meets.

The very first HPL painting: "at the mountains of madness"

It is indeed a Lovecraftian theme (check H.P.Lovecraft; american writer), and it was even a dream that i've made once!