Faranu Dutch/Caribbean artist (1980) Graduated (B.A. degree) in 2008 at the Willem de Kooning Academy of fine Arts, Rotterdam The Netherlands where she lives and works.

Faranú mostly uses traditional materials such as charcoal and ceramics, but uses them in a contemporary way. Her intense drawings and sculptures are often based on neo-mythical topics. Expressive figures that are part-human, part-animal and abstract figures are spontaneously drawn in a very recognizable way, but are the images that you see really what you think they are?

The strong dark charcoal strokes and vague imagery create a unique play of lines. Faranú’s drawings and sculptures appear powerful in their size and positioning, but at the same time her figurative works leave plenty of room for the observers imagination.