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Focus on: Ada Chen

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Focus on Ada Chen Johnny Patramanis Ada has this curiosity that you can find in a student as she likes to experiment through her subjects, painting children, adults and animals. She uses everyday sceneries as her main focus trying to capture the moment like a photographer would do, playing with the details that she wants us to see. She is a really well balanced artist with a drive for knowledge.   Katerina Christou The first thing I notice in Ada’s watercolours is that even though she is clearly a figurative artist she is not restricted to portraiture, her themes include everyday scenes, faces, animals. However, what is very noticeably a common feature among them is that in each painting she seems to focus her interest and give more detail to a specific part of her composition like the expression in the eyes or the positioning of the hands. I believe this is her way of showing to us what part of the scene she finds beautiful therefore giving the viewer a glimpse into her perspe