17\09\2014
Written by Helen Verploegen
Hyper-Realistic Fashion Paintings by Anna Halldin-Maule
Swedish born artist Anna Halldin-Maule nourishes our creativity with her hyper-realistic paintings. Her extremely detailed oil based artworks, both embrace and critique today’s fashion and luxury industry. Driven by the issues female identity faces in contemporary society, Anna Halldin-Maule creates paintings portraying nude models adorned by jewellery, make-up and objects of luxury. The series, titled ‘Persona’, thus explores how women use these items of consumerism as a mask in search of their true self. Inspired by her Swedish background the minimalist paintings have been made with the use of toned-down colours, which create a balanced and harmonious setting significant for Scandinavian design. Anna Halldin-Maule closely collaborates with her husband, Tom Maule, who is a schooled photographer. Together they start Anna’s creative process by composing a photoshoots which later serves as a reference for her paintings. On oversized canvases Anna portraits the models by using layers of fine brush strokes which result in a work of remarkable precision.