Making of Season I Art Prints
Making of SEASON I art prints
Behind the scenes studio work. Vienna, Austria
Santa Pilens is the artistic director of My Wine Design and has ambitious plans for the future development of the wine furniture and accessories brand based in Austria. When starting work on the vision of My Wine Design the creative duo (partner of Mrs Pilens is the head designer of the brand and creator of the furniture and accessories line Mr Martins Pilens) shared opinion that it has to be a lifestyle brand, offering a wide selection of objects related to wine. And as one may guess, wine does not start and end with a bottled liquid stored in a shelf, it has a whole world of people behind it. Wine is a drink of every day. Wine is present even in the church. In the bars. Restaurants. Shops. On a dining table at home. So, as every notable part of human life it can be turned into art, or be the object of it.
“I used to spend several years living between Paris and my hometown Riga. That was where I got inspired by aesthetics of home feeling. French apartments are filled with passion, with people enjoying life, with food and wine and art. Quite often you see also art prints hanging on the walls of their homes. Those are interiors I love. They have a personality. And this is where my inspiration for SEASON I came from. Enjoy my first VERY PRIVATE WINE ART COLLECTION and make it yours too.” , says Santa Pilens.
Santa Pilens is Latvian born artist based in Austria.
Self taught artist, since 2013 she has worked in various techniques (textile, graphic, ink) , always challenging herself with different surfaces as a background of her work.
“I am always in the process of creating, there is no “ready” for me. Art is something very personal, very intimate and sensory. My focus is on the female and male body I want to put to perfection in my work, though I believe that the most beautiful bodies in the world are far from complete or perfect. It is the line of the pencil that has to express the motion, the curve, the feeling. My art speaks a language that is raw and true.
Today everything is about producing, selling, branding — a mass culture, but I am not in that boat. I honestly believe that art gets better with years, even on a paper it looks better with time. It is like good wine. You have to put it in the cellar to rest. Meanwhile, I am honoured and happy to work for My Wine Design art collection SEASON I, which is quite symbolic I must say. And I believe it will gain some emotional patina within years. So have fun, drink wine and make love in front of it.”
Wine art prints for the SEASON I have two dimensions and moods — one is made in the feeling of contemporary wine art posters, the other — very symbolic artwork, done as a cutout at the beginning, put on a silk screen and reflecting on mythology and wine. It is the amphora, the wine and water, and the female body as a symbol of fertility.
