CHARLES DODO

Charles Dodo was born in Seychelles in 1971.  Charles Dodo's abstract work – which he has been making alongside his more traditional figurative compositions – grew from the artist's interest in the simplification of form and colour, and a self-categorization as a 'semi expressionist' painter. 
His abstract pieces utilise relief and deploy bold compositional elements in a symbolic manner. The human form becomes monolithic; blocks of colour depict the cohesion and love of family and the brushwork is, throughout, brazen and swift.
Much of Dodo's work contains three dimensional elements, even if not qualifying as conventional sculptural forms. His use of relief indicates an intention to move increasingly towards more pronounced projection from the plane.

Dodo's earlier work presented the people and culture of Seychelles in bright narrative canvases, at times using applied card layers to create shadows upon - rather than within - the pigment. This vein of the artist's work has also evolved, from picturesque images of traditional social activity- the buying of fish directly off the boat for example – to depictions of people at the edge of society, those who scavenge and eke out an existence without recourse to conventional employment. 

Charles says, We constantly experience different moods and sentiments, which mould our characters. Such feelings cannot be neglected, ignored or hidden away from. Therefore the desire to create comes in. If this had not in my life been manifested through making art then it would have been through politics.