Paintings
"To paint well, I need to feel like a wild animal, the most untamed version of myself." - Láyla Messner
When I paint, I am connected to my own nature, which means that I am connected to nature as a whole. That’s why my art is instinctual, expressive, and uninhibited. I’m transmitting a complete sense of liberation: permission to be wild, to be free, to be your natural self.
INSTINCT by Láyla Messner
As an autistic artist, painting is my natural language. I find communicating in words effortful, because I have to break my experience into pieces and arrange them in a linear order. Painting allows me to communicate the gestalt, the whole.
My paintings are gestural, embodied, and highly sensory. My work centers autistic/disabled joy and serves as a reminder of the natural, intrinsic worth of all beings, free from the need to earn or prove.
I am a process-oriented artist. Every painting is an experience of becoming. In order to complete a painting, I have to become the person who lays that last stroke – and that’s different from the person who started the piece.
The transformation is the art. My art is the effect of that inner transformation.
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Instinctual
Natural
Uninhibited
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Nature portraits of the artist by @kellys.perspective