The creative characters of Raymond Lemstra

Although childhood imagination and curiosity serve as an inspiration for Dutch artist Raymond Lemstra, who enjoys playing with facial recognition by distorting certain features of his characters, his work reveals a mature, unique and impressively confident style, with a great attention to details and an extraordinary level of skill.

It is this encounter between the creativity and simplicity of a child and the desire for control, perfection and complexity of an adult that offers a fresh perspective, a twist of the ordinary towards an unexpected yet certainly surprising result.

Therefore, when in front of Raymond Lemstra’s characters we see an inspiring hybrid of both robotic and organic nature, of geometry reshaped to convey emotion, an intersection of the primitive and the futuristic that leaves us in a profound state of wonder and constant discovery, deconstruction and reconstruction of an image that is always playfully changing before us.