Bernard Rangel

Bernard Rangel has a diverse cultural origin and he is a self-taught artist painting for more than 37 years. He started by painting backdrops for the Amateur Hong Kong Ballet group and has since then painted household and commercial interiors, ceramics, bed linen, jeans, paper and on canvas. He works with acrylic, Indian ink and oil paint and plays with a wide variety of colours. It is particularly his backgrounds which capture the attention of art lovers, other artists and critics and he is the founder of the art genre Contemporary Tribal Surrealism. He has exhibited in Dublin, Sao Paulo, Bahia, Rome, Hannover, Bremen, London, Washington DC, Mumbai, New Delhi, New York, Paris and in 2013 at the IX Florence Biennale in Italy.