Series of portraits. Face of city is the theme of your VOLUPTUOUS TOWNS series. Intriguing! Jan Astner: Every town is different. It has a different face, or rather faces. A series of portraits of cities is not about urban planning and architecture. Towns are people. Each city has different people, a different way of life, […]
Geometric Abstraction
Artists’ inspiration
Inspiration is a surge of creativity in an artistic endeavor. Surreal artists looked for inspiration by turning to dreams. They also used automatic typing. Artists’ inspiration is often placed in the unconscious mind. The theory of inspiration suggests that the artist draws from something beyond individual experience. . In modern psychology, inspiration is generally viewed […]
Wendy Cohen – Interview, Award or distinction
Painting is my passion as it enables me to evoke my curious lighthearted inner child and maintain a sense of playfulness, wonderment and humour in my life. Our culture determines that as we grow older, play is not viewed in a positive light and is dominated by seriousness. Artists are continually influenced by each other […]
Interview with Marija Nikolic
Interview with Marija Nikolic O-A: What is art to you? Marija Nikolic: First and foremost, art to me is a visual language, but also an excellent introspection tool. A way to channel my urge to convey thoughts, emotions, and statements. The goal of this communication is not only directed towards the observer of my finished […]
Ana-Maria Panaitescu – visiting artist’s studio
Ana-Maria Panaitescu – visiting artist’s studio Most of my work is about using traditional materials (like wood, canvas, paper, cardboard, metal, oil colors) and finding a way to combine it with new stuff, like silicon, acrylics, polystyrene, different types of strong glue, etc. It is my way of being traditional and living in our days […]
Interview with Cvetka Hojnik
Interview with Cvetka Hojnik O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Cvetka Hojnik: While creating, art becomes an integral part of life. Because of art we look at life from a different perspective, we get another, inner richness. And of course you become […]
David Carr – Celebrity Colour Challenge
O-A: What is the Celebrity Colour Challenge? David Carr: It began as a small experiment. Usually I work with a large range of paints and my pictures are very bright and colourful. I wanted to try and create a piece using a very limited pallet, and came up with the idea of asking someone else […]
David Carr in his studio
. David Carr art statement I like to create pictures where the viewer can lose themselves in an imagined world amongst colourful patterns, shapes and lines. My pictures are about feelings and emotion but not about me. My latest work is a series of paintings where I have left the choice of colour for other […]
“Four Directions” paintings by Patrica Hume
Four Directions was inspired about 2 weeks ago. I’ve done multiple different paintings with the colors of the four directions. But this series is specific in color and direction. Each canvas is colorful but the middle of each there is either white, red, yellow or black. These colors represent north (white), east (yellow), south (red) […]
Barbara Krupp – Extra Large Acrylic Painting “Poetic Space”
“Poetic Space” by Barbara Krupp This painting is in the series “Interconnection”. Each day we see the world differently. The interconnection is of course is social, but it is also global, industrial, and economical. When you think about it, it is whirling so fast, what do we do. Well, I think it happened and unfortunately, […]
Catherine Guinot – Pixel waves
Title of the series of artwork: Catherine Guinot – Pixel waves Short description of series idea: For this color stripes series, it’s ail about light waves, colors and blood streams … 1 become a pixelated image, like when a video stream suddenly breaks up and blends the images together. For a suspended lime, 1 experience […]
Barbara Kemp Cowlin – The Happy Accident (or not!)
I’ve always said I love the process of painting when the happy accident occurs. You can ask anyone who knows me—I’m not a great planner, hence the happy accident sometimes saves the day. When I start painting I work roughly from reference photos. The 24″x24″ painting below was started last May From initial washes, I […]
