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Guy Denning’s exaggeration and editing of a suggestion of reality
Guy Denning (born 1965) is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group and part of the urban art scene in Bristol. Denning’s early...
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Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen’s dreamy paintings
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (1986) is a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. The atmosphere in his subject matter...
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Annie Kevans’s Ship of fools
English artist Annie Kevans created the series “Ship of fools”, addressing her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement, in...
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Tiina Heiska’s lovely lost woman
Tiina Heiska‘s paintings are stories about both the process of painting and about subjects of the paintings. Considered individually, they are separate fragments, but joined together they become series...
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Benjamin Carbonne’s tenderly torn subjects
For French artist Benjamin Carbonne (1970), painting primarily provides him with a means to express his sometimes violent, yet always tenderly torn subjects without using words.
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Werner Knaupp’s savage seas
German artist Werner Knaupp‘s (1936) thick layered acrylics turn into dark, savage seas – statuesque and gorgeous.
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Domenico Grenci’s “ukiyo-e” portraits
Italian artist Domenico Grenci is heavily influenced by Japanese art and portrays Western women in “ukiyo-e” (literally translated: floating world); impermanent, fleeting beauty divorced from the...
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Spring
Today it’s Spring yet still seemingly winterish here at 52.2066° N, 5.6422° E; somewhat like Egon Schiele’s “Early Spring”. Egon Schiele, Early Spring, 1913, Oil on canvas Kunsthaus Zug , Sammlung Kamm...
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Pedro Batista’s evasion
Evasion is a series of large-format paintings by Portuguese artist Pedro Batista. His figures fade into motion seemingly captured for just a moment in time. © Pedro Batista
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Nicola Samori’s destruction
Italian artist, Nicola Samori intensely disfigures his Renaissance influenced paintings using a palette knife, a scalpel, paint or his hands. “I like taking the image to a breaking point, putting its...
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Leah Yerpe’s magic motion
When American artist Leah Yerpe captures her models twisting, floating and falling on a ground she sees them transformed from free individuals into symbolic figures. The influence of mythology is often...
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Sylvie Guillot’s human tension and movement
French artist Sylvie Guillot (1972, Paris) started drawing in criminal courts, which in her view was the best drawing school imaginable; with just that element of urgency to get straight to the heart...
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Rachel Coad’s hauntingly enchanting portraits
Australian artist Rachel Coad creates hauntingly enchanting portraits… Sandie Stewart – acrylic on paper, 270cm x 300cm, 2005 Scramble No. 5 – oil on linen, 84cm x 152cm, 201 Fallout – oil on canvas,...
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Tsuyoshi Imamura’s minimal strokes
Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Imamura creates alluring images with seemingly minimal strokes.
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Fotini Hamidieli’s uneven surfaces
Greek artist Fotini Hamidieli lived and studied in the U.S. and Italy. She now lives in Greece where she paints and teaches art lessons. “The bodies that are coming out in my work now are more...
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Zhu Yi Yong’s Memories of China
As a witness to the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Yi Yong shows us the Chinese “collective memory” and challenges us to think again of what the “Red Five Star” symbol means today. A perfect contradiction,...
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Alex Kanevsky’s mysterious motion
Artist Alex Kanevsky’s intriguing paintings seem to capture the dynamics of time rather than a specific moment and drag the viewer into a mysterious world.
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Spencer Herr’s states of mind
Spencer Herr is a self-taught painter from Arizona. His use of layering expresses an interest in the perception of memory. Having grown up in the southwest, Herr is fascinated with rough environments;...
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Pascale Vergeron’s theatrical figures
When French artist Pascale Vergeron was invited to exhibit in the lobby of a theater, he became inspired by the everyday theatricality we all carry around with us. The representation of his figures is...
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Michael Kukla’s nature-like structures
Czech artist Michael Kukla takes his cues from potent acts of nature: cells rapidly dividing, the searing effect of wind, roots pushing through earth, and employs a range of materials to explore form...
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