Studio visits to international contemporary figurative artists
Nicola Wheston, figurative & landscapes from BC to Mexico Nicola Wheston has divided her time between British Columbia and sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area for last 10 years. She used to live an hours hike out in the jungle from Yelapa which itself is a good hours bumpy panga boat ride from Puerto Vallarta. From …
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Dario Puggioni, studio visit Berlin with dramatic figurative painter I came across Dario’s work when I was searching for figurative artists to visit in Berlin. His work is very dramatic and quite mysterious, figures with masked faces, lots of movement and brushwork. Thank goodness we took a taxi to find his studio because it was …
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Bo Bakker, studio visit to portrait painter, Amsterdam After visiting family in South Africa, we traveled to Utrecht, and then Amsterdam. We climbed the steep, narrow and practically vertical wooden stairs to the tiny Airbnb apartment we will stay for the next three nights, quickly unpacked, got plugged into the internet, caught up with a …
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Private art collection, Utrecht, Netherlands After visiting family in South Africa, we spent four nights in Utrecht, Netherlands, staying Airbnb with our host Cees (pronounced Keese). Dennis had originally intended for us to stay for one week in Amsterdam but he had been completely unable to book anything Airbnb for the entire week as there …
Brett Williams, studio visit, Cape Town, South Africa Before recent trip to South Africa, I did an image search for “Cape Town figurative artist.” Images of Brett’s work were very close to the top and I found them quite beautiful and exciting. I started to communicate with him through his tumblr site and twitter account …
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Lee Chapman, gringo painting in Mexican style On our recent trip to Puerto Vallarta, we visited two figurative artists, Jose Marca and Lee Chapman. Artist Lee Chapman and wife Nancy built their home 12 years ago in the hilltops overlooking Puerto Vallarta and huge Banderas Bay. They’ve been in Mexico since 1992. Lee barely even …
José Marca, studio visit Mexico José Marca is a small soft-spoken gentleman living in old town Puerto Vallarta Mexico. We visited his gallery and home studio during a time of renovations just before his new show opening February 14, 2015. The show will celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his gallery and also 33 years …
Michael Hermesh, studio visit to sculptor On our recent road trip to British Columbia’s Okanagan wine region, we arrived at our hosts Michael and Carol Hermesh bang on the expected dot of 7 pm in Summerland. Michael Hermesh is one of my figurative artists from FigurativeArtist.org and the only one we will visit on this …
