Children in art, children portraits, figurative painting children, kids in figurative sculpture, mixed media,
Linda Held Wren wrestles with these questions each time she enters her studio. If her sculptures make you smile (or cry), she has accomplished her goal. If they let you daydream, she has healed your heart. In the right hands, clay can be therapeutic. It can give shape to our feelings. Linda received her …
Artist Camille Barnes studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and attended many workshops. As a realist her paintings capture the essence of the subject matter, using color, light, and attention to details to make her subjects come alive. Much of her life has been a career of being a freelance artist, and …
Figurative painting, painting people became my passion after returning to weekly life drawing practice in 2007. My figurative paintings in oils features lots of palette knife, scraping, textures and bold colors. Working from direct observation of light on the human form was pivotal to my path as an artist and I became bold enough to …
Paula O’Brien, palette knife painting & iPad drawings Read More »
Perhaps it goes without saying that for me art is not just a primary need, it has always been my way of living, breathing, looking at things. My father, a surrealist painter, was certainly my Master of Art and Life. I remember when I was just 4 years old when he raised me in his …
Michela Papavassiliou, contemporary abstract figurative painting Read More »
Artist Statement – Alicia Campos Massó “What is the essence of Art for you? For me, it is telling a story without words. My paintings will tell ‘you’ stories using symbolic sceneries. The vision of women and children going through different life experiences and stages through symbols tells ‘you’ that story through Narrative Art. Volunteer …
Joseph A. Miller is an Associate Professor of Art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. His work is in numerous public and private collections, and has been shown internationally in Finland, China, Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as across the United States, from Berkeley, California to …
My work explores discipline- perseverance amid challenge, and the psychology of choice, with a focus on painting and durational/endurance performance. Increasingly, the viewer is required to perform an action to complete the work. For example, Stand Back, I’m Busy [All These Options Series- No.1] and Go Ahead, Take It/ Bait and Switch read as abstract …
Amanda Grae Platner, perseverance amid challenge & the psychology of choice Read More »
Artist Statement I am a figurative artist working in the classical forms of oil painting and drawing media. I use narrative structures like symbols and myth to explore meaning in our common experience and to evoke a spiritual presence. My work prioritizes aesthetic principles, technical rigor, craft, perception and design. My principle subject is the …
Patricia Watwood, principle subject is the sacred feminine Read More »
