Elaine Despins, studio visit & open studio sale Elaine Despins was my third Montreal figurative artist studio visit on my recent trip there. Travelling by public transit with my very helpful iPhone app Google Maps, I was able to find my way there easily by Metro and then a short walk. A super app for […]
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I’m currently visiting Montreal for a high school reunion and I’m getting to meet some of our Montreal figurative artists. Had a nice meeting with Kai McCall this morning, one of my first long distance meetups. His studio has good northern light with ground floor windows as he is down a few stairs in a
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Franck de Las Mercedes, provocative portraits in bold color Franck de Las Mercedes is a Nicaraguan born painter raised in New York City. With a self-obtained education, straight from the aisles of the New York Public Library, de Las Mercedes has emerged as one of the country’s most prolific visual artists in recent years.From his
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Sunny Choi, figure painting with a fashion style Artist StatementMy mission is to create contemporary portraiture that this generation can rediscover and appreciate. Juxtapositionning representational style and gestural abstract, my work brings a fresh approach to this genre.Biography For artist Sunny Choi, beauty encompasses a sense of freedom, balance and harmony. Her need to create
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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, contemporary native figure painting Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun’s strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history in large-scale paintings (from 54.2 x 34.7cm to 233.7 x 200.7cm), using Coast Salish cosmology,
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Peter Clark, paper collage Peter uses a comprehensive collection of found papers as his palette which are coloured, patterned or textured by their printed, written or worn surfaces, with this media he ‘paints’ his collages. He shades with density of print and creates substance and movement with lines plucked from old maps or manuscripts. His
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Lee Chapman aka Lencho, whimsical figurative painting High on a jungle hillside, overlooking the bay and the town of Puerto Vallarta is the home and studio of the artist Lee Chapman (aka Lencho) that he shares with his wife Nancy and their 2 dogs, Rudy Rojo and Pinta la Vaca. Their house is filled with
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Jason Shawn Alexander, figurative painter Jason Shawn Alexander is an expressionist figurative painter from Tennessee, now living and working in Los Angeles. His intimate works penetrate to the core of human integrity, often depicting images of figures wrenched in that critical space where the strained coordination of mind, body, and spirit, hangs in the balance
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