Mark Cross, the water bathers Born in Auckland in 1955, Mark Cross began making art during his mid teens. At the age of 23 he moved with his family to his wife’s village, Liku, on the island of Niue and it was during these early years that a strong philosophic and stylistic foundation was established […]
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Barbara Shark, painting people for 40 years I have been making paintings for 40 years. I am interested in the way people and things look. I observe friends and family in their environments; working, playing, eating, caught unaware. I’ve made drawings and paintings of these moments in between; their personal, metaphoric and art historical connotations.
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Lucien Freud, dead at 88 On July 20 in London, the great painter Lucian Freud passed away. He was 88 and had long since established himself as the last in a line of English masters stretching back to Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner. He’d also established himself as a classic bohemian who spent
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Melody Owens – Hollywood paintings I am captivated by the mystery behind a face that makes a person beautiful and iconic. I look to capture the radiance of soft light diffusing certain features contrasted by bright colors and textures. I play with the balance of abstraction, loose and soft painterly strokes to tightly rendered details
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Pilar Mehlis – virtues and vices Pilar Mehlis features dynamic compositions that use symbols drawn from historical visual language as well as Greek mythology, and symbols that are culled from the artist’s own experience. Of particular importance is imagery relating to vices and virtues and their transformative powers. Through the power of imagination, Pilar explores
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Leni Levenson Wiener – figurative art textiles As a former photographer, I still see the world through the lens of a camera. I think of my artistic style as photo-journalistic in nature. My pieces begin with a photograph that, more often than not, is taken without the subject being aware of the camera. I am
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Ian Ingram, our 500th member of FigurativeArtist.org Ian Ingram from New York is the 500th artist to join us on FigurativeArtist.org. His works is done in charcoal, mixed media and some also features some embroidery. I’d love to see it in the flesh but have to just enjoy his fine site for now. His site
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100 Artists of the Male Figure 100 Artists of the Male FigureA Contemporary Anthology of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture E. Gibbons brings to you, what is being referred to as, “The very first anthology of living artists of the classical male figure.” Works include contemporary, living artists of all genre from shocking realism to lively
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