Ruth Fox, nude body like fragmented, abstract landscape Artist Statement “Some time ago now, I noticed that when you look down at the body in front of you, it can appear to be very much like a fragmented, abstract landscape made up of hills, terrains, valleys, lines and curves. I began to perceive not only […]
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Tony Heath, fresh & lively life paintings Tony is an invigorating contemporary artist based in Gloucestershire. His work celebrates the pleasure of movement and colour through an original and vibrant style. He creates work which is ambitious, unrestrained, determined and exciting. Painting is essentially a two dimensional art and a fascination for me is to
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Robyn Cochran-Ragland, lively pastel life drawings I am forever pulled by the simplicity and complexity of the human figure. I attempt to capture a pose quickly and fluently. The figure and facial likeness are so close, so personal and I am so very aware of them, that I feel I must work within their confines
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Ellen Soderquist, drawings of figures wrapped in rapture Rapt Cocoon Series Both of the series, Rapt Cocoon and Rapt Shadow, began with a play on the words: wrapped and rapture. Initially, the imagery for Rapt Cocoon was influenced by Egon Schiele’s drawings of himself wrapped in his prison cell blankets while serving a sentence for
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Annette Nieukerk, mixed media in praise of older women BIO Now in her fifth decade of art practice, Annette has had a varied career spanning disciplines, media and genre. As a young artist, she depicted the prairie landscape using silkscreen printing as her medium of choice. Then in mid career, Annette became passionately involved in
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Miguel Sopena, creative process loaded with feeling My interests as an artist are very diverse but at present I work primarily as a painter. I trained as a portraitist and I retain a keen interest in the human figure and figurative painting, but, at the same time, and since my graduation, I have been busy
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Nude drawings raise objections at music festival Recently a life drawing exhibition I coordinated in BC, Canada caused a tempest in a teacup… A photo collage showcasing the life drawing exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. Nude drawings irk festival Coast Reporter Article April 12, 2018 As the Festival of the Performing Arts (FOPA)
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Michael Prodanou, Fearless Figure Drawing Michael Prodanou was born in Toronto, Canada of Greek immigrants. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and practiced his profession in Europe, the Mideast, Canada, and the United States. He sold his practice in 1999 and began drawing and painting in 2000. He
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