Mother and child in figurative art, father and child, parent and child figurative painting, sculpture
Each year Arizona based artist Elizabeth Frank travels to the mountains of the Southwestern United States to gather fallen aspen wood. She dries the wood in a room on her studio roof. Once dry she cuts the rough logs on a band saw then shapes them with a belt sander, hand and power tools. The …
Elizabeth Frank, carved wood & antique tin figures Read More »
. Vivian T-N Ho is the artist and pen name of Truc-Nhu Ho, PhD. Vivian is an American trained Vietnamese artist who resides in the U.S. In addition to a 3-year studio art education at the University of Utah where she learned figurative drawing and painting from the late portrait painter Alvin Gittins and figurative …
Jazmin Sasky is a visual artist who maintains a mission to employ her talent to drive social change. Sasky effectively collaborates with women non-profit organizations across North America and donates resources from the sales of her works in order to support her vision of equality and justice for women and children. These efforts received press …
This last year has been a tough one. My mom, had a short fight with cancer and passed peacefully in her sleep in August. She lived a long and active life, and was in fact driving, exercising and enjoying friends at this time last year. My mom was an enigma to me on so many …
Gesture is what interests me. Body language is beguiling. Gesture naturally conveys movement but can also be passive or submissive, playful or seductive, regal and proud. Gesture can tell a story. My studio practice has evolved into an ongoing exploration of figurative ceramic sculpture and installations created with paper-thin porcelain. I have a strong desire …
Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong, porcelain gesture sculpture Read More »
Alan Feltus, one of our earliest members, sent me this lovely interview he had recently. Here’s an excerpt from it. Larry Groff: Do your paintings have autobiographical elements to the narrative and a reason for painting similar themes over and over? Alan Feltus: What I paint is, in some respects, my interior world, so, yes, …
These works are the result of a major restructuring of my approach to the arts and mark the beginning of a new body of work where I’m seeking to explore a contemporary value system by juxtaposing it against a more antiquated ideology and language. These works are the result of a major restructuring of my …
Kalin Thomas, painting on a grand traditional scale Read More »
Could we with ink the ocean fill And were the skies of parchment made Were every stalk on earth a quill And every man a scribe by trade To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry Nor could the scroll Contain the whole Though stretched from sky to sky -Frederick Lehman …
Lauren Tilden, figurative paintings in egg tempera Read More »
