portrait painting

Larry Madrigal, 2017 recipient of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

Larry Madrigal, 2017 recipient of Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Larry Madrigal is a Phoenix-Based Mexican American figurative painter exploring the historical genre of portraiture. He is a 2017 recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, a reputable international award for visual artists. His work has been exhibited in the Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of […]

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Katia Zhukova, high contrast portraits & figures

Katia Zhukova, high contrast portraits & figures “Every portrait painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter” – Oscar Wilde As an artist, I am searching for my identity through the inherent beauty of the physical human form, the shell of the human spirit, finding reflections of myself in my

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Valérie Tertrais, classic portrait painter from France

Valérie Tertrais, classic portrait painter from France Diploma of Beaux Arts de Paris in 1988, Valérie Tertrais is a French figurative painter, specializing in portrait painting, working principally by commissions. Her works have been shown in many exhibitions and her commissioned portraits are from all around the world, principally in Washington (USA), Porto Rico, Niamey

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Westcoast Figurative exhibition, video & reviews

Westcoast Figurative exhibition, video & reviews Can’t make it to our exhibition in Gibsons, BC in person? Enjoy the exhibition here on this video. Westcoast Figurative Jan 12 – Feb 5 GPAG – Gibsons Public Art Gallery Gibsons, BC, Canada Jan DeGrass She started a website a few years ago www.figurativeartist.org that gathers images of

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Westcoast Figurative, 7 artists of the human form

Westcoast Figurative, 7 artists of the human form Through a line, a gesture, human voices wake us. Seven artists capture the human condition and form in their own unique and distinct figurative style. Bringing the human face into focus are Justin Ogilvie, Jay Senetchko, Andrea Armstrong, Maria-Margaretta from Vancouver and Jennifer Goodwin, Cindy Riach and

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Olivier Payeur, figurative drawing & painting from France

Olivier Payeur, figurative drawing & painting from France Olivier Payeur is a French born painter currently living Toulouse, France. He’d been working as an engineer for years before becoming an illustrator, then a painter, as a self-taught artist. His main subject is the human figure and his style is classical with an accent on figurative

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Roger Salucci, independent views from France

Roger Salucci, independent views from France Starting as a caricaturist at the age of 16 in two regional newspapers, Roger SALUCCI was qualified at “Beaux-Arts school” (French fine Art school). Exhibitions of paintings in Arles, Nimes, Sete, etc. FIRST PRIZE OF POSTERS AT NIMES FAIR As a painter and globe-trotter, Roger SALUCCI settled down in

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Joyce Polance – chaos and control, figurative palette knife painting

Joyce Polance – chaos and control, figurative palette knife painting My current work explores the dichotomy between chaos and control in the physical process of painting. I apply paint very thickly and somewhat abstractly, mostly with a palette knife. When the surface is covered but still wet, I attack the work, throwing myself into it

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