Figurative self portrait painting, self portrait sculpture, mixed media
Linda Friedman Schmidt – I am very excited to be included in the Every Woman Biennial, an extraordinary All Women Art Biennial and Film Festival founded and curated by artist Christine Finley. She has created an opportunity for self-identifying women artists to cross-pollinate with each other across a wide variety of mediums, generations, racial and …
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Nicola Wheston has divided her time between British Columbia and sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area for last 10 years. She used to live an hours hike out in the jungle from Yelapa which itself is a good hours bumpy panga boat ride from Puerto Vallarta. From her beautiful jungle palapa outdoors studio, she created these …
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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, …
LONDON ARTIST CYRIL MANN (1911-1980) Throughout a painting career spanning over half a century, from the 1920s onwards, the London artist Cyril Mann rejected the fashion for abstraction and dreamt of revitalising figurative art. Like JMW Turner and the Impressionists, he was fascinated by the interplay of light and shadow, but in a very different …
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I am a contemporary figurative painter. My work is a journey to record a moment caught in time. I begin with an idea and let the painting evolve, having no deadline. My inspiration is from real life and the people I meet. I work from photographs I have taken, not interested in creating a photo-likeness …
Portrait as Tamer The self-portrait confronts the viewer with an outward representation of the inner self. Here is the exterior as seen by the interior. The self-portrait as a character introduces a further element. While the self-portrait implies that the artist is showing us the truth, a representation of the exterior in disguise conveys the …
I need your help with my upcoming art project. As I shared in my last e-newsletter to you, I am beginning my next series which I’ve titled the Awful Selfie Project. As a friend, and supporter, I want YOU to be a part of this project. To clarify, I am asking a few people to …
