Archive for September, 2014
Giorgio Linda: Contemporary Painting Makes a Cultural Bridge
Giorgio Linda is a self-taught artist interested in the primordial dance of light and color. His semi-realist paintings often focus on architectonic form and landscape. Occasional moments of heroic figuration bleed into abstraction and sweeping fields of kaleidoscopic color. Having come of age in Italy, teaching himself to paint, certainly the imprint of great masters […]
SAHBA – An Emotional Presence in Color
Dynamic yet intriguingly subtle, SAHBA’s art becomes a meditative and sensory experience, developing an emotional bond with the viewer through the depth of presence that each piece possesses. Immersed in the mindfulness of SAHBA’s mark is a visual mantra of color and motion, layering a sense of place and deep feeling into a bold abstraction […]
Vibrant Visions of Painter Debbie Grossman
Known for her expert use of hue and texture and large bright canvasses, Debbie Grossman paints the natural world passionately, with vivid color and expressive line. Often splashed with dream-like depictions of abstracted images from nature, her works evoke a sense of peace, oneness and divine feminine awakening into bliss. Enchanted by vibrant hues, nature, […]
Brenda Ness-Cooper Celebrates Her Travels
Globe-trotting and idyllic, Brenda Ness-Cooper’s watercolor scenes are small, beautiful vacations. Ness-Cooper paints in bright, airy watercolor on board. Her lines are easy, and her textures are deceptively nuanced. The compositions are lively, and the artist seems to be experimenting with something new from piece to piece. Some works are outright landscapes, others mid-range views […]
Traveling Through Art
Intricate, detailed, and impressive, NEEOCO’s watercolors push the accepted limits of the medium. NEEOCO depicts story-based scenes with an exceptional sense of time and place – the kind of grand work usually done by epic or history oil painters. In fact the paintings, which vary widely in subject matter, are inspired by real life practices […]
Claudia Pombo. Adapted Experience
Claudia Pombo’s sumptuous oil paintings mix lush nature images with surreal touches. Pombo portrays many different subjects, from opulent landscapes to faces and figures. She sometimes zooms in on a certain element – the spray of mist caused by water falling into a pool, or the wispiness of clouds. In other compositions the perspective draws […]
Zaineb Shaban. Symbols of Material Culture
Characterized by sculptural depth of pigment, architectonic grooves and radiant hues, contemporary Canadian artist Zaineb Shaban’s 3D acrylic on canvas paintings are a visual pleasure to behold. Incorporating a variety of techniques and media – layers, gold leaf, texture, mosaic and modeling paste – serves to enhance the multi-dimensionality of the paintings. Influenced heavily by […]