Featured Artist Jason Burns – Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand My paintings more often than not begin with a form of automatism. This forms the base and structure of my paintings. I work with the line. From there I add colour, text and further detail. I work at night and always have multiple paintings in various […]
Read More Featured Artist – Jason BurnsBrandi was born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1975. Photography has been a significant part of her life for as long as she can remember. Her love of picture taking is a direct result of her dad always keeping a camera in his work truck “just in case”.
Read More Featured Artist – Brandi FosterPainting at its best for me is pure self expression. It’s a practice of letting go and allowing something to flow through me and onto the page. People have always said that my work feels alive which is exactly how I experience them- both during my process and after. Because the various elements I work with are fluid I’m able to continuously manipulate the flow, color and structure which leaves me feeling like I’m actually collaborating with the elements to create each piece. Whether I’m using encaustics, pigmented alcohol inks, acrylics or resin-I try my best to keep myself in unison with them…And if I am quiet and listen closely the paintings talk to me.
Read More Featured Artist – Stacy SolodkinBlakelee Harmon is an emerging artist based in New York City who has dedicated her life to creating work that bonds human souls. She developed her sense of composition first through dance, exploring movement and stillness, music and silence, light and darkness, giving and taking, boundaries and abandon. Blakelee attended Marymount Manhattan for a bachelor’s degree in dance media where she also trained in oil painting and photography. She began using each of these mediums in tandem to explore concepts and inform the finished piece of work, and continues to use this method. Whatever strikes her in her daily routine is recorded and reflected in the chapter of each painting she is working on.
Read More Featured Artist – Blakelee HarmonI am a photographer making artwork showing the diversity of urban experiences today. To portray that diversity I focus on individual behavior, particularly that which is politically and culturally motivated. To express my ideas I often add text to, and digitally manipulate, my images, sometimes also incorporating and recontextualizing work from …
Read More Featured Artist – Stephen SpillerWhen I was eleven years old, my parents moved us across state and I left behind all my childhood friends. I was afraid of meeting new people and going to a new school, so the summer of 2014 I spent a lot of time in my new bedroom with pencil and charcoal. I had never drawn anything and just started playing around. I’ve always been in to music and movies – so I started drawing those people who spoke to me through their words in songs or roles in films. So my very first charcoal was of Adele. I was not sure it looked like her but when I showed it to family and friends – they couldn’t believe the resemblance and my love for the craft was born.
Read More Featured Artist – Grace EitrheimBrian J. Hoffman is a designer, illustrator, printmaker, and bass player in a punk rock band. He’s also the father to two young boys who he helps find poetic meaning in everyday life — through classic rock, timeless films, and tacos. Hoffman’s art is slightly surreal yet familiar because he likes to “screw with the beauty of things.” He describes his work as digital printmaking and the style as Low brow. Printmaking has taught him that imperfections can make all the difference in a piece. “You can have scratches and splotches and plate mistakes. It’s the imperfections that give the finished piece its character.”
Read More Featured Artist – Brian HoffmanHaving graduated from Parsons School of Design in 83′, the rebirth of figuration and expressionism became influential to me as it was to so many of the same generation. Painters from Thomas Nozkowski to Tadanori Yokoo, as well as earlier artists such as Leon Kossoff, Forrest Bess and Philip Guston have also helped in establishing an aesthetic direction. Painting is a tactical experience involving a myriad of ideas, approaches and fundamentally problem solving at its base. Although modest in size, the use of color, form and gesture are tools utilized to generate a feeling of scale.
Read More Featured Artist – John O’DowdAshleigh is currently a Junior at Ringling College of Art and Design living in Sarasota. As a Florida native she has never grown out of her Disney phase and enjoys anything remotely cute or pink. Her goal is to continue to make art while always tapping into her childish side. She wants to inspire and entertain children from all over the world.
Read More Featured Artist – Ashleigh CrawfordCrista Goble Bromley is an award-winning artist from the Texas Hill Country. She works primarily in oils but is also accomplished in watercolor, acrylic and pastels. As a descendant of noted artists and musicians she was surrounded by art and music since birth. She also studied fine arts at Victoria College and the University of Texas at Austin. While much of her early career focused on portraiture her interests expanded over the years and her subjects also include landscapes, animal portraiture, still life and historical representation. Most of her paintings are traditional to realism with a nod toward the highly detailed work of hyper-realism. According to Bromley, portraiture still holds a special place in her heart, noting, “I strive to make my portraits more than just a reflection of the person or animal. I want to see the character of the subject in the artwork. Whether it is a person or an animal I want their personality shine to through. That is the real satisfaction in portraiture.” While she loves portraiture she also enjoys the challenges of other subject matter as well. “I love to take a blank canvas and watch something grow on it. The process seems to have a life of its own,” she says. Bromley has been recognized by a number of national and international galleries. She currently has historical representations hanging in governmental buildings across Texas. For more information on her awards go online to http://www.cgbfinearts.com and click on the Featured Art link.
Read More Featured Artist – Crista BromleyI’m Amy O’Hearn, a New Orleans artist who works from my home studio. Art has saved my soul. For years, I had no inspiration, I felt constrained by my job and completely drained every day. Until I started painting. Through a meditative and intuitive approach, I have unleashed my creativity. I thrive on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before I start to paint, I clear my mind and let the colors and the brush take me away. I find it very fulfilling when other people interpret my art, noticing things I haven’t. When possible I like to name my paintings after the visions others see.
Read More Featured Artist – Amy O’HearnAs an Artist I believe that every empty canvas calls my soul to interpret what I see and feel to create pieces that speak to me and the viewer. My medium of choice is oil and my work frequently includes different brush techniques which allows me the precision to render true to life expression and detail of people. My passion for Art and creativity has emerged and evolved over the years and it is my desire to share my creations and leave a lasting impression to those who view them.
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