Art is the reflection of the artist in the Well of Wishes A good art grasps the spirit of the times (time and place) with its fingernails, and the spirit of the creative artist, and rises up into … [Read more...]
Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue
"Traveling Home" is a series of floating, totem-like forms, which emerged in the process of painting as if excavated from deep in my subconscious. They're moving with the waves, currents and … [Read more...]
All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon
Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward … [Read more...]
4 paintings by Moses Hawk
On the Road Stripped down bare. Art is an expression of the artist’s personality which could be a representation of their emotions, motivations, and intentions. Channeling the void, opening the … [Read more...]
Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox
Warren J. Cox paints mainly in an objective abstract vein. His pieces frequently imply the presence of system and strong synergy, and sometimes surrealist elements or pareidolia. As with these works, … [Read more...]
12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert
As I see it, an artwork presents an intermediate reality between the natural sense-perceived world and the non-sensual interior objects of consciousness. The work itself is, of course, a … [Read more...]
Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson
I have explored a number of painting styles and techniques over many years of making art works. One subject that I keep returning to is clouds. To me they are a vehicle of imagination. At the age of … [Read more...]
8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela
I like to discover myself little by little ... a little every day ... every instant ... in the time following the time … following the moon with my feet ... following the most distant planets with my … [Read more...]
Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge
Son of Daedalus 1. I await your stirring of emotion in the needle bushes beside the tree my path like a burning daemon touches no ground to honor your reality is like darkness the … [Read more...]
Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest
Now Now is not past, but will be soon, With everything that is to come Under the stars and the white moon. An argued choice we make at noon By midnight sees us drained and dumb. Now is not … [Read more...]
Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective
Alec Clayton will have a retrospective exhibition at the gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA, from June 28-August 10, 2017, representing 44 years of painting both abstract and figurative … [Read more...]
Motiv Eternal: Paintings by Neco Beth
The motif of my paintings buoys me up as a person. My thoughts, in part pure expressionist, Are soaked in a language that is purely stone-age, For its signs, symbols, its fauna, its surfaces. I … [Read more...]
Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva
MIDNIGHT CALLS A POEM Midnight calls a poem for empty prayers or empty praise and now I am alone in the shell of the dark after that bored terror of the days ...and soon I will be a bird, … [Read more...]
Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge
daredevil it felt as if he was made out of gold his head rested upon his shoulders weightless, his father called for him but Icarus seemed hypnotised lost in a curve of endless blue the … [Read more...]
The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner
My working method since the mid-1990s has been to create equivalent color palettes from my collage and montage studies for translation into the medium of oil paint. In all of my paintings, I have … [Read more...]
New paintings by Barry Johnson
I am not an artist. I am not a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, or content creator. Everything I've made was done so to maintain my sanity and health. Not creating physically pains me. All … [Read more...]
Almost There: Paintings by Lauralee Sikorski
3 Paintings by Merlin Flower
You I made a self-portrait. the chin was longer the bushy eyebrows the same. Friend said it looked like an orange. I thought it was you. not the jaw, not the eyes, not the face. You. … [Read more...]
The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings
Artist's statement: The series of works presented here portrays the state of alienation as a pervasive human condition, in particular, the one that engulfs parents and children … [Read more...]
Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge
Artist's statement: I proclaim the freedom of abstract art to be self-referential. To be a joyous play of form and color, rhythm is at the heart of my compositions, the pulse which is hidden there, … [Read more...]