I used to really love painting, but I never really had the chance to explore the art. Every time I come across an amazing painter, that urge to pick up the brush again rekindles. Today was no different. It’s simply amazes me what textures, strokes and colours can do capture an atmosphere and make the [...]

“Looking at the history of China over the past century, we see a society which has had its culture and politics changed and remade three or four times. Many of these changes have come with conflict and trauma for all the Chinese people. Connections with a long and proud past have been shaken and severed. [...]

In recent years, contemporary Chinese artists have rise to the main stage and are becoming critically acclaimed for the work they produce. I did not grow up in China, but having been through the tough Math/Science-focused curriculum typical of Asian education systems, I can say with confidence that artistic inclination is not recognised as such [...]

Michele Marieschi (1710-1743) was an Italian landscape painter who painted veduta (vistas) mostly in Venice. One of his patrons was noted collector,Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), who bought at least two canvases from the painter for 50 and 55 gold sequins respectively. This is one it, called “The Courtyard of the [...]

In the past few days, I have been playing around with colour for a project and experimenting with its inherent emotive qualities. It still never ceases to amaze me how much expression the entire spectrum of colours can produce. In doing this project, I was reminded of a painter whose work I encountered a few [...]

Wonderful paintings by Esther Pearl Watson:

Even though I like to think that I have an eye for abstract minimalism, I feel completely dwarfed in comparison to artists who painstakingly formulate their work to take on a deceivingly simple and straightforward aesthetic. Andy Collins is one such artist.
Andy Collins’s paintings are lusciously synthetic. Cold and glossy, his large pastel canvases are [...]

When she was eighteen, Erin Morrison remembers wanting to be a medical illustrator. At the time it seemed like a perfectly logical solution for someone who had the ability to depict what lay before her, while satisfying the constant urge to explore the make-up of things. Due to the fact that she had no patience [...]

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“Hancock is well known for evolving his absurdist narrative of the battle between good and evil executed across a wide variety of media that includes painting, collage, sculpture, print and the performing arts. The artist’s densely layered works incorporate text, drawing, collaged paper, plastic, felt, fur and paint to create a collision of symbols and [...]