Archive for the 'Painting' Category

Monkey Barbers Serving Cats

July 29, 2009

The world must have a great place to live in back in the 1600’s.
I’m getting into the work of Jan Van Kessle I can tell you

Lets Paint With Nancy

January 23, 2009

 
 

 
When I was growing up I can clearly remember Painting with Nancy being on the TV. I loved the way she used paint even though the paintings themselves held no appeal to me. She had toilet rolls hanging from the base of her easel to wipe the pallet knife on too- class !
I guess we all [...]

Christine Krol

October 27, 2008

 
In 2005, New York artist Christine Krol  exhibited a series of miniature collages at the Abaton Garage gallery . The collages were constructed in Nat Sherman cigarette boxes.
 
Krol’s imagery has been borrowed from all forms of printed matter: Old textbook illustrations depicting nostalgic, cheerful Americana and hopeful scientific visions of the future along side  fragments [...]

Andy Fung

October 21, 2008

 
 
Andy Fung is an artist & musician. He lives and works in Cardiff
 

 
Andy’s paintings are ambiguous references to youth and contemporary culture within Gallery and street contexts. Employing an automatic drawing process the work grows organically from chaotic marks causing the imagery to vacillate between several positions so that no one definition will ever suffice. [...]

Marie Blanchard

October 13, 2008

Marie paints and draws, she lives in France and runs an ace blog/magazine  called Shining Magazine.
Check her out at the following places
Marie Blanchard website
Myspace 
 

Fiona Rae

October 9, 2008

 
Fiona Rae  is a British artist
She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and Goldsmiths College (1984-1987).
She was one of the artists in the seminal Freeze exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought by Charles Saatchi and shown in [...]

David Salle

October 9, 2008

David Salle  is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist.
He’s been on the ’scene’, if you like, since the 1980’s
His paintings comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images painted on top of each other with deliberately ham-fisted paint handling. His subject matter tends toward the popular, the gratuitous, and the pornographic, [...]

A Bit Of Berty

October 3, 2008

Albert Irvine has always been one of my fav painters – here is a bit of biog about him that I picked off the web
 Albert Irvin, one of the generation of British painters whose work has both continued and expanded the legacy of abstract expressionism, was born in London in 1922. After being evacuated from [...]