“A human painting is produced inside a life. The painter gets tired. Attention shifts. A hand hesitates. A decision made in the morning may be reconsidered at night. A mark can be the result of confidence, frustration, correction, discovery, or fatigue. Some of these conditions are visible in the final work and some are only indirectly present, but they belong to its formation. The painting has duration.”
“Her work is an abstract reflection of her life. The colourful, idyllic childhood, the loneliness and isolation of institutional care and, above all, the connection with her sister Joyce.”
“Although he personally describes his art as Afro-realism, when we look at it with historical circumspection, we will be more attuned to link it to the larger zeitgeist of a slew of known and unknown artists operating presently in the Internet and social media spaces, so that it almost feels like a movement.”
“I always try to paint beauty, but some people say my paintings aren’t beautiful. Well I have beauty in my mind …”
An interview with painter Pia De Girolamo.
A Group show of the beautiful artwork of the ANEW Artist’s Alliance.
“By making and sharing such an extraordinary body of work, Evans determined that her world would not be lost.”
“He loved nature and the Hudson Valley landscape so much — and I think we all need to be inspired by that or there will be no icebergs left to paint.”
I want my paintings to be worlds unto themselves, where you feel you are experiencing something for the first time even though it is familiar.” – Celia Reisman
A brief introduction to the work of one Britain’s finest (and under-appreciated) landscape painters.
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