Showing posts with label art for your home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art for your home. Show all posts
$1250
18' x 24"
Mixed media on wood panel
$1180
Mixedmedia green and yellow painting.
What attracts me to this painting?
Repeating shapes
Layers - some hidden/veiled
Complex color and value relationships
Eye movement around the painting
Visual textures, marks and lines
Wavering between depth and flatness.
Lyrical abstraction with a dynamic orthogonal composition. Orthogonal thinking draws from a variety of, and perhaps seemingly unrelated perspectives to achieve new insights - two systems that do not interact oe influence each other come together at one point or juncture. Two lines intersecting each other at 90 degrees.
This is a series of 3 paintings
12"x12"
Acrylic, collage and mixed media on wood panel in a warm color palette
$350 each, $900 for the whole set of 3paintings.
The elements in this series are sharp lines, geometric shapes and bold use of color. Glazing, sanding and several layers of paint and collage was used to create a limited range of closely related tones. This also helps to create a mood.
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| Ode To a Lightbulb |
Mixed media Acrylic and
Collage on wood panel
8"x 8" each (3 small works)
$600 (whole set)
In this series I am playing with different scales
of pattern, scribbles, loose lines, collage and paint transfers contrasting with
large scale solid areas.
The energy in these works comes from the use of a variety of lines and hidden
text.
These paintings are a combination of shapes,lines and textures built up in
layers. My focus was on lost and found edges and keeping a lightness and
freshness in the work.
All 3 paintings are intuitive and came together almost by itself. The loose
brush work contrasts beautifully with the defined pattern.
THESE 3 PAINTINGS SOLD AT THE SALON SHOW IN LAWRENCE
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| City Lights |
12" x16"
$500
This painting is inspired by walking in Boston city at night and looking up at the tall buildings.
If you are an artist like me, you have at least a couple odd paintings lying around somewhere that will never be finished. Sanding away the old paint gives you a fabulous new surface to make new works. Sanding and glazing add texture and depth to my paintings. This painting is a great example of the effects you can achieve by sanding.
I used an orbital power sander to remove paint from an older painting to create textures and the look of peeling paint in this painting.
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| There will be Fun |
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| Scrapes of Life |
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| Miles To Go |
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| Come Connect |
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| Breaking the Pattern |
9" x 12"
Mixed media - acrylic and collage on paper
NFS - prints available on Fine Art America
Motivated by my commitment to the preservation of nature, this, “Celebration of Life” series incorporates recycled paper from old sewing pattern paper, grocery bags, found paper, catalog paper in collage form. I distressed, stenciled, monoprinted and manipulated the paper surfaces, highlighting the struggle between consumption and nature and our need to reduce waste globally. Nature vs technology, written text vs printed text, circles vs lines, hard edges vs soft edges, defined pattern vs the loose paint application. Uncontrolled marks disrupt structural pattern.
The neutral, earthy color palette provides a beacon of hope, embracing a collective approach to environmental preservation. The collection celebrates the paper bags’ journey from tree to canvas.
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| Changing A Lightbulb |
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| Flip The Switch |
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| Lightbulb Moment |
Mixed media on wood panel
8" x 8"
$600 for all 3
In this series i am playing with different scales of pattern, scribbles, loose lines, collage, stencils, and paint transfers contrasting with large scale solid areas. The energy in these works comes from the use of a variety of lines and hidden texts. My focus was on lost and found edges, including veiling, and keeping a lightness and freshness in the work. The loose brushwork and mark-making contrasts beautifully with defined pattern.
All 3 paintings are intuitive and was an opportunity to explore the creative process.
Ode To Lightbulbs is currently on view at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence MA at their annual salon show https://shop.essexartcenter.org/
2022 EAC Salon Show & Art Sale
Essex Art Center's Salon Show + Art Sale is the largest contemporary art sale in the Merrimack Valley, featuring over 250 works of art. The Show + Sale highlights the region's diverse artistic talent, including Essex Art Center's faculty, staff, students, and friends. Artists in the Show include highly acclaimed, professional artists and artists as young as 11 years old. This year's Sale runs from July 16, 2022, through September 10, 2022. Proceeds benefit Essex Art Center's mission and programming and the artists who made the work. Please shop generously and help us keep the arts visible and accessible in our community.
THESE 3 PAINTINGS SOLD AT THE SALON SHOW IN LAWRENCE
Framed size - 23" x 29"
Mixed media and collage on paper
$1395
Antique bottles and
other objects from the kitchen make wonderful subjects for still-life paintings
because of their beautiful shapes and colors. I really enjoyed painting these
objects with abstract collage and negative shape painting. The white horizontal
lines are used to balance the strong verticals created by the objects.
Among the first to start abstracting still life scenes were Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. As artists experimented with new forms of abstraction, still life painting became a favored genre that let them play with various arrangements of textures, shapes, and colors.
Among the first to start abstracting still life scenes were Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. As artists experimented with new forms of abstraction, still life painting became a favored genre that let them play with various arrangements of textures, shapes, and colors.
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| Dahlia |
Large mixed media and acrylic
$1,775
This large abstract mixed media and collage painting reminds me of Monet's painting of Dahlias, except when you look closely at my flowers, each flower, leaf and vase is a mini abstract painting. Several layers of paint and collage were used to create this work. Some past layers are visible at closer inspection.
It was fun painting this, almost like putting a puzzle together .
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| detail view |
10" x10" Framed size
mixed media
$175
" A simple line painted with a brush can lead to freedom and happiness" - Joan Miro
It is important to savour the delicious feeling
of putting down our marks and brush strokes.
Creativity is a gift it is important we look for opportunities for play and exploring
without judgement.
This small mixed media painting inspired by the beautiful colors of fall in New England, by the colors I see outside my window. Corn, carrots, daffodils, and buttercups.
Mixed media on cradled board
$225
This expressive, abstract rendering of small parts of the Acton Arboretum makes use highly energetic paint handling, mark making and melodic lines to create a piece with lots of visual impact. The composition is based on a series of overlapping squares,in an attempt to create a myriad of combinations of color, line and texture."
Most of the color was applied with fairly wide, flat brushes, enabling the freshness and spontaneity to remain evident. Small drawings of bugs and flowers give the viewer a feeling of looking through small snippets of time spent in the arboretum. A cool palette of blues, greens and teal is balanced with warmer reds and yellows.
The sides of the cradled board are painted white. It is ready to hang in your space!!!
Small mixed media on wood board
6" x 6"
$75
This painting is a small study for a larger painting. Hope you guessed Andy is Andy Warhol.
"Warhol’s 1964 series Flowers, however, is a refreshing and surprising departure from the artists’ initial themes of pop culture and commercialism, and every spring, critics are reminded of the influence that his nature-focused work continues to have on the art world."
