Tag: painting
This Painter is Compelled By the Natural World
Based in New York’s Hudson Valley, inspiration comes easy for landscape artist Carolyn Hutchings Edlund. Her paintings, immersed in greenery, channel the natural world quite masterfully.
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“The natural world compels me...
Martine Johanna’s Portraits Strike a Chord
Martine Johanna paints compelling women portraits that are perfectly (and deliberately) imperfect. “I don’t want them to fall flat or be just pretty," she noted once, in an interview with The HYDE...
The Metaphysical Artwork of Karen Fitzgerald
Artist Karen Fitzgerald admits to feeling connected to the earth, sharing conversations of growth with the plants around her. Working in gardens from a young age, her fascination with nature is...
Claire Brewster Explores the Many Reactions Between Paint and Paper
Claire Brewster’s artwork is an experiment of sorts—an exploration of mediums and techniques such as collage, painting, pouring, stippling, and layering paint on paper or card. The result is a colorful,...
The Satirical Pop Art of Maria Qamar
Maria Qamar employs pop art aesthetic as a clever, if ironic, means of discussing heavy loaded issues such as racism, body shaming, classism, and chauvinism. “Pop art is very fun in...
Erin Hanson Captures the Essence of Nature With Impasto Paint Strokes
Erin Hanson's vivacious oil paintings capture the very essence of nature. Using a technique of placing impasto paint strokes without layering, she transforms natural landscapes into abstract mosaics of color and...
The Snow Drawings of Sonja Hinrichsen
Winter doesn't necessarily have to be an uninspiring, gloomy time of the year. With the right state of mind, you can turn a wintery landscape into a piece of art. Take,...
Enter Cinta Vidal Agulló’s Disorienting Spaces
Cinta Vidal Agulló's paintings might call to mind Escher's surreal artwork. Much like the Dutch artist, Vidal Agulló creates disorienting spaces that seem to defy gravity - spaces where it's hard...
Between Realism and Fantasy: Daniel Merriam’s Paintings
Daniel Merriam’s paintings walk a thin line between realism and fantasy. At times, his work reflects the landscapes of his childhood, to which he adds a surreal twist. “Our house...
Enter Kate Shaw’s Surreal Landscapes
Kate Shaw's landscape paintings are part real, part surreal. Exploring the contradiction between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it, her work is greatly inspired by...
