Acrylic Paintings (18,167)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Helena Wierzbicki - I have always enjoyed art from an early age. This love of Art has stayed with me and developed and grown, and now, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything else. Making art, for me, is an innate response to the inner and outer worlds, and a balancing act between the intuitive and the considered. I am interested in exploring my natural abilities and enthusiasm for my commitment to do an art within my innermost thoughts and emotions. Shades of colors and lines turning images of beings into landscapes and symbols. My art is an evolving process, I take and represent only elements which are the essence of the imaginary being. I rely on my desires for beauty, poetics and seduction. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) ...

Austen Pinkerton - Artists Statement Austen Pinkerton If I turn my mind to it very quickly I can come up with several ideas for works aEUR|paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Sometimes ideas come to me when I least expect it, or when my mind is on other things. Ideas can be related to my current experiences, or to my feelings about things that are happening to me in my life at that particular time. Alternatively they can be related to a current interest, or something that occupies my attention at that moment, and my ideas and feelings about which Id like to share with others. A lot of my work is autobiographicalaEUR|either directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously. It is frequently very personal, and expresses events or circumstances or experiences in my life. I usually work in either Acrylic on Canvas, Crayon or Pastel, or both together, with Gouache, on card, Drawing in pencil, or Ink, or both, or with creating SculptureaEUR|for which I use fired artists clay. Sculpture follows a completely different set of rules and values from two-dimensional art, obviously, I think of it as Drawing in three dimensions and I take this into account when creating mine. In...

Jo Allebach - JO ANN ALLEBACH ARTIST STATEMENT Jo Allebach Bio As an artist, I strive to create art that is a unique expression of who I am, and what I know and love. My art is my passion. The challenging aspect of painting is taking a familiar scene and creating my own personal vision of it. I have a sense of awe in everything around me, finding it absolutely enchanting and seek to show it in my work. I feel nature is our greatest teacher I consider my paintings to be celebrations on canvas. I hope my art will resonate in the observers' memory so that the process of recollection becomes a dialogue with the image. They are a tribute to the beautiful world in which we live. Through my unique works of art, I bring joy to the homes and lives of collectors all over the country. I create art to bring home the memories of what I saw. Not a picture duplicating what I saw but the memories evoked by what I saw. Over the years I have created a visual memory for the landscape. In my painting I just mentally hiked the scene, creating rocks and trees, hills and ...

Pansa Sunavee - Art, in my meaning. is working with creative independent spiritual and by natural way. aEUR"I has never expected the thing till job finished. aEUR"That is also consciousness aware of present and feel relax. aEUR"Moreover I can find, all the completed work, the movement in peaceful, aEUR"the brightness in the dark and the harmony in conflict which are changing state and stable state in the same time. aEUR"aEUR"Whenever, the more I am trying to learn what it means, the worse I can understand. aEUR"However, I has given up to understand the meaning neglected myself, then I can get it. aEUR"Nevertheless, no word can be explained, the answer has been in my work.aEUR" For me, photography is just like a door conveying the aesthetics of art. aEUR"It is a kind of art created from the real situation around me which can happen every second. Sometimes I seek for the beauty of things surrounded and then shoot them aEUR"with personal perspectives and feeling towards the objects or incidents. aEUR"Sometimes when I would like to forward my idea to the others,aEUR"I will bring and redesign all stuff with beauty and hidden message to the viewers of my photos. In part of photography, I ...

Kristin Garrow - Dream..Imagine..Inspire..Heal These words are a daily must in the life of my creations. Suffering from several disorders including Bipolar and Fibromyalgia I am constantly changing my routine to accommodate my own Art Therapy. What does this mean for you Who doesnaEURtmt like a little variety in their lives Through my works I am able to create many forms of art and utilize multiple mediums. I offer you the chance to have a piece of my world join yours in hopes it brings you as much joy as it did for me while creating. I am always trying something new and exploring my mind to give you a piece that reaches you on many levels. My work is an examination of the different paths life takes, and the ways we work through our everyday lives always searching for something. I hope to provide you with whatever you are searching for. To have that one work that truly speaks to you or simply makes you smile. ...

Steven Fleit - I am a self taught artist. I have been painting for over twenty years and approximately four years ago I declared myself an Artist in the professional sense. Prior to my declaration as an artist, I built a portfolio of thematic collections. I started with Caribbean tropical paintings. I have expanded my subject matter to, Vineyard, architectural reflection, and travel sight e.g. Venice Series paintings. When I felt that I had put together a substative portfolio, I identified as an artist. I am serious about my craft and I hope you enjoy viewing my work. Thank you....

Jeffrey Davies - My paintings develop by experimenting with shape, style and color until I am satisfied with the balance, excitement, and energy that the work shares with the viewer. I am influenced by my experience in design particularly with color and style. I am not afraid of new techniques and directions and am constantly expanding the scope of my work by honoring my own ideas and direction. ...

Pamela Rys - My artworks mainly exhibit rich internal feelings as well as the most sombre corners of my soul in favour of catharistic effect. I focus mainly on emotional side of the life experience. Colours take the upmost importance here. They symbolise my feelings and the way I perecieve the world. The juxtaposition of white and black are in the sharpest contrast to each other, which is purposely used as a main form of expression. They depic constructive and destructive feelings on the equal ground. My style is often defined by stencil and texture art. I work in a variety of media, because I always need to try a new ways to express myself. ...

Laurie Macmillan - Born in Greece, and having also lived in Israel and Nicaragua as a young child, I never felt as if I belonged in the Illinois of my childhood. I was irresistibly drawn to the West, where spaces were large and choices were expansive. To me, that landscape was exotic, and the geology was fascinating. I was also driven to explore the world. In 1973 I visited several third world nations and saw horribly overcrowded slums, realizing then that overpopulation was the world's worst problem. Travel was my focus for thirty years, along with hiking in the jagged, dramatic mountains of California's eastern Sierra. Now, painting has become my new travel, and an even more rewarding path to discovery. Although largely self-taught, I attended a weekly abstract painting workshop for several years, and have participated in numerous other workshops. Probably the artistic movement that has influenced me the most is abstract expressionism, and I love its depictions of pure energy. Tonalist paintings have always appealed to me; realism does not. I'm most interested in the play between color, texture and shape, and I paint with both ends of the brush, a palette knife, combs, sponges, seed pods ...

Larain Briggs - I began painting at the age of 10 and had work in a gallery by the time I was 14. When leaving art college I was chosen by'Sweet Waters Gallery' in Edgeware, London to exhibit with them and consequently exhibited at various venues such as the Business Design Centre in Islinton 1991 and the Sophia Arts Fair in Bulgaria. I was very humbled and priviledged to exhibit at the Business Design Centre with Walter Nessler. After that I had very unfortunate personal problems and had to focus on them. During that time the gallery closed down and I lost touch with the art world. I then had to move away from London and have now been working and exhibiting my art again on the coast in Essex, UK. Despite describing myself as a painter, I now work in mixed media to portray various styles and genres. My work was previously figurative but has now evolved more into abstract, Dada and sometimes surrealism. I studied art at Camberwell Art College and trained to teach art at Goldsmiths College. Having studied art therapy, psychology, fine art and computer aided visualisation; I enjoy the challenge posed by stretching multi-disciplinary skills and ...