Marble Figurative Paintings

Matter and Spirit is a unique quartz sand, marble powder and binders painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 80 × 64 × 10 cm (31.5 × 25.2 × 3.9 in). The...

When this beautiful piece was created Berlin had been staging a one man renaissance of the early 20th Century School of Paris. For 8 years in this wing of study he used the shapes of...

Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fac...

In these testing times it's become easy to turn inwards rather than looking outwards into the world. In a painting that is archetypical of Sax Berlin Angel of Peace is a reflection ...

We are excited to bring this incredible painting to public attention. Berlin is renowned for his use of colour, pigments and texture but this piece is truly exceptional. Sumptuous in...

"Balls game" figurative painting on wood panel 80x80cm Return of an exhibition in Beijing… An interpretation of the sensations felt…

Berlin's series of remarkable images of mythically, spiritual women is now augmented by this latest work. The Inner Heart to the Dove of Peace is an intense piece, a paean of hope. H...

A figure reclines in a red and yellow-strapped lawn chair. The figure sitting in the chair is activated by Aldrich’s transformation of paint and resin into oozing swaths of skin between the lawn chair straps. The chair, recalling the grid, works as a pattern trying to hold and contain the body resting inside it. -- Building on her previous show, Main Squeeze, which featured bodies pressing through the grid of lawn chairs, in “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints. The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings...

Very occasionally a painting invites deep study; nothing exists within it without reason, each form has purpose, every shade has nuance, every line has meaning. Berlin has presented...

Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fa...