Narelle Zeller

"Cymbidium Orchids II" Oil painting

2020

Shelli Langdale's "Love and Grief" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a yellow dandelion and blue cloud-like shapes. Artist Bio: Shelli Langdale is an oil painter living and painting in Chattanooga, TN. U.S.A. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science...

Raymond Bonilla's "Together" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a car trunk full of groceries. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla is a nati...

Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "Study for 'Before Grace'" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet scene of baskets of produce with warm orange afternoon light. Abo...

Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "Study for 'Penance'" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet scene of foliage with warm afternoon light. About the Artist: Raymond...

Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "Study for 'Closer Than We Thought'" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet scene of a lush green plant growing in a garden with warm...

Yvonne Melchers' "Last Rose Buds From My Garden" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two fully blossomed pink roses that compliment their green leaves in a glass vase ...

Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...

This painting is measured without frame. With frame it measures 87 x 76 cm Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is fam...

Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...

Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Donut Pile" is an oil painting that depicts a pile of varied glazed and powdered donuts all sitting together in the dark.

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Compelling" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a birthday cake with white and blue frosting on a white table surrounded with white, green, ...

During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of great importance in his work as a goldsmith, proved of great value in painting his realistic still life’s. In "Cherries in a Strainer" the artist's attention to fine detail is traceable in the way he painted the cherries. All the fine details create an effect of trompe-l'oeil, the painting is deceptive realistic. This painting depicts a very rich harvest of cherries. They're harvested during summer and therefore you can almost feel the happiness of a long and warm, carefree summer in this painting. This feeling lasts forever, thanks to Smoorenburgs incredible talent. His work stands in the long tradition of Dutch still life painting, originated in the seventeenth century, with its highly refined and meticulously executed depiction of reality. His work is in the spirit of many of those great works but retains its own distinctive style. Although René Smoorenburg works at a few paintings at the same time, the time it takes him to finish one individual painting amounts six months. Because of his very detailed style of painting, this time span is necessary to complete the work with a lot of patience and endurance. In contrast to the masters of the Golden Age, he chooses to emphasize the vulnerability, fragility and imperfection of everyday objects in his still life’s. According to René Smoorenburg, beauty is not perfection, but in the trace of the past and the evidence of enduring ravages of time. René Smoorenburg finds his sources of inspiration at antique fairs...