Francine Simonin

Listening to Scarlatti - bold, layered, abstract shapes, collage on paper

2006

Vertical composition on paper with a saturated wine red ground over which bristle brushed lines are cross hatched in black and royal blue. Layered over these central marks is a structure of stacked, collaged geometric strips of paper painted with intersecting lines and shapes of marine blue, red and white. This work is unframed. Please ask us about framing options. Titled "listening to Scarlati" the piece may certainly be a response to the structured sonatas for harpsicord and pianoforte of Domenico Scarlatti, an Italian composer and contemporary of Bach and Handel. Scarlati spent much of his life at the service of the Portugese and Spanish royalty...

Watercolor and collaged elements , dominantly grey and off-white, with small notes of blue, pale green. On Japanese handmade paper. Otto Donald Rogers was born in 1935 in Kerrobert, Saskatchewan. He taught at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, from 1959 – 1988, after receiving his Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin. He was instrumental in sustaining the Emma Lake Workshops, which, for several generations, has provided a meeting point for some of North America’s most respected visual artists, among them Jack Shadbolt, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnet Newman...

A glorious sunset ablaze on the horizon explodes in a mix of vibrant colours—pinks, yellow, and turquoise dominating the canvas. Ever present in Sharon Kelly...

Calligraphic lines visible, almost forensically, through a burnished pool of layered bronze-orange acrylic continue in a secretive glyphic at the foot of the square canvas. The whole...

The line between sky and shore blur in this beautiful abstract acrylic by Sharon Kelly. A bright yellow sun in the lower frame adds a flash of brilliant c...

Taking caricature portraiture to a new level, Viktor Mitic has portrayed 'Marc' in the guise of a zombified 1950s radio announcer. The bright blocks of co...

A dramatic circular mixed media on canvas painting with wonderful details and pops of pink, green and gold. We are enamored by the stark contrast, as the shape of the paint takes on ...

In "Window Shopping," the artist, Jennifer Blalack, uses many different mediums to create the significant texture in this work. She uses the visual language of Robert Rauschenberg by combining everyday objects like fabric, house paint, plastic bags, string, and tissue paper to construct a narrative on canvas. In this work she uses bold purples, oranges, yellows, with accents of cream, red, and blue. Dispersed within the painting are cutouts of vibrant native dresses...

Acrylic, ink, and collage on Yupo mounted on museum board. Framed. Barbara Strasen creates imagery plumbed from the depths of a fertile imagination and a trove of rich memories, in ...

Modern Art, Portrait Painting, Mixed Media Portrait Art-Lost Between The Lines ABOUT THIS PIECE: “Lost Between the Lines, (Behtyie-A13)” is mixed media portrait art by Addison Jones...

"Configuration Series 5," is a contemporary Abstract painting by San Jose based artist Helen Bellaver. In this work, Helen layers a medium onto her paper to create subtle texture, wh...

"Abstract 64," is a contemporary Abstract painting by San Jose-based artist Helen Bellaver. In this work, Helen layers a medium onto her canvas or paper to create a subtle texture, which she then layers her acrylic paint on to create depth and detail. This work creates a sense of energy as the eye is drawn to the rich black and relieved by golden tones of cream as it intertwines itself into the foreground of the painting. Helen Bellaver is an abstract expressionist living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has been practicing for the last thirty years. Her work has evolved into expressions of black. To the artist, black brings her a sense of calm and is at the forefront of her works. She uses it as her foreground, and in the background, she has layers of creams, whites, blues, ochres, browns, reds, etc. The mark-making on her works comes directly from the genre of Abstract Expressionism...