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Reclined Position This pastel drawing ‘Model Session - 15-03-25 - 2’ shows model Renee in a reclined position. This is the way she prefers to sleep, she said. Only good for us...

basket with flowers 70x50 cm

Security Detail, 2020

A finely-drawn, pastel still-life showing red tulips informally arranged in a Chelsea soft paste porcelain Chocolate pot decorated in the Japanese style and set beside a cup and sauc...

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A gentle arrangement of pink peonies harmonizes with lush green foliage. Artist Joanie Ford renders the petals with care, giving the flowers depth and texture. ...

Umbrellas 40x30 cm

On the Brink of a New Year This pastel drawing ‘Neo Deco – 28-12-24’ is a test really. At Brugman Art I found this new mix media paper made by Clairfontaine. Sturdy and nice 250g/m2 paper that comes in different colours. Lately I am having fun doing pastels again. That must be have been motivated by last month’s live model drawing sessions held in ‘De Blauwe Tram’. So there I am, on the brink of a new year. All things in due order: a brand new page I built on my website and enough artworks created in December. After a couple of months I picked up oil painting again. My project ‘In Hoc Signo’, based on a drawing under the same name, is waiting for completion. In between I had some spare time to do a little drawing. This is the result. Need for Speed Another reason for this pastel drawing was the speed I made last pastels with: within one hour. It made me realize how much fun it is to create a sort of ‘on a whim’. Basically with the same intent I made ‘Neo Deco – 04-11-24’. There is no real innovation in these, only cubist styling I applied. That’s enough for me for the moment. Normally I always striving for incorporating something new. Just like some kind of genetic mutation in each consecutive work. However, not this time. Instead, I tried to feel how this new paper would react to my chalks. Quite nicely I must say. Green Paper The paper itself has not an impressive tooth but it clings on pigment particles efficiently nonetheless. My eye felt on the green paper in the block. The result is a bit magical. The female form I forged looks like a green bronze statue...

March 70x50 cm

Untittle, 110x105 cm, acrylic, canvas

Still Life with a Blue Vase 70x50 cm

Missing You This work is sold unframed, and will need to be framed.

Henriëtte Sibie’s Portrait This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 18-10-25 – 2’ shows Henriëtte Sibie’s portrait. A bit of cubism but realist as well. My first session...

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Artist Joanie Ford invites the viewer to experience the soothing embrace of nature in this impressionist painting. Gentle water mirrors the vibrant sky and soft...

Pool , 35x25cm, paper/ pastel

Rainbow 70x50 cm

Summer bouquet 65x50 cm

Sea 40x30 cm

Umbrellas 40x30 cm

Hares, 2023, 78x54 cm

New York Window, 1986, mixed media on illustration board, signed and dated lower right, 31 x 20 inches (image), 36 ½ x 28 inches (sheet) Marina Stern was a multifaceted New York-based artist whose works ranged from Expressionism and Pop Art to the Neo Immaculate paintings and pastels for which she is best known. A native of Venice, Stern and her family fled in 1939 to escape Italy’s repressive racial laws. After living in England for several years, the family arrived in the United States in 1941. A bright and capable student, Stern graduated from New York’s Julia Richman High School at age 15 and soon enrolled in the Pratt Institute to pursue an interdisciplinary education in the arts. Despite majoring in advertising design, Stern favored her fine art courses. She graduated from Pratt in 1946 at age 18 and began working for advertising agencies. After a brief marriage which ended in divorce, Stern married her second husband, who encouraged the artist to study at the Art Students League of New York, under the renowned Japanese American modernist, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In Fall 1953, Stern gave birth to her first child, Michael, as she continued to study at the Arts Students League. Later in the Spring of 1957, Stern gave birth to her daughter Nina, as she continued to balance motherhood with her fine art practice and commercial art and design work. Stern’s first significant exhibitions were in 1962 at the Waverly Gallery and the Osgood Gallery, both in New York, followed by inclusion of her work in the Bertha Schaefer Traveling Collage Show from 1963 to 1964. Stern made a splash in the avant-garde art world in 1964 when Time magazine reviewed a show at Amel Gallery which featured three of her audio-visual paintings. Time’s critic noted that Stern created the “cleverest noisemakers” in the exhibition. Time dubbed this work “Talkie Pop,” a label which Stern rejected. Following this recognition, Stern was selected for inclusion in The New American Realism at the Worcester Art Museum—a major showcase of leading artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. After the Worcester exhibition, Stern began to shift away from her “talking” Pop paintings to mysterious, interior scenes with orange, blue or black walls with windows or doors rising above black and white floors, often depopulated, but sometimes with figures. One of these works, Seven Minus Twenty-One Equals Seven, entered the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1966. By 1969, Stern began to incorporate industrial images into these scenes, and in the early 1970s, Stern created her first Neo-Immaculate works of rural, and urban landscapes, which she described as her most satisfying work. Stern often depicted locations that she held close -- New York, New Jersey, Iowa (where her son attended college), Sharon, Connecticut (where her family spent weekends and vacations) and her native Venice, Italy. Stern’s success as a Neo Immaculate painter led to consistent New York gallery representation for over two decades, first with Lee Ault & Co and James Yu Gallery, and then Forum Gallery, where she had six solo shows. In 1971, Stern completed a Neo-Immaculate mural commission for the Port Authority of New York, George Washington Bridge #1 and #2, followed by another commission from the NY Cityarts Public Art Program in 1976 for a mural on Mulberry Street. Stern also enjoyed solo exhibitions in Boston (Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery), Connecticut (Silo Gallery, the Hotchkiss School, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Gallery, Tremaine Gallery, and Staib Gallery), Chicago (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery), and Santa Fe (Santa Fe East Gallery). Her work was included in group shows at over a dozen public institutions, including The National Academy of Design, The Staten Island Museum, Worcester Art Museum, the Oklahoma Art Center, and the Arkansas Art Center. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art hosted a retrospective of four decades of Stern’s work from January 19 to April 22, 2007, entitled Perception and the Cultural Environment: The Paintings of Marina...

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Artist Joanie Ford channels her love for sunrises and sunsets into this piece. Observing the shifting colors reflected on clouds and in the atmosphere, she docu...

Sinks the sun as a flamingo, 100x80cm, acrylic, pastel, canvas

Untitled , 2025, 78x54 cm The work is sold without a frame.

Fethiye 40x30 cm

Girl with flowers 65x50 cm

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Artist Joanie Ford created this pastel artwork using high quality pure pigment pastels. A sailboat glides across calm water, its silhouette reflected in the shi...

In crowd, 2023, 78x54 cm The work is sold without a frame.

So little with so much to say. This expressive abstract painting invites the viewer to interpret an untold message. Emphasis is on simplified composition with the use of paint, paper...

Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled Brush & Ink on Paper 8.2 x 5.8 inches, 2023 (Unframed & Delivered) Modern Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury executed Still life drawing in Ink, pastel. Alway...

A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...

Suhas Roy - Durga - 20 x 20 inches (unframed size) Tempera and Pastel on Board , 2005 ( Framed & Door Delivered ) Durga- Indian goddess combating evil...

Tournesols by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Pastel on card 51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanied by a certificate of aut...

Untittle, 140x100 cm, acrylic, canvas

Untittle, 140x100 cm, acrylic, canvas

Laddie John Dill (American, b. 1943) Untitled Composition 1983 2 1/2" x 8 1/2" image, 10" x 16" frame Oil painting with pastel on paper Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: ...

Girl with umbrella 70x50 cm

Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to Thérèse Schwartze) - 23-08-24 A Great Independant Female Artist This pastel drawing ‘Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to...

Neige à Paris by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Pastel on card 37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanied by a certificate of ...

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Layers of rich, luminous color stretch across the sky, softly reflecting on the water below and evoking both movement and calm. Artist Joanie Ford’s love of s...

“The Lovers”, 60x40cm, acrylic, pastel, canvas

Tulips in a bag 65x50 cm

Picnic 70x50 cm

Girl with a cup of coffee 70x50 cm

Summer still life

Glass of wine 65x50 cm

Girl in a cafe 70x50 cm

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Artist Joanie Fords captures the beauty of Tucson, Arizona in this pastel artwork. Soft, glowing light filters through the terrain, contrasting the lush green c...

Waiting, 2021, 78x54 cm

Untittle, 2021, 78x54 cm

Catch a deer, 2023, 78x54 cm The work is sold without a frame.

Party, 2021, 78x54 cm

Heat, 2021, 78x54 cm

Idle chatter, 2021, 78x54 cm

"Flat Lands" is an original mixed media on paper by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherworldly realms. Th...

Sea Glass Haze 19.5"x13" - art 20"x16" - mat This original acrylic watercolor painting collage on 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper captures the beauty of ocean waves and is accen...

"Blue Bonnet Hill" is an original pastel painting that captures an impressionistic landscape scene. The artwork is created with soft pastels on paper. A workable fixative has been ap...

Golden Morn is a luminous pastel painting depicting a serene sunrise over tranquil wetlands. Soft oranges, pinks, and purples blend seamlessly across the sky, reflected in the windin...

Garden's Gift 9" x 12" pastel painting on sanded pastel paper A vibrant pastel bouquet bursting with soft yellows, pinks, and reds — a little moment of joy gathered in a glass...

Autumn Gold 12"x9" Pastel painting on sanded pastel paper A soft pastel glow of golden grasses and winding stream—captured on sanded pastel paper. This small pastel paint...

way home, 120x150 cm, acrylic on canvas