Charles Collins

Bird's Eye (Framed Abstract Contemporary Painting)

2024

Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received, but my forms and brushstrokes began to tighten and feel a little restrained. So I decided to change both the forms and the strokes, and lose a lot of the color, and do something different for awhile. I stayed with simple forms as in general I am much more interested in surface and color anyway. With this painting, after I had finished the central piece, I felt it lacked gravitas due mostly to size, and so I decided to affix the canvas to an underlying canvas painted in a very flat black color, with texture to it (I actually used house paint for this, which is perfect for what I wanted). So the painting is actually a canvas attached to another, and has three-dimensionality to it. You can see in the close-ups the "strokiness" I was after. I think this painting has a sort of Rothko-ish, iconic quality to it, but without the gravitas." Recent message from a 1stDibs buyer and seasoned collector about a painting in the prior "ring" series: "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received, but my forms and brushstrokes began to tighten and fe...

Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received and much of that series is already sold, but my forms ...

"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...

Brown Blue 8.0 x 10.0 x 0.5, 1.0 lbs Acrylic Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Abstract painting with blue and brown tones." About the Artist: Vian Borchert is an esta...

Abstract expressionist landscape created with jewel tones portraying architectural elements is this early and important mixed media: acrylic, dry pigment, ink, pencil on archival boa...

I love the simplicity of this piece. It is a combination of two colors, sapphire blue and sage green - mixed with the blue to give it a turquoise hue. Another one of my “action” pain...

Acrylic on linen - Unframed. Australian abstract artist Louise Blyton employs precise, Reductivist methods to create lucid, harmonious, multidimensional artworks that embody the mar...