Christine Hayman

Deep Forest

2024

signed verso Christine Hayman Biography b. 1964 In her paintings Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them...

Christine Hayman Biography b. 1964 In her paintings Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially w...

Signed verso b. 1964 In her paintings Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorpora...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color. He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.” “The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.” “My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...

In her paintings, Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings wit...

Forest Walk [2021] original oil on wood Image size: H:53 cm x W:46 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:53 cm x W:46 cm x D:3cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look During this last year I've been learning about the benefits of the Japanese practice of shinrin yoku, or Forest Bathing. Its no surprise that being in nature is good for both physical and mental wellbeing and to me this painting captures the sights, sounds and smells of the forest. Claire Chandler...

In her paintings, Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when...

Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed. Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from th...