Maggie LaPorte Banks

Soft Landscape

2020

Rain storm approaching by Nicola Wiehahn [2019] Watching a massive storm approaching and only just had time to collect my paints and run from the coast pat...

Undisturbed Calmness by Christina Sadler [2021] original Mixed Media on Canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:80 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:80 cm x D:2cm Sold Unframed ...

Exploring Every Path 2, Exploring Every Path 3 and Exploring Every Path 4 triptych by Magdalena Morey Overall size cm: H60 x W60 Magdalena Morey Exploring Every Path 2 Original Cub...

Shoreline Sky with Indigo by Luisa Holden [2021] Original Mixed Media on gessoed cardboard Image size: H:23 cm x W:47.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work:...

Shawn Dulaney The Virtues III Handmade paint on venetian plaster on paper, signed and titled verso 22 x 30 in. (sheet), 28 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (frame). Shawn Dulaney’s paintings are layered constructions of color, spacious abstractions that read like cloud banks, flows of water, magnetic fields charged with monumental energy. Dulaney spent her childhood on a vast Colorado plateau looking west to the Rocky Mountains and has travelled widely, immersing herself in landscape. Her work captures the experience and feeling of place. Doug McClemont of ArtNews writes that Dulaney’s paintings “concern the earth, and the unyielding hand of nature”. Her work has been described by William Zimmer of The New York Times as belonging to “a very strong tradition, that of 19 th -century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states.” He says of her work, “Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction…Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur, but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them.” "The kind of painting to which Ms. Dulaney's work is most closely related, at least superficially, is the Mark Rothko branch of Abstract Expressionism, in which a sense of deep space is sought." Dulaney makes handmade paints consisting of acrylic medium and powdered pigments allowing her to get a wide range of saturations and transparencies as they spread out on Venetian plaster and linen over panel. “Her surfaces”, as described by Dominick Lombardi-also of The New York Times, are “exquisitely painted and a pleasure to see.” Dulaney continues to travel between New York, the American Southwest, and the United Kingdom, as well as having recently been awarded the Pink House Artist Residency on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. Her paintings capture the ephemeral and evoke the Celtic notion of a “thin place”, a place of energy where the veil between this world and the eternal is thin. A working artist for over 4 decades, Dulaney is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery, Weber Fine Art, Carrie Haddad Gallery and Beth Urdang Gallery. Exhibited widely, her paintings can be found in extensive public and private collections including those of the Hunterdon Museum of Art in NJ, the Venetia Resort in China, J Crew in NYC, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, talk-show host Conan O’Brien and musician Stuart Copeland. Her work has appeared in episodes of TV’s Enlightened, Portlandia and Sex & the City, and the films It’s Complicated (2009), Interview (2007) and John Wick...

This painting is from my series titled "The Untethered Soul." This series delves into the transformative power of nature, capturing the essence of what one feels rather than sees. In...

"Untitled 89" Abstract Painting 20" x 16" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificat...

"Untitled 121" Abstract Painting 79" x 59" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certifica...