Corne Akkers

Golden – 18-07-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2022

I asked this young woman to lay on the carpet for this sitting. I wanted to focus closely on her quirky fresh face and wonderful russet hair. It has a lot of sumptuous colour- dee...

A large gallery wrapped canvas that can be hung vertically or horizontally. Linen canvas stretched over a robust composite stretcher (constructed with wood and aluminium). The painte...

Moon is my daughter's middle name. I would have preferred it to have been her first name but worried that she might resent it over time. Beautiful milky skin, a tumble of pre-Raph...

Women are completely different. It does not depend on whether they are good or evil. Dressed or undressed. Married or not. It depends on the degree of frankness of the woman. From th...

In "The Yellow Mantle," the canvas comes to life through the delicate dance of contrasts. The model, in her nudity, wraps herself in a vast yellow silk scarf, an assertion of her saf...

This work is composed of a fragment of a seated woman with her torso covered by a shawl. The woman, in frontal position, does not show the model's head, but the features of her body ...

Santos art education is worldly, and his work has been seen around the globe, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily, Italy and the Beijing museum in...

Kelly Birkenruth's (US based) "The Genesis of Femininity" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of two green granny smith apples and a halved egg shell in situ with a smaller than life bronze statue of a feminine figure. Kelly Birkenruth’s captivating paintings are in the style of contemporary realism while staying firmly grounded in the tradition of the Old Masters. She is able to pull the viewer into her paintings by interweaving emotion with a humanistic quality through her supreme handling of light. Through her portraits and still lifes she is able to evoke sensitivity and empathy, which in turn allows her to create images which transcend mere representation to capture the true essence of her subject. Kelly’s arresting compositions, draftsmanship, use of color and observation of detail allow her to create paintings with a timeless quality. After earning her degree from Pennsylvania State University, Kelly moved to southern California where she began a career as a fashion model. Her agency soon sent her abroad to Paris and Tokyo, where she spent the next several years modeling. When she wasn’t walking the runway, she spent endless hours in the great museums of the world, closely observing and studying the works of the Old Masters. “My time abroad, particularly in Paris, opened my eyes to the vast beauty and power of a great painting. After that I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to the pursuit of Fine Art” said Birkenruth. After returning to the States, Kelly studied at Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, CA. She then continued her studies through workshops and private study with renowned artists such as Daniel Sprick, Steven Assael and Jesus Emmanuel Villarreal. In the spring of 2019...