Elka Leonard

DON'T BE AFRAID

2020

The “11 PM” series of paintings is an artistic exploration of intimacy, vulnerability, and privacy through the lens of peering into a person’s nightlife. The day is a space for socie...

Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are professional artists with extensive experience in both the commercial and fine art fields. They presently work out of their studio in Florida, creating original art for gallery display, fine art crafts and taking commissions for murals & embellishments. Helene was born in Canada in 1949. She studied art in Europe as a young adult and attended Phoenix Pratt School of Design in New York and St. Petersburg Community College in Florida. She worked for advertising agencies and freelance art projects such as theater design and t-shirt designs for several companies. She owned and operated an art studio (“Artistic Endeavors”) in Melbourne, Fl. for five years. She started doing murals and embellishments (residential and commercial) from 1992 till present. She considers her early life in Europe the major source of her artistic influence as well as the works of Modigliani. Eric was born in Missouri in 1950. He started drawing literally as an infant and has never stopped. He was taking commissions for book covers & wall designs in his teens and studied art at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. He taught art in public schools in Alabama in the ‘70s. He worked as art director at Huntsville Educational Television for 6 years, as art director at Southern Sportswear in Daytona for 9 years, at Creative Signs & Designs in Flagler, Fl. for 6 years, and as a freelance artist and co-owner (with his wife Helene) of “BessStudio” (formerly “Artistic Innovations Inc.”) since 1998. His artistic influences include Michelangelo, Vermeer, Blake, Maxfield Parish...

In this work, the figure exists in a state of calm self-presence. Nudity does not function as a display or an invitation to the viewer’s gaze — the body exists naturally, as a form o...

In “Nadia”, French Painter and Photographer Ayline Olukman takes us on a road trip. Between fiction and reality, the road trip develops into an American intimate experience of a pers...

Anita Kapraljevic Pepsi Generation 2010 Oil on canvas 150 x 119 cm signed, titled and dated on verso Anita Kapraljevic is born in Mostar and lives in Berlin. She studied in Nürtinge...

Untitled is a one-of-a-kind mixed media artwork by contemporary artist Vanessa Prager, renowned for her intricate and expressive figurative pieces. This captivating drawing features ...

In “Hollywood,” Gâteaux & Toiles constructs a seductive yet enigmatic scene where classic Hollywood glamour collides with contemporary pop surrealism. At its center, a striking Maril...

"Hands caught in motion." Becca Fuhrman says of her work... My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; quilting memories together one by one. When I was little,...

Mid-centruy French painting of figures on a balcony dressed in Shakespearean era finery by A. Vivent, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bor...

Defiantly eating an apple, one foot in childhood, one toe in adulthood; on the precipice of the rest of her life. This is 13 :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an offic...