Jantien de Boer

Topsyturfy-21st Century Painting of a Girl Floating in water

2020

Martin Koole Girl Reading 120 x 120 cm with frame (included in price) 126x126 cm Acryl on canvas Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his ve...

Dutch Female Artist Liseth Visser is no stranger to the world of portraiture. In the past she was nominated for the 'BP portrait award' from 'Th National...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...