Liza Clement

WASHINGTON DISAPPEARING - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest

2021

SPRING EQUINOX CYCLE II is a painting about the rebirth of spring, sort of an homage to new growth, and new life. I was making a lot of monotypes at the...

This painting was a revisitation of ‘Woodland Shrine’, upon finding yet another site with a deer skull, it seemed uncannily familiar. This moment with the woods documented in paint b...

This piece was from a series that began in Olympic National park during my residency there. Foxglove 4 was the fourth iteration of the study that...

In my most current forest wanderings, I am consistently fascinated by the entanglements of species and how they tend to create their own ecosystem. Although the desolation of defores...

This painting is made by Dutch artist Jantien de Boer (1984, Classical Academy for Painting Groningen) The artist likes to tell a story in her paintin...

"Per aspera ad astra" is Latin for "through difficulty to the stars." A friend asked me to read a religious text. The opening chapter talked about "God's enemies." I thought, God has...

This abstracted portrait titled "Study for Rally III" is an original artwork by Brandon C. Smith made of oil paint on canvas. The piece measures 12”h x 12”w.

"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