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Medium: Oil
Artist: Sax Berlin
ZiZi de Montparnasse: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
An enigmatic portrait in oils from Berlin, stylised and elongated this person is a mysterious figure. ZiZi was a writer and poet who was a friend of the artist. It is certainly a re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Emblem Of Peace" Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin is emphatically back in the studio! Emblem of Peace has been woven onto the canvas with the rarest of pigments, precious metal and glistening marble. These precious ingre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
"To Whom The Gods Love Destiny Comes Late" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Just when you think an artist has reached the zenith of creativity and beauty a piece arrives that is simply breathtaking. It truly is Sax Berlin's destiny to create these stunning w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper, Gold Leaf
"Classical Harlequin". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Classical Harlequin - in this Harlequin painting Berlin shows his character barefaced and out of costume. The Harlequin is quiet and reflective in the foreground, however in the back...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Angel of Manhattan". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A large, monochrome painting that maximises Berlin's skill. In this piece, which appears deceptively simple Berlin has channeled his raw energy into a painting that has massive impa...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Jazz Kats, Mo Better Blues" Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin returns to his love of jazz music. His players reflect the idiosyncratic rhythms of jazz music; a coming together of chaos & virtuosity that enthrals the listener. Deep with d...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Pursuit of Peace. JFK. Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin is a master of many styles and this Van Goghesque portrait of JFK is both subtle and eye-catching. Shocking events are taking place in the world so it's fitting that Berli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Michelangelo's Apprentice: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A boys face straight from the Renaissance down the centuries to the studio of Sax Berlin. Created in Medieval style this portrait could quite easily belong in the Uffizi collections ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Aesthetic Movement Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Our Time Is Here" Contemporary Figurative Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Right here, right now in the words of the song. This piece from Berlin has an immediacy to it that draws the eye and the emotion. Berlin evokes huge emotional responses to his art, e...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Night
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
hand ground pigments on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Impulse Is Divine: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This title encapsulates the whole ethos of Sax Berlin; the impulse to create courses through him in vibrant immediacy resulting in paintings that are timeless. In this work his creat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pipers At The Dawn of Peace. Large Contemporary Tryptch Abstract Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Three Pipers. Large Contemporary Triptych
A riotous explosion of colour leaps from this large contemporary canvas. A swirling vibrant cloud of colours are in synchronicity with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Pierrot Enchanted. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax Berlin's 1991 Pierrot series.
Hand ground pigments on canvas. signed
Category
1990s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Stop The Hatred". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is such a pertinent piece from Sax Berlin. Nobody else painting today melds generations and genres in this way; 60's colours, 70's glam, 80's street, 90's hip- hop and 21st cen...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Motherhood: Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Motherhood is a self portrait of Sax Berlin’s experience as a single father. He had to be mother and father at a time when he was aggrieved after his beautiful wife Susan’s passing ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
That Kat Coltrane, Neo Expressionist Portrait of John Coltrane by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Wherever one travels to in the world it's inevitable that one sees the heritage of wild-style graffiti. Graffiti writers are the most influential artists of their time; reaching so m...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
La Grande Parisienne. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
When this beautiful piece was created Berlin had been staging a one man renaissance of the early 20th Century School of Paris. For 8 years in this wing of study he used the shapes of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Marble
Choreographer. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In this Harlequin series work Berlin has The choreographer absent mindedly slipping on a ballet slipper. The hand is hardly discernible on the canvas as it is in his mind. His gaze a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fire Bird." Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In front of the swirling maelstrom Fire Bird sits dispassionately awaiting transformation into his next character. Berlin brings hints of the phoenix legend to bear in this piece an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guardian Angel Selfie. Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Sharp Edge" Neo Expressionism from the studio of Sax Berlin
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Guardian Angel, Sista". Contemporary Painting. New York City
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Guardian Angel Sista was created by Berlin as part of his Neo-expressionism series. He uses sgraffito to evoke the feel of the New York subway and it frames the iconic Guardian Angel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Clothed In Light, Abraham and Sarah
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This majestic double portrait "Abraham and Sarah" is part of a series of paintings by breaking British artist, Sax Berlin. Inspired by the Bible and also by a commission to paint “Is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
SoHo 4 a.m. Neo Expressionist Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Sharp Edge" style from Sax Berlin
Category
2010s Street Art Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Fools Of Clear Light. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Complex and encompassing this is from Sax Berlin's Fools series created in the 1990's. This series is perhaps the most intricate of Sax's oeuvre; it's almost impossible to find all t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guardian Angels, New York's Finest. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic and hand ground oils on canvas, From the artist's Hard Edge Series
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Reinstate Liberty. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This piece simply screams New York City and is presented in Berlin’s inimitable Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style. This painting has such a vibrant, pulsating feel, it’s ful...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Apostles Of The Archipelago Beyond Atlantis. Contemporary Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Apostles Of The Archipelago Beyond Atlantis. A masterful offering from Sax Berlin, beautiful women gazing out over the mythical landscape that was (we assume) the lost city state...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Basquiat" Contemporary Homage to Basquiat and Street Art by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Portrait of Basquiat - troubled enfant terrible of the street art scene in downtown Manhattan in the 1970's & 80's. Wearing his trademark Armani suits Basquiat worked in fast, furiou...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Harlequin's Golden Collar: Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The latest rendition of Sax Berlin's interpretation of Harlequin. A beautiful piece evocative of medieval wall art where Harlequin wears his traditional hat, often shown in the modern world to have belonged to jesters but is really an allusion to the diamond pattern associated with Harlequin. There may also be a hidden reference to Picasso here; in Guernica Picasso...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Silver Skull. Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin's Skull series form part of his Neo-Expressionist works. Berlin works with speed on these pieces, gives them a sense of urgency. In "person" they are electric and magnetic...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Save Our World Now ! :Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Climate change, conflict and conflagration are todays global reality and has sparked the creation of this Neo-Expressionist painting from Berlin. Sir David Attenborough, in June 2023...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Womens' Wisdom. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has such mastery over his craft. This piece is exceptional, there's beautiful imagery, sumptuous colour, and the Wise Women. Berlin has mixed beauty, strength and mythos i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Flame In The Desert" Large Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has created this enigmatic, metaphysical imagining of the legendary Desert Flame in this stunning contemporary art work. Desert Flame possesses the ability to create illus...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Ecstasy: Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This painting from Sax Berlin's studio overlooking the wild Atlantic Ocean captures the essence of ecstasy. It's imbued with the hot sense of the urgency and frenetic energy of New Y...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Have We Evolved ? ( Don't, don't hang back with the brutes ! )
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Have we evolved since 9/11? Are we embarking on the dark march to whatever it is we’re globally approaching? It’s not easy to pose such an emotive philosophical question on canvas; but using the literary reference from Tennessee Williams’ heroine Blanche DuBois...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Space X. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is a naive and quirky painting that combines humour with street culture and the Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style for which Berlin is renowned. Berlin's little character is absolutely endearing, he apppears to be ready to leave the canvas to embark on all kinds of adventures courtesy of Elon...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Mark Jenkin in La La Land : Contemporary Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A term familiar to most of us as a state of mind, Berlin has crafted his own idiosyncratic, ultra contemporary piece of Neo-Expresionism to reflect on this delusional condition. He h...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
New York City Guardian Angel. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Figurative Oil
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bold and strong, these terms are synonymous with both the Guardian Angels and Sax Berlin’s Sharp Edge New York City style of Neo-Expressionist painting. The primary palette has been ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
LaLa Land. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A term familiar to most of us as a state of mind, Berlin has crafted his own idiosyncratic, ultra contemporary piece of Neo-Expresionism to reflect on this delusional condition. He h...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Spike Gold Tooth : Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style this painting showcases an iconic symbol of popular culture;the gold tooth or teeth. In this piece Berlin has comb...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Cracked Buddha. Contemporary Buddha Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Everything passes everything changes everything crumbles all is impermanent." A direct quotation from Master Artist Sax Berlin showing his belief in the impermanence and reincarnation of all things even the seemingly eternal Buddha.
Sax Berlin is creating the Great 108 Buddhas series. The number 108 has sacred meaning for followers of the Buddhist faith. For example a Buddhist Mala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"No King: One Route". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sharp edged and sassy from Sax Berlin.
A bang on trend, urban street painting with an undercurrent of the darkness of the city.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Pierrot and the Harlequin. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A subtle piece from Sax Berlin created in the 1990's; this painting unites 2 iconic figures, Pierrot and Harlequin. Whilst being totally differen...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
What Light in Yonder Window Breaks: Contemporary figurative oil painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Shakespeare's fair Juliet in Romeo's soliloquy is here interpreted as a medieval maiden. Berlin has not only cast his Juliet as a medieval beauty but has also used authentic techniqu...
Category
2010s Medieval Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bob Vylan. Spartan Warrior : Footprint Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin has his finger firmly on the pulse of modernity. In this piece he acknowledges the London based punk/grime/rap band Bob Vylan. The social commentary of their lyrics are beau...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Crack is Wack . Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin's Skull series form part of his Neo-Expressionist works. Berlin works with speed on these pieces, gives them a sense of urgency. In "person" they are electric and magnetic...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
"Wild is the Wind. ( Kerry O )". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Part of his Women Who Dance With Wolves inspired series, Berlin offers Wild is the Wind (Kerry O). Every woman has, deep within her psyche, a wild nature. This nature cannot be taugh...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Grand Expression" Large Black & White Abstract Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Black and white abstract painting from the studio of Sax Berlin
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
White Faced Harlequin, Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Fully costumed Harlequin sits before the hot swirling background looking reflective after his performance. With his ceruse coated face he is the archetypal image of our perception of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harlequin On Fire. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Harlequin On Fire from the studio of Sax Berlin. Vivid colour reflects the face of Harlequin; he gazes back as the fire rages; will he plunge into the inferno...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver Leaf
Loving Kindness
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Loving Kindness : 24ct gold leaf and original pigments.
The exceptionally talented Sax Berlin produces another masterpiece for Buddha collection. Sensational piece.
"Buddha said…....
Category
2010s Surrealist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sappho's Cliff. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Is it possible to paint an abstract Classical picture? If so then this superb piece must surely be it. In the portrait of her head Sappho almost appears as a negative image, much like the Turin Shroud...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fire Birds: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A powerful image of Harlequins; they sit in security knowing that behind the turbulence of the world surges all around them. This latest form of the Harlequin from Berlin is vibrant ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Petrushka", Hand Ground Pigments on Canvas
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A stock character of Russian marionette theatre since the 18th Century, set in St. Petersburg this is a burlesque tale of unrequited love. Charlatan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver Leaf
"Dollar Angel" Contemporary Expressionist Street Art.
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
What an amazing departure this represents for Berlin! 21st Century Neo-Expressionism a style that draws on many experiences that have directed Berlin to adopt a free flowing, vibranc...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Saphos Queen Of Lesbos." Contemporary Figurative Mixed MediaPainting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Lyric poet Sappho was born on the Greek island of Lesbos sometime in the 600's BC, although little is certain about her life and much of her poetry is lost to us her reputation, orig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Blue Cigarette, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Blue Cigarette - something of a departure in style for Berlin. This elegant, sophisticated lady is an interpretation on canvas of how he would create her in stained glass.
30" x 24"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
One Robe One Bowl: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin offers this exquisite portrayal of a classical maiden which he calls "endearing" ............. who are we to dispute that, she's also very beautiful.
Artist Biography:
Sa...
Category
1990s Abstract Oil Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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