Tissue Paper Figurative Paintings

Salvadoran-born Victor Cartagena has been making art in the Bay Area since the late 80s. The work that he produced in the early to mid-1990’s battled with memories of the violence in...

Bird-Woman, acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, oil stick on canvas, embraces polarity as she manipulates puppet strings, an X-ray of the mouth. A toy top swirls in...

Daniela Gullotta - "Ballade n.1 op.23" (2026) Discover the quiet intensity of Daniela Gullotta’s 20x20 cm oil and mixed media painting—a compact yet powerful exploration of space, m...

Daniela Gullotta - "Interno con mezzo busto" (2024) Step into the evocative world of Daniela Gullotta, where architecture and memory intertwine through richly layered compositions. ...

This mixed media piece titled "Mariko" is an original artwork by Emily Smith made of watercolor, stickers, and tissue paper. This piece measures 20”h x 14”w framed and it is signed e...

Painting made by Peter Kramer with a t-shirt found on Malpica beach, belonging to a ship painter. The painting is made with handmade tissue paper. The measurements are 80 x 80 cm. F...

Working from the concept of Haiku Mind had a surprising impact on how this work was conceived. The ancient poetic form of Japanese haiku is traditionally a tool for acute observation...

This new series by Danish artist Peter Kramer (1959, Roskilde, DK) based in Spain shows us a new way of working with natural and exotic elements. In this case, he uses the turmeric r...

This new series by Danish artist Peter Kramer (1959, Roskilde, DK) based in Spain shows us a new way of working with natural and exotic elements. In this case, he uses the turmeric r...

Signed verso, "Cristina Sayers" (American, born 1969), a listed California artist, titled "Chicas at the Beach" and created in 2012. Whimsical oil and assemblage showing three anth...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing an...

Daniela Gullotta - "Nocturne op.9 n.1" (2026) Discover the quiet intensity of Daniela Gullotta’s 20x20 cm oil and mixed media painting—a compact yet powerful exploration of space, m...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax, a transparent layering with oil paint over acryl...

The first layer of this painting was an ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword. The next layer that emerged, influenced by the Monk Series, was the outline of a trad...

Triptych Game of Capture-Collagraph prints on tissue paper with cold wax and oilpaint on canvas. This triptych, printed off the surface of textured shrine panels, depicts the feminin...

Daniela Gullotta - "Canary Wharf Station" (2014) Distinguished Provenance This work represents a significant moment in Daniela Gullotta's career, having been exhibited at the presti...

Ancestors are lined up through instructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at at...

Ancestors, a new series using cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints, explores through transparent layers of overlapping images the subtle awareness a...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. We often speak of a "brain drain," but in this case we are truly happy to be able to say that this is a "return," and an important one: an artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art...

There are two ends-of-time. This is the first. Scorched tissue and wax. Collage, encaustic wax & oil colour on board

David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003). David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008). In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...

David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003). David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008). In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...

David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003). David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008). In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...

David Wightman (b. 1980, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK) is a British painter and printmaker based in London, UK. He creates beautiful paintings and prints of fictional landscapes. The surfaces of his paintings are made from textured wallpaper collaged with a technique similar to marquetry. Colour and composition are the key aspects of his work. He studied Fine Art at Middlesex University (2001) and gained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2003). David Wightman’s solo exhibitions include My Atalanta, Long & Ryle, London (2020), In Arcadia, DuranMashaal Gallery, Montréal (2018), A Devotion, Someth1ng Gallery, London (2018), EMPIRE, Long & Ryle, London (2016), New paintings + Akris collaboration, Akris, 30 Old Bond Street, London (2014), Redux, 10 Gresham Street and Halcyon Gallery (2014), Hero, commission for House Arts Festival (2013), Paramour, Halcyon Gallery, London (2012), Homage to Loreleia, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland (2011), Secret Name, Sumarria Lunn, London (2010), Behemoth, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009), and Aspirations, William Angel Gallery, London (2008). In 2010, David Wightman was awarded the Berwick Gymnasium Arts Fellowship – a sixmonth residency in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, funded by Arts Council England and English Heritage. In 2013, he was selected by the curator of House Arts Festival, Mariele Neudecker...

Daniela Gullotta - "Battersea Power Station" (2014) Distinguished Provenance This work represents a significant moment in Daniela Gullotta's career, having been exhibited at the pre...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents an ideal abandoned church...

Daniela Gullotta - "Interno con Discobolo" (2024) A hauntingly evocative meditation on classical beauty and domestic intimacy, this exquisite small-scale work by Italian artist Dani...

Monks Series, # I, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single re...

One Who Sees Through, on canvas with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open thos...

Multi pass UV cured print CMYK inks, on genuine vintage 1 Rouble banknote, circa 1898, signed and dated edition of 20 3 x 5 3/4 in 7.5 x 14.5 cm Edition of 20 plus 1 artist's proof

Ancient One, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas is staged with fluttering gingko leaves, the oldest living tree species predating dinosaurs. The central image is hand to mouth---h...

Hierophant with acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas is the interpreter of the mysteries with the X-ray of a mouth in her hands. She transmits wisdom from a structu...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

16 layer hand cut stencil, spray paint on genuine 10 Pound banknote, C-Type semi gloss printed detail, signed and dated edition of 10 2 7/8 x 5 3/4 in 7.2 x 14.5 cm Edition of 10 plu...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing an...

Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing an...

Daniela Gullotta - "Interno con testa di cavallo" (2024) Discover the quiet intensity of Daniela Gullotta’s 20x20 cm oil and mixed media painting—a compact yet powerful exploration ...

Daniela Gullotta - "Interior with Venus" (2024) A profound meditation on classical beauty within domestic ruins, this extraordinary work by Daniela Gullotta juxtaposes the eternal g...

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Within history, culture binds values and meaning to time through symbols. These images of flags and gas...

Dancing with Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Embodied in the multiple aspects of movement, we dance to tyme, through tyme, and in tyme People who believe in ...

Monks Series, # III, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single ...

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas. The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer, she looks out from a two-...

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025, 24 Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no sing...

An ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword becomes a traditional monk still seen in the streets of Kyoto with a rounded hat and begging bowl. The over-layered images ...

JoyFool with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, and oil stick, evolved from an inquiry into the difference between joy and happiness. This led to the insight that h...

Moon Drummer, acrylic paint base with cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick is an archetypal figure standing in the surf with forests sprouting from her head and shoulders...

The Ringmaster is in the guise of a Japanese feudal lord, acrylic paint with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas. Ever the showman, his lordship’s vision relates to Juvenal, ...

Ancestors at the Threshold, with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas, tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered. The possibility of going forward or ba...

For Love Nor Money - 3 Layer Hand-Cut Stencil Painted on 24k Gold Banknote

Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...