Xenia Ostrovskaya

The Magic Forest

2023

François Zdenek Eberl (born May 25, 1887 – October 8, 1962) was a painter born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who primarily worked in Paris. The scene shows the wife of a prison guar...

Werner Froemel is a German artist known for his work in the field of painting and visual arts. He was born in Germany in 1952 and has explored both classical and modern art technique...

The artwork is signed and dated verso. Daphné Dorel, born 1974 in Paris, is a French contemporary artist. Especially in recent years, she achieved recognition with her art. In he...

The artwork is signed and dated verso. Daphné Dorel, born 1974 in Paris, is a French contemporary artist. Especially in recent years, she achieved recognition with her art. In he...

This charming scene perfectly captures the ideal of rural life at harvest time, with a cart laden and the hay gathered into stacks. Gerald Gardiner (...

A very tranquil scene of fishing boats moored in harbour with a sunlit sea beyond. Painted with a most attractive palette of blues and greens and with a pleasing composition that le...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

"Peach and Brass Vase" (2024) by Blair Atherholt is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a still-life featuring fruit spread around...