Diane Whalley

Flirtatious by Diane Whalley, Contemporary abstract art, Love, Original art

2020

Mixed media painting, heavily textured. Colours are metallic gold, off white, and hague blue. This piece has been layered continuously, and then layers peeled back in areas, to accen...

'Restless Spring' is inspired by the mist laden spring mornings in the hills of Scotland and uses lush colour and expressive marks to draw you in to explore more. The painting is the...

PROCESS: The underpainting is done with watercolour. This is really tricky for few reasons. It took me a considerable amount of time to work out the canvas maker that is suitable for the effect. For the paint to give me these beautiful semi translucent washes, the cotton has to be the right grain and correctly primed. The underpainting takes very little room for mistake and even now sometimes I scrap the canvas and start all over. There is very special fast drying medium used to cover delicate layers with the right amount of thin oil paint and to make the pigment more fade resistant and prevent from any yellowing. This stage is repeated many times to build the satisfactory depth. I then go with a tiny brush to go over the edges and borders, adding definition with acrylic. Final two - the signature, usually on the front (but some paintings I leave unsigned on the front till they are sold, so the buyer can cast his/her wish to see my surname on the front or back of the artwork). STORY: The Migration collection is intend to capture the subject of departure focusing on positive effects of separation, leaving, breaking ties. The paper airplane is a faceless portrait...

Jessica Brown Path of Surf Groomed Sand Original Acrylic Painting on canvas Size: 33cm x 33cm Sold n a white wooden frame. Colours: light blue, green, cream, white , dark blue, yell...

An acrylic abstract painting of the moment in the season when it crisp out, but the sun still warms you with a big hugging sunshine bath. This painting was produced during my Novemb...

An acrylic abstract painting of the moment in the season when it is so crips and quiet that your shoes make clear tracks frozen in the snow. This painting was produced during my Nov...

My work primarily focuses on the depiction of an abstracted landscape. This landscape is in a constant state of change from weather to the effect of human presence. There are never e...

I am primarily inspired by my culture. Like every artist, I want to show the motifs of my country and my world through the prism of contemporary art. Of course, one cannot fail to note the influence of Western culture and contemporary artists such us Van Gogh, Matisse, Francis Bacon, in my works. I take color from one artist, and freedom from another, and create my own world and technique. There are a lot of oriental scenes from poems and Persian literature in my paintings as well. There is also a series of abstract landscapes, where I take oriental landscapes as a basis and mix them with abstraction. As a result, I receive freedom of color and emotions. Sardor Erkinov...