Esther Schlebos

Lava bombs at Hurtgenwald (Eiffel-Germany) - 21st Century Landscape Painting

2021

Jan Maris Small Street with Green Scooter 42 x 33 cm Oil on wood panel Frame is included in price, size with frame 46 x 37 cm The work of the Amsterdam arti...

Artist Ger Stallenberg likes to get lost in his landscapes. The artist born in Maastricht (1959) studied at the Academy of Visual Education in Tilburg. Ger Stallenberg is inspired b...

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a solitary figure in a room or misplaced sock on a bed— the conceptual element of his work becomes a contemplation on meaning for even the simplest objects: person, place, or thing. Sager's process often involves a distinctive mixture of media, incorporating tar with oil pigments, or wallpaper with squid ink...

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...