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Barbara Gudrun Sibbons (b.1925) - Signed & Framed 20th Century Oil, Dutch Scene

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A charming continental oil scene depicting two men and a donkey crossing a wooden bridge to a coastal town up on the cliffs. The scene is finely painted capturing smaller, intricate ...

A magnificent oil landscape of mount Simonsberg, standing at the epicentre of South Africa's Western Cape Winelands. The scene takes in views across vineyards in Stellenbosch, before...

A charming oil study depicting a thatched cottage on the riverside before a stone bridge. Unsigned. On canvas.

This double-sided oil depicts colourful views of Venice, with grand canal gardens on one side and parked gondolas and architecture on the other. Both unsigned. On board.

A delightful oil study of figures wandering the streets, the artist has used the impasto and scraffito techniques across the work. Well presented in a gilt frame and left unsigned. O...

A charming landscape scene depicting the dramatic hill of Nideggen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. On top of a distant hill sits the ruins of Nideggen Castle. The rectangle castl...

British Royal Navy In A Fishery, 18th Century attributed to Richard WRIGHT OF LIVERPOOL (1735-c.1774) Large 18th Century view from the shore of a Royal Navy ship sailing through a ...

Beach at Playa Del Rey California by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Signed and Dated Lower Left Unframed: 21" x 34" Framed: 28.25" x 41" Frame was Hand made by the artist himself. A ...

Kierstin Young's (US based) "Sol" is an oil painting that depicts a grouping of barren trees surrounded with fog and ambiguous light Artist Statement/Bio: (b. The Year of the Rabbit...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Darkness Rises" is an oil painting that depicts a city in the distance glimmering in the darkness with a few sparse and leafless trees vaguely blocking its view Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who uses black and white paint to explore the perception of space and beauty. Carpenter's formal education is in science - he holds a MS in Neuroscience from UCSD and a BS in Psychobiology from UCLA - and he brings this background into service when making art. His paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and aesthetics, examining among other things how the depiction of light can impart realism and convey emotion. Like his paintings bridging art and science, Carpenter's career has similarly straddled the two fields, and he has taught subjects ranging from neuroscience and environmental science to photography and painting. Artist Statement As a painter, I am particularly interested in how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. Painting, as with any visual art, is obviously dependent on light. But painting can also have a more specific connection in that the accurate depiction of light is crucial for achieving realism. Realism in paintings largely arises from the portrayal of depth - perceiving a painting as being realistic is equivalent to seeing its subject as existing in more than just the two dimensions of the picture plane - and one of the mechanisms by which humans perceive depth is through lighting cues. Light creates features such as shading, shadow, and contrast that tell us about the three-dimensional arrangement of our surroundings, and artists often use these features to impart realism to paintings. Light also factors in to the emotional impact of paintings. The differential illumination of our surroundings can evoke different moods, as evidenced by the influence sunsets, candlelight, and darkness can have on us. Such effectssuggest that our perception of light could be tied to primitive instincts, with light signaling factors such as shelter, nightfall, and warmth, which were once crucial for survival. The depiction of light in...

Kierstin Young's (US based) "Aurora" is an oil painting that depicts a grouping of barren trees surrounded with fog and ambiguous green and blue light Artist Statement/Bio: (b. The ...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Truth as a Poetic Lie" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape full of dense trees and foliage, blotted out by something reminiscent ...