Denise Mumm

Heron, Morikami Pond - Original Still Life Painting, 2020

2020

Artist Commentary: My husband and I love eating oysters. When we travel, we always eat the local oysters and choose one to take with us to remember the experience. I then later paint their portraits. These oysters, as well as some Spanish moss...

Artist Commentary: This humble scene is a few blocks from my home at the boatyard, early in the spring. The mooring balls are all lined up, lines and anchor chains at the ready for t...

Artist Commentary: I love the geometry of mooring balls, stacked boats and anchors and the tangled texture of chains and ropes in boatyards. The shadows of late day delineate them. ...

Artist Commentary: I saw these pelicans at the marina in Hilton Head where we often visit with our boat. This was their hangout. They lined up there every ...

Artist Commentary: An old wooden sailboat was docked next to our boat at a marina in Solomons Island, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay. I was fascinated by t...

Artist Commentary: These huge old mooring balls would have a story to tell, if they could talk. I ran across them in Bivalve, NJ (yes, a real town), an old oystering town on the Dela...

Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant paintings that celebra...

Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant paintings that celebra...

Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant paintings that celebra...

Smoke Bush and Anemone [2021] Original Still Life Acrylic, oil pastel, ink and collage on canvas board Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:21.4 cm x W:30.5 cm x D:0.2cm Framed Size: H:...

Smoke Bush and Anemone by Diana Forbes [2021] original Acrylic, oil pastel, ink and collage on canvas board Image size: H:21.4 cm x W:30.5 cm Complete ...

Born in Damascus in 1951, Ali Mourabet has lived in Beirut with his family for the greater part of his life. An architect since 1976, he has a long-running passion for designing buildings, and as a professional artist since 1977, a love for depicting scenes from Lebanon, and this is reflected in much of his work. Regarding both architecture and painting as forms of art, Mourabet is never without a pencil or a paintbrush in his hand and to this day continues to experiment with new processes and techniques, especially in more recent years, having freed up more time to focus on his fine art practice. The consistent theme running through Mourabet’s captivating paintings is their extremely vibrant colour palette. With many of his works presenting simplistic geometric shapes and architectural forms and others depicting everyday life in his immediate surroundings, Mourabet is continuously seeking to explore different styles and techniques, while at the same time remaining faithful to the subjects closest to his heart. Timothy Warrington of the International Confederation of Art Critics said of Ali’s work: “Ali Mourabet is a true artist, possessing a rare ability to stimulate viewers as he conveys artistic ideas that are communicated and encapsulated as a direct consequence of an inner journey that explores the very essence of beauty through shape, colour and the essential relationship between forms. The artist’s broad and intricate cultural foundations stemming from architecture are apparent by virtue of assertive use of line and visual experimentations of mathematics, as well as the curious philosophical connections to diverse dimensions of art...