Mercedes Aparicio Still-life Paintings

'Mushroom Rock' by Dennis Blagg. 2020. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 16." 3,600. Contemporary American landscape oil painting of the 'Mushroom Rock,' geological formation in Ellsworth County ...

FIGURATIVE painting magical "Farewell" textured mixed, Painting 20" x 21" inch. Mixed technique. Oil on canvas made with professional Rembrandt and Winsor & Newton colors protected w...

This painting is based on Rachel Ruysch’s, Vase of Flowers, 1700. The painting contains an example of the Dutch tulip most prized during Tulipomania: Semper Augustus...

Medium scale vertical contemporary still life oil painting of interior, the artist studio window during the 2020 quarantine. Moody color tones border the sunny window with a sheer white curtain revealing the pastel cityscape behind it. A deep green potted plant in a terracotta planter, slightly askew, sits in front of the window along with quarantine everyday life essentials, including toilet paper rolls and a bottle of kelly green dish soap. The sunny window brings hopeful light into the room from the Philadelphia architectural...

"Nude, Flowers, Pitcher, and Fruit", oil on canvas, figurative, pastel.

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...

This study takes inspiration from historical “reclining nude” paintings, most of which were painted through the perspective of the male gaze. The artist wanted to change the narrative and make the woman feel more empowered and dominant in her situation, aware of the power she holds. Samantha Van Heest...

Strange Tracey are proud to be the exclusive agent for Fran Mora in the United Kingdom. Born in Huelva in the south of Spain in 1979, Mora studied at the School of Fine Arts in Sev...

MARZENA MISKIEWICZ She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at UMCS in Lublin. She is a member of ZPAP (Association of Polish Artists and Designers). She is an author of more than...

As an artist, TIFFANY CALVERT applies contemporary painting techniques to historical imagery. Her recent work uses the seventeenth-century Dutch floral still life as a springboard fo...

"Historic Woodlawn Cemetery (early spring)" is a rare, plein air oil painting by award-winning contemporary American artist, Kira Mountjoy-Pepka. This piece features a marble structu...

This painting is based on Rachel Ruysch’s, Vase of Flowers, 1700. The painting contains an example of the Dutch tulip most prized during Tulipomania: Semper Augustus...