Nguyen Xuan Anh

Mountain Houses

2021

A Contemporary story of a Developing country. Part of the artist's "City Scape' series of lacquer on wood and painted with traditional materials: silver, gold leaf, egg sell. This pa...

Tran dinh Khuong is a contemporary artist inspired by the Vietnamese countryside. He paints using traditional lacquer on wood creating bold modern compositions in vivid colors of r...

Lacquer on Wood

Lacquer on Wood

Acrylic on Canvas painting.

This is a painting from Karen's Lynn's West Coast, Palm Desert architectural series where she includes typical contemporary homes, swimming pools, beautiful blue skies and palm trees...

The work is a canvas that already includes a wooden frame; the subject is a snowy mountain in the background with an intricate pattern of branches in the foreground.

S.D.C.G.T. V (Oil), 2020, 110 x110 cm, Oil and Lacquer on Canvas The work is a canvas that already includes a wooden frame. The subject leaves room for interpretation; is it a detail...

The work is a canvas with a wooden frame; the subject is a mountain whose colours blend with the sky in the background.

The work is a canvas with a wooden frame; the subject takes the viewer to the middle of a stormy sea... or perhaps to snowy ridges in a moment of darkness.

I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the proces...

I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings. My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...