'Distant Rain V' oil on linen 18x24

Radford's compulsion to record the scale and pace of urban life is both vibrant and sombre - with an innovative use of color and paint - he first paints people's silhouettes - and moves over the canvases in huge swathes to 'wipe away' any individual identities within the masses. This particular work of art depicts a bar scene. For it is the mystery and complexity of urban life that fascinates Radford, and pulses throughout his paintings - acting as a metaphor for the shifting sands of one's lifetime. Many of Radford's recent works tread a thin line between the figurative and abstraction, evoking a darkness where the non-subject areas of a London scene spell both a paradoxical void and spatial freedom, and the subjects are swathed in veils. Perhaps Radford presents these more abstract images as gateways for seeing other things - the duality of the spiritual world and physical world which he believes can never be experienced separately. Like stills from a film noir, his images are alluring but shrouded in mystery. Having been fascinated with crowds since childhood, Radford's enigmatic paintings and monotypes are a set in his city - a 'deep pool of individual solitudes' - an anonymous passage of personal exploration through social constraint. Acquired by both institutions and private collectors alike, Matthew Radford...

"Distant Thunder" by Kent B Lemon A vivid landscape featuring two moose graising by the river amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Signed lower left with ornate French inspired gold frame. Circa 2002 Artist Biography: Kent is a native of Colorado where he grew up in a home filled with paintings and a family immersed in the arts. He was educated at Colorado University, Boulder, and Parsons School of Design, New York. After studying in New York he returned to Colorado and apprenticed with Denver artists Mark Daily and Ned Jacob...

Gerson Leiber "A Welcome Discordance" Oil on Linen, 2014 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in the a...

A rare gem of a piece. Untitled by Allen Atwell, creator of the Psychedelic Temple in 1964. His works become available few and far between. Measure: 10 x 16 in., 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. ...

Gerson Leiber "A Surge of Discombobulation" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in...

Gerson Leiber "No Seashore Holiday" Oil on Linen, 2015 Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Gerson showed promise in his high school art classes. Later, while stationed in Hungary in the arm...