Atlanta - Art

Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are professional artists with extensive experience in both the commercial and fine art fields. They presently work out of their studio in Florida, creating original art for gallery display, fine art crafts and taking commissions for murals & embellishments. Helene was born in Canada in 1949. She studied art in Europe as a young adult and attended Phoenix Pratt School of Design in New York and St. Petersburg Community College in Florida. She worked for advertising agencies and freelance art projects such as theater design and t-shirt designs for several companies. She owned and operated an art studio (“Artistic Endeavors”) in Melbourne, Fl. for five years. She started doing murals and embellishments (residential and commercial) from 1992 till present. She considers her early life in Europe the major source of her artistic influence as well as the works of Modigliani. Eric was born in Missouri in 1950. He started drawing literally as an infant and has never stopped. He was taking commissions for book covers & wall designs in his teens and studied art at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. He taught art in public schools in Alabama in the ‘70s. He worked as art director at Huntsville Educational Television for 6 years, as art director at Southern Sportswear in Daytona for 9 years, at Creative Signs & Designs in Flagler, Fl. for 6 years, and as a freelance artist and co-owner (with his wife Helene) of “BessStudio” (formerly “Artistic Innovations Inc.”) since 1998. His artistic influences include Michelangelo, Vermeer, Blake, Maxfield Parish...

Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are professional artists with extensive experience in both the commercial and fine art fields. They presently work out of their studio in Florida, creating original art for gallery display, fine art crafts and taking commissions for murals & embellishments. Helene was born in Canada in 1949. She studied art in Europe as a young adult and attended Phoenix Pratt School of Design in New York and St. Petersburg Community College in Florida. She worked for advertising agencies and freelance art projects such as theater design and t-shirt designs for several companies. She owned and operated an art studio (“Artistic Endeavors”) in Melbourne, Fl. for five years. She started doing murals and embellishments (residential and commercial) from 1992 till present. She considers her early life in Europe the major source of her artistic influence as well as the works of Modigliani. Eric was born in Missouri in 1950. He started drawing literally as an infant and has never stopped. He was taking commissions for book covers & wall designs in his teens and studied art at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. He taught art in public schools in Alabama in the ‘70s. He worked as art director at Huntsville Educational Television for 6 years, as art director at Southern Sportswear in Daytona for 9 years, at Creative Signs & Designs in Flagler, Fl. for 6 years, and as a freelance artist and co-owner (with his wife Helene) of “BessStudio” (formerly “Artistic Innovations Inc.”) since 1998. His artistic influences include Michelangelo, Vermeer, Blake, Maxfield Parish...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The rue du Faubourg du Temple, view of one of the busiest streets in Paris, in 1926. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Pr...

Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...

Italian artist Renzo Gori (1911 - 1998) designed this oil on canvas painting which features an animated urban street scene in France. The artist's signature is in the bottom right co...

Fragmented-Untitled 3, 2021 by Ying Chen From the Fragmented series Archival pigment print Image size: 80 in. H x 60 in. W Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed This series' title is “Fragme...

One of my favorite French Fauvist painters, Henri Grenier (1882 - 1940), masterfully captures the energy of the turn-of-the-century Boulevard Saint-Germain in this exciting work on p...

Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...

Sherry's paintings combine figuration and abstraction, with a series of colors and abstract forms combining to produce an image of people in groups. Czekus’ work examines the everyda...

"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...

Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956. In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry. Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert. Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud. In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”. In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon. In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate. Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized. Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...

This original colorful 3D Pop Art collage painting is dated 2001 and signed. The artwork features the New York cityscape. The piece is named: "The Way We Were - 1973-2001" and signed...

A passion for horses, equestrian pursuits, and painting define Brooke Major's life and career. A native of Atlanta, GA, Brooke Major has been living and working as a professional art...

Painter Phil Turner focuses primarily on semi-realistic and abstract landscapes. Expressiveness, movement and color are hallmarks of his landscapes. Turner is primarily a self-taught...

Fragmented-Untitled 1, 2021 by Ying Chen From the Fragmented series Archival pigment print Image size: 80 in. H x 60 in. W Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed This series' title is “Fragme...

My process is focused on maintaining authentic energy resolved when the shapes, marks and passages of color find a balance of harmony and dissonance.  Arranging elements dynamically ...

A rhythm exists here on the farm, beginning with the sunrise and the sounds of nature awakening. My art is a reaction to this sense of place. Whether I’m in the studio, tending to th...

Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...

This elegant oil on mounted canvas by R. Boughton (England, 20th Century) features an English landscape composition. The artwork is signed in the bottom left corner. The impressionis...

Few artists in Venezuela have the fortune of the affection and the overwhelming admiration of the city that saw them born, like the one expressed by Barquisimeto and the Barquisimeta...

"The Sea 502-498" is a photograph featuring white, blue and green hues. Beth Lilly utilizes a variety of photographic styles in her conceptually driven pr...

Sherry's paintings combine figuration and abstraction, with a series of colors and abstract forms combining to produce an image of people in groups. Czekus’ work examines the everyda...

This charming woman nude pencil study is by Russian-French painter Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff (or Chemetov,) also known as Chem (1891 - 1981). It is a striking representation in ...

Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

My floral paintings consider the same elements as when painting an abstract painting. I put paint on the canvas and push and pull with the paint: addressing value, color, shape and m...

This original project drawing, hand-painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, was designed by a French artist circa the 1960s. The painting features a geometric study...

This mesmerizing 1950s modern portrait features an oil on canvas painting by Maurice Ambroise Ehlinger (1896 - 1981). The model is Miss France Noel, a socialite from the Paris bourgeoisie. The piece is hand-signed in the bottom left corner. The canvas's back has the following caption: "Mademoiselle France Noel par M. Ehlinger - MCMLVII." The painting still has its original elegant ornate cerused or limed oak frame with gray painted liner. Measurements: With frame: 30.75 in wide (78 cm) x 36 in high (91.5 cm) x 2.75 in deep (7 cm). Opening view: 23 in wide (58.5 cm) x 28.25 in high (71.5 cm) Biography: Maurice Ehlinger (1896 - 1981). Painter, born in Champagney, Haute Saone, France in 1896. He spent part of his life in Moyenmoutier in the Vosges region. Ehlinger studied under Larcher at Nancy's Ecole des Beaux-Arts with funding from the City of Saint Die. Then, he went to Paris to follow the courses of masters Jules Adler and Francois Flameng...

In Tangled Up in Blue, Gee Gee Collins immerses the viewer in a rich, monochromatic study of cobalt. The female form emerges in sweeping, gestural lines, hovering between abstraction...

A. Derek Ching (American, 20th Century) created this stunning, colorful cubist still life gouache on paper painting. With lovely fall colors, this subtle still-life composition featu...

Painted in the style of the 17th century Dutch painter Alexander Andrienssen, this painting is of a glass vase on a wood surface filled with flowers. The artist's careful attention ...

Sarah Robertson, Notre Dame View, 30 x 22 in, Mixed Media on Paper This expressive view of Notre Dame captures the timeless beauty of Paris with layered texture and a contemporary ed...

"The Innocence of Youth" by Ginny Williams – 20x24 Oil on Canvas (Framed 21.5x25.5) – $4,500 Soft, nostalgic, and beautifully expressive, The Innocence of Youth by Ginny Williams ca...

Crowell's abstract paintings are in the challenging media of oil paint and cold wax. "Techniques I originated in my practice 20 years ago are now widely recognized and taught. My pro...

This superb oil on canvas painting was created by Felix Eugene Bellenot (1892 - 1963). This vibrant and passionate composition represents the port of Sainte Maxime...

Inspired by nature, Jessica Pisano’s interest in art began at a young age. It was the beautiful landscape of her hometown of Martha's Vineyard that served as her muse. She later purs...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. A view of Paris and the River Seine from the Notre Dame Cathedral, circa 1950. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Ph...

Scott French has over 30 years of painting experience. His work focuses on figures, landscapes, and recently, cocktails. Known for his painterly and expressive style, French uses ric...

Unframed this piece measures 12 x 9. Stephanie was born and raised on Long Island, NY. Choosing computer programming as her first career, her passion for drawing and painting prompt...

Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...

Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Street musicians, and singers in Lyon, France, circa 1930. Street musicians playing accordion with singers in Lyon, Fra...

Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...

With a nod to Shakespeare, we can readily count the ways we love Laura Shubert’s light-and energy-filled paintings. We admire her deft way of capturing luminosity as it plays off her...

~Parra~ "Sliding Doors" (2017) Screen-print on white Arches paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition 0f 250. 50 × 70 cm / 19 7/10 × 27 3/5 in Dutch illustrator, painter, ...

Lesley Powell’s Ancient of Days is a serene architectural study that captures the beauty of aged structures through a refined, painterly lens. This 12 x 18 inch oil painting on cradl...

This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and brown. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19.5 inches. Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathere...

"Nature is a celebration of the mystery, promise, and complexity of life.  That is what I seek to capture in my work.  I am interested in the experience of light and shadow, color an...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Paris, The Parc Monceau public garden, 20th June 1926. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed. Press Photography. Press Agency: Anonymous. Photographer: Anonymous. Title: Paris, The Parc Monceau public garden, June 20th, 1926. View of the Roman colonnades in the garden. Provenance: Private collection. Image Size: 4.57 in high (11.6 cm) x 6.22 in wide (15.8 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 x 13 mat. The piece will be shipped in a mat (17 x 13 in) that fits a standard-sized frame. No ink stamp, no legend. Note: The last picture shows the Parc and the Roman colonnades today. About: The eighth arrondissement of Paris, France, is home to the public park known as Parc Monceau, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony, and Rue Georges...

Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956. In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry. Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert. Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud. In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”. In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon. In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate. Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized. Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. A building construction site in Paris, France, March 1927. A Haussmann building in Paris is undergoing a major renovati...

Sarah Robertson, Blue Bird Garden on Golden #1, 36 x 24 in, Mixed Media on Canvas Golden hues and sapphire blue birds bring warmth and brightness to Blue Bird Garden on Golden #1. T...

Scott French has over 30 years of painting experience. His work focuses on figures, landscapes, and recently, cocktails. Known for his painterly and expressive style, French uses ric...

This lovely blue watercolor painting is by M. Godier, France (20th Century). The artwork is signed in the bottom right corner. The composition features an unusual representation of t...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Paris, a salt truck on Place de la Concorde under the snow, January 16th, 1926. The employees of the mayor of Paris spre...

The framed price is listed. UNFRAMED this piece measures 36"H x 36"W. Dynamic and full of life, Side Hustle is a 36 x 36 inch abstract painting that captures McCarty’s signature flu...

"I grew up as the middle of five kids. We would yearly visit my grandmother in Alabama and later in Tennessee. She was an artist and her house was full of paintings, which was format...

Jessica Pisano, "Letter To Our Younger Selves" – Large Contemporary Oil Painting, 48x48 inches Reflective and deeply emotive, "Letter To Our Younger Selves" by celebrated artist Jes...