Working from her Brooklyn studio, fellow pastel artist, Zaria Forman, captures the natural world in all its beauty and vulnerability. Having travelled the coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter
William Bradford, documenting the rapidly changing arctic landscape in 2012, she then moved on to document the Maldives, a country facing the very real threat of climate change and with it, rising sea-levels.
Tuesday 12 May 2015
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Serena Mitnik-Miller
There’s an incredible sense of harmony and balance in Serena Mitnik-Miller’s work. You can almost feel the Californian breeze flowing
through each piece. The natural environment of the coast and surrounding
community influences each curve, arc and line that drifts around the paper. Each
piece is made by hand with watercolour pigment on paper.
Along with her husband, she also owns The General Store which
opened in 2010, stocking carefully curated artisan produced goods, with
locations in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Craww
Female figures, crows and skulls, often surrounded by wilting
flowers and plant life, flow from Craww’s mind onto each sketchbook page or
wood panel. They develop naturally and organically without too much forethought,
the product of an imagination allowed to wander freely through the woods.
Based in Sheffield, UK, Craww’s background in graphic design shows
in his compositions, displaying a great sense of balance, allowing a narrative
to appear through the outwardly chaotic finished image.
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Soul searching: Joel Daniel Phillips
It’s on the
corner of 6th and Mission in San Francisco that Joel Daniel Phillips
meets with the poverty stricken subjects of his ongoing series of finely
detailed drawings, 'No Regrets in Life'. These are the protagonists of hard lives whose stories
emerge in his large-scale, charcoal and graphite drawings on paper. Every line and wrinkle on a face, or fold
and crease of a jacket, tells the story of a life well-worn and the experiences
gained along the way.
The one-to-one
scale of his work allows every tiny detail to be viewed and explored in a way
not usually possible in graphite drawings. This allows us a glimpse behind the
first impression of the sitter and gives an indication as to what makes that
person who they are.
Tuesday 31 March 2015
Mark Demsteader
During the 1990s, with Brit Art on the rise, figurative draughtsman and painter, Mark Demsteader found himself surrounded by an art market
dominated by conceptual art.
In the difficult years that followed however he finally
found massive success, especially following his recent popular drawings of
actress Emma Watson, and earning several notable awards including The Lyceum
Prize and The Sidney Andrews Scholarship in the process.
His incredible work, a combination of original charcoals,
pastels and oils, has undoubtedly renewed interest in traditional life drawing
and classic figurative paintings. His drawings typically feature a beautifully balanced
combination of the detailed, closely observed upper torso leading to equally striking expressive
line work below.
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