Australian artist Rachel Coad creates hauntingly enchanting portraits…
Sandie Stewart – acrylic on paper, 270cm x 300cm, 2005
Scramble No. 5 – oil on linen, 84cm x 152cm, 201
Fallout – oil on canvas, 198 x 122cm, 2011
Frontier I – oil on linen, 2012
Alexander von Reiswitz, born 1965 in Málaga, studied art history before switching over to architecture and photography. His series ‘Zoogestalten’ contains serious portraits of the Berlin Zoo residents, strikingly capturing their personalities.
Eduardo Izq is a scientist who loves photography, and who’s female portraits are simply stunning.
© Eduardo Izq
Inspired by unstable human emotions, Korean artist Miseon Yoon‘s makes thought-provoking textile portraits that are the result of a compulsive process of cutting and attaching hand-painted fabrics. Via Saatchi Online.
© Miseon Yoon
Paolo Roversi (Ravenna, 1943) is without any doubt my favourite (fashion) photographer. His striking, intimate portraiture and classical visual language occupy a realm between the past and present, resulting in imagery that feels at once progressive and familiar. Via Art & Commerce
Guy Denning (born 1965) is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.
Denning’s early work included an interest in the work of Franz Kline and was characterised by powerful, expressive brushstrokes in mainly abstract paintings. More recently he has combined earlier influences with an increasingly figurative style of painting. The human figure features strongly in his latest work and he uses this subject matter to convey powerful emotions.
“Painting is a focusing; a process of exaggeration and editing of a suggestion of reality. I can start with a skeleton, like a foundation illustration, perhaps taken from a life study or a photograph and then I start to manipulate that framework. All the time I am hoping for accidents with the paint as the accidents are usually the source of greatest productivity. Perhaps the accidents of paint give me a similar perspective as the viewer to the finished painting: the surprise at something fresh or something that is not immediately understood in its construction. This aspect of painting is like, perhaps, finding the uncontrolled intention.
I know when it’s right or, at least, tending towards right but I don’t know how to do it. If I knew how to do it, that there was a predetermined and guaranteed method, then it wouldn’t be the challenge that forces me to paint continually.”
Source: Wikipedia
© Guy Denning
Nick Lepard’s richly layered portraits are truly pervading.
“Through colour, scale and gesture my work celebrates painting’s physicality, both in terms of its application and its dependence on space in the real world. The images are bright and playful, but also macabre and grotesque.”
Paintings by Nick Lepard
