Dorothea Tanning - born August 25, 1910

 

Davide Eron Salvadei - Mindscape 5

I found Davide Eron Salvadei on the Saatchi Online website.  I think this picture takes you back to the innocence of childhood and also makes you think of the here and now in equal measures.  Its innocent yet, not.

Erika Fortiner's Art - Dark, yet beautiful and uplifting. I'm Transfixed.

           Hells Angels in ParadiseErica’s work is a contemplative language of process and experience. These elements range in setting but almost always include anatomy, urban ideas, sexuality, emotion, and chaotic structure. Each work is developed through predominately organic shapes using stream of consciousness, memories, and current events. Gestures can be softly or violently drawn, while more detailed forms and special attention to line are used to flatten yet 3-dimentionalize the image. These variations of dual intensity give her work a constant opposition of strength verses sensitivity. This composite can also be visible in the physicalmaterials of the work which include acrylic, airbrush, soft linens, and pours that have counter tactile qualities.  

Ged Quinn - Conceptual, skilful, and beautifully composed.

Ged Quinn specialises in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images (generally on controversial topics in Western cultural history) in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich  

I saw an exhibition of Ged Quinn’s work at the Wilkinson Gallery in 2008, titled ‘My Great Unhappiness Gives Me A Right To Your Benevolence’. Since then I see his work everywhere.   His work stands out, in the fact that you can appreciate his painterly skills as well as his concepts without having to read pages and pages of text to understand it.  They emanate a slightly sinister atmosphere but are also very inviting, making you want to understand them more deeply.  For me, I have to be engaged with the picture at first sight to want to learn more.

Tea? - By Alice Boyle 2010