Creative Artist

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Braden Duncan is an artist and curator by trade, imperfect by choice, and a cog in the machine of human mythology by default. She draws her inspiration from the peculiar minutiae of the human form, symbolism and mythology, the empty spaces left by mi

Art Almanac

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Brad Rusbridge’s ‘Familiar Paintings’ contains works that allude to a particular biographical occurrence from the artist’s past. ‘At the moment, the self is the only subject that I feel I can represent with any authenticity,’ he tells me. ‘I don’t te

Cinema Scope

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“If there’s anyone who’s under the age of 16, would they please leave the theatre now,” a solemn voice, deep, with a country upbringing in its vowels, intones against a screen of black leader, “and return when they are over 16. It would be greatly ap

PleinAir Magazine

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While the pandemic has put the brakes on many aspects of our lives, art goes on. Forced to close at various times to the public, museums now offer free virtual tours of permanent collections and special exhibits. Plein air event organizers are pivoti

HOME MAGAZINE LEBANON

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Sailing from the coast of Byblos, where she has painted the sea from her balcony since childhood, both Lydia Moawad and her paintings have crossed oceans and anchored themselves in major cities across the world – New York and Milan, Dubai and Paris,

Australian How To Paint

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I live on a beautiful property just outside Cowra, NSW, and I travel into town, where I have my studio, six days per week. It has been very important to me over the years to have this separation of home and painting, especially when my children (now

The Pastel Journal

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Akhriev grew up in the former Soviet Union in a system where talented youngsters received special training from an early age. “When I first entered an art school for children, the director asked my mother when I began drawing and painting. She couldn

PleinAir Magazine

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• Learn the rules and then forget them. The rules in traditional painting are there to stop us from making innocent mistakes (never put anything in the center, never use pure black, never lead the viewer out of the painting). If artists didn’t break

Wild West

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Late on an autumn afternoon in northern Montana five mounted Indians scout the banks of a watercourse in Riverwalkers, a 40-by-70-inch oil on linen by Colt Idol. The piece blends vibrant colors with a mood conveying just how vast and intimidating the

Family Tree UK

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For the family historian it is a special thrill to see an image of a-long-lost ancestor for the first time. This is particularly true if the ancestor predates the advent of photography and the image is in the form of a painted portrait! I remember my

Australian Home Beautiful

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Working out of a small studio in the backyard of her East Geelong home, visual artist Emma Itzstein offloads her worries and thoughts onto a canvas with the stroke of a brush. “My work is really quite expressionist and messy, and I just let loose,” s

MILIEU

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Mona Caron finds the subjects for her paintings growing at her feet in the earth. To then depict what she finds, she rises above the earth. She can be found in locales as varied as Brazil, California, Switzerland, Taiwan, Bolivia, India, and Ecuador,

Artists Magazine

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“An array of publications and other exposure vehicles for visual artists were around 30 years ago, and one’s efforts didn’t have to compete with the internet. Now, with the sheer amount of imagery that’s sailing on the waves of the web each day, it s

The Pastel Journal

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When putting together the special articles for this 20th anniversary edition of Pastel Journal, I used the opportunity to take a look back. I was immediately struck by how much has changed for the pastel community, and for society in general, in the

Belle

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SYDNEY Luke Storrier’s new series began with a trip to Wilcannia, accompanied only by his dog Ace (both pictured left), where the artist was moved by the isolated, arid landscape, as well as the drought’s visible toll on local fauna. Returning to his

House and Leisure

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Cinga Samson doesn’t read the hundreds of reviews celebrating his paintings around the world – nor does he plan to. His job is to work, he says, to reflect and to create artworks that represent his sense of self, led by his desire to treat his audien

PleinAir Magazine

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Plein Air Easton, the largest and one of the most prestigious juried plein air painting competitions in the United States, celebrated its 15th anniversary this summer. President/ CEO Al Bond and CFO/COO Jessica Bellis of event organizer the Avalon Fo

New American Paintings

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During the course of serving as a juror for this issue, I found myself in the midst of transitioning from one institution to another several states and thousands of miles away. While the move essentially waylaid the process of my sitting down to revi

Artist Profile

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STORY LUCY STRANGER PHOTOGRAPHER ANNABELLE HICKSON Nicholas Osmond draws from his embedded connection to place around his home in Moree in northern NSW. Only new to painting, over the last three years he has been prolifically honing his practice. Anc

New American Paintings

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Hailing from throughout the West Coast, the talented artists selected for this issue range broadly—in their topical concerns, formal approaches, and the memories they summon. Tucker Nichols’s paintings are like spirited visual balms, their off-center

Design Anthology

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Design Anthology: I’m curious about your creative process. How do you work together, given your different backgrounds and training? Jonathan Levien: I think it’s a reconciliation of each other’s approach. When we’re just sitting face-to-face around

PleinAir Magazine

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In mid-October, 50 painters gathered at Eagle Mountain House, an early 20th-century hotel with stunning views of the mountains in Jackson, New Hampshire, for Fall Color Week with PleinAir Magazine publisher Eric Rhoads. Designed to provide artists th

Artist Profile

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STORY GEORGINA COLE IN JOE FROST’S STUDIO, WE DRINK WATER FROM HIS favourite smoked glass cups while we look at his current paintings. Most of them are unfinished canvases full of clamouring shapes, unrecognisable in content but pulsating with energy

The Pastel Journal

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Do you work better under pressure? Enter a show, schedule an obligation, make a promise. Are you easily waylaid? Set an alarm to check Facebook and texts, return phone calls and run errands. Need immediate inspiration? Have your photos, art books, qu

HomeStyle

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New Zealand-born artist Sam Michelle lives an hour outside of Melbourne with her husband Darren, their two children and a dog. She works full- time from home, painting lush still lifes, typically with a floral element. After a recent solo inspiration

PleinAir Magazine

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You don’t have to look far to find proof that the plein air movement is thriving. With events across the country, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts have myriad opportunities to indulge in their favorite form of painting. Drawn together by an appre

ArtAsiaPacific

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The Damascus-born, Berlin-based artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi (1934–2016)—commonly known as Marwan—is renowned for bridging Arabic and Western artistic styles. Galerie Michael Haas’s showcase celebrated the pioneering painter, spotlighting a series of h

ArtAsiaPacific

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“Why don’t you punch the face?” Niyaz Najafov’s coach would often ask him when the artist first started training as a boxer in his youth. The answer lies in the split-second dilemma that occurs between making a fist and connecting it with the most fr

Southwest Art

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IF YOU KNOW a little bit about Kelly Dangerfield, you probably know that the artist studied business and finance in college and worked in the investment industry for a time. You might then presume that the well-crafted wildlife works he creates today

Southwest Art

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THE LANGUID reflections of lotus leaves on a tranquil pond. The gentle eddying of a lazy creek as it laps around the ankles of a man and his young grandson, holding hands as they test the waters together. The exuberant splashes of a rushing stream br