The Art Portfolio of Vicki Beamish
Vicki Beamish is a British Columbia-based oil painter. In her practice, the artist enjoys creating paintings that focus on the details of vast landscapes, depicting small bodies of water, fallen trees, and sometimes animals with a sense of reverence.
Vicki’s paintings are impressively detailed and realistic. As was addressed in our previous feature of Vicki’s sweeping…
The Painting Portfolio of Robert Devriendt
Untitled (from series The Missing Script,) oil on canvas
Robert Devriendt is a painter from Belgium. In his practice, Devriendt creates artworks that borrow visual rhetoric and aesthetics from the medium of film. The artist’s works encourage audience interpretation, while purposefully leaving space for misinterpretation.
Untitled (from series The Missing Script,) oil on canvas
I love the way that Devriendt’s oil paintings act…
Portraits of Houses: The Art Portfolio of Joel David Abramson
North Minneapolis House, watercolour
Joel David Abramson is an artist and illustrator trained in both fine arts and graphic design. In his professional artistic practice, Joel specializes in portraits of houses and other real-estate properties, often creating the works on commission.
I’m quite charmed by Joel’s architectural illustrations. The artist works in watercolour, graphite, and ink, creating portraits both in…
The Art Portfolio of Clayton Samuel King
Memengwaa (butterfly), ultraviolet luminescent acrylic paint on Stonehenge paper
Ontario-based artist Clayton Samuel King paints primarily in acrylic. The artist tends to focus on animal subjects, using a unique visual language that’s influenced by the local landscape and fauna, and by the Woodland Art Style developed by contemporary First Nations artists in Ontario and the surrounding regions.
The Art Portfolio of Jeffrey Fine
Jeffrey Fine is an artist who works in paint and mixed media, building landscapes, city scenes, and abstract compositions out of wildly colourful, overlapping, curving forms. The artist is mainly self-taught, and his current portfolio represents multiple decades of prolific work and visual exploration.
It’s interesting to note that Jeffrey’s artistic practice has, for much of the artist’s life, sat alongside a…
The Portrait Art Portfolio of Judith Elsasser
Passionate Heart: Suzette Sherman and Michele Green, oil on canvas
Judith Elsasser is an oil painter who specializes in detailed, photo-realistic portraits. In her artistic practice the artist skillfully captures the faces and expressions of her subjects, as well as objects and spaces that are important to them.
I’m impressed by Judith’s ability to capture not only faces, but a sense of movement and life…
Studio Sunday: Claudia Comte
Berlin-based artist Claudia Comte is known for large-scale works made from wood, sometimes in its natural form and other times manipulated through detailed sculpture or painting. Given the massive scale of many of her works, the artist often works in open spaces, or creates work directly in a gallery space.
The artist has said in interviews that she often works outdoors -- in the forest -- because her equipment and process tends…
A Portfolio of Pop-Art Inspired Images by Stephen Middleton
November at the Vancouver Rowing Club, acrylic on canvas
Stephen Middleton is a Vancouver-based artist specializing in acrylic painting. In his practice, the artist creates vivid, pop-art inspired images that showcase scenes from around Vancouver, as well as portraiture and text.
Myria Le Noir, acrylic on canvas
In our previous feature of Stephen’s work, we looked at the artist’s use of graphic planes of colour. I love how Stephen…
The Watercolour Medium Portfolio of Travis Poelle
Travis Poelle is a watercolour painter who uses his chosen medium to depict slice-of-life scenes, cityscapes, and figures. In his current portfolio, Travis showcases an eye for detail, and great skill and control with the watercolour medium.
I like the way that medium and subject matter work together in Travis’ portfolio. As we saw in our previous feature of Travis’ sunny…
The Encaustic Media Art Portfolio of Lisa Printz
Untitled, encaustic collage on cradle board
Artist Lisa Printz works in painting, pastel, and encaustic media, creating works ranging from impressionistic landscapes to animal portraits to textured abstractions. Lisa has a background in art education, and made the transition to being a full-time artist in 2015.
Untitled, encaustic collage on board
I’m really enjoying Lisa’s recent works in encaustic. Combining the wax medium with…
The Portfolio of Sculptor and Installation Artist Takis
Signal lumineux, vis d’Archimède
Takis is a Greek sculptor and installation artist, known for three-dimensional works that explore the intersection between science and art. Throughout his long career, the artist has explored the influence of not only physical, visible forms on a space, but also of invisible energies and forces passing between and through objects.
Head in Space, bronze
I’m always fascinated to see an artist…
The Portfolio of Artist, Poet, and Animateur Allison Rennie
Allison Rennie is an artist, poet, and animateur who works with people in her practice, helping individuals and groups of all ages discover new ways of navigating through their own experiences.
I appreciate the way that Allison’s artistic practice is intertwined with her workshops and teaching materials. There’s a thread of spiritual and personal awareness that runs deeply through each section…
The Art Portfolio of Pierre-Luc Deziel
Les Dividus (detail), mixed media
Pierre-Luc Deziel is an artist who explores the boundary between painting and sculpture, often using methods and philosophies native to both approaches in an individual work. Pierre’s current oeuvre uses the notion of social constructions as a jumping-off point.
The Saberwings (perspective), mixed media
As we saw in our previous feature of Pierre-Luc’s exploration of social constructions, the…
Studio Sunday: Kenturah Davis
Our Studio Sunday feature this week is Kenturah Davis. The artist current lives and works between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra, Ghana. Davis’ works, often made in striking black and white gradients, toe the line between traditional portraiture and graphic design.
It’s always interesting to see an artist’s studio that’s equipped for such a wide variety of different techniques and methods of production. Davis’ studio…
Print Techniques: The Art Portfolio of Tim Van Ginkel
IWF-10, serial monoprint, lithography
Tim Van Ginkel is an artist currently based in Rhode Island. In his practice, Tim specializes in printmaking, using various print techniques to build images that focus on layered, abstracted figures, subdued earth tones, and negative space.
I really enjoy the sense of cohesion in Tim’s art portfolio. Though each work is distinct, and the artist has produced several series, each focusing…