The Watercolour and Photography Portfolio of Joan Morris
Bluebird, watercolour on Arches paper
Joan Morris works in watercolour and photography, with both sides of her practice seeming to inform the other. Based in Montana, the artist draws inspiration from nature, with flowers, foliage, and landscape imagery making up a large part of her subject matter.
Marshlands, watercolour on Arches paper
The artist’s watercolour paintings emphasize delicate brush work. Joan uses a mostly subdued…
The Mixed Media Art Portfolio of Jen Fisher
Jen Fisher is a mixed media artist based in Stevensville, Maryland. The artist utilizes a range of media including ink, collage elements, painting, and paper to build images that are often a blend of abstract and figurative styles.
Moonlight, alcohol ink on Yupo
I’m particularly taken by Jen’s paintings in alcohol ink on Yupo. These works have a unique texture about them, somewhere between what you’d expect…
Lush, Soft Landscape Paintings by Tricia Savoie
Tricia Savoie is an artist currently based in Ottawa, Ontario. In her practice, Tricia create lush, soft landscape paintings that depict scenery in a realistic yet slightly impressionistic frame, veering into the territory of dreams and memory.
I really appreciate the colour palette that Tricia employs in her paintings. The works are mostly saturated in tones of deep, healthy green and autumnal reds and…
Wildlife and the Environment: Art by Nancy Sharp
Gopher Tortoise (painted from a photo by Craig Oneal)
Nancy Sharp is an artist based in North Carolina. A self-taught artist, Nany paints primarily in acrylics. The artist’s recent works are largely concerned with wildlife and the environment, often taking endangered local species as their subjects.
It’s interesting to see how Nancy tackles so many different subjects with a clear eye for detail and realism. Birds, fish,…
Remnants of Ancient Civilization: Art by Emily K. Grieves
Artist Emily K. Grieves was born in Germany and has lived in Mexico since 2004. The artist’s work is often inspired by the landscape and mythology of her home, drawing on nearby remnants of ancient civilization as well as from the modern-day environment.
I like the warm tones and stylized figures that are prevalent in Emily’s works. In our previous feature of Emily’s work, we looked at the way the artist…
Layering Fluid Forms: Art by Karen Holland
Karen Holland is a painter and mixed media artist currently based in British Columbia. In her practice, the artist primarily works in abstraction, layering fluid forms and textures across a canvas in such a way as to draw the viewer’s eye along a non-linear path, and provoke further exploration.
Passages, mixed media on panel
I like the way that Karen works and how her conceptual processes come to the…
Idealized Innocence: Art by Serena Stevens
Serena Stevens is a painter based in Iowa. In her artistic practice, Serena blends the idealized innocence of childhood with darker themes of paranoia and frustration. The artist’s paintings often take on a collages aesthetic, bringing together numerous seemingly disparate images and subjects.
I’m quite enjoying the works in Serena’s gallery of recent paintings. In these, the artist sticks to…
Brightly Stylized Images: Textile Art by Lisa Lackey
Humanity is in Our Hands, fabrics, thread, and embroidery floss on canvas
Lisa Lackey’s art portfolio is packed with images that one might be surprised to learn are made with fabrics and thread. The artist uses cut textiles to build up graphic, brightly stylized images, sewing and embroidering to add fine detail.
Exit 11, frabrics, thread, and embroidery floss on canvas
I’m always impressed by the level of detail and precision…
Paths of Line and Colour: Art by John Hovig
Mandala From Hindrance #1, digital archival print on aluminum circle
John Hovig became a full-time artist in 2012, after a decades-long career in software. The artist’s current practice centers on the idea of keeping the viewer’s eye in motion, with images that feature maze-like paths of line and colour.
John’s works often have a somewhat meditative feeling about them -- a quality that’s particularly…
Patterns of Human Experience: Art by Olga de Klein
Of an Old King, mixed media on wood panel
Olga de Klein is an artist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In her artistic practice, Olga produces works in a range of mixed media, seeking to explore and define the numerous overlapping patterns of human experience.
Rhizome 2, mixed media on wood panel
In our previous feature of Olga’s artworks, we looked at the artist’s mixed media assemblages. These make up a good chunk of the…
The Art Portfolio of Karine Molloy
Quebec-born artist Karine Molloy is an abstract painter who works with bright colours and heavy, decisive brush marks, creating works that sit somewhere between gradient abstraction and line art.
I’m really impressed by the vibrancy of Karine’s recent artworks. In paintings produced between 2016 and 2018, the artist seems to have stepped up the saturation of her paintings even…
Bombastic Geometric Arrangements: Art by Melvin Clark
Melvin Clark is an artist currently based in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. In his artistic practice, Melvin seamlessly blends music with painting, utilizing bright colours and patterns in bombastic geometric arrangements to build and accompany portraits of musicians.
I really enjoy the cohesive colour scheme that Melvin employs throughout his portfolio. The artist’s use of deep, electric…
A Narrative From the Fragments: Art by Amanda D.
Artist Amanda D. works in photography, mixed media, painting, ceramic, and more, using her artistic practice to explore themes of personal belonging, memory, and mental illness. Though the artist’s portfolio is widely varied in its content, recurring motifs help the viewer draw together a narrative from the fragments.
I’m intrigued by Amanda’s repeated use of a baby or child figure in her…
The Conceptual Art Portfolio of El Celso
El Celso is a conceptual artist who lives and works in both Los Angeles and New York. The artist’s practice spans a wide variety of materials and methods, with recent works incorporating painting techniques, text, and video.
Joseph, ink and paint on cardboard
The artist’s most recent series combines figurative painting with geometric abstract compositions and creative writing. I enjoy the way the artist deploys text in these…
Painterly, Emotional Images by David Yawman
David Yawman is a Brooklyn-based painter who frequently works in portraiture, creating painterly, emotional images that capture subjects in the midst of mundane activity. The artist also produces abstract works bursting with saturated colour and movement.
I enjoy the textural quality of David’s paintings. Working in acrylic on canvas, the artist captures the rich textures of fabric and hair,…