Urban Landscapes: The Art Portfolio of Nicole Richards
Nicole Richards’ studio art practice centers on celebrating the wonder and awe that comes with immersing oneself in the natural world. Nicole’s artworks often depict birds and other animals in habitats that intersect with urban landscapes.
I love the way that Nicole incorporates the look and feel of raw wood into her artworks by using uncoated panels as substrate – the occasional wood grain texture…
An Art Portfolio of Cityscapes and Florals: Allen Wittert
Allen Wittert is a painter who works in a blocky, abstracted style, rendering his subjects in planes of bright colour and heavy, confident lines. The artist’s portfolio features human figures as well as cityscapes and florals.
I really enjoy Allen’s bombastic painting style – the works in his art portfolio are all imbued with a vibrant sense of energy that’s almost contagious. I feel more…
Changeable Energy: An Art Portfolio by Edie Marshall
Tangled Energy, oil on Terra skin paper
Painter Edie Marshall captures the changeable energy of the Saskatchewan landscape in works of varying dimensions and levels of detail. Edie’s paintings find beauty in both the vast spaces and the tiniest details of the prairies.
I really enjoy the loose, painterly approach that Edie takes in her works – painting from direct observation, the artist’s gestural…
The Vividly Colourful Art Portfolio of Penny Prior
Penny Prior is an artist who lives and works on Galiano Island, off the coast of British Columbia. The artist’s works are vividly colourful, and use a simplified style to depict island life, animals, and landscapes.
In our previous feature of Penny’s portraits of island life, we looked at the way the artist uses her bright palette to create a cohesive image of the island environment, and to explore abstraction.…
Dense and Painterly: The Art Portfolio of Lully Schwartz
Artist Lully Schwartz is based in Point Shore, Massachusetts. Large, confident brush marks and clear evidence of the artist’s hand rule Lully’s portfolio, and the artist’s overall style is dense and painterly.
I really like the look and feel of Lully’s paintings – the works are mostly figurative, but the artist’s style leans into abstraction to create a pleasantly fluid…
Chloé Surprenant's Mixed Media Art Portfolio
Chloé Surprenant is an artist who lives and works in Montréal and Amsterdam. Chloé’s artworks consist of layered mixed media compositions that explore themes of the “other” – the differences, and hidden similarities, between human experiences and feelings.
I enjoy the overall aesthetic that Chloé has built up in her portfolio. The works currently available on her art portfolio website span…
Creative Photography: The Art Portfolio of Cody Blain Jones
Cody Blain Jones is a photographer based in Austin, Texas. In his creative photography, Cody explores dreams and the subconscious, using a range of different techniques to create a slightly off-kilter, surreal atmosphere in his images.
I’m impressed by the range of styles present in Cody’s creative photography portfolio. In Somnabulism alone, for example, there are photographs that are taken in…
Odist Tattoo: Heather Lefebvre's Art Portfolio
Heather Lefebvre of Odist Tattoo creates artworks dealing with a variety of subject matter, from the dark and macabre, to the familiar. The artist’s tattoo work includes a range of animals and objects in colour and black-and-white.
As we saw in our previous feature of Heather’s work with occult and animal imagery, the artist’s portfolio of personal artwork has a satisfying sense of cohesion. Many of the images…
A Portfolio of Mixed Media Artworks by Susan Gransby
Susan Gransby’s mixed media artworks take complex architectural forms and simplify them, creating signs and signifiers in the form of streamlined, graphic imagery. The artist plays with negative space, sometimes layering small images on a large blank surface.
In our previous feature we looked at Susan’s linocuts – the artist has a knack for building imagery out of shadow…
Geometric Paintings: The Portfolio of Sarah Trundle
Monkey Bars, acrylic and pastel on canvas
Sarah Trundle creates abstract artworks that explore formal elements distilled to their most basic building blocks: lines and planes of color. In her geometric paintings, the artist creates overlapping patterns that hint at figure and space without revealing either.
Embrace, acrylic and graphite on canvas
I love Sarah’s sparing use of colour. The subdued palette that runs throughout her…
Historical Artworks: The Art Portfolio of Sarah James
Artist Sarah James was trained in painting but now primarily works in print media. Sarah’s prints often utilize geometric grids and straight lines, expressing the artist’s interest in the rectangle as a significant form in historical artworks.
I love the way Sarah incorporates this spiritual geometry into her printed works. While the artist’s works tend to be fairly simple in terms of…
The Textile Art Portfolio of Pat Autenrieth
Dedicated to Cheese for No Reason (collaboration), fabric marker, hand applique, hand and machine embroidery, hand and machine quilting
Pat Autenrieth works in textile art and bookmaking, innovating in the field of arts and crafts – particularly quilting. Pat’s works embrace both the unique quirks of the quilted medium, and the aesthetic language of contemporary art, to create a fascinating hybrid.
Catherine Bourassa-Hebert's Painting and Printmaking Portfolio
CSS IV Untitled 6, acrylic on canvas
Abstract artist Catherine Bourassa-Hebert divides her time between Montréal and Boston, creating works in painting and printmaking. The artist’s works veer toward abstraction, though they often borrow recognizable forms along the way.
CSS IV Untitled 7, acrylic on canvas
I enjoy Catherine’s particular approach to painted abstraction. In our previous feature of the artist’s patterns and…
The Mixed Media Art Portfolio of Darren Hurst
Doppelganger, acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas
Darren Hurst is an artist based in Fresno, California, who works in a range of traditional mixed media. Darren’s artworks are often figurative, and the artist tends toward rendering his pieces in detailed brush marks.
La Esmeralda, acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas
Darren’s compositions tend to focus on a central figure – sometimes this figure takes up the entire canvas, while…
The Art Portfolio of Painter and Photographer Dianne Cuzner
Alberta Camping, acrylic on canvas
Dianne Cuzner is a painter and photographer based in western Canada. The artist has an eye for bright, exciting color, an aesthetic that carries over into works that deal with peaceful coastal subject matter; landscapes and bodies of water.
Journeys End, acrylic on canvas
In her artistic practice, Dianne expresses a genuine love for the art form. She combines numerous influences from her personal…