THE EMOTIONAL STORY OF PEOPLE Juliette Belmonte draws inspiration from historical photographs, the people and situations in her own life, and from a rich imagination that was fostered in a childhood spent in Central America. She is drawn to people or faces who’s emotional story are written through expression or posture, allowing the viewer to […]
REALISM IS NOT ENOUGH Patrick Palmer specialises in realist figurative art, portraits and semi-nudes. He has studied under Michael Clark – a friend of Francis Bacon – and by Bobby Gill, an honourary fellow at The Royal College of Art. Whilst an element of realism is important, in the artist’s own words: “I move beyond […]
THE STRENGTH OF A NAKED EYE What do you do when no one’s watching? – Talking to myself – proves to be very useful. Paulina Otylie Surys is a fashion photographer with a unique practice. Having trained in classical painting, she made a decision to take up screen printing around two years ago and through […]
URBAIN PORTRAITS Tim Okamura investigates identity, the urban environment, metaphor, and cultural iconography through a unique method of painting – one that combines an essentially ‘realist’ approach to the figure with collage, spray paint and mixed media. The juxtaposition of the rawness and urgency of street art and academic ideals has created a visual language […]
CONFUSING CRAKED PORTRAITS ‘Cracked portraits’ by japanese designer Taisuke Mohri are a series of detailed pencil artworks overlayed with a pane of cracked glass – known as the ‘material cracks’. The confronting work errs on the edge of something existent in reality and something imagined – offered only by the precise hyper-real workmanship – where […]
HYBRID IMAGES Oriol Angrill-Jordà is known for his ethereal blendscapes, hybrid images which present human figures constructed from delicate landscapes. Blendsapes fuse two images into one, a figure and a landscape. The artist works in a variety of media – colored pencil, acrylics, pastels, watercolor, graphite and charcoal, but whichever technique he uses, he manages […]
