photos and inspiration submitted by Derek Mathis Art is omnipresent; it’s up to you to recognize it. The lit walls of small galleries and long hallways of museums make it easy to spot a well balanced composition or a thought provoking idea. The historical relevance of these works, as well as local artist’s big-time aspirations, […]
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Creativity can be expressed in in a variety of ways, only limited by one’s lack of ideas. Paint can be meticulously applied to a canvas or aggressively splattered on cardboard. Clay can be caressed with sensual strokes or beat into abstract clumps. A visual display might occur on a gallery wall or within one’s mind […]
Where most people have gone abstract, Candice George has remained loyal to the hand of an artist with experience and skill in the traditional art of Representational charcoal and oil paints. Click HERE or click on her tab under local artist to read her interview and to see some of her work! Let’s here what […]
Eager artist, bouncy socialites and town drunkards met up for a day and night of creative expression at Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pug & Grill. The dining and billiard room was packed with talent exhibiting acrylic and stencil icons, surreal landscapes, goofy characters, mixed media, simple tryptics and lively pen drawing portraits. A variety of bands […]
What visual elements are your eyes drawn to? The wall or rail, the pole or sea gazers, the animated sea or the blue sky? Are you drawn to familiar icons like Andy Warhol, structures, direction of lines like De Chirico or emotional colors Like Van Gogh. Maybe its all abstract and each element is no […]
I spotted the thick trunk of this palm tree while walking home from the village one day. I stood in my tracks awed by the battle which took place before me. The bright red tag, lost in hostile territory, is slowly constricted by its rival of contrasting green shrubbery. Though outnumbered, the red tag holds […]
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