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Figurative | Contemporary art
Figurative art is a type of art that depicts recognizable objects or figures, such as humans, animals, landscapes, and still life objects. It can range from realistic depictions to stylized or abstract representations. Figurative art has a long history and can be found in a variety of cultures and artistic traditions. While it often includes depictions of the human figure, it can also include other subjects, such as animals or objects, and may be created using various media, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and more.
Mara Light, was born in New York in 1970, and raised in Southern California from the age of three. She comes from a family of visual artists. “Painting seemed very natural to me since my early years growing up,” says Mara.
Mary Jane Ansell is a previous finalist in the prestigious BP Portrait Award in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012 and has been selected several times for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition and The Threadneedle Prize. Based in the UK she shows internationally with recent group and solo exhibitions in London, New York, Singapore and LA.
Victoria Selbach is a contemporary artist focusing on women and is best known for her compelling life-size nude depictions of women. Selbach explores the complexity of her contemporaries in relation to our generational feminine legacy.
Paintings by Martin J Leighton
Born in Montrose Scotland in 1951, Martin has lived in Weymouth in the beautiful county of Dorset from […]
Aja Trier is a contemporary artist from the USA who evokes memories of Vincent Van Gogh in her own style. ” Although I’ve been painting since my age was measured in months (my mom, a toll painter, would give me scraps of wood from her projects, a cup of water, and a brush for me to “paint” with….) I really became serious with it in ’99 during my last years of high school. Resigned to my profession I was accepted to Montserrat College of Art on scholarship and concentrated on painting.
Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen was born in Paarl (South Africa), raised mostly in Gauteng, currently residing in Mossel Bay. ” I took my first breath in 1972 in the small town of Paarl in the Boland. My dad was a teacher at HS van der Walt Girls’ High and our family also lived on the school grounds.
Steve Henderson has seen a lot of the world on the back of a bicycle, having pedaled his way through Latin and South America three times. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Art from Central Washington University in 1984, he and his wife, Carolyn, settled for a year in the mountains of Colombia, living in a broom-closetturned-bedroom at the home of Colombian friends. (Thirty years later, Steve’s son Jordan reconnected with those same friends in Medellin, Colombia.)
Spanish artist German Aracil was born in 1965 in Alicante (Spain). In 1985 he began his studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Art in Valencia, Spain. Aracil’s first one-man show was held in his home town of Alicante, followed in 1990 by exhibitions in New York’s Liz Liberatore Gallery. Two years later he took part in the Art Miami International Art Fair.