“Love Not War” Fabric Banners

[ad_1] I started working on these “Love Not War” banners just a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. I began with the Ukrainian flag colors, but soon recognized that there were other countries at war right now, with innocent people dying and refugees fleeing. Specifically, in […]

Mother, child & fashionable beach culture

[ad_1] It is easy to see why Emanuel Phillips Fox’s Bathing hour (L’heure du bain) c.1909 is one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s Australian Art Collection: sun sparkling on a golden beach; a pretty woman in a lovely dress tenderly drying a little girl; a tranquil blue […]

“Swimmers, Swinging Bridge, Topsham, Maine” by Michael Kolster — Portland Museum of Art

[ad_1] Michael Kolster’s (born 1963) Take Me to the River series, supported by a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, documents four “unsung” American river ways—the Androscoggin, Schuylkill, James, and Savannah—to visualize their ecological transformations since the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972. His pictures demonstrate how waters and shores once […]

Passion – Veronica Winters Painting

[ad_1] Passion “A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist. It must never be a copy.” Edgar Degas Focus, 38inches, oil painting on canvas by Veronica Winters Dedicate your time to your passion. People have a lot of potential but they don’t know that […]