donderdag 27 juni 2013

Jim Farrant


Jim Farrant was born in Taunton, Somerset in 1972. He attended Portsmouth College of Art. After completing his formal education he travelled extensively throughout America and Australia, returning to the UK to settle in London where he has lived and worked until moving back to studios in Taunton. He has selected Marine House at Beer as his resident gallery

Recently I have been inspired by the American realist school and this is reflected in my current work. I mainly work in oils and have spent the last 2 years experimenting and really getting to know the medium.”

“The painting process always begins with a photograph, be they flowers or people. I have built a substantial collection of digital images. I then make a composite picture. I could end up with a street scene containing interesting figures which have been taken from a number of different situations – this allows me to create a definite composition and I then sketch this on to a panel and the painting process begins. The same applies to still lifes where the real excitement is depicting shadows and reflections.”

“For my people paintings I like to focus on contemporary human settings and environments – the way a person moves and the body language employed by us all can add a certain degree of mood and narrative to a painting without being too obvious.
Colour and its tonal qualities are extremely important to me. I want my paintings to be realistic but with an energy and freedom of execution”























































maandag 17 juni 2013

Yuriy Shevchuk



Born in 1961 in Kiev, Ukraine, Yuri Shevchuk attended the Kiev Art School and later the prestigious Kiev Architectural Academy. Yuriy has adopted the practice of recording his own experiences in his artworks: his three passions, painting architecture and cityscapes, jazz and historical cars have become the focus of his paintings. Since 1993 Shevchuk has been living in the city of Prague, which he depicts in many of his paintings and also where he exhibits his work widely. He has been described as an accomplished master, full of artistic and intellectual energy. Bewitched with jazz music he skillfully and rapidly sketches the cool and charming figures of musicians in action, showing the positive mood of jazz and the stunning spiritual intensity of this bright magical world. His lively and spontaneous paintings expertly translate the atmosphere and verve of the music, using dripping, seeping paints and pastels. Another part of his interests is retro cars. He does not paint cars as such, but tries to depict his emotional perception of retro style. So, the observer can feel spirit of the past on his works. Shevchuk, an associate member of the Pastels Society of America, has participated in numerous exhibitions and his work is held in collections all over the world. The clarity, harmony, the refined palette of colour and line attract sophisticated art and music lovers worldwide. In the presence of Yuriy’s paintings one can almost hear the blues, feel the beguiling emotions and impassioned feelings of the musicians translated through the artist; such intoxication supports the belief that Yuriy Shevchuk is undoubtedly among the leading contemporary artists exhibiting widely in the Czech Republic today.

















































































































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