Self styled and successful Metal Artist Karen Lancey welds beautiful pieces of art for the home and garden. Using new and recycled materials that are gathered, donated, and sorted she recreates her love of nature into amazingly beautiful sculptures, often with a sense of humour and fun.
Observation is the First Step to Preservation
In Oman, my sketchbook and paints are constantly in use as I try to capture the stark beauty around me. However, in this barren land it is rare to see much wildlife. Most of Arabia’s wildlife is endangered, especially mammals like Leopard, Oryx and Wolf.
Man Wearing Still Life
By the time I was four years old I would frequently go a.w.o.l. to explore Fraser Street. Familiar landmarks were Honest Nat’s department store (they had a radio jingle then) and the enormously tall sign with gigantic letters in front of the Fraser movie house.
Art Inspired by Africa & Conservation
Field sketching in Africa is my life-drawing class, a speed-sketching session in which I have no control over when my subject appears, what it will do or how long it will stay. In contrast, my studio paintings are all about creative control – of subject, composition and color.
What’s in the Future for the Orangutans?
“I don’t necessarily do things “by the book.” I trust my instincts and let my drawing take form one pencil stroke at a time. It leads to a state of stillness where time appears to stand still. I feel connected to my subject.’ – Geraldine Simmons
Art Heals
I’d never planned on being “an artist”. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Becoming an artist was a definite career path that I’d been thinking quite deeply about… when I was about seven years old. That year I’d also decided I wanted to be an astronaut, a lion tamer and a millionaire.
The Painting Zone
Lisa’s dog Lucy is the inspiration for her Pet Portraits. Lucy in the pride & joy of her family and has been the subject of many bold and colourful paintings. Each of Lisa’s pet portraits reveal their unique personality. She captures their essence and turns them into cherished works of art.
Imagined Train Stations – Part 1
I tend to paint in an impressionistic, realist style, recording figures passing through a moment of time, migrating to an unknown place or opening, represented by a source of light. I am working on a series of paintings that speak to some of these moments and passages in the form of imagined trains.
Jose Baldi, Modern-Impressionistic Artist, Puerto Vallarta
Jose’s romantic interpretations of still life, nudes, landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes, real or imaginary, represent a search for nature and freedom ….
GALAPAGOS – Forty Days and Forty Nights – An Artist’s Sojourn
The Galapagos Islands are isolated from other land masses, straddling the equator with Ecuador, the nearest land, 960 km to the east. They consist of 13 large islands, 6 smaller islands and many islets in the most active oceanic volcanic region in the world.
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