Wilhelm SasnalUntitled (2010) The artist, filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator Wilhelm Sasnal creates graphic and atmospheric paintings culminating inspiration from daily life, media, and art history. The subdued nature of his work is heavily influenced by gothic imagery from the visual culture of the music he grew up on. The artist became tired of the pretentiousness…
Tag: landscape art
Art & Nature Series: Anna Bjerger
Anna Bjerger – Acid/Creek (2018) Anna Bjerger’s process uses photographs from her collection of books as references. She talks about how, as a child she was always interested about what was happening in the background of the main protagonist.By using photos she rescues images “that would otherwise disappear” and re-contextualises them through the physicality of…
Art & Nature Series: Mamma Andersson
Mamma Andersson constructs cinematic scenes – showing the full spectrum of Nordic landscapes. Her use of colour is reactionary, favouring both expressive blocks of colour along with almost translucent tints. This build-up of colour creates a depth of colour and atmosphere.Andersson is unafraid to have large areas of black, immediately catching your eye. She threads…
Art & Nature Series: Nigel Cooke
Nigel CookeArtist’s Garden 2 (2018)“I’ve reached a point where I feel I want something to be democratic in terms of interpretation. The work is like a screen that is available for projection.” Nigel Cooke achieves this elusive in between of figuration and abstraction, which leads to works that are open to viewer’s interpretation of what…
Art & Nature Series: JMW Turner
Turner’s desire to understand the world led him to pioneer Romantic paintings, focusing on capturing the emotional experience of the landscape through expressive brush marks and luminous colours. For many years he trained as an accomplished watercolourist leading him to work boldly and quickly. His skills, translated into an eclectic style, led him to paint…
Art & Nature Series: Emily a
Emily Carr’s living, moving paintings are infused with such joy and love for the land she depicts. Her location on the Pacific west coast of Canada captures an image of the underrepresented indigenous cultural monuments and art of the first people, who she practically lived with and was given the nickname ‘The Laughing One’.Emily CarrYoung…
Art & Nature Series: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s watercolour paintings are a rare treat to behold. His skill as an artist can be seen in how he never overworks his en-plein-air paintings, leaving the luminescence of the paper to convey the brightness of the sun. His love of nature and his joy of painting can clearly be seen in mark…
Art & Nature Series: Paul Cezanne
For many years Paul Cezanne studied Mount Sainte-Victoire, retreating to his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in his later career. He wanted to be able to depict what he saw in its full metaphysical glory and pushed the Impressionist mode of painting forward with a more experimental and analytical way to depict a landscape. Cezanne was interested…
Art & Nature Series: April Gornik
“I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful” – April GornikGornik’s incredibly immersive works that use “light as the protagonist” to create dreamlike…