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…
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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: Sanam Khatibi
Sanam Khtibi speaks of her work saying, “my women are vulnerable and yet predators at the same time. They are also depicted within the same plane as the animals, who represent power, danger, and our primitive instincts.”While she uses art historical references and traditional compositions, she juxtaposes them with her innovative and unique style that…
How to have a Merry and Mindful Christmas
This year has certainly been a strange one, with worries, anxiety, and stress that perhaps you have never had to deal with or experienced before. So, during this festive period, it is the perfect time to reflect and remind yourself of the positives, and practice mindfulness. We’ve put together a guide to help you to…
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…
Art & Nature Series: Bada Shanren
5 Ways to Improve your Fitness and Mental Health
The relationship between fitness and mental health is very important, with exercising, workout sessions, and fitness trainings providing many benefits for our mental health and emotional wellbeing. Many animals in their natural habitat move much more than us as part of their everyday life, but we as a species have become too sedentary. Incorporating movement…
Art & Nature Series: Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s magnificent Water Lilies series (1914 – 1926) are some of his most famous works as Monet repeatedly depicts his beloved garden which he treated as a work of art alone, calling it his “finest masterpiece.” Working in the Impressionist style, Monet focuses on the experiential feeling and optical pleasure of nature with colourful…