Left Brain Artists
Christmas edition Beards abound around Christmas time. Well, Santa sports the winner, but Christmas gnomes don’t fall much behind. Ruffled beards, unruly beards, neat wooly beards… even some of my colleagues grow seasonal beards around this time of the year… Well, feathery wings also show up, as well as cottony snowflakes. Enchanted forests, white pines, […]
At this year’s Brain Art in Montreal, the Art in Mind studio is exhibiting ‘All in One’ installation. You can learn about the theme of the exhibition and concepts embodied in this multilayered installation at the ‘All in One’ project webpage, as well as in the ‘All in One’ brochure/booklet. ‘All in One’ Bellow is […]
Irresistible attraction Curiously, most of us are cat lovers. Animal lovers, rather. Living with cats, it is impossible not to rejoice in their elegance, posture, curiosity, playfulness, hunting instincts. Cats, often depicted in art pieces, as a sole subject, as a companion of people, women (revisit here some of woman/cat companion paintings), participants in domestic […]
Large alcohol ink paintings The August studio workshop was focused on painting ‘Art Garden’. Enveloped in the tranquility of ‘Zen garden’. Waterfall murmuring in sink with our voices, hummingbirds feeding on monarda’s blooms, critters milling around in early rush for fall preparations, stone Budas sleeping peacefully in shadows of late summer flowering… Summer rain, refreshing, […]
Garden design and art ‘Canadian garden’ is a perpetual surprise! Great North, where conifers and taiga species dominate, yet unexpected lushness bursts in summer months along great lakes and coasts. Winter-hardy species are curios and unexpected in their short and showy seasonal displays. Some of Canadian gardens stand proudly ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with other world […]
Mixed media paintings Alter Ego runs deep in each person. We are rarely unidirectional. Rather a multitude. Whereas our previous Alter Ego session explored masks as (artistic) tool to assume different personalities, a desire to conceal or transform our identity, the true ‘alter ego’ resides within us on its own – no need for masks. […]
Neurographic Installation Community is a foundational unit of the society, no matter what cultural or historical background it originates from. I am not anthropologist or social scientist, just an observer…it seems to me that the community is much more than a sum of individuals forming it. Individuals and groups forming and integrating into a community […]
Mixed media Mixed media is a blast!. I imagine that it emerged when an artist, exploring the core medium to (personal) limits, felt compelled to reach for another to break out of limiting boundaries…and, in doing so, oppened up limitless possibilities. Today, there are no boundaries. Any combination of artistic media (and objects) is accepted […]
Clay sculptures and figurines Unlike paintings that create an illusion of space, objects occupy space. You can view them all around, front, back, side; they are palpably 3D. Figurative or abstract, sculpture is all about dimensions. Space and our place in it. Objects relate to each other and can be used in 3D installations. These interactions […]
Life story and paintings of Maria Blanchard Spain, the crossroad of civilizations and religions, the country of gypsies and flamenco, the hotbed of art and architecture. Think the court art of Velazquez, nudes and ghosts of de Goya, elongated El Greco. At the helm of avantgarde, creating a history of artistic innovation, Pablo, Salvador, Huan. […]
Left Brain Artists