I create portraits from photos provided by clients. Portraits can be made in many different techniques- black and white pencil drawings, colourful pastels, oil paintings on canvas or watercolours.
Price depends on technique used, size and number of people on the painting.
“Raquel Forner (1902-1988) was an Argentine painter known for her expressionist works.
Forner’s work demonstrated an interest in current events, and from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 this took a dramatic and tragic tone. She borrowed ideas from surrealism during the 1940s, adapting its esthetic of distortion without seeking to reproduce a dream state. In 1942 she took first place at the Argentine National Salon competition.During the 1940s through most of the 1950s she produced several series on similar tragic themes in a primarily expressionist mode. Forner often portrayed strong female figures, but not as specific explorations into gender norms. “
“The work of the eminent Belgian painter, draftsman and writer Philippe Vandenberg is characterised by an inner quest in which various literary, philosophical and art-historical references induce a temporary state of wonder. Using images, words and symbols, Vandenberg challenged the ethical context of the artwork. In so doing, his paintings and drawings remain rooted in the here and now, while also establishing a visually recognisable dialogue with the society in which they were created. Over the years, he endeavoured to transcend the tangible and to convert paint into light. In the works of Vandenberg, universal themes such as war, religion, movement, sexuality and death are crucially transformed.”
«Dieter Roth was a German-Swiss Conceptual artist. Best known for his use of biodegradable foodstuffs, he created large-scale installations and sculptures that incorporated cheese, chocolate, and sugar, lending oppressive smells to his exhibitions. Blurring the line between process and product, Roth embraced accidents, mutation, and mutability in his finished works. Born on April 21, 1930 in Hannover, Germany, he gained asylum in Bern, Switzerland during World War II as a teenager. Influenced by formal exercises in design, commercial art, and the works of Paul Klee, Roth employed typography and geometric elements to produced books during the 1950s...»
Stephenson (1934 – 2000) was an English abstract artist. Stephenson’s work was characteristically made by splattering droplets of paint onto paper or canvas and repeating this with many different colours. Because the layers are applied quite widely the effect created in the finished paintings is determined not only by the colour and quantity of the spots of paint, but by the order in which they were applied.
Avigdor Stematsky (1908–89) was a Russian-born Israeli painter. He is considered one of the pioneers of Israeli abstract art.Stematsky was born in 1908 in Odessa. He joined the Massad group in Tel Aviv. In 1929, he went to Paris to study at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Colarossi. He was one of the founders of the New Horizons group. He held his first solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art at the age of 31
“Andre Dekeijser (1924 – 2013) was a Belgian contemporary sculptor known for his abstract and monumental work primarily in copper and bronze. Having manipulated terracotta, wood, stone and Y'tong, André Dekeijser focused on copper and bronze. The polishing and application of patinas on bronze pieces increased their relief and rendered them tactile. His first monumental pieces were created in copper. He cut, soldered and applied patinas to red copper creating larger formats whose intertwining shapes evoke the notion of the couple. In order to ascertain pieces could withstand enlargement, small clay or wax models were submitted to a test of a series of figurines diminishing in size. “
George McNeil (1908 – 1995) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
McNeil commented to art historian Irving Sandler in 1968: «my work has always had not a human figure image, but it always had a figural image. There always seems to be some kind of center image...that is figural, or imagistic… is not only found: it’s completely abstract. You see this is the whole thing: I’m not a figure painter at all. I’m an abstract painter where I hope that bringing in the figure brings in certain human or psychological connotations or associations.»
Anna Pikos Polisch contemporary artist born 1983
«Recently I focus on surreal acrylic painting. A characteristic of most of my paintings are dense and precise patterns, which compose simple forms. It’s a complexity of simplicity, showed by me by two reasons. First is my love for complicated constructions and ornaments. The second one is my way of perceiving the world as seemingly chaotic structure, from which a deeper meaning emerges after all. Observing the nature, I find both in it- honest simplicity and chaos, complexity and variety, that compose that simplicity. Those characteristics are universal in my opinion, not only in nature but also in everyday life of civilized human...»( Anna Pikos)
Paul Feiler ( 1918 – 2013) was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world.
“The artist’s abstract canvases slough off their rough surfaces, and shed chalky layers of paint, to emerge thinner, lighter and crisper than before. These paintings (in fact, they account for some 40 years of his career) seem more regimented, but also more ethereal than his earlier works. Painted in series, each follows a similar pattern: thin strips of finely graded colour are arranged along horizontal and vertical axes, and seem to recede into an inscrutable central space.… “
