Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Eric Joyner has a seemingly endless fascination with robots; not just any robots, mind you, specifically those wonderfully bizarre tin robots from the 1950’s, largely made in Japan and often constructed in inexplicable configurations; oh, and doughnuts, lots of doughnuts. Joyner was an illustrator with clients like Random House, McGraw-Hill, Levi’s, Sprint, Hasbro Warner Brothers…

A simultaneous fascination with detail and uncluttered open spaces led to an unusual combination of the two for Nigel (NJ) Cox, an Irish born artist now living and working in London. Cox calls his stye Photorealistic Minimalism, and gives a description here of its inception and of the original work that started him on this…

Ukrainian painter Evgeni Gordiets was trained at the National School of Fine Arts, State University of Fine Arts and the State Academy of Fine Art, all in Kiev, Ukraine. You will sometimes hear his paintings referred to as “sunny” or “serene” Surrealism. Though I doubt that Gordiets adheres to the actual tenants of the original…

The landscapes of Bill Turner come with invitations. Most of them follow a compositional motif of roads, often central to the image, inviting you to step onto the road and follow it into the landscape. Turner lives and works in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His landscapes, painted in oil and acrylic, are softly rendered, at…

I’ve written previously about Erik Tiemens, and his blog Virtual Gouache Land. Tiemens has recently redone his web site at watersketch.com with an emphasis on his gouache and watercolor paintings and sketches. There are also galleries of oil paintings, drawings and photography. Tiemens’ gouache paintings, though sometimes combined with watercolor or pastel, often take advantage…