Guy Yanai is an Israeli painter who work seems at once rooted in the historical traditions of paintings – echoing the greats, like Matisse and Cezanne – and yet their flattened, pixelated style, has an almost digital vector quality. Yanai focuses on the everyday, using pastels and bright colours to form his subjects. guy-yanai.com
The Moroccans” is a series of life-sized photographic portraits shot in a mobile studio transported around Morocco. Tapping into her Moroccan heritage, photographer Leila Alaoui spent time staying with different communities to create photographs from the perspective of the participant observer, aiming for a more informed angle than an external documentarian might take. Inspired by… Read more »
Artist Robert Yasuda describes his work as “meditative paintings”. They create a depth of space, they reflect light, they have movement, shifting with night and day. Yasuda’s paintings are painted on wood, sometimes multi-paneled, which are often carved, shaped, and modified to enhance the physical presence of the image, and then covered with very fine… Read more »
Canadian abstract painter Erin Loree creates these beautiful canvases of bright, vibrant, energetic colour. Layered and heavy with paint her work depicts an inner world or feeling, in a way that is reactionary, provoking and alive. See more here: erinloree.com
Welcome 2016! The holidays may be over, but it’s still summertime as the gentle lull of post-holidays ticks along. Fabrizio Raschetti’s photography evokes the heat, colour and calming stillness of the midday sun. Searing, wet, moody, tropical, details play an important role in this Milan photographer’s work. fabrizioraschetti.tumblr.com