By Kathy O’Flinnkathy@swspotlight.com Claire Sayers creates big wide landscapes. Currently she is working on a painting of a very large weeping willow on the water’s edge. “It’s 1.8 meters high and 2.4 meters long. It’s huge. You feel like you can walk straight into it and sit under that willow tree,” she said recently in […]
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We Neapolitans love our town and are proud that it continues to be recognized as the happiest city in America. Naples is growing and becoming more beautiful and sophisticated every year. It is the perfect time for a biographer to come along, who depicts Naples’s life in the same joyful manner and happy perspective as […]
Social media has played a pivotal role in reviving people’s love for art. This was demonstrated when Richard Hutchins, a homeless man, became an overnight sensation after his artwork was promoted on the internet. Since then, he has sold paintings for thousands of dollars and has donated a portion of his earnings to those who are suffering […]
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Mauro Bonaventura dialogues with glass souls as he does with a friend, a traveling companion, talking about his own emotions and the sensations that come to him. When he touches the glass, an almost visceral relationship forms, he tells stories from the present and the past that narrate the beauty and charm of the Venetian […]
British artist Debra Franses Bean creates purse sculptures in which trendy consumable items appear to float, suspended. Forever encapsulated in clear resin, the ArtBags excite and tease us with the impossibility of ever using these objects. Each ArtBag is inspired by women that Debra has met, or pop-culture themes. They define the modern woman, symbolizing […]
Read The Full Article: Weapons of Male Destruction – ArtBag Sculptures by Debra Franses