Figurative artist Tone (Francis Anthony) O’LEARY was born in England, and migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1966 with his family. He exhibited successfully with Sandra Baker at ‘Studio 48’, Newcastle for the past few seasons. Continue reading »
Kris Lewis

Kris Lewis began dreaming and flailing atop this lovely carnival ride in 1978, in the great surround of the Jersey shore. After studying Illustration at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Kris eventually found himself living and working in Los Angeles, where he still resides and has yet to fully explore. Continue reading »
Caroline Westerhout
Beautiful women painted by Caroline Westerhout, born in 1970 in Weert in the Netherlands. Continue reading »
Danielle O’Brien
Danielle O’Brien is a Brisbane based painter and sculptor. Drawing on influences ranging from Victorian freak shows, to fairytales and Monty Python, Danielle O’Brien creates intense and ambiguous portraits of imaginary female subjects. Her work has been variously described as strangely-beautiful, feminine, eccentric, delicate, bizarre and old-world. Working mainly in oil and watercolour paintings and miniature relief sculptures, Danielle’s work is often a blend of the sublime and the absurd. Continue reading »
Terry Rodgers
Terry Rodgers (born September 11, 1947) is an American figurative painter known for his large scale canvases that focus on portraying contemporary body politics. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1969, with a major in Fine Arts. His strong interest in film and photography influenced his style in the direction of representational realism in art. His paintings are large, complex designs that attempt to reflect his sense of the times we are living in and both how richly interesting they are and how difficult it is for most of us to navigate their uncharted waters.
Rodgers began drawing as a young child. He seriously began experimenting with color when his mother gave him her set of old paints.
As a precocious artist, he was seducing unsuspecting friends to model for him in increasingly compromising attire. Imagine his delight, when at drawing classes at the Corcoran School of Art, he had the good fortune to be confronted with an enormous, loosely fat, woman considerably his elder.
In 2005, three of his monumental figurative canvases were presented at the Valencia Biennial. Abroad he has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Amsterdam, Zurich and Milan, and participated in group shows around the world. In the United States, he has had solo gallery exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Scott G. Brooks

Scott G Brooks is originally from Flint, Michigan, and currently lives and works in Washington, DC. His subject matter ranges from simple portraiture to intricate narratives. In his paintings, he takes social, psychological, and political issues and injects them with a dark sense of humor. Anatomical distortions separate the figures from the photographic ideal, which gives him the freedom to create his own distorted reality. His work is described as twisted and offbeat, sentimental, and disturbing. Continue reading »
Michael Hiep

Michaël Hiep’s (b. Amsterdam, 1959) paintings are elaborate, richly detailed depictions of nature and symbolism. In his work Michaël has always kept faith with realism, even though during his student days abstraction was sometimes obligatory. Continue reading »
Guy Denning

Guy Denning (born 1965) is an English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group, a member of Stuckism International, and part of the urban art scene in Bristol. He works from observation. Continue reading »
James Nares

James Nares was born in 1953 in England and living in New York since 1974. After a foundation year at Falmouth Art College he went on to study fine art at Chelsea in 1972. While there, he took advantage of a student exchange program to go to the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1974-76 and has lived in America ever since. He has worked in film and music but it is his painting that has brought him the greatest recognition. His beautiful non-objective paintings, which despite being large are executed in single gestural strokes, often using brushes he makes himself. Continue reading »
John Currin

John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter living in New York. His work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s women’s magazine advertisements, and contemporary fashion models. He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body. He has been featured in more than 20 solo exhibitions, including “John Currin,” a paintings exhibition organized in 2003 by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Continue reading »

Sandra Scolnik was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1968. She now lives and works in Rennes, France.
The work of Sandra Scolnik explores an allegorical form of self-portraiture. The mise en scène, framed within the edges of her typically modest-sized paintings, portray the changing scenes of an ongoing drama where her self-contained narratives linger in and out of the surreal and the absurd. The figures seem to cross the boundaries of their own physical limits and the associations with their surroundings, where decorative ornaments can become nipples and the bed sheets drawn into a figure’s skirt. The psychological and the corporeal become interchangeable and the sexual clearly present but not without a hint of the sinister. Continue reading »
Korin Faught “Echo”

Echo, a solo exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist Korin Faught, which will be opened on 27 Jun 2009, is the next showstopper hitting Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery. Following her 2008 breakout solo debut ‘Twenty Two‘ at Corey Helford Gallery, Faught continues to evolve her signature works of multiples with the addition of triplet and quadruplet figures. Continue reading »
Ashley Hope

Ashley Hope was born in Montreal, Canada, 1976; lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Houston, TX. Hope’s paintings are not to be taken lightly. Her specific choice of subject matter is the focus of her work. She paints (and draws) tableaus based on crime scene photographs of murdered women, exclusively. The image shown above, Downes Effect: Swallows, is one of the exception of her paintings, so if you don’t have a strong stomach, don’t visit her site. Continue reading »
Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson’s paintings begin with a reflection on archetypes from the history of painting, such as the pastoral landscape, the religious narrative, or the glorifying portrait. A core image is developed using a patchwork of approaches and techniques, from memory to photo-based source material. Continue reading »
























