Painting

August 25, 2025

Dreamy ‘Fluid Impressionism’ Paintings Imagine the Natural World in Flowing Beauty

With nature as her muse, artist Silver Francis imagines the world in ways that are both familiar and flowing. Her colorful landscape and floral oil paintings feature stylized renderings of mountainscapes, waterways, plants, and rock formations, often infused with a bit of magic. Warmth emanates from larger-than-life forms and illuminates delicate petals, flapping butterfly wings, and the inner depths of twisted tree branches.

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August 14, 2025

Abstract Painter Creates Colorful Works Inspired by the Beauty of Stained Glass

Creativity often builds from one medium to another, and British artist Jason Anderson knows this firsthand. His artistic journey began in stained glass, when he worked on several restoration projects for cathedrals in England. Although he left the medium behind, it still shapes his style today. Now a painter, he creates vibrant, abstract works filled with luminous colors and geometric forms that echo the glasswork tradition he came from.

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August 12, 2025

Artist Looks Inward To Create Mind-Bending Paintings That Explore Mental Health [Interview]

For Maite Autrique, painting is more than a creative effort—it’s something that saved her life. The Mexican artist defines work as “raw, emotional, and deeply personal.” But just because something is rooted in personal experience, doesn’t mean it’s bound to stay in the realm of realistic or figurative art. Instead, Autrique takes an oneiric route, meditating on feelings and events she has faced through mind-bending compositions that evoke a form of contemporary surrealism.

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July 31, 2025

Intricate Portraits Painted on Persian Rugs Link the Past to the Present

Carpets are, in and of themselves, already an intricate art form, but Mateo Humano takes the practice a step further. For years, the French artist has reimagined the relationship between modern, ornamental, and traditional craft, painting highly contemporary portraits of women upon Persian rugs. The result, as Humano himself writes, is a striking mix of “urban art and the heritage of ancient cultures,” establishing a clear lineage between the past and the present.

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