by Lisa | Apr 25, 2021 | Artist Profile
Sarah Rocca is a self-portrait artist who explores the beauty she sees in the darkness of life. Where you might feel tension or discomfort, Rocca feels a sense of peace and ease when delving into subjects like fear, anxiety and death. This fascination with darkness and beauty can be seen throughout Rocca’s work as she aims to create pieces that ask the viewer to see themselves through her eyes. Rocca’s work portrays single subjects, often in uncomfortable positions, signifying the challenges we face mentally and physically throughout our daily lives. Rocca aims to explore subjects which society would rather sweep under the rug and what social media hides; female sexuality, anxiety, mental health, grief. These are topics which everyone will encounter throughout their lives yet for many they are topics you don’t speak of. Rocca uses her art as a way to tell her own story which allows the viewer to feel like they can relate in one way or another.
by Lisa | Apr 23, 2021 | Featured Artist
Crystal Marshall is a contemporary fine artist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from Kingston Jamaica, Her paintings pay homage to her life’s experiences rooted in cultural disparities in the modern-day African diaspora. Her distinctive personal style emanates isolation, self-reflection and expresses the spirit and atmosphere of the black consciousness in efforts to reconcile its relationship with true identity and image.
by Lisa | Apr 18, 2021 | Artists Q-U
The Music of Art Kaoru Shibuta is an exciting Japanese painter who has exhibited his work both at home in Japan and abroad in Spain, Taiwan and Cambodia. Inspired by jazz and classical music, he predominately composes paintings that act as visual transformations of...
by Lisa | Apr 17, 2021 | Featured Artist
Jane McAdam Freud is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed sculptor and multidisciplinary artist. Very early on, museums and institutions began acquiring her relief works and drawings. Writing is a large part of her practice and McAdam Freud has published over twenty papers on her works and process. Graduating with honours in 1981 from the Central School of Art in London, she went on to be awarded the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome – an accolade she held for three years. She continued to teach short courses at the Royal College of Art while from 1993-95 combining that role with a Master’s degree (Project title: Forms of Relief).
by Lisa | Apr 16, 2021 | Art News
Connaught Brown is delighted to present Hunan-ynysu : Self Island, an exhibition by the acclaimed Welsh artist Shani Rhys James. In her arresting still lifes, portraits and interiors Rhys James examines her own image and relationships to explore the transience of being. Created over the past year during the Covid filled months, this new body of work reflects upon the challenges and realisations we have been confronted with, as both individuals and society.
