Heather Horton is a Canadian figurative artist painting mostly portraiture and still life. She is represented by the Abbozzo Gallery, the Loch Gallery and the Kurbatoff Art Gallery and many of her sold and available paintings and illustrations are on display on her website. Today’s review is dedicated to the artist’s portraits.
I like these paintings for their promises of numerous pleasures. Yes, there is the basic familiar satisfaction in watching still life unfold on the panel, — pleasure of the aesthetic kind, simply put, the one which every art lover grows to appreciate with time. However, here its edge dulls somewhat in the presence of the [...]
Although these obsolete mechanisms were designed for purposes that to some may seem opposing — a conversation with oneself (and the audience) when using the typewriter and a conversation with a different person while talking on a phone — they were both, nevertheless, used as a means of communication. Circles embody that kinship, the geometrical [...]
M Collier is an American artist based in California, who paints mostly still life. Browsing M’s blog is not unlike doing detective work: one witnesses how during the course of almost two years the artist’s style gradually shifts from realism to hyper-realism — without clearly fitting into either of the two, and making some unexpected [...]
Cows are sizable animals, yet in two of these paintings the artist makes them appear small. This contrast characterizes them as helpless, as if a part of a machine controlled by an invisible giant, possibly a tyrant. We realize that the machine is the cattle industry whereas the giant is the man behind it. I [...]
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