The discrepancy between dark palette and light mood creates an effect of surprise and subsequently suspense. In these greyhound paintings this stylistic feature (of mood and color counterpoise) finds a more comic than ironic expression. Indeed sometime I get the feeling the artist fully enjoyed and indulged herself painting these subjects — so unstrained looks [...]
This series enthrall me for what seems like an intentional obstruction and defocussing. Some of the grand pianos appear to float on a floor of haze, others are about to sink in waves of light. Either way, air and light, made conspicuously visible, act as a kind of a plate that presents the main dish, [...]
Sandra Flood is a self-taught artist living and working in the USA. She paints in a variety of genres; her figurative, abstract, still life and landscape pieces may be seen on her website and blog. Several stylistic features reminiscent of Edgar Degas, a proclaimed influence, may be traced in her artwork — but always filtered [...]
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