Adam Sultan Figurative Paintings

Blush of Spring II captures a quiet moment of early bloom. Delicate pink buds and soft white petals emerge along slender branches, floating gently across a pale green background. The...

Some things arrive before they are ready. A branch finds its direction. A petal opens before the light is right. Colour appears where silence was. Frequency I is the beginning of som...

Raised by an artist father, Irinka Talakhadze has been immersed in the world of art from an early age. Her father, a profound influence on her artistic journey, instilled in her a de...

As is generally the case with my paintings, this work proceeded from a place of unknowing. The specificity of imagery and technique belie the non-specific character of the ideas and narratives presented. The imagery is not tied to any pre-existent source (textual or other). It is not preconceived by the artist, rather it is produced spontaneously in the process of painting. That said, it seems both easy and sensible to connect the imagery in this painting to common cultural material, especially that from very ancient sources. The central figure is very much like a totemic Neolithic goddess- the sort of which seem to be among the most ancient artistic works, examples are extant from eras stretching back tens of thousands of years. A lot has been written about figures of that kind but of course no one can reasonably claim to truly understand them. Here the great goddess appears with wings and entwined serpents. Crowned also with a glowing orb she has become an emblem of a matristic hermetica. The smaller figure may be less evidently archetypical. She is a younger goddess, a daughter like Persephone to Demeter. She lifts the breasts of her mother signifying perhaps how the presence of the child evokes the nurturing qualities of the mother or how Persephone’s seasonal ascent from the underworld awakens in her mother the impulse to again give life to the world. The cluster of gynomorphic figures contained by the crescent moon at the center of the painting refer to the balanced transformations of the lunar cycle and their mysteriously harmonic physical manifestation in the vital cycles of a woman’s body. At their axis is the cycloptical abdomen of the figure enthroned on the moon. The entire totem rises from a terrestrial gateway into an open landscape. In the background megaliths obscure the horizon. They represent a first boundary in time- the beginning of history. Below is the gateway, the opening to an inner earth...

Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. This piece combines C...

Acrylic on linen canvas, 50x50x2 cm / 19,7x19,7x0,8 in. This painting features a serene composition of red and pink roses, capturing the essence of tranquility and self-contentment....

Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. This piece combines C...

Paul Wadsworth is one of the UK’s leading exponents of Expressionist paintings. His pieces are heavily worked with layers of richly applied paint, the result is paintings that sing w...

Title: Guardians of the Metropolitan Abstract, Limited Color, Modern, Contemporary, Investment, Bold, Artwork, Painting The delicious textures, symbols and forms brings the viewer ...

Some paintings know exactly what they want to be. This is one of them. Frequency II arrived fully charged — branches crossing, roses opening mid-gesture, colour moving across the lin...

Raised by an artist father, Irinka Talakhadze has been immersed in the world of art from an early age. Her father, a profound influence on her artistic journey, instilled in her a de...

Theresa Bernstein Untitled, circa 1990 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class immigrant par...