Today I am browsing the web for non-objective art, which is a sub-category of abstract art. Non-objective or non-representational art may still have the feel of a landscape or still-life, but it's focus is on the forms, colors, lines, textures, etc., that make up an image rather than a reference to our natural world. In any case, this is where I begin my search--who knows where it will lead?
I thought I'd pick a few sites and tell you about them. www.evaryn.com/ is the site of Eva Ryn Johannissen, a Swedish painter based in Sweden and England. Her paintings have an inner glow of radiant color, with soft shapes that float on the surface of the canvas.
Shane Garton, a contemporary Australian artist, shows his black and white collection in his main gallery, which can be viewed here: www.shanegarton.com/. Art critic Kate Taylor says, "These abstract monochromatic works have a teeming, churning movement that at times suggests an urban congestion ready to suffocate everything, at times the explosive chaos of a primeval natural world."
The work of UK artists Nathan and Tony Pendlebury is a lot of fun. Loose, simple, and deceptively childlike, Nathan's mixed-media paintings on paper, fabric and canvas are bold and striking. His father Tony's work is more complex and often grid-based, with subtler color schemes. Both are worth a look at www.erpenstudios.co.uk.
I could go on and on with this list, but will close with two more sites for you to look at: The first, www.yvettepeters.com, features the work of Yvette Peters, who is originally from the Netherlands. Yvette resides now in North Carolina, where she is a professor of neuroscience at Chapel Hill.
Nature inspired art by Canadian artist Ada Gabriel is at www.ada.gabriel.name. Her themes are birth, creation and metamorphosis.
It's always insightful and inspiring to see what other artists are up to, whether it is a direction we ourselves want to go in or not.
