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]]>Chi-Tsung creates these unusual artworks by covering wrinkled rice papers with photosensitive coating. The papers are then exposed to the sun to bring out the lightning and shading. Finally, the artist organizes the papers into coherent groups and mounts them on canvas. Brought together, the pieces look like massive paintings.
As a final touch, Chi-Tsung applies white acrylic to increase the depth of the scenery.
“They could be anything, because they are not representing any real landscape,” Chi-Tsung explained in a chat with Ocula magazine. “This is the spirit of a Chinese landscape.”
Chi-Tsung, who splits his time between Tapei, Taiwan and Berlin, Germany, is engaged in various other media photography, videography, and set design. Through his works, he aims to combine the “traditions and contemporary art forms from the East and the West.” Among things that inspire him are “daily objects and phenomena,” which he enjoys turning “into poetic imagery.”
Check out more of Chi-Tsung’s works below.
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]]>“The work draws on journeys I have made to specific destinations around the world,” shared Townsend in an interview with Jackson’s Art. These places share a common type of geology. “They are places where the land is stark and exposed, unfertile, remote and even hostile,” she says, adding that she can’t easily explain why she’s attracted to them, but they are captivating and seem to energize her.
#painting #landscapepainting #mountains #mountainpainting #oilonpanel #artoninstagram #contemporarypaintingHer paintings draw on solitary journeys through many of the most remote and hostile landscapes in the world, with recent works inspired by visits to Kashmir and Kyrgyzstan. The finished product presents a view of the world beyond the familiar, of places vast in scale, apparently desolate and mostly uninhabited. According to Townsend, an increasing part of the documentation process is the exploration of human impacts on even the remotest physical environments. “There are two main curiosities in the work,” she notes, “that of the very formal qualities of the land; how it is in terms of its physical attributes, and, how that basic formal physicality registers and filters through me.”
Each painting originates from an expedition or a residency. She produces small works on site using a collapsible easel, sketchbooks and photography, building up larger canvases in her London studio. “I travel with a basic lightweight kit (oils or acrylics depending on practicality) and a small easel, pencils, charcoals, and a camera,” she notes. “Sometimes these small works succeed in their own right and sometimes they become the backbone of studio work.”
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]]>Her process includes visiting African conservation organizations, where she sketches on-site. This way, Nicholls also gets to learn about current conservation issues. Her resulting sketches and paintings are then used to raise awareness and funds for the organizations’ fieldwork. According to Nicholls, she donates a portion of her sales to these organizations.
Quite naturally, Nicholls finds the process of painting in an African conservation, an exhilarating one. While her studio paintings consist of multiple layers, her sketches require confidence and speed. “It can be a real challenge to depict complex issues like the human-wildlife conflict in a painting,” Nicholls explains on her website, “but it has given my art layers of meaning, as well as layers of color.”
“I usually work in pencil or pen first, then add watercolor,” she explains her process. “I don’t have an easel or a chair because I usually stand when sketching people, or need to be in a vehicle when sketching wildlife.”
She might just inspire you to get sketching!
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]]>But while her creative stimulation can be found in the mundanities of everyday life, her artistic creation is rooted in the natural world in all its richness and transcendence. Born in Rhode Island and based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley, Edlund is very much taken by the natural world and its inhabitants, which she explores on canvas.
“The natural world compels me to explore it, delve deeper into it, and use the tools at my disposal to paint some frisson of my visceral connection to it,” she writes. She treats her art as a sort of metaphorical bride that communicates her ideas to others. “All of my work is a communication between me and you, inviting you to create your own narrative within the context of the art and to experience the art in a positive and satisfying way,” she writes, inviting us viewers further inside her realistic landscapes.
Her landscapes, painted in vivid colors and striking detail, might be mistaken at first for photographs. It’s only upon further inspection that her brushstrokes can be discerned. Take a careful look.
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]]>After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature. Rock climbing among the cliffs of Nevada and Utah, while watching the seasons, and the light change daily across the desert, provided endless inspiration for her work.
These beautiful surroundings were also the backdrop for her decision to commit herself completely to her art, by painting, and then painting some more. Transforming landscapes into abstract mosaics of color and texture, her impasto application of paint lends a sculptural effect to her art.
“I think the modern or contemporary art world shies away from landscapes or natural beauty,” she told Art Aesthetics Magazine. “I don’t really understand why since it is one of the most pleasing art forms to the eye and certainly one of the most popular.
Scrolling through her Instagram page, you can definitely understand the appeal of landscape paintings.
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]]>It might have started there, but the best was yet to come. Now based between Melbourne and the US, Shaw’s paintings continue to be a reflection of her surroundings, inspired by her travels around the world. “Most of the time I really need to experience a place before I make work about it,” she explained, adding that she’s really “very visceral.”
But though based on her observations, her art is also very much surreal, exploring themes like alchemy and environmental change, as she continuously reinterprets what constitutes landscape painting. “Recently, I did a residency at SIM in Iceland that allowed me to travel to some amazing places there,” she says. “The lava flows and melting glaciers create incredible sculptural forms, which inspires how I translate this into the paintings. I am very visceral.”
A continuous reflection of her environment, her work also takes her to cities like New York and San Francisco, to London and Hong Kong, all of which have exhibited her paintings. Scroll down to see some of her paintings.
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“I hope my drawings can facilitate a deeper understanding of the climate crisis, helping us find meaning and optimism in shifting landscapes,” Forman shared with ArtStar. “I hope they can serve as records of landscapes in flux, documenting the transition, and inspiring our global community to take action for the future.”
Her paintings, made using pastel colors almost exclusively, very much rely on her observations. Traveling to remote regions of the world, Forman collects images and inspiration which she then takes back to Brooklyn.
Her project took her around the globe, and she has even flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. “In all my travels I have never experienced a landscape as epic and pristine as Antarctica,” she says. “I still haven’t found the words to properly convey the majesty and ethereal wonder of that icy continent!”
Exhibited worldwide, her work is also featured in publications like The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Wall Street Journal. Scroll down to see some of her paintings.
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“I draw in order to make sense of landscape but also to construct and remodel it,” reads Kemp’s bio. “I build worlds and imaginary places that grow out of a need to interpret the sites that I have known, expanding and developing them across a page.”
Her work process requires a meditative state of mind, as she works her way through the page, each section at a time. “I don’t worry about the whole,” she explained in an interview with MoMA. “I think it stops the size of the paper from overwhelming me.”
This process also keeps her on her toes. “In the past, when I’ve sketched the whole image out beforehand, filling it in bores me,” she admits. “It feels like paint by numbers, like the whole drawing is a foregone conclusion and the excitement of the unknown is lost. That’s also what is great about pen, you’re always on the edge of making an irrevocable mistake. It sharpens my focus and gets me absorbed in what I’m doing.”
Her illustrating process is as incredible as the finished result. See for yourself:
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]]>Growing up on Sailor Moon, Fist of the North Star, and Pokemon, Mohanna would spend hours illustrating the characters from these shows. And the early inspiration shows throughout her work.
“I like to place eerie elements in realistic and empty landscapes to give new levels of interpretation,” she told It’s Nice That. “When I was working on my first graphic novel I realized I was way more into drawing the surroundings than the people,” she added. “So much so that sometimes I found myself thinking that my characters had ruined my decor – almost as if it was easier to express myself through the scenery than the figures… I eventually realized I had a real thing for landscapes and architecture and I embraced it fully.”
Check out some of her work below.
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