Pool paintings by Hugo Pondz. Using references from both real life and photographs, Belgian artist Hugo Pondz has a fondness for exteriors such as golf courses, parking lots, rooftops and…
This post is the third in a series. A continuation of yesterday's Artists Take The Plunge, Part II, which featured more than 50 paintings of people swimming, in and around…
June has arrived and there's no better time to introduce you to Seth Smith Summer paintings. Inviting depictions of swimming pools at Midcentury Modern hotels, motels and private homes by…
One look at artist Jamie Perry's Instagram feed and I was hooked. The fact that his most oft painted subjects are three things with which I'm obsessed: Dogs, people looking…
When I first learned of the talented Carrie Graber, I got so excited by her artwork, I wrote an overly ambitious post featuring so many paintings of hers it was…
I've recently come across an artist whose subjects align with more than one of my personal art fetishes. Combining modern architecture, trees and swimming pools - even empty swimming pools…
Brazil born artist Maria Penter's figurative paintings stand out not only because of her spare use of color but also for their negative space, cropping and realistic illustrative quality. The…
Any of my regular readers know I have a thing for swimming pools. Having brought you many posts on beautiful pool design, pool paintings and art , handmade wood diving…
The sewn paintings of faux leather and acrylic paints by artist Esther Janssen combine textures, colors, composition and craftsmanship to result in beautiful artworks you could stare at for hours.…
Presently living and working in Ottowa, Canada, artist Andrew Beck was born and raised in England graduating from Coventry University with a BA in graphic design. He began his career…
It has been said that every artist has a little crazy in them. Some more than others. Enter Fred van der Wal, a self-professed photographer, draftsman, painter and writer whose…
Fang Tong is a Chinese-born Canadian artist and photographer whose work lives somewhere between reality and surreality. A self-proclaimed daydream photographer and spectator of life, her narrative works are plentiful,…
As someone who has a thing for swimming pools and pool art, I was thrilled to hear the news of the Domestic Pools exhibition at Villa Noailles in Hyeres, France.…
Brought to my attention by my friend Araceli Kopiloff, these contemporary oil paintings by artist Carrie Graber combine three of my favorite subjects: Swimming Pools, Mid-Century Modern architecture and Palm…
Born to German parents in El Salvador, artist Nina Nolte, has had a fascination with water since childhood. In her series of acrylic paintings, The Best Is Yet To Come,…
As part of Albion Barn's current exhibition, Living With Art, renowned British artist and designer Richard Woods created a fantastical swimming pool for the installation using his iconic 'wood' pattern…
Artist Ben Johnson has been painting for 50+ years. He is best known for his realistic architecture paintings - large scale cityscapes and detailed architectural renderings, some of which have…
I first noticed Alex Roulette's impressive realism with his 2008 painting, Summer (shown below), which caught my eye because I have a thing for pool paintings. Alex Roulette Fabricated Landscapes…
Last week I posted "Artists Take The Plunge: The Swimming Pool As Subject" and introduced you to paintings of swimming pools; empty, full, still, even at night. Paintings of People…
I got such a wonderful response to my post about varying artists' freeway and overpass paintings, that I thought I'd do the same with one of my other favorite subjects:…
