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 swimming pools. Being the pool painting fanatic that I am, those are the paintings of his I am going to share with you today. (more…)
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, water is represented as a social sanctuary for glamorous middle-aged women and their friends. (more…)
One of the leading figurative painters of his generation, Jonathan Wateridge (born in Zambia, 1972) recently exhibited his latest work, a collection of paintings named Enclave, at Pace London. It’s not easy to find the work from this show. A fan of his, I was looking forward to seeing the paintings from the exhibit, but they exist neither on PACE Gallery’s site nor on the site of the artist. (more…)
It’s no secret that I have a thing for artwork that features swimming and a love for swimming pools. So whenever I come across work, such as David FeBland’s Paintings of Los Angeles, whose work features people swimming, I love to dive – pardon the pun, a little deeper into their work. (more…)
above: Alex Roulette, Airborne, Oil on Panel, 26″x 37″, 2010
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. (more…)
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 to boot (I have a thing for paintings of pools, both empty and full, see here), Paul Davies‘ work really speaks to me. I just love the juxtaposition of the strong long low horizontals of the modern architecture with the soaring verticals of the Palm and Aspen trees. (more…)