A sense of place

Los Angeles Pay Phone with Graffiti. Create a sense of place with images from Nyboer Photography. #nybphoto #payphone #graffiti #dtla #losangelesphotography

Artist Ed Fairburn utilizes the chaotic patchwork of roads, trains, and rivers printed on maps as the framework for his large-scale portraits. Almost like a sculptor carving a subject from a block of stone, or a constellation highlighted in a clump of stars, Fairburn uses meticulous ink or pencil cross hatching to create portraits hidden amongst the topographical features. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook. (via artchipel) More

Sam King interviews painter Matthew Lopas whose exhibition (Un)Distorted: Perceptual Paintings, is on view at the Arts & Sciences center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR, through December 5, 2015. Lopas comments: "There is a great deal of painting that I love, have looked at, and learned from. But resonance is something different from that. […]

Dorothy Pavey specialises in watercolours of gardens, country waysides and woodlands. Her interest in plants and flowers gives the focus for her work and inspired by the beauty of their setting she paints these subjects in their natural habitat or in gardens, creating a sense of place and atmosphere. Watercolour is the medium she has chosen as this allows her to capture the delicacy of plant life, along with a sense of movement and light. Her distinctive style combines detail with fluidity…

Photographer Peter Newman captures street scenes in London, Tokyo, San Francisco and New York with a vintage fish-eye lens

Meath County Council Arts Office is delighted to present a new exhibition by the Kells Heritage Art Group entitled: A Sense of Place. A Sense of Place will show at the Toradh2 Gallery located in the newly renovated former Courthouse in the centre of Kells town. Coinciding with this year’s Hinterland Festival of Literature and […]

Sarah Richards’ increasingly abstract work shows Wales in a refreshing new light, as Jenny White discovers

Development towards a final piece, IGCSE Art (Edexcel) by Samantha Li