abstract art

After two years in the making, abstract painter Linda Al Balooshi introduces her creative collection to the kingdom's art scene by staging her first expressive exhibition at Harbour Gate.

If you want to explain Jamil Naqsh, it could be said about him that he was an abstract painter. He abstracted things and simplified them.

The suite of highly original works presented this reclusive painter from Tagum, Davao (who died in 2002) as an abstract painter to reckon with, notable for his color-intense forms and dazzling compositions that plumbed the depths of inner life and showed influences of Eastern mysticism and spirituality.

He is the son of abstract painter and the pioneer of contemporary Aesthetic Syncretism, Roy Veneracion.

Some, like David Rushton in Sanquhar, who creates scale models of building interiors, or abstract painter Glenda Waterworth (one of three artists in Drummore near Stranraer), are wellestablished.

Reyes added Joya was the greatest influence in his decision to become an artist, specifically an abstract painter.

Randal Stringer, an abstract painter from Glen Ellyn, will show "Judas Is My Friend," a dramatic small painting, just one-foot square, created with acrylic, graphite, India ink and gold foil.

In the early 1950s, a Mossad agent named Shlomo Cohen-Abravanel was sent to Egypt, under the cover-story that he was a French abstract painter named Charduval.

Day-2's grouped show finale was presented by Saria Shakira with a collection inspired by the paintings of Ian Davenport, the English abstract painter. Based on a diverse colour palette of hot pink, electric yellow, pink blue orange with classics black and white, the silhouettes featured dramatic shoulders and sleeves, nipped waists cinched with wide belts zen like pants and contemporary prints.

The Black House Gallery was founded by art lover and abstract painter Althea Jones.

Also among the Huddersfield artists are the LFA's newest member Mike Murphy, a former landscape artist from Birkby who now paints portraits; the organisation's youngest member Kate Masterson, an abstract painter from Holmfirth; and Ian Watson, from Lepton, a painter who teaches at Mirfield Free Grammar School.

From about 1960 on, he was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American action painting idiom.