

Emily & Natalie
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Markus Davies
Dublin based artist Markus Davies creates paintings that explore geometric linework and bold colour fields in response to urban environments. Davies' palette plays with value and saturation to create extreme contrasts within each work. He paints a deep black alongside a striking lime green or poppy red, or he places two vibrant colours together so they appear to shimmer where their edges meet. These paintings push the limits of composition possibilities by reproducing simila

Emily & Natalie
- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
Emma White
Toronto based painter Emma White explores the intervention of humans on the natural world, and attempts to correct the imbalance we inflict. White's paintings are rich with pigment, their oily surfaces built up wet on wet into thick textures and creamy brushstrokes. She plays with pattern and rhythm, allowing repetitive marks to punctuate the surface of each image. The close-up crops of her subjects reveal her photographic source material, with moments captured from her concr

Emily & Natalie
- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
INTERVIEW: Sebastian Villabona
Colombian artist Sebastian Villabona creates work inspired by photographs of his daily surroundings. Through the visual manipulation of these images, he is able to achieve contrasting shapes and strong symbolism in his paintings. Here he shares more behind his practice with us. How do you draw inspiration from your surroundings in your practice? I’m constantly paying attention to my surroundings and the aesthetics of the city, searching for things that visually draw my attent

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 29, 2020
- 1 min
Seana Reilly
American artist Seana Reilly creates intricate and detail-filled drawings drenched with tension and mystery. The subject matter of these drawings is elusive, and shape shifting with each glance. At first, they appear as a microscopic slide of bacteria or the cross section of plant or animal fibers. Then, they suddenly shift, transforming into a photograph of the surface of a planet, perhaps the texture of the side of the moon. Each piece brings us into its artificial world, i

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min
INTERVIEW: David Willis
David Willis is a Canadian painter, who's work is full of movement and vibrant colours. He shares with us his thoughts behind his work and process. Can you describe your studio routine? Starting off is always the hardest part, so often I start with mundane things like tidying the space and looking again more closely at recently made work. After that the hardest part is throwing myself into start painting something new, so I break down the white surface as quickly as possible.

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
Ibrahim Abusitta
Toronto based artist Ibrahim Abusitta paints inviting yet eerie group portraits of fun gatherings and social spaces in his series "A Past Life that Exists for Nostalgia" Each painting is filled with an ominous wash of colour, a rust orange, neon fuchsia, and muted burgundy, tinting the scenes with an emotional backdrop. They capture a cinematic moment, a movie still that has been eroded with time with details that have faded away. The texture of the wood-grain surface comes t

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 8, 2020
- 1 min
Albert Chamillard
American artist Albert Chamillard creates ballpoint pen drawings that are intricately layered and pleasantly nostalgic. Using paper from vintage ledger books as a surface, Chamillard allows faded page lines to become part of his compositin, directing their outcome. Each geometric form rises with the textured layers of cross-hatched marks, the repetitive motion of his hand embossing the smooth, yellowed paper until it is glossy. By building up these small lines, he is able to

Emily & Natalie
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
Joey Slaughter
American artist Joey Slaughter creates captivatingly colourful paintings. Each piece oozes with energy from an anthropomorphic personality, creating a cast of characters through Slaughter's body of work. Slaughter's paintings are full of crisp line work and graphic channels, creating intricate colour fields in saturated hues, which mirror and wrap the surfaces of his uniquely shaped panels. While their abstract shapes are strange and unfamiliar, their bulbous nature hints at

Emily & Natalie
- Dec 25, 2019
- 2 min
LOOK & LISTEN: The Creative Brain
The Creative Brain looks critically at the cause and function of creativity in the human mind. Led by Neuroscientist David Eagleman, it dives into the root of the creative process and asks: how can we harness this in our daily lives? This documentary is studded with big names and successful stories, and proves how essential creativity is for our progress and happiness as humans. The film explores compelling examples of creativity in action, by tapping into some of the most cr

Emily & Natalie
- Dec 18, 2019
- 1 min
Katherine Duclos
Vancouver based artist Katherine Duclos creates compositions and collages that offer escape to another world. Duclos invokes familiar colours, textures, and forms to create scenes that are captivatingly strange. She toes the line between representation and abstraction, allowing us to understand a visual cue and then subverting its context. Working playfully with scale to create works ranging from miniature to massive, she offers unique experiences with each body of work. Thei

Emily & Natalie
- Nov 13, 2019
- 1 min
Gisela Navarro
Gisela Navarro is a London based illustrator and graphic designer that creates beautiful designs celebrating the expression and identity of women. Using a pleasant combination of pastel colours and organic shapes, Navarro creates aesthetically pleasing works that are simple but extremely effective. She depicts women with broad shoulders and strong legs, figures that take up space in her utopic land. With their free flowing bodies, these women become one with their captivating
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