unCOMMONfinds Gallery Artists

 

My photographs, even my portraits of other people, are expressions of my own heart and mind. As such, they illustrate more of an emotional temperature, specific to my own state of mind at the time, than they do a portrayal of simple fact. Although a camera can be a powerful tool for the illustration of solid reality and even cold truth, it can also suggest, highlight, play and even lie outright to the viewer. With this in mind, I often manipulate my photographs, either with paint or digitally through photoshop. For the last 45 years, it has been this wonderful flexibility within the medium of photography that has fascinated me and drives me to make every new image.

 

www. helenmorse.com

morse1000 @mac.com

 

 

Armenian born, and fine art school graduate (1972), Zarookian worked, traveled and exhibited in several countries as a visual artist and graphic designer.

In 1979, he moved to America and fell in love with Boston and its surroundings. In Belmont, he made a new home for his family and set up his studio. Here, he continues to create original and richly detailed artwork. 

 

Shahen’s work captures landscapes, human forms, and people in everyday life, often in combination. His style is an evolution of Expressionism and Contemporary Realism.

 

Shahen brings to his art works years of experience in both drawing and the graphic arts, infusing bright and dramatic color palettes, exciting textures, a rhythmic arrangement of lines, a static quality of representation, and usually the absence of perspective.

 

Shahen is an acclaimed artist whose creative works delight critics and visitors alike, as they browse his exhibitions.

 

Fine Arts: www.shahenart.com
Graphic Design: www.zdesign.com
shahenzarookian@gmail.com

 

I am a printmaker and paint with oils on paper. My art is all about the curve, especially the abstracted female torso.
I like to play with its placement on paper either vertically or horizontally as a landscape. The DNA double helix and egg formations also intrigue me. My color palette is southwestern although my printmaking background occasionally brings me back to basic black and white. Recently I have been exploring what I call “freeze paintings” with india ink. I do these in 32 degree weather to capture images of crystallization on acetate. I have been making solarplate etchings from them. Exploring new lines, shapes and colors within the curve are central to my art. Playing with the curve keeps my imagination moving in directions that always surprise me with so many paths I have yet to explore. I love the process!

 

www.sophiacmoneartworks.com
sophiacmone@yahoo.com

 

My love of flowers, seashells, and everything natural has
carried over into my photography and colored pencil artwork. The patterns, colors, and textures in nature are endless, giving me constant inspiration. It has been a pure joy creating photo and art groupings with common themes showcasing orchids, succulents, unusual seashells, and many other favorites. I have over a hundred images from which people can choose for framed groupings.

 

www.mathildeduffy-artist.com
mathilde.artist@comcast.net

 

The Low Tide series was inspired by a walk on Crane Beach in Ipswich last winter during an unusually low tide. Sculpted by the wind and water into wandering curves, the beach was a study in black, white and silver.

 

The pieces in the Low Tide series are made with encaustic, mixed media, watercolor and powdered graphite on birch panels. Encaustic, which is an ancient medium combining beeswax, pine resin and pigment, has sculptural and translucent qualities that worked perfectly for the subject matter: the sand dunes and grey skies reflected in small channels of water as the tide retreated.

 

Barb Cone is a visual artist based in Cambridge, MA and Spruce Head, ME. She is the subject of a profile in the Decemb er 2016 Art Issue of Maine Magazine and her work will appear in Encaustic Art In The 21th Century, by Schiffer Publishing, due to be released in February, 2016. Barb is the co-founder of MassWax, the New England chapter of International Encaustic Art.

 

www.bacrt.com
bconeart@gmail.com

 

The beauty of my visual world lies in its patterns and
colors. It’s how I perceive my environment. Because
of my low vision, many things that I see start out as
abstract images before I identity them as objects.
When I walk into an unfamiliar room, I look for
patterns, like the horizontal bars of window blinds.
The fact that they are blinds is secondary to their repeating
shapes. A garden is splashes of exciting color,
but I have to move in close to identify flowers and see
the shapes of leaves. I try to convey those initial abstract
perceptions in my art, and also represent the
object.

 

Many of my pictures are studies of shapes and
colors. From the wealth of shapes in the natural world,
I choose an object for its potential as an abstract
design. I’ll play with a repeated motif, varying it
slightly each time.

 

I know my picture is successful when the colors dance before my eyes. I choose their juxtaposition carefully to achieve that kinetic quality. It is the feeling of completing a musical phrase, knowing the right balancebetween colo r and pattern.

Colors, shapes, and patterns speak to me and I delight
in their voices. Through my art, I attempt to share my
joy in them with other people.

 

www. SchupakArtWorks.com
JSF522@gmail.com

 

Take time to look around you. Technology, as beautiful as it can be, leads us in a blind chase to possess and worship the new and shiny. I’ve always been fascinated by decay - things that were once new and shiny but over time have morphed. It compels me to take a moment and look closely.
As a young boy growing up in the Catskills, nature ruled.
Rusted cars enchained by vines and shrubbery, dead animals, dilapidated and long-forgotten houses…these were not hard to find, and I always wondered about their stories, and that now nobody cared and nature was left to do what it does, and it was all still beautiful.

My process of creating a work of art involves scratching, erasing, mark-making, layering, and generally building up a kind of “history” and “decay” in the piece. I want viewers to be compelled to stop for a moment, touch the work, and look closely.

 

www.warrencroce.com
wcroce@gmail.com

 

Emilia Farrell is a contemporary landscape and figurative painter.

 

Although trained as a classical pianist and a choir conductor, she is dedicated to her first love - painting and history of visual arts. Her works are inspired by the great landscape painters of the past, Lorrain, van Ruisdael, tonalists of the Barbizon and American schools.

She studied art with Sangarov, Monique Johannet, Barbara Baum, Sue Miller, and David Small. The subject matter of her works is landscape, still-life, and portrait in the traditional/impressionistic styles. She continuously expends her knowledge of art history, its principals, ideas, techniques and materials, as well as creative forms of expression in the contemporary arts. Emilia he has been teaching oil painting classes privately and at the NCAE and JCC in Newton, MA since 2007.

Her works can be found in private collections.

 

www.emiliafarrell.com
emiliafarrell@gmail.com

 

I am a Belmontian whose work has been exhibited and sold in Asia, North and South America, Australia and Europe. I have had a substantial clientele for portraits, of children, pets, and homes, since age 10. I like to depict the essence behind the casually visible, hence all my works are portraits, whether cityscapes, landscapes seascapes or life scenes, using mostly watermedia, watercolors and gouache usually making my own paint from powders, as well as color pencils.
Before the existence of digital photography I also worked in film Photography.
Nowadays, with the advances in digital photography, I have been creating mixed graphic works, blending the media I worked with before with my own digital graphic photography art, and, in some cases, with poetry I write. 
My art training comes from France where I was born. During my long career and worldwide travels, I have sold my works through galleries and directly to a clientele often composed of people who attended my Learning and Training Workshops. Those workshops made extensive use of my medical and educational degrees, presenting my own continuously produced artwork as tools of learning and healing. I now wish to devote the rest of my life to the creation of such works which, although steeped in the real world, past and present, bring a feeling of peace, well-being and healing to the viewer. For commissions of portraits and special occasion pieces, please contact me at nicoleartsonpaper@gmail.com

 

nicoleartsonpaper@gmail.com

 

RECYCLED LANDSCAPES

I have lived in Belmont for over 20 years and was part of
the group of artists who worked at the Kendall Center for
the Arts that was destroyed by fire in 1999. As the Zen poet wrote, “Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.” And so I began to work smaller, a little less predictably. It has led me to explore the possibilities of discarded or rediscovered materials for about a decade.
As always, I work for pleasure and see where the winds blow. These recent mixed-media pieces are smaller and more three dimensional than my previous artwork that focused on more literal scenes from nature. I like the ambiguity that exists when abstract forms, shapes and textures, loosely drawn from the natural world, come together and create a new energy, a new imaginary landscape. It has its own scale, its own order.
I have shown my work in New Mexico, Maine, and most recently here in the Boston area. I have also taught drawing/painting and design at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, where I was the chair of the Arts department, and at Haystack School of Crafts in Maine.

 

www.johncnortonart.com
jcnorton47@gmail.com