Di-Li Feng

Di Li Feng, born 1958, is a Chinese contemporary artist working in the Western oil painting tradition.

In his work, he aims to combine the reality of a concrete object with the atmosphere created by an abstract texture and background. He has a particular admiration for the glories of China’s imperial past, which forms the basis for many of his paintings, and he declares that he is "enchanted by its honour or disgrace, its tragedies, sadness, sentimentality and great joys".

Andrey Remnev

"The process of creation for me is first of all a dialogue with myself. Search of a perfect artistic shape, its technical realisation is in fact a process of self-knowledge and self-development."
-Andrey Remnev

Jia Lu

Jia Lu (1954-) was born in China into a family of artists. She is now based in the US.
She feels strongly that beauty is the final measure of all things, and that true beauty is born of self-knowledge.

Neli Tsenova

Earth

From China

Tang Wei Min, Moon Night
Lu Jian Jun, Grand Facade No 16  

Two fine examples of the practice of western-style oil painting tradition by Chinese artists.
I also love traditional Chinese painting.

Olga Suvorova

Adrian Gottlieb

Xue Mo, Mongolian

Diana Levin

Autumn, 21 x 20 inches

Carolyn Pyfrom

I like the abstract qualities of the architectural elements.

Lu Cong

The viewer may initially read these paintings as photographs, and then notice the painting technique behind the production of the image. While I am not a big fan of photorealism, these beautiful works incorporate the artist's individual hand and vision through subtle stylisation. Lu Cong subverts photorealism through barely perceptible distortions.

Kate Lehman

Portrait of an Artist, oil on board, 27 x 27 inches

Kristin Vestgard

60 x 60 cm

Kristin is a Norwegian artist who has exhibited in the UK. Her work is characterised by day-dreamy figures in muted tones and washes of diluted oil paint.

Gerhard Richter

Ella

Juan Ford - Australian

Negative Space 2

Sandra Flood - American

Self-Portrait, 24 x 36 inches


Blue Maia, 36 x 30 inches

Ali with Russian Hat, 20 x 20 inches

Priscilla Treacy - American

9 x 14 inches

Cropping out the superfluous concentrates the attention on what's important.

Kristin Vestgard - Norwegian

In the Midst of it All, 60 cm


Forest

Drippy turpsy paint on the clothes

Julie Heffernan - American

Background Shadow

Bo Bartlett, approx 23 x 23 inches

Note the way a change in tone on the background wall means that contrast is maintained with both the front and back of the figure's head.
A figure placed on the right side of a picture has more visual weight than on the left. The eye tends to scan an image from left to right. Therefore a figure on the left side can have a more abrupt and restless feel. A figure facing onto the edge of a painting is "against the rules" of composition, but the empty space behind the figure here creates a striking mood. There is a sense of mystery- what is the figure contemplating in the space off the edge of the painting.