Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Scarab Splendor - Palette Splash - Zesty Citrus with accents of Black and Silver



Page extract of Emily Blunt in Preen by Thornton Bregazzi silk dress - Harper's Bazaar.uk (July 2014)
Photographed by Alexi Lubomirski

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Paul Senyol - Vibrant - Energetic - Optimistic


It was Wassily Kandinsky who said: “the more abstract the form, the clearer its appeal.  The more an artist uses these abstracted forms, the deeper and more confidently will he advance into the kingdom of the abstract.”  Upon viewing fellow Cape Town based artist Paul Senyol’s vibrant works, those words deemed by many as the “Father of Abstraction” seem to ring true indeed.  At the moment he is using mainly water based materials like acrylics and spray paints with some oil pastel and even crayon details added for that naïve feel.  Call me crazy (and by all means no disrespect intended to those who did receive formal artistic training…) but it just so happens that the work done by the self-trained artists just resonate with me on a more effervescent (and somewhat familiar) level.  You know – art that just feels like home.