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July 28, 2025

Ed Sheeran Showcases His Splatter Paintings for the First Time in London Exhibition

It turns out that Ed Sheeran is more than just a best-selling and award-winning musician. He’s also something of a painter. At HENI in London, Sheeran is currently exhibiting his Cosmic Carpark Paintings, a series of splattered canvases that he produced as a way to maintain his creativity whenever he would step away from music.

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July 28, 2025

Artist Meditates Upon Postcolonial Identity With Hybrid Paintings [Interview]

Throughout the three years that he attended art school, Sid Pattni never learned how to paint his own skin tone.

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July 21, 2025

Artist Creates Dark Canvases Dripping With Vibrant Streaks of Paint

When we encounter a painting, we typically expect it to have a dry surface, its vibrant colors hardened deep into...

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July 16, 2025

High School “Loner” Paints Stunning Portraits To Reconnect With Peers Before Graduation

Molly Shafer hadn’t always been considered a loner. During elementary and middle school in her home town of Waunakee, Wisc., the 18-year-old had been outgoing, but that all changed when she entered the local high school and began experiencing social anxiety in full force. She withdrew from her peers and closed herself off from friendship—at least until recently.

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July 15, 2025

Three Inspiring Online Art Classes You Can Do Outdoors

What did big shot Impressionists like Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir have in common?

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July 10, 2025

Dreamy Cloud Paintings Capture the Delicate Beauty of Changing Skies Within Vintage Frames

Artist Cathy Camille is known for her delightful paintings of clouds, showing their ephemeral beauty through delicate, detailed artwork.

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July 2, 2025

Monumental Botanical Paintings Energized With Vibrant Electric Hues [Interview]

Artist Tim Fowler creates monumental botanical paintings with a vivid twist. Although plants can be colorful in real life, Fowler imagines a world in which leaves and blooms are alive with electric pinks, purples, and blues, and a blend of artistic approaches. Acrylic paint, oils, spray paint, and pastels all grace his canvases. This allows him to create compositions that feature bold brushstrokes in one section with fine-lined drawings in another.

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June 29, 2025

Artist Draws From Mexican Pictorial Traditions to Explore His Inner Life Through Self Portraits [Interview]

In the work of artist Angel Cammen, there's much more to a self-portrait than the likeness of the painter.

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June 22, 2025

Artist Draws From South Asian Traditions To Create Layered Narratives With Spiritual Significance

In the work of artist Sahana Ramakrishnan, mythology serves as a vehicle to preserve the past and a space to...

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June 20, 2025

Hazy Paintings of Bodies in Mid-Motion Capture the Surreal In-Between Limbo of Life [Interview]

When she first embarked upon her solo journey across the United States, in January 2021, Michelle Jader expected to only be away for a year. San Francisco’s skies were painted orange from wildfire smoke and the COVID-19 pandemic was still raging throughout the city by the time she left.

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