Hot House

"Hot House", painting by Barbara Holtz who lives and works in St. Louis, MO

Barbara says about her painting: "Hot House is the result of several arrangements and palettes. Once I felt there was some depth I began the process of spacial arrangement and then the addition of sharp accents to give the plane some punch. I was also involved in making a variety of markings. Going over and over the negative spaces with a range of reds created a surface I hoped would make the painting bristle. At first of course I thought of Matisse. However, I wanted to move to my own rhythm. If the painting had not been framed I would probably keep dabbing at it. In the end, I did decide to include the Matisse cat in homage to him."

More about Barbara at

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Barbara+Holtz/25220.html

Passion or the Impossible Choice

Passion or the impossible choice by Romaine Fauchère

diptych 111cmx122cm

Rembrandt oil on canvas

She says about her painting:

"The research field is the exploration of different paths, daring and frustrating the «choice » to achieve at the extreme where the antagonists meet and are confronted.

To abandon, and finally to discover the intrusive and joyful fullness.

To give up to distinguish the detail in order to discover unexpected totality.

Passion rises from this renunciation.

The blue and the red that have been opposed over centuries of painting and optics, twinkle and palpitate on the same level."

Romaine is born in Sion, Switzerland, lives in Lausanne.

She studied painting, sculpture, scenography and design at the Academia delle Belle Arti in Firenze and at the Academia delle Belle Arti of Brera, Milan (Italy) where she graduated in 1989.

Later she trained in scientific drawing and she collaborated with several archaeology institutes.

Since 1990, Romaine has created more than thirty scenographies and costumes for operas, classic and contemporary theatre in Switzerland, Germany and France.

At the same time, Romaine keeps developing her activity as a painter and she exposes individually and collectively in Switzerland and Italy.