Artist Feature - Jaye Fox

Landmark

Cultivation

Cha-Cha

Today's featured artist is Jaye Fox who is now our new team captain! I (Jessica) have stepped down to a leader position and will continue to support and promote the team as Jaye takes the captain's chair. Here is a little more information about Jaye in her own words. 

I'm a classically-trained oil painter, just like they used to make 'em. Subject matter is generally less important to me than the sensibility or idea that brings a particular painting into being. My intent is that each piece have a life and personality of its own. I pay a lot of attention to composition, and how compositional choices affect the "feel" or emotional resonance that a piece holds for the viewer. My work has been featured in publications including failbetter and the Manhattan Users Guide.

I co-direct an art gallery in North Adams, Mass.; www.studio21south.blogspot.com. Please visit if you're passing through the Berkshires, our little corner of New England! 

 Where the Sidewalk Ends

Visit Jaye's shop to discover more incredible, original fine art. http://www.etsy.com/shop/jfoxstudio

Artist Feature - Todd Stewart

 Van Horne Viaduct

The Plague

San Francisco

Here's information about Todd in his own words... 

"Originally from Saskatchewan and residing in Montreal for nearly twenty years, I am an illustrator and a self-taught screenprinter. Since 2004 I have run Bree,ree, a small scale print studio. Photography, illustration, collage, stencil and letterpress have all found their way into my screenprinted works. My prints and posters have been seen on city streets and galleries in Canada, the United States and France.

My creative practice is improvisational and process-based, whereby I print identical images – illustrations and organic forms - many times within a given piece. This process allows me to work with these images meditatively and automatically; a composition emerges as layers are added to one another, revealing the dynamics between transparency and light. My pieces are built by exposing the control and precision of illustration to the unpredictability and chance inherent to the printmaking process.

Trained in the fields of landscape architecture and urban planning, I am acutely aware of how construction - with regards to both structure and meaning - informs my work. These abstract land and cityscapes embody both serenity and instability, resulting in a dreamlike tension from which subjective narratives can be b-orn. Working from a base of imagery culled internally - from memory, dreams, past experience - and externally - from my immediate surroundings - I create pieces that consciously allow for open interpretation and multiple perspectives. They reflect a search for meaning in unfamiliar landscapes."

 House by the Freeway

Visit Todd's Etsy shop for more of his eye catching work http://www.etsy.com/shop/breeree.

Artist Feature - Darla Jackson

What Are You Afraid Of?

Smoke and Mirrors III

They Struck...(Snake)

In Darla's words... "Hi! I'm Darla, a sculptor living and working in Philadelphia. I make crazy animal sculptures that tend to be cute and dark at the same time. I like birds, peppermint patties and getting mail. I dislike slugs, zombies and not getting mail. I have a husband, 3 cats and a baby. I think they are all pretty awesome.

 Surprise Party (Fawn)

 Visit Darla's shop to see more of her curiously clever sculptures. http://www.etsy.com/shop/alfalfalovesme

Artist Feature - Harry Stooshinoff

White Cloud

Toronto City Hall

Outing

"When I was a boy growing up in Saskatchewan, I used to look far into the distance and wish I had more trees around me....to protect me and make the place feel less empty.

Now I have lots of trees around me, but I still like to look very far into the distance.

It's a big, NOISY world...
So I make small, quiet paintings...

It makes a certain kind of sense." 

- Harry Stooshinoff

 Trio

Visit Harry's shop for more amazing, original artwork. http://www.etsy.com/shop/Paintbox

Artist Feature - Aja Apa-Soura

The Sound

Midnight Harbor

Faces of the City CXVI

About Aja: "Although I've been painting since my age was measured in months (my mom, a toll painter, would give me scraps of wood from her projects, a cup of water, and a brush for me to "paint" with....) I really became serious with it in '99 during my last years of high school. Resigned to my profession I was accepted to Montserrat College of Art on scholarship and concentrated on painting.

Sagittarius Gallery, my business, was started in April of 2003 and since then I have been blessed to have over 250 patrons on 5 continents. I have shown at several galleries including Karin Sanders Fine Art in Sag Harbor, NY, Robert Dowling Studios and Gallery in Bangor, ME, the gallery walk at Memories on Market LLC in Oshkosh, WI, as well as a solo show at the Gallery and Grille in Newburyport, MA. My work has been featured by the online Self-representing artists website EBSQ as well as the web zine Pedestal Magazine. My work has also been shown at the Empire State Legislative Building in Albany, NY, First National Bank of Scotia in Scotia, NY, and several student shows at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA during my time as a student.

I am influenced by all around me but have an affinity for the Abstract Expressionists such as Rothko. de Kooning, and more contemporary examples such as Susan Rothenburg and Cecily Brown. I am in love with my palette knife and thick oil paint but I do utilize a bevy of different media and techniques to illustrate my unique vision. Melted crayola crayons, Testors model car enamels, sharpee pens...anything is fair game."

Pride

Visit Aja's Etsy shop for more beautiful, original fine art. http://www.etsy.com/shop/sagittariusgallery

Artist Feature - Alexandra Kopp

Summer Pond

Summer Skies

 Poppy Garden

About Alexandra: "My name is Alexandra Kopp and I am an artist living in Maryland. Since childhood, my favorite things to do was drawing, coloring, painting and creating. My art education consists of design classes at Towson University, and painting classes in oil and watercolor with local artists in their studios and attending workshops. I am inspired by the works of Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Hassam and Richard Schmid."

Visit Alexandra's Etsy shop for more beautiful, original fine art.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexandrasStudio