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ACRYLIC ARTIST JIM MUSIL rediscovered a love of painting twenty years after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Having starting as a hobby painter, he is now a successful full-time artist who

For Ken Roberts, wonder has always lived in the details. “All my life I’ve pondered in wonder at the beauty of design and engineering in small things such as plants, hummingbirds, butterflies and even

Colm Tóibín meditates on Pat Steir’s painting ‘Night’

ARCHITECTURE HAS ALWAYS been of great interest to me. There are many buildings that I have admired for years and their complicated shapes, angles and perspectives all lend themselves to the challenge

LORI MEHTA’S ART is all about stripping away the excess to reveal what really matters. After years in graphic design and raising her children, Lori returned to painting, finding inspiration in the lig

Let’s begin this article with something overly dramatic – the effect of lightning on a watercolour painting! I have explored different ways of creating the effect in watercolour and have come to the c