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It really doesn’t seem to matter what her subject matter is, Angela Bentley Fife brings incredible brushwork and a refined colour palette to every one of her paintings.  Her site doesn’t appear to have been updated in a while, but she remains fairly active over on her blog. Enjoy!

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I do love the holidays,  but they usually mean a lot of  frantic traveling and visiting and eating and more traveling and then some more eating, so at this point in the year I can usually do with a period of calm.  Todd Bonita’s serene images of the New Hampshire sea coast are just the thing for that. Hope you had a great weekend!

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The thing that hooked me on Claire Sherman’s portraits of the natural world were her loose but deliberate brushstrokes.  For me, creating brushstrokes that possess both those qualities has always been one of the biggest challenges, so I usually take a little extra time to appreciate it in other’s work.

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William Steiger reduces his subject matter, usually man-made objects, into simplified geometric forms and stylized colours, and then places these objects into stark white backgrounds. The end results are iconic, quietly stunning, and filled with an odd sense of mystery.

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Human figures are noticeably absent in Jake Longstreth’s painted landscapes of manufactured playgrounds and boxy outlet malls.  A hopeful look at a future society that no longer flocks to the familiar regardless of value (or lack thereof), or a bleak outlook on the death of the individual in the wake of corporate driven consumerism?  Maybe neither, you decide.

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