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donald patten

belfast, maine

@donald.patten

Donald Patten is an artist from Belfast, Maine. He is currently a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine. As an artist, he produces oil paintings and graphic novels. Artworks of his have been exhibited in galleries across the Mid-Coast region of Maine.

These artworks of mine are from a series of twenty oil paintings of human body parts. The series originally was five paintings that each depicted a different body part related to each of the five senses of human perception.

— Donald Patten

The series was from an assignment to make a unique series of five paintings for a painting course at the University of Maine i took during Fall Semester 2021. Our senses are only reliant on our imperfect, vulnerable and failing bodies.

— Donald Patten

My instructor suggested making more paintings of other body parts to increase the size of the series to make a large body of unique work to show local galleries. The oil paintings in this publication are form the second “batch” of body part paintings.

— Donald Patten

roger camp

europe

rogercampphoto.com

While working on my book, Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson 2002, I had numerous duplicate butterflies. It occurred to me that it might be interesting to make a collage of the hundreds of wings and frame them under glass. This made it possible to photograph small sections (slightly larger than a postage stamp) with a macro lens.
The possibilities were endless in terms of color, shape, texture and overall design. Spending a year examining the natural world in such detail was a revelation. The inherent beauty of nature is humbling and a rich resource for all artists. (By the way, no butterflies were harmed in the making of these images. All butterflies were harvested from the forest floor after dying naturally.)

— Roger Camp

laurence wensel

dallas, texas

www.laurence-wensel-mfa.com

From a fractured beginning, the early work of Heart-Break is shattered and framed with primary colors of red, yellow, blue (there is a bit of purple that could be the pain).

— Laurence Wensel

In Heart-Heal, the organ is rendered in deep hues of browns blues, and reds as it heads toward healing—the palette is a clash of colors that is both bruised and alive.

— Laurence Wensel

The most recent undertaking is Heart-Beat, the most lifelike reproduction I have ever attempted. Further, the heart from the first drawing (Heart-Break) has been reformed and blazes with the blue of vulnerability and the orange of ambition.

— Laurence Wensel

nelson lowhim

seattle, washington

@lowhimsart

Collage from travels post pandemic.

— Nelson Lowhim

serge lecomte

Brooklyn, new york

sergelecomte.weebly.com

“Soaking up wisdom” explains my love of silence in the wilderness. There you will find wild creatures attentive to their surroundings, alert to new things and people.

— Serge Lecomte

In “Battle of the trees” one can see how one species takes over the territory of another. Ever seen kudzu take over an entire forest? Plants battle one another just as animals do , competing for space, nourishment and so on.

— Serge Lecomte

john zywar

massachusetts

@johnzywar

Art is a presentation to the senses to elicit an emotional response. Photography provides an opportunity to create an image that has the potential to generate such an emotional reaction.
Transforming photographs to artistic images through digital means is my current area of artistic exploration. The result may yield a positive or negative emotion. If the result is ambivalence, is it art?

— John Zywar

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