2010s Figurative Paintings

Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...

My goal is to make the images of classical art sound in a new way in modern art. In my works I refer to the cultural heritage of the past, I process and comprehend the masterpieces o...

The edges are painted The painting was part of an exhibition 'Ancestral call' in Switzerland The "Melancholy" series of paintings reveals the inner world of a person lost in his own emotions. When inner reflection takes precedence over life itself we strive to uncover our essence and understand who we truly are. This collection delves deep into reflections on self-discovery and one's nature. The paintings are imbued with sadness and quiet serenity, while the blue and purple color palette emphasizes the magical and unreal quality of the scenes depicted. The symbolism of horses in the paintings embodies inner forces that can be either wild and untamed or tamed and controlled. It reflects the struggle with inner conflict and ambiguity. The artist hopes that viewers will reflect on their feelings and inner contradictions while contemplating these paintings. Whether they fear sorrow or, on the contrary, seek constant joy without understanding the potential for growth hidden in melancholy. The purpose of this series is to encourage inner exploration and answer the question of whether melancholy is a problem or a path to emotional growth. The artist believes that the heart of melancholy may be a key to a deeper understanding of oneself and one's emotional landscape. ABOUT ARTIST Olha...

Oil on canvas in six parts With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. The crown jewel of this series is the monumental and eponymous painting The Night Garden...

Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1995. She received numerous scholarships and prizes: in 1997 the scholarship of the city of Cracow...

This painting is made by Dutch artist/painter David van der Linden. Painted with oilpaint on canvas. David van der Linden studied at the Academ...

The edges are painted The "Melancholy" series of paintings reveals the inner world of a person lost in his own emotions. When inner reflection takes precedence over life itself we s...

Kierstin Young's (US based) "Tierra" is an acrylic and oil painting depicting a Comet Moth and it's yellow and red designs Artist Statement/Bio: (b. The Year of the Rabbit) Kierstin's life began by almost never beginning at all. A car accident occurred while Kierstin’s mother was pregnant with her. The doctors advised against continuing the pregnancy for fear that Kierstin would be born without limbs or even blind. Her parents decided against it, and Kierstin was born a healthy child. This story was relayed to her as a child as a reminder of how serendipitous her life was. Kierstin was always filled with an overflowing energy and creativity. This led her on many diverse paths in life. Her many areas of focus included psychology, poetry, photography, mountaineering, religious studies, music, playing ice hockey, spelunking and pretending to be an astronaut. She grew up between two places; the first was a house built on Native American burial grounds in rural New Jersey. The second was a summer home in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of New York. For the first sixteen years of her life, she was home taught by an assortment of sane and insane people. Her junior year she began the strange new adventure of going to school. She was most likely the only 16 year old in the world to be that ecstatic about riding a school bus, because it was for the first time in her life. It was there in public school, that her art teachers really encouraged her to pursue her love of art. Hopes were high for going to art school, but Kierstin found herself forbidden from even applying by her parents. She applied anyway. Upon getting rejected from prestigious art schools such as RISD and Parsons, Kierstin decided to attend duCret school of Art. Being rejected turned out to be a serendipitous turn of events for Kierstin once again. It was there at duCret that she met Timothy Jahn and began studying in his Academy duCret and subsequently Jahn Studios. This lead her to continue her education at the Ani Art Academy under the direction of Anthony Waichulis.

Winter on Barona Street. Oil on canvas, 73.5x85 cm Rolands Krishjans (1966) In 1984 I finished J. Rozenthals art school in Riga. In 1993 I graduated from Latvian Art Academy with d...

Josh Talbott's (US based) "Entropy" is an acrylic painting that depicts an overturned blue glass jar with clock hands spilling out onto a white background. Bio: Josh Talbott grew up in suburban/rural Georgia in the southern US. His first work as a professional artist was in scenic painting and murals for various production companies. An attempt to deepen his well of possibilities led to New Orleans where as a street artist he sold works to people from all over the world before loosing everything in hurricane Katrina. With short stints in Santa Fe and then Los Angeles Josh arrived in the small coastal city of Los Osos, California where he lives and works today. His curiosity is voracious and interests are many, including scuba/ free diving, sailing, surfing, gardening, geology, rock hounding, rationality, AI, history, and philosophy. In his studio there is always an audiobook on, and outside of the studio there are all manner of activities making there way into his work. He has many private collectors scattered across the globe and murals in San Francisco. ARTIST STATEMENT We live in a time of extreme and accelerated change, growing complexity, and specialization. At every stage in our human trajectory from primitive beginnings crawling out of the sea to the present gauntlet of challenges, our thinking tools and their uses are central to the story of what it means to be human. My work is informed by a fascination with thinking tools and the effects of programming and environment through the different phases of life and our capacity for storytelling. My practice consists of constructing small-scale still life scenarios of toys and other artifacts of human development, then creating photorealistic acrylic paintings of these scenes. The work juxtaposes the familiar and playful with a contemporary, complex, adult world. While I am interested in the science of the mind, and what it means to be a human, my work seldom features the human form, focusing instead on the objects and items that are frequently left behind. As such, the subject of the painting becomes the viewer him or herself because their own humanity is ultimately what is revealed. My work honors toys as thinking tools for small people and the scenes depicted explore the ways in which the culture of our formative years leaves a lasting mark and continues to shape our storytelling. The plastic artifacts of my formative years carry memories of simultaneous confusion and wonder at the world around me. These are sensations and emotions still very much present in my life. What were your imaginings and dramas when you played with toys? Are you living them today? The multileveled still life paintings of familiar toys are bright and accessible and connect to the viewer's nostalgia and playfulness while provoking deeper insights into our current evolutionary, cultural, and technological moment. I place each little curio with care into meaningful relationship to their interlocutors and environment. The plastic dinosaurs often depicted are emblematic of childhood curiosities, of great wonder and speculation at past worlds and the depth of evolutionary time, and yet they are made of a material that illustrates our shortsightedness, a quintessential human quality that makes it quite possible that these plastic creations will outlast us all. I do my best to draw inspiration and resources from everywhere to build a visual language. In my divergent path I find the musical compositions and the story of composer, Philip Glass inspiring. The story of his devotion to his craft and his subsequent successes have encouraged and inspired me. I'm influenced by writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Sapolsky, and Yuval Noah Harari, the many books by Simon Winchester, Daniel Dennet, Robert Wright...

Catch by Pam Burnley-Schol is an oil painting on gold leaf, featuring a baseball mitt holding a birds' nest with a baseball nestled inside. A horned lizard and monarch butterflies su...

Personally, the underwater world causes exciting feelings for me. I am a good swimmer, but I have never been able to dive underwater. Maybe that's why the paintings with the underwat...

Ken Cunningham's "For This From That Will Be Filled" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two women picking apples of green and red with the silhouette of a tree behind...

Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuban, 1949) "Ella también fue" (She also went), 2016 Mixed media on Canvas 46.25 × 70.25 in Signed and framed Luis Miguel Valdés, Biography Luis Miguel Valdés...

The sky isn’t always blue. Our sky takes on so many different colours, it creates patterns and moods in a tangible way as we react to what we see. In this piece Francesca Owen has cr...

"UNTITLED" OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED 35.5 X 27.5 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982. What she expresses through her paintings has to do with whe...

Oil on canvas 60x60 cm

James Van Fossan's "Sky 46" is an original, handmade oil and golf leaf painting that depicts a skyscape of orange and grey hues as sunlight plays across the clouds textured surface.

Acrylic paint on box canvas. Ready too hang Signed

Original , exclusive painting. Direct from the artist Daria Kusto. Acrylic on Canvas. Already framed and ready to hang! The artwork will be shipped securely from Spain, ensuring sa...

Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Shade and Shadow” is an oil painting that depicts a white wolf peering through a fallen tree. This painting is unframed, ...

In "Currency #234", Natasha Lelenco presents a striking portrait set against a vibrant pink background, rendered in vivid green tones that give the profile a surreal and almost alien...

Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...

The iconic presence of a Mountie in red serge on a white horse is set against a backdrop of a cerulean lake and atmospheric sky. Peter Hoffer's paintings evoke nostalgia for classica...

This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring the use of space, composition and keeping it relatively unfussy. The use of that space then dictates the shape of the animal. I woul...

Chidy Wayne (b. 1981, Spain) is an artist based in Barcelona. Over the years, he has established himself as a recognized figure in the art world, developing a personal artistic langu...

Kierstin Young's (US based) "Symbiosis" is an oil painting that depicts branches and foliage emerging from a female figures nude back and hands with a bright pink background Artist ...

Christopher Clark's (US based) "Aspen Autumn II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a forest of Aspen trees in Fall colors of orange and yellow. Bio/artist statement: Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross...

“Puberty” - the subject, draped in the shadows of her own musings, seems caughtin the liminal space between revelation and concealment. This piece speaks to thequietude of self-exami...

Materials: Oil on canvas, oil pastels, gold leaf The image of a strong, domineering, self-sufficient woman

Artist: Mark Drew Title: My Real Doggs (RIP Nate Dogg) Size: 60 x 60 Inches Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Edition: Original Year: 2021 Notes: Hand Signed and Dated on Verso. Abo...

"When Winter Rules" by Dan Young is an original oil painting depicting a rural snow scene. Dan Young was born in Denver and grew up in western Colorado. “Camping and fishing through...

Acr. on canvas painting. Evening walk - acrylic on canvas, impressionism seascape painting, 2019 Size of painting - 36cm x 36cm , (14" x 14") In the eve...

Clyde Steadman's "Going Round the Bend" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a two lane road going around the bend with mountains in the backgrou...

Alex Balaguer BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 ) During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle. Self-taught in the art wor...

"Per aspera ad astra" is Latin for "through difficulty to the stars." A friend asked me to read a religious text. The opening chapter talked about "God's enemies." I thought, God has...

Oil on canvas 60x60 cm

An oil painting by Mark Beard of a man wearing an animal fur on his head in a gold gilded frame. Man with Fur Cap, 1872 Signed and dated in red, l.l. $3,450 + $350 framing

"Concept of Individuality" is a large scale abstract figurative original painting by Svetlana Shalygina. In her signature fashion, it is a truly unique combination of intricate text...

María Corte (*1983, Barcelona) is a Catalan-Argentine painter and illustrator who stands out on the contemporary art scene for her colorful and energetic work. She completed her stud...

Susan McDonnell's "Blue Jay," created in 2021, is a masterful oil on panel that captures the vibrant essence and lively demeanor of its avian subject. Measuri...

Robin Hextrum's (US based) "Flowers Turning in the Sky" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a floral bouquet with a variety of Peonies, Carnations, grapes, fruit and o...

The painting is ready to hang, the painting has no decorative frame. Children of Fire and New Hope is a painting filled with the symbolism of rebirth and resilience. The proteas, de...

Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966) "Lovers" 2012 Oil paint on cradled wood panel The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in 1966...

Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...

"The Fierce Seasons" (the original French title, "les Saisons fauves", could also be translated as "The Fauvist Seasons") by Yves Calméjane, is a captivating oil on canvas that measu...

Jesse’s imagery often merges playful and gritty elements, blending floral patterns, vintage-inspired designs, and bold outlines with a touch of whimsy. His artwork exudes a sense of ...

Amy Smith is a self-educated contemporary artist. Born in New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles where she found inspiration, mentors, and support in the Street Art community. In her...

Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic display of love encapsulated in these miniature hearts, leaving us with impressions of color and impasto paint effortlessly. Create an installation to fill any space, they are perfect as a big group or just single. This painting is signed by the artist verso and it comes comes housed in a beautiful white floater frame...

Thorgrimur Einarsson's "Raven nr. 57" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a raven flying through the air. About the Artist: Thorg...

Series: Between light and silence Golden cliffs rise above the turquoise sea, their forms softened by the shifting wind. Beneath a lavender sky, the waves break into stained-glass mo...

Basquiat: Caught in the Crossfire is a very heartfelt and personal tribute to Basquiat and a large statement piece and with this painting Sax takes up the mantle and upgrades the con...

This acrylic painting, titled "Nest IV," is an original creation by Ifeoluwa Alade, an artist based in Nigeria. The handmade piece showcases a Nigerian female model adorned with rose...

Jill Soukup's "Russian Olive Tree" is an oil painting created on location in 2021` that depicts a tree highlighted with sky. About the artist: Jill Soukup was born in Buffalo, New...

Amid the darkened walls and shadows, a direction appears for the first time in a long while. Then comes a step — taken not out of confidence, but out of trust. And once again, toward...

In the eyes of the beholder " is a still life with an apple in the style of symbolism. Oil painting by Lilia Volskaya. Size: 50x40cm. Frame size: 55x45cm. Each of us is faced with ...

"Siesta with a Friend" embodies the essence of relaxation on a clear day, evoking the ambiance of a countryside retreat. This artwork celebrates the simple joys of leisure, allowin...

In Greek mythology, Gaia is the primordial goddess of the Earth, the mother of all, and a powerful force who shaped the cosmos and intervened in the affairs of gods and mortals alike...

Francesca Owen is an award winning contemporary fine art painter and a former Slade graduate where she studied under some influential artists such as Dame Phyllida Barlow RA CBE, And...

April Skiers, Nendez by Lucy Pratt [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Oil on Board Image size: H:49 cm x W:58 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49 cm x W:58 cm x D:1cm Frame Size: H:67 cm x W:77 cm x D:3cm Sold Framed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look April Skiers, Nendez is an original oil on board painting by artist Lucy Pratt. Nendez is nestled in the heart of the 4 Vallées in Switzerland. Featuring Lucy Pratt's elegant use of impressionist style mark...