Art Space 2000 gallery 6 pastels

watercolor paintings by artist Dianna Ponting Graphic

Special Moments

Dianna Ponting

Life Time - Signature Member

Web Site      Canada

It was Dianna's love of Canadiana that resulted in an exciting invitation to display her works for the Queen and visiting heads of state during the 1987 Commonwealth Conference. This fondness for our heritage is evident in the stirring paintings she shares with all of us. In an image of a derelict automobile, children in a washtub or flowers in an antique vase one can sense her invitation to close our eyes, smile and remember when .... Childhood memories of life on the Canadian Prairies are interwoven with the present to inspire work that is timeless and renowned for the realism and detail used in expressing it. Created via many different mediums, Dianna's use of light, shadow and texture combined with rich color or subtle washes results in a wonderfully distinctive style.

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Styling

Wim Heldens

Life Time - Signature Member

Web Site Netherlands

The Dutch painter Wim heldens was born in 1954 in Sittard, in the south of the Netherlands. Heldens explored renaissance techniques and three- and two-dimensional form, including abstract structural patterns (the influence of abstract notions of form is always very close under the surface). Also, the treatment of light by masters of Dutch 17c painting like Vermeer, Terborch and Nicolaes Maes held his fascination. He began to be asked regularly for exhibitions in galleries in the Netherlands. For him, painting is a psychological analysis, a narrative of inner life and experience. His realism, which is rooted in renaissance painting but never a stylistic pastiche, gives form to the tragedy of the human condition in the fragmentation which characterizes much of 20c life.

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