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Georgia Gray is an artist living in Victoria, Australia.

Phygment Studio is the artistic home of Jane Moore Houghton.

I cannot say enough about these paintings - they simply speak for themselves.
Every time I revisit them I am in awe.  Are they photographs or paintings? 

"Larry McMurtry's ground breaking novel The Last Picture Show accurately represents the cultural background of Teresa Elliott's birthplace in Weatherford, Texas. Her deepest connections start there and always seem to end in the same place. Whatever she is painting, the roots of it connect to the same tree."

Once again, I am leaving this post stunned.  Thank you for your beautiful work Teresa.

I spent a lot of time with my husband and children the weekend of Mother's Day but my husband also gave me a lot of free time to paint.  That was really the best gift of all (besides him also doing the grocery shopping and cooking!).  I was able to finalize some previous paintings I had started and also start new pieces!  I have been having so much fun with different kinds of inks and ink washes.  My oldest daughter even worked on one of her own this weekend while I was working on one of mine.  Come see the progress of some of my other work on my Facebook page.

This is the first time working with inks and I just love it!  It reminds me very much of watercolor.  Enjoy!

I look at the paintings I've done over the last year and would think by now (or at least hoped) that anyone could look at them and say they recognized my "style".  You couldn't look at my work and say "I know who did that!".  Is that good or bad?  I don't know.  I like to test so many different materials.  Maybe I'll find my niche as I continue to go along.  Right now ink seems to be my choice of medium.  Although I did learn the hard way that you can't brush a varnish over paintings done in ink - it rubs it right off and blends all the colors together!  Good thing I have spray varnish too - that didn't help the painting I thought was ruined.  Hope you enjoy!

It was just my sister and I growing up.  Although we didn't always get along in those early years, today we can't imagine life without one another.  When we were young I looked up to her, admired her outgoing personality, envied her beautiful blond hair (mine was curly and frizzy!), and simply couldn't understand why she didn't want to share a room with me anymore.  I realize now that the youngest has its perks too!  As we are both now adults, each raising our own families living states apart, I still admire her.  We may have been "told" to be nice to each other when we were young and now we wouldn't imagine being any other way than holding each others heart close to our own.

Raised by an artistically gifted family near the Caspian Sea in southern Russia,
Andre Kohn's childhood was marked by the natural splendor of mountains and sea, and by an unfettered access to all the creative arts.

His mother was a symphony violinist and his father a noted linguist, writer and sculptor. Both were educators trained in psychology who gave their only child unrestricted opportunity to explore the depths of art and his own obvious talent. Paintings, sculpture and books filled the family's tiny, one-bedroom home. It was a childhood without material possessions, but a childhood which taught him that the creative arts are the only true wealth. Kohn's parents also encouraged their son to draw on any surface-including the wallpaper in their home-which they simply re-papered when he grew old enough to favor sketchbooks. His memory of childhood is that "music and art were everywhere".