Tag: layered painting

Selected for our Faces exhibition, Lisa Matway creates bold abstract faces layered in vivid pinks, purples, and oranges that pulse with emotion. Her work is deeply rooted in her husband Jerry’s journey with Parkinson’s, exploring the gap between a face that appears still and the life that continues beneath it. Through exaggerated features, layered textures, and unapologetic color, she restores expression where the condition tries to take it away. Each piece begins with shared conversations, translating lived experience into visual form. What started as a personal outlet has grown into modart4pd,…

Martine Jansen doesn’t fill space, she creates it. Through layered pastel paintings and restrained sculpture, her work proves that silence, patience, and refusal to overexplain can carry more weight than noise ever could.

Stepping into Christine Dimaculangan’s studio feels like entering a quiet corner of her world. The air smells of oil paint and wood, and her walls are lined with studies, notes, and photographs that guide her next body of work. In this studio visit, she talks about her routines, the tools she keeps closest, the way she lets ideas settle, and how she moves through the space while working on several paintings at once. It is a warm look at how she builds her practice day by day, inside a room that…

Michele Leung bridges the structured worlds of engineering and finance with the expressive depth of oil painting, transforming discipline into creativity. Her work balances precision and emotion, building compositions with patience, intentionality, and layered brushwork that captures the quiet strength of her subjects. Pieces like The Unyielding Gaze reveal resilience that is internal and reflective, not performative. In her Hong Kong studio, classical music guides her process, helping her surrender to the rhythm of creation and focus deeply on each layer. Michele’s practice has taught her that meaning unfolds slowly, that…