Tag: Women in Arts Network

Apr 14

This Artist paints analogue TV texture directly into oil paintings ┃Heidi Weiss

Heidi Weiss creates paintings that sit between memory and interruption, drawing from paused television stills and transforming them into fragmented, emotionally charged compositions. Cropping, distortion, and layered oil surfaces allow her to withhold information, leaving viewers inside unresolved moments that feel both familiar and distant. Influenced by her background in painting and fiber art, her process embraces repetition, slowness, and accumulation, building surfaces that echo the instability of memory itself. Rather than telling complete stories, her work focuses on what lingers, the quiet tension, the partial view, the feeling that something…

Apr 11

This New Orleans Artist Creates Portraits Using Only Wool and Beads︱ Jennifer Morgan

Jennifer Morgan transforms soft materials into strikingly lifelike portraits, using wool, beads, and hand-blended fibers to build depth and emotion without paint. Her process is slow and intentional, allowing texture to carry the story through layered surfaces that feel both delicate and powerful. Each piece captures subtle expressions and quiet emotional weight, inviting viewers to look closer and connect more deeply. By blurring the line between textile and fine art, her work challenges how portraiture is traditionally understood, proving that even the softest mediums can hold presence, intensity, and lasting impact.

Apr 04

Ligia Fascioni on combining photorealism with hand-drawn floral elements

Ligia Fascioni creates layered portraits that merge photorealism with hand-drawn floral and figurative elements over real urban textures. Using photographs of the Berlin Wall and torn street posters, she builds faces on surfaces rich with history and meaning. Each piece reflects the idea that identity is formed through layers—cultural, emotional, and historical. With a background in engineering and design, her work is both structured and deeply expressive. Her compositions transform decay into beauty, turning overlooked materials into powerful foundations. The result is art that invites viewers to look closer and uncover…

Apr 02

This artist builds expressive faces from layered delivery boxes ┃Limor Dekel

Selected for our Faces exhibition, Limor Dekel creates striking sculptural faces using cardboard and repurposed paper, transforming discarded materials into expressive works full of life and movement. Trained in ceramic design at Bezalel Academy, her practice blends craftsmanship with experimentation. What began during the pandemic as a practical solution for teaching evolved into a defining artistic language rooted in freedom and sustainability. Her layered forms carry human energy, gesture, and emotion, often inspired by her background in dance and observation. By elevating humble materials, she challenges how we value both art…

Mar 31

This Artist Builds Abstract Faces From Layers of Pink, Purple, and Orange | Lisa Matway

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,…

Mar 28

This Artist Mixes Elvira’s Darkness With Jem’s Glitter to Create Gothic Worlds I Nicole Garcia

Nicole Garcia blends gothic and whimsy into bold, imaginative portraits and mixed media works. Her art celebrates strangeness, play, and fearless self-expression

Mar 26

This Artist’s Work Proves Charcoal Can Be as Expressive as Colors ︱Lorena Casanova

Lorena Casanova’s hyper-realistic charcoal portraits prove that black and white can hold as much emotion as color. Through subtle gestures, light, and shadow, she captures the quiet intensity of the human face with striking depth and honesty.

Mar 24

Kathleen Warren on Layering Molten Wax Over Photography

Kathleen Warren’s encaustic works layer wax over photography, building and scraping surfaces that mirror memory itself. Through patience, intuition, and time, her paintings reveal stories that emerge slowly, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue beneath the surface.

Mar 19

This Artist’s Abstractions Are Full of Torn Edges and Buried Text │ Adi Zur

Adi Zur’s layered mixed media paintings combine oil, text, and collage to create surfaces that hold hidden histories beneath them. Inspired by archaeology and philosophy, her work invites viewers to look closer, uncovering buried meaning through colour, fragments, and subtle shifts in composition.

Mar 16

Why Margo Nacai Paints Partial Faces Instead of Whole Figures

Margo Nacai’s abstract expressionist paintings challenge traditional portraiture by presenting fragmented faces, gestures, and forms that mirror the complexity of human identity. Through colour, broken lines, and emotional space, her work explores memory, inner tension, and the unfinished nature of self.