Art in the Make !!!

My december 2006 Exhibition paintings

Artist Bio

Masood Nasser is an alumnus of the St Martins School of art, now known as the L.S. Raheja school of Art in Bandra, Mumbai. Born and brought up in Mumbai, he is now settled in Hyderabad, India. In Art School, he studied composition, still life, portraiture, life drawing, figurative, and various other art forms. His art a global perspective, while at the same time retaining his strong Indian roots. His favorite genre remains composition, in which he has won an award in competition with his seniors in college. He has an eclectic and vibrant style of painting, paintings that are a study in contrasts, where he combines the real with the surreal, the natural with the man made, the animate with the inanimate, the abstract with the realistic, smooth with the rough, and the bright with the dark. Vibrancy in colors and their unique application gives an element of unbridled passion in his paintings. His passion is evident in every stroke of his work. His favorite medium is oil, as it gives him endless possibilities of techniques, styles, exploration and application, though he is increasingly playing around with different mediums. His art can be found with art-loving people around the globe, including USA, Canada, Middle East, & cities of India including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, and Chennai.





Contemplation






A human being has various facets, thoughts and myriad expressions. Contemplation is an inherent part of the human psyche











Mother & Child

The relationship between a mother and her child is unlike any other relation. Pure unadulterated love and joy after the pangs of labor. All the sacrifice, the pain, the difficulty of the 9 moths vanishes magically.This drawing was done within the first week of my son’s birth. No planning, pencil drawing, or “blocking” for proportion. Took the pen, started sketching and the lines flowed and the form was shaped. This skecth took only 3-4 minutes to create.

"Artist painter - a destiny, a talent, an art one cultivates through life's experiences ..."

This affirmation is most appropriate to the path followed by Odile de Schwilgue. Born in Alsace, she spent the first sixteen years of her life in a small town near Strasbourg. "She did not become a painter by chance."

She owes her talent to her maternal great-grandmother. At a time when a woman did not fulfil herself in a professional capacity , the latter - despite a premature death - left a varied collection of her work behind, including some superb frescoes in the family home.
Odile has certainly inherited her passion. Everything was a pretext to draw and paint, to the detriment of classes at college which bored her.

At the insistence of her art teacher, and despite her youth, she took an entrance examination at the "Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg". and was one of the top ten entrants. During five years of training, and thanks to the teachings of Alsatian artists, she affirmed her talent and her personality as a painter.

Diploma in hand, she left for Paris. There, she joined a group of painters "Figurations critiques" who exhibited regularly at the Grand Palais. To live from her art, she drew "portraits at Montmartre". This departure, prompted by sentimental reasons as well as a need for independence, led to a painting style that was more assertive and powerful.
A few years later, it was the lure of nature, sunlight and escape that pushed her towards new horizons, far from Paris. Crossing the Atlantic in a yacht, navigating down the Amazonian rivers, and visiting Mexico and its Aztec temples, produced artworks of sensual orchids, marked contrasts, and women clad in Mayan low reliefs.

Four years later, wanting to be known through her paintings, she dropped her sailor's bag in Antibes on the French Riviera. She has had her studio there for several years.

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS of PAINTINGS by SARAH JAYNE

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Still Life & Landscape, JavaJodi's, Goochland, VA, June 11, 2007.to Present

RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Still Life & Landscape, Art a la Carte, Crozier, VA, April 14 - June 8, 2007.Still Life & Landscape, Pamunkey Library, Goochland, VA, February 1 - 28, 2007.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Goochland County in Plein Air, Bank of Goochland, Centerville, VA, October 27, 2004 - October 5, 2005.Flowers & Portraits, Pamunkey Library, Goochland, VA,November 2004Still Life & Landscape in Oil III, Borders Books, Richmond, VA, November 11, 2003 - October 19, 2004Still Life & Landscape in Oil II, Borders Books, Richmond, VA, November 5, 2002 - January 6, 2003 Still Life & Landscape in Oil I, Borders Books, Richmond, VA, March 2002 Restful Moments, Starbuck's Coffee, Richmond, VA, December 2001Still Life & Landscape, Pamunkey Library, Goochland, VA, December 1 – 31, 2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
River Blue Gallery, Recent Paintings, Manakin-Sabot, VA, September 2005 - January 2007Juried Exhibition: Plein Air Virginia, Artspace, Richmond, VA, August 2003. Hay Bale on Hillside The Second Yard Click on paintings to view larger image.Group Exhibition, February-August Shows, Raven Gallery, Charlottesville, VA,February - August 2003. Group Exhibition, Coordinator, Art & Artists of Goochland, Goochland, VA January - February 2002 Three-Person Exhibition, Southerland Gallery, Richmond, VA, May 5 - June 30, 2001.Juried Exhibition, Ann Bradford Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, March 2001. Ann Bradford Gallery ExhibitJuried Exhibition, "October All Media Show", Shockhoe Bottom Arts Center, Richmond, VA, Juried by Amy Moorefield, Anderson Gallery, October 2000.Group Exhibition, Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center, July 15 - August 28, 2000.Group Exhibition, Solano Community College, Suisun, California, May 1999.

The Painting Activist has squeezed into the spotlight again

The Painting Activist has squeezed into the spotlight again

The Courier-Journal recently ran an article about this new, brilliant, lyrical product sprouting from a dearly loved local coffee chain in Louisville.

As Starbuck’s continues to lose its unique, personal touch and bulge into the Walmart of caffeine, small cafes like Heine Brothers are seizing the opportunity to replicate large-scale successful practices for their mom-and-pop style patrons. For example, I’m sure you’ve seen all the Starbuck’s items sold at the counter aside from products that belong in your mouth, like CDs from their own music label, Hear Music. Heine Brothers has teamed up with records to promote up and coming indie rock artists on their own compilation CD. I had the good fortune of blanketing the cover with one of my paintings In the Heine Brothers spirit of exclusively using fair trade beans and sending staff to Latin America on Habitat for Humanity projects, this CD is more than another way to make a buck. $1 of the $10 album is being “donated to a fair trade organization, whose goal is to help marginalized producers of any type goods compete on an international scale.”

The CD is available in all Heine Brother store and Ear-x-tacy. There is also talk of Amazon, iTunes, and other independently owned coffee cafes around the country. I’m honored to be a part of it.