Jonathan Yeo
Jonathan Yeo is British artist that makes, among other things, fantastic paintings dealing with plastic surgery. Just a caveat for those of you in mixed company, many of the paintings involve waist-up nudity. Lots of breasts, but no gore. Hi-Fructose…
Peter Ferguson
Peter Ferguson is a mind-bogglingly talented Montreal illustrator that I have the good fortune to count amongst my friends. Imagine my excitement when I saw that he was mentioned by Hi-Fructose and that he has a current show at Roq…
Joram Roukes
Joram Roukes is a Dutch artist living and working in Groningen. On a totally unrelated note, my dad’s now-deceased 3rd wife was from Groningen and my half-sister grew up there after her mother left my dad… but that’s another story….
Gerhard Richter – October 18, 1977
Gerhard Richter is a German artist, best known as a painter, particularly oil on canvas. He’s been one of my favourites for years, and I’m not alone: at auction his work achieves higher prices than any other living artist, approximately…
Stephan Balleux
Sometimes people talk about an artist being a “a painter’s painter”. This is a painter who really revels in painting itself, and whose work is more about actually painting than about making paintings “of” things. Stephan Balleux is like that….