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| Sloane Bouchever & family at Lyrical Gallery's opening, Fall 2010 |
About Sloane Bouchever:
Bouchever was born in New York City in 1958, and began painting in oils at the age of 12. His unique style makes his work easily recognizable; the ability to focus attention on an object and infuse it with emotional impact and meaning, while still respecting the innate and natural beauty of the flower, fauteuil or figure is indicative of his work. In addition, the heavy impasto and texture adds an element of abstraction and chaos in the otherwise orderly world of the canvas surface.
Bouchever's paintings are featured in many collections throughout the United States and in Europe, where he lived and worked for 11 years. He began selling paintings at the age of 12, and has had numerous one-man shows over the past 25 years.
Among the painters that influence his work are Diego de Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keefe, Bronzino, Balthus, Odd Nerdrum, Montserrat Gudiol, and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
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| One of David Hallman's extraordinary wooden bowls |
About David Hallman:
David Hallman has been turning wood since 1968, making quilt racks, candlesticks, covered boxes and finally, exclusively, wooden bowls. He is a self-taught craftsman who loves the creativity of turning a block of wood into something beautiful and functional. Through trial and error and patience he started producing high quality wooden bowls and estimates he has made more than 3,000 bowls in the last ten years.
He moved to Arizona in 2004, and immediately began selling his bowls through various venues in Bisbee, Arizona. He was included on the Bisbee Artists Studio Tour in 2006 and 2007. He opened his own gallery, Bisbee Bowls, at 40 Main Street in May of 2006. He closed the gallery in December, 2008 and moved to Silver City, NM in December of 2009.
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is.. unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
-Alice Neel
