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LATEST ARTICLES ( 134 )

• Stick Us Right in the Heart

  

  Avenue (Bulimba) © Samantha Groenestyn — a little oil sketch from a landscaping adventure in Brisbane I recently read Bulgakov’s frenetic tale The Master and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Branching out

  

  I am pleased to share that I have started writing regularly for the Atelier blog. This means a lot of happy opportunities to impose myself upon fascinating... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Intent

  

  (Preparatory thumbnail drawing for current painting) © Samantha Groenestyn While people readily brand drawings and paintings that look like something... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Punch

  

  Confessions © Samantha Groenestyn I’ve been chewing over the role of a ‘conceptual rationale’ in art. Firstly, let it be recognised that I am not against... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Flirtation with Arts Funding

  

  Mikes – beginnings of a drawing of two sculptures of the same model sculpted by two different sculptors Despite my suspicion of government arts funding, I... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• La Source

  

  After Ingres, La Source I have been thinking about how important it is to uncover one’s source. My dear friend Jacques has been in town, and his simultaneous... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Summer Show

  

  Nausea (c) Samantha Groenestyn Another year of endless Summer. We have been busy preparing some paintings for the Atelier Summer Show which is on this Saturday. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Shadow

  

  Three (oil on linen) © Samantha Groenestyn I’m thinking a little more, as I’m painting, back in Brisbane, of shadows and the way they cradle and nudge the light. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Dimensions

  

  Copy after Van Dyck; Hermann Joseph, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien What is perhaps most fascinating for me in viewing old master paintings, and what seems to... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Die Gestalt Des Menschen

  

  Copy after Rodin, Eve, Oberes Belvedere, Wien In Vienna, a little romance has blossomed between me and sculpture. It’s hard to say how this happened; it unfolde... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Curiosity

  

  Copy after Caravaggio, David with the head of Goliath, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Spending time with people who are not artists is always a reminder that wha... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Painting: the Lost Virtue

  

  After Caravaggio, Madonna of the rosary The role of the artist is perhaps less clear than ever, and hence the motives of the artist are also something hazy and... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Painting: the Lost Virtue

  

  After Caravaggio, Madonna of the rosary The role of the artist is perhaps less clear than ever, and hence the motives of the artist are also something hazy and... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Analytical Romantic

  

  I’m suspicious of dichotomies of the likes of Romanticism(s) versus Classicism, and I’ve no intention of defending such categories here, though Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Risk

  

  Nausea © Samantha GroenestynA government employee once said to me, upon learning of my aspirations to make a career of art, ‘Oh, so you’ll be getting used to a... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Grand Old Things

  

  I had the recent good fortune to be introduced, through physicists, to Heinz Letuha and his incredible piano workshop, Die Klaviermachermeister. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Devil

  

  Copy after Bartholomäus Spranger, Der SündenfallIt’s undeniable that the Dutch and Flemish painters particularly relished detail. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Measuring Air

  

  The Duchess © Samantha Groenestyn (oil on canvas)Lately, some thinking about edges. The potency of the edge is a recent revelation to me. As Nelson (p. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Reckless Solitude

  

  The world we live in is constructed to support the social creature. Above all others it celebrates the confident, outspoken, public person. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Swamp and the Little Animals

  

  Swamp © Brian DeagonBrian Deagon graciously hosted Ryan and me at his home and studio a few weekends ago, putting on a fabulous spread for lunch, giving us a... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE