Leonardo Ciccarelli creates transient planes of color that shimmer like a heat haze before the eyes and dazzle with their subtle intensity. His strong brushstrokes, which melt into the canvas at the edges, come together to form a plethora of blended textures, seas and skies, undulating fields of corns and rock formations. Mediating this soft world of varied tone is unadulterated color—most often a rich mix of carefully considered earth tones, but even primary reds and pastel lilacs feel natural and unforced on Ciccarelli’s canvas.
There is a languid, ethereal feel to Ciccarelli’s paintings. Even though the haze through which we peer is also one of speed, of a momentary glimpse of a landscape from the window of a speeding train, such is the sense of distance that the energy in the painting is not hectic, rushing, but rather a static vibrating current that charges the canvas. Perhaps this is because the landscapes we see are not physical but are instead the landscapes of Ciccarelli’s imagination—the result of long internal meanderings through places and settings never visited.

Clive Rowe in his studio In Clive Rowe we find a daring and technologically advanced artist. In his body of work we discover atmospheric abstractions that whirl and zoom like powerful intergalactic storms. Other works retain a more tangible quality, appearing like twisted Technicolor rock, tubing, or even vivid porcupine-like explosions. The great invention of forms shown by Rowe is truly astounding. Though he began his artistic journey with conventional photography at the early age of nine, he switched from film to digital and from realism to abstraction after the recent advancements in digital cameras. His fully bloomed aesthetic may have been born with the camera, but it was raised to fruition with the computer. Rowe employs powerful visual programs to craft his art, and keeps experimenting as new technologies are developed. He has recently progressed to three-dimensional rendering, a move that has added a sculptural aesthetic to his work and allowed a freedom from reality and the camera. The dynamism and undulating colors in these images force our eyes around the picture at light speed. It is as if Rowe is crafting his art with pure energy. The images are fully abstract yet retain the perception that they are little worlds existing for us to explore.

Rowe has a finely tuned sense of texture and navigates easily between styles. Color may be portrayed as an impasto painterly swath or as an ambiance, like pure prismatic light. In his works, we find subtle similarities to the likes of the Abstract Expressionist painters and even Joan Miro’s late experimentations with full abstraction.

VéroniKaH invests her paintings with all of her passions, and creates stirring images of sublime transformation. Metamorphosis at its most powerful is a major theme in her work, which bears a consistently fluid feel, as images appear to melt visually into a mixture of water and light, as if returning to their primal origins. VéroniKaH is always researching new techniques to bring forth her vision and she uses a variety of media, including liquid stained glass and lead thread, as well as a selection of objects that she affixes to her canvases to create her abstracts, floral portraiture, nudes and collages. As a self-taught artist, VéroniKaH was originally drawn to the freedom of abstract painting, and she says her work is still a poetic reflection of her personal life. She uses colors like a spiritual sculptor, carving out the dynamic processes of her emotional life on the canvas.