Odilon Redon (1840-1916) | Still Lifes

Odilon Redon🎨's work represent an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche.

He himself wanted to "place the visible at the service of the invisible"; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind. Redon🎨 also describes his work as ambiguous and undefinable:

"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined".

Odilon Redon | Symbolist / Colorist painter

Odilon Redon🎨 (born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, France - died July 6, 1916, Paris) French🎨 Symbolist painter, lithographer and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.

His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist🎨 and Dadaist movements.

His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse🎨 and other painters as an important colourist.

Kay Boyce | Figurative painter

British painter and illustrator Kay Boyce was born in Sheffield.

As a child she would often spend hours at a time drawing on rolls of wallpaper; this was the beginning of her passion for art.

Kay studied illustration at Wrexham College before working as a freelance illustrator. She produced editorial work for Women s Weekly, Bella, My Weekly, Sunday Express and Woman's Own.

Her illustration work has carried her through to major book publishers such as Hodder and Staughton, Wadsworth Romantics, Mills and Boon and Mandarin.

Izumi Kogahara / 古河原泉, 1979 | Abstract painter

Izumi Kogahara / 川原泉 is an Japanese painter🎨, born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In 2000 she obtained her artistic diploma from the University with honors.

Artist statement

"I would like to describe human beings’ original and complex inner mind with my own “words” (the way of presentation) by feeling energy from them.

Either they are objective way or abstract way, I continue to describe them with same belief".

Vincent van Gogh | Our life is a pilgrim's progress | The Letters

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh🎨 refers to a collection of 903 surviving letters written (820) or received (83) by Vincent van Gogh.

More than 650 of these were from Vincent to his brother Theo.

The collection also includes letters van Gogh wrote to his sister Wil and other relatives, as well as between artists such as Paul Gauguin, Anthon van Rappard and Émile Bernard.