Patricia McParlin Art

"Sea Garden 2" by Katheryn Holt is a 60" x 84" mixed media canvas that dives into the depths of marine serenity. Through a blend of turquoise, teal, and seafoam green, interspersed w...

In her most recent series, 'Prayers,' Shizico incorporates Dahlias, which bloom in the autumn, bringing vibrancy to the garden even in the early winter's chill. The innocence of a ca...

Spring-Memory Landscape features Magnolias, among the first flowers to grace the Spring Equinox after the long, cold winter, symbolising regeneration and vitality. These early Magnol...

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

Primary Colour Series- White Butterfly ( It's just Another Stage of Life) is Shizico Yi's latest project, inspired by Japanese woodblock Print and the a nod to calligraphy tradition....

Blue, Red & Green Abstract Expressionist Painting, entitled 'Tropical City #1', an extremely rare early work from leading British Contemporary Artist...

"Deep in the Forest" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique shapes t...

Shizico Yi takes on an innovative project -- "The Weaver," inspired by the heritage of family's Tartan, the rich lineage and history of the Clan. Within the patterns of family Tarta...

Dark & Atmospheric Abstract Expressionist Painting by Contemporary British Painter Angela Wakefield - a rare early work. Entitled 'Accrington #2',...

Red & Yellow Abstract Expressionist Landscape Painting by British Urban Artist - a rare early work from Leading British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. This artwork is from an intens...

"Into the Sky" by Katheryn Holt is a 56" x 56" mixed media canvas that transports viewers to a realm of serene abstraction. The expansive piece is layered with a gradient of soft whi...

Beach Bar Original Abstract Painting Acrylic & mixed media on canvas Image Size: 40 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm Framed Size: 54 cm x 54 cm x 4 cm Sold Framed Beach Ba...