Colorful and sensual STILL LIFE PAINTINGS

enter main still life exhibit here

Colorful realistic and abstract still-life paintings.
	Acrylic painting and collage.		Oil pastel on paper.		Oil painting on canvas.
My STILL LIFE and INTERIOR paintings spring from my love of the physical world, especially everyday objects, furniture, and plants.  My first paintings and drawings were done from the objects around me: colorful , richly textured, and with strong form, and my still life paintings celebrate the sensual aspects of both subject and media.  And my still lifes are frankly decorative, using bold color, line, texture, and pattern to animate strong compositions. Although always mindful of the abstract underpinnings of art, I love painting still lifes because objects provide a foil for unexpected twists of dimension, design, and allusion.  I often use patterns to activate the space around the objects in my still-life paintings.  Objects are temporary configurations of energy and matter into recognizable forms.  Both "solid" form, and "empty" space are full of energy.  I like to represent both form and energy -- a moment of visual balance between figure and ground, stability and motion, excitement and composure. x
This online  contemporary art gallery  includes bold, sensual, intriguing fine art in painting, drawing, pastel, collage, and mixed media.  See  realistic and expressionistic figure drawings,  abstract and decorative figure paintings,  playful figures,  portraits of men,  portraits of women,  still lifes,  abstract art,  decorative non-objective art,  sculpture, and other  sensual contemporary art.  San Francisco area artist Sharon Hudson, Berkeley, California.