Artists I Admire

Impression of Siena

Chartres

Both images are by Naoko Matsubara and were taken from her website www.naokomatsubara.com.


I've admired Matsubara's woodcuts for  some time.  I like the boldness of the black and white and the freedom  of her imagination in assembling these images which are impressions, not renderings of buildings.

The images below are all of etchings by Paul Hawden and were taken from his website www.paulhawden.co.uk.  The architectural images are all of the same building: Il duomo,  Orvieto.  The other image is "Storm approaching Lake Maggiore"

I love his scribbles.  I love the sense of something maybe out of control, but not quite.  He had to have a sound sense of the structures of this building before he could take off in flight.  Could I do this?  Not now.  Would I like to?  Yes.

Paul Hawden from wwwpaulhawden.co.uk.