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Tony Kane | “Gnome Man’s Land”

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A man-sized gnome sits on an oversized mushroom cap in the mouth of a dark cave, at the bottom of a grassy slope. In the distance, enormous pink mushrooms stand on long, stilt-like stems, towering halfway up a craggy mountain, carved in the shape of a gnome's bust.

Tony Kane, "Gnome Man's Land," 2021, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 18"

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Gnome Man’s Land was painted as an exercise of creative study. A take-off on Bob Pepper’s Island of the Mighty, I made each element my own, within the loose confines of composition and palette. I rendered the painting in acrylic paint with the goal of both capturing qualities of watercolor, and integrating these into my acrylic painting style. The title is a homonym, mimicking the creative parody in the painting itself.

Three red Bartlett pears resting in a ceramic bowl on a wooden countertop, in front of a window, with sun filtering through the leaves of the trees outside.

Tony Kane | “Red Bartletts”

Ophelia is large in the center of the image and is floating in water, wearing a billowing white dress. This image includes art nouveau style framing around Ophelia and the background. In the background is a lake with a large willow tree with a broken branch. The branches of the willow tree are placed so they appear as a continuation of Ophelia's hair that is radiating out around her head. Around her torso is also a round art nouveau frame that includes illustrations of all of the flowers that she gave to others. The colors are bright and warm, and there is a sunset in the sky in the background. A small deer is also laying in the grass in the bottom right foreground.

Jessica Allison-Bourne | “Ophelias Flowers”