Michael Batty

Step Off, Acrylic on Linen Painting by Michael Batty, 2018

2018

Bubble, 2019 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on linen Dimensions: 36 x 36 in Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND) North Dakota-based artist Todd Hebert employs the atm...

Iceberg, 2020 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on linen Dimensions: 15 x 18 in Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND) North Dakota-based artist Todd Hebert employs the at...

Closing In, Acrylic on Linen Painting by Michael Batty, 2018 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on linen Dimensions: 16 x 20 in Michael Batty (Canadian, born 1967) Michael Ba...

Bottle (White), 2022 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic on linen Dimensions: 12 x 13 in Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND) North Dakota-based artist Todd Hebert employs...

A Sparkling Apple Blossom Morning by Nicky Chubb [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on Canvas Image size: H:80 cm x W:80 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80 c...

Interiors (Abstract painting) Oil and acrylic on linen - Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and organic...

Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (also cited as: Michael Nelson Jagamarra, or Jakamara) is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community in central Australia. Born c. 1949 at Pikilyi, Vaughan Springs west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, he grew up ‘in the bush’. His father was an important tribal elder and medicine man at Yuendumu. It was therefore automatic that he would grow up with the traditional values and knowledge that now influences his paintings. Michael lived at Haasts Bluff until his parents took him to Yuendumu for European education at the mission school. He left school at thirteen, after initiation, and worked at buffalo shooting, driving trucks, droving cattle and in the army, before returning to Yuendumu and then to Papunya to settle in 1976. He worked for a time in the Government store and for the Council. Michael learned to paint at Papunya by observing the senior men such as Billy Stockman and Old Mick Tjakamarra. Although he was tutored by his uncle, Jack Tjupurrula, Michael developed his own style and began painting earnestly from 1983. Michael is known as master desert painter for his depiction of several Dreamings in one painting. For him the understanding of the Dreaming stories that go with his paintings is all important – without the stories his paintings would ‘mean nothing’ as far as he is concerned. His Dreamings include the Possum, Snake, Two Kangaroos, Rock Wallaby, Bush Banana, Honey Ant and Yam. In 1984 Michael won the National Aboriginal Art Award with his painting ‘Three Dreamings’. His reputation as a painter rose rapidly after this. He exhibited his work in the 1986 Biennale of Sydney and featured in ‘The State of the Art’, a British art documentary. In 1987 Michael had been asked to paint a major work (27’long) to decorate the foyer of Sydney’s Opera House and he chose to paint his ‘Possum Dreaming’ story. A great highlight in Michael’s career was in 1988 when he was commissioned to design a 196 sq-metre mosaic in the main forecourt of Australia’s new Parliament House in Canberra. The work was based on his ‘Kangaroo and Emu’ dreaming. Michael was presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11...

After the rain, abstract large poppies by Mary Chaplin, artist : A summer rain falls on the poppies in the garden of contemporary artist Mary Chaplin bringing a new source of inspira...