Mathieu Weemaels

A Chair in the Studio

2022

Exquisite, modulated, and sensitive, Mathieu Weemaels' painted world centers around his home and studio, where his subjects comprise the subtle shifts of light and color reflected on...

"I grew up as the middle of five kids. We would yearly visit my grandmother in Alabama and later in Tennessee. She was an artist and her house was full of paintings, which was format...

"Water, Roses, Window, Table" is a bright and airy contemporary impressionist scene. A large oil painting of an open window's view to the outdoors, painted from an interior of the artist's home in Tuscany. Situated in the kitchen, facing the window, the walls and room appear dark, as they are backlit from the bright daylight streaming in. A small glass vase of roses sit centrally in our view, on the table's surface, glowing with blue light. A small tumbler, or glass of water, sits in the foreground, almost lost within Fenske's loose, wild brushstrokes. Urgent, loose brushstrokes connote impressionism, and bring to mind modern...

"Bed" is an impressionist, figurative painting of a woman lying in bed. Ben Fenske (b. 1978), although a native of Minnesota, has been working and living in Florence, Italy for over...