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18/10/2010

Samira Harris recreates Botticelli's Venus for breast cancer awareness.

British artist Samira Harris has recreated Botticelli's Venus to raise awareness of breast cancer. She used more than a thousand photographs including the faces of people affected by the disease to create the giant 6ft by 5ft artwork, which will be auctioned to raise funds for breast cancer charities.

The 1,096 photographs used in the artwork represent the number of people diagnosed with the disease in Europe every day. Twenty of those photographs will be displayed on the big screen at Piccadilly Circus as part of the European Breast Health Awareness campaign during October.

Also in support of the campaign the profits from all limited edition prints of other works by the artist Samira Harris sold this month through the Berkshire-based online gallery www.stylecube.co.uk will be donated to Cancer Research UK.

01/06/2010

Style Cube Publishes New Limited Edition Art By Laurance Blackwell.

The Style Cube Art Publisher and Gallery has released new Limited Edition art by British artist Laurance Blackwell as part of its Summer 2010 collection. Laurance's work comprises a range of abstract canvases inspired by music and sounds.

It is not difficult to imagine a violent storm from a musical composition designed to describe it, as there is a similarity in sound. But Laurance's success in portraying a storm on canvas in his "Blackbird in a Thunderstorm" defies explanation.

Some of his visual representations of music are obvious: a high pitched sound is thin and pale in colour; a low sound is broad and deep in colour. Hard, abrupt sounds are indicated by a sharply defined edge; an indistinct sound by a soft feathered edge. With, of course, a wide variation in texture between these two extremes.

But because of the atmosphere and emotion created by music, the artist becomes completely absorbed in the sound and his instinct takes over with the most fantastic results.

The artist himself uses the term "sonism" for his visual description of sounds. The inspiration for much of his work has come from renowned pieces of music to which he has a strong connection. Laurance is drawn to the intensity and strong identities of pieces such as Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and the opera "Carmen".

He represents these familiar pieces of music with paint on canvas by stripping away repeats and variations, and discovering the few remaining individual sounds that leave their trace. In this way he satisfies the inevitable need to condense a period of time onto a static canvas.

Laurance's unique visual descriptions of sound are a pure celebration of what may be heard everyday; from great musical compositions to birdsong to the patter of rain.

View an example of Laurance Blackwell's Abstract Art.

01/06/2010

Style Cube Publishes New Limited Edition Art By Jo Bunce.

The Style Cube Art Publisher and Gallery has released new Limited Edition art by British artist Jo Bunce as part of its Summer 2010 collection.

Jo's exquisitely detailed floral works make us stop short and really look at the detail of each flower. Flowers in nature are so small that people rarely take the time to view them in detail. But the scale of Jo's work surprises us into taking the time to see and absorb the beauty that Jo sees.

She creates paintings that at first glance seem simple with smooth, vibrant colours. But her superb handling of just a few colours gives her work a lustre and life that match the natural subjects and allow the flower to simply share its perfection with us.

Style Cube director, Michelle Symonds, comments "I view hundreds, perhaps thousands, of paintings every year and have the privilege of meeting some of the highly emotive and intelligent artists working in Britain today. Jo's works really stand out from the crowd - because of the technical skill displayed, the vibrancy of the colours and simply because they have a certain joyful quality."

View an example of Jo Bunce's Floral Art.