Oda and Kit King are a husband and wife oil painting duo,
known for their edgy hyperrealistic portraits.
With a focus on light manipulation and how this affects the
viewers emotional response to an image, they are able to
capture a fleeting moment in time with a heightened sense of
reality.
An odaking painting evokes a deep sense of emotion,
influenced not only from an in - depth tangibility executed
through texture and a high
level of detail, but jointly with a
sincere passionate portrayal of contemporary art born through
"When the creative spirit of one's soul is denied, the soul becomes prey to stress, chaos, and
confusion.
Through my own artistic development, I have come to the awareness that deep within each of us exists
talent and a
need to express it. I find uniqueness in everyday things and a mystery and sensuality that everyone has
to offer. It
is time to explore it."
Aligning with the tradition of Southern Gothic, Jaime Johnson’s Untamed articulates humankind's capacity to decay as a marker of our identity.
Booth draws inspiration from the attitude applied to a period in Germany pre-World War 2, ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ meaning ‘New Objectivity’ that dealt with figuration and clean lines within fragmented compositions and intimate studies of persons as people.
