The Vessel Painting rough abstraction and highly rendered

rough abstraction and highly rendered forms

Contemplation

My hope is that they will come away with a new understanding of themselves and the people around them

process is not merely a means to an end but a meditative experience during which the physicality of carving a woodblock or etching a plate determines the way the image is brought into being

Van der Weyden

The Vessel Painting rough abstraction and highly renderedDetails Artist Bio 14 x 16 inches 2013 Oil on Panel Framed to 17. 5 x 19. 5 inches Bradley Platz intricate oil paintings deal with the alternating nature of worship in the modern age. Using classical symbolic imagery from old world traditions and transposing subtle hints of modernity, his work might best be described as tarnished elegance. Ever present also are certain whimsical and subtle symbols that carry the viewer through his body of work as a