2023
Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in the mystery and spiritual element of the Indian culture began with childhood. Traveling with his family to historic locations that conveyed Native American history, he was taken with the beauty and mysticism of the Indians' expression. After finishing high school, Hawkins enrolled in college art classes then later attended the Burnley School of Art in Seattle. His art career began with illustration and commercial art but he found it didn't fulfill his creative need and desire for self-expression. This realization led to his introduction into the world of fine art painting. Hawkins’s search to connect more closely with Native American inspiration has led him to reside in Montana. Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in non-traditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of elements - natural, emotional and cultural. Raw anger. Raw sorrow. Raw vision. And that is a mysterious thing to explain, but even more mysterious to behold. Unlike the classical approach of most Western artists, Hawkins asks a bit more from each of us who stop to admire one of his paintings, trust. Hawkins looks to the Abstract Expressionists as kindred artistic souls-Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others.
I AM HERE
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
“My paintings are about expressing a visual experience that challenges and communicates with a sense of mystery. Mystery is a human trait and curious characteristic where not everyth...
Canvas, Acrylic
See Beyond
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Transformation No. 5
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
By Chance
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Catching the Light
By Beau Carey
Located in Bozeman, MT
By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern la...
Canvas, Oil
Transformation No. 6
By Rocky Hawkins
Located in Bozeman, MT
Enthralled with the lore and spirituality of American Indian cultures, his work often depicts these traditional subjects in nontraditional ways. Hawkins captures the raw sense of ele...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
First Light
By Gregg Renfrow
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Drawing from the ever-changing nature of California light, Gregg Renfrow works in translucent layers, pouring mixtures of polymer and pigment over sheets of cast acrylic. A disciple...
Pigment, Polymer
The Brightest Hour
By Cynthia Ligeros
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The Brightest Hour started with the hope of always improving, and always growing brighter, like the beauty of a luminous sunrise. It was inspired by the first...
Oil
Sunrise
Located in Deddington, GB
Sunrise [2021] original Oil paint on canvas Image size: H:94 cm x W:94 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:90 cm x W:90 cm x D:4cm Frame Size: H:94 cm x W:94 cm x D:5cm Sold Framed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Large oil painting on box canvas, framed with a grey painted wooden tray...
Canvas, Oil
Radiance - painting, acrylic on canvas
By Sasha Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary abstract landscape painting is by Sasha Rogers. The luminous, expressive paintings of this Canadian artist are rooted in her childhood memories of growing up on th...
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Solstice
By Jennifer Hornyak
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jennifer Hornyak was born in England, where she studied at the Grimsby School of Art before coming to Canada. For more than forty years, her work has been exhibited in prestigious ga...
Oil, Canvas
Abstract 2410
By Alex Senchenko
Located in Zofingen, AG
"There’s something ethereal, almost magical, about contemporary paintings. The incredible Expressionism bleeds through the canvas, transforming any room into an entirely new experien...
Acrylic
