THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTWORK
Michelle Condrat
…we’re lucky that painting them – and using different mediums and tools to do so – can result in wildly different outcomes. Take just three stories in. Cover artist Michelle Condrat paints bright images of the desert, Southwest of the United States. Her stunning work has been called linear, Cubist, pixelated, and even digital but are, in fact, entirely executed in oil. Then we have Simon Palmer, this month’s Big Interview artist. His watercolour paintings of North Yorkshire (his self-proclaimed spiritual home) use a limited colour palette and are often emphasised or exaggerated, creating his very unique and individual style. Then there’s San Francisco based palette knife painter Lisa Elley, whose impasto technique sees her apply her paint lusciously to the canvas, creating a Californian seascape that’s entirely distinctive in its approach.
