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  • September Featured Artist. Brenda Hope Zappitell

    September Featured Artist. Brenda Hope Zappitell

    Kickin’ off a new month with a holiday ( for most of us ) and a new Featured Artist, you say?  Well, I’ll take that!  I’m excited to feature the abstract work of South Florida artist Brenda Hope Zappitell all September long!

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    These abstract intuitive paintings have such a delicious rhythm to them, they almost seem to pulsate!  Brenda paints on a large scale, most paintings clocking in at more than four feet square, giving her work an enveloping nature.  There are also subtle layers of paint and beautiful little pockets of color and line that become so much more powerful at a larger size.

    To see more of Brenda Hope Zappitell‘s work, please visit her website and watch the blog all month long!  Click over to the Artsy Forager Facebook Page to see what gorgeous Zappitell is gracing our cover, along with an album of some of my personal favorites.

    All images are via the artist’s website.

  • Primal Expression: Brenda Hope Zappitell

    Primal Expression: Brenda Hope Zappitell

    Anyone who knows me knows that I’m far from a wild child.  I tend to be calm, controlled, even-tempered.  Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to abstract expressionist work like a moth to a flame.  And the work of Delray Beach artist Brenda Hope Zappitell is a fire this little moth can’t resist!

    In Search of Sunrise II, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 42×42

    In her work, Zappitell “surrenders control to the paint, the brush and a visceral process of creative discovery” [sic].  She works spontaneously and rapidly, following the paint as it dances across the canvas.

    In Search of Sunrise I, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 42×42

    Taking her inspiration from the energy of nature, her palette builds from light, delicate tints to saturated rapid-fire strokes of bold color.

    A Matter of Perception, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 48×48

    Squiggles and strokes that could almost be graffiti-like still retain their softness, like a flourishing garden in the middle of an urban metropolis.

    Embracing Uncertainty II, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 30×36
    Reverie I, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 48×48

    To see more of Brenda Hope Zappitell’s work, please visit her website.  You can see her work in person at several galleries across the US– be sure to check her website to see if there is one near you!

    Featured image is Translation, acrylic with cold wax on panel, 60×30.  All images are via the artist’s website.