John d herz artist biography
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Laura FantiniHope (30) : Common Bladder Senna – Cloutea arborescens : Botanical drawingNA
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Beautiful realistic drawing on a botanical subject by Laura Fantini. Laura Fantini is an Italian artist living in New York, known for her hyper-realistic minimalist colored pencil still life defined by strong contrast values, intense details, and highly theatrical compositions with dramatic lighting and a powerful environmental significance. Upon closer inspection, her work exhibits intricate fine details comprised out of precise pencil strokes. Her images are more than a representation of flora, they are an intimate interpretation of her own feelings, experiences and emotions. Fantini graduated from the Liceo Artistico and Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. Her work was show in Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Queen’s Botanical Gardens, NYC; Museo Della Permanente, Milan, Italy; Galleria Forni, Bologna, Italy; Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY; The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA, among others. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA; Queens Botanical Garden, NYC; Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO, and in numerous private collections in Italy, the UK, the US, and Japan.
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"Passion for Life"
Original finely executed and detailed colored pencil on matte board drawing of a passion flower by the American contemporary artist, John D. Herz. Signed lower right. Done in 2022. Presently unframed. Framing options available.
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Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae. They are mostly tendril-bearing vines, with some being shrubs or trees. They can be woody or herbaceous. Wikipedia
Artist statement: John D. Herz (born 1948)
March 7, 2006, the day that changed my life forever. My wife and muse, Nancy, bought me a birthday gift of drawing supplies. She knew I liked to doodle and draw as a kid, but I never had much talent or interest in creating. Neither one of us could have imagined what would happen next. When I started to draw it was like nothing I had ever done before. The next 10 months I drew using photo images, for reference, that I found on the internet. Then, while traveling in The Bahamas, I met a fishing guide who allowed me to take his photo. That photo became the inspiration for my first portrait, “Mr. Higs”, using my own photography. From then on I wanted to control my art from start to