Javier Peña, self-taught artist, talks to Artfinder about creating portraits of famous faces and his love of using colour in his paintings.
'I like to think that people can get to know me through the intensity and light in my works' - Javier Peña.
Inspiration
The latest news, trends and inspiration from the Artfinder community.
"We use the old to create the new" - Lot 5 Collective on what inspires their artistic practices
Learn more about Artfinder newbies Mr Mylar, Harriet Spratt, Helen Masacz, Luca Indraccolo and Lizet Dingemans
Artist Exhibitions
Your guide to exhibitions and events featuring Artfinder artists in April.
Preston M. Smith talks to Artfinder about being commissioned to paint portraits of former US president Barack Obama to gift to Ed Harris and Ashley Judd
“If you put in the work and take it seriously, Artfinder can be a vehicle that can help you change your life. For me personally, it was a big part of the reason I was able to quit my day job and pursue my art full time"
Ken Vrana on meeting Andy Warhol, sending a painting to the Pope and building an art studio for cancer sufferers to take free art classes!
Discover US-based painter Ken Vrana's 25% sale for a limited time only and read all about his colourful career,
Standing up to #ArtWorldSexism on International Women's Day - we did it!
100 artists. 100 balloons. We came, we saw, we counted.
An anonymous female account from the high end: part of our standing up to #ArtWorldSexism series
“To put it simply, works that have taken so much love and energy have not been valued as they should have been, because it is part of patriarchal culture to systematically downgrade women’s work.”
Artist Exhibitions
Find out what’s on in the Artfinder community this month.
Kev Munday on being listed as one of the Telegraph's 'Five British Artists you need to invest in right now', being inspired by Basingstoke and creating animated characters!
"In the last 2 months I've had orders on Artfinder from Hong Kong, Australia, USA and across Europe. Artfinder is definitely exposing my work to people who wouldn't have found me otherwise."
"I see a continuous state of anxiety floating beneath western culture, instead of viewing it with pessimism, I have an urge to laugh at it and mock it in the work I create." - Taylor White
US-based Taylor White chats performance art, painting and tells us about a typical day in his studio!
