great to have work selected for SWA annual open currently 'Doing What it Takes' oil on canvas https://t.co/4BsiqHurhg

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Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego is a Portuguese-born artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal.

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AMARYLLIS DEJESUS MOLESKI



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Seen as a radical force in 20th century art in Switzerland, Alice Bailly was associated with Fauvism Cubism. She eventually invented her own mixed-media technique known as wool painting, which employs short strands of coloured yarn as imitation brush strokes.

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"it occurred to me that something ugly or muddy could be a color as well as something clear and bright and a nameable, beautiful, known color."

Helen Frankenthaler from interview with Barbara Rose

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Sonia Gechtoff was an American AbEx painter.She was part of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat Generation.According to Gechtoff, female abstract expressionists in San Francisco did not face the same discrimination as their New York counterparts

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"Every canvas was with the idea of expressing something. Even the canvases that seem to have absolutely nothing in them are expressing something."

Perle Fine

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