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Gary Fernández, Illustrator - Detail in simplicity

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Image from jedroot.com ©Gary Fernández

Gary Fernández, who divides his time between the USA and Spain, has been " perfecting detail in simplicity" throughout his illustration career.  "My work is about telling the same in a new way, in a kind of very personal way".

There is a surreal quality about his work and it has a distinctly spanish flavour, reminiscent of the prints and lithographs produced by Salvador Dali. The fluid organic shapes also bring to mind the work of architect, and spaniard, Anton Gaudi.

At the beginning of 2008 he published his first book project called “Introduction to Fantastic Girls, Future Landscapes & The Most Beautiful Birds Ever Seen”.

Gary spends his time trying to come up with new worlds full of detail beauty and imagination and has worked with Microsoft, Nokia, MTV, Nylon Japan, St. Martin’s Press, Coca-Cola, Honda, Volkswagen, Arcadia Group and Wordpress to name a few, and he has been featured in many books and magazines around the world.

Gary Fernández is represented by Jed Root, Inc and you can see the rest of his work online at jedroot.com

Timeless Blooms - Georgia O'Keeffe

 White Trumpet Flower 1932

Jack In Pulpit 1933

Black Iris No.2 1936

Cow's Skull With Calico Roses 1931

Yellow Hickory Leaves With Daisy 1928

Light Iris 1924

Iris 1929 (Dark Iris 2 1929)

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Blue Flower” (1918). Via NY Times.

Red Canna 1923

It seems Georgia O'Keeffe found freedom in ignoring convention, and art and life. Her desire for freedom in her life was reflected in her paintings, just as Georgia rejected the constraints of restrictive fashions.

Her word is energetic and sensual on with predominantly floral subject matter on a grad scale.

In 1916, she first drew the attention of the New York art community in 1916 and within the next 10 years she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists.

On why O'Keeffe painted flowers: "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time...So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."

She lived to the ripe old age of 98 leaving a legacy of over 900 paintings, watercolours & drawings.


Georgia O'Keeffe was driven to paint from an early age.  After we are through school," she told her classmates, "I am going to give up everything for my art. I am going to live a different kind of life from the rest of you girls."

Sources - New York Times and Wikipedia


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