Meet our artists
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
Our versatile local heroes producing contemporary works both on canvas and paper are extremely flexible and understanding of the evolving architecture in Colombo and its suburbs. Be it Zen minimalism, Art Deco, Vernacular Bawa or modern classic your interior can now have a work of art that lives in harmony with its surroundings. We call it 'Art on Demand'.
The American contemporary artists we represent are versatile and extremely talented. We have access to their work in the print format by working closely with the publishing houses they represent in the USA. The signed and numbered Limited Editions are reproduced on watercolor paper. They can also be commissioned to do originals based on a theme and colour palette. Also available by these artists is Art On Demand', paintings produced to your specifications, including dimensions to fit your wall space.
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
– Edward Hopper
American contemporary artists
John Butler, Vice President of Butler Design Incorporated, has created and successfully marketed artwork, wall coverings and furniture accessories for many years. A native of Seattle, he began his art career in the historic Pioneer Square District. John’s creative flexibility with materials and techniques and his inclination to employ non-traditional materials in the service of traditional design and imagery soon captivated the decorative art industry.
Painting is a form of calmness for Aimee. It has been a passionate hobby that she has embraced since late in her teenage years. “My first commission was for the school daily” Wilson recalls, but she has since progressed to producing artwork for various magazine covers, product décor, and original artwork selling in galleries in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Atlanta and Denver.
Jack Vettriano was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951. After leaving school at 15, he followed his father down the mine, working as an apprentice engineer. He later moved on to white-collar jobs in management services. Vettriano took up painting as a hobby in the 1970s when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours …
Before devoting his life to art, Tom knew he wanted to be an artist, His parents wanted him to be a lawyer but he says the doodling on his term papers was more impressive than the words in the papers. After Tom moved to California, Tom worked as a commercial and residential painter and later did murals and paintings on canvas.
John Douglas is an award-winning Australian multimedia artist whose exhibitions have received acclaim and caused controversy both in his home country and internationally. He decided he wanted to be an artist and immediately began painting at the age of 8, and has never had any misgivings about his decision to follow the artistic path. He studied at the Queensland College of Art until his expulsion in 1984 for being a “disruptive and disturbing influence”, after which his career really took
Starlie Sokol-Hohne was born in 1958 in Santa Monica, California and completed her studies at UCLA in 1980. Inspired by the work of Robert Rauchenberg, Starlie combines images of antiquity with contemporary mixed media printmaking techniques to create the reality of her idealized image. Her compositions include paint, textures of fabric, string, and patterned paper, photography, and more. The unique result is distinctively a Sokol-Hohne.
Describing himself as a "third generation abstract expressionist," Scott Sandell combines mixed-media in his vibrant painted prints: oil and acrylic paint, photography, intaglio, woodblock and lithographic printing techniques are all employed. Printmaking has been an integral aspect of Sandell's artistic expression since he began experimenting with multi-color printmaking in one press runs which he began while living and working in Minnesota and continued after relocating to New York in 1982.