Original Art Made of Hand Drawn Lines

LineScaping is a series of original paintings and drawings created by lines. It features a minimalist abstraction with a distinctive style. All lines are drawn freehand one by one, unlike one may suspect it computer assisted.

Abstract Art

What do you see in abstract art? There's no incorrect answer to what you should see in abstract art. Use imagination. Make up your own story and be convinced with it. Your story is the subjective truth you live with. Ultimately, it's not only about abstract art, but also everything in life is about how you view things.

 To be alive is to move ~   As a professional Dancer, I was trained to become acutely aware of the movement of my body from the smallest detail - the arc of my arm-to the larger pattern made on stage by the choreography.  More important than mastering the physical movement, was revealing the path of my mind,heart and spirit during the dance. My ultimate goal was to move from being an individual dancer to embodying the essence of the DANCE. My Artwork is an exploration of that journey.

Life’s ambiguities, human behavior, love, loss and longing have become the subject matter for my artwork. The images that result mimic tableau photography. They are realized through my personal successes and failures as an artist, teacher, traveler, twin and lover. Found objects speak to me like the words of a poem. The narratives/stories evolve through an intense engagement with materials, art history, attention to detail and the search for meaningful content. These images are intended to amuse the viewer through open-ended interpretations. Ideas come to me not as tangible thoughts but as ideas and events that happened as the result of unconscious and intuitive reactions.

Working in limited space I position objects like the actors on a stage, with a momentary pause in the action. The camera records this action which seems closer to sculpture and painting than photography. Using only natural sun light, my 35mm camera and found objects, I insert myself into the dialogue created by the objects. The collage techniques coupled with bright contrasting colors make the photographs appear other worldly, yet with elements of realism. The process to create a single image can take up to 3 months from start to finish. The resulting images reveal and conceal ideas that rely on the viewer’s personal experiences for interpretation. Often, the staged objects create a mood, a feeling of expectation that something has just happened—or is about to.

I have enjoyed being a professional graphic designer in San Francisco for over 20 years. A couple of years ago I received my certification as a Traditional Chinese Medicine-based Feng Shui Practitioner. My practice helps individuals and businesses with health, wealth and relationship issues. I have always been very spiritual and have recently aligned my faith and principles with my everyday life. My "life's work" is sending a message that life can be great for anyone because we all deserve it and are all equal. This I convey with more clarity and simplicity as days go by, and is apparent in my design, feng shui and art work.

 My new "Sun On Earth" series consists of wood stain paintings on wood boxes. The process includes many layers of stain to produce the effect of dimension. The entire surfice is flat. Many think it looks carved or weaved. The title of the series comes from the idea that the sun is everywhere, shining it's rays on earth. This inevitable act of nature can't be changed or stopped.  It just is.  We are connected to this as we are to everything that exists. We are one. We are not separate. Look deep into these images and find your place of peace.

I manipulate tinted epoxy resin to create abstractions.  My work is created on wood panel.  It is not a single process but a multi layering to create depth and rich color.  I am drawn to bright colors but now my palette includes earth tones.  The high gloss finish is the medium and not a last coat.  

“I delight in the unforeseen, the happenstance, the incongruities of things!”
—The Impoverished Landscape Painter Reflects on Art, by Carla Sweet Chlouber

The fragility of life and its ever-changing nature, both beautiful and tragic, sometimes ugly, compel me as to explore what gives us meaning and hope.  Over the last ten years, my work has considered our relationship to other animals and the earth, exploring ideas such as communication, compassion and sustainability.

My most recent body of work is a “collaboration” backward through time, inspired by the writings and poetry of my mother, Carla Chlouber, and her father (my grandfather), Arthur Sweet. Within my mother’s papers we found a trove of her and my grandfather's unpublished poems and writings, which were hidden in old trunks and file cases—scraps of family history.  Using fabric and embroidery, along with printmaking, encaustic, acrylic and oil paint, these mixed media pieces hold for me a haunting beauty and a transformation of family, love and loss.  

Exploring their writings has made me see the past differently, not as something that ends, but as ever continuing. 

Belinda Lee Chlouber 

We use our senses to help us understand our position in space-time. Vision is our main sensory input for the world we exist in. The human brain has some built-in limits beyond which it cannot properly interpret visual information. I use this limit to express the workings of the subconscious. Also embodied in my work is a sense of scientific realism; the elements and information of a natural system can be reduced and modulated and still exhibit characteristics of that natural system and to me this is proof that information is a true and robust representation of our universe. Clean lines, simple shapes, self-similarity on varying scales, and pure, changing color are my palette; information systems and data-sets are my subject matter.

I use mathematics and engineering to formulate physical space-time distortions: displaying static images through time while squeezing and folding the images’ space into 3-dimensional layers. Using industrially prefabricated LED technology, and custom electronics and firmware, I collapse space and re-map it onto the time axis. By re-displaying information in this manner I give the viewer a glimpse into space-time as seen through my eyes. It’s an automatism whereby I fold my own perception of space-time in an effort to understand what it means to exist.