Shawn, Arena Title: Turkish Breakfast

2026-04-22T15:45:30-04:00

Vendor: May 2026 All Media Juried Exhibition
Type:
Price: 525.00

Arena Shawn

Turkish Breakfast

12 x 9", framed to 14 x 11"

Oil on Linen

$525

The piece was built around the exquisite hand hammered antique coffee pot a Turkish friend gave me, which has been in her family gif more than a century. Paired it with some shallots from her garden, I love the earth-toned feeling of the composition that reminded me of her deeply grounded, rooted personality…

Artist's Statement:

In her pursuit of art, Arena tries to use charcoal, pencil, brush and paints to reflect the quiet lights, subtle colors and playful shapes exhibited by seemingly mundane, everyday subjects. Striving for the emotional quality of every piece she creates, Arena hopes that her work would be able to reach out and connect with their viewers, evoking the sense of wonder and awe of our everyday life that are so often taken as granted.

Her primary working method in drawing involves direct observation from life using traditional sight-size method and aims at achieving a strong impression of light and its cascading effect down the human figure or a particular still-life setup, while in the same time paying special attention to create strong and unified value patterns, specific organic half-tone shapes and incrementally softened edge quality from the center of focus outwards throughout the drawing.