Art By Bella St John

🔹🌟 If you would like a certificate of authenticity for your purchase, please send me a message 🌟🔹 Hello, I'm Bella St John and I am delighted to 'meet' you! 🔹 I remember the very day I became a ‘professional artist’, when someone actually commissioned (paid) me to paint a triptych for them. It wasn’t a huge amount of money at the time, but I felt like it was a million dollars (I still do – I still feel so very honoured and humbled by the experience). 🔹 Since then, I have played with a lot of different materials, techniques, styles… and now have developed a style that just ‘feels’ right for me – and I love it. 🔹STYLE: Technically, it is apparently referred to as “modern contemporary impressionism”. In other words, being influenced by the impressionists of the early 1900s, but adding a more modern element. 🔹SUBJECT MATTER: I am greatly influenced by water, historical subjects, nature, and ethereal elements such as reflections. 🔹APPROACH: For the majority of my pieces, I first create a watercolour painting of my subject, then apply oil pastels to give a rich, lush, and dream-like aesthetic to the piece. 🔹I rarely paint straight from my imagination, but first will find different photos, get inspiration from other works I have seen, or even create some AI images, and then use any or all of those to inspire me. 🔹MATERIALS: Watercolour – mostly Windsor and Newton solid half-pan, and Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils 🔹Oil Pastels – Sennellier Oil Pastels 🔹More information can be found on my website: https://www.BellaStJohnInternational.com