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Gladys Barbot Desmangles
Haitian artist Gladys Barbot Desmangles resumes the top position as PaintingsDIRECT's bestselling artist. While best known for her rounded, faceless human figures, the artist also paints vibrant still lifes. Desmangles focuses on themes of family bonds and relationships, often incorporating animal images alongside these serene figures.
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Julie Seyler
The colorful fluid paintings of Julie Seyler were a popular favorite in 2006. Seyler conveys a range of emotions, feelings and human virtues through her figurative and abstract works.
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Terry Oakes Bourret
New England artist Terry Oakes Bourret joins the list of bestsellers this year. This plein air painter wants viewers to experience nature through her images - "to hear the sounds... smell the air... to feel the temperature... in effect, to share the mood I felt during an inspiring experience." Bourret manipulates color combinations, lines and brushstrokes to convey the mood she is feeling.
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 Ilya Lerner
Ilya Lerner continues to entice viewers with his vibrant collections of landscape, cityscape and human figure paintings. Lerner is also known for his images of rural New England landscapes and ordinary, everyday life in downtown Boston.
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Marine
French artist Marine endears viewers with her paintings inspired by peasant life in Vietnam, penguins and simple abstracts. While creating several different artworks within a series, Marine manipulates color to evoke a completely different response.
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Dorothy Churchill-Johnson
Dorothy Churchill-Johnson
Through her surreal images, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson takes on very powerful themes, such as man versus nature, the tenacity of life and the struggle to exist against all odds. Churchill-Johnson presents her messages by showing the dichotomy of the metaphorical foreground image against a contrasted background.
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Francoise Carrier
Perhaps best known for her Provence series, Francoise Carrier pays tribute to the architectural splendor of this region in France. She portrays the pink rooftops, the vivid blues of lavender fields, clear brilliant skies and the luminosity of Provencal light.
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Alice Zinnes
Abstract painter Alice Zinnes paints from stories and poems, not as illustrations or literal translations, but as transformations to "mysterious landscapes of a dream world inhabited by figure, animal and birdlike images." Color and texture dominate the final image -- Zinnes layers paint using a palette knife to create a range of textures from impasto to translucent glaze and energetic brushstrokes to portray a mysterious, dreamlike world.
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Suzanne Archibald
Suzanne Archibald employs a variety of tools in addition to brushes -- such as rope, flower pods, knives and her hands to create her abstract paintings. Archibald avoids repetition and predictable markings to convey everyday contradictions and the unpredictability of life.
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Carole Orr
Carole Orr draws viewers into a world of femininity, portraying the strength and inner beauty of women, as individuals and collectively. Orr likes to show movement through her images, such as a scarf in the breeze, a bird in flight, a leaf in the wind or the bow of a violin, all symbolic of time passing.
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