Author Archives: Marian

Abstract Triptych

  This is a triptych commission for private clients to match in with the existing furnishings. The paintings are acrylic on canvas with a lightly textured base. Each painting is 90 x 90 cm.

Gold Landscape

With a half textured base, this painting is an acrylic on canvas composition with gold powder, depicting the open space that could be any landscape but is influenced by the wide expanses of desert. The openness of the landscape also implies an openness in a country like Dubai to accepting all cultures and races to it’s [...]

Behind the Facade

This painting is a mixed media collage using photographs and acrylic paint over a textured and carved base. The message of the painting is that old Dubai still exisits under the facade of all of the new things that you see in Dubai today, if you only look under the surface a little bit. The [...]

Squares – In the Style of Klee

This painting, by Marian Lishman, is an acrylic on canvas using a heavily textured base. This base brings out various different effects in the paint and the colours are all subtle shades of blues and browns with an element of gold powder. The painting has a gloss varnish applied to bring out the colours and [...]

New Website

Welcome to the new Black Sheep Art Studio website. This site is still under development and we will be looking to bring you more features to the website in the near future.