Congrats to the winners of the boynes monthly art award

January 2024 - People

  • Bartosz Beda

    Title : Four Seasons, Fall

    Medium : Oil on Canvas

  • Ilaria Miani

    Title : Carrying On

    Medium : Photography

  • Karen Graffeo

    Title : Offering for Chango

    Medium : Chromogenic print on rag paper ⁠

    Description:⁠ This photograph is one my series about Afro Cuban worship and pilgrimage

February 2024 - Cityscapes

  • Afshana Sharmeen

    Title : The Umbrella

    Medium : Oil on Canvas⁠

    Description:⁠ If you have lived in a tropical country, the umbrella is one of the most undervalued item which most of us overlook and under appreciate in our lifestyles. If anything,it is the tool to hold immense roles—shelter you from our absent but torrential rains, makeshift fortress against the angry heat as well as a reliable weapon against eave-teasers,because,it is still a problem these days.My personal favourite use of umbrella, especially off late is that it commands and implements social distancing at the click of the button.This painting is a reminiscent of my short refuge under a bus stop because I was that person who forgot my umbrella on a rainy day. Against the nagging windy blues of the rains, I was envious of the kaleidoscopic canopies sheltering the lucky ones to go about their days. Unlike me, these lucky ones need not have to cancel engagements due to bad weather, or be stupidly late for a meeting soaked from head to toe. That day when I got home, I picked the most colourful umbrella from my mom’s collection and hoped that when there was a need for it, mine would stand out in the crowds of umbrellas for an onlooker like me, that day.

    I wish I had a quirky story symbolising an umbrella with relationships like that famous song but honestly, there is no better demonstration of an automatic social distancing unfolding with a simple swift of the umbrella despite rain or shine.

  • Guglielmo Botter

    Title : Ellicott City

    Medium : Ink & Pen on Paper

    Description:⁠ A clear example of a small city in the American suburbs, Ellicott City releases all its charm in a single image that contains the essence of these small urban centers... A single main street where small artisan shops and art galleries follow one another with the inevitable landscape of electric poles and wires that create a spider's web in the landscape. Luxurious cars and SUV vehicles frame the view in the contemporary world that otherwise would not be so evident. The American suburbs are vibrant.

  • John Chehak

    Title : Urban Growth

    Medium : Acrylic ⁠