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NOMA Gallery invites you to participate in the People’s Choice Voting for our PORTRAIT International Juried Art Competition! Now is your chance to support and celebrate incredible portrait artwork from talented artists around the world.
✨ How to Vote:
1️⃣ Explore the Artwork – Browse the gallery of stunning submissions on our website and take in the artistic expressions of the human form.
2️⃣ Choose Your Favorite – Select the piece that speaks to you the most and cast your vote through our online form.
3️⃣ Submit Your Vote – Each person is allowed one vote to ensure a fair process.
4️⃣ Share & Promote – Encourage friends, family, and fellow art lovers to vote and support their favorite artist!
🗓 Voting Period:
📅 Opens: May 2, 2025
📅 Closes: May 23, 2025
🏆 Awards:
✨ Best of Show: Chosen by jurors, awarded a $150 cash prize and a 2-month solo exhibition on nomaocala.com.
✨ People’s Choice: Determined by public vote, the winner will receive a Certificate of Recognition and be featured in NOMA Gallery promotions.
📢 Winners Announced: May 25, 2025
Your vote makes a difference! Help us celebrate these remarkable portrait artists by casting your vote today. Follow @nomagalleryocala on social media for updates and announcements. 🚀
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All of my paintings are created out of a deep passion for poetry. My work explores the relationship and fusion between painting and my compositions, as if they were the notes of a visual diary. In my art, the figure is broken in the shadow to allow words to emerge, because it is always in the depth that poetry resides.
Iron gall ink and oil on linen.
Being enamored with Van Gogh's colors and texture palette, I thought I would recreate Van Gogh's self portrait as a Bas-relief in clay, to capture his use of thick brush strokes and vivid colors!
Mixed media: Clay and Acrylic paint
Andrea is a wonderful expressive model and photographer that lives in Rome. The study was done from one of his photographs.
Oil on canvas
The artist at work, creating a piece during a live competition in Ocala, FL
Photography
In this piece, I sought to capture a moment of silent resilience, where light and shadow speak louder than words. Through her gaze, I invite the viewer to witness strength wrapped in vulnerability.
Oil on linen canvas
Taken during a webcam chat as a podcast guest. Portrait of the Artist just turned 72, I like the semi-sad eyes and Mona Lisa smile...
Photography
All of my paintings are created out of a deep passion for poetry. My work explores the relationship and fusion between painting and my compositions, as if they were the notes of a visual diary. In my art, the figure is broken in the shadow to allow words to emerge, because it is always in the depth that poetry resides.
Iron gall ink and oil on linen.
Painting of a candidate photo i took of my husband.
Oil on canvas
My Labrador retriever helped as I tested some new equipment in the studio.
Photography
Looking to the past for wisdom in the eyes of ancient seekers. It is always there. We just have to look and remember.
Oil on canvas
My children were my inspiration and the distain they shown when not getting their way and being made to leave my house. It was pure and a such raw emotion. I had to capture the moment and ensure that it lived on.
Oil on canvas
All of my paintings are created out of a deep passion for poetry. My work explores the relationship and fusion between painting and my compositions, as if they were the notes of a visual diary. In my art, the figure is broken in the shadow to allow words to emerge, because it is always in the depth that poetry resides.
Iron gall ink and oil on linen
Andy is our neighborhood sweet heart, he is 92 yrs old, Everyday Andy sits in his wheelchair in his driveway and waves to everybody with a big smile.
Watercolor on paper
Dan's vocal and musical talent is on full display during a live performance on a chilly night in Ocala. Here he juggles singing, guitar, and keyboards.
Photography
Photo reference of live model Randy with her sweet dog Opal.
Oil on canvas
Amy and I combined soft textures and lighting to create this portrait of her in the forest near Ocala.
Photography
Khayori has since passed away but we were once a couple. Music was his life. I watched him stress over songs, lyrics, the world and
where he wanted to be daily. Up days and down days. He often talked about having a dog in the future
so I drew him with his dog. I hope khayori's passion and focus translates through.
Ink on paper
This artwork is a self-portrait I drew for my art class assignment.
Pastel on paper
Photo reference of wonderful model Ava. Have always loved copper and gold leaf separately, so here I put them all together. The copper will tarnish with time, creating a beautiful look.
Oil paint on a copper panel and gold leaf
Classical beauty and lighting combined for an iconic closeup of Aiden in the studio.
Photography
Live model John, looking at a book.
Soft Pastel on paper with brayered water soluble oil
An early portrait of my wife, Parisienne betrays the haunted reticence of post-war Paris.
Photography
This young woman, Victoria, was leaving the next day for a new city and a job for which she had been studying. Aside from the fact that she was quite lovely I was interested in getting her skin tones and hopefully portrayed what I saw as excitement and perhaps a bit of trepidation as she contemplated her immediate future.
Watercolor
My children were my inspiration and the distain they shown when not getting their way and being made to leave my house. It was pure and a such raw emotion. I had to capture the moment and ensure that it lived on. ifferent mediums exploring portraiture.
Oil on canvas
I met Fanney Osk in Reykjavic and she was hesitant to do this shoot due to her pregnancy of four months, but I got her to shoot after offering to do the pregnancy shoot too.
Photography
I painted this piece for Brookesville Florida’s Mobile Mural project themed “Tangerine Dream”.
In the painting we see a young women caught in the middle of a daydream. We get the impression that she has a playful imagination with her hair transforming into a shrub filled with a bounty of tangerines, inhabited by butterflies and humming birds. While it may be playful I intend for the piece to also remind the viewer of our connection with Mother Nature. We are stewards of the earth and our relationship with her should be symbiotic. I dream as Rachida here that the natural world be treated with the love and respect it deserv
es, so we may have a fruitful future for generations to come.
The girl is named Rachida, which in Moroccan means “one who is guided in the right direction”. I chose this name for as my above statement reads I wish for this piece to help remind the viewer of our direct connection to nature. It is my hope to spark awareness that may help lead people in the right direction, which is back to truly caring for Mother Nature. Why did I give her a Moroccan name you ask? The origins of the Tangerine were believed to have come from Southeast Asia and they received there name because they were exported by traveling through the port of Tangier in Morocco.
Exterior House paint on 5’ x 7’ canvas tarp
TLC, William Robinson is a brand of his own. He is almost always in lime green with TLC on his clothing and can be seen at various events and youth sports games.
He smiles big and has a signature bald head and white beard. He modeled for figure drawing at The Maxx, and it was a no brainer to cook up this drawing of him.
Markers & Oil pastels
It was an art collaboration a friend and I had made. Talking about doing self portraits like Frida but using our favorite flowers. Mine are roses and the bleeding heart.
Acrylic paints and markers
It's almost impossible to find photos of my dad because he doesn't like to take photos.
I love to draw my loved ones and drawing dad is no exception. When I see him, I see me.
I love his smile and his nose and the way he dances through the kitchen singing.
Markers & Oil Pastels
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