Sabina Forbes II resides in New York City.  Since 2008 she has had three solo exhibitions and several general exhibitions including in Miami, FL; Las Vegas, NV and Nantucket, MA.

First Artist-in Residence with famed pop artist Romero Britto

A perspective of Forbes' artwork:

From the solo exhibition Motion, Rhythm, Space June 24-September 5, 2009
by Jeremy Garfield-Davies, Author and Fine Art Consultant

Sabina Forbes' work is a warm, uplifting and passionate celebration of color, expression and release.  Surrounded by an awareness of art from an early age and inspired by her maternal grandfather's own paintings and her paternal grandfather's diverse art collection, she has returned to painting to explore the ebb and flow of emotions through rich texture and vibrant color.  Forbes has always had a great sensitivity to the human condition, particularly its energy which she observes as it alters moods and states.  Her interest in the separation of colors and their relation to each other is confirmed in Forbes' study of many artists including Cezanne, Gauguin and Matisse.  Like these artists, her paintings' free energy and originality belies their thoughtful construction and structure as carefully demonstrated in her latest beautiful series entitles "Galactic Sea et Al" and in a previous set, ‘Music and Muse.’

In her next vibrant series, ‘Conceptual Bodies II,’ Forbes abstracts and translates this captured energy through rich pigments which evoke the spirit of her carefully flexed figures.  Her forms contain a wonderful vitality reminiscent, too, of the Fauves as they revel in the vibrancy of color, teasing the eye further through juxtaposed textures.

Anchored by a strong graphic structure, her abstract pools of vibrant, psychedelic color in both her series of human figures and in her often joyful non-representationals play across the canvas.  The light tremors upon the surface of the paintings, highlighting the areas of color which dissolve into abstraction; hence a rhythm develops across their planes.  An underlying sensuous energy of her anonymous contorting bodies resonate confidence within a kaleidoscope of shimmering color.  Observed from afar, as we do with our own human condition, Forbes' paintings at once present a sea of vital united energy; yet, when approached, the component shapes separate to reveal a more diverse and fragmented make-up which divulges a greater depth and hidden complexity.

2009 Copyright Jeremy Garfield-Davies retains copyright to his writing. No commercial use or reproduction shall be permitted without prior consent of the Author.