Lana Gomez
(Pictured are: Simone Lutgert, Lana Gomez, Judith Liegeois)

It is rare to find a painter that can take the most time honored subjects of painting, landscapes, florals and the human figure, and make them feel fresh and sincere.
     Although he is best known for painting landscapes that are meditative and introspective, within the last year, Blandino has ventured into florals. It's the Blandino plays with dimension, his paintings, which tend toward large-scale works – are partly flat, partly sculptural, deliver an appealing contrast. Ultimately, his art embraces dichotomy: the artist’s many florals are rendered in unambiguous, masculine strokes. These flowers are anything but fragile and fleeting – they are bold, gargantuan, definitive: Mahler to others’ Mozart.
     "For me, paiting a landscape or a person or flowers for that matter, really isn;t any different from on another. In fact, I search for the common thread that links us all between object and flesh, and that inherent pull we have towards all things that are beautiful. I am faxcinated by human relationships, and how we are capable of maintaining an internal dialogue with other people, or objects or places. This physcal world we've created also has a subconscious vocabulary, whereby we use it to dialogue with each other through a different set of parameters.
     "There is a uniqueness about everything that is created here in our unverse, and our personal connection to that uniqueness, is what as an artist, I seek to bring out in my work, and connect it to my audience."