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Jason Anderson

British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color; but, from afar, his scenes—featuring cityscapes, roads, trains, and marinas—are revealed.

Anderson began his career as a stained glass apprentice, where he worked on restoring the windows of cathedrals. He soon progressed onto designing the glass murals himself, where he learned how to break down subject matter into “jigsaws” of colored sections. This approach still shines through in his paintings today—complex scenes are brought to life with simple shapes and careful consideration to hue and tone.

Right now Queso (couch bird) is molting, which parrots do on an annual or semi-annual basis, and which is apparently very itchy and uncomfortable. They rely on other members of their flock to preen (groom) their heads where they can’t reach with their own beaks, and pet parrots will also ask their human owners to preen them in the absence of other birds by lowering their heads to expose their necks.

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