Little Lettuce from Lisbon: When clothes are not made of fabric

To and Fro, Acrylic on birch plywood construction, 2008

Good Dream

Wallflower

These are the work of artist Ron Isaacs.
He works in wood, creating what amounts to an optical illusion - trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") making the viewer question whether the subject of the piece is real or a representation.

Isaacs work is based in three main areas.
Clothing is central;
Plant material is important too: "I keep falling in love with leaves."
And then there are the works that are about surfaces.

Her House

Into the garden

Ron Isaacs builds clothing out of plywood, then paints it. His pieces are composed of Finnish birch plywood and acrylic paints. He creates the illusion, shadow and textured found in 16th and 17th century Dutch genre painting. But instead of flat panel, he works three-dimensional forms.