Mr. Watts, a 1997 winner, is exhibiting heavily textured paintings of otherworldly scenes with a peculiar radiance.

Mr. DOB has turned up in lusciously textured paintings, on T-shirts, as a plush toy and in large balloon sculptures.

My own taste runs to the grainy, heavily textured paintings with discrete variations in color and tone, like "Pralay" (1997), a huge, beautiful red work that looks like satellite imagery of the surface of Mars.

The final result often resembles a textured painting more than a print.

Suddenly his naïve work was replaced by highly textured abstract painting, which, while unlike Pollock's, nonetheless veered toward Abstract Expressionism.

His highly textured semi-abstract paintings are often executed in mixed media incorporating collage and acrylics; he also brings an experimental approach to watercolour and oils.

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli developed a highly individual Romantic style of painting with richly colored, dappled, and textured painting and glazed surfaces.

His most recent works are textured paintings that incorporate metal forms.

A few early pieces suggest the influence of Minimalism, but more often these colorful, textured paintings achieve an all-over, decorative quality.

These merged into a different period of highly textured painting that is often described as "fresco-like".