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Crystal framed other people's art before she discovered she had the ability to create her own. She has recently expanded her business to include a gallery in her home, thus submersing herself & her family in a creative world of their own making.
Although Crystal has always been creative, it wasn't until April 1999 that she discovered "she had been born with a paintbrush in her hand". From that day forward she has had the luxury of pursuing her artistic talents and career on a full time basis.
Visit Crystal on the street, in her gallery or on her website at www.infiniteideasltd.com and you will get to experience creativity at its fullest. Should you take the time to explore her world, it would be her desire that you return to your own, filled with inspiration.
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I am innately drawn to the expressive approach of deriving and releasing creativity from an unconscious state of mind. Somewhere in the sanctuary of my being, symbolic messages are driven with fervor of a hunter, attempting to define and capture the voice, to bring it to light. The abstractions are intuitive, spontaneous and deliberate messages. They necessitate a vital action to release, bridge and balance spontaneity and tension and the pursuit of aesthetic value.
In some instances, ceaseless and recurring messages, forms and symbols rise, conveying dissatisfaction with the finality of only one image as the interpretation of the unconscious voice. Obsessive re-interpretation and compounded tension promotes observant consideration for understanding, relevance and internal harmony.
When freedom appears to be compromised and restricted by the boundaries of the standard picture plane, the forms require more space to breathe, wander, spill, drip, pour, stretch and reach out into another plane, dictating the need to be free yet integral, with a life outside the box. |
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Lucia Babjakova is one of the most exciting of the new generation of young artists from the Central/East European countries to be breaking through into the global art arena with her distinctive vision and bold artistic independence. She is an instinctive colourist who creates a bridge between abstract and figurative art by the use of strong primary colour, ruthless honesty of form and expressionistic vigour. |
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A professional photographer for more than 15 years, Adam's images have been purchased by collectors nationwide. His photography has been published by the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, Green Peace, and several other organizations. Based out of Portland, Oregon, Adam focuses much of his energy in remote alpine and backcountry wilderness areas in the western United States. He also spends time photographing the beauty of places closer to his home in Oregon.
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I'd rather drink with the poet than live with the afterthought...
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I must be brutally honest in my painting
How I want to activate Magic and expose all my queries, insecurities, dilemnas.
Magic fuses visual language with senses of nose, ears, sex.
Just help pass lethargic pity and go towards organization,
Discipline, strengh, Good Strong heart.
A great example of a disorganized person organized through their visual language. |
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I am fascinated by ‘lives’, their origins, developments, desires, dreams and truths. I am inspired by the ‘light’ around persons or props.I use glass, wood, iron, copper and recycled things for my creations and always work with a combination of materials.
As a theatre designer I think in terms of images, films and parts of films. All objects are parts of that film. To me a matter of course. For the audience often mysterious, but at the same time so visual and clear that they speak for themselves.
My film or my explanations do not always matter. The intention with which I create objects and desires often make further explanation superfluous. I like clear language. Therefore I often create clear images. But I also like decorating, beautifying things, creating an atmosphere. It may take years to finish a series of objects. It is like digging up old fossils. They slowly develop under my hands, sometimes by working, but often by living and giving shape to events. I create the frozen moment. It is me who stops time and no one else.
Although I experience the way no one else does, I would like to share, like ancient peoples, instinctively. Existing for thousands of years and yet new. Time has been frozen. Time is consciousness.
Who needs a watch? A world of time. I am making the next film. |
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I'm a Belgian artist who makes oil paintings and sculptures. My paintings are surrealistic and can be found on my website. |
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Un-orthodox photography & Digital Art |
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Jeffrey Bailey studied fine arts at Syracuse University , New York, and worked as an illustrator in N.Y.C. from 1980-83. He moved to Paris in 1983 to learn mural painting and "trompe-l'oeil" techniques. Jeffrey Bailey is still living in Paris, painting murals and trompe-l'oeil on commission, and in his personal artwork, combines this "démarche" with his past experience as an illustrator, creating an imaginary universe inhabited by a unique hybrid of beings. |
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[from Solo Show, Aerated Abstractions, Botero Galleries, Inc., Naples & Marco Island, FL, Mar. 2006] Bailey's oeuvre of large oil paintings represent a new entry on the Contemporary Art scene.This exhibition consolidates several directions in the artist's work that were, coincidently, elucidated in ARTnews ("Ten Top Trends..." Feb., pp.98-123) and earlier reviews of her work. Basically, the artist states that, " A work of art has to be beautiful..." and her themes develop from this premise. Her work addresses neglected forms
from daily life, the piles of refuse in "urban blight," other-worldly experiences beyond our hemisphere and the inexorable dominance of Nature in the sensual universe.
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I take a logical and atavistic approach to art. I filter the popular media and public opinion, raising notions of false hindsight and the collective consciousness. The power of the media, the intellectual endowment of the ruling elite, and the deconstruction of language have led us to a unique point in history.
Namely the end of a linear consciousness in our self-awareness as society, as the archetypal individual, and of the resultant subjectivism of notions of objectivity.
The social experiment has completed, we as a race must look forward to existing in our proposed futures and archived pasts, as we individually exist in a perceptually enhanced model of what was once described as 'real time'.
Our faith is that of celebrity and monetary clout, our church is the altar of mass media, our purpose is the avoidance of self-reflection and the analysis of existence beyond the 'now', whatever the cost.
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My artwork emerges from a hybrid, interdisciplinary practice involving manual processes, photography, video, and performance. The subjects I choose range from traumatic public events to small, introspective ones. Often, both can be found in the same works. I aim to engage the macro with the micro, as it were. |
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Even though we all live on the same planet it doesn't mean for sure that we all live in the same world. To build one's own world and to be aware of its uniqueness is one of the manifestations of art. Finding beauty in colours that awaken the senses, tickle our imagination and reproduce one starting point, doing so without dependence on any form, creates the pleasure of prevalent pretensions of the initial idea of the artist who shares her idea of playfulness with the engaged observer.
The painting that consists merely of outline forms, dipped into chromatic sauce of its own perception, creates a nihilistic ambience in reality, and while our everyday life slips under our feet, it leads us into a new abstract dimension. But isn't that also an escape from reality? Not necessarily; that can be just one of the segments of the road towards the thorough understanding of reality.
Zana Bajic has been walking that road of cognitive development for many years, which with her developing styling cycles like Phoenix, intimates the birth of a new phase through which she leads herself to her own pinnacle.
She started to develop her inspiration and playfulness of spirit at the Assenza Art Academy. After that she had many exhibitions, both jointly and sole, within and outside Croatia.
With her last stylised communication on canvas she draws attention to the aesthetic level as well as the cognitive level, thereby showing how much everyday superficiality and the black and white world are distancing the human soul from the primordial, and hastening the debilitation of the soul. She offers colours to a world that needs them, as well as an idea of everyday banality. It is as though her stylised expression is spreading wings over the limiting mould, creating new dimensions that negate time and space, but not the existence. Get ready for the journey. |
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Mary Baker works in Contemporary Realism; her studio is in
Newburyport, Massachusetts. This seaport New England city, north of
Boston, with it's flowers, gardens, landscape and historic
neighborhoods, has been the inspiration for the artist's realistic oil
paintings. Mary's art work has passion depth and beauty, capturing moments in
time that many people pass by. Please visit Mary Baker Art, and see Mary's paintings and read her
many articles including "Art, Artists and Vocation" and "Why Buy
Original Art." A list of articles can be found on Mary's Site Map. |
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Bakkach F is a Belgian artist since 1986. She initially started with tapestry on silk.
Bakkach F made several exposures with her tapestries on silk and each time it was a great
success. But after a few years she had to stop making tapestries on council of her oculists
because that became too dangerous for her eyes. In 2000 she started to make oil-base paint
on fabric. With her paintings, she had also much success near people like in the media. She
had the advisability of making several exposures in Belgium already. In 2002 she wanted to
still have another manner of painting..At this moment she decided to make watercolors. For
the moment she makes tables in oil-base paint and watercolors. With the result that she had
directly much success with her works it is her special technique and her colors. Bakkach F.
had the honor to be included in the biographic encyclopedia "Wie is wie in Vlaanderen
2003-2005". Who wants to say in English "Who is who in Flanders 2003-2005". |
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I have sailed through life creating stories using many mediums. Presently I want to take everything I have ever learned about life and mix it up with all the different materials with which to create art with. Marrying digital and analog, history and future, the good and the bad, disguising the ugly with the beautiful. Whether I am at sea, under sail or in the studio, the art is swirling around in my head, it must come out. |
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The artist Charlie Balletto ia native New Yorker who was born on
Long Island in 1976. Charlie grew up in Massapequa and attended puplic
school there from kindergarten through 12th grade. It was here where
he drew his first picture. "In kindergarten we did finger painting. I
dont exactly remember doing any of this but i have been told by my
sources that my first painting was very abstract. you know it had a lot of colors in it."
Through high school, that was the only formal art training he had, not taking
any art class since.
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balves incorporates from a critical view the raising influence of consumer society. Even if the range of communication channels got boosted over the last decade, the technical progress seems to be attended by a loss of sociability.
Meanwhile media is turning reality into a surreal play.
balves was born 1978 in Hanover, Germany. Today he lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
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Lynne Bandy, photographic artist, took her first picture when she was seven years old and received her “very own” camera from her parents upon graduating from High School. Since then, she has studied all styles of photography with numerous established photographers including: Rex Reese, Joe Lange, Steve Northup, Craig Tanner, Mark Johnson, Alan Thornton and Nancy Rotenberg. Her artistic expression ranges from candid and intimate portraiture to landscape and nature to fine art. She is schooled in all 35mm film types as well as wet and digital darkroom technique. Her work has been featured in The Center for Fine Art Photography Ft. Collins, CO, The Hubbard Museum of the American West Riudosa, NM, The International Library of Photography, Rocky Mountain School of Photography workshop catalogues, Santa Fe photographic workshop catalogues, business websites, online galleries and private homes and offices. |
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I WORK IN PAINT,ACRYLIC,WATERCOLOR, OIL, MIXED MEDIA,TOOLS VARY, SHAPES AND COLOR AND FORM AND NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE AND FLAT MEDIA ARE IMPORTANT AND LATELY INSTALLATIONS, VIDEO, POETRY, METAPHOR, MUSIC, CURRENT EVENTS.....BEAUTY, LOSS, RESTORATION AND SURVIVAL AND STRIVING FOR JOY IN THE USELESS, THE SUPERNAL. |
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For many years I am searching in my artistic work the relation between painting and photography. At first I did it by creating photo-collages. Since 1995 I do it by making body-paintings, as expression of my love to these two forms of art.
My body-paintings are made on a manner which is seldom done. The painting is no imitation of clothes or a prolonged background. By matching colours and forms in my imagination, the body gets an extra dimension.
The models have a great share in the success of the art-work. While painting they should stand unmoveable and patient, even when it takes any hours. After completing the painting, they should bring all their energy in posing full elegancy and charm.
The painting itself is already an artistic expression which should succeed right away, because there is no place for experiments and faults. But, if the painting is not taken on the photo, then is nothing left of all the effort after some hours. Therefore it is the task of the photo to revive the extra dimension, which the paint gave to the bare body. Sometimes I ask the models to dance while posing, in order to create more dynamic in the photos.
Most of the photos were made, because of the climatologically circumstances in the Netherlands, in the studio. If the weather allows it, I am happy to use the nature as a reference. This had been done also with paintings which were made in Israel and France.
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For the last two years, Ché Baraka has been exploring a single theme in his large-scale paintings and assemblages: "spirituality as a physical system governed by non-physical principles and laws by which spirit operates and manifests"... |
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"Live to create, create to live" - Mark Baranowski, sketch artist (charcoal portraits) |
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Joseph Barbaccia (American, born Philadelphia, PA, 1952) studied at
Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia. Joseph spent the next 8 years (1976-84) traveling the United States and the South Pacific, concentrating
on drawing and painting using a mostly representational style. He returned
to Philadelphia in 1985 and a year later married Candace Bongard, a
jewelry maker. Beginning in 1992, Joseph began creating limited edition
digital prints. In 1996, Joseph moved to Potomac Falls, VA. Over the next 4 years,
while continuing his experiments with the computer, he began to paint
with encaustics on plaster. These low, colorful bas-reliefs eventually
led to creating a series of beaded wall hangings. With his "Animal
Metaphors" series in 2000 and the 2002 "Santos" series, he fully
evolved to freestanding sculpture, creating pieces that employed the
act of wrapping and winding materials over a mixed media framework.
In 2003 Joseph's art has taken another definitive step. By
incorporating the most basic of materials in assemblies that
underscore craftsmanship and meaning, he has pared down visual insight
to a more essential level of expression.
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I'm a rare of colored pencils artists in Quebec. I started to use colored pencils in
the beginning of the year 2001 after that I discovered the real potential of this medium.
I like especially to do landscapes and urban scenes. My style is figurative realistic.
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I'm an Spanish artist specialized in animal artworks. Humorous and realistic images with traditional and digital media. |
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Esther Barend is a dutch artist, who expresses her feelings with coulours, motion, forms and layers on canvas. Her main tools are her fingers, which allows her to be more in touch with the canvas. She wants to escape this fast, hard world we live in, by painting beautiful things which are inspired on her emotions, the coulours of nature and impressing events. She's always looking at the world around her with artists eyes, getting surprised time after time. Besides canvas, she paints objects which are designed and manufactured by herself, like totem poles of 6 foot (200 cm) high. Painting has become essential for Esther, a way of living. |
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Theo Barend, born 1942 in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), belongs to the group of artists that could not respond to the artist calling perceptible in childhood, after getting on years later in his working career he could develop himself to a self thought painter. He had to wait until his age of 51 to fulfil the dream of his youth: attending the academy of arts. He abandoned the security of a steady job and registered for 7 years courses sculpture and paintings at the “Acedemie der Schone Kunsten” in Belgium.
In his lyric abstract paintings in acryl on canvas he lets himself being influenced by the emotions of music rhythm and motion.
It is not strange that this is a ever-recurring source of inspiration, nourished with his travel specially to the Latin and Latin-American country’s, where passion for music and dance are an indelible part of the daily existence. |
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I like to recreate the beauty of nature on most of my paintings. Working with color and atmosphere, I emphasize contrasts like the delicate surface of the rose with the hardness of the crystal vase, like the softness of the water with the roughness of the wood, trying to depict not only the surroundings but also the spirit of the place.
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Jose De la Barra was born on 6th August 1956 in Peru. He has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing. The expressions and the sensual movements that appear in each piece, create mystic allegorias about the universe. By combining his interest in the human form with his desire for symbolic content, he has engendered a language that explains the human condition through a unique perspective. There is a method through which he develops his art relying on material and composition to develop his personal, magical universe. De la Barra considers himself a Surrealist, one who plays and exaggerates reality as perceived in this subjetive world. He attended the Fine Arts Autonomous Superior School in Lima, Peru, where he studied Painting, Ilustration, and Murals, combining this academic training whith innate tendencies toward abstraction, he developed a figurative style that was immediattely well received and noted for its innovation. De la Barra, reputation is well pronounced throughout South America, and has lead to a long career history of eminent exhibitions and Awards. His reputation has sent his work all over Europe and North America where he is recognized as one of the most innovative artists of his generation. |
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Lindsay Barrie is a self taught collage artist from Scotland who creates dream like imagery to try to take peoples minds to places where they would not normally go. |
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Fun paintings from the natural world.
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The artist Richard Lee Barton was born in 1952 in North-America. He won the State prize for drawing in 1970 at the age of 17. At the age of 19 he began studies under top Flemish masters and held successful exhibitions throughout Belgium. He later returned to America and founded an arts center in his hometown and became Artist in Education for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has a good reputation for teaching and producing high quality paintings with exhibitions throughout America where he became well known. |
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Unique and creative artwork concentrating mainly on things that are unexplained
and not completely understood. Currently working on fantasy/archeological
paintings. |
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Being an American artist who lives in Firenze, Italy, I have had a complete life
change which effected my style as a painter. Once upon a time I painted abstract
watercolors, now I work in Oils and almost always in the style of realism. Firenze can
do that to a man. Here there is so much beauty and I just want to capture as much as I
can on my canvases. |
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Painter, Sculptor & Designer.
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Contemporary, figurative & still life paintings, art nudes, portraits & drawings by Gordana Batic.
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Whiteoyster Art... In this modernist art gallery and painting studio you'll discover fine art in varying styles, employing the ideas of many art movements and painting techniques. Yet the canvases are unique and fresh for the 21st century. |
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Born (1962) and raised on the central coast of California. Throughout
the 80s & 90s he worked as an award - winning graphic and paint
customizer on Harleys, Street Rods, and Speed Boats. From 1986 to 1988
taught this craft at a technical college. Drawing from his creativity,
he designed, shaped and painted custom surfboards.
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Kentucky fine artist area artist whose work has an edge of expressionism combined with a heavy dose of symbolism and literal overtones. |
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BELIKOV VASILIJ MATVEEVICH (1921-1994) - the member of the USSR Union of Artists, participant of many exhibitions. His pictures are present in Penza Picture Gallery and also are represented in many of departments and in private collections in Russia and abroad. |
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Inspired by 30 years living and working on the Northumberland coast and now in the wilds of Redesdale, near Scottish Borders. Fascinated by patterns of sand on beach, piles of seaweed/driftwood order and chaos together. Images I create use a wide range of materials, sand, soil coal dust, driftwood are often embedded in paint surface[Antonio Tapies been Favourite for long time] I want paintings to be as natural as possible. Rarely use brush but finger, knife, trowel, sand, spray paints plus lots of builders materials to create impasto surfaces. Experimenting with Holographic foils in paint to simulate wonderful light in Northumberland. Moving to Redesdale I have been inspired and become aware of the interaction of man and nature, in the Otterburn Ranges military roads, bunkers and old tanks contrast with crags, quarries, moorland and forest to create a wonderful tapestry at different times of year. Rock strata, strange cloud formations, moody sunsets, reflections in rivers and Lakes have me rushing for sketch book or camera. "The Land of Far Horizons" Northumberland has light which enhances the tactile quality of the landscape no matter what the season. I hope my work stimulates a wide range of perceptions and feelings for this "Land of Far Horizons" Other influences/artists I admire include Turner, John Blockley, Andy Goldsworthy, Cezanne, Tapies and many more. |
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Michaël BELLON is a self-educated artist-painter, his style "Le Symbolisme Perspectiviste". Its work first, is the collection "Les Arcanes Majeurs du Tarot" (1979 to 1981), which it holds since for exposures without sale. Oil on canvas. |
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BELTEI Art Studio - vibrant colors, rich texture, original artworks by Nadia Beltei |
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Inspiration comes from my heart and my homeland.
It is the core of my emotions. My paintings are filled with vibrant colors and texture.
The greens of my home land are unlike any green in the world, it was a place where nature
filled the soul, where the magical blue sky and majestic royal palms embraced the landscape.
I grew up in this magical place that transforms a person, and stamps the inner core of your
heart with unforgettable memories, thoughts and feelings. Cuba never lets you go. She is pure passion.
She is within every Cuban.
I close my eyes and I can still smell the burned sugarcane being milled. All those thoughts
are stamped in my senses and in my mind. I use vivid greens that reflect the tobacco fields
that I ran through as a boy.
I use strong yellows; they are the stained fingers of my mother's hands, working endlessly in
the cigar plant. These yellows and greens are the strongest part of my paintings. The thick
texture of my paintings refelct the many waves of a savage sea bashing thousands of Cuban
families and children to the depths of the Florida Straights. They are the scars of many
broken families lost at sea for the sake of freedom.
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Artistic diploma of photography -1971.
Member Union of Polish Art. Photographers Artist FIAP.
Practices artistic (creative - photography) and adverting photography.
Black and white and digital photos.
Author of many individual exhibitions, shown in Poland and abroad.
Participant of tens foreign artistic exhibitions presentations and enterprises.
His pictures has been shown at many exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan.
He gain many awards in Poland and other countries.
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1964 Born in Tbilisi, Georgia
1988 Graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts with a diploma in
Graphic Design.
1990 Studied at Glasgow School of Art under a post-graduate
exchange program.
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Nature Impression Photography is a site with pure photo's from the nature in the Netherlands. Sometimes "above us only sky" sometimes the detail and abstractness. It is your emotion what's creats; not your camera; without technical perfection. |
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Isis Rising is a gallery of paintings and sketches honoring the Goddess in her earthly and celestial forms. They are created to awaken an awareness to the divine feminine as manifested in our relationship to the natural world, the cosmic world, our personal world and our sacred body. Poems and hymns to the Goddess can also be found here, as well as review of books. |
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Din vän Yvonne Berglund har skickat dig ett vykort med följande meddelande.
Mysterious oilpaintings with a dreamish theme from Sweden. Welcome to my web gallery www.ateljeyvonne.se for a glimpse of the world of fantasy! |
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I studied art at the Academie Tilburg in Holland. I like to put soul and
energie in works. I make use of colours as an instrument. I love the art
of people like robert d.hogge. It is modern history - he can imagin cultures
of long ago in modern works. The works give a deep insight into traditional
art so you haveto put yourself in the past and future. This is great but
his work has yet other dimensions in graphic art details. I use my feelings
to create, I sing to create, I pray to create and I make poetry while I
create the love to be a painter and I hope its gives a positive energy. |
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Seamus Berkeley
Why Do I Paint?
Beauty
For me, beauty is a delightful inner experience, not outside of oneself. Each of us has the potential to be in that space and we make the choice to be there or not. Painting is about the active engagement of placing oneself in the state of being that sees things in a beautiful way. The outcome expressed on canvas may lead the observer to wonder what the artist was experiencing while creating the painting. A good painting stimulates and encourages the viewer to enter into this mode of seeing beauty.
Discovery
Discovery ? literally ?not covering?. The act of not covering reveals to us a sense of beauty that we normally cover in our day-to-day activities. Painting can be used as a means of discovery that exposes an incredible alternative view of the world. Approached in this way, painting clears the mind to see the beauty that is already there.
Serenity
Serenity is a state of being that is unaffected by disturbance. It is calm, unclouded, clear. In order to paint well, it is necessary to look intently. By doing so, our preconceived ideas of what we are seeing are left behind and the mind is quieted. We discover beauty ? serenity unfolds. |
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Michael Berkowitz
Michael Berkowitz is a painter, sculptor and fine art photographer. His work is in many museums and private collections throughout the world. He shows in galleries throughout the United States and his work has been featured in magazines and on book covers. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and his work has won numerous competitions. He is a member of The New York Camera Club. His first book, Erotic Flashbacks, published by Goliath Books, debuts in 2005 |
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Gabriela Bernales
Nata a Cusco in Perù, figlia di Donna Adele Echeverria Carbonelly e Don Augusto, risiede a Milano, dove vive e lavora nel suo studio, dividendo i suoi soggiorni tra il perù e l'Italia e viaggiando per ragioni di studio nelle maggiori città europee.Il suo interesse per l'arte, non condiviso dai suoi familiari, inizia fin dalla giovane età e per rispetto ai suoi genitori, Gabiela tiene questa passione chiusa nel silenzio della sua anima. Finchè arrivò il momento di dare sfogo a questa sua ardente inclinazione repressa.L'artista inizia a dipingere e a cancellare quegli anni d'intensi desideri nascosti, esprimendo attraverso i colori e i suoi personaggi, tutto quello cha aveva represso. |
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Samuel Berner
A young artist from Swiss, who moves between Abstract Painting and Concrete Art.He has worked out a style that is unmistakable and fascinating in its beauty.
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Stefano Berno
Italian sculptor, born in 1971 ..... the essence of my work is simplicity
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Meg Bernstein
Influenced by many artistic traditions, my work has evolved from a love of forms in nature and of women's traditional arts and crafts, particularly quilting and doll making. The influence of applique and embroidery can be seen in my painting as well as in my fabric work. Part of my interest in women's traditions include the myths surrounding the history of the Goddess which add further elements to my work.
The Human body has been used as a traditional art form for thousands of years. By form we mean the use of a template on which we build to express ourselves visually. Just as many artists use landscapes to express their feelings about the world around them, I use the human body or plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects, and extinct life forms such as trilobites. The interpretation of the expressed feeling or thought is a partnership between the artist and the viewer who both carry different experiences to the work. |
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Patrick BERTHAUD is a professionnal sculptor since 1989. Always between abstract and classical styles, he works mediums such as resins, bronze and stone. |
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I am photographer and I live in
france . My work is about the violence of this world ; you can see
now the brutality through the negative.
I call my work "scratching New York". You can see my photos on my website (wait for 13 seconds, time to open
the photos) and you can also check my blog at www.frezoul.org
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Tom Besson
Symbolism, Regionalism and the work of Gustav Klimt, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield,
Huntertwasser and Walt Disney Studios have influenced my painting style.
My work expresses what it means for me to live in this rapid-fire nihilistic culture. If it means
nothing more, at least I paused long enough to acknowledge my feelings to myself and to the world. Using
symbols and bright colors I display my ideas and emotions. Themes of life, love, death and politics fill
my work. It is important that artists hold a mirror to their worlds, both personal and universal. Painting
the energy that drives life and how our spirits are connected to nature is my objective. In the end I am
satisfied to show how my hand danced across canvas and time. Symbolism or politics no longer matter and
all that is left is the song of life. |
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Kathy Betlemi
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Mohammad Bin Lamin
Talking about Bin Lamin as an artist, we must take into our consideration that he is also a poet, who combines arts with poetry and poetry with paints in his works. His world full with peaceful people who present in his paintings as beings of higher spirits that present and move around us to teach us how to love and be loveable you can touch them in many different ways by just looking at them. They are pure and simple full with warmth and love. Some times they are sad and depressed. he draws people to convey emotions. For example “Alakeem” is a painting of a man walking alone in the desert, a feeling of loneliness and sadness surrounds the man. And that exactly what Bin Lamin wants us to see, those emotions of “sadness” and “loneliness”. As we know in the modern art, human usually used to portray feelings and emotions and that what we notice in most of Bin Lamin works. |
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David Bishop
Photographer |
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Darrell Black
I am an american artist living in Frankfurt Germany who has been creating artwork for the past 13years for more information please go to www.askart.com and read my biography and view an image.
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Gary Black
My paintings reflect explorations of feeling and form described through light, color, texture, and atmosphere. I work in acrylics and watercolors on paper, and oils on canvas, and I like to express myself through non-objective and objective formats. I am always seeking to capture the inner spirit of everything I paint and embody it into my work. |
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Rene Boast
I have lived all my life in Africa but have just over the past 2 years since living in Canada experimented with painting African wildlife on rocks, slate and marble using acrylic. Why rock, I guess it is that earthy "after the rain smell" that reminds me of Africa when I paint on the rocks. Now all I want to do is paint wildlife with expressive facial expressions portraying God's awesome creations and their wild freedom. I wanted to show the intensity of their expressions, leaving the viewer with a piece of work that will want them to learn more about the animal and wanting them to visit Africa. |
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Gerard Boersma
Gerard Boersma is one of the leading young Dutch artists and well known in his native country for his highly detailed hyper-realist works of individuals caught in moments. His paintings are photorealist portraits of souls alone in city landscapes perused with the precision of a brutally honest sociologist.
Boersma studied painting and fine art at the School of Arts Minerva in the Netherlands, specializing in meticulous form drawing and realistic painting. Boersma is a master draftsman whose paintings peer into the most mundane instances of human interaction for windows into the mysteries of the soul. |
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Richard Bolingbroke
These paintings are visual keys that unfold mysteries. The language that I use expresses meaning that is often hidden. Through the window of the imagination, using processes that allow me to connect with my inner reality, these paintings explore some of the paradoxical and magical aspects of life.
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Jan Bollaert
In general, my goal is to combine the artistic craftsmanship of classical painting with the limitless possibilities of imagination in contemporary art. I strive to make a well-made aesthetic work of art by maintaining quality and using any technique that's available to me. If I have anything to convey at all in my work the very least I can do is to paint it well. With this being said, and since the majority of the art world wants to categorise every artist, Neo-popart is as close as I can come to defining my style. It is not a retro-style. I'm not endeavouring to revive the sixties or copy any of the great giants of popart. No, I want to make contemporary, post-conceptual art. There is enough pretentious, cerebral, coolly calculated, analytical and de-constructive art out there already.
My intent is to bring back the emotions in art, even the most simple and sentimental ones. I don't shy away from incorporating kitschy elements in order to make a point - love the idea of "camp" even if it's "tongue in cheek" occasionally. I want to bring about emotions but not in an abstract way. All my work is 100% figurative. I'm not directly expressing my emotions on the canvas. I'm trying to create something that will evoke an emotion or response from the viewer. Those are two totally different concepts. |
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Anthony Bolton
Anthony Bolton is a self taught art who has lived his life in the North Texas area.
He has three cats, two wonderful daughters and a beautiful wife. His art is mostly
expressionistic and symbolic abstraction, and he employees many different methods in the
process of his painting. PHILOSOPHY: There are no coincidences. Everything means
something. |
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Alexandra Bolzer
Alexandra Bolzer positioning as an Enfant Terrible of the recent art szene, her unruly
creativeness is shown by the expressive quality of her work, not in a flat , trite
quantity . The perfect conversion of her work reflects the capacity of her paintings,
drawings ands photographs. Bolzer asks questions and is surching for answers. Even when
early editions were inspired from artists like Marc Chagall and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the
latest periods of work shows a totally detached way of working , without any parables from
the past. This development suddenly catapulted Alexandra Bolzer from the "underground" to
the top of the recent art scene. First exhibitions in Austria implicated soon offers from
abroad. She carries a heavy load with the note "Vienna" in her biography, an artist from
Austria will be thrusted very fast in the category "Actionism", too fast there will be
found similes to Guenter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Also
Christian Ludwig Attersee, Arnulf Rainer and Elke Krystofek are not the basics of Bolzers
work, her work is "typical un-austrian". Bolzer purports her , because of the intependence
of her work, she never devoted herself fully to eye catching someone, her intention was
always to deliver emotional and personal contents. International art scene occured Bolzer,
and repositioned her as an self contained artist. Why this happend, you will find the answer
easily in her work.
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This image represents beauty and the pain of awareness which to me seems to be what life is all about.
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Jessie Boone grew up in Cincinnati, OH, and currently resides in Savannah, GA to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design and strive for her Masters of Fine Art in painting. Her representational paintings are inspired by her observations of the people around her, and their interactions with one another. As well as their interactions with the viewer. |
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I am greatly inspired by the idea of time and change, visualizing memories as web-like gossamer threads drifting in our subconscious. This fragility and tenuousness is captured in my work by the layering and re-working of paint, building up a history of marks in order to create images that are abstract and contemplative. |
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Filomena de Andrade Booth was born in Portugal but has lived and worked in the United States since she was a young child. At an early age, she developed a fascination with color, texture and design. As fortune would have it, she eventually became a high school art teacher in the Wayne N.J. school system, where she was able to inspire many young artists. |
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Architecture and landscape are the vehicles I use to convey isolation and otherness. Abstracting the images to some degree incorporates a sense of enigmatic mystery allowing my paintings to read as symbolic structures--as spiritual portals or refuges. I've interpreted my fascination with desert scenery and historic architecture as metaphors for spiritual searching. As self meets universe, landscape and architecture merge into one another. The desert seems like the ideal venue for such a union. |
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Detailed Paintings and Pencil Drawings: Giclée, Lithographs, Prints; Expressing Spiritual and Personal Truth.
Inspirations:
The need for a change of consciousness within our world and the individuals who devote their lives to these efforts. The landcape of the Southwest. The sutble curves of the female form and of course the Light which makes it all possible. |
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I was born in Chicago in 1943. I grew up in Southern California in an era of rock and roll, the Cold War, and the space race. From 1961-2001 I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, attending and somehow graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, during the height of the psychedelia and political protests of the 1960s |
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"The wandering is a discreet way of passing between stitches, of
diluting in the space, of living in chinks outside the social link, not while
stopping crossing it. The wandering is not only a nomad in the middle of an
uncertain space, he is also a nomad of one."
David Le Breton
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I have had a 20 year love affair with New York. Although I have lived in suburbs, small towns, and have rural roots, the city is where my heart lies. Wherever I photograph, I see things from the perspective of a New Yorker. The experience of 9-11 only made me embrace the city all the more and propelled me to express this love through my art.
The urban experience to me is largely about motion. The intense pace and vitality of the city excites me; I like to shoot fast and furiously, to be totally immersed and to be swept up in, and along with, the tide of the moment. Either I am shooting people that are in motion or I myself am in movement around my subject. I will stalk my subjects, be they a swarm of gesturing humans or abstract shapes of color and light.
I use a $20 plastic camera called the Holga. The long overlapping images are created by only partially advancing the film between exposures – the overlapping occurs in the film itself. It delights me how these mostly unplanned juxtapositions capture my experience of a particular time and place and at the same time have an identity all their own. |
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I have loved painting for as long as I can remember.
I had a wonderful art teacher help me early in life before I went to college.
My studies in college culminated in a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a
Master's degree in Electronic Engineering. Now, I paint watercolors full time,
and I have already won many awards for my work. When I am not painting, I am
in my garden growing and photographing flowers, or enjoying a good book.
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Brady did his Masters of eurpoean fine art in Barcelona in 1996. His work
covers a broad rang of disciplines oil, encaustic, sculpture, acrylic etc. His subjects refer to the everyday and how the everyday changes depending on what "your day" is. The site is easy to navigate and shows Bradys work over the last ten years. |
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Born in Yakima, Washington, USA, studied languages and music at
Stanford & UCLA. Bilingual teacher, photographer and manual laborer,
now a fractal artist & deep nerd; married to composer John Mitchell.
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In hushed, ethereal hues and rich earth tones, Renee Breig's abstract compositions sustain an ecstatic, continuously emerging dialogue with the viewer.
Blithe, luminous washes of color nebulously cohabit with rich, deep, primary pigments, evoking a vertiginous aura of light and space. Originally a floral designer in Sweden, she began painting through the principles of Vedic Art, which has its roots in Indian culture.
Breig describes Vedic Art as a "way to remember how to paint." Through her audacious painting style, she strives to reach beyond the human instincts of hesitance to describe a personal vision of elation.
Born in 1968, Breig has shown her art in Sweden, the USA, Italy and soon in Germany. She lives in Sweden with her husband Kristofer and son Simon.
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Karen Brenner
Equine artist Karen Brenner uses multiple layers of transparent oils to
create luminous paintings that depict everyday moments in the lives of horses.
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Thomas Briggs
I took a degree in painting, then worked for about a decade in museums and galleries. I left the
art world for the then nascent field of computer animation. In the course of making animation you must
learn to translate expressive gesture and movement into mathematical terms. I found that this ability
could be turned back on itself to engage issues of painting and drawing from a new direction. My concerns
are very much rooted in the physical experience of making and engaging with artwork. I want to concentrate
attention on a surface that is dry, flat, and still has some association with the scratch of the pen. I
resist the appellation 'digital' when referring to the work, as most of what falls under that rubric can be
seen as extensions of image based artwork by other means. Some other terms which most emphatically do not
apply to this work are 'algorithmic' and 'fractal', terms with which I am actually deeply familiar through
years of using such techniques in animation. A computational realization of gesture as I practice it
entails construction of a spatial field of action. In this space various mathematical functions which
represent small aspects of movement are distributed. The sum of the various functions is recorded for
millions of points in space. These data are stored, then parsed into simple drawing elements. These
elements are sorted and assembled into a digital image file. This is achieved by means of a set of
proprietary softwares which I have written. |
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A New York City artist schooled at Washington State University, Janine is connecting in the art scene at a serious pace. The style of painting came to her in a lucid dream, They consist of many layers of oil glazes. She also does art photography, and will be adding a page soon when she has more of a portfolio. |
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As a young country, New Zealand is developing rapidly with so many changes in the last one hundred years, we sometimes struggle to keep up. It's diversity is as great as the figures that dwell upon it. We have a lot of different cultures that are influencing the face of our nation, some of these going back one hundred and thirty years such as the Europeans, the Chinese gold miners of Otago and the Dalmation wine makers. The Maori migrated from Polynesia around a thousand years before that.
I have aimed to capture the people and surroundings of the New Zealand landscape, reflecting on my fascination with the parallels between the European Modernist movements and the settlers of this country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This Modernist influence mixed with New Zealand culture is evident in my most recent work and gives it a truely unique, international flavour. |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico artist Contemporary, figurative, narrative, slightly
twisted approach to renaissance oil painting technique.
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Today, Randolf Bruin continues to defy convention, keeping a watchful and
ever-playful eye on the changing forms of contemporary China. As he experiments
with mixed media and new modes of expression, his work has matured. Discarded
articles become artifacts, challenging our assumptions about value and casting
light on the fast-disappearing and under-acknowledged trappings of China’s
past. Forms and movement in his work have become more abstract and expressive,
while shading and color challenge the eye to view bodies in new ways.
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Silvana Brunotti was born in Rome; she studied at the Arts School, where her teachers
were Guttuso, Gentilini and Montanarini. For a short period she taught drawing, then she
devoted herself to painting and ceramics. She took part at extemporary competitions and
personal and collective exhibitions, obtaining wide agreements both by the critics and the
public.
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Past and present experiences impact my paintings. They express my feelings to my outer physical world, New York, where I live, and reflect reactions to such exotic places as Morocco, Mexico and Spain where I’ve traveled. An intriguing architectural shape, unusual colors, mystical landscape, local festivals like the Spanish bullfight, indigenous music and foreign languages all permeate my canvases.
Whether at home or abroad my work begins with a watercolor or pastel sketch executed on location. I chose significant shapes, colors and lines which are enlarged, modified and abstracted when I return to my studio. There I paint with oils on large linen canvases.
When my paintings are exhibited, I hope that they are received as cultural ambassadors creating a dialogue for peace and understanding among different cultures and faiths. |
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My figurative oil painting seeks to allegorize the autonomy of the inanimate object. I order a chaos of disparate and similar elements to celebrate a female multiplicity.
Sensory overload and interplay between analytical and fractured space incite affect. Using imagery intuitively derived from science fiction and comic art aims to collapse cultural prejudices, maintaining an amused contrarianism to categorization. Eclecticism induces a decentralized, eccentric perspective out of a mainstream and traditional medium.
The human body, its agency compromised through merging with others, is nevertheless skillfully embraced as a vehicle for narrative through a fluid observational style combining invention and translation through a democratic objectivity. Bodies shift red and blue, reflect and are reflected, both fully permeable and closed.
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Although it is highly improbable for anyone to be reading this lines, you obviously are. So I may as well be honest with you... You see, I'm not an artist, at least not the creative type I may have wished to become ever since my art teacher first locked me up in his study for disturbing the class. Can't play any musical instrument, can't draw or paint, could maybe write, but have no imagination, .... The only thing I have is this hunger for beauty in every form and shape.
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Sweeping away the two-dimensional limitations of painting,
Mary-Clare Buckle's work has a tactile, three-dimensional
quality and reflects her character - vibrant, colourful,
effervescent and full of life. As a fibre artist, she works
predominantly in felted wool, but has always avoided the
traditional 'craft' connotations of this medium.
She has developed the technique of 'Floating' felts,
mounting the - ethereal and almost transparent - pieces
between sheets of clear acrylic, so that light interacts
with them. Unlike conventional framing, the viewer's eye is
not constrained to a rectangle and the pieces have the
appearance of floating in three dimensions.
The artist also lights these pieces from behind or the side,
intentionally subverting the boundaries between art and
interior design, by turning an artwork into an 'art light'.
She also uses gently flashing lights to draw the viewer's
attention to a piece and then momentarily divert it from the
fibres to the lights themselves.
Her latest development is to use uv (blacklight) cold
cathode tubes mounted within an acrylic frame to create an
impression of space and depth - bringing into glowing focus
the uv-reactive fibres in the piece, whilst plunging the
background into semi-darkness.
She has recently been combining digital images with felt, in
a series of pieces which highlight or parody the clich
associated with a geographical area or place - a
London-themed piece will have images of red phone boxes,
double-decker buses, beefeaters, etc.
Mary-Clare's work is often informed by the tactile nature
and pure colour of the fibre/felt medium itself - 'playing'
with an array of different textures and threads and letting
the medium control the design. The lit pieces are inspired
by her immersion in pop culture and the clubbing scene: the
fluorescent clothes, glow-sticks, lasers and the
semi-abstract moving visuals behind the DJs. The creative
process for these often starts with an idea from a subverted
cultural icon, a song title, or an idea invading her
consciousness in the middle of the night.
Mary-Clare Buckle was born in the Philippines, studied art
and three-dimensional design at the Surrey Institute of Art
& Design and the University of Central England and designed
and made jewellery for the initial part of her career. Her
work can be viewed, all the year round, at her
studio-gallery in the artists' enclave of Abbotsbury, in
West Dorset, southern England, or on her much-acclaimed
website, www.1-art-1.com.
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Dorota Buczel is a surreal artist from Toronto, Canada.
She has always been intrigued by the enchanted realm of fantasy and surrealism for it does not limit the imagination.
Each of her paintings is a relic of an experimental journey of vivid colours, contrast, magic, movement and fantasy. She works primarily in acrylics as well as other mediums selecting what she feels will provide the best translation of what she would like to express.
Dorota gets much of her inspiration from nature, dreams, tarot, emotions, fairytales and music. She's currently designing and painting her own tarot deck, called Dorotarot. She hopes that her artwork will bring a little magic into this mundane world.
In addition to being a visual artist, Dorota is also an accomplished freelance makeup artist and instructor.
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Dutch painter economist Peeter Burgeik (1959). Colourfull oil paintings and ironic inks inspired by (human) nature.
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John's drawings are the result of anger towards authority and society. John wants to wake up the world in a half Irish and half Russian manner. Some are sick and vulgar where as other s are disgusting and bloody. Enjoy them, because you won't come across the likes of them again.....
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Ann Burstyn is a Toronto based artist/vocalist/writer/musician. Her goal is
to inspire people on many levels whether it be with her singing,
drawings, poems or short stories. She is driven by her need to express
herself through these mediums. When others are moved by her work, she too is touched.
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Mike Butler attended the Ontario College of Art for 4 years,
graduating in 1980 as an Associate of the Ontario College of Art
(AOCA) in Fine Arts. For several years he worked in watercolours and
ink developing an expressionistic style.
In the early to mid eighties Mike became interested in computer
technology as a medium for fine art. In 1991 he created and maintained
the Virtual Palette -- an electronic bulletin board system for artists
that predated the Web.
From 1995 onwards his art work has been shown and published primarily
on the web and has appeared in projects as a member of the Webism
Group of World Wide Webists.
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Ruth Bilowus Butler
I use my photographs of the open Santa Fe skies as filters where the central image shines through. Parts of New Mexico, its small towns with native and mixed cultures, provide the quirkiness and otherworldliness I've read about in children's books. I read these off beat books when I was a kid; books about going up into the attic and finding a new door to some other dimension or a gate within a garden that led to a secret place. The central character would remain the same, but place and time would be dramatically out of step with reality.
So it’s no wonder that my composite photographs are blends of images past and present – I like to use these combinations of real life images to jolt the viewer's eyes into believing the composite really does exist somewhere:
A photograph from my past collection, (such as the little angel in “Keep Out” is me at 5 years old), coupled with my contemporary southwest images present a visual escape. The places are often hauntingly familiar abandoned ranches and deserted homes set against gossamer clouds (See “Galisteo”). In my images the horizon line has lost its natural hold as earthly belongings exist in the sky and clouds will easily appear below the horizon.
My recent escapes are our southwest storms seen from 7000 feet:
Their detached turbulence has a certain grace, their distance at the horizon momentarily feels safe, yet inside one suspects the storm's magnitude is a forewarning. I love the rich deep colors of storms their blues, blacks, contrasted against the transparent gold light of a sunset. (See “Blue Line Storm”) At times there is so much contrast that the land and sky are reduced to bands of colors washing out the details of the land — just silhouettes remain. Anything less would be stripes.
The minimalist landscape of near stripes carries the broad swift movement of the monsoons and inspires me to create more. |
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I'm a self-taught photographer who has
been active in pinhole photography (camera obscura or "Lochkamera" in german) since the early 1980s. The photographies are all taken with a Nikon FM2 body, without lenses, and about 40 different pinholes, on color slide films.
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If Danielle Burgart dedicates her creative work to the human body, she treats it as a field of expression that goes way beyond its limits. The body is the visible part of the being, but it is also our mean of communication, the way we are linked to the world and primarily to our fellow human beings. Characterized by a very moving energy, the work of Danielle Burgart seems to be born from urgency. An imperious necessity draws them to us to signify our essence."
L.Porquet - Art Critic.
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