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I describe my paintings as ‘abstract landscapes’. Unlike the landscapes we see above the Earth's surface, these are landscapes that are hidden from view deep under our feet, landscapes that are created by nature's activity underground, affecting and influencing what happens above ground.
I’ve always been fascinated by volcanoes and the power and energy they hold, being responsible for creating our land masses so long ago. Volcanoes continue to shape and reshape our visual landscape. They not only destroy but also create new landscapes when they reveal their power above ground.
Now as an artist I still find volcanoes fascinating and the source of my inspiration. Through my paintings I’m trying to connect with nature and capture the energy that exists beneath our feet. It is this energy that is central to all my work and I continually strive to capture on canvas.
I like to work in relief using strong colour. Working in relief allows me to create something that is more alive and dynamic, adding a sculptural dimension to my work, often so heavily textured it casts shadows. Many of my paintings are triptychs. I like the movement that occurs when the image is split in this way, like the Earth splitting open.
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My goal as an artist is to convey the joy and awe I feel when witnessing the beauty of the world we inhabit. I have been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember. I paint everyday because it is what I love to do. Painting is the most fulfilling work I've ever found. I am dedicated to strive, at all times, to be the best artist I can be and to paint for as long as I am capable. Alla prima painting presents the challenge to record my immediate experience of the land. The subject can be as simple as a willow branch touching a stream or as grand as a sunset in the Rocky Mountains. Painting from life is extremely rewarding to me as an artist. I find it the most honest form of painting. Standing with an easel before the land---that's when all the years of practice come into play---the discipline to record the fleeting moment on canvas before it disappears forever. As we begin a new century, remember the land supports us---that we are part of it---connected to the earth in ways we can't fully understand. We must be ever diligent to preserve this precious commodity for future generations to capture on canvas and enjoy. |
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I am a mixed media artist and one of my mediums is henna. I am also a photographer, yoga instructor and licenced minister. I don't represent any particular religion just the fact that each of us has the right to find out what we believe in, based on our own searching and live by that faith. I strongly advocate we ask questions about what we believe and not just take what we have been handed down, in the end it's our responsibility. I am always going, going, going and my brain seldom stops, so much so, i have to medicate myself to sleep. Complete whacko, but hey, I'm cute and I have that going for me. I have a tremndous community of beautiful and talented people that I consider major blessings and cherish all of those individuals and the body as a whole. I believe we are born alone and singular and perfectly unique down to our DNA but belong to a larger body that is supposed to learn how to communicate and work through our lessons.
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Peter Jean Caley a New Zealand oil painter on canvas,inspirational realist.Caleyart Gallery is the home to collection of NZ Maori portraits and cultural paintings by Peter Jean Caley,other works include wildlife yachts,landscapes birds. |
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My name is Jean Marc Calvet , I´am self-taught . For me, painting is my best way to communicate with humans. It unifies me with my internal work, evolution and liberation. When people ask me, why do i paint? I answer: I paint to know myself, that way i know you and understand you. And definitely, I paint to know you |
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I construct a visual response to the female perspective. I deconstruct images of women as a vehicle to critique traditional female roles and cultural myths. |
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I'm an abstract painter. I began to paint in 1992. My way to paint can
be described with three sentences: I paint what I like; I like to
paint; I brake rules of paintings when they are a limit to paint beauty.
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My name is Marco Canestrari and I live in Australia. I am a self
taught artist and I have tried different art mediums and found that I
have had most success with digital art using computer software to 'paint' my
work.
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The artwork of John Canning is a vehicle for a wide ranging regional tour;
And as it discovers and reveals an eclectic array of architectural styles,
Vegetation, figurative and color combinations, it delivers diversity. Through intense observation and deft rendering of natural lighting and atmospherics, John moves beyond mere structure and arrives at a true sense of place.
This artist moves beyond realism; this art becomes more real than real;
this is hyper-real; and through a process of intensified visual perception,
it becomes visual understanding.
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mario would like to become a real artist someday, that is, a working one |
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Rene Capone's art conveys a sense of wonder, exploration and discovery. Set against a fantastical world of mythical dreamscapes, the figures in his work appear to be on a deeply personal quest for identity and their place in the world...In this richly imagined world of innocence, beauty, danger, and fear, Capone's images reveal a courage and vulnerability that is universal. |
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My small metaphysical flowers, spring from early morning meditations. Each of them embodies a passing thought that finds his way in to the world through colors and shapes. I find flowers the perfect medium to express subtle feelings without crashing their delicate flow. |
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Jill Caporlingua has been a professional artist since she was three years old, when an entire stack of her paintings was sold at a neighbor's garage sale. Jill has worked in various mediums, including acrylics, oils, and ink. She currently teaches drawing and painting at the ever evolving Academy of Art located in Highland Park, New Jersey. |
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"The bright and vibrant paint of Cappone is the projection of her raw emotion onto canvas. Her cool blues and greens flutter against hot oranges and yellows. They are applied with a great force and momentum that let us peak into her creative and expressionist process. These bright hues become a dazzling ground in the painting. Above this atmospheric ground of dancing color is the outline of figures applied with a similar immediacy. These figures are often defined with a dark sinuous line that contrasts against the bright ground. Cappone thinks of her work and life in terms of a quest for wisdom and understanding of human relationships. As a project manager for IBM, she headed over 200 employees. With the same insightfulness necessary to manage a large team of people she now expresses the subtleties of personal relationships through paint. But instead of restraint, politeness or politics we see pure expression, and the depiction of humans drawn together within a fantastic world of implied sunlight, water and companionship."
"Christiane CAPPONE doesn't paint, she projects her emotions. Her natural curiosity and her novel mind oriented her toward another way to think shapes and colors. The Going-Up was born. A style that makes crunch the brush on canvas with energy and passion, letting free course to the spontaneity and the imaginary of the artist. Then one likes or one hates but no one indifferent remainder to this new world all in color that moves and challenges us. " Lys Coopte
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Alejandra Carambia was born in Argentina. She's drawing and engraver. She has
showed her works in her country and abroad. She manages her own studio where she teaches
painting, drawing, engrave and art history.
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After gaining my B.A at the University of Calgary, I traveled a lot and used photography to express my creative side while visiting many Galleries and art exhibits. Then I began to paint and found it was indeed the ultimate way to express myself. In painting, as in photography, my goal is to capture the mood of the scene which is generally determined by the nature of the light. The color of any object is relative to the light shining on it as well as the color of the things surround it. In fact, understanding Color Theory is a very important aspect of any artist’s work. I have attended numerous courses and seminars at recognized Schools in both Calgary and BC and read many books and journals on the technical aspects painting. I have tried many mediums; watercolor, oil, gouache, and acrylic but for the most part I use acrylic. It is the most versatile medium available and can be used to show texture or thinned out to the consistency of watercolor and applied in thin glazes which almost glow. In l995, I decided to move to Victoria and commit myself to becoming a full-time artist. I was in seventh heaven, doing something that left me totally satisfied, at peace and filled with the joy of constantly creating and learning about new methods and materials. In fact, an artist never stops learning. I think it is this aspect that intrigues me and make it so satisfying. In Victoria, I have joined many arts groups and entered many Juried Shows and Exhibitions, as well as holding private and group shows with fellow artists. I also sell from my studio and web site www.treelinestudio.com and can be contacted at 250 479-1632. |
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Deciding on a informalist, abstract line, cradle in the investigations on the pictorial matter like artistic expressive means, it imposes as total value the matter in front of the informalist materic form.It uses diverse procedures. In collage it mixes heterogeneos elements with the pictoric paste applied directly of the tube in form of heavy and granular fillings, on which it makes tracks, incisions, furrows and cracks. Other times it uses grattage, that consists of the scratched one or lining of surfaces.The final mission is a painting of reliefs, orographical , recreating in the presentation rough, porous or granular textures that contrast with smooth surfaces, in its work. |
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A deep appreciation of warm earth tones inspired me to begin painting
landscapes. The effort was to develop a style through experimentation
with several types of brushes and pallet knives, to capture the texture
and serenity of nature – a perfect harmony of balance and color.
Later, I began painting still lifes to study the essence of light and
shadow – the delicate way these elements complement each other
through an attraction of opposites.
Several years ago my appreciation of earth tones and multi-media art
led me into an introspective exploration through non-objective abstraction.
I enjoy creating the illusion of multi-media using only oil paint, a
variety of pallet knives, and other unconventional implements. Recently
bolder colors have found their way into my works as I continue to grow
and refine my style. It is a long process, but I see each painting as
a journey and learning experience that holds a specific place in time.
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This painting in acrylic, pastel, ink and colored pencil is from a series
entitled "Celebrating Burlesque!". Burlesque was one of the most popular
forms of entertainment in American theatre from the 1930's until the late
1950's. This was a time when the tease outweighed the sleaze. Remember
the music: "Boom bada boom, bada boom!" This group of paintings
showcases those strong independent ladies who wowed us on the
burlesque stage with their beauty, strong sense of humor, playful
choreography, and extravagant costumes which were tantalizingly
removed to the delight of the audience.
Dee Milo, "Venus of Dance" began her burlesque career in 1949 and
headlined in USO shows and throughout the United States, Mexico and Japan until 1964.
She now operates her own business "Balanced Energy", however, she has
performed on stage as recently as 2003 at the "Miss Exotic World
Pageant" in Helendale, California. Dee is still in demand by
magazines and television.
My research has introduced me to many current and former burlesque
performers. I have found them to be some of the most generous,
creative, industrious and intelligent people. The stories they have to
tell are fascinating. These are truly living legends and national
treasures. I am extremely proud and honored to have the opportunity to
portray them to a wider audience. Ladies, I salute you! |
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Varda Carmeli - Painting, Photography, Installation. |
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Nothing more painful than lucidity, when thinking is a vice. In my cloud, it pleases me to discover that, as I go by, no more that it’s insignificant weight am I. Only the universal effect of the star I pursue matters, in that immense cathedral’s eternal in which I float, nameless: I exist only in the way this effect will be reversible to me, and all the mist will decompose (itself) into birds. |
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Born in St. Albans England, Robert moved to Canada at an early age. Studying at
the prestigious Sheridan College School of Animation Art & Design, Carter graduated at
the top of his class in 2002. Robert has worked for such clients as; Kitchen Sink,
NUVO, Dynamic Graphics Group, RAZOR, BC Business, Graphic Exchange, Microsoft Ideas,
IT Business Report, Creative Source and EDGE Magazine among others. Robert's work has
been awarded by Spectrum Fantasy Arts Annual (2005), Applied arts Illustration Awards
Annual (2004 & 2002). He's been featured in 8 eye press, SBS Digital Design, EFX Art &
Design and received the Kenneth R Wilson Memorial Award in 2004 for outstanding
acheivment in illustration.
Carter now lives and works in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
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Over the last two decades I have always tried to diversify my artistic skills and vision. This approach to my work often does not allow the public to comprehensively follow my career. I am comfortable with this. I am a visual scientist and as this century unfolds I remain committed to my goals. As I stated twenty years ago I continue to explore the fears and inhibitions that control our minds". Recent commissions include the National Institute of Health & DC Commission on the Arts.
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I am a computer artist and I create my images using Poser, Vue, Bryce,
Photoshop and a few other graphic programs. My work focuses mostly on fantasy,sci-fi
and horror. I created art for book covers, illustrations for stories, and
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These paintings were such a joy to make. They are fun, playful, and truly celebrate the beauty of femininity and grace. I enjoyed exploring different mediums and incorporating collage in to my artistic process. Silky fabrics, crushed velvets, golden floral arrangements, and Art Nouveau inspired patterns are reminiscent of Eighteenth Century French garb, both ornamental and decorative in essence. The bold use of color provides an outlet for movement along the surface of the canvas. How sublime that a familiar landscape or simple gesture can transcend and re-invent it self. |
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His works constitute a point of convergence for color, emotion and design. Carulla uses a variety of supports including linen, paper and wood with noticeably provocative images, in a deliberate combination of fantasy and reality. Carulla´s recent works are quiet, meditative and idealistic.
In speaking about his work Carulla states, "We all are jugglers, escapists, rockets, and entertainers in the interminable circus of life." "The characters that appear in my works fluctuate from eccentric to gallant. Just as many human beings do, these capricious personages are always fighting with their sense of life, and their day to day existence." |
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People seen as they are in portraits, art works and decoration. |
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From Peru, I have been painting about 10 years, I have always been mesmerized by the human form, my current work concentrates on the nude, and surrealism, and the medium that I use is oil. My interest is focused in the different aspects of the human relationship, the feelings, the emotions, love, and pain. When I paint I like to add drama by adding light and shadow enhancements to get more _expression to accent the theme of every painting. I have several collectives exhibitions and 13 solo show, I have been showing my artwork in South America, United States, and Europa (Spain) |
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El Arte no solo se ve en galerias y museos.La Red nos brinda a los artista y al público una excelente oportunidad de conocernos.Muchas Gracias por su valioso tiempo. Un saludo. Laura
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Tom Casta's Urban Landscapes have a retaste to ancient, to historical class, one sees in the fronts of the Spanish taverns.
The passage of time is like a great artist who modifies that one that the man created. But, then, later, it he returns to modify it to adapt it from similar form to since as it he was before.
His your pictorial work changes between the chromatic sensual treatment, sugerente, that expresses almost as a sigh, using dense materials, but without looking for thickness, protecting, wrapping the buildings and the fronts full of history, which reflect poetry(poem), which they go beyond what they represent, because it is a question of zones opened for the imagination in which the cities are recognized to yes same.
Joan Muntan Critical art
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I've been drawing and illustrating professionally for more than 10 years now. I have an inclination for dark/fantastic art, but I’d say my deepest passion is human anatomy, both male and female. In my virtual portfolio you’ll find some intricate pencilwork and detailed anatomy rendering, plus a few contrasting, colorful light-themed pieces in my comercial work section. Enjoy! |
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Consumerism and hurriedness afflict our society. Pause and reflection on the bigger picture shows another way. It is only when we step back and purposely place ourselves "on the outside looking in" that we receive a fresh perspective on the human condition we are a part of, and realize the need and hope for change.
My goal is to create artwork that captivates the viewers' attention, draws them into the metaphors of my art, and motivates them to contemplate how they are part of the human struggle and its transformation.
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Bleak, hopeful, feminine, masculine, and ingenious are just some of the adjectives that have been used to describe Jennifer Caswell's art. "I work organically and spontaneously. I go on a creative journey, and my pieces are the souvenirs." The real journey for Jennifer started as a child sketching fetuses on cardboard flaps from cereal boxes or whatever she could find. Her work has served as social commentary on such subjects as animal rights, environmental awareness, and the depiction of women in the media. She majored in visual art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and at Mason Gross of Rutgers in New Brunswick. She has studied with professors such as social critic and writer of Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia as well as world-renowned video artist Martha Rosler. Although she focused on filmmaking and video, she found silk screening, painting, and photographing to be just as expressive. "I feel close to many mediums. They all have different voices, but together they can truly resonate. " Jennifer's work has been exhibited in Philadelphia and New York and continues to be purchased privately. She has been commissioned several times over the past two years to create her one-of-kind pieces. These pieces usually involve painting techniques and photography collage on wooden boards or parts of vintage dressers found on the streets. "I love the idea of texture and all surfaces existing at once." Her fetus odyssey continues with FETUS ENVY, an exploration of a woman's need/want to reproduce, while still experiencing the fear of losing themselves. |
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I have a visionary style which draws on traditonal, anatomical, zoological, mythological, futurism/industrial and spiritualism influences to present images of human sensations, experiences and psychic processes through an oblique sculptural imagery. There are references to musculature and facial features in my work which are my default leanings when sculpting in my 'freedom of expression' mode which I prefer to be in when creating. I'm heavily influenced by fringe culture in music and art, taboo subjects and the 'spirit' of the inner city and, equally, desolate places which provide for me an indescribable and intangible feeling of picking up on something and subsequently manifesting this into my work. |
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To me painting is the exploration of infinite possibilities within the framework of paint on canvas.What I am trying to achieve in my art work is a visually stimulating,enjoyable,abstract image that excites the imagination & creativity of the viewer.I work mainly with Golden brand acrylics on wraped canvas.I like to use uncoventional tools to apply & spread paint...several of my works were completed without the use of a brush.
Many of my images contain hidden faces of people & animals.You may see something different every time you look at my paintings.That is my goal...that you have an enjoyable,stimulating,visual experience when you view my work. |
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Decay is nature’s slow but unrelenting retaliatory expansion against mankind’s incessant pursuit to harness and subdue. In a modern society, decay marks death. But in actuality, decay is the reorganization of elements essential to the continuity of life. For whatever aesthetic quality they may impart, my images from Panama are meant to instill a sense of the natural order, and remind us that mankind’s only armor is its ingenuity against inevitable demise. These truths revealed should not be a source of anxiety – while they challenge the notion of permanence, they are a revelation of God, and are cause for appreciation and celebration.
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UK based avant garde site promoting the work of multi disciplined artist Pogus Caesar. OOM Gallery features include photography, limited edition photomontages, film clips and regular contemporary exhibitions. |
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Katie makes art about relationships: romantic, familial, spatial, and temporal. Her work is an exploration of the relationship between bodies, environment and social conditioning in time and space.
Her work is heavily influenced by the 1970’s Feminist Art Movement, which focused on body/sexuality and celebrated an important shift from object/spectator to agent of cultural production. Katie's work continues the dialogue concerning the consumption of women’s bodies, as well as speaks to gendered patterns of consumption that are specific to the current socio-historical moment. For instance, sexual education through product samples - Kotex, O.B. and Teen Spirit - how she learned to associate her coming of age (womanliness) with products.
Katie is interested in found objects as bearers of social meaning and transmitters of human matter - like the traces of skin left on an old photo, and the connection that happens between herself and this physical trace, and the previous owner, its referent. Her mixed media collages explore how anxieties associated with residues collected on the surface of an object – hair, dust, odor and dirt – reveal culturally specific preoccupations with condition/appearance in relationship to gender and sexual identity. Objects can cue memory and identity, investigating the way experience - ephemeral desires and relationships - are mediated by material possessions and cultural lyrics, and as such, become subject to decay and distortion. |
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Matthew Cervenka is a native New Yorker residing in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. Matt studied at the School of Visual Arts and S.U.N.Y. at Farmingdale. Extensive travels in the Southwest, Mexico and Europe have provided inspiration and Matt has incorporated their cultures in his work. Native cultures ranging from the Pacific Northwest to the Andes have greatly influenced his themes as evident in his rich use of color. The gods of these native peoples are depicted in some of his work. The Kachinas, pottery and saguaros of the Southwest are some of his subjects and he has completed his first mural based upon Southwest Native American Themes. In contrast, his city scenes of Manhattan and other cities of the world reflect a strong interest in architecture and history. Presently, Matt enjoys working with gouache, pen and ink, acrylic, and mixed media. Austrian Television's Tema recently aired an interview with Matt, featuring his animal portraits. |
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Joycelyn is a traditional sumie painter who was born in the beautiful Caribbean island of Trinidad, the land of the hummingbird, calypso and steel drums. Her diverse cultural background has positively inspired her to combine paintings techniques from both the Western and Eastern worlds to bring about a balance in the energies that surround her - Eastern yin creating a balance with western yang. |
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Robert has been an Artist and Musician for 40 years and loves to create, His
favorite Medium is Water Colors, Ink Pen Drawings & Acrylics! He is a versatile Artist
and can do Portraits and Other Art if you have any requests! Feel free to contact Robert
at any time. Art & Music done in Love for this Earth & It's People!
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Born in 1970 in Denmark. She expresses herself through abstract painting, combining three-dimensional forms with flat shapes, oval movements with a scratch-technique. She works on canvas in colors that are both muted and vibrant. The materials are acrylic, oil, sand, and mixed media. Her paintings tell a non-figurative and spontaneous narrative inspired by architec- ture and landscape. Hanne is fascinated by re- petition as well as both dynamic movements and introspection. She works serially, thus al- lowing the story to develop further with each painting. |
 | My latest body of work is primarily based on the female form, partially influenced by the late Tamara de Lempicka who was an art deco figurative artist that painted high society aristocrats. De Lempicka’s women were perfect, bold and voluptuous with strongly cast shadows upon cubist relief backgrounds.
The ideology behind my new body of work is “Mannequin Perfectionism” (An almost Andy Warhol-esque mentality). Individuals painted unrealistically with smaller but more poignant glimpses of realism. In our world today we have molded our minds, our own human behavioral expressions to accept “Mannequin” like beauties as normality. The waxy complexions, nearly symmetrical face structures, peculiarly voluminous extended limbs and strongly cast shadows create a sense of automata but with a cultural stir…
Having been born and raised in Australia, excess flesh and color is abundant at a casual glance, juxtapose this with the extreme cold of Canada’s winters and produce stunning spectrums contrasted against the people and objects. Then mix further in my Armenian ancestral culture, deprived by communism and still struggling in independence. Its rich and terrifying history lends shadows and lines for each individual’s expression. The rational behind the new works is a combination of my culture and birth wedged into today’s “Mannequin” society.
Sometimes familiar and sometimes unknown, taken from real life acquaintances or adapted from magazines, each figure has a story to tell. The backgrounds are layers of paint and hue applied in a painterly abstract manner with sgraffito text, an addressed letter, or a question to mar the surface. We ask why? Why is she so perfect, but why is her surrounding complex. We start looking at her beyond perfection now. Each shadow is a layer of her story, another depth. In the real world we cover ourselves in the desire of youth, but what are we really? |
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My works mainly are the result of thinking and my own interpretation of life. When idea appears, then I begin to think about best possible realization, whether it should be in colors, or just white lines on dark background, and if in colors, what color range is most appropriate to express the emotion properly. When I already keep in mind all details I start painting. My preferred technique is oil. But when painting linear compositions I mainly use gouache.
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Pierre Cherbit has been painting for over twenty years. His painting is primarily the expression of a feeling, without a physical medium : he uses neither photos, or model, or background. It is pure inspiration which guides him through the use of the noblest painting materials, alternating the arrangement of the different pictorial techniques, allowing him to use color and light in a unique manner.
During the past six years, his painting has exploded. It shows us a variation of colors, an amazing depth, which changes dramatically a certain perception of the so-called flat surface.
His touch, his intuition of light, his depth, his colors were rewarded at the Senate by the medal of progress delivered by the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès (founded in 1896), class Yvon Gattaz 2003 under the patronage of Mister Christian Poncelet, President of Senate. |
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Sergei Chernenko works are compelling reflections of mysticism that enter a realm of vibrant abstraction,intricate depiction , and incandescence. His canvases are filled with extraordinary figures and fantastic landscapes , illuminating a rich inner vision they characterise the unknown mysteries of existence and memorable vivid new worlds. |
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I am an young artist. I paint, draw; I make the decorations for women and I make the sculptures. My works are very interesting, because I have unusual sight. And I like doing something new. I find new ideas, new technique.But my art is based on traditions of Europe. |
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Inspired by the beauty of modern art, Carole Choucair Oueijan, faithfully reflected
her Lebanese-Greek heritage in her art. Her journey into the world of impressionism
began as ingenuous sketches at a very tender age and was further sculpted through
academic education and training at YWCA College-Beirut, where she studied Interior
Design, then the Institut Nationale des Beaux Arts - The Lebanese University, and
completed her Bachelor of Art Degree. Her Mosaics, oil paintings, and Mixed Medias,
speak loudly of the rural and suburban symbols of her home land and are a collection of
portraits, settings, architectural contours, and nautical panoramas, all unique in
their harmony of color and degree of serenity and sublimity, all the reason why she was
awarded different prizes over the years.
" I love all colors; each has its own symbolic and artistic aura. We live in a world of
endless color variations. These colors invade our visions, dreams, and thoughts to
inspire our intellectual and imaginative faculties. I am a painter in love with colors
and working with Mosaic, the oldest, most durable and most functional art forms ."
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At only 10 years of age, Anthony Christian was granted the privilege of studying the techniques of the "Old Masters" at the National Gallery in London and the accolade of publicity he received during this period, announced him to the world as a child prodigy. Throughout his time at the National Gallery and for a further seven years Anthony studied at length the works of Rubens and Rembrandt as well as other Old Masters. Although students and professional Artists are able to utilise this method of learning, none are allowed to do so under the age of eighteen, making Anthony's opportunity unique even to this day. His work now features in some of the most prominent private art collections in the world. Collections such as HM Queen Elizabeth II, Gore Vidal, Baroness Marie-Helene de Rothschild, Viscountess de Ribes, Mrs J Heinz, Bill Blass, Mrs. James Lipton and Herbie Hancock.
As for his painting and drawing, his style most resembles the techniques of Leonardo da Vinci and he has dedicated his life to the discovery of all means possible, to paint the most beautiful works of art ever. |
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I am a character designer and concept artist working for videogame companies, and I also like to create colorful illustrations of fantasy art in watercolors in my free time. |
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Alexander Chubar was born in 1958. He graduated from Hunter College in 1983 with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts. Later, in 1989, he graduated with a Master's of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. He currently lives in New York. In his work he developed a pliable, flexible line capable of interaction with various other lines to form more intricate images. The complexity of the line transforms and reverses positive and negative aspects of the space. One sees images in which the boundaries exceed the spatial planes that contain them. Abstract balancing of forms in different spatial planes, coupled with color, augments the compositional structure of the artwork. |
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Ione is an avant garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her
diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages and mixed media
assemblages. Her paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic -
all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul.
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My vision is in constant change. My inspiration seems to come from simple, happy moments in life that we all can relate to, but as the speed of time erases those memories we all take for granted-I try to capture a snapshot of that moment on canvas. The eyes of the people in my paintings reach out- and let you connect. - I feel they are the windows to ones soul. I love to let my brush guide where the lines should go, free as a child’s hand would be. Each piece has a feeling, and a story behind it.
My technique captures cubism influences mixed with my own unique style. This method allows the viewer to get lost in a three dimensional world filled with luminous colors, and shapes which form a picture. Each time you look deeper into the painting – you see more than you did before-, which challenges the eye and mind and at the same time, is soft, beautiful and peaceful to look at. |
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Cristina Clarimon is a Spanish collage artist living and working in the United States. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain. She has been living in the american southwest for ten years. Her art work is personal and unique. It has evolved from detailed portraiture to pieces that combine a variety of techniques resulting in rich surfaces and interesting compositions. Her paintings are built up layer by layer from beautiful handmade papers and glazes of paint. |
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These images address the notion of identity in the context of an increasingly digitalized world where communication is often fragmented, illusory and anonymous.
They also examine the essence of femininity and control of such which is central to most of the conflicts we face today.
New York based artist Donna Cleary examines memory, myth and creation while exposing this global obsession with the female body. She illustrates this through the use of volume, scale and repetition. The work is as much about what is included in the image as what is not.
Symbolically fertile, they reveal a psychological content that is both provocative and edifying.
Unframed, the artwork removes barriers and enhances a sense of intimacy and immediacy.
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What is painting, but in fact an "open door"? an ongoing exploration, expedition into our inner selves and our imaginations, individual and collective in the hopes of finding realities other than the one we live each and every day which appears to be static and never-changing, but which in fact is only an impression... for once we are able to "open the door" to our imaginations, many different realities begin to come to the surface of our every-day-normal lives.Why do some images just seem to "appear" on the canvas out of nowhere and others we have to "dig" to find through layers of reflection and paint until we decide that the painting is finished? |
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To be able to shape my dreams and fantasies in tangible form, to see what three-
dimensional form those mysterious sparks form within my subconscious will take is for
me what the creative search is all about. The work has been described as having a
style of comic surrealism, with a narrative and often humorous direction. Creating a
world of sculpted beings is my way of telling the myths and stories that my inner
visions lead me to express, and clay and bronze are the materials that allow me to
share them with others.
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I believe the arts, and the artist, have a moral as well as an aesthetic obligation.
This is because the arts and the artist bring together; the arts are something in between,
something that bridges the gaps and overcomes estrangement. I am an artist, and through art
I hope to be that something in between that can help weave human community and help us
turn our lives toward that which transcends and elevates, rather than dwelling in that
which divides and degrades us.
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Color, or lack of it, sets a mood, can shock or satiate, or remain even through closed eyelids. When I choose not to use color, or to mute it, it is intentionally executed to emphasize this distinction. I represent the colors as I see them, in photography as well as painting, with the passion of life and urgency to change that light gives them. I believe that in my forms and, most of all, in confrontational subject matter, colors are the first noticed element, though not alone, imploring an immediate reaction and then a later lingering thought.
In some of my recent paintings, I try to incorporate reflective materials -silver paint, mirrors, tin foil, glass- as a kind of alternative to color. It is a form of invitation for an observer- an invitation to enter the image itself. Somehow the border between a painting and its environment are being erased. My photography has an unconcerned abandon of that all focused technology that makes a science of steady emotionless objects. My work explores the emotions, and, in much the same way as my paintings, incorporates the use of color, texture, and of course, the subject itself, to make a fervent impression and a lasting impact. |
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Grant Collier is a professional nature photographer with a large collection of images from Colorado, Utah, Tahiti, and Patagonia. He is the author of the books Colorado: Yesterday and Today and Colorado: Moments in Time, and his work has been featured in numerous other publications, including Digital Photo Magazine, Preservation Magazine, Jade Magazine, The Special Reserve Collection, The Mammoth Book series, and the cover of the Rocky Mountain News. |
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The Ocean Series is a postmodern response to the color-field paintings of Mark Rothko; it
appeals to serious art lovers, those who meditate, and ocean lovers as well.
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The PAINTINGS FROM THE BANGKOK NIGHT series of watercolors by Chris Coles use as a setting the lurid and colorful nightlife that sprawls across the Asian nexus called Bangkok.
The air is hot, the music loud, the nights intense. The men and women from all over the world, all walks and levels of life.
Chris Coles' paintings portray a chaotic, edgy world of colliding intention and misplaced desire, lives out of balance, male-female compulsion, alienation and disassociation. They echo early 1900's Berlin as portrayed by the German Expressionists.
Each painting is 18" by 24". There are approximately 200 paintings in the PAINTINGS FROM THE BANGKOK NIGHT series.
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Drew Cooke is a New Orleans native operating out of Oklahoma. His work is a cornicopia of everything from duct-tape to pastels. |
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Recently, my research is investigating the deformation of the bodies through the transparencies of water.
Bodies that drown into the water and struggling to breathe, others find semblance of rebirth and like in a fetal amniotic fluid they find their natural dimension.
This is a painting made by signs and scratches, but with a careful attention to the realistic detail.
The body becomes tormented like a tired skin, the epidermis is battered by the gesture and color, is almost the external representation of deep and painful wounds that sneaks into the soul.
I talk about my deepest emotions, which feeds by dreams and nightmares,
Real and unreal intersected. Darkness and light, reflection in the mirror, this is a world full of sensual secrets. |
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Claudia Connelly, a self-taught artist, began painting nine years ago after an inspiration trip to the museums of France and Italy. Working intuitively, her archetypal images slowly emerge with symbols being added as they come forward during a painting's evolution. "I feel that I am pulling memories from a very distant and misty past--something that is calling to be remembered by all of us." She works in oil on linen, canvas and panel. Claudia's paintings have been reproduced in books, magazines, cards and calendars. |
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Lira's artistic talent was discovered early, as she finished her
first portrait at 6 years of age. She was privately tutored in Russia
and received numerous awards. Before immigrating to the United
States, Lira traveled to Rome and Vienna where she was inspired to
paint from many of the great masters. Her favored medium is oil in the Classical Realism
style. Lira incorporates rich, contrasting colors in her artwork, with emotion and drama.
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“My approach to art and life are the same. I try to get the most out of every day (every line) and every experience (every color). I Spread love and joy through smiles and paint. My vision of the world is inspired by good times and grace, a vision I invite others to share and add cheer to empty walls.’’ Even on the coldest of days, Corbani’s paintings are precisely and carefully made to warm your soul, and uplift your spirit. |
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960. Since 1996 she has been working in design ,multimedia and teaching areas besides goes on working on digital art and net-art. Has exhibited at national and international net-art museums and sites , and her work was exhibited on TV and radio : " Canal A" TV channel( Arte Web ) and National Radio of Spain ( Radio3 ). Winner of the GOLDEN WEB AWARD for her web site of Digital Art and Multimedia( 2002 y 2003) and awarded too with the I - WEB Spain Award "for the best quality of contents and design" of her site (june 2003). |
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David Correa’s work expresses spiritual states through a sensual and refined use of pigments. His striking use of bold color and naïve imagery express spiritual themes that underlie the mundane reality of everyday life. He presents an imaginary world in which laws of nature are subverted and mocked. Correa seeks to achieve a psychic realism based, not on the visible world, but on the world of the spirit. He believes that intuition is the source of creativity and, when tempered by reason, leads to an artist’s main objective.
Correa has no formal training as an artist. He believes his work emanates from his soul, communicating experiences and spiritual values in his own vocabulary. He is a painter sifting through his own inner sources of creativity; a visionary artist whose work invites contemplation.
On Correa’s surfaces, shapes are audacious and flat colors produce volume. He searches for inner artistic balance and universal beauty while maintaining a down-to-earth relationship with his surroundings. Although Correa’s painting evades classification, there is undeniable interest in aesthetic discussions where color unfolding freely on canvas is everything. As the main element in his work, it enables the search for essence. As Matisse said, “Minimum resources in the service of maximum results.”
Correa’s main desire is to make a long-lasting contribution to art. In many ways, Correa represents an outmoded model of the artist. His art possesses expressive independence; it is non-topical and beyond his own historical time.
María Teresa Rodríguez Almazán D.F., 2005 |
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Anna Coulter, an established Swiss artist which lives in California expresses through paintings her gratitude to be alive. She creates paintings you want to be around. They reflect joy, well-being and the mystery of life... expressions beyond expressions. In their presence you can feel uplifted.The paintings are large and colorful. Ideal places for this kind of art are resorts, hotels, spas, clinics, offices and homes. |
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Jason Covert is drawn in outlines.
He is drawn in a million different directions at one time.
He hears voices, and sees fleeting glimpses of some “otherwhere”.
When he stares at digital clocks, the numbers dance, straining to be anywhere but in their rigid line, and occasionally the very ground will swirl beneath his feet, like ocean eddies in the wake of a passing ship. Jason draws his artistic inspiration from these “distractions”.
Born near a marsh on the rocky outer shores of Cape Cod, his work focuses on the incredible beauty found around us: in the simple things, in the complex, in the ironic, in the turmoil that is one day after the next. Fascinated by the power and sway of religion, Jason deals largely with totemic images and symbols pregnant with loaded meanings, yet left open enough for the viewer to load all they bring with them on to those symbols.
Covert is a master of many mediums, as comfortable working in layers of India ink as he is with a swirling cauldron of goblin colors.
Jason lives and works in New York City and his artwork and photos can be seen in a number of private collections. |
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LIVING IN THE CITY I AM DRAWN TO NATURE, LANDSCAPE AND THE SEA.THIS MAY SEEM A PARADOX BUT ONE I HOPE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH MY PAINTING. MY PAINTING IS ABOUT BEING AWARE OF TIME, PLACE AND THE LANDSCAPE, BEING OUTSIDE, BEING THERE! BY TIME, I MEAN TIME OF DAY AND TIME OF YEAR. WHETHER MIDDAY OR MIDNIGHT, MIDWINTER OR MIDSUMMER. ONE IS ALWAYS AWARE OF THE CONTRADICTIONS AND NUANCES OF TIME AND CLIMATE IN THE LANDSCAPE. BY PLACE, I REFER TO MY PLACE IN THE METROPOLIS AND THE MAGNETISM OF BEING WITHIN NATURE AND THE LANDSCAPE. |
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I’m a self-taught artist, from Texas, via the Heart of the Milky Way, born November 15, 1972, now living in Virginia Beach, and tapping inkdots like mad.
The scale on which Nature lives and grows is both grander and more minute than what we are normally familiar with. As an artist, I feel I can do no less than try to honor ALL of nature by exploring the relationships among these various modes and scales through my work.
Artistic expression is a doorway to what is essentially infinite space within. I usually live “within my body”, except when I’m creating art. At these times my personhood liquefies into a kind of receiver-cloud station for Cosmic and Microcosmic pulses. All people, all beings, all times and places come to see me when I make that primal move inward. Time slows, and occasionally loses its grip altogether. So although, for example as with electricity, I don’t fully grasp the technology of Spiritual Expression, I rely on it frequently to bathe me in its glow.
Each piece takes anywhere from a month to several years to complete, and thus we have ANOTHER reason to love stippling…
My main medium of interest at the moment is stippling. Over 14 years ago I started practicing it when I saw a piece done all in stippling in a magazine, I think it was. Since then, I’ve been completely enthralled with its power and demands.
After almost 15 years as a "stippler", I'm really only just beginning to learn this medium; I love stippling for its texture and energy, and its potential for bridging sensual and imaginative worlds together, leaving the unmistakable sense of human presence & interaction.
I’d say that stippling comprises about 95% of each piece, especially my recent work; as many pieces now are completely stippling. I have always loved stippling’s ability to weave texture into the background, and to weave images from those textures. Every square inch of each piece seems to scream out for further attention and interpretation. Many people who see my artwork remark how each new viewing reveals something new they didn’t know was there before. High praise, as that’s what I LOVE about the world!
I draw mainly from photographs and from imagination, but I’m really interested now in grabbing my pencils and art board and heading outside for more “alive” subjects to capture, which I’ll stipple over and into.
I use Rapidograph technical pens, as well as Pigma Micron pens, which are disposable but wonderful pens to use. I use a variety of ink types. Sometimes I will mask an area out for watercolor or ink under painting, to add depth and density to the piece. (Can’t wait to get an airbrush…)
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I learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. Since then, I've been creating cheeky Victoriana for magazines from Wall Street Journal to Playgirl, while penning burlesque posters and rock fliers in my spare time. I co-run the alterna-life drawing session "Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School". Check out my second solo show, Tarts and Flowers, for some very dirty art on the eve of Valentine's Day. |
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Karen Crosby
Karen was born in Yorkshire England. Has studied
art all her life or has always been involved with art since a child.
She specializes in Watercolor and Gouache, where here images are based
upon the connections of life, emotions, and nature. She is fascinated
with light, shadows and contrast in bringing out visual impact
pertaining to the connections between inner emotions and nature.
This is very evident even in her self portraits that she does. The
process of becoming totally at peace and at one with yourself and Mother
Nature. Karen is also an accomplished photographer that has also brought
this art and vision to the camera. The art of seeing photographically.
Karen also explores color into her paintings that is based upon the
Pre-Raphaelites style that incorporates both Watercolor, and Acrylic.
She also explores landscapes into her paintings when she feels
that it can bring out emotion to that landscape, or where she herself
has connections emotionally to a landscape.
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Yes, I love to paint... Yes, oh yes, I love Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rambrandt, Vermeer... all those old masters and among the new ones: Odd Nerdrum I love too. I need them...I need their knowledge to be able to express my "Therapy of Dreams" on the canvas. I still have a lot to learn... |
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I am a self-taught, emerging artist. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina(1964) performance as Illustrator ( Spain) Storyboard Designer (Israel) Internet designer Lives actually in Israel expositions: Galeria Espacio 10-Buenos Aires Aegentina gallerie Twenty-Four-Berlin-Germany. |
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I am always interested in the viewers reactions
to my works,wondering what story they would tell. In the end it is
all about connections, the touching of another through visual means
and hopefully creating in them a feeling or resonance. That is what
I want my artwork to do, to make ripples in the worlds of others and
add to their lives and views in small artistic ways.
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My paintings are always very colorful, and almost always incorporate cats! |
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I am a Watercolourist. I specialize in watercolor paintings, which take their themes and titles from the wanderings and writings of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Miguel de Cervantes and other Literary and Historical personalities. This has come from a lifelong interest in attempting to interpret in paintings what James Joyce et al., so eloquently wrote about our native city, Dublin. |
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I began painting fifteen years ago, soon after finishing a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis at the RAND Graduate School.
Having spent most of my life in academia up to that point, I wanted experience making art in the most fresh, organic way possible and purposely steered clear of any formal instruction.
While taking an intuitive approach towards my work, I voraciously read about art and visited galleries and museums to learn about all aspects of other artists’ work and their creative process, as well as the business of the art world.
Initially I had no idea where my interest in painting would take me.
I discovered the process of making art, the cycle of observation and creation an utterly compelling one. |
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