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Following a commercial career as a graphic designer, illustrator and photographer, artist Ann Haaland returned to full time painting in the late 1990's. Exhibiting continually in New York and New Jersey since 1998, Ann has been in over 40 group shows and more than 5 solo exhibits throughout the country. Currently on the Board of the Highland Cultural Center, she has been a member of the Arts Society of Kingston, the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, the Morris County Arts Association, and the Woodstock Artists Association where she won Best in Show Honors in February 2002. |
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German artist living and working in Berlin. He was born in 1973 in lüdenscheid, Germany. |
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My work consists of inner landscapes. Adding paint and ink to the canvas or paper, I feel the fire or the sea -- or perhaps the green meadow. Excavating through the composition, my paintings express energy and spirit. Process reigns with each stroke as my brush is engulfed by a territory within. Outlining the color with black ink, I continue to go deeper. Finally a painting emerges -- faith that the journey is now complete--the elements merge into one. |
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My artistic creatures emanate from two cultural perspectives –Oriental and Swedish. The connection and contrast between these cultures provide me with constant source Of inspiration which makes me find new ways for my artistic creature the whole time. |
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Algerian painter. |
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I was born in Mukedem Hotun in the northeast of China, and graduated from an art academy. Oil painting is the career of my whole life. I've been living in Holland for 5 years. During the past 5 years I've had some exhibitions in Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe, Overijssel and Noord Holland.I like the Chinese traditional Arts , and the European Impressionism, Expressionism as well. I dedicate myself to find a bridge between the eastern and the western cultures. I hope that I will form my own style of my works in the future. |
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A surrealist artist of true nature,my intimate instinct is dictating me a forthright need to express myself as freely as possible within an urgent call for freedom and using the visual input as the best vehicle that permits or allows my soul to expand,delivering my quest to counter balance “The fear of the unknown”. My motivation can be associated with genes that are biologically beneficial to the source of my creativity and it bears no explanation to why and how it ooze-out to better deeds, again the pursuit of discovery is probably best expressed when it comes to nurture an overall “brain massage” that leads me to a blissful gratification,as well as loosing myself to oblivion! |
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Sylvia Hennequin (27-02-1969 Mbabane Swaziland) is a Dutch artist in contemporary arts.
Her work is spontaneous, colorful, expressive, experimental, substantive, confronting, emotionally, extracted from a deep inner sensitive life, full of fantasy, her personal world brought outside on canvas.
The search for freedom is her guideline. She continues developing and renewing herself to reach for new insights and concepts to experience more and more the feeling of inner freedom.
Her paintings are a mix of different materials, mediums, technics, states of being, series, colourpriorities. |
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Bozena Happach is figurative modern sculptor. Her sculptures are in public and private collections in Europe, USA, Brazil and Canada. She works in metal, gesso-duro, ciment and stone. |
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Målare, tecknare samt skulptör. Han är född i Lund, men uppväxt i Häljarp som ligger utanför Landskrona. Redan som ung lockades han av äventyret och det blev många resor runt om i världen bl.a. Brasilien, Israel, Indonesien , U.S.A m.m. Han har också gått på en privat konstskola i Liège (Belgien), samt arbetat som lärling hos olika konstnärer i Belgien och Holland under ett par års tid (3 – 4 år). Efter några år så hamnade han slutligen i Frankrike, där han gifte sig med en fransyska från Paris. Paret flyttade sedan (1989) till Guadeloupe i Västindien, där han utövade sin konst i ett klimat som passade dem båda. Senare blev det dock Frankrike som lockade, och där blev också den nya hemvisten.
Born 1958 in Landskrona, Sweden. I have been taking all kinds of evening classes
in drawing and painting during my childhood. Later on I study art in a
privat art-school in Liège, Belgium. After the art-school I practise and
worked 3-4 years with different artist in Belgium, Holland and France.
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The universe is inherently balanced, with equal shares of good and evil, truth and lies, strength and weakness. Since balance holds dominion over all things, survival does not always go to the fittest or to the strongest, as many believe. Often, true victory is bestowed upon those with access to an inner world of magic, where each soul possesses the ability to create a world where evil fails in it's quest for victims. In this inner world of childhood magic, evil is given little power to distort or to destroy and we are born knowing how to overcome and defeat the enemy. We all had access to this inner world until most of us closed the door to the magic. There are many souls who have survived unthinkable horrors yet have come to believe that they are weak rather than strong, feel shame rather than pride. Authentic reality must provide an understanding that it is not that which has befallen someone by accident of situation or birth that defines the essence of the soul. Instead, we can be only be victorious, just as we can only be conquered, by the reality that we, ourselves, have created out of shredded memories. If we listen closely enough, the whispers of the past still lead to a door where entrance is granted simply through a belief in the power left behind and a need to live in the magic that was once our birthright. My art expresses our early connection to the magic and wonder of a world that still exists if we choose to change our beliefs and to alter how we think. Deep inside of all of us are memories of how to reach this safe place of power and triumph. We all know how to do it, if we search for the early memories that we were convinced were merely fantasies. We can find our way again, to a world where there are always ways to escape and often a way to win, even when evil stalks those believed to be without power or champions. A world where the weak triumph and evil is defeated over and over again. |
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Welcome to Harrisonfineart, the on-line gallery showcasing the work of husband and wife artists, Jayne and Michael Harrison. Jayne paints in watercolor specializing in exotic flowers and wonderfully realistic pet portraits. |
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Welcome to Harrisonfineart, the on-line gallery showcasing the work of husband and wife artists, Jayne and Michael Harrison. Michael paints in oils both in the studio and increasingly on location painting plein air scenes in and around southern California. |
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Almost all my artworks are paintings and contains subjects of banality
and kitschery. The paintings are a reflection of the modern society where
the difference between what is real and what is not, between good and
bad looks like to fade.
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I am a visual artist and poet. The organizing force of my work is Lyrical Conceptualism (LyCo Art), which I originated in 1975 in Montreal. A year later I also published a statement on this new idea of art in Art in America. Lyrical Conceptualism is not a branch of Conceptual Art, or of Postmodernism, but a voyage of aesthetic consciousness in which passion evolves as logic and logic becomes passion. |
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Ruth Hartman is a Canadian visual artist working primarily in
two-dimensional drawing, painting and photography. She has exhibited
her work, both locally and internationally, in numerous solo and group
shows. Her artistic statement -"I draw to see; I paint to discover" -
reflects a creative process which is entirely intuitive and responsive
to a passion, feeling or memory, often inspired by travel and/or
themes of current interest.
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'All over the place', would be a fine description of my work though there are some definite paths I follow. Right now I am depicting the current information/ image culture through quite busy paintings that I tone down by using a limited pallet. The texts are non-polemic and unreadable most of the time, more used as shapes.
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I am a painter based out of Brooklyn. Most of my work consists of abstract paintings of animals embedded within a pattern of color, shape and texture. I also do a variety of watercolors. |
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Sarah Hauser works in woodcuts, solarplate etchings, drypoint, frottage, monoprints and other printmaking processes, as well as drawing, mixed media, and sculpture.
"My working process involves moving ideas from one medium to another. A drawing may become a print which will become a sculpture -- then the sculpture can inspire drawings which are collaged with printed backgrounds, which gives me further ideas for creating environments composed of many sculpted objects."
Sarah Hauser is represented by Woodward Gallery in New York City, where, in 2004, she had a one-person show entitled 'Sarah Hauser's Geneticircus'.
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I ‘discovered’ the Tasmanian wilderness at the age of 14, and I’ve spent much of my life exploring it both physically and spiritually. I’m convinced that wilderness has deep lessons to teach, and that wild places are reservoirs of intense spiritual energy. Through my photographs I try to convey the exultation that wilderness inspires in me, as well as celebrating its savagery and beauty. My work has a mystical quality and a slightly surrealist edge.
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“My current work of layered abstractions of reality with a clock is as close as I get to all mind and meaning. It is a strong conceptual approach. I am trying to do paintings that become the focal point of their environment and change with distance and lighting to constantly intrigue. Whether it be abstract slices of space in the Townscape Series, the interpretive abstractions of the Fall in Provence Series or the geometric abstracts of simple actions in the Five Series this approach has served me well. I believe it. I taught it. I do it.”
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I have been painting my whole life. Since I can remember paper and colors have been my best friends. Today I would not longer be the person I am if the possibility to paint no longer could be in my life. |
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Inspired by the iconic paintings found in the Orthodox Christian Church that he attended with his aunt and uncle as a child, Steve Heimann creates paintings that evoke the mystery, the splendor and the continuity of humanity. He abstracts elements from the body— eyes, teeth, a cradling arm—to direct his viewer's attention to the spiritual essence contained in each individual and to suggest a connection with "something larger." |
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My site shows and describes many unique Art-Lamps made out of Agate and Glass, in addition you can download my music or read about me and my thoughts. |
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Tobi Held is a passionate artist who puts a bit of herself into each painting, unleashing her emotions with each brush stroke. Working with oil paints and mixed media, Tobi presents what is at times an amalgamation of still life and abstraction. What shines through is an obsession with the process itself. Her work exhibits a refined palette on a variety of subjects. Rather than exhausting one particular subject, Tobi chooses to challenge herself and broaden her technical skills with this myriad of subject matter. Despite her paintings' exploration of various themes, each piece has unmistakable feeling, showing off her genuine love for art. As a child, Tobi dreamt of becoming an artist. She has trained since then with art classes, graduating from Boston University, School of Fine Arts with a degree in graphic design and art history. |
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I'm born in 1947 in Eindhoven, have had a fortunately time, around my 10th I moved
too Cuijk aan de Maas (Noord-Brabant). Around that period I already planned that I want
to become an art painter, unfortunately my parents had other plans for me. But the
thoughts never disappeared, so when the time passed by I start painting more and more.
After my duty years in the army, we moved too Gemert and later on too beek and Donk,
between those short periods I met my current wife, and meanwhile we got two splendid
children and they got children too. As an art painter I'm a self-educated person. By
years I have learned all kinds of styles and techniques and tried abstract and
figurative ways of painting and combinations of them. Regularly I have had expositions
in several galleries. Much of my paintings have gone abroad to private collections e.g.
Australie, Canada, United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium, Portugal and Austria. |
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Artist in New Mexico, working with porcelain and beeswax. |
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Born 1954 and living in Esbjerg on the westcoast of Denmark. Participate in and a
lot of group exhibitions and several one man shows. His works can presently be viewed in
various art galleries through out Denmark.
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Ich male aus Leidenschaft, spontan und intuitiv. Meine Werke entstehen durch experimentieren mit Formen , Farben und verschiedenen Materialien. |
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Maggie Herndez is an abstract painter with a passion
for color and movement. Whether on paper, plexiglas,
or wood, her paintings create what has been described
as "a world within a world". These images are often
inspired by the people and events that immediately
surround her and you will often find the artist
working in the presence of others or while playing
some form of dance music in the background. Maggie
lives and works in her native, New York City, USA.
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The Pearl/Transformation Collection is comprised of several series of
paintings. Using a variety of mediums and statements, but focusing on
a single subject, the site explores the transformative powers of art.
The changing characters of the Model, often made me wonder if she was the artist (performance) and I was just the recorder of the event. My search for the correct expression is also the focus of the site.
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Aimee Hertog
My work addresses themes in quirky and often humorous ways. These days, “happy” and beautiful art work is sometimes considered passé to cynics, but to me the art that is done in the footsteps of Miro and Calder, which celebrate life in the most joyous and profound ways, is the best possible gift anyone could leave behind.
I am very fond of themes related to childhood, and many of my pieces in one way or another celebrates childhood in all its innocence. Fairytales are referenced, as is the pure joy that children are capable of experiencing and that many of us unfortunately lose somewhere along the way as we grow up.
I use a wide range of materials. Among other things, I use wood, plastic platters, plastic toys, fake fruit and flowers, resin, glitter, colored inks, feathers, ribbon and old printer drawers.
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We breathe in the moment absorbing the image's rhythm, the current of life energy. Water flow techniques give weightlessness a feeling of force in motion. There is an erosion of movement, constant movement extending our universe. Pigments rich in minerals generate the temperature of the skewed design. When one views the image there is suspense in composition; the viewer becomes part of the movement. |
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My art is driven and by my Christian faith. I love to put into colour and structure, truth’s that affect everyone of faith or none. The emotions and realities in life, some painful and hard , some joyful are all tackled in my work. I never know what direction my work will take!
I use watercolours and acrylics and blend unusual colour palettes to add vibrancy and emotional responses. I enhance my works with collage and paint effects. My style is mainly semi abstract, decorative. I also do landscapes, spiritual, floral and figurative work. I tackle most subjects and enjoy being stretched. |
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I was born in 1958 in the countryside by Silkeborg, Denmark as a farmer’s daughter. My childhood was under the spell of colours that caught my eyes and soul during the many hours of labour in the fields. Watching the sun playing with the clouds, raindrops glinting on leaves, the warm bodies of the cows during milking, partly formed my natural talent as an artist. The urge to express myself came and is still coming from within, regardless of what is at the moment modern in the art world.
....“My artwork evolve from the turmoil of events and emotions I encounter on my way through life. Like a symbiosis of organic cells interacting with mine, tales of the past and the future arises. I have become a house of glass for others to see through to another dimension. Creating for me is not a wish but a command from within. It is not thought, but emotion!”
“I’m not going to define or analyse my world of art, since I do not understand it completely myself!
“Our soul is maybe travelling with many strings attached. Could we throw that off like a cobweb, and avoid being eaten by the spider of well-known generative ways. Would we let ourselves fall into the big hole of innocence and start the creation again?”
“We are shaped through time, evolution, books, paintings, visions and tales...... Let’s go behind these walls of what is and what we expect, and open our minds and bodies to further explorations, opening the visions to generate a world beyond thought, beyond the past and the present. Lets walk with a blank mind and an open heart! Look for what we do not know and what have not yet been possible to imagine!”
“My way of working is in a way simple and yet you may call it most difficult. I never make sketches on the canvas, nor do I know what will emerge on the white linen. It starts out in bright, abstract colours and after days in this unknown world people, animals, lakes, mountains etc.. starts to appear. They might go easy on me, or tease me to do a face over and over again for twenty or more layers. Some of the details are so tiny that a brush with a few hairs is required, and no breathing allowed during the stroke of the brush. It takes several months to complete these intense works, deriving from life itself mingled with a sensitive mind.”
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There are moments when an experience recognizes itself, when a dormant response is re-charged and we nod "yes" to a reality. It is within this constant shift between ambiguity and clarity that I make art and struggle to realize and execute the form in which to express a moment, a spirit or a quality of change. It is about finding a universal narrative that's seeable. |
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Mohamed Abbakar - artist from Sudan. Email address: mohamedabbakar1@hotmail.com
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My present work, in general terms, is the celebration of observation
and visual experimentation. My intent is not to create a new reality,
but to investigate the relationships of color, line and shape in my
current reality
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Daniel H. Hochstein is a self-taught artist who was born and raised in the borough of Queens, New York City.
His body of work includes realistic and surrealistic pieces created in oil, acrylic, charcoal, ink, graphite, as well as pieces combining multimedia technologies with conventional mediums.
Hochstein describes his inspiration as coming from stress, loneliness, a perceived “lack of time”, and the need to "express concepts that cannot be explained with words”.
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I was born in Charleroi (Belgium) in 1974 and since my childhood, I have made a
lot of things on the planet earth, but my main interests are paintings and literature.
One of my biggest influences in art, was the half-funny, half serious science called
"pataphysics", created by the French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907).
Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, and, modestly, i thing that I've
made some discoveries in this field...
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My work with water-color is committed to the tradition of symbolistic paintings. It's subjects are taken from mythology, archaeology and as a result of dealing with fantasy themes.
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Xfusionism is a form or concept of art that incorporates any number
of styles such as Abstract, Expressionism, Surrealism, Neo-Expressionism, Outsider, Brut
or Aboriginal art into one piece and then X-tracts their major components leaving their
spirit to create a completely unique art form.Xfusionism finds its
identity in the vacuity of styles and movements, past and present, emerging as a fresh,
distinctive, imaginative type of art.Xfusionism's innate
value is to supercede parameters and boundaries. Drawing from
established structures, it allows the artist to be expansive in exploring
the creative freedom their work demands without being limited by a
specific form,or style.
Xfusionistic Art is a method
of painting I developed to help me better understand, define, and probe
my own particular ideas on where the work should go and to provide
it with a vehicle and the flexibility to accomplish that mission.
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Thomas Holmes is an Irish Artist currently based in Santiago de Chile. He works in a number of different media. Visit his website to see backlit collage, digital artwork and installation. |
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I paint acrylic abstracts when I'm not working with computer graphics. Most of the high five's that come via my web site come primarily from the digital work. |
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Kasper is a sculptor from Denmark |
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Surrealdigitalartist. I "feels" my images and then my mind comes into play bringing them to life on the screen. Sometimes I wonder where my images come from. When I am working on a digital image, I am completely absorbed by it. I laugh, I feel, I cry, I dream, I lose myself in it, I become it. It is this moment, this sensation of being one with my image, this is the passion rollercoaster that I live for. |
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My name is Martin Hoogeboom, male, 51 years old, and living in Laren-Netherlands. My artwork is an organic reflection of my interactions with life. A constantly evolving project composed of paintings, drawings, music, photos, sculptures, video, found object collages and mixed media assemblages. |
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Heather Horton is a figurative painter living and working in
Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The underlying narrative within her work
is quite subtle. There is a prevailing sense of isolation and
alienation found within the paintings. The viewer often wonders what
is beyond the borders of the canvas. Heavy cropping also increases a
sense of tension in the works. Heather "paints to capture shifts in
mood and the transitory nature of the world and our place within it.
The viewer should never be completely comfortable with my work. They
are not conventional portraits but rather use the figure as a vehicle for eliciting an
emotional and/or intellectual unease."
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I'm not a big fan of artists' statements (plus admittedly I'm a bit
slack about writing as well) so if anyone's interested there are a number
of text files about the paintings / collages / screenprints / digital
and graphic art on my site http://www.redyellowblue.info
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Turning up the intensity of life...
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My name isJoel Hoyer and my partners name is Martin Freeman. We are
two artist doing individual work plus collaboration between ourselves.
The attached image is a collaboration piece. We are both mature artist
working for over 30 years.
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It all started with my interest in exploring color. Early on I created geometric striped drawings with crayons. Eventually I applied colorful stripes to my drawings of items found in everyday life. I switched to oil paint so I could more easily mix colors as I desired. When I first began working with color my choices were very thought out, however now my choices have become much more intuitive.
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I’ve come to digital abstract art after a lifetime career of realistic photography. Abstract elements of line, form and mass, contribute to the communication power of realistic images.
I found myself being slowly swept out of my 40 year career in realistic photography, including photojournalism and documentary photography. There was always a problem. I’m reflective, while photojournalism demands reaction more than reflection. I’ve made the transition to my métier.
I now bring abstract elements to the foreground, elevating them from a supporting role to being the subject. I work spontaneously on a piece until I see a theme. Each work remains abstract, but I see a visual theme or narrative.
My digital imaging is an extension of the creative controls I could exercise doing news and documentary photography. It is a visual means to say things in a universal way, allowing you to make your own discoveries.
My work appeals to the meaning seekers. When they find one that matches their rhythm, it’s a winner. Contemplation of each level is the key. Mass media can do a lot but it can’t enhance contemplation. Art is opposites and they exist in my abstracts.
Themes arise automatically from a store of experiences from my career in realistic photography. Good photography elicits an emotional response. I work until I perceive an emotion represented in abstract forms. Usually, I feel authorship. Other times, images manifest themselves from beyond my conscious awareness.
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Lorraine has had many successful solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe in the
last 12 years. Her exciting, bold Abstract expressionist paintings and collages are in many
private and corporate collections worldwide. She is extremely happy to have been invited to
exhibit her work in a major Exhibition of prominent Scottish & International Artists to
support the fantastic work of Save The Children. The Exhibition - ART FOR CHILDREN is hosted
at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland from 14th - 21st June 2005. If you are in
the area please visit the exhibition, it is going to be really exciting. Lorraine G Huber is
a full time Abstract Artist, living and working near Edinburgh, Scotland. She works in a
variety of media, often large scale, working in a very spontaneous way, building up layers of
colour and texture. Her approach is intuitive, Lorraine expresses her own emotional response
to the mysterious journey of life. Life is often full of contradictions and she finds that
this theme is explored continually, through her vibrant, colourful, modern Abstract paintings
and textured collages. Her Abstract works are largely non objective, the subject is the
painting itself, the colour, form and texture being vitally important. Her work is a
Celebration of life. What excites her is what the individual brings of themselves in viewing
her work. Art is a living creation always changing.
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Patricia Hunter "Philo" was born in Lima,
Peru, the 3rd of 4 siblings. When she was 18,
Patty moved to Atlanta with her family, where
she graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta
with an Associate in Arts Degree. At 24, Patty
moved out on her own, and started looking
for interesting paintings to decorate her
condo. After searching everywhere, she
realized that it was better to paint her own.
Her use of colors and stylistic paintings are a
reflection of her childhood.
She specializes in creative acrylic and oil
paintings.
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Reflecting or being reflected; reflected light, colour or image; angle of......that made by reflected ray with perpendicular to a surface.Reconsideration,meditation,mental faculty dealing with products of observation and perception; ideas arising in the mind; thoughts expressed in images." The subject matter can be anything in everyday life; that produces unusual effects when light bounces off, maybe just a shadow. Use of:-Water, Glass, Mirrors, and glossy surfaces. This gives Georgia a vast scope to produce some very interesting pieces of Art. She uses a camera to gather research which in itself produces Georgia's Originale Prints.Originale Prints Then transfers this information into pictures using; drawings and paintings in various medias. |
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Transcending between abstract and figurative work, forms and figures take shape intentionnaly or by accident in my paintings. However I find that a less literal and more abstract approach to composition produces paintings or works of art more intensely imaginative. It allows me to be closer to my emotions and keeps me further away from esthetical and intellectual decisions.
Defined "aerial painting" by Jean McEwen, my work is based upon space, space between shapes, space between colors, the space in which we are surrounded and contained.
Colour is the key element. Celebrating it, colour defines the force of emotions, it conveys excitement and sensuality. It offers more than representation, it produces evocation. Paintings have the skill to touch our affectivity. It is what I try to set in motion. I tempt to awaken desires. Seduction is what binds momentarily the viewer to the artwork. Desire to see not to understand, in seduction, there is nothing to understand. |
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