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I am a creator of art. My creations are statements of where I am at any particular time in my life. I paint, draw and sculpt to express ideas where the words will or might fail to express the sense and insight I have of life and indeed existance around me. This including not only the rational material world we live in but the subconscious and multidimensional aspect of existence as well. My goal is to reach more freedom in my understanding and experience of life and subsequently my art works which to me are the same thing. |
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Born in Quebec city, Canada, living in Victoria,BC.
Paints Window designs, Murals, Signed edition prints, Acrylic paintings, Illustrations, Graphic Designs, Colouring pages for kids, contests and much more. |
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I find it very difficult to write an artist's statement, as it is
difficult fo me to gather my passion in to a select nubmer of words.
It is a passion fueled with emotion, and I find emotion hard to describe.
Untethered, it allows me react to and not merelt record that which
inspires me. Of course this plays out in my paintings, either through
the technique I choose or the medium. To me, medium and techinique
are mere tools meant to serve the moment. It makes no sense to me to
tailor my emotions to the medium. For this reason, many people who
walk in to a gallery of my work think they are looking at the art of
more than one person. Buit it is NOT more than one person; it is more
than one emotion.
Sometimes I paint to share the memory of place or a moment int ime.
Sometimes I paint to share the depths of my soul. And sometimes I paint
for the sheer joy of seeing color react to my touch. The common chord
though each approach is my use of color and pattern of texture. I offer
my world up to you as a refuge. I believe that is the purpose of my
art.....it is a sanctuary for my soul while creating it and I would
like it to be a sanctuary for yours while viewing it. But I need to
entice you to enter, and this is why my strength of color and contrast
is important. When you walk in the room I want these elements to invite
you over for a visit. Once there, I want you involved so that you forget
the craziness around you. So we dance together to the rhythm of pattern
or texture. Be delighted, pelase. Delight soothes the soul.
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Detailed Pen and Ink Wash paintings of the UK's historic locations.
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I was born in San Nicolas, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17th, 1958.
Now I'm living in Ciudad Jardin, a beautiful neighborhood near Buenos Aires City.
I started painting as self-educated, spontaneously arose since my first touches the style Naif. A style with which I feel identifying. After a few years I begun to attend to the Marilyn Itrat atellier. Marilyn and I are working together now. I was part of several exhibitions and I received some awards.
Ie ever seen the art as a pleasant adventure to give life to my thoughts and wishes, harmonizing colors, shapes, textures, allowing to feed my soul day after day.
Through my paints, I would wish to show a better world, peaceful, where simple and daily things represent by itself the real aim of the life, becoming possible for those who see them to feel, at least for just a moment, that sincere and true things really exist.
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For a viewer, art is a self-cognition through the artist's self-perception. For an artist, art becomes a plexus of his spiritual self based on his understanding of the world. The very entity of an artwork is a spiritual mastery; canvas and colors become objects of sensuality and meditation. When the artwork unseals the idea of spiritual dominance over the material world, the struggle of two antipodes and human amalgamation with the entire world, then this artwork expands into pure aesthetic pleasure. The greatest masterpieces have always been the result of bringing together talent, hard work and professional precision. They are both a corner stone and a contribution to fundamental development of contemporary art. |
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A painter, whose works : abstraction and expressionnist figuration, are riches with color, full with cheerfulness, promptness. Each one of his painting let us penetrate in a world where the visitor circulates with complete freedom, leaving free course with our own imagination.
Sketching does not have any secret for Gilbert Laporta. Since the moment Gilbert was able to hold a pencil, his talents only grew, always seeking new techniques so perfecting his art. After so many years he is still expressing himself through his artistic work. With time he realized that this pasion for art would over power him in his life.
Gilbert Laporta is a creative artist of talent to know and to discover. |
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ACTUALISM, n. Tendency to regard the actual things in the human condition that arrest the mind and stir the emotions; Resulting artistic treatment: a descriptive incomplete narrative. |
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In 1970 , after a long break, the artist began to draw and paint again. In 1976, he joined an etching studio on Mount Carmel. He participated , with colleague artists, in uninstructed nude drawing sessions. At that period he met Gitit, Sabina Mandel, Gil Bashan, and other artists. At that time he purchased a small studio apartment at a picturesque neighborhood near Carmel center. In that studio (built by the British for the Iraq petroleum company refineries in 1947) he carried out most of his art works during the late 70's and 80's. In 1970 , after a long break, the artist began to draw and paint again. In 1976, he joined an etching studio on Mount Carmel. He participated , with colleague artists, in uninstructed nude drawing sessions. At that period he met Gitit, Sabina Mandel, Gil Bashan, and other artists. At that time he purchased a small studio apartment at a picturesque neighborhood near Carmel center. In that studio (built by the British for the Iraq petroleum company refineries in 1947) he carried out most of his art works during the late 70's and 80's. |
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Art, like life is an extension of ourselves, coupled with the inherent and infinite
possibility of what we could be. Having been an artist for the past twenty years and
in that time having travelled many different paths in the exploration of art.I now find
myself at a point where "Art of itself " is a visual means of comminuting with my
thoughts,feelings and aspirations. Not unlike others in this particular field, Art for
me has been a guide,a teacher,and a friend in all the frustrations and stresses of
everyday living.It has thought me to "Look" at myself as I am and to see that in
reality I am more than the sum of my many parts. A great friend of mine put it in a
nut shell once:"The man you meet this morning may not be the same man you may meet
later,one face many shadows".Some may describe this type of experience as a spiritual
journey.I would prefer to call it simply a "Journey of Dreams." Whenever I have looked
at children engaged with play and seen how much they dream into their doings.It makes
me realize as an adult how much I have forgotten and how much I have given away.It is
that which is simple, that I now wish to convey in my work.The most important lesson
I have learnt from Art is to Dream not in childish ways but as a responsible adult,to
Dream into reality.
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Born in Vietnam 1948. Lives and paints in Paris.
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LEA: self taught artist, painting for about 15 years, working as a tattooist for the last 10 years, born in Paris France and have been living in the states since 1995. It seems like the evolution of my life makes my work change as well, but I mainly like to paint dancers from the thirties, fourties (which might come from a certain nostalgia of leaving my country of origin) or I like to paint images about society, politic, or anything that interest or revolt me, in any case I like my work to be edgy...in the tradition of Otto Dix, Georges Grosz, or the contemporary artist Joe Coleman and the artists of the "new objectivity", my work can be described as Lowbrow Art, Visionnary Art, part of Expressionnism or realism mouvement. |
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My art deals with the present. Each piece has its own desires and needs, and
I take it upon myself to discover what these needs are and fulfill
them to the best of my abilities. Very rarely do I know what I am
about to learn or discover before I begin a piece, and never can I force my own objectives on
it. When I do, I have ruined the piece before I have even begun.
Rather, I approach the making of art with an open mind, and try to
address each part of the canvas/ board/ paper, etc. in a way that is
new and fresh. |
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As an artist, I have settled to create and push the colored pencil media. There is one disadvantage to colored pencil. For any level of detail, it's slow! Many pencil artists have told me to keep it "small"…good advice. Art is not technique, although, without it, art can be really lacking. Art is the ability thru physical means of line, form, and color to evoke emotion in the viewer. And, best of all, different emotions in different viewers! I realize this is a cliché, but, like drawing, that "light bulb" has got to come on in your head to really "see and appreciate" it. |
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I am engaged in the converging vectors of art and science, but receive added inspiration from kabbalah teachings & meditation and try to create visual forms conducive to mystical experience and self-transformation.
Most of my work would seem to fall within the abstract illusionist genre. This is especially true of my Dialogue series, my major preoccupation for the last two years, based on two cartoon faces in confrontation.
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The subjects of my paintings include nature scenes, real and imaginary, animal life, and portraits. The details found in nature, with their juxtapositions of the wild and the orderly, have always fascinated me. My goal, regardless of the themes in my work, is to combine color, light, composition, and content to create strong, dramatic images that are a joy to look at and to live with.
I paint mostly in acrylics because with them I can achieve a large range of colors and effects with a quick drying time. I tend to work rather quickly, which helps me get everything out on the canvas the way I imagine it. My processes range from careful and precise photorealism to extremely loose abstraction, but my work always remains representative of things in the physical world. I work from life, from photographs, and from my imagination, sometimes combining all these things into one image.
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Dutch based contemporary visual artist René van Leeuwen (1960). Conceptual art, paintings, photography, installation art, new media, web-art, grafic
concept&design and art projects.
Every Image can be Music... Orchestrate, it's endless... |
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So-called "fuel iron" are the raw materials of metal plastics. From the
burning out of a repeating form out from a metal plate results an accumulation of
gleichformatigen elements, which are put on usually in lining up. The fuel pieces
therefore already carry a harmony in itself. In addition comes the process of rusting,
which is with taken into account consciously and which plastics lends a further, here
coloured attraction. This condition was stopped and conserved by appropriate treatment
of the metal.
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Dina Lenkovic was born in 1951 in Zagreb, Croatia. She took a degree in Ethnology and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 1975. From 1976 she had private lessons with Marin Tartaglia, professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb. She had a short sabbatical in London in 1980. She honed her skills in Stockholm at the Ballet Academy, doing drawings in the classical ballet class.
To date she has had a number of solo shows in Croatia, Austria and Germany. She has done posters for the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, for the ballet and opera; she has also exhibited in the Theatre building. Her vision of the ballet Swan Lake, images of which were used for one of the posters of a performance by the CNT in 1999, won second place in an international competition of the Soho Fine Arts Institute in New York. She is a member of the UK association The Society for Art of Imagination.
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Elie Levy is a French Israeli artist painter who works oil on canvas. His style is expressive although he can be close to surrealism. So, a realistic image may emerge in a abstract situation. Elie looks for the interrelation between two world : reality and fantasy. Also, the artist uses strong and warm colors in his paintings to create an atmosphere, which attracts the public into the world of imagination, dream and legend.
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Ms. Levy is a multidisciplinary artist who creates extraordinary paintings using a variety of mediums including oil, acrylics and enamel.
"I put a capital A on Art and worship that."
She lives and paints in Washington, DC. |
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Works in bronze, ceramics and paintings with sculptural elements. These pieces explore the variety and nuance of relationship. |
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I've drawn since I was eight years old and always wanted to be an artist
never anything else. I've always painted whatever arose from my imagination
and it's turned out to be a kind of lifelong journal. Sometimes I go through
periods when I exhibit frequently, then I get disgusted with galleries and
stop. I've sold a lot but I don't think selling is a gauge of anything or that
it's important. I love what I do; it's my work. I'm classically trained --when
I was 23 I got a real break--a full-paid scholarship to the Penna. Academy
of Fine Arts--which I loved. But realism is not what I aspire to. All I want
is just to be.
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The act of creation is one of the best qualities we human beings possess. I use an intuitive process. I "look" into myself and allow whatever is there to emerge and express itself. The result is a work of imagination that is spontaneous and childlike. In fact , in the process of creating I attempt to get in touch with the child within. I use form and color to describe an inner world which is sometimes jubilant, sometimes sad, but always honest and direct. |
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Artist Designer
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Photographer from Israel. |
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Staring at the salvaged antiques that she had been collecting over time, Diana Levitt made a fateful decision that would change her world forever. She had spent the previous three years living on a sailboat in Hawaii, making paintings, ceramics, and hand-made paper pieces. Returning home to Los Angeles, she resurrected her career in Hollywood public relations and script writing. She had gone full circle, back to the world she had sailed away from. Now she stood in front of her memories in the form of photos, memorabilia, and the antique bric-a-brac she could not bear to part with. Something in her would not let go of the creative impulse to make abstract connections of contrasts and harmonies. Perhaps she didn't realize that by arranging she was composing. She was transforming the neglected little treasures of the past into visual poetry.
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The long research on "Photo-paintings" that Jean-Noël L'Harmeroult has conducted since 2002, rests on essential questions.
The themes he has developed with Carole Congos, muse and famous Top Model, are questioning the future of the world, the fragility of beings as well as the ambiguous perspective of our relationship between terrestrial life and spirituality".
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Bin 1950 geboren und im Sternzeichen Löwe: Ja wer hätte das gedacht ich am allerwenigsten dass ich einmal im Computer stehe und Euch einen kleinen Einblick in meine kleine Kreative Welt gebe.Ich bin Ehefrau -Mutter und seit einiger Zeit Oma von 2entzückenden Enkerln Jasmin --geb. 2001---------Dominic--geb. 2003-Ich-- nähe gerne-- bastle --häkle.. und so --allerlei. Meine Zweite Leidenschaft ich graviere Gläser ,vor mir ist kein Glas sicher (wie auch immer ob rund-- eckig-- oder in Flaschenform) um graviert zu werden. Auch Gedichte zu schreiben wenn mir danach zumute und sie in einen Büchlein festzuhalten ist eines meiner Vergnügen. Denn Seele und Farben sind ein wichtiger Teil der diese Welt ein bischen wenns draussen trübe ist wärmt. Aber seit letzem Jahr hab ich mir einen Traum erfüllt und habe begonnen mit Aquarellmalen und nun gehe ich Kurse und es kann sich sehen lassen Ich werde euch in einigen Abständen einige meiner Werke in der Galerie vorstellen.
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VIRVE LILJA
born 1968 in Helsinki
lives in Kangasala, Finland |
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While Donia uses many media including acrylics, inks and watercolors, pastels are her true love. She states "Using pastels is to draw and paint in the same instant, they are a 'refined' sort of finger painting - although they are much more than messy children's play. The activity of drawing, witnessing the textures and forms emerge from beneath my fingers in spontaeous choreography - it is much like dancing. With practice, the hands and the medium communicate silently with each other, responding, resonating and enhancing the dance - the drawing. Watching it happen is never quite as satisfying as participating, creating." |
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Like New York itself, Hely Lima's constructions are a mass of conflicting impressions. There are quiet neighborhoods with Mom-and-Pop grocery stores,little worlds unto themselves...and there is the ever-changing streetscape, with giant cranes and construction crews demolishing familiar neighborhoods. There are rainy nights with glittering reflections and crowded subways. The closely observed details and the witty commentary make Lima's art hard to describe. A French critic wrote: "Lima's work is a combination of painting, sculpture and theater". Adding to the unexpected tone is Lima's clever use of found objects,like old computer parts to represent the machinery and architectural details of the ever-evolving city. |
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I'm a young Scottish illustrator. I have recently graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art. I'm influenced by
hiphop music and street art. My style is very contemporary and edgey. |
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4stones: always the same, never the same.
A body of work by French photographer Pierre-Yves Linot built around four stones. |
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I am a digital visual artist, mainly concentrating on digital photography, cinematography, special effects, image manipulation, and digital compositing. |
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Liotta Giuseppe nasce a Cltanissetta nel 1945 dove tutt'ora risiede
e lavora.Fin da adolescente ama il disegno ma conosce i colori ad
olio a
18 anni e ne apprende la tecnica da autodidatta,e,da allora,cercando
di
placare
il suo tormento di artista usa tecniche espressive sempre
diverse. Inizia a dipingere con il dito giungendo in fine ad usare la spatola.
Le sue opere si
trovano distribuite in collezioni private in molte città italiane e in
Francia.
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A native of the Northwest, Paula currently calls Seattle her home. Early in her life she came to believe that a career in graphic design would be the best way to make herself useful and set about the business of making “sensible art”. She studied at Cornish Institute of Fine Art and at the University of California and every place she could. Then after a two-decade career as a design and graphics professional Ms. Otey had enough of that and began devoting herself full-time to painting in 2001 and has exhibited in her home town, Seattle, WA., St. Louis, MO. and in New York City.
Her keen interest in travel and the cultures of the larger world is a chief influence in her oil paintings. Her impressionistic “painterly” style brings humanity and honesty to her images. Often her paintings explore the themes of human groups and relationships, loneliness, vulnerability, durable courage of simple day-to-day life. In the course of laying down color, line and texture, she fi nds that themes and characters emerge in much the same way writers describe the spontaneous appearance of personalities on the page.
Paula is very infl uenced by the work of Northwest artist William Cumming and the photographer Dorothea Lange have also left a deep impression on her work.
In the brief time since she has been painting her work is in collections all over the United States as well as abroad.
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Hello and thanks for viewing my images. In no particular order, my
influences include Jack Kirby, Universal monster movies, MAD Magazine,
Monty Python, Betty Page, Ed Roth and Halloween, . I listen to music
while I paint -- if I'm working on a portrait of Frank Sinatra, I'll
have Ol' Blue Eyes' songs playing. Most of the work is acrylic on
canvas or masonite board.
Viva Las Vegas.......!
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Ivan Lloyd is a dedicated fine arts oil painter, in the European tradition, who creates realistic canvases evolved from an original abstract. His most recent work showcases International women and Arabian horses in their natural environment.
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Using aspects of commercial (print media design, typography, advertising, marketing) and not so commercial art experience (printmaking and other expressions), stories are packaged about people or events into one succinct visual statement.
Themes are a direct line to my personal experience, beliefs, explorations or opinions.
In even the darkest of themes there is light. By use of humor, vibrant color, cartoonish iconography, I share the irony and the joy this human condition brings. |
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My work is dedicated to creating a visual language out of my reverence for organic structures and forms. I do not wish to imitate or create representational pieces, but to reference and interpret nature; I wish to write into every molecule of my artwork a translation of the fascination and joy that the natural world continuously inspires within me. I hope for the wearer to explore a deeper yet still whimsical connection to nature, their body, fashion and accessory.
My work holds both familiar and foreign elements that are intended to induce creative and intimate experiences with each viewer/wearer. May the bearer of my jewelry become a participant and part of an artwork, and have an encounter instead of a viewing. A physical interaction can elevate a personal connectivity with the piece. The value of this method is not one taught but shared, not written but felt, not new yet so rarely grasped within the world of fine art.
Wear art and become a living sculpture.
Shira Loa was born and raised in Amherst, MA. After adventures ‘round the globe and attending Massachusetts College of Art and Beas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, she received her BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has been an events coordinator since 2001, bringing together artists, musicians, and locally owned businesses in Michigan and Massachusetts for events that promote artists, raise money for AIDS and other causes. Her events raise awareness about the essential need for Art in our society as a catalyst for positive social change, emotional fortitude and a powerful educational tool. Now living in Portland, she is focused on increasing her skills in metalworking on both small and large scale through jewelry and sculpture.
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Duncan Long is an artist who is also an internationally recognized
author with over sixty books and manuals that have gone into print
including thirteen novels. Until recently Long did most of his illustrating
work for his own non-fiction books (with 30-some now in print).
"Up until a few years ago, these were 'traditional' drawings done with pen and ink,"
Long says with a grin. "Then I discovered computer graphics and got a graphics tablet.
Now I don't think I can easily go back to the 'old ways' of doing artwork.
What used to take me several days to do, I can now do in hours. And
no ink splotches on my clothing afterward, either."
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Colorful Simplicity in Art as in Life. |
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Less afraid, less tongue-tied and shy, Lopez's expression demands attention and is at once, artfully repulsive, beautiful and shocking. Her life spent covering her scars, drinking in strip joints, assisting struggling artists and observing American culture on the streets of New York has constructed a universe of sensitive voyeurism, genderless anger and a cocktail of highs and lows, that weave like a late night song into the psyche, reminding us, if we are an artist, we have no choice but to expose our lives, twitching on the vivisection table, over-and-over again until the climaxing ache inside is assuaged. Lopez's influences often oblique and risque, range from her Sephardic heritage, her lesbianism and the prejudices this has wrought in her Latino culture where lesbianism is still an unspoken 'sin,' her travels in the media industry and most importantly, her God and love of Christianity in a distinct and pure form that often butts heads with organized (and exclusionary) religion. |
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Expressionism through color, depth, and the deconstruction of form Sight. Seeing. How do we see? Is it simply through optic sensations that we view and judge the world around us? Our circumstances? Or is there some deeper, psychological process we are/are not aware of at play? To what extent of what we see is colored by our own personal psychology? The psychology of our environment? Our society? |
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The world is filled with structures, some forgotten and others well-loved. What stories do these buildings have to tell, what scenes have these stones witnessed? Why is the human race so obsessed with erecting monuments inmetal and brick and why do they so carelessly abandon them when they are done? These are some of the questions I like to address in my photography. I spent a lot of formative years in a small town north of Toronto and saw many old farms left to rot. It was these old barns and silos that originally piqued my interest. During my journalism education, photography was a major aspect, one that drew me in like no other course. It was then that I saw the marriage of these structures with the camera's ability to document. |
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Informative and photographic sculpture site for internationally recognized large scale sculptor Rob Lorenson. He works primarily in stainless steel. He has a extensive resume of exhibitions and commissions throughout North America. He is an assistant professor of Art-Sculpture at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA |
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These prints start out as black and white drawings, which I scan and manipulate in Photoshop. At one point I allow the medium to take over, and then things get interesting. I think of it as a dialogue between hand drawing and mouse drawing.
I want to get past the stiff techno-smoothness of most digital art to a more intuitive involvement. The point is not to aim for something “as good as” an etching or lithograph, but to explore the potential of painting with light. |
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The vocabulary and the grammar of my pictorial language were structured by the permanent confrontation of the practice of engraving and painting. So each element discovered in one technique comes to reinforce the second technique and so on.... |
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I work with cloth that I paint, print, distress, and stitch. I often layer photos, paper, fragments of text, and other visual clues from my multi-cultural background. Raw edges and experiences are exposed or even revealed. I am particularly curious about objects that are common, discarded, rusting ~ their history peering through layers of time and grime. Things leaving behind their original purpose and assuming another dimension as they pass through my hands. My eyes are forever hungry and curious; the lens captures what captures me. |
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In my childhood the sources of my inspiration mainly laid in nature and the rural surroundings. Therefore the first paintings showed landscapes or separated pieces of the nature like roots, mushrooms or onions. Later on I concerned myself more and more with my dreams, which was the reason for me starting to write my dreambooks. A kind of diary where I write dowm my nightly dreams in words and pictures. The quality of this illustrations ranges from pencil sketches to chalk or watercolour paintings. Sometimes dreams seem to be more real than life, and for me they are the most important source of inspiration apart from common influences like the environment,personal experiences and intimate emotions. Even the colours I use seem to take influence on my work. When I begin to work I have hardly an idea of what the picture will look like in the end. Sometimes the colour determines the shape. The shape follows the music in my head. The music emerges from my dreams. |
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I am a contemporary mixed media artist who explores
many different types of media when searching for ways to express
myself. My hope is you will create your own story from your life
experiences when viewing my work and the work will touch you on
an emotional and intellectual level.
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Artists are granted a certain freedom: the license to create other
worlds. Whether abstract configurations, hyper-realistic images,
earthworks, etcetera, the moment a thing is called art, it lives
in a certain
framework of perception; it is viewed as something which is not
merely part of human existence, but is an expression of the artist's
perception of existence.
An individual's experience of one world is transmitted through
the creation of another. Art is very nearly miraculous as a vehicle
through which we can be transported to other realms of human consciousness,
intellectual, emotional, or transcendent.
As a painter, I take liberty with this freedom and play in whatever
fields of paint I choose to, each series being an opportunity to explore
visual language in a fresh direction, challenging my skills and
stretching my visual vocabulary. Paint itself is mesmerizing, a hypnotic
shimmering substance with which other worlds can be created; to
watch the transformative power of color as it glides across the page
is like the thrill being a god for the painter. To be bold and
engage in the heady adventure of creation requires faith in the
ephemeral, faith that visions must be made manifest. The ecstasy
that is felt at certain moments when painting is the lure that
drives me on my forever journey with pigments
and oil.
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Denton has developed a layering and bonding technique to work from within the surface of a painting in order to create greater depth and color. The oil paintings sparkle with a slightly watercolor appearance, fusing together gleaming appliqu of color from the background with the more heavily painted outer surface areas. He is one of the few American artists using this technique today. |
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My drive is to reveal the present without any preparation – to always work spontaneously with my intuition as the main inspiration … on large canvas. As I strive for balance in chaos, I create motives that make the eye rest and the mind wander. I am fascinated by the raw power of the unseen. Everything that lies beneath and slithers below – everything with sub… subconscious, subculture, suburban … and submission to immediate expression. |
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My work has a very figurative expression, almost always with focus on the female figure.
I see her as an actress in the piece, the core that everything else centers around.
I have her be the storyteller, and each painting becomes a sequence of a story of which the beginning and ending is unknown. The story belongs to the viewer, only the scenery is given. I wish for my paintings to work as fragments of a dream, or an almost forgotten smell from childhood.
I am very intrigued by subtle oddities, like coincidental poetry that hits you in the most unlike places. I collect words, sayings and expressions for later use.
Inspiration comes from anywhere; an interesting font, a movie poster from the 50’s, a sign on a busy street, a free advertising postcard, vintage wall paper, an amazing shade of yellow... The atmosphere is important, just like the choice of color - and words and letters put another layer in the story, both in meaning and in the visual effect.
My paintings are a mixture of acrylic and collage on canvas. I also use glue, pencil and charcoal to enhance the drawing, the space and the atmosphere.” |
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After 15 years as a book- and offset printer I became an illustrator at the Institut f Systematische Botanik und Pflanzengeographie der Freien Universit Berlin (Germany) in 1971. There I am doing illustrations for e. g. publications, educational purpose and presentations. Computer graphics have become an increasingly important part of my work over the past few years. In my spare time I often spend the evenings drawing. I do still lives, landscapes and portraits in various techniques, for example as oil paintings, crayons, inks (some colored), or water colors. Sometimes I make prints on my small printer's press, which I subsegnently colour in manually. |
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These paintings are exactly the same in theory as those presented photographs, and, exactly the opposite in way of expression (the physical way they've developed themselves.) upon viewing, one would perhaps immediately presume chaos and muddling, but on the contrary, these lines, colors, forms and various medium interact among themselves just as in the literal way of life-- with a constant unlinear pattern evoking oneness through a series of passing, skipping, evolving forms that together, make up the integration, the layers of experience and time that you see form solids in a photograph. |
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