|
Alexander Sadoyan was born in 1954 Yerevan, Armenia. In 1975 he graduated from Terlemezian Art College of Fine Arts. Sadoyan participated in more than 50 exhibitions and his works were sold in numerous auctions. Today, his works can be found in private collections throughout USA, France, Germany, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, China, Norway and Lebanon.
|
|
"The violence don't finish at the end of a war, the consequences
will follow the heritage of those violent actions, in are social
behavior and way of think.
I have been absorbed in creating mainly digital art works since the
spring of 2004. I won't cling to the way I once created the works,
and
it's also none of my business what I will create.
There'll be a time for everything.
I want to be particular about the present.
I would like to be prepared to follow the inspiration
wherever it leads me.
I always creat my work that way.
|
 |
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her education and career highlights began with her earlier artistic activity in the year 1972 at the sculpture atelier owned by Maria Rosa Frigerio, where she stayed for two years. After that, she studied at Jorge Demerijian's atelier for six years. She studies at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón with a specialized professorship in painting. For two more years, she studied drawing techniques at the Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes with Carlos Terribili. She attends several workshops and art history courses. In the year 2004 she was able to reach top of the world knowledge directly from the kingdom of arts: The city of Paris, in France.
|
 |
Art, mask, and graphic design by artist Anthony Saldivar.
|
 |
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931. Attended the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1954 to 1956. Received B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Southern California in 1959. Taught at Eastern Oregon State College, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Southern California, and was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1996.
|
|
I paint Sumie - Japanese black ink painting in a contemporary style.
My theme is the peaceful stability that comes after a release from tension and anxiety. It is influenced by the fact that Sumie was originally a form of training for Buddhist monks to reach enlightenment. The characteristics of Sumie are powerful brush strokes and delicate flowing lines, and the contrasts between black and empty space. Those characteristics are well-suited to express feelings. Some of the sacred grounds for Buddhist were not open to women; however, what I express is my theme from perspective of a modern woman. I focus on the incongruities of social and domestic gender roles and socially-defined beauty standards. I use my work to explore how woman can be free from these incongruities. I was influenced by my teacher at University, Ms. Kaori Chino, who researched old Japanese paintings from the viewpoint of gender. |
 |
Artist
|
|
"The violence don't finish at the end of a war, the consequences
will follow the heritage of those violent actions, in are social
behavior and way of think.
As does all of my work, this collection reflects the violent situation
in Colombia. Each piece reproduces feelings of a social bleeding,
tireless armed conflict, and a society pillaged by social intolerance
and a war. As a whole, my work acknowledges the situation of Colombia,
exemplifying a denouncement and rejection of the violence in my country.
In my paintings, strong contrasts of color convey the extreme emotions
provoked by Colombia's plight, while elements of sensibility and eroticism are
portrayed by abstracts of the human figure. Attached to all aspects of my paintings and
sculpture is an encompassing reflection of political and social introspect. The use of
varied mediums enables me to fully express these complex emotions within my work. Oil,
plaster, charcoal, metal, and paper serve to provide texture, depth and strength to my
work.
|
 |
Mr. Mandy Sand 1932 - 2004 was born in Bucharest in Rumania in 1932 died in Israel 29 December 2004 Graduated Art School in Bucharest 1963 Immigrated to Israel in 1964 and lives in Nethanya Awards : 1966 First prize Art Contest of Cultural Center in Tel Aviv ZOA House
|
 |
I'm an artist from the north of Sweden. The last twenty years I have participated in many exhibitions, in the north of Sweden, both solo and in group. I'm self-taught and the last years I mostly paint with acrylic on canvas. Earlier I painted landscapes but nowadays I paint the "unknown" from my mind. The process is to start painting haphazard and to use chaos. I don't know ahead where I'm going to end. My vision is to create something unique and I love to surprise myself.
|
 |
I live in Bologna, Italy and I paint from 1994, when I was 20 year old. My artistic style is a middle way between abstract and geometric art. Form 2005 I started e-commerce, and so everyone can buy and order my art. This is a little help for everyone to have my art for a low cost too.
|
 |
I am a sculptor and painter working (among other things) in symbolist, fantasy and religious genres. My most recent work has focussed on watercolors in an illusrational style, and wood carving.
|
|
Arnel has a passion for visual arts. He loves to explore all forms of art and craft but spend most of his time painting portraits and landscapes. |
|
My work attempts to articulate Human Relationships in abstract painting.
Each person lives with solitude inside of them, seeking a larger meaning in
relation to other people and the world. Modern times are composed of
such people. Nuclear families are increasing, the style of living has changed,
but the essential desire to seek spiritual relationships of more depth is still
there. I am seeking this meaning, too. In my life, my painting.
|
 |
I live and work in Bologna, Italy. I have been going through a multidisciplinary experience for the past 20 years: music, writing, photographing, performing. I use acrylics with the stencil technique on canvas, board or other mediums. I have done several personal exhibitions in Bologna and many group exhibitions all over the world. I'm very active in the Mail Art network and I've joined more than 800 projects so far. Some of my works appeared also on Printmaking Today (U.K.), winter 2000 and spring 2001 issues, on Somerset Studio (USA) sep/oct 2003, Paris Capitale (France) oct/nov 2003. |
|
Satish Joshi, a native of India, has lived and worked in New York since 1969. Ever since his earliest training in painting he have been intrigued with the play of light in 2-dimensional work and with the surfaces of his subject matter. Textured two-dimensional surfaces are a hallmark of his personal style. His fascination with the artistic possibilities to be found in the physical building-up of two-dimensional surfaces has led to a decades-long use of texturing materials; he revels in using surface textures that interact with a strong painterly play of light and shadows to create a sculptural illusion on a flat surface. Satish, who signs his work with his first name, is also well-known as a sculptor in metal and stone and as a printmaker with a unique approach to the art of the monoprint. |
 |
Sculptor from Belgium
|
|
Michael currently resides in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. He has studied fine art extensively, earning a BFA from the University of British Columbia. Mike's eclectic and thoughtful paintings reflect his interest in nature, philosophy, and spirituality. The goal being to create art that is both beautiful and engaging to the mind. His work hangs in collections in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America.
|
|
My first series of women goes back to 1981, after my recent move to New England.
"The Ladies" were painted with watercolor or acrylic and inspired by a luminous stained glass window that used to cover an entire wall of my grandmother's home in Egypt. I used to call them the "Stained Glass Ladies".
When one of my paintings made it to the juried exhibit of the Currier Art Gallery in 1984, I learned that my fascination with design and colored glass could be shared with a larger public.
Slowly I started introducing new elements, like flowers, in the women's dresses. The women would be dreaming in different settings made of tiled landscapes and diffused vegetation. Staci Milbouer, correspondent of the Nashua Telegraph, said, "Sawaf's dreamlike images show a singular figure of a woman in the foreground, her body formed by a lush flower.... There is a statement being made about her femininity, womanhood and the world of dreams..."
I was finally able to get the rich colors I sought when I moved to oils in 1992. This enabled me to develop a new technique by building layers of color on top of color to create depth, intriguing patterns of flowered materials and a richness of design.
"Marilene Sawaf's art is a blend of bright colors and designs taken from the Mediterranean. "Born in Egypt and raised in Italy and Lebanon, she has combined traditional techniques of the countries where she lived to create her style... "...Much of her inspiration for the design in the clothing and background is inspired by Oriental carpets as well as Medieval and Renaissance paintings and designs," said Diane Rietan in her Sunday Telegraph interview of September 1996.
In general I try to create an illusion, painting women in rich patterned dresses, who make you wonder who they are and what they are doing.
The design, the position of the women's hands, the intriguing expressions of their faces, the mystery of their environment, create a surrealistic image.
A product of my past culture, of my present taste for rich colors and enigmatic effects, my paintings of women are a mysterious reflection of my most subconscious dreams.
|
|
The painter of the honesty of life
No other way of art can touch the soul if there is not one piece of realtity in it.
How small these part are,how untouchable also,they must be in the art piece.
They are the reducible parts which are the keys for getting the entrance to the work of Patrick van Schaijk
He has the capability to transmit this recognizable key resulting in an understanding with the viewer.
It makes his Art readable, it explains the meaning of his Art,and opens the draught of his imaginative faculty.
This world arrested in paint with new feelings which have been born by meeting people,the discovery of different ways of thinking of nationalities what can be recognized in there culture and symbolism.
Painting is for him a real adventure and you never know where it ends.
It starts with an empty canvas where the process of combining forms,colours and lines started.
It,s the creation of something new what never existed before.
His own feelings are the sources to paint and express his emotions..
He is guided by his own experiences of life.
In this way his feelings become clear and a lot of colours are created with different shapes and meanings.
Sometimes dynamic,sometimes chaotic and then it becomes harmonious as life itself.
Patrick van Schaijk is enable to translate emotions which are not only a part of himself but also of many other people.
He makes his world with a constant struggle with his own feelings and sense.
The painter Patrick van Schaijk uses his own shapes by which the stroke of the brush and the colour are of a vital importance for him.
Honesty and authenticity are with him the most important criteria within his creative process.
|
|
For the first 30 years of my life, I lived; worked and breathed - America. For the past 13 years I have lived in South Africa, which has re-defined my artistic experience. My environment has always been a primary influence in my work; as well as the spiritual journey that I have been on. I find that I am immensely drawn to colour and texture, and can find myself deeply moved by those factors alone, in a painting. My body has moved continents; however, bits of my heart will forever remain imbedded in the Midwestern American landscape, where I was raised. I have always loved this earthly place, and this is ever apparent in the consistent "farm-scape" vernacular, which tends to re-appear in many of my paintings. The African landscape has lended itself to my imaging as well; which has given my work a deeper edge; a richer sense of colour and contrast. I have always worked in a strong, geometric style, which I believe, gives me a sense of "inner-order" which is something I constantly yearn for. I feel while painting, that my hand is simply an instrument of Spirit- at work. |
|
After my training as a stage painter at s.i.s.a. in Antwerp, it was the intention to start painting in a work shop. But for lack of work in this line of business when I graduated in 1995, I started making paintings on canvas, based on acrylics. For me a way to exile irritation from my life. |
 |
The Window Seat: Passing silently over entire continents as lives unfurls below... excruciatingly confined in the present while surrounded by a seeming lack of it, a cruel and beautiful meditation rolls through my head, punctuated with subliminally perceived crop signs, urban lightshows, endless water, white noise. Current paintings. Flying and separated from my day-to-day make moments of introspection hyper-real, amplified by the muffled drone of jet engines. The breath inâ?¦ the exhale that follows. The falling/flowers. |
 |
I am a Sculptor living and working in New York City and for the last 27 years have maintained my small basement studio in Greenwich Village.
I am for the most part self taught. Over the years I have shown my work in numerous places, including New York, Pennsylvania, CT. and Paris. I am always on the lookout for those "objects of inspiration" that allow me to create some of those visions I perceived.
In recent years I found that searching for those "objects of inspiration" opened up a whole new world of creativity and challenges. |
 |
Born and raised in New York City, Diana Schmertz started painting at Music and Art High School at age 13. After completing her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Purchase College at the age of 19, she was accepted into De Ateliers 63 Residency program and awarded a two year grant to live and paint in Amsterdam, Holland. In addition to painting the past ten years she has completed a Masters of Science in Art Therapy and a Masters of Science in Art Education. Currently, Schmertz is painting full time in New York City. |
 |
Powerful, dynamic, recalling sacred objects and panels, amongst other items, in their bright appearance and outer form - so are the works of Norbert Schmitt. Under the title "Tranquillity" his paintings and sculptures can be viewed in the galerie m beck. They not only hold the key to the artistic spectrum of the painter and sculptor born in Mainz in 1972 but also demonstrate his intensive preoccupation "with the strangeness of other cultures" and the history of ideas of the western world. The most striking feature of Norbert Schmitt's creativity is the conceptional and formal work with layers, which he builds up with the aid of colour, mixtures from the spatula and textiles on varying backgrounds. Layers as levels of experience and awareness, symbols which can be "grasped" in the truest sense of the word: in Norbert Schmitt's sculptures both can be found. So he builds up objects tending to small sculptural items out of wood, textiles and colour, fitting together basic geometric forms to form organic-seeming artistic creations. In contrast to his paintings colour here takes second place to form - "The colour should develop for the observer," the artist explains - and his sculptures hereby assume the character of cult objects: Resting in themselves and yet full of impulsive power at the same time, they demonstrate Schmitt's ability to condense in a form abstract and objective elements in a vivid and subtle way. |
 |
Born in Michigan in 1949, Doug didn’t study art until the age of 20. After earning a Masters of Fine Art degree from Michigan State University in 1978, Doug pursued a career in fine art doing realistic figure drawings. In 1985 he discovered illustration and found it to be a better fit for a realistic painter. He now specializes in doing realistic watercolor paintings of food and botanicals for packaging and advertising.
Doug has had a flourishing career for 15 years, doing packaging illustrations for many large prestigious companies including Alberto Culver, Clairol, Frito-Lay, Wal-Mart, Unilever, and Bath & Body Works. |
 |
My work is about telling stories. Every image that I photograph, whether staged or candid, is intended to communicate on multiple layers. Every viewer will can extract the meaning that resonates for him. |
|
Inspired by the beautiful scenery and sunsets, Glen started photographing and painting the world around him. Influenced by light and shadow and vivid colors, his present style has emerged. Influenced by the classic illustrators as well as contemporary artists such as Bruce Ricker, Terry Hallam and some of the great Hawaiian artists, Glen’s acrylic paintings reflect the world as he sees it--bold, colorful and beautiful. |
|
Steffi began her artistic career in 1995 by working with graphite,charcoal and
pastels. She is a self-taught artist. She has its knowledge at academies, renowned
artists and art teacher extended. She discovered encaustics, a painting technique that
reaches back to the time of the Antique. She is main an artist the Art of Encaustic
Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax.
|
 |
I have always thought of myself as an artist. The creative urge has always been with me even through the years when I was too busy raising a family to make art. When that task was nearly complete, I began to paint again and, after working in isolation for some time, I enrolled in graduate school for the challenge an artistic community provides. |
 |
"Albert Schweitzer is a visionary artist who lives and works in Baltimore Maryland. Although classically trained his paintings are imbued with the naive, raw simplicity and energy that one would associate with outsider art. As a student Albert studied with Grace Hartigan. This association with Grace Hartigan has created a lasting influence on his work."
From a review by Ruth Robertson |
 |
The work that I produce is inspired by children, animals and memories of my childhood. Across a variety of mediums I have originated illustration and design that has imaginative, innocent, beautiful and quirky themes running through it.
My work often has an upbeat feel and a humorous twist, from the look of the characters illustrated to a renewed look at a traditional theme as in my Alice in Wonderland work commissioned by The Alice Shop in Oxford England. |
|
There are too many strange and amazing incidents in this world for me
to simply seek a quietly successful life.
|
 |
I make paintings about ideas that are developed by reading about art, science and philosophy. I call it 'conceptual realism'. I work in a realistic style but what you see is the image of thoughts. It's not about magic, dreams and things like that, so it's no surrealism. |
 |
The paintings are like my painted Bible telling a story of what has been in my life and things that concern me. I have done anti-war paintings , pro-life , religious and a lot of just fun paintings.
There are some water color paintings but most of my art works are digital paintings done with Adobe Photoshop. |
 |
Water-Colour, Oil, Pastels, Tempera, Mixed Media...... you name it, I just do. From Canvas Paintings, Paper, Print Art and Sculptures in Clay, Plasta and Cement Casting, Its my fun. |
 |
Yasemin Senel was born in 1953. She graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Liège (Belgium) in 1978 and shows her works since 1977. |
 |
Painter and graphic artist: Henk Sentel (1949) Education: self-taught. Since 1996 I am self-employed as artist. In that year I decided to concentrate on drawing and painting. Because I became interested in teaching I began in 1999 to develop courses in Drawing & Painting for children. A few years later I added courses for adults. INSPIRATION: The starting point of my paintings and drawings is the fusion of FANTASY and REALITY. In its own image language, full of symbolism. Symbols as the eye; the most fascinating symbol based on one of the human senses. Or the womb and belly as the seat of life. And the egg as the universal symbol of the mystery of creation. The sea as primal source of life and water as symbol of purity. With this imagery I create the visualisation of my fantasy but painted realistically. I use very old techniques in my paintings, with first an underpainting and then overlaid with many layers of transparent oil paint (the technique of glazing). This technique creates the wealth of colour which is a striking feature of my work. |
 |
Harry Seymour is an award winning artist whose works reflect an eclectic array of subject matter and techniques. His African American experience influences the unique compositions that capture the essence of scenes as varied as children frolicking on a beach, or the syncopated rhythm of jazz musicians. He is noted for his impressionistic oil paintings, representational egg tempera, casein paintings, and scratchboard etchings. Seymour’s subject matter is drawn heavily from Martha’s Vineyard scenes and his art is shown at the Dragonfly Gallery and L’Elegance on Martha’s Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, MA. A successful two man show was held between Aug 29th and Sept 9, 2007 at the Dragonfly in Oak Bluffs, Massachussets |
 |
I am a Moscow artist, winner of "GOLDEN BRUSH - 2004" prize - The Moscow Contemporary Art Competition. My paintings are in some of the prestigious Russian museums such as the Russian State Museum and the State Literary Museum, as well as in many corporate and private collections both in Russia and abroad. Now I am glad to offer you my new works. Their stylistics are perfectly combined with a modern interior.
|
 |
Artist born in Damascus of Syrian and Lebanese Nationality.
|
 |
A writer who paints with paintbrushes and words.
Award winning playwright, poetess, contributing editor, and painter. My art as a writer is to make free inquiries into human character. Storytelling is place for me to wander and wonder. I enjoy writing original plays and producing them as collaborative, multi-disciplinary works of art. I strive to bring cultural, social and environmental awareness to life through the medium of words brought to life for the theatrical stage. I take interest in working with artists of various artistic disciplines and cultural origins.
Life is a theatre of awareness. We are the constant stage, yet the stage constantly changes us. Human nature is comprised of infinite perfection and deformity. It’s surpassed only by itself in magnificence and cannot be bound by conventionality. The ideal landscape does not exist.
The meaningless is just as meaningful as the meaningful.
|
 |
Born in 1957, I have been drawing all of my life. My love of nature and animals and as I like to put it "short attention span" view of the world are reflected in my work.
|
|
I love to live vicariously through my divas. They are daring, impudent, vivacious
women with scintillating lives in alluring locations. Always they are powerful, sexy,
demanding, and audacious. They adjure many good friends whether it be a girlfriend,
horse, cat or dog, and they always invoke emotion by the viewer. The most cherished
aspect of developing my paintings is that it becomes a mind's vacation. These images
literally come from nowhere and take on their own personality. When these divas arrive,
it is as though I am welcoming a trusted confidant into my world.
|
|
Vibrant, expressionist original paintings, including abstract female figure and nude, still life with flowers, landscape and cityscape by Canadian artist Martina Shapiro. |
|
It is impossible to think of me in the third person... ridiculous ... Mimi thiz..but when I am engrossed in my studio working on my art, my husband, the photographer, Paul Engleheart, sez "earth to mimi." It is a joke now, but that is why I chose the name mimiartz. When I am typing notes and emails' to my friends, I put a z on the end of all words that should have an 's' - its a funny little quirk of mine... Mimi Shapiro |
|
I have lived in the Western Ukraine most of my life. For as long as I remember, art
has played an important role in my life. I university graduate at the Lvov Academy of
Art. Since graduating from there I have participated in many competitions and
exhibitions. My artworks are in private collections and galleries of USA, Great
Britain, Germany,Japan,Canada, Australia, Belgium, Italy , Spain, Poland, Russia,
Georgia and Ukraine. My artworks are including oil paintings of landscape,still-life,
nude, erotic,florals,marine, abstract,fantasy,portrait. I use a some techniques, but
all are paint by oil paints. Also I work with author's techniques - I want to
achieve watercolour effect with the help of oil paints.
|
|
Izya. Shlosberg graduated from the Moscow University of Art, and
the Belarus Institute of Technology in Minsk. Mr. Shlosberg combines
his technical training in industrial design and independent study of
form and color to give him a unique perspective on the concept of art.
|
 |
Photography appeals to me because as long as I have a camera my studio is everywhere. The medium depends so completely on light that photographers are limited by their equipment and the time of day. To do away with these restrictions I choose to focus on the essential element of photosensitive materials. Light is my subject matter.
|
 |
A painting should be a recreation of an event more than an illustration. The implication for art is that there are many meanings to express, and just as many ways to grasp them. When fantasy and reality are free to wander in our memory, we can find surprising connections. Still lives, landscapes, and figures can arrive at disparate proportions. Relations are formed by proximity; individual objects become fragments, metaphors or emblematic allusions.
|
 |
As a child, Su watched in fascination the animals, insects and birds around her. She adored wildlife and also thoroughly enjoyed drawing. Throughout the following years, her love of art and her concern for her fellow creatures has been unceasing.
|
 |
My name is Erik D. Shipley. I am 29 years old. It took me quite a long time to get where I am today. I was always artistic. I loved to draw, and paint. I am very interested in writing. But, photography is my calling. I love finding new things to take pictures of. It's amazing when something ordinary becomes extraordinary. I was born and raised in Utah. I am still here. I always wished I was somewhere else. This state was so "boring". I realize now that all I needed to do was look around me. I needed to actually look around me. I have turned all of my negativity into something positive. This state is amazing! But, even now I don't look past all of the garbage I once dwelled on before. I just look closer. I spent many years trying to figure myself out. I almost gave up a couple of times. I think that when a person has hit bottom the whole world changes. I am more open. My thinking has changed. I am just glad to be here. I had to change the way I saw the world. Instead of fighting it, I had to make friends with it. I hope to show all of my joy, and trials, and sadness through my photography. I know that I cannot change the world but, I sure can enjoy it.
|
 |
My painting is largely about process, both intentional and intuitive. I establish deliberate boundaries, parameters and recurring themes, which I then violate as I examine surface, depth, scale and support as numerous materials, multiple layers and diverse textures and techniques confront (and sometimes oppose) each other through subtle variations in tone, sheen, luminosity and color. Homemade tools and modified paints help to make each mark, scratch and chip as intentional and vital as the brushstroke, while light reflected off the varied black pigments yields additional shades of grays and whites.
|
 |
Graphic works are grouped in two galleries which reflects a basic difference in their content. Those in the first gallery are concerned primarily with exploring various mental landscapes encountered by the artist in the course of her personal evolution Higher and Deeper - hence the name Vertical.
|
 |
Artist |
|
El arte es tiempo, instante y trascendencia. Es busqueda en el interior del hombre.
|
|
Elena Mary Siff is a mixed media artist working with collage, assemblage, altered book forms and installation. She is also co-founder of WOMEN/BEYOND BORDERS, an international traveling exhibition of the work of 1000 women artists from 35 countries.
|
|
Known for his sculpture "The Big Brush" registered in Guinness Book of Records.
Mr. Sigvardson preferably paints abstract images in bright strong colours.
In a multitude of mediums, Mr. Sigvardson's art contains endless themes and images, and Mr. Sigvardson's works is unmistakably modern, bold and colourful.
Through his vibrant colours, playful themes and hard-edged compositions, Mr. Sigvardson captures the attention of both youthful spirits and educated art collectors.
Colourful and outstanding is a suitable description of both the artist and his art.
He can make you smile, only by being himself.
You meet him you will never forget him
Among his public works "The Big Brushes" are exhibited at museums in
San Francisco and Orlando, Florida USA.
He also is represented in Sweden, Denmark, France, USA,
Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico etc.
|
|
Marge Ballif Simon free lances as a writer-poet-artist for genre and mainstream publications. Her illustrated poetry collections include "Eonian Variations", Dark Regions Press, 1995 "Night Smoke", Miniature Sun Press, 2002 and "Artist of Antithesis", Miniature Sun Press, 2003.
She is the illustrator for the Bram Stoker winning EXTREMES 2 CD-ROM collection, two Best Poetry Collection winners,"Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes" by Linda Addison (2001), and Bruce Boston’s “Pitchblende” (2004).
In addition to her solo work, Marge also collaborates with her husband, writer-poet Bruce Boston. Their poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Dark Regions, Talebones, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Fantasy Commentator.
|
|
Canadian artist Brian Simons paints bold, colorful, landscape, marine,
floral and still life paintings. He is a self-taught artist who also
conducts painting workshops in Victoria and the Gulf Islands. He
recently created his workshop in book form which will be available on
his website: www.briansimons.com Brian's work is largely inspired by
the "Group of Seven" painters and the Writings of Baha'u'llah', the
prophet-founder of the Baha'i Faith.
|
|
Born in Ottawa in 1947, Simpson's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, the U.S.,France, England, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Asia and South America and is included in over 100 private and public international collections. He works in the tradition of abstract surrealism, producing large canvases in oi,l or acrylic, drawings, mixed media and photography. His May, 2000 exhibition in a castle in Italy was the subject of a television documentary, broadcast across Canada in 2003, entitled A New Arcadia, The Art of Gregg Simpson.
|
 |
I am a freelance artist and illustrator living in Brighton. |
 | Trinidadian Brooklyn bred Ricky Singh is in simpler words an artist. After a two-year on-and-off hiatus up in Buffalo for state-instituted higher learning, he's back home in Brooklyn creating on "discarded objects." "I see so much stuff we throw away as a society;we thow it away to get the next big thing and I think this is often comparable to how we treat people. We throw them away when we find something better. In essence, I see so many interesting things on the street, not "garbage," but objects that people have rejected from society. Objects that have not had the opportunity to live a life of purpose or they've been "put out to pasture" as one might say. I am simply just offering a alternative. Giving them a life." While his life has been referred to "one for the ages (whatever that means)." He's been living at a young age with an old soul, even with his accomplishments up to this date, he is still very unsatisfied. |
 |
U-niqueSiphoPaintings - are Original One of a Kind Works of Art. Because the technique in creating her pieces has a minimum to do with brush strokes. But a combination of using several process, FLOWING FLUIDS, BRUSH STROKES, FINGER STROKES and PHYSICAL ROTATION OF CANVAS to create variance in flow and texture.
|
|
Ancient Taoist philosophy is a major influence in my paintings. My improvisations
usually reflect oneness, going with the flow and the greatness of the unwanted. The
paintings develop from a firmament of random lines, shapes, textures and subconscious
feelings. After a great deal of meditation and reflection, the subconscious is able
to speak through the Creative right Images begin to form as if by magic and content
asserts itself. |
|
I'm a Canadian visual artist living in Haliburton, Ontario.
I call my paintings "Art with a reality based surrealism." They are jazz influenced
interiors and still life, with some landscapes as well. My colourful paintings are collected
worldwide, including one to pop star, Prince.
|
|
I work mostly in colored paper and a little acrylic paint. My works reflect who I
am; intense,complicated and forever changing.
|
|
I am an artist working in London (UK). My style is strongly symbolic, with
its roots in early C20th european styles. I also draw inspiration from folk
and raw art, but like Dubuffet, I am a formally trained artist. I also
act in a research capacity, writing on philosphical and aesthetic issues - these
factors also crop up in the work. |
 |
View the art of contempory figurative artist, Kate Smith whose paintings have become highly collectable both in Australia and abroad. Kate Smith's art ranges from brightly coloured decadent works to sultry sophisticated scenes in more subdued palettes. Her unusual pastel and mixed medium techniques add depth and intensity to her work. Whether brightly coloured exuberance or subdued elegance Kate's paintings always reflect 'La Bonne Vie' - the good life |
|
I AM A PAINTER.I HAVE GRADUATED THE FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY FROM TIMISOARA-ROMANIA AND A MASTER IN MANAGEMENT AND AGENT IN FINE ARTS.I AM A MEMBER IN THE ROMANIAN FINE ARTS UNION ,MEMBER IN THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION S.AGOSTINO FROM ITALY,MEMBER DINA4 ROERMOND NETHERLANDS.MY DREAM IS TO TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD AND MEET ARTISTS TO MAKE EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE.... |
 |
Herman Smorenburg was born in Holland on the 7th of June, 1958. After finishing his art studies in Amsterdam he spent several years studying mysticism and esoteric philosophy, which increasingly would become the prominent source of inspiration for his art. In the years that followed he specialized as a fine painter. Especially influenced by nineteenth-century British symbolic and romantic art and the visionary paintings of Dutch realists Carel Willink and Johfra, his art took a more imaginative turn. In addition to portraiture, his subject matter concentrated on symbolic pictures in which the female figure played a significant role. Inspired by the philosophy and mysticism of Vedanta and Buddhism, he has now chosen for themes with a definite spiritual content, although often the meaning is hidden behind the images of his personal mythology. His aim is to create "universal icons", archetypical images which are able to awaken a spiritual dimension in the beholder. In this sense the meaning of his paintings should rather be experienced in the heart than understood by the mind. To be able to express this timeless dimension of the imagination is the goal of his artistic pursuit; reaching the hearts of his beholders his artistic reward. |
|
Art of Symbolism of the Dutch Indo Artist Emile Snellen v Vollenhoven.
His anomalies present themselves as perfectly natural, and the viewer
is able to suspend disbelief by virtue of the artist's ability to meld
them seamlessly within the self-determined perimeters of a highly
peculiar compositional logic. He is a sophisticated outsider totally
unbeholden to art world trends. Byron Coleman, Art critic, New York-USA, May 2003
|
 |
Eternally searching for a universal language, Marcus describes his inner urge to paint
as his ultimate passion... Derived by the inspiration of life and the bizarre times he finds
himself a part of. Born and raised in the Hague, he has been expressing himself through his
art since he was old enough to hold a pen...Marcus' desire to transform the beholder and
elevate them from reality is surely fulfilled through his work...Multiple dimensions mingle
and intertwine to create a psychedelic nature where mysticism and humor depicted side by
side illustrate his reality...The paintings contain an ever present mystical overtone that
draws us unwillingly into his surreal dimension. Each new painting is regarded by Marcus as a
fresh challenge ; anything is possible and likely in his vision...although no two of Marcus's
paintings are alike, his undeniable style is ever recognizable through his dream-like
reality...The language spoken weaves a tale of modern symbolism highlighted by his explosive
usage of color...
|
|
Reuben Sorensen has been described as both an unapproachable visionary and
an accessible promoter of inspired individuation. Original, tense, and thought provoking,
his paintings challenge the viewer to explore the underlying current of the "rational" modern
world and to question the forces vital to human experience. Informed by dreams, visions,
spontaneous flashes,and other cues from the unconscious mind he has created a body of work which
describes an eccentric parallel universe. Abandoning himself to this universe, Sorensen has succeded
in translating its characteristics into art.
|
|
My paintings explore the contradictions, tensions, beauty, and fragility of women’s life experiences – focusing on events of passage, such as puberty, marriage, motherhood, work, and ageing. They also speak of the sometimes contradictory accumulation of words, expectations, and roles that shape women from the inside, much like geologic fault lines pull and push beneath the surface of the earth. |
|
The driving force behind my work is not the desire to produce objects, but rather, it is the physical act of making art in the solitude of the studio. ? My paintings are part of a long tradition of abstract painting that begins with Kandinsky, continues through Miro, Klee, the New York School of the fifties, and thrives today in the paintings of artists such as Elizabeth Murray, Terry Winters, and Julie Mehretu.
The entire process leading to a finished painting occurs on the canvas.
Because my work is a record of a physical process, the energy and
enthusiasm of that process remain evident. Therefore, the paintings often
have an observable history recorded in the layers of paint. ?
Although the results often resemble ethereal landscapes, the imagery created in these raw surfaces emerges solely from my subconscious and does not intentionally refer to real physical places or objects.? Even so, the distinct influence of my physical surroundings can be readily seen in the work.?
Drawing and painting are integrated. The depicted space may range from flat and decorative to compositions that possess landscape qualities. Color choices are also initially intuitive. ?As each painting evolves, shapes seem to become three-dimensional, and color and spatial relationships develop. I then begin to make conscious choices to deliberately enhance these qualities and to integrate all of the elements within the painting. ?
My imagery has evolved through the disciplined silencing of logic.? I manipulate the formal elements of color, shape, line, and texture in an attempt to evoke an emotional response or set a mood.?My?intention is to impact the viewer?s senses in such a way as to provide an escape from the literal and a path toward introspection.
|
 |
Since my childhood in New York, I've had a recurring dream in which he expansive highways leading to gigantic bridges turn into roller coasters as I travel over them. The Magical Mystical Tour series stems from this idea of highways turning into roller coasters.
While as the artist I'm the tour guide, presenting these little journeys, the viewer really determines the ride's meaning to him or her--the tours will mean different things to different people, like Rorschach ink blots.
As the tour guide, my hope is that viewers will get that feeling I get when I stand in front of a painting in a museum that "sends me," like the work of the Abstract Expressionists, Futurists and Surrealists--that
feeling that you're going both inside the painting and inside yourself.
Though the first dictionary definition of mystic relates to religious experience, it's the last several entries I intend for my Magical Mystical Tour series: inspiring a sense of mystery and wonder; mysterious, strange; enigmatic, obscure. |
|
C.G.Jung tells us that each period in history has its sacred myth and that these myths evolve over the millennia. The myth forever transforms, as it must, to reflect our ever-changing psychic needs. According to Jung a new sacred myth is in the process of evolving and is inextricably bound to the process of individuation. As some artists work intimately with the unconscious, they are in a unique position to be the first to perceive these new trends within the psyche. My paintings are a documentation of these trends as presented to me from the unconscious. Of course, the images are colored by the lens through which they are seen, this lens being the individual artist. Only by their effect on the viewer can the value and clarity of this lens be determined. Carol Spicuzza is a visual artist working and living in Indianapolis, Indiana USA. |
|
The prominent is meaningless, the prominent is resigned, when he acts he's acting
intuitively, the prominent is meek, the prominent don't know what's going on and where he
finds himself, but for all; the prominent is persistent. |
|
With nationwide recognition, artist Michael Sprouse has established himself as an important fixture on the Mid-Atlantic and National " contemporary-realism" art scene. |
 |
French sculptor of Laffite-toupière in the south of Toulouse in France, artist with personal,singular and original creation. Site carried out by the artist in which are presented more than 50 photographs of sculptures on enamelled sandstones and bronzes. |
 |
Landscape photography, digital photography, abstract, close up, candid, black and white etc. |
 |
Miya Ando Stanoff is a minimalist metalworker; employing steel and pigment to create quiet, meditative environments. Working solely in two-dimensional metal panels, she is ultimately interested in the study of subtraction to the point of purity, simplicity and refinement. Miya seeks to draw out the natural beauty and elegance in metal through use of subtle shades of silver and grays in her steel canvases. She uses traditional metal finishing methods such as grinding, sanding, patinas, and the application of heat. She also works with solvents, acids and metal-based pigments to create the varied textures and surfaces on her pieces. In her work, she explores such themes as solitude, nothingness, tranquility and the transitory nature of things. Miya is a graduate of UC Berkeley and attended Yale University where she studied East Asian Buddhist Iconography. Half-Japanese and half-Russian, she was raised bilingually and in two cultures, living both in her family's Buddhist temple in Japan and in Northern California. She comes from a tradition of metalworking, as she is the descendant of Bizen sword maker Ando Yoshiro Masakatsu. Her work appears in over 100 national and international collections; she is currently based in the San Francisco Bay area. |
 |
So, my name is Brenda Starr...No, not that journalist babe from the 50's comic strip. I am a digital artist/designer that has a passion for creating art computations, many from photographs I take. I began emersing myself in creating this type of art a little over five years ago. Living on the Central Coast of California, I was inspired when photographing the sunsets from authentic beach towns. (Not all of my art features photography and is strictly digital...and I don't favor one method more than the other) but back to the beginnings: As my digital focus strengthened, I began to notice that I would have the outcome already designed in my head. That provided not only a challenge, but prompted an exploration through enchanting adventures of color, shape and even spritual dimensions, that I hope to experience as long as my soul allows it. |
 |
My works of art are a visualization of mixed memories and experiences. I mix past events with future dreams to find focal points in life. Reflections of the environment extracts the values of our life. The values appear in my paintings and subconsciousness meets consciousness. I use figures, symbols, generalized patterns to create the pictures of the world around me. |
 |
I am somewhat unusual in that I got directly involved in art at a relatively advanced age. (My current age is 79.) While my interest in art goes back many years, I did not become an active participant until the last few years, after a half-century spent in a very different occupation, from which I retired in 1995. I was born in Manila, P.I. I received my AB from Princeton in 1947 and my PhD from Harvard in 1950.
As an artist I am mostly self-taught, but have taken courses at Howard Community College in drawing (with J. Adkins) and oil painting (with Y. Gan). Most of my paintings are based on computer-manipulated photographic images, which were transferred to canvas. The photographs themselves were collected over many years. Computer manipulation permits the exploration of many configurations and arrangements in a short time. In some cases I have employed computer-generated images as components of a painting. |
 |
Petra Stefankova is a London based digital artist and illustrator,
Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and Channel 4's 4Talent Award winner.
Her work has been published by Luerzer's Archive among 200 Best
Illustrators Worldwide in 2007/8, by the Asociation of Illustrators in
The Best of Contemporary British Illustration annual and by australian
Ballistic Publishing in Expose 6 The Finest Digital Art in the known
universe. Her work was exposed widely around the world in Sydney,
Melbourne, Perth, various Japanese cities, London in the UK, the USA,
Argentina, Columbia, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Germany,
Alaska, Hong Kong, China, Belgium, Turkey etc.
|
 |
The paint hypnotizes me as it reveals something that could not be expressed in words. Forms slowly reveal themselves as already having been there. Like a dance with inner conversation, painting for me, is the language of feelings and self awareness. With each encounter of life there is a different mood or aura. My paintings capture the life, mood and feeling of an encounter by sculpting the aura into a concrete visible form. I do so through the manipulation of objects and the use of different markings in the construction of an image. I have found that it requires the artist to employ several styles of markmaking to be able to convey the full range of feeling behind human interaction. |
|
Inspired by shapes from ancient stone carvings, this lost language of form holds
the secrets to a world where all life is respected, where people can see beyond the
surface into what truly matters. These shapes in my work are a perfect combination of
the raw and the pure, two different but equal energies fused together, the feminine and
the masculine. Thus drawing down the macrocosm of life into my own depiction. They
are a reference to the grander scheme of this cobweb like grid we are all connected to,
the energy of the unknown.
|
|
Heinz Sterzenbach born in Germany near Cologne had different
professions: technician / electrotechnician, electric engineer, comercial
and technical manager, product manager, teacher of art and french and
finally artist. He is now living in Berlin, where he has is own studio.
|
|
Chrissy's focus revolves around repetition, patterns, science and the dichotomy between hand and machine. She collects everything from dinosaur erasers to motors and brings them together to form a functional unit.
|
|
Suzana Stojanovic Suza, an artist, was born in 1969. in Vranje, in a small town in
Southern Serbia. She has been painting since her fourth. Her first artistic phase goes
up to 1988. In this period her paintings and other works could have been seen on
various artistic exhibitions. She also participated in several artists gatherings known
on the Balkan as "artistic colonies". Her works won numerous awards and public
recognition in area of art painting. In 1990. Suzana moved to Nis, the largest and the
most important Southern Serbian city. Her artistic comeback was introduced by The
Magical World of Horses series in 2001. year. This series, among the other works, was
presented on several exhibitions in Serbia among which the largest was the Belgrade one
(Septembar 2002, "Geca Kon" Gallery).
|
|
As a young teenager, I started painting with oilpaint, ink, aquarel and also drew faces
with pencils/ During my admission exam for the Dutch art acadamy, I first came in touch with
softpastel. Then I studied in England (not at the Art acadamy) but Hotel management, started
working after that and there was no time for painting anymore during this time for 25 years.
In 2002 I "rediscovered" the softpastel techniques when I met a French lady who painted seas
in softpastel. The diversity and the brightness of colours, make working with softpastels
for me a fantastic way of expression, especially the painting of skies and water I find
challenging because in painting skies and water, the atmospheres and moods can be expressed
very nicely with softpastel.
|
|
Starting with a simple continuous line, never picking up the pencil until the drawing is complete is how I create the original concept for my latest paintings. Figurative in nature, a surrealistic, cartoon simplicity is my main goal in creating my latest work. Each of my paintings maintain a sense of youth in the design, as a vibrant color palette is added in sections to the work to give it a genuine feel. After I am finished with the painting, a second and final continuous line, using a marker, gives the work a more complete look. My goal is to give the audience a sense of happiness using these themes of childlike simplicity. I feel bright color is not used enough in modern, conventional art.
|
|
In bold, shimmering hues and kaleidoscopic compositions, Edith Suchodrew's digital works envelop the viewer in elaborate systems of colour and shape. Fluid and luminous, her computer-generated images experiment with reflections and symmetry, representation and the disintegration of reality. Through these nebulous compositions, the artist strives to express a poignancy of emotion, a sense of freedom, and the "fragility of the soul."
Born in Eupatoria in the former USSR, Suchodrew graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts in 1981. Suchodrew's diverse visual vocabulary betrays a familiarity with various artistic mediums, ranging from traditional disciplines such as printmaking and figurative oil and watercolour painting, to contemporary media such as graphic design and animation.
Edith Suchodrew has exhibited her oils, watercolors, and graphic works throughout World, winning numerous prizes and prestigious awards. Suchodrew has participated in more than 350 exhibitions internationally and 64 personal exhibitions, and her compositions are owned by museums and private collections worldwide. A member of the Artist Union of the USSR and Latvia and Art Addiction Medial Art Association (AAMAA), she lives in Aachen, Germany, since 1991. |
 |
Without close attention, the experiences of daily life could be classified as trifles; yet my feelings about these experiences are always with me to inspire my creativity. Only by drawing upon these feelings, can I realize the beauty of ordinary life. It is my vision to create art that expresses these small but precious parts of the world. As for my style, subjects are often ordinary things, for instance, fruit, creatures, sounds of wind, murmurs of the forest and people’s conversations. I use simplistic colors such as black, blue and white in order to emphasis the beauty of the line. By drawing delicate lines, I am trying to infuse the tastes of Japanese ink painting, such as ink blur and gradation of color, into oil painting. |
 |
My name is Masaaki Sugita, Japanese artist. I am making mainly watercolor landscape of urban city and drawing now. The thumbnail is one of them, the upper image is the watercolor landscape, and the lower is the copper engraving prints by the upper watercolor. I think there are just a few artists who are making a copper engraving, like Durer's prints. I seeking the buyer of my prints. And I think my landscape watercolor making-process is very unique. For I draw them by the drawing-scale by my invention in field without a photography. I explain the process in detail on my web, Writing-Thought about art and Documentary process. Please visit my web once, if you have interesting about it. Thank you.
|
 |
Artist from Minsk, Belarus.
|
|
Dutch painter Erik Suidman put his unhappy childhood and harsh living conditions to excellent use, painting it all away on a large array of fierce and powerful canvases. He started painting in 1992 but did not reach fame or recognition untill way into the next century. His works are often unintentionally provocative, his palette blend and grimy, and his themes unchangeably dark. Mankind is his subject matter, but the emphasis lies on despair and decay, and hardly ever on aesthetics. His latest works however seem slightly brighter, but even then sorrow lurks in the background.
|
|
The feelings I illustrate on the canvas can vary on the scale of the moods, by reaching the peak point of them and then sliding down gradually to the depression and emotional deepness itself. This conflict and contradict that I always try to visualize on my paintings, that shows that every feeling is a mixture of its opposite, and thus you can never find reconciliation in them, you can just accept their existence as they are. This acquisence and reconciliation to this fact makes my paintings that solid every time, after illustrating all the possible limits of the human emotions in one circle, limiting it to the canvas itself I am painting to. Finally as related to the methods I paint let me just say that I am only the tool of the feelings I want to highlight and the painting is the best way for me to do it, consequently I play only a minor role in the whole process, where the impressions take the main role.
|
|
Many of the geographic and architectural settings in Los Angeles are just as compelling and attractive as medieval cities that are visited by the public for their beauty and history. I have executed paintings that are parallels of many famous cities. The towers of San Gimigiano are very similar to the buildings of downtown Los Angeles silhouetted against the sky and hills. Many times I have felt that Pasadena in a storm reminds me of El Greco¹s ³View of Toledo.² The snow-capped mountains around Los Angeles have similarities to the scenes painted by Swiss and German romanticists. Coming into modern times, the freeways and bridges express a unique modern beauty of urban life. The array of night lights have been called a queen¹s necklace. These modern urban developments are just as visually compelling to me as the cities and monuments of the past.
|
 |
I paint in chalk pastel on paper at a very large scale. My work is about going beyond our often limited concepts of what may be possible for ourselves and the world. It is about reaching one’s full potential and moving even beyond this, into the "impossible". I often use sky and clouds to convey space and the sense of being uplifted beyond the everyday. I view nature as a healing force and frequently include plants or aspects of nature in my paintings. My work attempts to remind the viewer that there is something more while trudging through the necessary chores of daily living.
|
 |
My paintings are a gift. I am blessed with a talent to create, a passion to use and refine that ability and a deeply spiritual empathy with the beauty of life. My art comes from a process that starts deep within me and ends up on canvas as pure emotion. Painting is what I was born to do, my purpose in life.
|
 |
"Using realism punctuated with surrealism, my work is an effort to create literal images of virtual concepts associated with words."
|
|
My personal odyssey began in Chicago, where the energy of the city collided
with the serenity of my reflections. A fact that is central to my art.
Chicago is a place that creates a physical and intellectual tension, a
certain division and duality that follows me even to this day.
|
|
|
|
