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Leeman, Yvonne

The Netherlands

Sculpture

I am a sculptor, live in Amsterdam and make sculptures out of stone and wood. Every day I can be found in my studio where I transform my dreams into shapes and forms. I prefer to start with a rough block of stone. I dance around this stone to seek the lines that are embedded in it (taille directe). Due to this approach the sculpture I make can be abstract or figurative. Creating a sculpture in this way is an adventure that fascinates me infinitely. I like to work with hand tools: hammer, chisel, rasp, sandpaper but sometimes mechanical tools are also needed. For me it is important that my sculptures invite the viewer to stroke them. The end results of my endeavours are often a pleasant surprise to me.

Lewsey, Richard

UK

Painting

Man's right to analyse culture and the cause of being, or the necessity of being rescued. Juxtaposed ancient pottery design with a brief clip of Mexico city traffic illuminated the desire for life. The soul of Man is still alive at the starting point for the transformation of being into spirit. Eulogy for the lost painter.

Lindhout, Ton

Germany

Painting

Ton Lindhout was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. Nowadays he lives in Germany in the rural region of Emsland where he gets his inspiration during long walks with his Labrador Gino. All the different colours of the changing seasons, the endless horizon and, above that, towering clouds in the big sky... Maybe there is a landscape painter hidden in every Dutchman. You can tell he is a nature lover and wants to share this with like-minded artists.

Lofgren, Gunilla

Sweden

Painting

Born in the northwest Sweden, part of my family has Sami ancestors. Today I live in an old and nice house, not far from my birthplace where the mountains are like soft waves in the sky. Over the years I have worked in different materials, now mostly in Salix, textiles, sculpture, metal leaf and art creations in glowing red and reversed alchemical processes, and a wish to be part of an energized movement/rhythm. I discovered Vedic Art some years ago, and I consciously use the principes of Vedic Art in my work. From structure, order to cosmos out into creative chaos, between immobility and movement, lightness and weight. To feel the challenge in the visualization, the watching and a wish to see behind, beyond the artistic expression. Dare to see, dare to break the patterns. What does the viewer see? Who is the viewer? Who sees whom? Maybe it becomes a dialogue between you and you? A movement without end!

Maenz, Karl

Switzerland

Painting, Photography

My purpose is to create honest, contemporary works of art that are beautiful to live with. In the beginning, there is almost always a thought, a feeling or an image. Instead of copying it on canvas, when lucky, I can switch into a dreamlike state, removed from reality, and my approach becomes free and gestural. Sometimes the result is a work of depth and beauty, and I may feel reminded of my initial thoughts. There isn't a literal image of these thoughts, but our imagination is stimulated beyond the obvious. And with luck, you experience the tension between the irreconcilable poles of literalness and illusion.

Marandi, Nahid

Canada

Painting

The women in my Tableaus have one thing in common- their search for enlightenment. Each piece represents the woman who believes in herself and in her roles as mother, daughter, sister, wife, or friend. I have realized that the silk fabric that I use for my sculptures, is the perfect medium that portrays the strength, beauty, and vitality of a woman. I celebrate every woman’s role and journey.

Marroquin, Alexey

Guatemala

Painting

The highly original works of Alexey Marroquin show a great deal of technical skill. Not just artistic skill, but practical mechanical skill as well, which is noteworthy in the world of art. In his first artworks, mainly on mirrors, large metal sheets and processed woods, Marroquin’s work was dominated by line. These lines acted as rigid boundaries to fields of intense color, bordering reds, blacks and ultramarine, the occasional free line bisecting the composition. More recently, working on metal and aluminum sheets, Marroquin has come to allow himself greater freedom. Lines become expressive channels, writhing and undulating through the work, free and unbounded; texture moderates the monochrome as points rise above the surface like pulsating constellations.

Mars, Caroline

Singapore

Painting

Born and educated in Amsterdam, Caroline Mars has lived and studied in Japan and Hong Kong for more than a decade. She arrived in Singapore in 2009 and incorporates her Asian studies of ikebana and Chinese painting into her innovative body of work.
She likes to draw on the five elements central to Asian philosophy – wood, fire, earth, metal and water – trying to temper the clutter and stress of modern life with minimalist composition and simple forms.

Martin, Pete

Australia

Painting

The sixth child of ten children meant that I rarely had the chance to be heard in family discussions, so I started to draw what was being discussed as a means of communication. I guess I never stopped. I have always been obsessed with paint and colour. My philosophy is that my artistic expression is as essential as my breathing, and as motivating as any greed. I am driven to create, I really have no choice but to initiate works that seek to define my world. I use my paintings to communicate feelings, moods and impressions of the world in a language that will not dull with time. My paintings are time travelers - emotional journeys with heart and soul that anyone in the future can connect with. I believe it is paramount to paint things of your own experience. For the future, I want to take my art overseas and show the world the magnificence of Australia.

Mascarell, Rosa

Spain

Painting

I was painting before I learned to walk and talk. Being a child I wanted to become an artist, but growing up I realized about the ambiguity of the word "artist". I committed to the investigation of this word before any decision. I studied philosophy, esthetics and art theory at University level, discovering the big discussion going on since once upon a time. So I put myself back to work with dirty hands: I decided to become just a painter.

McArthur, Sandra

Australia

Painting, Photography

Sandra McArthur explores the notion of our world as an illusion through her photographs and paintings. It is an investigation in time and its relation to a deeper truth of life. She is inspired by photographers Henri Cartier- Bresson, Minor White, Alfred Steiglitz, writers Proust and Herman Hesse who wrote on the importance of the present moment and painters Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter who saw that art could express a moment of truth, a connection to all humanity other than physical.

Mc Cann, Fran

Ireland

Painting

Fran Mc Cann, born in Belfast and now lives in south Galway Ireland, all his life he has been driven by art, a lot of his Inspiration comes from music, which he heard growing up in his own home and which can be heard just about everywhere in Ireland, also as a child he would hear old Irish mythology stories and in time to come he would knit the music and the old stories together and it is this that one sees in Fran's artwork today.

Mc Manus, Danielle

Australia

Painting

Relying on the beauty of the landscape as a constant backdrop, my inspiration at present is drawn from everyday life. My three children provide me with a constant stream of ideas and that along with the changing seasons of the Hunter Valley and the birds and fauna here, supply more than enough material! I like to evoke feelings in the viewer, hoping they can in fact relate to the work and imagine a story of their own. Frequently there is no predetermined idea as such, the story evolves and the canvas takes on a personality of it’s own.

Meir, Salomon

Israel

Painting

Salomon studied art in the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and it seems that the Netherlands has a profound influence on his work – his occupation with flowers, flowering and the reoccurring window motif. Yet, each and every one of his works has a powerful Jewish presence; Jewish motifs appear over and over again. It seems that Salomon's entire work brings together both ends (east and west, modernism and tradition, abstract and figurative, color and line).

Mertens, Hans

Netherlands

Painting

Since 1987: Expressionist. Hans Mertens was born a natural artist. Later on he developed his skills at the school of arts in the Netherlands. He graduated in 1991. In the following 5/6 years he took art-classes in which he developed different ways of painting. His work breathes the atmosphere of frescos. From 2005 he has painted mainly abstracts . After the exhibition of Magic curated by Paola Trevisan the spirit among all international artists was great. Big ideas were born from this unique synergy of creativity. On December 17, 2006 I founded the Ferrara collective to keep the memory of Ferrara alive as well as to become an integral part of the artistic future. I'm grateful and glad that I may provide a venue of sorts for the friendship of such an enthusiastic and talented group of artists. - Hans Mertens, founder

Meyer, Friedhard

Germany

Painting

The decisive phase in the creation of one of my pictures begins when disappointment or dissatisfaction make it my opponent. This is when I become aware that it is growing into an important partner to be taken seriously. I want to pull it over to where I am so that I can accept it, so that I can identify with it completely. This is often a desperate situation that is ultimately mastered with patience and distance. I turn the picture around so that it is facing the easel and wait until it seems to me that the time is ripe to let it call me again. In most cases, everything seems to be much easier then...

Miller, Sandi Richie

USA

Painting

I grew up with my summers filled with camping trips to the High Sierra Mountains. That is where my interest in outer space began. I would lie in my sleeping bag and just watch the billions and billions of stars in the sky and wonder what else was out there. That love of the cosmos never left me. While studying at Arizona State University I took a course in astronomy. But really I just wanted to paint the universe, or what I imagined the universe to look like. So I do. On Lucite.

Misselbrook, Maria

Switzerland

Painting

As an artist, I admit being decidedly exacting. Without doubt, I draw inspiration from my Italian and German roots, which help combine southern creativity with northern rigor. I love to explore new challenges and avenues. Whilst continuing with new approaches in acrylic and mixed media, I have more recently added Indian Ink. My favorite colors, gold, red and black are often displayed in large square formats, which allow me to play with space and light, resulting in the architectural and graphic character of my art.

Montano, Ignacio

USA

Painting

My Work is the conclusion, perception, belief, fill and thought of a forthcoming fantastic and evolving physical and physio-psychological world; spin-off of our present scientific and rapidly evolving technological advances. My paintings and sculptures thrive on the unimaginable possibilities that our historiy presents with its infinite complex and unending realities giving to the subconscious and intuitive world of our universe, and for us to interpret and express it .

Morant, Keith

New Zealand

Painting

I was born in England 1944 and have been obsessed with art all my life. I worked and exhibited in London and Southern England until moving to New Zealand in 1973, where I got married to my wife Trish. From 1986 I travelled and exhibited in London, New York, and Tokyo. My wife and I moved to New York in 1989 where I worked for a year and exhibited in Manhattan and London. I am now resettled in New Zealand as a full-time painter. My art is always a journey of discovery into the essence of being. It is an effort to externalise the truth of my own existence on as many levels as possible and communicate a greater awareness of the quality of life. It is an attempt to generate enquiry into the greater spheres of understanding which lie beyond conventionalised intellection.

Moon, Hye Ja

Korea

Painting

I was born in 1945. I try to capture the impression of the moment when a thunder roars in the sky. My brush stars dancing in an almost absolute state of unconsciousness. It could sometimes be a gesture of hunger for or resistance against reality, and of the expression of indescribable romanticism at other times. A fresh shock from a contemporary big-band jazz music or a contemporary music played an orchestra creates a certain energy inside me. Graduated from Fine Art College, Hongik University, studied Painting at Massachusetts Art College. I have shown 19 times at solo exhibitions, and participated around 250 times at group and invited exhibitions, both national and international.

Moore, Joy

Italy

Painting

Joy Moore studied art in Bristol and Birmingham graduating from Birmingham Art College in 1978. She later moved to London where she lived for 25 years running a dual career as a painter and as a manager of environmental projects. During this time she became an established artist exhibiting in galleries and international art fairs in England and mainland Europe. In 2006 she made a major change in her life by moving to Piemonte in northern Italy. The artist says about herself: “I am primarily a landscape painter having always been drawn to dramatic landscape. My work is about my response to the form, colour, space and light in the landscape. My aim is to paint the power and existence of the landscape, not the view of it.”

Mubarak, Helmi

Austria

Painting

My pictures portray individuals and faces. I attempt to depict snapshots of encounters, especially gazes, and to emphasize them by an expressive color combination. The fascination lies in the individual encounter that is made possible by the very personal and differing recognitions of characteristics and situations, for which no consesus needs to be found since the main aim is the personal perception.
The gaze finds the beholders, they themsleves find the story...

Mumford. Sally

Australia

Painting

Sally was born in Zimbabwe and settled in Australia in 2005. Her extensive travels have given a maturity to her work resulting in a very individual style depicting her ability to mix a certain mysticism with recognizable landscapes so that the viewer can make their own interpretation. The discipline and devotion to her art is evident in her ability to express her talent using a variety of different artistic techniques resulting in being a finalist in 5 major Art Prizes in Australia

Neeter, Sunny

The Netherlands

Painting

Balance in composition, harmonious colours and natural materials are her ‘signature’. “My paintings are heading towards the expression of nature in its purest form. It always originates from a mixture of feelings and emotions and of course music, which is always playing in the background. For more than 25 years I have been mixing acrylic paint, oil bars, pastels, ink, Mediterranean sand, plaster, bamboo and various other materials because they are the best means to express what I want to bring across.”

Neumann, Elin

Denmark

Painting

Nature and landscape are points of departure for danish artist Elin Neumann's paintings, but instead of creating a perceived landscape on the canvas, she tries to recreate or rather express its essence. By essence, that is not to say any particular landscape or nature´s specific character, but mainly the formal forms of expression and challenges landscapes and nature provide. Her choice of color, her technic and use of earth colors applied in several thin, translucent layers gives her paintings a characteristical raw but, simultaneously, esthetic appearance.

Novian, Mina

USA

Painting

I see the world as a mosaic of color, light, shadow and texture. My art is a gift from the universe and my canvases are simply a vessel to capture the great beauty I see and the energy that is contained in all things. My aim is to share a message of inspiration and a celebration of life. My art celebrates the beautiful, innocent and pure that exists somewhere within every human being. Although daily life sometimes feels stressful, dull and even cruel, we must remind ourselves not only of the beauty of our natural surroundings, but of the hope that we can, and indeed, must improve the world around us. My art strives to serve as that constant reminder and inspiration.

Okano, Umeko

Japan

Painting

I was born in Japan. I love traveling as it gives unlimited inspirations for painting. Meanwhile, painting itself means another journey to me, not only in term of its work process, but a reflection of all my inner steps through life, and life itself. After numerous years of work, now I’ve just come across the still severe but boundless scenery ahead, but still feeling my existence and something appearing from there.

Oldenburg, Gunilla

Sweden

Painting, Installation

Nature and music give me power to create. Music from the waves of the sea or a blackbird´s song make my heart beat happy, as well as a piece of music composed by a human being. My paintings are poetic compositions of rhythm, forms and colours. Sometimes I put a true piece of nature in my works, such as dried sea-algae from the West Coast of Sweden, sand from Sahara or an amethyst from Brasil. I have studied abstract painting four years in Salzburg at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and my works have been exhibited all over the world.

Olivo, Rosa

Argentina

Painting

Rosa Olivo’s abstract paintings have their start in chaos, becoming further refined as her surfaces are continuously reworked in rhythmic brushstrokes and the sharp, linear scrapes and scratches of a palette knife. There is a flow to the transformative motion of each piece’s completion, an essentialism intuitively distilling her vision without limits or preconceptions. With an incandescent radiance and joy, She expresses an inner dialog with universal truths in paint, finding spiritual wisdom in the richness of her pure hues. One feels the passionate living energy of her works through the searing heat of crimson and fiery orange, coolly vibrant indigo and aqua blues, and warm, glowing golds.

Ovchinnikov, Alexander

Russia

Painting

The purpose of my art is to try to see and represent unreal things. It's an attempt to create another reality. Like a reflection in a distorting mirror - common things suddenly look different, unknown. My art can be described as action painting, performance on the monitor of my Apple. I both liked Victor Vazareli and Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Mark Chagall and lots of others, whom I imitated at different times. But gradually I created my own style. It's an energy of abstract, dynamics (movement), texture, color. It gives me inspiration. And it's what I like. Because I do it for you..

Orlik, Inna

Greece

Painting

Inna Orlik was born in 1964 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied paintings in the National Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi from 1982 to 1987. From 1987 to 1990 she used to teach paintings in secondary education in Tbilisi. In 1985 her first solo show was organized in Tbilisi followed by second solo exhibition in the same city and two more in 1988 and 1990 in Moscow and St.Petersburg respectively. Since 1991 she lives and works in Greece.

Pages-Oliver, Graeme

Australia

Painting

After a career as an art educator I am now working on my second, as full time artist from our home in Darlington, Perth Western Australia. This is the career I neglected while raising a family and trying to educate teenagers for 42 years. I create limited edition silk screen prints of my drawings. I enjoy the process because it combines my interest in maintaining traditional hand skills with today’s computer technology. The West Australian landscape is always my inspiration.

Pako, Szczepan

Poland

Painting

Painting engages the eye, but strangely and disturbingly should reach out to the imagination. I love the harmonious disharmony dressed in energy of colors and forms, which wants to affect varied, warm, good energy.

Palleria, Sara

Italy

Painting

Sara Palleria was born in Rome where she currently lives and works. Graduated in Sciences of Education is parallel working at the artistic research in education, with particular reference to the world of colors related to the psychology of emotions. Nationally, she collaborates in the field of visual arts, with several institutions. She also takes courses and workshops of color image education for children and adults.

Pedersen, Minna Kirstine

Denmark

Painting

Minna Kirstine Pedersen inspiration comes from many sources. She is preoccupied with both nature and cultures. Her travels around the world are a great source of inspiration. Her background as historian shows in motives where history, philosophy, culture born relations among people takes a great place. In her collages thick layers of structured paper and paint gives an almost 3 dimensional effect. Earthcolours and warm colors appear as her most used colors also in her paintings. Motives, structures and colors gives her art a kind of indefinable awareness, and warm presence- body and should. Her art cannot but inspire the observer. Minna says “I like to think of my artworks as “Worlds you can take a walk in”. I want to express multiplicity, antagonism and the adventures surrounding all of us in the world”.

Perzuck, Nikki

Australia

Painting

Nikki Perzuck is an Australian based artist whose paintings invite you to explore a dynamic culmination of vibrant colour, form and adventure. Nikki has incorporated the spirit of the places she has traveled to and her signature houses feature throughout her works. They are a metaphor for the physical and mental journeys we all experience in life. Nikki's works are a celebration of the simple things in life and she captures them with vibrant colour mixes, layered imagery effects and exciting movement.

Petrides, Costas

Cyprus

Painting, Sculpture

Born in Cyprus, artist Costas Petrides began painting as a means to express his innermost feelings, thoughts and experiences. Petrides, who also works as a psychologist, possesses a profound understanding of the human psyche. He encourages his viewers to explore his works with an open mind and feel the healing power that only art can bring.

Pieck, Ellen

Belgium

Painting

Starting out from greatly material art, featuring patchworks of silk, cotton, beads and lacework, Ellen Pieck followed her own personal path through research and experience, resulting in her present ability of mixing the deep with the beautiful. Changes signify openness but also growth, which in turn leads to discoveries and evolution: this artist takes us through fascinating chromatic and material labyrinths, indicating to us how the human condition still needs to be entirely explored and discovered.

Pinder, Jennifer

Qatar

Painting

Jennifer Pinder’s compelling color and texture saturated works hang in boardrooms, homes, public spaces and offices across Australia, the US, Middle East and Europe. Her work has been the subject of a string of successful exhibitions in her homeland of Australia. In January 2011, Pinder held her first Middle East-based exhibition, “Unique Perspectives” at the art space at the Grand Hyatt Doha. Pinder’s medium is oil on canvas and are large scale pieces. She is currently represented in the US by the Agora Gallery in New York. Born in Melbourne, Australia, she currently lives in Qatar.

Polotsky, Liat

Israel

Painting

Liat Polotsky was born and lives in Jerusalem. She studied graphic design and art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and history of art, education and psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received a Ph.D. She is using a variety of painting techniques (watercolor, etchings, and oil) and had twenty-two solo exhibitions and participated in more then sixty group exhibitions in Israel and abroad (including international miniatures exhibitions) in which she won awards several time. "Art, for me, is the possibility to add beauty to the world. Color, to me, is the essence of beauty, and my paintings emerge from flecks of color, that for me are full of surprise. The colors of all the things around me become an inseparable part of my inner world and then they become something new which only hints at an external reality"

Prapopoulos, Melanie

USA / Greece

Painting

Melanie Prapopoulos was born in Surrey, England, but grew up in Montclair, N.J. in the U.S, now dividing her time between Athens, Greece and NYC. Artistically speaking, Melanie is interested in color and line; her works in abstraction strive to offer a unique expression. She often incorporates partial texts from poems, or is directly influenced by what she has seen and/or read. To date Melanie Prapopoulos has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Rademacher, Peter

Germany

Painting

My images describe encounters and situations which arise viewing photos or just from the imagination. With pencil, chalk and vigorous brush strokes of charcoal I express my feelings on paper. They result in spontaneous compositions swinging like a rhythm. The important thing is that the image develops spontaneously, quickly and creates tension. Contrasting colours, geometric arrangements of the subject and adding graphic contribute to the vitality of the entire work. In all my works, the graphic elements are in the foreground and they are the key to the overall impression.

Rath, Rebecca

Australia

Painting

I love the natural world, and moving to rural Australia has only increased my connection to and respect for it. My art has been affected by what I have seen here, from the deep red ochres of the drought to the lush greenery that came with the rains. Ideally, I would like my work to highlight the beauty of even the simplest aspects of nature, becoming a tool for the audience to recognise and celebrate the present moment and the natural world around them. I’m constantly inspired by my immediate environment Pokolbin, The Hunter Valley. The landscape gives witness to the changing seasons – dry oppressive heat of summer, vibrant colours of autumn, frosts and bleakness of winter and the optimistic vigour and growth of spring. Australia is an amazing country, full of extremes. I’m in awe of its magnificence and magnitude – rainforests to the north, snow to the south and desert in between. I’m also constantly inspired by its elegance and its ability to regenerate despite hardship. The earth is a beautiful living organism which breathes, grows and regenerates and I’m interested in how we relate to it, whether it is leisure, work or simply living. This love of the land has resulted in my passion for painting and the Hunter Valley, Australia.

Reijerkerk, Marieta

Netherlands

Sculpture

Marieta Reijerkerk: ARTist of ‘smooth roughness’. She works with materials which come across her during world tours or on a quick run through her own home port Rotterdam. ARTist Marieta shapes materials without losing respect for the authenticity of the substances. Manipulations performed by ARTist Marieta are modest. Her mastery and craftiness contribute to the subtlety of her ARTworks.

Rich, Michael

USA

Painting

Michael Rich is a Professor of Art at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island. Time spent around the waters of Nantucket Island and the hills of central Italy helped to shape a love and interest in landscape and natural rhythms of color that remain very much a focal point in his work today. A dedicated practitioner of yoga, Rich is influenced greatly by Eastern philosophy and art in an approach to nature and landscape as a wellspring for spiritual investigation and meditation. Michael Rich’s work is featured internationally and throughout the United States in gallery and museum exhibitions.

Rittmannsberger, Franz

Austria

Sculpture

My sculptures are often very similar to human fragments. The smooth surfaces of the structures let you forget that it is actually a hard and heavy stone. I did various journeys for study purposes to Scottland, Namibia, French, Eire, Norway, Spain, Greece, Persia, United States etc.

Rivet, Stephanie

Canada

Painting

Gifted with rare and refined pictorial sensitivity, Stephanie Rivet pours on the canvas her personal universe and interpretation of the surrounding world, which she translates into a vibrant and poetic mix of colours, transparency, light and rhythm. Stephanie Rivet’s paintwork, drawing inspiration from different sources, is the fruit of fantasy and reality, and an abstraction of live experiences as well as of traces of memory, while the movement, the emotions, the energy are directly transferred onto the canvas by transforming colours, shapes, lights and shades.

Rodriguez, Cristina

UK

Painting

Cristina Rodriguez was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1964. Since 1989, she has lived and worked in London. A passionate traveller, she has journeyed extensively in South America, Europe and Africa, finding enrichment and inspiration in the familiar and extraordinary practices and customs she encounters. Although her paintings sometimes contain elements of the abstract and surreal, they are always emphatically figurative. Characteristic of her work are the bold outlines of the figures or objects, the curve and curl of the forms and the simplified areas of solid colour which clarify the whole pictorial concept.

Ross, Douglas

Ireland

Photography

I was born in New York City in 1954 and moved to Ireland in 1966. My primary concern as an artist is to explore the psychological and spiritual stories that unfold in all our lives. In much of my work I have engaged the people that I am painting or photographing directly in exploration of the things that have shaped their lives. The dialogue begins verbally and moves into visual language as we explore settings, symbolism, dreams, visions and colour. I have been privileged to hear the stories of what Joseph Campbell calls "the hero's journey", a remarkable inner journey made by many people in seemingly everyday lives. My work strives to reveal something of this invisible world.

Rowling, Carol

Australia

Painting

As nature has eroded its lines and textures in creation I like to imitate that by gouging on colours into the canvas. In “Traces of Memory”, I looked at the landscape at different times of the day, the dark intensity of evening, to the washed out colours of noonday heat and then onto sunset.
By using an Angle grinder I make quick, sharp slashes to reveal the different colours underneath, this creates an immediate impression of the different effects and depths which various indentations into the layers can provide.

Rutten, Liesbeth

The Netherlands

Sculpture

Liesbeth composes her sculptures often with all kinds of natural materials to find the characterizing structure that may represent her feelings.You can notice feathers, leaves or branches, tied together in an unusual way. She is inspired by the symbolic value of each of them and composes them in a simplistic and clear way, so that they become their own life and tell their own story. Liesbeth is born in 1953 in Venray, The Netherlands and since 1980’s she has been sculpting bronze art works.

Rydkvist, Eva

Swden

Painting

Eva Rydkvist, painting artist who lives and work in Stockholm, Sweden. Her artwork is an investigative play with colour, form and imagination. She usually finds inspiration for her artistic ideas in the impressions of nature and life. A start from which Eva then intuitively and spontaneously create further through an exciting creative inner journey that often gives the painting an abstract expression of nature.

Salcedo, Araceli

Mexico

Painting

Constantly inspired by nature, its shapes, colors, movement and its abstractions; I processed it in my imagination the real to abstraction and find my essence previous to the brush in meditation. Tipping expression with my feelings and state of mind. When a work is done and I am able to feel it and smell, I can confirm the success of a freely expressed artwork for spectators to build their own history and judgment. Through the years my maturity as a person and plastic artist show that I am still looping within me reflecting through my hands ideas, formats, canvas, means and colors reaching an infinite evolution of possibilities.

Sazdov, Rumen

Czech Republic

Painting

The painter Rumen Sazdov, who was born in Bulgaria and is now based in Prague, cites traditional Christian subjects from art history as formative influences, and these combine with Modern ones to form something spectacular. In addition to his Fauvist palette, pointillist daubs and the occasional expressionist brushstroke, Cubism clearly exerts the greatest influence in his wondrously composed, dynamic canvases. His bold, flowing figurative geometries, with their bold tones and manipulations of depth and flatness belong very firmly to the lineage of lyrical Cubism.

Scheriau, Hanna

Austria

Painting

Hanna Scheriau (born in Vienna in 1942) studied dramatics at the University of Vienna giving priority to “Scenery and Costume” and she absolved Oskar Kokoschka’s legendary “School of Seeing” in Salzburg. Then for a long time her family was the most important thing in her life, but she never gave up her passion for drawing and painting. Around the year 2000 she discovered the medium SILK for her painting and developed a completely new way of painting, the “Experimental Painting on Silk”. Since then she is a free-lance artist living in Salzburg. Exhibitions of works by Hanna Scheriau found their way not only in Europe but also in Asia and America. Her work has been prized in several countries. Paintings of Hanna Scheriau are found in collections around the world.

Schiper, Françoise

Switzerland

Painting

Imagination is at the heart of Françoise Schiper's painting. The apparent simplicity hides a subtle equilibrium of reflections and color. Shapes seem to come together, to danse, in search of a new balance. The viewer is attracted by multiple levels and drawn into the depth of the painting. Françoise Schiper lives and works in Switzerland, at her studio in Bussigny near Lausanne. Outside Switzerland, she has exhibited her art in Italy, France, Russia and U.S.A.

Schlederer, Marie

Australia

Painting

Inspired to create paintings for people which offer them more than pleasure and visual appeal. Marie’s art is not only intended to add colour, movement and design to living spaces, but is art that offers inspiration, motivation and a nurturing environment.
In a similar way that the art of “feng shui” creates positive energy flows within its environment, the energy that Marie puts into her art can be felt through the visual, vibrational and emotional senses.

Schumacher, Johannes

Switzerland

Painting

Johannes Schumacher lives and works in Fribourg, Switzerland where he teaches visual and fine arts. He has shown his work in Swiss galleries, in London, Paris and Kansas City (USA). His paintings are present in private and public collections in Switzerland and in private collections in the United States. Johannes’ paintings are resolute in their portrayal. His forms emerge and dissolve out of an equally radiant ground and convey an infinite number of emotions. His paintings are not about recognition and definition of form but about captivating one with their energy and profound lyricism.

Simic, Dragan

Australia

Painting

My colourful works are influenced by my belief that colour changes the way we feel and react. My paintings are a journey, they take you behind the landscape and my approach opens each image to infinite interpretation... they create a journey for the viewer. It is an exploration of the world through colour, texture and form... that is how I create my work. It is an expression of what I see and experience daily. There is a dreamlike quality to my work which allows each viewer to bring their own imagination to bear when experiencing it, so that every person will have a different impression and reaction.

Sloan, Joseph

Ireland

Painting, Sculpture

My sculptures emerge on a series of themes, exploring the figurative image on the edges of realism or bordering on abstraction. They can take either direction and evoke some of the aspects of the essence of the human condition which I try to look at on as many levels as possible, returning sometimes to themes on which I have worked thirty years before. I am influenced by man’s activities: sculpture permits me to embrace, at a more personal level, humankind – the many sides of his nature, his music, his leisure, his pleasures and his strivings.

Spijkerman, Annemarie

The Netherlands

Painting

My work stems from the desire to restore an original harmony while using nature's variety of shapes, colors, and senses as a source of inspiration. My paintings often resemble landscapes, and evoke locations where you once were, like to be or want to visit. The horizon acts as a focus of longing and a mirror of the mind. I believe in the revitalizing power of art, its communal imagery, shamanism, and the Zen tradition. I am more or less a storyteller with no words other than color, form, and gesture. Through the years, my creativity has become a path to meditation, while the process contributes to a greater unity. Aware of the commitment to achieve this unity, my studio serves as a place of joyful devotion.

Suiker, Suus

The Netherlands

Painting

Suus Suiker (Holland 1966) combines abstract and figurative elements with a magical realism and spiritual base. Her artwork shows a mixture of subtle area's, flowing lines and heavy structures. She also uses materials like fabrics, metal, glass and sand, paying special attention to the finest of details. People, History, Myths and Religion are her source of inspiration. 'The most fascinating worlds which lay hidden under the surface reveal themselves as soon as the paint touches the canvas.'

Szalkay, Irma

Austria

Painting

Irma Michaela Szalkay creates a signature of Neo-expressionist mark-making and achieves a topographical mapping of personal subjectivity, memory, and phenomenological experience (Abstraktion mit Pathos). Her background as a university-trained philosopher (philosophy of shape) guides her using both modernist and postmodernist syntaxes as points of departure. As an awarded artist she has exhibited in both the US and Europe, including Austria, Germany, Italy, New York, Alexandria, Washington, D.C., California and Florida.

Teiling, Bernard

Switzerland

Painting

After many years of painting for family and myself, a long-time friend artist, Spiridon, invited me to participate in Auvers-sur-Oise exhibition, the town of Van Gogh. It was the trigger to open up, share my artwork and learn from public's feedback... most recently from "On-The-Edge" exhibition in Bologna. I love painting with oil and knife, from design to execution, and finally, to art shows... hoping to emotionally engage the observer, to experience alternative realities, to confront ambiguities, and to deal with public's own imagination.

van der Meer, Ann

The Netherlands

Painting

Ann van der Meer studied at the Art Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She works out of her soul with passion and spirituality. Keywords to describe her work are: joy of life, power of life, vitality and love. You can feel her work as an expression of the energy of the emotions of life itself through a harmony of colours, full of flow and movement, all together with a subtle transparency and sense of three-dimensionality.

van der Meer, Marianne

The Netherlands

Painting

The paintings and painted objects of Marianne are characterized by the colorful richness. She paints from the heart. Her work is described as lyrical and stimulates the viewer's own imagination. Her paintings are signed under the name Marfel. Her work is part of private collections both in the Netherlands and abroad and it has been exhibited in several art shows, nationally and internationally.

Van Eenoo

Thailand

Painting

Abstraction in its diverse uses and meanings can be observed in Cedric Van Eenoo's artwork, choosing to give a conceptual inclination to the usual perception of the world and its ways of representations. Clearly this lost of connection with the real world as it appears results in astonishment and a constant artistic innovation. Through his work, it is possible to subtly perceive his way of expressing feelings, a journey that led him to divest himself of anything that is not essential. Yet the colors and outlines that shape his collection of works produce an amazement in which they articulate our universe of signs and visionary codes. (...) This is how, beyond the rupture of that modernization that gave input to the origins of the abstraction, he arrives to use signs associated to what is purely intimate.

Van Hoek, Ilona

USA

Painting

A genius is who correctly understand the past as well as the future and presents this in a creative way with high impact, affecting all. In my creative way I strive to bring an impact on people, however not reaching everyone, as I am no genius, nonetheless my work can brings thoughts to mind, which in turn can affect some or a group of people who again understand what I express in my art. To present what happened in the past and yet how we humans go around it in the future is my endeavor. Since if we do not know the past, how can you understand the future? With the style, and the underlying concept, it is possible to craft the early on learned views onto the canvas. Fantasy and reality as well as mysticism, history and future can be intertwined, without violating the embodied scene. The viewer is capable to develop its own version of the embodiment, allowing a hike into a fantastic world.

Vario, Linda

Australia

Painting

Linda Vario was born and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. For the past 10 years Linda and her family have lived on the Sunshine Coast, drawn by the unique beauty and unequalled colour of this idyllic location. Influences from the vast richness of art and culture in South Australia to the natural beauty of coastal Queensland are reflected in her art. This journey allowed her creative space to learn, explore and experiment in all aspects of painting, culminating in an ability to apply a broad spectrum of techniques to her work.

Veldman-Wilson, Amy

USA

Painting

I was born in 1974, and grew up in Vermont, USA. I currently make my home on an island off the coast of Rhode Island, where I live with my husband Bryan and our three children. A self-taught artist, I have been drawing and painting since I was a child. I was fascinated with the ever changing world around me. Through the use of rhythmic color and design I portray what I call conceptual sensationisms of the landscape, the sea and the interconnectedness we experience as human beings.

Verne, Françoise

France

Painting

I found the colors the most fascinating subjects to realize my work. Color is the sensitive estate by excellence. I try to spread through the matter to reveal its mysteries. It is a poetic experience where the world is transmigrated, the painting becomes metaphor. I aim for the authenticity of the expression favoring spontaneity. May be it is nothing else than a pursuit of freedom, a harmless gesture like the one from a child. It is an informal painting where its natural strengths are expressed by pushing back the limits on the edge of the abyss. Placing myself in the space between dream and reality, is the nearest way to talk about my work.

Vingerhoed, Joke

The Netherlands

Painting

Joke Vingerhoed has been a visual artist for many years and exhibits on a regular basis in and outside The Netherlands. Depending on the theme and/or the moment her abstract paintings can be colourful and expressive, or sometimes they can breathe an atmosphere of peace and calm. By using mixed the images become more and more layered, and consequently show more and more depth. There is a lot to see, because ultimately it’s all about the subjective experience. What lies beneath the surface. Everyone has a right to place one’s own interpretation on the image.

Visser, Saskia

Switzerland

Painting, Photography

Photographer, painter, and poet Saskia Visser was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, 1972.

Wallace, Steffie

Australia

Painting

I live in Melbourne, Australia, where I studied Fine Art. The sky has always been the source of my spiritual inspiration as well as providing my artistic motivation, and it dominates my work. In my painted skies there is always light emerging from the darkness; a metaphor for life’s journey. Much of life is mysterious; similarly, my documented ‘weather journeys’ are often shrouded in dust, mist, fog and rain, with storms frequently providing a central theme. The ancient Australian landscape provides me with profound inspiration beyond observation, and I work with a mainly subdued, restricted palette, using acrylic media.

Ward, Mark

UK

Painting

Painting is my way of dreaming myself elsewhere. In my Suffolk, England studio I create dramas of exotic lands that take place on homemade stages, representing places I have been or even journeys I have yet to travel. The life of the forest, swamp and savannah is played out by creatures made of paper, plastic and string, as consciously posed and lit as any actor. I am creating happy stories, deliberately comfortable, so obviously artificial. There is no blood, no death, and even the elephant dung is colourful and shiny. These are worlds created thousands of miles from the jungle, but a million miles from the wild!

Warren, Kerrie

Australia

Painting

My aim as an Abstract Expressionist is to bypass self-censoring thought and allow other doors to open, allowing myself to be influenced by layers deeper than the surface. My work explores the sensation of life on a molecular level, where energy, force and movement are recorded in the moment and offered as a form of communication to others. ‘Little Treasures’ created a rare challenge to make my mark on a tiny scale and I had fun in the studio!

Youssef, Mona

Canada

Painter

I believe that art is a manifestation of love, loving the nature around us and the people we share our world with. When we truly love what we do, we do it whole-souled and become professionals at it. Art is a powerful tool and a silent international language that can convey messages to the world reflecting culture, history and civilization. This language can speak up, announce, make known, unify, bring together, support, encourage, share, care for, show compassion and kind feelings toward all. In two words; Art is to love.

Zakrynycny, Viktor

Czech Republic

Painter

The colour adds to his paintings the character and the atmosphere. He creates light more than imitates it. Thick and vivid colours so dynamic whilst close to the sharpness of a blade. Delicate shades are composed into fragile areas filled by light and their soft shivering quality suggest a wide sense of space.

Zimmermann, Gisela

Switzerland

Painter

I was born in Germany but lived for many years in Switzerland. Creativity had already been put in my cradle. I drew and painted already as a child. A long time I was also interested in pottery and weaving. My inspiration comes from nature and I made lots of foreign trips. I love experiments and strong colours. I have found myself, but now the search goes on in painting.

Zibah, Deborah

Australia

Painter

I am a dynamic artist of passion, purpose and integrity, inspired by the colour of life and its Creator. My work is a reflection of an exuberant, energetic personality, deep, spiritual awareness, a joyful expectancy and optimism with a profound respect for our beautiful planet and my fellow man. My art research - an emotional response to the subject and theme - aims to capture the immediacy of the moment and the experience of it as it is exposed to the senses. I draw on bold, expressive, gestural form, colour and scale, along with innovative techniques to describe my responses- as much as a two-dimensional surface can accommodate.

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