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van den Akker, Charlotte

Turkey

Sculpture

Sculpting is a lifetime translating emotions into sculptures that tell about life, our lifes, yours' and mine.

We all recognize emotions like love, loneliness, regret and nostalgia. To be recognized and to recognize automatically creates a bond. A bond without words nor borders. We people are so alike. My sculptures (stone, ceramics, metal or wood) are made from the depth of my inner life and I wish that my works will give the spectator a remembrance and hopefully a gentle smile.

Armato, Patricia

USA

Sculpture

I like to feel my function as a sculptor is to try to convey the elements of emotions and visualization to the viewer. Trying to work with space both positive and negative is always a challenge. I feel the negative space in sculpture can almost give the same effect as a positive form. Because I prefer to work abstractly or non-objective; I look at the negative space in some pieces as the soul and energy of the sculpture. I enjoy the freedom my medium gives me for expression. My rewards are not only the finished sculpture, but the rhythm of carving is the experience of pure joy.
The additional pleasure of seeing my finished piece is to see the viewer enjoy the tactile feeling of the sculpture.

Ashley, Erin

USA

Painter

The things that inspire me are found all around me, things that some may overlook, or take for granted. Old weathered buildings, rusty pipes, paint peeling away from an old house. I see beauty in old things. I have no rules or set no boundaries – I just simply create what feels right to me. I paint with texture and color while unveiling the beauty under its surface. In Just a short period of time, my work had been seen in galleries in the US and Europe, published in magazines used for advertising and displayed in well known corporate environments. I am a self taught artist that started a hobby that blossomed into a full time career. I love to paint and I paint to love.

Babyn, Elizabeth

Canada

Painter

This image is from my 2008 acrylic painting series entitled ‘Playing off the Grid’. This series incorporates my fascination with Optic art and compelled me to explore the juxtaposition of various optic designs with my gestural method of painting’. Various optic constructs were under painted on canvas with gesso. As these paintings evolved through further gestural brush work and further paint applications, various aspects of the initial preliminary design was either hidden or revealed.

Bahat, Saadia

Israel

Sculpture

Mostly, when I am starting a new piece of art, I see it before my eyes, already in its final shape. The creative part of it is already almost complete. Then long and lonely hours of technical work start. Often I used to think that painters are much happier than sculptors: as long as they keep their paintbrush in their hand, creation is going on. Then I realized that there is a certain exciting point in time in a sculptor's work, which may compensate for that. What I have in mind is that at the beginning of work on a block of stone, or of wood, those are just pieces of material and that is the way I feel about them. Then a great moment comes, when all of a sudden they "get their soul": it is no more just material – it is a piece of art! The excitement of that moment, the care which the new born creation starts receiving – that is part of the compensation for hours behind the breathing mask, the safety glasses and the ear guards.

Balogh, Adam

Hungary

Painting, Photography

Adam Balogh painter-photographer was born in Budapest in 1971. His receptive, open personality and exotic journeys as well as the influence of Central and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are reflected in his art.
His paintings confess the inner journey made. Universal pictures, spiritual works that are clear and perceptible for everybody. Is this imagination or “another” reality? It takes us back to the origin: out to the stars or/and into ourselves? Is this mystical world to be found in distant universe or rather very near, in ourselves, in the rich internal images of the subconscious?

Bakker, Marion

The Netherlands

Painting

I am inspired and experience a passion that moves me to creating a painting, to the willingness to express a new experience, a new energy that I as an artist intuitively convert.The result: an explosion of colors, which in one vital on-going motion maybe touches the observer: creates joy, heals, invites, transforms.
My ideal, my dream, is to inspire those who are willing to be touched to express théir essence, to awaken the dormant soul, to connect my soul with theirs, so that we come to know ourselves as unique, sparkling facets of that one diamond. Because there where this energy merges synergy arizes, love will appear to be the only possibility and peace the only answer.

Bartoo, John Weeronga

Australia

Painter

John was born in Brisbane and now lives in the peace and quiet of the mountains 200 klms from Brisbane with his wife Kay amongst the wildlife and land that inspires his art. He is a self taught artist and started painting in February 2003 while recovering from illness, his traditional dot paintings tell stories of his life and his interpretations of the Dreamtime. “My art is a search for myself and I believe that the spirits of my ancestors are guiding me. As for my future in art I will be guided by my heart and my ancestors.”

Battley, Sieglinde

Australia

Painter

I was born in the town of Gumbinnen in East Prussia, which is now called Gusev and belongs to Russia. I studied Graphic Design in Frankfurt / Germany under Carlo Ruppert. I lived in Indonesia and Iran before migrating to Australia in 1978. I hold a Diploma in Fine Art from the West Australian School of Art and Design and a Bachelor Degree of Art (Fine Art) from Curtin University in Western Australia. I paint what I see, hear, smell, feel and think. I am a storyteller. I often depict animals and these creatures end up sharing idiosyncrasies of friends and family. They become symbols of my own fears, hopes and desires as well. I am often surprised what looks back at me from my canvas and these accidents I love most. They might not be so accidental after all.

Benincasa, Enza

Australia

Painter

I was born in Melbourne where I also had my studies in art. My paintings explore my connection to psych-geography defined by the Situationist art group 1957-1972. “Psycho-geography; the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour on individuals.” When I visit my ancestral home, Cetara, Italy, walking the winding streets of the beautiful mountainous sea side village, I reflect on its ancient history, the stories that the walls and environment hold. I walk the same steps as my ancestors and share friendships with the descendants of people who shared lives with them. It allows me to feel the past, the present, as well as projecting thoughts of the future within the space that surrounds me.

Beigel, Aviva

Israel

Painting, Sculpture, Mosaic

Born and live in Israel. Studies in History of Art, Vitrage, Mosaic. Exhibitions in Israel, Beijing, Istanbul Art Fair, Brukenthal National Museum Romania, Slovenia, New York, Canada, Germany, Spain. The pre-occupation with the human character, and what occurs to us as humans, in the physical and spiritual/emotional sense, became my main motif. My central theme is the human figure. It appears in various physical states: broken, incomplete, bound - and in a variety of mediums. In my late works I try to look inside the human body, painting on X-ray which gives me the ability to look inside - a world of silence, mystery and danger.

Bending, April

Cayman Islands

Painting

April Bending is a professional Fine Artist with over 35 years of international experience. Currently in the Cayman Islands, April has lived and worked in Japan and Canada. Her artwork is in collections in Canada, United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Bermuda, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Representation: The New ARS ITALICA Galleria d'Arte, Milan, Italy; Paola Trevisan Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy; Galerie Gora, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Monkdogz Urban Art, New York, NY, USA; Sooke Harbour House Gallery, Victoria BC Canada; The Morgan Gallery, Grand Cayman; Pure Art Gallery, Grand Cayman.

Berndsen, Jeannette

USA

Painting

Bright, vivid colors are what compose the art of Jeannette Berndsen. She loves to play with oil paint, as their vivid colors allow for endless possibilities. Jeannette’s paintings reflect the fantasy and energy of her personality and celebrate the splendor of gardens, flowers and trees in a unique graphic way. This fresh and magical style that Jeannette has created is playing an important role in bringing about a completely new style called "Graphic Impressionism". Last year her paintings have been in exhibits in The Netherlands, New York, Italy, Greece, Las Vegas and Ft. Lauderdale USA. For 2008 she plans to exhibit in The Netherlands, Argentina, Denmark, Germany and New York. Jeannette’s work can also be seen in several galleries and in numerous private collections throughout Europe and the U.S.

Boghiu, Verena

Switzerland

Painting

Verena Boghiu-Menzi attended the Art College (Textil - und Kunstgewerbeschule) in Zurich, with the renowned artist Johannes Itten. The Swiss painter and pedagogue was teaching from 1912 to 1923 at the Bauhaus and was especially well-known for teaching the application of color in art. His chromatics is being globally used and has a strong impact on the work of Verena. The elements of water, fire and light are inspiring her again and again. Strong colors and light effects are moving and fascinating the observer. And that is what she always wanted her paintings to do: to stimulate the lust for life.

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Boisclair, Thérèse

Canada

Painting

I am striving to inspire a variety of emotions in those admiring the specials effects achieved with my acrylics on tissue paper. I was involved with art it seems forever. I was constantly searching for the “perfect” medium. I found the “perfect” medium twenty years ago when I discovered watercolor.

Over the last year, I slowly began experimenting with acrylics on specialized papers. I found my new passion while painting directly on tissue paper. In less than a year, I won four major prizes – two of them, first prizes of the jury - while participating at different exhibits.

Boletti, Guido

Brazil

Painting

When I started my work my first idea was painting and showing music I could not or I did not know how to play. There was something I wished to sing and the music that is been born was visual, I have always wished to create compositions to sing in an universal language how life is wonderful. Life can be either hard, wild and sad but all things are always illuminated by a special and mysterious light: this light are the colors, the music I wished and I keep wishing to sing. I use colors and forms in a completely free style and technique as they are instruments of one great orchestra: this is the language of sound, light and movement.

Breault, Marc

Canada

Painter

Rhythms, deeply rooted in Marc’s soul, are a constant source of inspiration when he is painting. In his work, figurative and abstract pieces, Marc presents the captivating musician that he is. His use of acrylic, at times smooth and uneven with the use of a spatula, reveals the talented artist that he is. His inspiring use of lines and curves which flow from his fingertips to his canvas resemble melodies flowing from a musician's fingertips to his instrument. Similar to exploring a sculpture, you can feel the vibrations emerging from his paintings.

Breemen, Cariya

India

Painting

Extensive travel and a visual way of perceiving her surroundings drew Cariya naturally to expressing herself in paintings and installations. Having studied and re-interpreted major movements, her work spans a wide variety of techniques, color types and materials, combining different philosophies into post-historical painting and design. Her exhibitions and projects are displayed all over the world and her work is present in private collections on three continents. Cariya lives with her husband and their two cats in Mumbai, India.

Breig, Renée

Sweden

Painting

In hushed, ethereal hues and rich earth tones, Renee Breig's abstract compositions sustain an ecstatic, continuously emerging dialogue with the viewer. Blithe, luminous washes of color nebulously cohabit with rich, deep, primary pigments, evoking a vertiginous aura of light and space. Originally a floral designer in Sweden, she began painting through the principles of Vedic Art, which has its roots in Indian culture. Breig describes Vedic Art as a "way to remember how to paint." Through her audacious painting style, she strives to reach beyond the human instincts of hesitance to describe a personal vision of elation. Born in 1968, Breig has shown her art in Sweden, the USA, and Italy. She lives in Sweden with her husband Kristofer and son Simon.

Bucher, Regina

Switzerland

Painting

Regina Bucher lives near Basel in Switzerland. After studying natural sciences, she embarked on a course of intensive training as a painter. During the period 2002-2009 she learned all about acrylic painting techniques under the tutelage of Evelyn Dönicke in Muttenz. At the same time she perfected her skills in this medium by attending workshops led by Shivananda Heinz Ackermann, in the Assenza School of Art in Münchenstein and in the School of Design in Basel.

Casanova, Blanca Ruth

Mexico

Painting

"My paintings are intellectual and emotional reflections of my life as a Mexican woman. The act of painting is what motivates me. Textures and drippings are expressing events in my life. Geometric, Figurative or Abstract Expressionistic paintings emerge while I play with colors, textures and forms as life plays with me." Blanca Ruth studied Arts, Graphic Design, and art courses in Mexico and USA. As an expressionist and abstract artist, she experiments with textures and mixed media. She has exhibited fourteen solo and more than a hundred group artshows in Mexico, USA and Europe, participating at international contests. She has got seven awards.

Casas, Jose Maria

Argentina

Painting

Jose Maria Casas a.k.a. "two-" is a young artist from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Born in 1981 he has shown his works in his country and in the world. He has walked his own path through the world of abstraction. Trying to avoid common places, Jose Maria has developed a very strong personal style which distinguishes itself by its stunning but clear colour use, the balance and equilibrium of his compositions that create that "everything in its right place sensation", and the greater expressionism of his works. His tools of the trade are mainly acrylics, oils, and watercolours, and his creations are strongly influenced by music. He has shown his work in Turkey, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Honduras, Uruguay, and of course in Argentina.

Day, Jerry L.

USA

Photography

Jerry Day is a Southern California based photographer specializing in nighttime and astronomical photography. Jerry’s photography reflects his fascination with the scenic beauty and history of the desert southwest. He finds particularly compelling the ruins of ghost towns to be found along lonely desert back roads, as well as the abandoned cliff dwellings and rock art of the Native American, remnants of an even more ancient people. Jerry is an active member of Trevisan International Art, the Ferrara Collective and the Redlands Art Association.

De Knecht, Simone

The Netherlands

Painting

“Both modern urban cities with their adventuresome architecture and beautiful small villages in the country play an influential role in the artwork of Simone de Knecht. The canvas, filled from top to bottom, is reminiscent of a stained-glass-window through which the visitor is lured into an imaginative world. Although flat, almost devoid of perspective, de Knecht's work achieves depth through use of multiple layers of colour. Back lines and meticulous detail are distinctive features. They suggest a fascination with an ordered chaos, the autonomy and crowd, of urban city architecture. She was awarded “the Jeroen-Bosch-Concours” prize as part of Rotterdam City of Culture 2001.”

de Ruiter, Jonaske

The Netherlands

Painting

Imagination is a universe without borders, this quote describes the attitude towards life of Jonaske (the Netherlands, 1959). The paintings of Jonaske are lyric abstract. From pure intuition and association she comes to powerful and poetic pictures with strong emotional in sensual tension. The paintings are striking by their bright, expressionistic colours. Jonaske creates intimate worlds on canvas to discover new adventures, inner landscapes. Vulnerability of mankind, traces of borders and memories. Who are you and where are you?

Domingue, Gerald

Switzerland

Painter

Gerald Domingue is an eclectic American abstract naturalist-expressionist painter from New Orleans; lives, paints, writes in Zurich; began to paint and write poetry at age nine; had a successful primary career in university academics and medical research; retired in 1997 as professor emeritus of basic medical and clinical sciences, Tulane University; now a fulltime painter-creative writer; internationally exhibited and collected; excels in dynamics of movement in illusional-dimensional form, particularly as this motion relates to flora, fauna, microbial life; strives for flow of energy, searching for a harmonious balance while creating nature’s moods, colors and subjective emotions arising from his imagination; striving to lift the human spirit via intellectual-emotional reflections of his life as a painter-scientist.

D'Orsi, Silvano

Italy

Painting, Sculpture

Silvano D’Orsi was born in Gioia Sannitica, near Caserta, in the south of Italy, in 1953. For decades, the artist has been living in Deruta (Perugia) which is the referential point for those who want to understand the cultural texture of the city from Umbria, very famous for its ceramics. Sculptor, painter, ceramist, poet in love with life, Silvano has succesfully exhibited in several solo exhibitions and important art fairs, like “Artefiera” in Bologna; the press has often dedicated several articles and favourable reviews on his artwork. His works are present in considerable private collections, both in Italy and in Europe. His works are in great demand and increasing in value.

Duin, Marga

Netherlands

Painting

Color is the impetus in Marga Duin’s abstract paintings. Working from her seaside studio in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, she reaps continual inspiration from the waves, the beach and the capricious weather. The quality of her nudes is interesting, she selects parts of the figure to render, then she stops and chooses another selection of the body to delineate in a neighbouring area of the image. Marga works with a selected group of models; male and female.

Dunbar, Ann

France

Painting, Embroidery

It was thirty years ago when Ann studied Art & Design at degree level with Honors at Unversity of Farnham, England.,where she discovered her love of water color and her personal style of using embroidery on paper. Her success in marrying these two skills as her own signature of work is outstanding and very unique worldwide. It is a beautiful technique which gives extra-ordinary life to all her landscapes and to the more stylized collection of her more recent work inspired by her trips abroad like, Australia, India and China. These diverse cultures stimulates Ann’s imagination into creating original and exotic compositions with the use of gold leaf and metallic threads.

Eshet, Rachel

Israel

Painting

When I begin a work I usually have not a clue what I’m going to paint! I feel as if I’m beginning a new journey, without any specific direction. I just flow with the mood and let my unconscious take over, celebrating the freedom of shape and color. There is always background music while I’m working. It is an essential need for my creativity. I begin with wide and expressive spatula strokes. I choose the colors according to the emotional state. The strokes form different shapes which stimulate my imagination and lead me to the next stage of my work, drawing exact tiny and detailed elements. In creating a piece, an idea or story will evolve naturally throughout the process and at the very end the clarity of it is exposed, then I realize what the piece is all about.

Fahy, Maura

Ireland

Painting

Maura was born in Clonbur, Co. Galway. She has dedicated her entire life to art and from a young age taught herself to draw and paint.
Her unique style and strong vibrant colours resonate on a personal level with those who view her paintings.
Her work is abstract in nature and is inspired by our natural surroundings and spiritual influences. Maura uses oil paints and sand in many of her pieces to create unusual images - with rough textures.

Fiorentino, Matteo

Italy

Painting

Matteo Fiorentino was born in Vico del Gargano (Foggia) in 1953. Painter and art teacher, he has since early youth revealed his predisposition for painting, and he began his search with the modern figurative. The artist had his first exhibition in 1981. “In Matteo Fiorentino the natural is a pretext to make painting in a continuous job of digging and analysis, searching emotions outside the banality and predictably ‘beautiful’ of a photographic figurative, and from the nice souvenir imagery”. He has recently created a cycle of informal naturalistic artworks.

Foy, Steven

UK

Painting

The works are concerned with man-made-order and organic growth; the tension between the construction of the painting, like an industrial process and the growing of something in nature from seed.
Somehow an imperfect shape is closer to nature and therefore more truthful than a strictly delineated form. For instance, a barrel of apples from the same tree will yield a variety of rounded shapes. All of which will be different. The results are a contemplation of the consequences. This is the point where more is possible.

Gesager Nielsen, John

Norway

Sculpture

John Gesager Nielsen was born in Silkeborg, Denmark, but as early as 1956 he moved to Norway, where he has worked ever since. Most of his inspiration is drawn from the Norwegian landscapes; in particular the mountains and the powerful glaciers. Wanderings in such dramatic surroundings have revealed to him the very abstractions of nature – sculptural shapes created by the perpetual influence of the elements. A distinctive feature of the virginal mountain landscape is the light – and in particular the shifting, volatile light. The weather, the winds and changing seasons recreate the landscape – in a continual, eternal cycle. John attempts to catch this light in his sculptures.

Gokay, Bahadir

Turkey

Painting

Bahadir Gokay graduated from the Department of Graphics in the State School of Higher Education of Applied Fine Arts-Istanbul, in 1982. He was a student yet when he started working as an art director in distinguished advertising companies. He established his own company in1984 and became the creative director of many significant brands. His unique style consists of strong figures, design concern and clear colours. He continues working in his atelier in Istanbul and also gives drawing and painting lessons at Erenus Art Gallery.

Goldsmith, Andrea

USA

Painting

Goldsmith’s paintings use the imagery of Venice and the Italian landscape to explore the transient nature of life and relationships. The layered work in oil is abstract yet retains the essence of the images which inspired them. Images of grids, gates, hearts and passages symbolize the passing of time, changes in direction, barriers to communication, lost love. The layers of the painting, expressive color and painterly brush strokes combine to evoke a sense of history and transformation. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has her studio at MadArts.org

Gostt, Stephen

Switzerland

Painting

In 2006, written in response to the more abstracted appearance in the work: To put this new work in context: If the previous work was a documentary of nature as witness, revealing in the 'physical' the expression of a hope and longing for a truth deeper and more poignant than their surface betrays. Then perhaps the new work is something of an epiphany that finally reaches past the veil, of the physical, and soars with new eyes and life: to live by 'spirit'. To exponge the doubt, to have the shackles broken, and to fly unfettered with a grace, and hope, and glory. To forge forward, burning brightly through the long night of this scene. At last to awake when faith gives way to sight. This little while .., The paint is unforced and unselfconscious now, and the vision necessarily notated simply, reverently: finesse and virtuosity giving way to quiet medative observance, accepting the simplicity of the act in the moment of it's creation, as in the gift of it's vision.

Gougeon, Jeffrey

Korea

Painting

Jeffrey Gougeon is a Canadian born painter currently living in Seoul, South Korea. An experienced composer and musician as well as a painter he feels his role as an artist is to give himself up to the art and the medium will take care of itself. Throughout these processes Jeffrey is always mostly concerned with dialogue in all its forms; internal, with the work, with the viewer or listener and back again.

Hart, Perri

USA

Photography

I was born in New York in 1957 to a cartoonist father, Johnny Hart. Photography is an art in the way we all perceive what we see, either in our mind or through our eyes. My camera is an extension of my vision. Looking through the lens, trying to capture it all, I see so much more. The camera invites me to focus on the smaller parts of life we sometimes take for granted, and often completely miss.

Heersma, Corien

The Netherlands

Painting

Art is a part of my life and one of the most important means for me to contact and communicate with people. My interest in painting is various: drawing, mixed techniques, watercolours, all of these I practice with the aim to inspire myself and others to have joy in the spiritual experience that art can be. The maritime climate, the lightness, the sea and flat level of my country are for me important sources of inspiration.

Hori, Naomi

Japan

Painting, Photography

I have always aspired to express myself artistically through different genres and am happiest when I am creating something new. The simple and pure joy of creation is the essential motive of my art. I enjoy the freedom of exploring different mediums; oil on canvas, gouache on paper and digital photography. The common characteristics in my artwork are the exuberant use of vibrant colors and geometric forms, which create playful images with surreal impressions.www.naomihori.net
naomihori@earthlink.net

Jackson, Maz

UK

Painting

Maz has spent a lifetime living and painting in Norfolk, UK. Her work has a surreal, spiritual quality and has been exhibited and collected worldwide, exhibiting in galleries and museums in the UK, Europe, USA, Japan and Mexico. “I have a deep interest in traditions of practice, in colour, line, mark-making and edge. Imagery springs from anything that excites: communication, touch, tension, flight, landscape, the spaces between and things sacred.”

Jinnah, Nadiya

USA

Painting, Sculpture

Born in Uganda of South Asian origin, I have lived for many years in the West. This blend has created a cultural richness within my soul, that I explore in my paintings. For me, making Art is not only a way to express myself, but also to comprehend life. I call my work ‘Lifescapes' and begin by exploring my personal inner space, then extending out to the external landscape. I start with a clay surface to create a three-dimensional drawing. This sculpting allows me an infinite variety of textures and depths which I use to physically express the essences of organic landscapes. The impression is then transferred onto an acrylic canvas. Lastly, I use color on this very tactile background to create a subtle illusion and an experience of reality beyond the physical world.

Kaschlik, Steffi

Germany

Painting, Art Reproduciton, Glass Painting

Born in Leubnitz/Saxony, Steffi Kaschlik currently works in her studio in Reutlingen, Germany. Kaschlik works in various media including painting, art reproduction and glass painting. Her dynamic creative career has enabled her to develop her own unique voice as an artist based on a concrete and a varied foundation of studies and relationships around the world. She has exhibited extensively throughout Germany, Europe and Asian and her work is included private, corporate and institutional collections around the world.

Kastner, David

USA

Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Ceramics, Furniture

Leonardo Da Vinci’s, Annunciazone (1475-1480) and Jackson Pollock’s, Number1, (1949) represent the dynamic range of human imagination and creative expression in art. These two works demonstrate the human capacity to engage concepts beyond the normal routine of life, and clearly demonstrate an almost supernatural ability in human creativity. Works such as these, when understood, elicit an epiphany within the consciousness of the perceiver, and mentor others to create an ever-evolving body of work we know as ‘art’.

Kawabata, Hide

Japan

Painting

I want create a moving experience, as if electrifying the soul. And only the truth can do that. My works are completely original and different from the others. Just because I paint the pure form of passion gushing out like magma from a volcano in my mind, and imagine human blood and strong emotion such as anger, sorrow, fear, love and joy in my unique RED. It is my designation to draw the bound of life in the universe.

David Krause

USA

Painter

In very basic terms my work is the relationship of colors and shades. Usually a heavy or darker top and base helps compress my intent to magnify brighter tones and reduce escape. Inspiration comes from skies and the interplay between forms and colors presented by the suns' brilliance and allows the ample use of my interpretation. Because these are ever-changing events the flow of colors and their structure permits a freedom not available elsewhere in nature... and I attempt to take full advantage of these opportunities.

Krauss, Michele

USA

Painting

Michele Krauss was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. She moved to the United States in 1987, starting a never-ending journey of moves and experiences. She lived and studied Interior Architecture, Interior Design and Art while living in Milan, London, San Francisco, Miami, Madrid and New York.
Her years of traveling and studying have allowed her to develop a very particular style, composed of many different passions. Michele had not being able to accommodate herself to academics rules. As a self-taught artist, she keeps taking the opportunity to grow and learn, painting with different artists and absorbing what the world has to offer.
Today, her paintings are held in private collections worldwide.

Lauridsen, Anne Vibeke

Denmark

Painting

Anne Vibeke Lauridsen’s works reveal a suggestive medley between ancient and contemporary dimension: intense but refined tones, enriched by the use of gold leaves, soft pictorial touches and dense surfaces harmoniously dialogue with symbols, architectures and fragments of text belonging to the past; in the compositions and atmospheres of subtle delicacy derived from them, the spectator immerses himself, follows dreams, recollections and memories of previous times, such as Roman and Latin eras, he is involved in attempting to decipher handwritten texts, often drawn by Latin poetic sources such as Ovidio, Plinio and Virgilio or by ancient philosophers, or in identifying fragments of Medieval frescos, parts of inscriptions and historical decorations.

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.

Maimann, Hedy

Austria

Painting

Always attracted to all form of arts I decided to put my focus on painting. I started with concrete paintings, going from there to the transmission of certain ideas and insights through symbols. This led me to a new way of painting out of pure joy of creating combined with the challenge to try different ways of painting materials. Freer and less attached to certain ideas I opened the doors for a flow of energy that manifested in a new way of creation, inviting the spectators to step into their own wisdom, take their time to explore and find themselves in a magic world that allows them to meet themselves on a level they normally do not use.

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.

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.

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-Munz, Audrey

Israel

Mosaics

Mosaic is about bringing fragments together to make a whole. For Audrey, it is a juxtaposition of separate parts meant to reveal the combined power of colors and textures. She calls mosaic art a dialogue between fragments and light. Putting stones together is like weighing words and harmonizing sentences. Sometimes Audrey needs to pause in order to re-balance the rhythm of her realization. Each time, she imagines an intricate language before the whole art piece becomes her spokesman. Her own interpretation becomes the leading thread throughout the work.

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.

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.

Okada, Naoyuki

Japan / USA

Painting

Vivid, vibrating, intense formal compositions of colours with magnetic and spiritual content are what compose the art of Naoyuki Okada. “I like to create, something which appears unique and different at every moment affected by time of day, lighting, angles, feelings and perceptions.” The most delicate and transparent silky Japanese rice paper allows the light to penetrate and creates various impressions. “One of my goals for painting is to remind people how powerful their own perceptions can be.”

Opala, Agnieszka

Poland

Painting

Over the years, Polish artist Agnieszka Opala has been able to develop her own very personal, lyrical and delightful artistic language in which there is always ample room for liberal insight by the onlooker. Her work has been shown in many exhibitions and art shows in Europe, Asia and the Unites States.

The world of her art defies any classification, because it is created through pure, profound expression: while it surprises us in its revelations and transformations, it does not allow itself to be pigeon-holed into any absolute category.

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.

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.

Puello, Viviana

USA

Painting

“I’m so alive! There’s this passion inside. It’s like a burning fire that cannot be quenched. I fight, but then I realize that pieces of my soul are being implanted on these vivid images of my dreams.
I give in with the knowledge that when the time comes to let that eagle in me fly free, these images will remain as silence witnesses of my existence.”

Purser, Preston

USA

Painting

I believe that as part of our journey here, we place objects along our path to help us remember why we are here, what it is we are supposed to do. I think that is what my art is. I am a tool, the images are created through me, these paintings I believe are here for specific people, to inspire and spark memories of who they are, their purpose here... the paintings will find their way to where they are supposed to be.

Quaedvlieg, Maud

Netherlands

Painting

Maud Quaedvlieg, born March 1961, studied monumental design and free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breda and at the Academy for Liberal Arts in The Hague. In the beginning her paintings were abstract. Figurative elements appeared later. She travelled to various European, Asian, North African and Middle East countries. For her, it's a challenge to create tension between order and chaos and reflect this in images. They are documented experiences in which sometimes humour and foolishness are interwoven. The paintings become reality for the spectator, when they can experience them as a personal journey.

Rendina, Esilde

Italy

Painting

Esilde Rendina "Lise" was born in Saint Severo (Puglia, Italy) in 1963. Art teacher, she became a passionate, expressive and figurative artist. Esilde cultivates the love for painting and for drawing in her family thanks to a paternal uncle and thanks to her teaching job which ecourages her sensivity. She has recently exhibited in important exhibitions and joined several competitions achieving positive results confirmed by influential art critics and collegues. Today Esilde uses the color and pictorial thick matter on her canvas. And she feels she hears as an arist to knock the door in some magical moments of their journey towards the unknown.

Reyner, Nancy

USA

Painting

Nancy Reyner, from Santa Fe, New Mexico USA paints abstract landscapes that appear to dissolve into mist. These “energy fields” use layering techniques and lustrous surfaces that appear like prisms. Nancy is sponsored by an artists paint company, which allows her the use of new technology for her work. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, MFA from Columbia University and exhibited at the 2007 Florence Biennale. Her book, Acrylic Revolution, is currently a #1 best seller worldwide.

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.

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.

Ruskokivi-Runeberg, Sisko

Finland

Painting

I paint spontaneously and through intuition - our inner reality is understood through intuition - and that is why it is universal. My paintings come from the unconscious, and I believe that the universal character of my works speaks to the viewer in a visual language based on common experience of humanity. I hope that my painting has the power to touch others at the same level what I call "the deep mind". Let's meet each other there. Let yourself feel my work - as just you feel it. Shortly, a Member of the Artists' Association of Finland (Fine Arts Painter, Professional), a participation (since 1992) at many gallery and museum exhibitions in Europe, United States, Japan, awarded several prizes, presented in many Art publications for international distributions and present in established collections.

Sengpiehl, Rosita

Germany

Painter

‘Art for artists sake finding my own dementia'. Born in Kiel, Rosita Sengpiehl currently works as an abstract non-figurative painting professional Fine Artist in her studios in Kiel and Warder, Germany. Her artwork has been displayed in numerous solo, group and invited exhibitions, both national and international, in galleries, museums, shows and contemporary international Art Fairs as well as published in several catalogues and her work can be found in privat, corporate and institutional collections throughout Europe. She is represented by galleries in Germany and Austria. Rosita works in various media including painting, digital art and graphic using a variety of paints and materials (pigments, sand, wood, paper) and layering techniques for a three-dimensional impression.

Sharabi, Gayl

Israel

Painting, Digital Art, Sculpture

Gayl Sharabi's art is conceptual. Her art is an expression of scientific and philosophical ideas. She uses a variety of paints and materials (including wood, plastic, glass, plaster, wire, and paper). Photography through microscope, electron microscope and of fractals are integrated to redefine infinite boundaries. New Digital Creations: Delineation of boundaries vanish when the repetitions of infrastructures are revealed. When geometrical fractals are combined with infinitesimal cells or cellular structures, size becomes inconsequential. The combination of these structures, with our visualization of life, reveal a connection between dimensions.

Sijbers, Harrie

The Netherlands

Painting

Harrie Sijbers painter loves moving freely from floral arrangements that are still recognizable as figurative, to others in which the shapes of the flowers have lost their real features, acquiring instead those of a throbbing naturalistic abstraction with intense matter effects. Harrie Sijbers' expressionist paintings show the inner force of colour and of shapes that express feelings, impulses and emotions. Each of his works is resolute in its style and conveys a pictorial liveliness resulting in a unique and innovative perspective - such a rich perspective that it elevates these works to the level of pure aesthetic lyricism.

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.

Spigt, Hans

The Netherlands

Painting

Hans Spigt draws his inspiration to create new lines and structures from many sources, ranging from (the layout of) today’s newspaper to famous modern paintings. A new idea can slumber in his head for months until it finally appears on canvas. His subsequent choices of colors and lines are largely a matter of luck combined with the skill and courage to leave emerging beautiful compositions or segments untouched. The never-ending aim and the challenge are to reduce the composition to its essence. His creative process is intuitive, but rational.

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.'

Tal, Derryn

Australia

Painting

Derryn Tal is an Australian artist who specialises in mixed media abstract painting on canvas. Her bold colour palette and atypical mixture of bitumen, acrylic and oil glazes, interact to produce rivulets and crevices on her canvas, taking you on a mystical voyage into her artworks. Derryn has had numerous exhibitions, and her works are in collections world-wide. In 2009 Derryn won the Premio Ercole D’Este Award, at the “Imaginary Journeys’ Exhibition in Ferrara Italy.

van de Rijt, Kitty

The Netherlands

Painting

Adventures on canvas, written in paint. Tempting paths of colour and form, that are open for you to discover.

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.

Walperswyler, Frédéric

USA

Painting

Giving action to paint is salubrious for the spirit, the soul, the brain! To paint is also the occasion to try to perceive beyond "the mirror" of things, to try to understand the other realities of objects - living or inanimate-. Literature, music, and all other arts devote themselves to the same search. To paint is another way to attempt to unveil what is hidden in my daily life as well as in my existential quest.

West, Sally

Australia

Painting

Growing up on a sheep and wheat station in Outback Australia, I dreamt of traveling the world painting as I went, escaping the isolation and embracing the ocean. I had 10000 acres to roam and I drew a lot. One day I moved to Bondi Beach I immersed myself in the ocean, had my first art exhibition and created a base from which to travel the world.

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!

Woodley Graham, Bronwyn

Australia

Painter

Bronwyn Woodley Graham lives and paints in Australia. Her art studio is located in country NSW. From here she paints and prepares for upcoming exhibitions. Bronwyn Woodley Graham's artwork encompases landscape, abstract, still life and portraiture. She also teaches art classes from her studio and other selected venues. In her landscapes, she allows the viewer to experience the dramatic ethereal landscape afresh and the drama is further highlighted with wonderful details of distant horizons or closer areas that claim the viewer’s attention.

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.

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