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HT Art Magazine Publishing I March 25 2015

Georgia Szollosi Ellis - director and editor
Jurors:
Georgia Szollosi Ellis Painter - director and editor
Mike P. Ellis - art collector and advisor
Zsolt Pinter - graphic designer and painter
Valeria Kovacs - co-editor and curator
Cover: Capt. Stjepko Mamic
St.Peter’s Sails
acrylics on linen canvas
82x65cm
2014
Back: Linda McIntosh
That Spoonful
mixed media on paper
16x16in
2015
Featured artists:
Anna Hausmann (Paintings, Drawings, Mixed Media)
Bin Feng (Photography, Digital Art)
David Crittin (Sculptures, Installations)
Paul Hamanaka (Back Inside)
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you
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Georgia Szollosi Ellis
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Why do people like art?
“Human beings are visual. We react to symbols, colours
and images in certain ways. Can you imagine a world
without symbols? We all use symbols to live and work.
Some we “read”, like the stop sign or the sign for the
ladies or gents toilet - these are universal. Other symbols
of images promote an emotional response - and
art taps into this area. That’s why I love art.... that’s why
people try to paint what makes them feel deeply.... in
the hopes that their emotional response will make others
feel then same way...” (Unknown)
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Artists
Amélie Perron.................................... ....64
Angelo Lotti....................................... ..106
Anna Hausmann............................... ......7
Anne Bate-Williams........................... ....98
Bernard Sabri..................................... ..144
Bin Feng............................................ ..129
C Pat Haley....................................... ....74
Capt. Stjepko Mamic....................... ....38
Carrie Webster.................................. ..138
Chim’s................................................ ....50
Christine Cézanne-Thauss................ ....26
Christopher Voss.............................. ....32
David Crittin...................................... ..136
Donald Roth...................................... ....10
Dufault R. ..............................................94
Ernie L. Fournet.................................. ....48
Evelyn-Nicole Lefevre-Sandt........... ....46
Frédéric Chassériaud....................... ..114
Fu Wenjun.......................................... ..142
Giampietro Cudin............................ ..110
Graehound....................................... ....20
Igor Nelubovich................................ ....44
Ines Siri Trost....................................... ....58
Iryna Lialko......................................... ....99
Jack Gaucher................................... ....54
Julie River........................................... ..108
Kay McFarlane Smith........................ ....90
Laure Donnedieu de Vabres............ ....40
LindaMcIntosh.................................. ....56
Lasserre.............................................. ....85
Leo Deville......................................... ..124
Malo Design............................................. ....11
Marcel Burger.......................................... ....42
Marcio Decker......................................... ....62
Maria Ferrara...........................................
Marian Sava............................................ ..120
Mike DeCesare........................................ ....30
Monika Leonhardt................................... ....68
Nadia Viguier........................................... ....66
Natalia Repina......................................... ....76
Noreen Larinde........................................ ....13
Oenone Hammersley.............................. ....82
Padmini..................................................... ..122
Päivyt Niemeläinen................................. ....36
Paul Hamanaka...................................... ......6
Peggy Wright - Ruby Wings Design....... ....28
Shae White............................................... ..116
Snopix....................................................... ..146
Delpierista77 - Stefania Grasso............... ..140
Susan Emine Kaube................................ ....36
Susanne Titze............................................ ....88
Sussi Hodelart........................................... ....72
Sylvia Kanderal........................................ ....16
Tatiyana Kraevskaya............................... ....28
Thomas B. Howard.................................. ....24
Toni Carlton.............................................. ..104
Tyler J.R. Cannon..................................... ..112
Wei Yan.................................................... ....96
Yi-Cheng Yen.......................................... ....92
Interesting Facts Part 1............................ ....35
Interesting Facts Part 2 .............................148
Why Artists Should Be Paid? ......................126
What Colour is Your Personality? ..............53
What Makes an Artwork Great? ...............84
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Image: Anna Hausmann
Face Meets Africa
acrylic on canvas
80x60 cm
2014
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Paul Hamanaka
www.myartmuseum.com
www.myartmuseum-annex.com
contact: Paul Hamanaka
hama3001@gmail.com
Address: 5543 Devon Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19138, USA
Tel: 215-992-9998
Q.R114/A Letter
mixed media assemblage
69 x 33 x 9 in
2014
Paul Hamanaka is drawn to
visual phenomenon of objects
seeming to disappear
into the space surrounding
them, as if enveloped in
bright light all around. He
perceives these moments
as Qi, or life energy, flowing
in and around everything.
Through his work, recently
he names it as Qi Realism,
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Q.R115/Blessing
mixed media assemblage
43 x 25 x 10 in
2015
Hamanaka seeks to grasp the intangible,
indescribable, and invisible
Qi utilizing opposite elements
like, In and Out, Fake and Real,
Painting and Sculpture, Movement
and Stillness, and Yin and Yang. It
is a means to capture the universal
energy that he feels more powerfully
each day.
Q=MC2 +
mixed media assemblage
33 x 38 in
2014
Q.R214/Fire
mixed media assemblage
Size: 29 x 18 x 7 in
Year: 2014
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AnnA Hausmann
www.anna-hausmann.de
contact: Anna Hausmann
anna-hausmann@freenet.de
Germany
Yellow Face
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2014
“Life is a work of art.”
As an artist, you have the power
to change something. Perhaps
people to move, to inspire or
to be inspired. Through my art
I want to make certain something
visible in the form of faces,
shape and Points...
Face Meets Africa
acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2014
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Friendship
acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2014
The full-time artist Anna Hausmann was born in 1983 in Russia and came to Germany
at age six. Here she grew up in the wind stream (Ansbach district) which has been
painting since the age of 16 and now lives with her husband and son in the gap.
Their colourful and high-contrast images are acrylic
that certain something visible in the form of faces,
symbols and dots. If you study the works of Anna Hausmann,
cannot verhelen a certain stylistic proximity to
the great Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor
Pablo Picasso - not be hidden. (18811973). “Picasso is
my biggest role model,” - says Anna.
Anna Hausmann images are line-stressed and inspirational
surrealism. The boundaries between painted
and real object up to the object flow smoothly into
one. The stations have a “modern” in a positive way
and also show echoes of Synthetic Cubism, as he was
found about 1912 to 1916 in the history of art...
Green Face
acrylic on canvas
100 x 50 cm
2014
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Don Roth
www.kool-kats.com
contact: Donald Roth
donkat2@verizon.net
United States
Touring Tabby
acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 in
2003
Southern California artist Don Roth
utilizes his skill as a Draftsman and
Illustrator in a subtle blend of precision
and sensitivity, making his creations
feel almost magical in their
whimsical portrayal of cats and
dogs enjoying “human” activities!
Feline Family Feast
acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 in
2004
Don’s natural art talent blossomed
in college, and while serving in the
Navy as an Illustrator. Ultimately,
the artist found a home for nearly
twenty years as an Industrial Design
Illustrator for the commercial aircraft
industry, where he acquired
his skills with an airbrush creating
extremely detailed renderings of
commercial aircraft interior design
proposals. This skill would distinguish
Don’s fine art from his competition
in his ultimate career as a fine artist.
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Currently, Don Roth has had
world-wide success with his
on-going series titled “The
Kool-Kat Kollection”, and is
known as the “Norman Rockwell
of Cats”. His images are
seen on greeting cards and
jigsaw puzzles, and prints of
his work are available on
cruise ship art auctions, and
directly from the artist’s web
site.
Tabby Road
acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 in
2008
Kool-Kat Holmes
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in
2013
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Marcel Burger
La Donna
acrylic on 3D canvas
100 x 100 x 4 cm
2014
Marcel Burger (Anna Paulowna
Noord-Holland, 1964) selftaught
artist. Started drawing
and painting in 1984. At the
time, mainly engaged in airbrush.
Won numerous awards
(including trips to Milan and
New York) in the course of time
with this airbrush work. Been a
participant in several exhibitions,
for example Times Square
NY. Nominee of the Florence Biennale
2013 and the Florence
Biennale 2015.
Little Secret
acrylic on 3D canvas
80 x 100 x 4 cm
2013
www.marcellodesign.nl
contact: Marcel Burger
burger@quicknet.nl
Karekietstraat 4
1761XR Anna Paulowna
The Netherlands
T: + 31 223532770
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Shaula’s Child
acrylic on 3D canvas
70 x 100 x 4 cm
2014
In 2012 started painting in
acrylic paint, on canvas. Current
style: colorful, modern,
abstract with the occasional
touch of pop art. The original
designs are characterized by
their own power, simplicity
and balance. Lover of contrasting
and often primary
colors.
From profession graphic designer,
for a cosmetics manufacturer.
Co-responsible for
overall design and appearance
of this company.
The ArtCurl
acrylic on 3D canvas
70 x 80 x 4 cm
2014
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Päivyt Niemeläinen
Beginning
mixed media
50 x 50cm
2012
First she graduated as a textile artist, then studied at Helsinki University and graduated
as Master of Arts (MA). Later she continued fine art studies and developed also
special methods, such as relief painting, and making pictures in a prehistoric way
using blood-water and pure pigments. Most of her
works are oil paintings as well aquarelles, mixed media
works and installations. To open new possibilities
in artistic expression she uses many kind of materials,
often straight from the nature to find and touch
hidden miracles existing there. She loves colors, light,
deep, strong colors. She works to find multitude and
variety of expression. Human’s life, stories, music, impressions
of nature, found the secret garden of exist-
Descent
mixed media (installation)
35 x 32 x 32 cm
2009
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www.paivytniemelainen.fi
contact: Päivyt Niemeläinen
pniemelainen@yahoo.com
Et. Hesperiank.30 A 6,
00100 Helsinki
Finland
T: +358(0)407156544
Night Rain
mixed media (installation)
20 x 60 x 70 cm
2013
Red Moon
oil on canvas and board
84 x 231 cm (triptych)
2006
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Sylva Kanderal
www. sylvakanderal.ch
contact: Sylva Kanderal
s.kanderal@bluewin.ch
Zollikerstr. 8, 8702 Zollikon
Switzerland
T: +41 443912628
Sinfonie
oil and collage on canvas
30 x 30 cm
2014
Born in Brno, Czech Republic.
Lives and works in
Switzerland and Florida. It is
the nature and the people
who are in the center of her
work. Whether her paintings
are expressive or figurative
are always full of radiant,
bright colors that create a
harmonious effect. Due to
the brightness and clarity of
the colors she also demonstrated
her approach to life
and environment.
Round and Colorful
oil on canvas
90 x 150 cm
2015
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Scheherezade
oil and collage on canvas
30 x 30 cm
2014
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Sylva Kanderal
Floating Balls
oil on canvas
50 x 150 cm
2013
Pink Flamingo Lake
oil on canvas
70 x 100 cm
2013
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Joy, serenity and love are positive emotions
convey her images. She likes to work with
transparent oil colors but can be found at
her works many images in mix media, acrylic,
aerocolour, ink and collage material of
all kinds. She likes when her image can tell
a little story or a joke and inspire emotions
of the viewer.
La Traviata
oil on Canvas
120 x 90 cm
2014
Blue Girl
oil on canvas
40 x 80 cm
2014
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Graehound
Durner’s Chandelier
mixed media on Rives Black
44 x 30 in
2014
www.graehound.com
contact: Graehound
autobot@graehound.com
215 E Douglas Street #313
61701 Bloomington, IL
United States
T: + (1) 3098382982
Suspension
mixed media on Bristol
6.25 x 9 in
2014
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Graehound currently works predominantly in
mixed media to create illustrative pieces that
promote nuanced discussion between the
broader concepts of disability and identity. She
has an affinity for detail and enjoys the meditative
quality of both creating and observing
layered imagery. She holds a BFA in Studio Art
from Northern Illinois University with an emphasis
in Drawing and is currently enrolled in the Interdisciplinary
Studio Art Masters programme at
Goddard College.
Seep
mixed media on Bristol
10.75 x 6 in
2014
Lacquerice
mixed media on Bristol
15.75 x 11 in
2015
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Graehound
Inside Voice
mixed media on Bristol
13.75 x 11 in
2015
Perpetually interested in discovering
new formes of expression, Graehound
has been included in national
and international exhibitions and
publications regarding her work in
several different media, particularly
drawing and beadwork.
Sakura
mixed media on Bristol
13.75 x 10.25 in
2015
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Good News
for those who wish to participate
in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine
Yearbook 2016. Artists can decide
until the 30th of October,
2015 if they like to be included
in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine
Yearbook 2016.
Image: Shae White
Beautiful
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in
2014
If you wish to participate in Hidden
Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook
2016, the same rules apply
as for the Yearbook 2015 one.
You can chose, whether you
like to be part of our eMagazine
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Thomas B. Howard
www.plus.google.com/u/0/+ThomasBHoward/posts
contact: Thomas Bernard Howard
thomas_h@optonline.net
United States
Thomas is an 18 year old traditional /
contemporary artist. He works in miniature
with standard #2 pencil, and has
exhibited in NYC, LA, WA, IA, Miami, NJ,
and Southampton. In addition, his works
are displayed on various internationally
acclaimed websites, as well as showcased
in global museum quality and
exclusive catalogs, such as the International
Contemporary Artists catalog by
IncoArtists, and the Artists To Look Out
For catalog by Starry Night Programs.
Carcass
standard writing pencil on paper
3 x 4 in
2014
Friend of Chief
standard writing pencil on paper
2 x 4 in
2015
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Beach House
standard writing pencil
on paper
4,5 x 9 in
2014
While about his endeavors in the art community, his work was personally commended
by Ivy League institutions such as Princeton University and Columbia University,
and earned a membership in the American Artist Professional League.
As a self-taught artist, it was vital that he surrounded himself with the proper resources
in order to reach a professional level and harness his aptitude for detailed
drawing. With inspirations like Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvidor Dali, he studied in
his own time and painstakingly created his own technique which would allow him
to achieve photorealism in his work. After about 8 years of intensive independent
training he began exhibiting and was recognized for his proficiency despite never
having been conventionally taught in any art school, a few of his pieces in particular
being directly compared to Dali’s “Persistence of Memory”.
Deluxe Cape
standard writing pencil
on paper
4 x 9 in
2014
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Christine Cézanne-Thauss
Christine Cézanne-Thauss was
born in Vienna in 1952, where
she is still living and working.
She is taking part in various of
solo- and group-exhibitions in
Austria and other countries.
The artist also is participating
in works in public.
Profile 1
acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 cm
2014
As a painter her favourite theme is the human
being, especially women. She engages herself
against women-abuse and trafficking in women
and she takes part in art-auctions for refugees as
well. Christine Cézanne-Thauss did a lot of fantastic,
surrealistic art pictures , but also a lot of
nude-paintings. In these she specializes on women
and their role in our society.
www.augenfisch.at
contact: Christine Cézanne-Thauss
cezanne.christi@hotmail.com
Austria
Profile 1
acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 cm
2014
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Being together, but staying alone
acrylic on canvas
60 x 80 cm
2013
Fairy tales and myths are also fascinating
the artist. In the last years she is absorbed in
painting a lot of portraits. She tries to show
the variety of feelings being reflected in a
face and she is doing this in a rather bizarre
way. Christine Cézanne-Thauss got several
awards and her paintings are represented
in private and public institutions. She is a
member of IG-Bildende Kunst, International
Association of Art to the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation,
UNESCO.
Dryads
acrylic on canvas
100 x 70 cm
2013
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Tatiyana Kraevskaya
Amities
oil on canvas
36 x 48 in
2012
www.wisdomoflight.com
contact: Tatiyana Kraevskaya
tk@wisdomoflight.com
United States
Tatiyana Kraevskaya says, “Art is a spiritual language I use to communicate with
people, no matter what language they speak. My work is about reaching every
single heart by touching the deepest sanctuaries of the human soul. I invite viewers
of my paintings to feel a
higher awareness of light
and reality.”
She was born in a small
town in Moldova. At age
15, Tatiyana began studying
at an art college.
Red Poppies
oil on canvas
36 x 48 in
2013
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Blue Waltz
oil on canvas
36 x 48 in
2013
After graduation four years later, she began working as an art teacher in a school
and then worked as an assistant for an art director in movie productions. Her interest
in movies prompted her to seek education in this field at the national institute of cinematography
(VGIK) in Moscow, Russia, where she studied for six productive years
in the art department. For the next ten years, she designed costumes and sets for
movies and for theaters, gave private art lessons and showed her paintings at art exhibitions.
Tatiyana Kraevskaya immigrated
to the United States, where
she continues to paint and has exhibited
her work at various galleries,
rehabilitation centers and schools.
Her paintings have received numerous
awards, and her paintings are
in a museum and in private art collections.
Rocio
oil on canvas
36 x 48 in
2014
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Moni Art
Monika Leonhardt
was born near Berlin.
After a long
illness, she had reoriented
herself and
placed painting in
the focus of her life.
In self-paced developments
she first
painted with oil and
watercolour. 2012 then she swapped
to acrylic and mixed media, as well as
she makes experiments with abstract
painting. Her motto is “Every day is
unique” and it is important for you on
capturing certain moods.
www.monika-leonhardt.de
contact: Monika Leonhardt
monikaleonhardt1956@gmail.com
Germany
Deceleration
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2014
Evening
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2015
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In The Morning Gray
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2015
Wilderness
acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2012
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Christopher Voss
Toxin.Grace
mixed media
36 x 36 in
2014
www.vossartstudio.net
contact: Christopher Voss
vossartstudio@gmail.com
United States
Faith.Construct
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in
2014
Christopher Voss’s body of art consists of internal
reflections addressing physical, psychological
and spiritual proximities in relation to the
contemporary home. Voss has most recently
been working in a more direct way as he further
studies the causes and effects of narratives, as
objects act as surrogates for an idea or story
being told. By painting fragmented parts onto
a solid background Voss further dialogs and reflects
on fragments or rejected parts as being
unified onto a permanent ground.
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Lost.Found
oil on canvas
30 x 30 in
2015
The fragmented parts, with anatomical, metaphysical, and psychological
imagery, become interactive and communal thus
creating a sense of cohesive and conflicting narratives, and
recollections. The fragments can be
viewed as parts that have escaped
a tumultuous environment in order to
risk another refuge, a diagrammatical
conversation between the separate
parts, a dialectical or a causal
construction. In these works the
painted tape, for Voss adds a sense
of illusionistic permanence as well as
a fragile impermanence in the work.
These studies were most recently exhibited
at Angelo State University’s
Gallery 193 in San Angelo TX, during
Voss’s “Fragments and Causality”
exhibition.
Nest.Fragility
oil on canvas
24 x 24 in
2014
Voss, a Terminal M.F.A. from Texas
Tech University, is currently an Art Instructor,
and works out of his own private
studio, Voss Art Studio.
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Arterial.Tree
mixed media on canvas
24 x 24in
2014
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Interesting Facts
Part 1
During Renaissance and particularly in 1500s artistic
painting was not considered a suitable occupation
for a gentleman. Since painting involved working with
hands, artists were considered craftsmen and were given
the same social standing as tailors or shoemakers.
The Renaissance masterpiece “The Pieta”
is the only work that Michelangelo
Buonarroti ever signed. He later regretted
what he considered an outburst of
pride and vowed to never sign another
work again. The Pieta is housed at
St. Peter Basilica in Vatican City.
Michelangelo Buonarroti’s father Lodovico was horrified
when he found out that Michelangelo decided to
become an artist. Michelangelo was often beaten by
his father and uncles when he first began to draw. Lodovico
was proud of his ancestry and he worried that
an artist in the family will bring the family a disgrace
(Image on the left: Restorers spot lost self-portrait of Renaissance
master Michelangelo in Vatican fresco).
Leonardo Da Vinci started
painting Mona Lisa in 1504 or
1505 and finished only shortly before he died in
1519. Some reports say that it took him 10 years.
Pablo Picasso was considered a suspect in the
theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. He was arrested
and questioned after his friend Guillaume Apollinaire
pointed a finger at Picasso. Both were
later cleared and released.
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Suzan Emine Kaube
Easter Fire
acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
2001
Born in Istanbul in 1942, Suzan Emine Kaube studied in Istanbul and Hamburg. After
several years as a teacher, she followed her early love for literature and the fine arts.
She published books with poems, reflections and a novel. Her pictures, painted in
oil or acrylic on canvas, have been
exhibited in various European and
Turkish centers. She prefers an abstract,
surreal, postmodern style, her
main themes are environmental and
social problems, which leave their
traces in the artist’s soul. They show
up spontaneously from the subconscious
and find their characteristic,
unique expression in shape and colours.
Compassion
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2007
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www.suzaneminekaube.de
contact: Suzan Emine Kaube
suzan.e.kaube@web.de
Germany
Imagine the Future
acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2004
Evil Eye
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2004
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Capt. Stjepko Mamic
Capt. Stjepko Mamic, both a painter and sea captain was
born in 1958 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. His paintings are unique,
bursting with color created with powerful strokes of the palette
knife, full of light and positive energy. He implements an
array of media: oil, acrylic,combining them with glowing effects
and golden leaves. He has perfected the techniques
of contemporary painting at the Academy D’Arte Florence,
Italy and Academy du Port Royal in Paris Stjepko is a member
of The Croatian Association of Artists-Dubrovnik and ArtNation
International Association.
Triptych Sails
acrylics over golden leaves on linen canvas
80 x 60 cm each
2014
St.Peters Sails
acrylics on linen canvas
82 x 65 cm
2014
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He has exhibited extensively in individually
and with groups around the
globe, Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin,
Sao Paolo, New York, Zurich, Basel,
Shanghai, Rome, Palermo, Florence,
Berlin, Catania e.t.c. His works are in
the holdings of numerous galleries
and private collections worldwide.
He is awarded artist, for his work he
received some of the most prestigious
award, like: “The best Artist in
the world for the stylistic value “ (Eiffel
Tower, Paris), the first Audience
award at European exhibition in Denmark,
“Pour le talent artistique” (European
Biennial Paris), Raffaello Sanzio
Award (Lecce, Italy), Botticelli Award
(Florence, Italy) e.t.c. In 2015 he become
Ambassador of culture in the
world, for human right.
www.artbystjepko.com
www.raguza.net
contact: Capt. Stjepko Mamic
stjepko17@yahoo.com
Croatia
Net
acrylic on linen canvas
100 x 80 cm
2013
Rush Hours
triptych, acrylics on linen canvas
100 x 240 cm
2015
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Donnedieu de Vabres
www.lauredonnedieu.com
contact: Donnedieu de Vabres
laure@donnedieu.eu
France
Laure Donnedieu has discovered the bullfighting environment
30 years ago and is interested in it in different
ways. After a first training in various painting workshops,
she were specialized in the bullfighting painting under different
formats: traditional bullfighting, horse bullfighting,
bulls at land at the beginning in a very figurative way.
Then, step by step, she has moved to a more abstractive
technique emphasizing on the moves and lights very typical
from the bullfighting culture. For the last 4 years, Laure
has enlarged her scope of practice and is now painting
cities like Paris or New York by using knife and acrylic techniques.
She is also interest in street art.
From High Line
acrylic & knife
31,5 x 31,5 cm
2014
Cinco Dias 2
collages, acrylic
and ink on canvas
12 x 36 in
2011
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Bleu Marine
acrylic & knife
31,5 x 31,5 cm
2014
Feu d’Artifice 2
acrylic & knife
31,5 x 31,5 cm
2015
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Marcio Decker
www.deckerfinearts.com
contact: Marcio Decker
marcio@deckerfinearts.com
Brazil
Decker’s abstract optical, mixed media pieces explore
the effects of dimensional expansion on the
canvas’ surfaces using acrylic paint in predominantly
vibrant and contrasting hues, layered compositions
and textures. The process involves optic
and kinetic qualities to augment, enhance and
displace color, texture and light in the works. The
pieces then radiate, glow and move with the viewer.
The process starts with freedom of expression and
movement, flourishing imagination without restrictions
and calculations. A place of contemplation
and inspiration is established. Layers of paint and
textures are overlapped generating dimensions,
compared by the artist to his experiences, and the
final coatings of pigment, glazes or metallic finishes
are carefully applied utilizing fine decision making
and technical skills, developed in the past 25 years,
taking the paintings to a completion. This process
can take many days, weeks, months or years. Lastly,
a glass lens that ends the process and enhances,
illuminates and bends form while concealing
experiences and protecting the painting.
Colliding Elements
mixed media
62 x 32 in
2013
Dynamic Dust
mixed media
19 x 37 in
2013
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Notion
mixed media
51 x 51 in
2014
Conception is established from motion, vibrant energy and research of techniques
and materials. Taking abstract expressionism from its traditional genesis, with ingenuity,
entrapping time, experiences and emotions in the frame to manifest a new
world, is how Decker describes his drive to produce. An image never seen before,
the waves of magnified light running across the canvas, the bent forms and textures
and the expressions of the admirers experiencing the results are the fulfillment and
inspiration to evolve.
Perception
mixed media
51 x 51 in
2014
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Igor nelubovich
H 401
acrylic on canvas
145 x 95 cm
2014
www.igornelubovich.com
contact: Igor Nelubovich
nelubovich@mail.ru
Russia
I have always been interested in art, spending hours drawing since early childhood.
I went to Art College, but soon realized that the most important thing for me was
to be able to develop my individual style, not focus on learning the specific things
taught there. I work in oil or acrylic on canvas, and am inspired by the world around
me. I create landscapes which sometimes verge on abstraction. I am continually
searching for perfection, not worrying about particular subjects but rather on composing
something that is ‘right’ in an inexplicable sense.
SPB 02
acrylic and
oil on canvas
70 x 112 cm
2013
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V 501
acrilic and oil on canvas
95 x 145 cm
2015
NU 01
acrilic on canvas
112 x 70 cm
2012
SPB 03
acrilic on canvas
70 x 112
cm
2012
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Evelyn Nicole Lefèvre-Sandt
Abjection
crayon, pencil and
coal on paper
80 x 60 cm
2001
Evelyn Nicole Lefèvre-
Sandt is 45 years old
an married. She’s
painting, since she
was 4 years old an she
learns painting only of
her own. She works on
her paintings always
in the night, so it’s not
surprising, that her
work arise in black and
white. She had many
exhibitions in Germany,
Suisse, Austria, Italy
and France and in the
year 2005 she became
award the European
Art Award in Strasbourg and this year, at the 1st of March,
she was awarding with the international Art Award “SAN-
DRO. BOTTICELLI PRIZE” in Florenz.”. The specialized press,
who wrote about Lefèvre-Sandt’s work seems.
Footrace
crayon, pencil and
coal on paper
80 x 60 cm
2004
www.evelyn-nicole-lefevre.de
contact: Evelyn Nicole Lefèvre-Sandt
evelyn-nicole-lefevre@web.de
Germany
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Commitment
crayon, pencil and
coal on paper
80 x 60 cm
2001
“Into her mysterious pictures she shows us a
world without time and space, an behind
the thoughts. She make our dreams illustrate.
And the rhythm changes an that’s
the pressure of sudden. And these sudden
makes the allure of these paintings”
Model
crayon, pencil and
coal on paper
80 x 60 cm
2001
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Ernie L. Fournet
www.elfournet.com
contact: Ernie L. Fournet
fournetkp@bellsouth.net
United States
After Action
graphite on paper
25 x 30 in
2004
Hang
acrylic on canvas
40 x 23 in
2004
Ernie L. Fournet is a contemporary realist from
Acadiana in south Louisiana. He received
his BFA art education from the University of
Louisiana in Lafayette, and his MFA from
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. After a lengthy law enforcement
career with the Baton Rouge and New Iberia
Police Departments, he retired to devote
his undivided effort to visual art.
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The drawings and paintings here
are dedicated to all law enforcement
world-wide, for their untiring
effort to maintain control in chaos.
Fournet’s primary media is freehand
airbrush acrylic and graphite.
Knight Errant with Gas Mask
acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 in
2003
Team Commander
graphite and acrylic on paper
25 x 25 in
2009
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Chim’s
My creative force arose from within and
I perform my activity with respect and
integrity. I’m passionate about my arts
and offer excellent quality products
to my customers. I have participated
in series of international art exhibitions
in Johannesburg South Africa, Malabo
Equatorial Guinea. Liege Belgium, Las
Vegas USA, Shanghai China, and now
painting in studio with universal experiences.
In connection with my Chi, I
create with good disposition of mind
and spirit, revealing my inner splendor
and our environmental beauty, placing
Man and nature in harmony.
Power of the Nature
oil on canvas 3d
244 x 250 cm
2012
www.chimsheritagefineart.com
contact: Chima Ogbonnaya
chima@chimsheritagefineart.com
Gabon
Mother and Child
acrylic on canvas 3d
88 x 126 cm
2011
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Artist Portrait
Chim’s Blessing the Nature
oil on canvas 3d
100 x 100 cm
2015
Prince Charles, Presi.
Ali Bongo Ondimba,
Prof. Lee White
Nature Protection Actors
oil on canvas 3d
130 x 170 cm
2012
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Chim’s
I am Chima Ogbonnaya,
a self-taught artist, born
on 13-08-1966 in Obuohia
Ibere Abia State Nigeria.
Son of Mr. Samuel Mmadudobeonu
Ogbonnaya and
Mrs. Margret Njiole Ogbonnaya.
I schooled at
Obuohia Ibere Community
School and passed my First
School Leaving Certificate
in 1981.I came to Gabon in
1983 and was trained as a
professional barber. In 1985
my artistic mission arose
and I pursued my Destiny.
In 1989 I established my
workshop as Chim’s Heritage
Fine Art. My workshop
is specialized in creating:
Portraits, Nature, Elephant
World, Abstracts, Spiritual
Paintings and Family Museum.
A working space where
you can buy your favorite
paintings and place the order
of your choice.
King of the Forest
oil on canvas 3d
122 x 250 cm
2012
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What colour is your personality?
Red, yellow, orange and blue which one is your favorite? Different colors
represent key personality traits. Fill your life with colour and joy!
Live Well, Be Well!
Red relates to physicality.
Orange reflects the need for community.
Yellow is logic.
The colour Green represents love and security.
Blue stands for inner peace.
Indigo stands for intuition.
Purple and Violet are for harmony in life and humanitarian service.
Pink stands for love.
Turquoise helps you create your life on your own terms.
Laure Donnedieu de Vabres
Ah Barcelone!
Collages acrylique
31,5 x 23,6 in
2012
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Jack Gaucher
www.gaucherjack.magix.net/public
contact: Jack Gaucher
gaucher.jack@hotmail.fr
France
Jack Gaucher is a self-taught painter and sculptor.
He has been painting for many years and started to
sculpture later with different materials and then used
stainless steel which brings luminosity to his works. Enjoying
precious metals, he likes to hammer and chisel
stainless steel which he adds to his sculptures, as well
as his paintings uniting oil and acrylic paints with stainless
steel while varying the different technical ways.
Inspired by light and nature, fascinated by the terrestrial
phenomena of flowing lava and melting metal
he paints the cosmos from the big bang theory and
magma.
Aigle
stainless steel
40 cm
2014
Chouette
stainless steel
30cm
2015
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We find in his paintings
a powerful atmosphere
with warm color,
his cosmic dreams and
his vision of his inside
world. He searches
for his own language
through his art. Painting
and sculpture is today
the path that he
took in the transition of
a man to the light and
reality.
He gives volume and
movement, transparency
and brightness,
all plunges us into a
paradise of colours.
Coulée de lave
oil and stainless steel on wood
80 x 80 cm
2015
Métal en mouvement
oil, acrylic and stainless steel
on wood
120 x 50 cm
2015
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Linda Ruscio
Linda is an award-winning visual
artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree from Guelph University.
She has worked in numerous media
although is currently exploring
mixed media collage. Her background
in printmaking, photography
and graphic design provide
the backbone to her experimental
approach with various materials,
which are fed through her printer
onto washi (japanese hand-made
paper). Resurrected drawings,
paintings and monoprints are cut,
pasted and layered with typography
onto fine art paper or wood,
creating new stories and playful
comments on life for the viewer to
discover.
That Spoonful
mixed media collage on paper
16 x 16 in
2015
www.lindaruscio.com
contact: Linda McIntosh
linda@ruscio.ca
Canada
Soul Surfacing
mixed media collage on paper
12 x 19 in
2014
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Nothing to Wear
mixed media collage on paper
16 x 20 in
2014
Air Horse
mixed media collage on paper
16 x 20 in
2015
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Ines Siri Trost
www.atelier-2.net
www.inestrost.de
contact: Ines Siri Trost
kunst@inestrost.de
Germany
Angel of Grace II.
oil on a rusty iron plate
40 x 40 cm
applied on a wooden case
60x60 cm
2014
Ines Siri Trost was born in Berlin in 1967. Today she lives in Wetter/Ruhr. In her work as a
freelancing woman artist she puts the main emphasis on:
• Painting
• Building up means of communication to the spiritual world by making art
• Exhibitions and giving lectures/teaching art in different countries since 1991
As a painter she has learned to perceive
fields of vibration of beings and places
and to make them visible in colour and
form. The paintings which arise from that,
give a visual imprint in the material of her
communication with the spiritual.
Untitled
oil on cardboard
20 x 20 cm
2014
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They show moments of
non material processes,
of evolution and of energy
fields and realms.
Painting to Ines Siri Trost
is meditation, is prayer
and giving her thanks to
creation. It is all about
building up means of
communication to the
spiritual world.
Energy Field
oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm
2014
Places of study where the
academy of Fine Arts in
Hamburg, and various other
Art Colleges in London
and in Switzerland. Since
2014 her work is presented
by the Artodrome Gallery
in Berlin, which also takes
her work to international
Art fairs, and by the ICA, International
Contemporary
Artists, New York. Many of
her paintings found their
way into public Art collections.
Untitled
oil on cardboard
20 x 20cm
2014
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Peggy Wright, Ruby Wings Designs
www.rubywings.com
contact: Peggy Wright
pwright@rubywings.com
United States
Garland of Daisies
mixed media textile
13 x 15 in
2014
I create with acrylic paints, fabrics,
and threads using freehand machine
stitching and hand stitching. While
I have worked in other art media, I
have found that I need to work with
materials that sustain my sense of
touch. I need to see, feel, and manipulate
fabric and thread to remain
content.
Gladiolus
mixed media textile
14 x 14 in
2014
When I make art, I get lost in the surface
of fabric, using hue, texture, and
form to explore the world. I think the
sense of touch is a lost sense in western
society, and I work to create a tactile
surface that invites the viewer to look
more closely.
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Serpentine 2
mixed media textile
14 x 14 in
2015
I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware but moved to St. Paul, Minnesota over 40 years
ago. I love the easy access to nature here because it is a favorite subject of mine.
When I observe nature, I find extravagant pattern and captivating detail. Interaction
with nature provides me with refuge from the discordant notes in the world.
A relationship with the natural
world inherently incorporates
the transformative experience,
the touch of the metaphysical,
and a vision of the possible.
Whether I am creating my art
or walking in the woods, I need
contact with nature to live.
Hibiscus
mixed media textile
18 x 18 in
2014
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Maria Ferrara
www.ferrara.webartgallery.it
contact: Ferrara Maria
ferraramaria@hotmail.com
Italy
M. Ferrara was born in San Pier
Niceto (Messina), she shows
ever since a very young age
a marked inclination for artistic
activities. At present she
resides in Rome, after a long
permanence abroad, first in
Lausanne(Switzerland) and
afterwards in London where
she attends courses on creative
techniques , coming to a
passion for painting.
Lightness
(Leggerezza)
oil on canvas
8o x 60 cm
2011
In Rome she attends a School
of Art and focuses her activity
on figurative painting, having a
preference for oil painting.
Lights over the Tiber
(Luci sul Tevere)
oil on canvas
70 x 90 cm
2011
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Her works’ collection becomes more and more diverse throughout the years and
she matures a predisposition on the use of strong and determined chromatic colours.
Her whole work finds favor with the public interest, which leads to her participation
in several collective and personal art exhibitions.
Abstract
(Astrazioni)
oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2011
Lights on the city
( Luci sulla città)
oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2011
“From a first analysis of Maria Ferrara’s art works, the observer is suddenly struck by
the extraordinary and enviable sense of composition. A way of painting that is truly
dreamy, so poetically profound and intense to the point that it reaches a quite
engaging result; a kind of painting which runs along the lines of imagination, defining
natural scenarios with her extremely secure way of expressing herself. A colour
spread without repentances, dense and soft but at the same time brilliant, through
which the painter is able to produce unforeseen and unexpected shades, within
which she completely conveys herself and her truly sensitive soul, as the refined and
creative artist that she is.”- Simone Fappanni, Art critic.
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Amélie Perron
Close to Shore
mixed media on canvas
20 x 16 in
2015
www.amelieperronart.com
contact: Amélie Perron
ame1086@hotmail.com
Canada
Land by Land
acrylic and mixed media
on canvas
24 x 36 in
2014
I am a Montreal-based Canadian
artist with two passions;
abstract painting and television.
I’ve decided to share my
art with the world and demonstrate
how I assimilate both
passions into one canvas. The
art of television is all about storytelling,
and that is exactly
what I create in an abstract
biosphere. I am curious about
the world, about topics and
stories that affect and evoke us
as human beings. I mostly focus
on acrylics and mixed media
while producing art that individuals
can not only relate to
but find their own story within.
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Alive
acrylic and mixed media
on canvas
9 x 12 in
2015
Mme
acrylic on canvas
36 x 30 in
2015
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noreen larinde
Los Angeles 2
oil on linen
18 x 24 in
2014
www.noreen-fine-artist.com
contact: Noreen Larinde
noreenl@earthlink.net
744 Haverford Avenue
Pacific Palisades
CA 90272
United States
In front of a segment of the Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los
Angeles, California, are two women, one floats in the upper right, while the second
below at the left parades in front of a segment of the angel-themed sand-blasted
windows of the new Catholic Cathedral nearby . A white semifore is placed in the
center of the composition, creating a static counterbalance to the implied movement
of the images.
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Los Angeles 1
oil on linen
24 x 18 in
2014
The backdrop is the Gehry-designed
Disney Concert Hall in
downtown Los Angeles, California.
Also there are the sand-blasted
windows showing floating
angels of the new Catholic
Cathedral nearby. In the front
parade two confident women,
while a third extends her arms
out in a gesture of insecurity.

Noreen Larinde is a feminist painter and fine art
photographer, who is also an art historian with
a specialty in East Asian culture. She finds inspiration
in Japanese Zen drama, which considers
Woman knowable only through the subjectivity
of the arts. For the Zen Buddhist life is constant
change, thus Woman is always becoming
transforming herself into higher spiritual states.
Dream
oil on linen
36 x 48 in
2014
An image of a woman floats in the midst of
greatly enlarged zucchini blossoms. In the upper
left is another female image, an alter-ego.
To convey this is her paintings,
she utilizes an architectural element,
a building experienced
in her frequent travels. This reference
to a specific location is
equivalent to the stage of Noh
(Zen) Drama on which the transformation
take place. Often in
the paintings there is a flower
which expresses Woman as a
part of nature, irresistibly beautiful
in herself, and also fleeting
while at the same time powerful
in that she controls her own
destiny.
Bilbao
oil on linen
35 x 42 in
2014
With the backdrop of the Gehry-designed Bilbao
Museum in Spain, a woman dances exuberantly.
In front there is a red flower.
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Nadia Viguier
“One sees only with the heart, the essential is
invisible to the eyes.” - Antoine de St. Exupèry
www.nadia-viguier.artblog.fr
contact: Nadia Viguier
nviguier@hotmail.com
France
The Courthhouse Steps
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2011
Colored Dyke
Anglet Beach Brittany
acrylic on canvas
30 x4 0 cm
2011
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The Thinning,
Brittany
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2011
Some works of Nadia
Viguier give birth to
allowing access not
at her most intimate
secret but the most
intimate secret. It is
to what the artist unkowinglly
will. There
is (and despite the idea of maternity) something about the “Carmelite” because
loneliness calls for violent communion.
The Artist - by sudden abstraction of reality - looking for a form to the shape of
everything she brings out even thought it may seem strange since nothing in her is of
the order of the simple demonstration of evidence. Emerges a form of enjoyment of
the order of a pagan spirituality. A huge tide or a geyser springs from the earth. This
is due to the fire (for color) and the telluric. This is no longer satisfied the kingdom of
shadows.
The artist goes currents, sometimes stairs of unknown where they lead. How to overcome
this wave or this ascent? Somehow the artist releases us from the ground. We
slip into such images, we become accomplices “innocent” (or not).
Remain traces, wastelands.
The moon or
the sun takes us away
from the slumber.
Light opens the literary
sense inexpressible. A
powerful blast through
space. - Jean-Paul
Gavard-Perret
The Traveller
Egypt
pastels on paper
28 x 37 cm
2009
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Nadia Viguier
Strasbourg Cathedral
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2010
The Cry of the Earth, I.,
oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm
2014
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Approaching Galleries
It’s one thing being an established and
famous artist, where all you have to do
is paint the pictures and hand them
over to an agent, then show up for the
preview evening. It’s another to be at
the beginning of your career as an artist.
Most of us have to plan our own shows,
as I have done over the last few years,
and there is a lot of work involved if
you want to get the most out of your
art exhibition. I was fortunate in that I
worked as a gallery assistant for artist
Nerys Johnson when I was at Durham
University, and assisted her with preparing
for her shows. Even though she
was an established artist, there was still
a lot to be done.
After you have planned an exhibition
of your work, you will see that the commission
galleries request is well worth
the effort they put in!
Restaurants might be a good place to
start, it works for both the restaurant in
terms of attracting customers, and the
artist. It is also a good place to get over
your ‘art exhibition anxiety’ in a far less
intimidating atmosphere than a public
gallery. They charge no commission,
but you have to do the work yourself…
from the hanging to the promotion
and subsequent sales. So, it is from this
perspective that I write.
In the Beginning: Your First Art Exhibition
First of all, you must secure your ‘gallery
space’. I had my first solo art exhibition
at Pizza Express in Darlington, UK.
As a corporation, they have a huge
commitment to the arts, in particular
local artists. Their restaurants are often
designed as galleries themselves, and
they know that their customers really
appreciate the ever-changing work
on their walls. To be continued...
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Sussi Hodel
www.hodelart.ch
contact: Sussi Hodel
info@hodelart.ch
Switzerland
Hahaa
oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
2013
Her paintings are characterized
by the fine structures and a very
personal touch of color. It is her
play with color that makes the
perception of figures and concrete
forms creating a vivid impression.
The game with the situations
and colors in the works is
often concise striking and gives
each room a unique atmosphere
and presence.
Her main goal is to express feelings,
reduced to parts of the
face and at same time not forgetting
about the beauty of
the depicted faces. Sussi Hodel
has exhibited in various venues
around Switzerland, Italy, France
and Germany.
Blue Smile Not Blue
oil on canvas
120 x 80 cm
2014
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Hmmm!
oil on canvas
130 x 60 cm
2011
Mmmpf
oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
2012
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C Pat Haley
www.cpathaleyart.com
contact: Charles Patrick Haley
pathaleyart@msn.com
United States
Siesta
acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2012
Musica del Voladores
acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2014
Ayudeme
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 in
2011
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The Paintings of Pat Haley reflect the
Culture, Colors and Zest for LIFE of the
Mexican people. While in Mexico,
walking through the streets, riding
the buses, attending cultural events
or just sitting in the plazas, he is able
to experiences daily life of the local
people. Using his camera’s eye,
he selects and captures an array of
visual elements that are refined, extracted
or amplified and then combined
into a composite to become
the focus of his final paintings.
Mujer Mayor en Rebozo
acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 in
2011
Vista del Mundo
de mi Caballo
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in
2010
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Natalia Repina
www.nataliarepina.com
contact: Natalia Repina
info@nataliarepina.com
Italy
Flamenco Dolls
oil on canvas
100,5 x 80,5 cm
2012
The paintings of artist Natalia Repina
combine the wonder of magical
realism with her love for the light
and movement of the Impressionists
to create a truly moving art form.
Drawn from childhood memories,
lasting impressions, and the living
breathing world around her, her images
are sentient, transforming common
landscapes and moments in
time into vortexes of human emotion
that magically transport the viewer
into an unknown world of sentiment
and memory.
Ligurian Seafront
Near Noli
soft pastel on paper
35 x 50 cm
2012
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Portraits, Figurative Composition, Seascapes of
Mediterranean zones is the favorite subject of artist.
Oil painting and pastel painting is the technique favorite
by Natalia Repina Natalia Repina was born in
St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1967.She graduated from
S.Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in1991. China,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and USA
are among the Countries where she has been exhibiting.
Repina now lives and works in Italy.
Saxophonist
soft pastel on paper
55 x 75 cm
2013
Mother and Child
soft pastel on paper
70 x 50 cm
2012
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malo design
Little Monsters
acrylic on canvas
structure pastes
50 x 70 cm
2014
www.malo-design.de
contact: Marleen Lorek
malodesign@icloud.com
Germany
Marleen Lorek works mostly with acrylic paints and a wide variety of structural pastes.
However, the passion towards experimental expression drives her search for new materials.
She was born in 1981 in eastern Germany where she still lives and works. In
2014/2015 Marleen was published in the “International Contemporary Artists Volume
IX” featuring four of her art works.
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2014
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Her works of art are saturated
by their spatial and
colorful floating designs.
Through painting she has
found another level of creativity
which perfectly balances
out her regular work
as a lighting designer for
rock concerts, gala events
and touring productions
for a different musicians.
She loves these opposites
in her life and would not
give up any of them.
My Milky Way
acrylic, mixed media on canvas
80 x 80 cm
2014
Golden Satellite
acrylic on canvas
structure pastes
80 x 100 cm
2013
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malo design
Sky Blue
acrylic on canvas,
structure pastes
60 x 40 cm
2014
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Oenone Hammersley
www.oenonehammersleycontemporaryart.com
contact: Oenone Hammersley
oenone.hammersley@yahoo.com
Alexandria, VA
United States
T.: +(1) 703 838 0393
Bluebell Wood
oil on canvas with seeds
42 x 32 in
2013
Colour and light are used to emphasize
a vanishing world of wildlife and wilderness
that implores one to take notice,
appreciate the rare and raw beauty
about us, and allow our imagination to
roam about the abstract compositions
symbolizing the unsettled and unsettling
world where man alters nature.
Oenone Hammersley was born in England
and studied Theater Design at
Wimbledon College of Art followed by
print making at the City Literary Institute
in London. In the 1970’s Oenone worked
for many years making scenery at the
Royal Opera House, The National Theater
and Shepperton Studios.
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Deep Forest
oil on canvas
40 x 28 in
2012

Oenone became deeply committed and involved with conservation of wildlife and
wilderness in particular rain forest conservation following her travels to rain forests all
over the world in the 1980’s. Oenone exhibited her paintings from her trips to raise
money and awareness for conservation.
In 1993 Oenone married a US Foreign Service diplomat and they lived in Africa for
many years, followed by Greece then Australia. In the early years Oenone’s focus
was to depict detailed paintings in watercolour and gouache of animals and birds
to show the beauty of wildlife in all its glory and colour. Recently Oenone has been
working in oils on canvas producing semi-abstract paintings with natural themes in
bolder larger more powerful work.
Oenone has been exhibiting her work regularly since 1980. She is a member of the
National Association of Women Artists and her paintings have won awards in Washington
D.C and Florida.
Museum and private acquisitions
of Oenone’s work include The Shell
Museum on Crete, the private collection
of the Guggenheim families
and H.R.H. Princess Fatima Bint
Mubarak of the UAE.
Rice Paddies China
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in
2014
Rice Terraces China
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in
2014
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What makes an artwork great?
After contemplating what it is about certain artworks and artists that remain relevant
over time, There are three main considerations:
Motivation: The purpose for creating; connection to the subject; the intentional
concept, message, or emotion that the artist is passionate about capturing.
Execution: Technical proficiency; ability and confidence in the various principles
of art so that the concept, message, or emotion comes through skillfully and convincingly.
Expression: A unique style; the heart and soul of the artist; where we see his/her
hand and feel what he or she was feeling; that “it” factor of the work that takes you
to the time and place of the artist who created it and lets you become lost in the
moment conveyed.
Image: Capt. Stjepco Mamic: Net / acrylic on linen canvas / 100 x 80 cm / 2013
In short, great art comes from great artists. Because, more than anything, the end
product is a direct reflection of the mind, heart, soul, and life experience of the one
creating it. When artists think and feel deeply, respect the responsibility that goes
with their calling, and have a genuine connection to and interest in their subject
matter, they are on their way to greatness. And if their motivation, execution, and
expression are operating at high levels of skill and sincerity, great paintings can naturally
occur.
Allison Malafronte
senior editor of American Artist
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Lasserre
www.clothildelasserre.com
contact: Clothilde Lasserre
clothildelasserre@gmail.com
France
Hommes en devenir
oil on painting
100 x 80 cm
2014
Clothilde’s painting is the result of an
unusual career within the world of contemporary
art. She did not come to
painting by accident but by necessity.
L’appât
oil on painting
60 x 120 cm
2015
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Lasserre
Mouvement d’espoir
oil on painting
150 x 120 cm
2014
By painting, she found a way of expressing and sharing her perception of the world,
her exaltations and her anxieties. Her art is a sort of testimony of the challenge of
living together whilst trying to be unique. This is brightly evidenced in her various
crowd scenes. She portrays crowds of individuals drowned in an alienating mass;
yet through her palette of colors she is able to express the rich diversity of each individual,
of each soul. However her work is not so much preoccupied by masses than
by the fragility which leads us to abandon our individuality in an attempt to fit in. Oil
and color create urban scenes in which our attention is first drawn to this recurrent
crowd before we have come to a more nuanced view of the portraits.
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Nous, vous, eux
oil on painting
100 x 100 cm
2014
Théorie du hasard
oil on painting
100 x 100 cm
2015
Her paintings succeed
in establishing a connection
with the viewer;
our own hidden fears
are eventually brought
to life on the canvas.
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Susanne Titze
www.susanne-titze.de
contact: Susanne Titze
info@susanne-titze.de
Germany
Internal Power
acrylic on canvas
66 x 66 cm
2014
King Forever – Michael Jackson
acrylic on canvas
92 x 130 cm
2010
Susanne Titze lives and works as a
freelance artist in Nuremberg. Her father,
the famous german actor Günter
Strack, encouraged her creativity since
her early childhood and gave her the
ability of empathizing with other persons.
This is a very important aspect of
her work, as her paintings and plastic
arts originate from deep inside, describing
processes of becoming as well as of
reshaping and recreating life.
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Mystic
bronze
60 cm
2009
During origination, emotions are revealed,
processed, transmuted and
released. The artist calls these artworks
spiritual art. Within it, she feels, hears,
sees and builds colors and shapes so
to speak “with all senses”. The powerful
bright colors and swinging shapes in her
artworks are characterized by optimism,
lust for life and vitality. Thus, sensations,
life themes and inner transformations of
persons, situations and occurrences are
expressed in a unique, very vivid way.
Unfold
bronze
30 cm
2013
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Kay McFarlane Smith
www.kaymcfarlanesmith.com
contact: Kay McFarlane Smith
kaymcfarlanesmith@gmail.com
Australia
Kimberley Floodplain
oil on canvas
100 x 75 cm
2015
Lavender Bay
Sydney Harbour
watercolour
75 x 54 cm
2007
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Ord River Gorge
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
2014
Kay McFarlane Smith is an award winning
Australian living on the east coast of NSW.
Working primarily in oil and watercolour
media, she gains inspiration from her travels,
which have taken her through more
than through 30 countries across America
Europe and Asia. Kay is passionate about
painting and strives to capture the essence
of her subjects through an intuitive, impressionist
style. Currently she has been working
on a series of paintings inspired by the
Australian outback as well as the coastal
landscape where she lives.
Sandstone Saltbush and Savanna
oil on canvas
100 x 75 cm
2012
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Yi-Cheng Yen
www.goo.gl/2ByPOe
contact: Yi-Cheng Yen
grayyen@gmail.com
Taiwan
Waving Coast
oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
2014
LiWu Riverside with Blossoms
oil on canvas
116,5 x 91 cm
2012
I started to learn painting twenty
years ago when I was a high school
student. I have been living in Taipei
city, Taiwan. I always enjoyed the
natural beauty of Taipei which is
absolutely a great resource of my
painting creations. I found that I
am interested in oil painting when
I studied in Visual Art in Shih Chien
University because this technique
creates many layers and represents
the natural beauty very well.
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Good Memory
WaiMu Mountain
Coast
oil on canvas
41 x 27 cm
2014
After graduating from Shih Chien University, I worked for several companies as a
web designer and printing material designer. But I never give up on oil painting because
I have a lot of passion for oil painting. I also had my very first personal painting
exhibition in 2007. After working for companies for several years, I decided to quit
the job and started my own painting studio in 2007, since I can focus on painting full
time and also share my knowledge and passion with my students.
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Rising Wave
by the Wind
oil on canvas
53 x 45,5 cm
2014
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Dufault R.
Abstraction 452 (The City)
mixed media
36 x 48 in
2014
Being caught in the magic of abstraction
Rollande Dufault likes to work with
the components that generate a state of
mind which invites the viewer to expand
its own dimension and creativity.
www.galeriedufault.ca
contact: Rollande Dufault
dufaultrm@hotmail.com
Canada
Abstraction 455 (Space)
mixed media
30 x 30 in
2014
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With Bachelor degrees in both Fine
Arts and History of Art, she is a Canadian
professional artist recipient
of numerous awards. She has
been active in promoting contemporary
art in Canada, Spain, Belgium,
Italy, France, Rumania, The
United-States and in Brazil. In 2011,
she was selected by the prestigious
“Société nationale des Beaux-Arts
de Paris” to participate as a member
of the Canadian delegation
at the annual Salon SNBA held at
the “Carrousel du Louvre’’. In July
2012, she was awarded a bronze
medal in Rumania. She exhibited
at the Red Dot Art Show in Miami,
Art Expo New York, the Southern
Nevada Museum of fine art in Las
Vegas, in Rio de Janeiro Brazil…
Abstraction 516 (Square)
mixed media
24 x 36 in
2014
In 2013, she won a gold medal
in Rome Italy and another one in
Spain last year. This February, she
was chosen as one of the top two
artists in the “Conscious Creation
Art Contest of Vivid Arts Network
2015” to win the Vivid Arts Excellence
Award which will be presented
in Ferrara, Italy in August.
Rollande Dufault is listed in the “Biennial
Guide to Canadian Artists in
Galleries” published by Art Magazine,
in the “International Contemporary
Art Masters”: Volume VI &
IX, (Word Wide Art Books, California),
in ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of
Contemporary Art 2013- 2014 and
2015, (Art Tour International) and
in Show the Bola (Art of the of the
World).
Abstraction 427 (Priority)
mixed media
30 x 36 in
2012
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Wei Yan
Yellow dream
Chinese ink
12 x 16 in
2015
Wei Yan was born in Beijing, China, late 60s. At the year of 1995, Wei Yan’s art studio
was founded. The art works have been in many exhibitions in Canada and China.
Collected by people or enterprises from North America, China, Australia, and France.
Many of his students have enrolled into different art schools in North America. He has
been as the member of Portrait society of America he’s also a member of Portrait
society of Canada, Society of Canadian Artists.
Education:
1991 Bachelor of Fine Art:
Capital Normal University in
Beijing, China
1994 Seneca College
Toronto Ontario
Awaken
Chinese ink
12 x 16 in
2015
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Waterside
Chinese ink
16 x 18 in
2015
He describes his art as the following
paragraph: “Please do
not ask whether I am a realism
painter or an abstract painter,
I like them both. I use oil paint
when I want to, but sometimes
I like using traditional Chinese
brush to create my art. My
works about “era through”,
about cultural differences and
the relations between human
and nature. I’m trying to not
only let people understand
more about my art, but also offer
a range of soothing, restorative
and positive energy with
my painting.”
Face Time 2
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in
2014
www.yansart.ca
contact: Wei Yan
yuran527@yahoo.ca
Canada
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Anne Bate-Williams
The Bay
mixed media
5 x 50 cm
2007
Anne spent most of her adult life fully occupied as a mother and a primary school
teacher with a responsibility for art in the curriculum but always anticipating and
hoping this ‘time’ would come into fruition. She works organically, using mixed media
to develop a piece which will grow out of her experience of place, inspiration
might come from a building, ruin or natural surroundings anything that sparks a
sense of discovery...
www.annebatewilliams.co.uk
contact: Anne Bate-Williams
annebatewilliams@yahoo.co.uk
United Kingdom
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Rome
mixed media
13,1 x 31,9 cm
2014

Iryna Lialko
www.lialko.com.ua
contact: Iryna Lialko
irensoliss@gmail.com
Ukraine
T.: +1865 696 1689
Iryna Lialko was born in Central Ukraine in 1981. Graduated
from high school and art school in 1996. At the
age of 15 she went to the College of Arts, studied
painting, graphic design, history of the fine arts, and
other disciplines. Outstanding training and graphic
talent resulted in a special grant to study art from the
President of Ukraine.
At 19, in the year 2000, she went to the Ukrainian National Academy of Visual Arts and
Architecture in Kiev until 2006. Studied in the graphics department. Studied various
graphic techniques - such as etching, linoleum cutting, lithography, tree engraving,
silk-screen print-ing, and other graphic techniques. For four years studied the technology
of manual book creation and book illustration; including binding and cutting.
Studied oil, acrylic, water color, and other painting forms.
Metaphysics of Life
ink on paper
55 x 65 cm
1998
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Iryna Lialko
In 2004 in parallel with academic
training, began
working in the sphere of
interior design and murals.
Created murals in
Ukraine, Europe. First international
art competition
of exlibris was in Poland
in 1993; awarded
prizes for excellence. In
1997, at 16, first participated
in professional art
exhibitions.
In 2005 began working as
a professional photographer.
From 2010, until
now is engaged in perfor-mance/show
business.
Creates live shows
involving drawing with
sand and speed painting.
Creates hand crafted
costumes for stage
shows.
Indigo Meditation
acrylic on paper
50 x 90 cm
2008
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Awakening
Forces of
Been Seeds
oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
2010
She has visited and performed in 30 countries, has participated
in art exhibitions and competitions of painting and photography.
While in these various countries, studied the culture and the traditions
of these countries in order to increase knowledge and understanding,
and enable more creative and diverse art.
Art works are located in private collections of people from many
countries. Since 2014 is working and residing in the United States.
Is working in large and small graphic and picturesque forms, such
as mu-rals and exlibris. Excellent in creating digital graphics and
using classical techniques. Constantly exper-imenting with innovative
techniques.
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Iryna Lialko
Artwork on the Top Right
Loneliness
acrylic on paper
18 x 28 cm
1999
Red Tears Fly Up
oil on canvas
160 x 160 cm
2015
Artwork on the Bottom Right
The Wing of Colors of Dawn
ink on paper
65 x 90 cm
2013
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Toni Carlton
www.tonicarltonart.com
contact: Toni Carlton
carltongallery@carltongallery.com
United States
I am committed to co-creating
heartfelt expressions
of life’s journey. My
paintings combined with
mixed media collage incorporate
images from my
personal life experiences,
a love of dance, written
messages, calligraphy and
photographic images from my travels to
Jamaica, Europe, Peru, Mexico, Belize,
Hawaii and most recently India. I am inspired
by different cultures, expressions
of movement, heart connections and
spiritual awareness. Calligraphy in various
languages along with the texture I create
as a fiber artist adds a three dimensional
element to my paintings.
The Guardian
mixed media
30 x 24 in
2011
Prayers of Peace
acrylic, handwoven fibers
mixed media on canvas
30 x 48 in
2014
Most of my artwork represents
deeper levels of
feminine awakening by
encoding multiple layers of
images that trigger memories
of ancient and present
wisdom. In some of my
recent compositions, the
combination of calligraphic
and Asian symbols, ancient
text and sacred sites
helps create a deeper level
of resonance. I create
my work to remind one to
embrace the connection
to all relations.
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The expressions in the work come from the
subconscious, the heart space and from
within, rather than from a plan to create a
specific image. Using movement, meditation
and healing sounds as a prompt to begin the
paintings, the artwork expresses the connection
to the Divine Feminine and Mothering
Peace. Through many layers of multiple media,
writing in graphite, hand-woven fibers,
painting and transfer images, I am revisiting
my spiritual journey as an artist using creative
expressions.
Healing Voices
acrylic, mixed media on canvas
36 x 24 in
2014
My hope is that my original creations
open our hearts and touch
our souls to inspire and lift our spirits.
I will continue along a theme
that speaks to people’s hearts and
touches them in ways that are
healing and helpful in developing
an understanding of our interconnectedness.
Heart and Soul
acrylic, mixed media on canvas
24 x 18 in
2014
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Angelo Lotti
www.clubpittori.it/schede.php?id=2702
contact: Angelo Lotti
lottiangeloart@libero.it
Italy
T.: +39 3388804677
The Reflection
of Regrets
oil on canvas
45 x 55 cm
2011
Angelo Lotti was born in Brindisi in 1991,
lives in Carovigno, in Salento. Graduated
at the Agricultural Institute, currently
a student at the Faculty of Architecture
of Bari. Passionate about all things in the
world, and especially the art of nature
in all its shapes and forms, is also known
as a sculptor.
Harmony in Lilac,
Green and White
oil on board
35 x 55 cm
2014
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Modernity
- The Scream Persists
oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm
2012
In 2012 he created a collection of
poems written in different years. Selftaught
in everything, even in the
painting, which is always looking for
different paths and personal, which
reveal important topics such as the
great themes of modernity, nature
and above all the different human
feelings. As media he uses everything
from canvas to the plywood, fibreboard
or boards, composing the
work in a very short or very long depending
on how the composition of
the work requires. Its production is visible
on the Internet, and every year
during the summer sets in the rooms
of the castle of his city or in the streets
of the historic center, in addition to
several exhibitions of national and international
level.
The Persistence
of the Art
oil on canvas
and cardboard
80 x 60 cm
2015
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Julie River
www.julieriver.be
contact: Julie River
julieriver.art@gmail.com
Belgium
A Venise
watercolour and ink on paper
25 x 35 cm
2012
“In her Brussels Studio, that artist loves
to mix China ink and waters colours,
feather and brush in concert. In that
technique error does not forgive, the
indelible stroke becomes a challenge
that she finds amusing. In her peaceful
gardens, she affirms her fantasy, in representing
strange personages, often
insects that she acts like actors on the
stage. The wood, the trees, the leaves
become the decor and the curtains”.
Julie River 2012
En Piste
watercolour
and ink on paper
30 x 40 cm
2012
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“The watercolours are worked in
a non-conformist way, often with
five or six layers, very meticulous
work. In tone splashes of colour
the artist juggles with the strokes
of the feather, with rhythm, movements,
and dynamism. Transported
by the delicacy of the stroke,
the insect himself becomes a comedian
or a minstrel. And finally
this strange world takes us to respect
the differences. In feat, it
means respect of the other, Love
of Live, in all shapes and form”.
N-P Louise, 2012
Vers La Lumière
watercolour
and ink on paper
25 x 35 cm
2013
Sous Le Soleil
De Saturne
watercolour
and ink on paper
25 x 30 cm
2014
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Giampietro Cudin
Caos
mixed technique and acrylic
100 x 80 cm
2012
www.cudin.it
contact: Giampietro Cudin
cudinilmaestro@gmail.com
Italy
Positive, full of interest and always looking
to the future, these words to define
Cudin. He has studied Architecture in
Canada and Psychology in Italy, painter,
sculptor, elegant engraver, gentle
and generous person, with great passion
for poetry. The artist has always lived the
art 360°, his artistic work is an ongoing
process of analysis and comparison of
the works from the past to the contemporary,
between the contingent reality
and conceptualism.
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He follows his emotions, exploring original languages
to become spokesman for the complex
of today’s man feelings. Not infrequently
the reality itself enters into his paintings,
through elements that the painter collects over
time and in different moments of his life. They
become part of his work, interfacing with a
painting technique always strongly expressive,
airline tickets and bus tickets, newspaper clippings
and pieces of posters, papers and writings,
the artist brings its back from his numerous
trips in different countries world and put them
in his artworks. He collects pieces of life, which
he then transform into a paint. Signs that art
saves and turns into memories and emotions.
Messenger
mixed technique and acrylic
100 x 70 cm
2013
Animals
mixed technique and acrylic
50 x 50 cm
2015
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Tyler J R Cannon
Always Looking for a Shock
lithographic drawing with monotype
11 x 14 in
2013
www.tjrcannon.com
contact: Tyler John Rutger Cannon
tjrcannon@gmail.com
Canada
Tyler Cannon is a Vancouver based visual
artist, working primarily in print media and
drawing. Cannon’s mother began teaching
him to draw and paint at an early age, focusing
on wildlife and people.
In 2009 his formal training began at North Island
College in Courtenay, British Columbia.
After completing a fine art diploma at NIC
he continued on to Nova Scotia College of
Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At
NSCAD he completed a BFA Major in Interdisciplinary
Fine Art with a Minor in Art History
focusing primarily in printmaking.
Generators for
Fear of Night
colour lithograph
with monotype
31 x 23 in
2014
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Monod Anatomy
lithographic drawing
and etching as digital
composite
30 x 22 in
2013
Cannon’s current work revolves around his ongoing narrative project called Singleton’s
Epic. Cannon creates characters, bodies and systems within his other world
which interact and live within a strange psychological economy or ecosystem. The
central character of the narrative are the singletons, strange human like figures who
loaf around the environment focused mainly on hedonistic pleasures.
Currently Cannon is attending a Student
Scholarship Residency at Malaspina Printmakers
in Vancouver. His Newest work is
in various states of completion which is
tracked on his website and blog. Thematically
the newest images orient around imaging
states of the Singletons, enmeshed
within their machine world as productive
cogs, complicit, victims and rowdy fools.
Despot Love
viscosity print
14 x 18 in
2014
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Chassériaud Frédéric
www.libertart31.pagesperso-orange.fr
contact: Chassériaud Frédéric
libertart31@orange.fr
France
The Human Robot
A robot is a Human who
does not take the time to think
linen and oil painting
paint brush and knife
60 x 92 cm
2015
The Family
The sharing of your life with all your
environment creates the family
linen and oil painting
knife
80 x 100 cm
2015
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The artistic activities, painting
and writing, offer wings to
my soul. I cannot live without
these artistic activities which
share my thoughts with others
people. With these wings,
I do not see the human frontiers
which are the fears of the
human’s ego. The freedom
is the acceptation of others
thoughts which create the
only wealth of the human
when you share them. With
this richness, the Human has
not harms but the joy to live in
an human environment.
Human is his own Home
The Human Being creates
that he is with his thoughts
linen and oil painting
paint brush and knife
46 x 60 cm
2010
The Contemplation
All that exists, lives to be
a human fruit
linen and oil painting
knife
72 x 100 cm
2015
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Shae White
www.jeinshaewhite.com
contact: Jein Shae White
shaew2@gmail.com
United States
Kaleidoscope Lady
acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 in
2013
Some Kind of Wonderful
acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 in
2014
Born in China, adopted at an
early age and raised in the United
States, Shae White brings both
cultures alive in each of her canvases.
Each painting tells so much
about her and where she came
from. Self-taught at an early age,
she learned the most important
values: the freedom to explore,
to create, and best of all, to try.
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“I feel I have more freedom
to try different ways
to open my mind and
grow every day in ways
that inspire me to be
better,” - Shae White
The Boy I Love
acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 in
2014
Shae ignores the rules so she
can express her thoughts in
her own way. Her work isn’t
abstract, surreal or cubism.
It’s a synergy of all those
and more. She refers to this
style as “Geometrism.”
Natural
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in
2014
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Art eMagazine / Summer 2015
Eligibility
Artists who are above 18 years old can submit their work for selection. All artworks
must have been created by the submitting artists, who must have legal ownership
and must be the sole owners of the copyright. All media and techniques of visual
art can be submitted for review, such as painting, photography, sculpture, installations
and digital art, etc.
Entry Information
Artists who are interested in showing their work in Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine /
Summer 2015 must send their images and biography to:
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• Images of 6-8 artworks (minimum 1Mb images (300dpi) including details of the
works, such as title, size, medium and the year of creation,
• A short biography or description of artistic interests (maximum of 200 words, in
the third person, in English, not a CV),
• A profile picture, possibly portrait (minimum 400Kb images),
• A website address.
Media Accepted
Painting, mixed media, decorative art, design, caricature, sketching, drawing, collage,
sculpture, pottery, digital art, 3D art, photography, installations, print, graffiti,
street art and custom painting.
Cost
£ 55.00 for 2 pages (or if you wish, you can pay in different currencies: $100.00 or
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this Submission Form.
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Sculptures
Installations
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Marian Sava
Amapola
black belgian marble
56 x 17 x 18 cm
2009
www.mariansava.com
contact: Marian Sava
savamarian@gmail.com
Belgium
“Marian Sava” makes the stone sing”
He received his artistic education at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Bruxelles.
When looking at his works, one word comes
to mind ‘Emotion’, because one experiences
a great pleasure, produced by the creative
impulses of the artist, which are marked
by the seal of extreme sensitivity. Marian
Sava approaches the abstract art in his very
nuanced manner, without ever falling on
the side of pure and hard abstraction. He
passes smoothly, from the strict image of a
subject to the creation of new unexpected
forms (...)
Collette Bertot, Art Critic, Brussels 23 02 2008
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Messenger
white marble
72 x 37 x 8 cm
2013

Flight of Day
black belgian marble
73 x 27 x 6 cm
2008
Amapola
For the eye’s delight, in the
summer, colored parasols invade
fields and the roadsides
… these are the poppies!
Light of Day
“Vibrations of the wings of insects,
the day and the night”.
A true rehersal in miniature, with
an end unpredictable when
you look carefully the vibration
of insects’s wings
Burning Bush
“Myth and reality in the history
of humanity”. The burning Bush
is, in the biblical tradition, the
revelation of the Angel of the
God inside a Bush that burned
without ever burn on Mount Sinai.
Here, God sends Moses deliver
his people from slavery and
gives him the tablets of the law
with the ten commandments,
carved in stone by the fire.
Burning Bush
white marble
63 x 47 x 7 cm
2002
Messenger
Birds were always used to carry
messages. Benefiting from their
aerodynamic shape in their
flight, one watches them, high
above, in an imaginary form.
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Padmini
London based Andrea Peng was born in 1983 in Argentina
to Taiwanese parents. Her work has been influenced by the
search for her identity and explores mixed cultural associations
and the nature of human existence. She has always
been fascinated by unseen details, looking at things from the
inside out in order to discover a sense in between.
www.andreapengprops.tumblr.com
contact: Andrea Peng
andreapengprops@gmail.com
United Kingdom
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She is a versatile prop maker with a distinctive approach
who is fully comfortable combining conceptual and practical
realization. Andrea has a keen interest, and active
involvement, in organizing various alternative art, music,
and social projects. Culturally and politically aware these
activities feed her practice. Currently in her final year at
RCSSD, Andrea works as a freelance prop maker on various
projects including for Pinewood Creative, Kimatica
Studios, Mantaray Props, and artist Tom Price.
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Leo Deville
Ishka’s Moment
ceramic and
mixed media
26x19x12 cm
2014
www.leodeville.co.uk
contact: Leo Deville
hello@leodeville.co.uk
United Kingdom
Birdeyes
ceramic and
mixed media
32x17x6 cm
2013
Leo creates ceramic faces, figures, sculptures
and jewellery that sometimes include
coloured wires, textiles, beads and paint.
When she has a black biro in her hand she
produces surreal black & white illustrations
and also paints in oils & acrylics. She started
working spontaneously with the black biro
drawings, which took her on subconscious
journeys to a world far more interesting than
the physical normality.
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She now lets her ceramics evolve
and loves this process as she’s constantly
intrigued to view where her
mind has taken her. Leo’s eyes, ears
and mind are forever open to new
ideas and influences.
Fuzzy Dreads
ceramic and
mixed media
23x24x8 cm
2012
Spirit ‘G’
ceramic and
mixed media
16x33x7 cm
2013
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Why Artists Should Be Paid for
Their Artwork?
“Artists shouldn’t be paid for their art.
Getting paid prevents them from creating
really good stuff.” - I read somewhere
online.
I want to make three points about Art,
Contribution and Money with this article:
Your art is a contribution to society.
It brings joy, it solves problems, and it
makes this world a better place.
Being paid allows you to make that contribution
to society.
Your contribution expands in relation to the amount of time you put into it. More
hours means expanded contribution to this world with your God-given talent.
“Artists are better off working a job they hate and then painting in their spare time.”
This is the problem I have with that:
No one should work a job they hate. You were put on this earth with talents and you
are meant to do that which you are good at and what you love! The world is missing
out on your contribution. The less an artist creates, the less they grow. It requires hours
upon hours to hone your craft.
Charging for your artwork enables you to make a contribution to the world with your
art. It allows you to develop your style and to get better and better at what you do.
As long as we are stuck in a money based system, I find it an outright insult to all hardworking
artists to say they shouldn’t be paid for what they do. It’s just a crazy notion
that this one, single profession should work for free! (While everyone else gets paid.)
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Image: Bin Feng
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #6
digital C print
36 × 64 in
2014
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative
people how they did something, they feel a little guilty
because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It
seemed obvious to them after a while.”
Steve Jobs
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in feng
www.binand.com
contact: Bin Feng
mashed7th@gmail.com
United States
American Dream -
Approaching the Whitetail
digital C Print
40 × 60 in
2015
THE AMERICAN DREAM
photo series continues
to explore the idea of
“American Dream”.
American Dream -
Backyard 7am
digital C Print
40 × 60 in
2015
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Bin Feng
American Dream - Starring Jackie Chan
and John Cusack, Dragon Blade
3D IMAX will be released in February 2015
digital C print
40 × 60 in
2015
American Dream - The Visitor
digital C print
40 × 60 in
2015
THE AMERICAN DREAM photo series
continues to explore the idea of
“American Dream” from an eastern
male gaze. By staging the moment
of daily life, the artist performs as an
actor and jumps between the fiction
and reality, which essentially conveys
the notion of the history of a man is
mobilized by images.
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American Dream - The Male Gaze
digital C print
40 × 60 in
2015
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in feng
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #4
digital C print
40 × 60 in
2014 Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #6
digital C print
36 × 64 in
2014
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Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #2
digital C print
36 × 64 in
2014
PIN MAN - A SPACE ODYSSEY photo series shows him heading off to space to spread
word of this new currency to other planets and cultures, hoping to find a more receptive
audience around which he can call “home”. By expressing a plethora of
ideas regarding simulation, cultural capital, currency, popularity and fabrication in
various art forms, Pin Man - A Space Odyssey offers a sophisticated and complex
look at the value placed on people and objects in today’s media-saturated, highly
simulated age.
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #1
digital C print
36 × 64 in
2014
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Mike DeCesare
www.ProPhotoNorthwest.com
contact: Mike DeCesare
Mike@ProPhotoNorthwest.com
United States
Alpine Falls
photograph
16 x 20 in
2014
Mike DeCesare: Photography is my first language. My home
is the Pacific Northwest where rugged, natural beauty and
individuality have inspired and shaped my photography.
My landscapes are not meant to chronicle what is, but
rather to share my passion for nature with those who feel
the same joy for the world we live in and accountability for
the world we will pass on.
Tye River Winter Run
photograph
16 x 20 in
2014
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Bryce Canyon First Light
photograph
16 x 20 in
2015
Forest Road
photograph
16 x 20 in
2012
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david crittin
www.davidcrittin.com
contact: David Crittin
david.crittin@hotmail.com
Euloz 11
CH-1926 Fully
Switzerland
T: +41 78 800 75 03
“I try to give an account of the
transcendent quality of nature
and its function as a messenger
of a ‘sense of infinity.”
David Crittin’s work is the
expression of a contemplation.
The composition of
landscape in circle unfolds
the mystery of the World:
no beginning, no end; no
quantifiable space, therefore,
no time. It brings us
back to fundamental existentialist
questions, between
finiteness and infinity.
The circular landscapes
are built after the classical
plan of an architecture of
the spirit, with a progressive
densification of the sacred,
of which the archetype in
our culture would be Solomon’s
Temple: outside–enclosure–sanctuary-Holy
of
holies.
Paris doesn’t exist
Numeric photography collage under
acrylic block – jesmonite base
137 x 112 x 50 cm
2012
Composition with center beyond #1
Numeric photography collage under matte diasec
100 x 100 cm
2008
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Gate of silence
Numeric photography
collage on aluminum –
poplar wood base and
sitting block
180 x 170 x 50 cm
2012
In the pictorial field, we note the
Mandalas, sacred images used
in the East to induce a deeper
degree of knowledge through a
reading going from the periphery
to the center. This is precisely one
way to read these images. Starting
from the periphery, the observer
can contemplate the unity
of the World, which is a reflection
of his own unity. Subsequently, he
is brought to the center where
it seems to be nothing left. Nature,
space and time have disappeared.
But the observer remains,
facing himself: a consciousness
beyond this World of shapes and
definitions.
Composition with center beyond #9
Numeric photography collage under matte diasec
100 x 100 cm
2010
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carrie webster
Facing your Demons with Kindness
digitally enhanced photograph
limited edition signed print
up to 40 x 40 in
2014
www.artfolio.com.au
contact: Carrie Webster
carrie@artfolio.com.au
Australia
Carrie Webster works and lives in
Sydney, Australia. Her recent work
has been selected as finalist art
work in a number of international
online photographic & art competitions,
and she was selected to participate
in the prestigious Head On
Photography Festival in May 2014. A
solo exhibition of Carrie’s work was
exhibited at the Angel Restaurant
in Freshwater, Sydney, in April 2014,
and her latest solo exhibition which
is a re-imagining of the Chinese Horoscope
animals mostly transforming
fruit and vegetables into animals
was held in February 2015.
Own Little World
digitally enhanced photograph
limited edition signed print
up to 40 x 40 in
2014
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Let the Healing Begin
digitally enhanced photograph
limited edition signed print
up to 40 x 40 in
2014
Carrie currently works part-time as a UX specialist in IT. She completed a Bachelor of
Visual Arts at COFA in her early twenties, and evolved into the field of graphic and
web design. She also has a Masters degree in Information Architecture. Along the
way, she has always been creating and working on personal art projects in parallel
with her professional life. Carrie has always had a passion for creating, and has
experimented with many different mediums, such as painting, drawing, animation,
video, lino prints, and of course, her current obsession, photography. Carrie plans to
quit her day job when she becomes rich and famous :)
Royal Portrait
digitally enhanced photograph
limited edition signed print
up to 40 x 40 in
2014
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delpierista77
www.stefaniagrasso.it
contact: Stefania Grasso
aktis.a@alice.it
Italy
S.Cristoforo Paintings
Of G.Ferrari,
Chiesa S.Cristoforo
Vercelli
photography
3000 x 2008
2010
Stefania Grasso was born in Vercelli Italy in1977. She started to photograph in 1990.
She loves mainly mountain and sea landscapes and to capture the most beautiful
artworks in Italy. She gained prices in Italy, Vietnam, Michigan ad a finalist in various
photocontests. Her favorite themes are travel photography, nature, landscapes
and arts with photos of churches and monuments.
Ilaria Del Carretto,
Duomo Di Lucca
photography
3000 x 1987
2015
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Altare Piccolomini,
Duomo Di Siena
photography
3000 x 1987
2013
She also loves to create some photobooks to exhibit during
cultural and naturalistic events. She has gained some prices
in contests related To nature and arts. and several covers
for travel rewievs. Some of her portfolios have been selected
by CNN in the section report and by the review N-photography.
Actually she experiments HDR photography.
Villa D’este, Tivoli (Roma) photography, 3000 x 2008, 2012
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Fu Wenjun
Nepotism
conceptual photography
140 x 175 cm
2015
Fu Wenjun, Chinese important
conceptual photography
artist, talks about history
of art; it’s not a means,
but the main goal. He
therefore analyses some
aspects which are meant
to express a timeless concept.
In this way, the expression
of every artwork
becomes a thesis with no
possibility of anti-thesis, full
of proofs which we find
again many times in history,
western and oriental, to
remember that history is repeating
itself and that the
mankind as a whole has
similarities beyond geo-cultural
position.
Life is Simple
conceptual photography
140 x 175 cm
2015
Among the Clouds
conceptual photography
140 x 175 cm
2015
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www.fuwenjun.com
contact: Fu Wenjun
China
350 B.C.
conceptual photography
140 x 175 cm
2015
Drift Away
conceptual photography
140 x 175 cm
2015
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Bernard Sabri
www.art-photo.fr
contact: Bernard Sabri
Bernard_sabri@hotmail.com
France
Network
inkjet mounted on dibond
40 x 30 cm
2003
The original picture was a
view of the garden of the
castle of Sceaux situated in
the south suburb of Paris.
What Bernard searches most in his artistic expression is to create an image worked in
a modern style, rather surrealist; an artwork which provokes, by the symphony of its
colors and the originality of its composition, strong emotions as a sign of successful
communion with the visitor. His works are based exclusively on computer processed
digital photography.
Printing is on various supports
such as fine art paper,
laminated wood,
plastic, aluminum or canvas.
Paris, Montmartre
inkjet mounted on dibond
40 x 28 cm
2005
Solitary painter, an early
Sunday morning on the
“Place du Tertre”.
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Bernard Sabri explores photography
by modern techniques
in order to make “you”
share his emotions of the universe
of Digital-Art; where the
Virtual and the Real merge;
through works expressing his
profound sensitivity to this new
form of Contemporary Art. The
happy marriage of photography
and informatics, which
gave birth to “Digital-Photography”
and thus opened a new
era of “Digital-Art”, allowed
Bernard to get out of the initial
frame of traditional photography
to enjoy the freedom of
digital art, an art representing
well our “High-Tech” Epoch. He
uses the virtual brushes of today’s
digital tools to create a
modern work of art.
Paris, Eiffel Tower
inkjet mounted on dibond
42 x 60 cm
2005
Seine Bank and Eiffel Tower seen
from Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Paris
Statue of Liberty
inkjet mounted on dibond
40 x 28 cm
2005
The statue of liberty no
longer turns its back on the
Eiffel Tower, it welcomes
her henceforth. The original
statue looks to the East while
the one on the picture looks
to the West.
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SNOPIX
www.snopix.co.uk
contact: Peter Higgins
snopixx@hotmail.com
United Kingdom
The Escape
digital photo image
2009
Creator Peter “Snopix” Higgins had no idea
when he set off on his creative journey in 1976
that it would turn into a life time addiction/
adventure. For him it was a positive way to
use the spare time he had then, rather than
just fritter it away doing nothing.
So now in 2015 as he comes up to celebrate
almost 40 years of creating. He has been honoured
to receive the Sandro Botticelli prize
for the original stylistic search. Something he
could have never dreamed of when he purchased
his first pencils and drawing pad in
Amsterdam, all that time ago.
Vision C
digital photo image
2011
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Creativity for me, has become
like an intravenous drug being
pumped into my vein. Addicting
my very life! My very soul!
Taking me on what I can best
describe as, the ultimate adventure
of my life time exploring
the very depths of my own
mind. Even now after almost 4
decades of creating my own
original images, I still get the
same buzz. Through drawing,
painting, photography, Photoshop,
illustrator and now culminating
with my first venture as
an author with the novella “ILL
BE DAMMED” (Available at Amazon.co.uk)
the story of when I
first had the idea to try to express
myself through creativity.
Masquerade
digital photo image
2009
Kallide A In
digital photo image
2012
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Interesting Facts
Part 2
Natural Ultramarine was as valuable as gold during Renaissance costing
per ounce more than half the annual rent of a good size studio in
Florence. It was considered one of the three purest colors beside gold
and vermillion and a reflection of God’s glory. Because of its high cost
it was reserved by artists for the most revered subjects such as robes of
Madonna and Christ.
Linseed oil, the most popular of all oils for painting, comes from the flax
seed a common fiber crop. The linen, a popular oil painting support, is
made from the flax plant.
Pablo Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Fransisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad
Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso. The name contains 23 words and
honors various saints and relatives.
Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2000 works during his life time:
approx 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches. Although he
is now considered one of the greatest artists of all times he was undervalued
and only sold one painting during his life time.
Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed and his personal notes were written
in mirror writing starting from the right side of the page to the left.
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Paul Hamanaka
Q.R114/A Letter
mixed media assemblage
69 x 33 x 9 in
2014
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Image:
Marian Sava
Final
black belgian marble
24 x 45 x 13 cm
2012
Get your artworks seen!
Don’t disregard eyes and ears close to home. In your town or neighborhood? Is
there a coffee shop or bookstore you love? Is it frequented by a lot of like-minded
people?
If so, take the opportunity and ask the owner or manager to display your paintings
or drawings. You get publicity and they get their walls decorated for free, and you
get to tap into a community you are already in sync with.
Who are the top ten people whom you would love to get your artworks in front of?
Make a list and email them. Tracking them down on the worldwide web should be
easy enough, and you get the opportunity to make a presentation of your work to
the people you respect and admire on your own terms - no filter and no middleman
to work around.
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Art eMagazine / Spring 2015
Linda McIntosh
That Spoonful
mixed media on paper
16x16in
2015