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Ismail Acar
Ismail Acar
Ismail Acar’s art is of a highly meaningful nature, and is strongly inspired by history and the passage of time. He has dealt with a wide variety of themes often
related to history and culture including the city of Istanbul, Hagia Sofia, the portraits of the Sultans, Byzantine culture and history, and the Gods of Anatolia. The
diversity of his historical interests give his work great breadth, and in addition to
historical themes he is often inspired by flora, and in particular by tulips, roses,
and pomegranate. He has been exhibited across Europe, the US, Canada, Mexico,
Russia and the Turkish Republics, and his works can be found in museums and
galleries in China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.
Luleci Hendek cad. no-50, Galata, 34425, Istanbul, Turkey
ismail@ismailacar.com.tr
www.ismailacar.com
“Pasa”, Oil on canvas
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Loredana Alfieri, was born in Taranto in 1968, of Neapolitan origin, she studied
accountancy but felt more drawn to art. She paints in the expressionist style in
her own art studio in her native city. She has exhibited in Bari at the Gallery
of the Musical Academy, in Latiano at the Imperial Palace, in Turin, Milan, in
Ferrara at the Palace of the Este family, in Beijing, Naples, Rome, Nice, and in
Monaco she won an international award. She has participated in the Art Expos
of Bari, Reggio Emilia, and Florence and has appeared in various art magazines
including Arte Mondadori.
Loredana Alfieri
Loredana Alfieri
Via Lago di Molveno 7/b, Taranto, 74100, Italy
loredanaalfieri@libero.it
www.loredanaalfieripittriceblogspot.com
“Mondo cane”, Mixed media on canvas
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Bjorn Algrim
Bjorn Algrim
Never stop reaching. It is only when you express joy and abundance in your own
life that you can help others to know the same in their lives. To make yourself
miserable for the sake of helping others will serve no purpose at all. The best way
to be of service to others is from a position of strength and fulfilment rather than
from a position of weakness and despair.
What have you always wanted to know, always wanted to have, always wanted to
do, and always wanted to be? It is never too late to answer that question, and to
answer it with colourful detail and passion. For the answer is your own truly beautiful and unique gift to life. Never stop reaching for the best you can imagine, for
when you fulfil your highest possibilities, you raise the whole world up with you.
PB: 7021 St, Olavs pl, Kristian August gt11, 130, Oslo, Norway
post@algrim.com
www.algrim.com
“Pride”, Oil/tempera on canvas
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My paintings probe natural forms and atmospheric environments in the universe, on earth, and psychologically. Natural forces of destruction and rebirth challenge my art and these natural cycles involve unpredictability and inevitability.
This dichotomy also encompasses society and man on a microcosmic or more
personal level. Powers of good, evil and the unknown thematically interlace in
my art through colour and hints of figural abstractions.
The unknown inspires me since its existence is indefinite or static. There is always an element of surprise when a specific acrylic-stain layer dries in a particular manner, perhaps in accordance with the unique temperature and humidity
levels. Perhaps these layers of paint hint at hidden dimensions of meaning. So I
often wonder, why and how do certain events happen? Why does it rain when it
is supposed to hail? Some questions are not meant to be answered. Yet they still
exist and pique our interests.
Andrea Allegrone
Andrea Allegrone
2299 Old Rex Morrow Rd, 30260, Morrow, Georgia, USA
aa@andreaallegrone.com
www.andreaallegrone.com
“Dancing Figure”, Oil on canvas
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Kareem Amin
Kareem Amin
Born in Guyana ad currently living in California, Kareem is a highly dynamic
and genuine artist who has been exhibited in the San Diego Museum of the
Living Artist .“As an Abstract Painter, I am forced to create images and patterns
with selfless authority. These images develop from an imaginary concept of
reoccurring visions that includes figures, representing movement with overlapping brush strokes. The textural pattern is painted to balance the figures, distinctively allowing contrasting color-palettes to render as Light and Darkness.
This dichotomy in my work is brought about by disguising the figures so that
the viewer is free to interpret their own subjects and voices.”
830 25th Street, suite 102, 92102, San Diego,California, USA
kareem@kareemaminfineart.com
www.kareemralphamin.com
“Heart”, Oil on canvas
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“Vako’s work reproduces the world of his feelings. The concentration of light and movement connects the viewer with the world of music.”
N. Tovmassian, Aravot Daily, Yerevan.
I work with colors, forms and movements. Orange, for me, is the color of life.
It’s very musical, bright and cheerful. To make it real, I add some ‘sad’ tones with
blue, but bring them back with red. Most of my paintings are done using these 3
colors with their shades and tones. I use a lot of contrast in light and color. Whether it’s nature, buildings, interiors or figures, I paint them in forms of squares
and rectangles fading into, and sometimes abruptly contrasting, each other. The
background is as important as the figure and vice-versa. My art doesn’t have
any hidden connotation. I don’t like to be ‘philosophical.’ I paint things the way
I see them. My people are very simple; musicians, artists, beggars, etc. My scenery is simple and direct too; old and new buildings, streets and even rooms.
Very simple, everyday life!
Vako Armeno
Vako Armeno
9 Tbagrichneri Street, apt 62, 10, Yerevan, Armenia
vako_k@yahoo.com
www.vakoarmeno.co.cc
“Dancing Figure”, Oil on canvas
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Mario Artioli Tavani
Mario Artioli Tavani
Born in Florence in 1965, he lives and works in Cantagallo, Prato. During his adolescence, he studied classical guitar and participated in various painting competitions. Though he initially specialised in precision mechanics, working in printing
and as an artisan, from 2002 onwards he dedicated himself entirely to sculpture.
Of him the critic Anita Valentini said: “... he is an artist eager to give his figures the
pure breath of illusion but, at the same time, of reality, as if he wanted to resolve
the mystery of things, of life, and of what the love of what man can create.”
He has received a number of awards and has participated in various exhibitions including at the Palazzo Panciatichi in Florence, Sale del Bramante in Rome, and the
Espace Fontvieille in Monaco. Most of his works, almost exclusively in iron without
mergers, are part of private and public collections.
Via dei Cipressi 8, Cantagallo, Fraz. Usella, (PO), 59025, Italy
artioli.scultoredelferro@virgilio.it
www.marioartiolitavani.it
“Il falso benessere”, Iron sheeting without joints
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Marianne’s art is powerful and mysterious. Her paintings often have a mist
about them and the theme of her works is often an exploration of the relationships between people. “Communication, to understand another human being
truly and completely is difficult. In addition, people may unconsciously transmit
their own emotions and prejudices on others, not to forget all the things not
mentioned for one reason or another. This complexity of interaction between
people fascinates me.”
Sissel M. Aurland
Sissel M. Aurland
Gauteidveien 227, 2016 Frogner, Norway
sissel@aurlandrevisjon.no
www.sisselaurland.blogspot.com
“Trompetan over bølgeblækktaket”, Oil on canvas
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Carla Avanzi
Carla Avanzi
Carla Avanzi was born in 1968 in Udine, where she resides and works as a teacher.
As well s being a respected artist, she has received many honours in the world of
literature. For her poetry she has won numerous international prizes, including
“Giovanni Verga”, “William Shakespeare”, “Omaggio a Verga” and the “Lev Tolstoj”
competitions. Her poetry has been widely published in Italy, and she has also published a novel, ‘Profumo di libertà’, published by Campanotto editors. She is also
respected for her commentaries on Pirandello, Carducci, Foscolo, Pascoli and Ariosto. It is this rich cultural background which Carla Avanzi brings into her paintings.
Her works are permeated by her poetry, and they often sing of war and violence,
themes often covered by the Poets she is so fond of. Her works are mysterious and
rich in symbolism, and her colours and brush strokes are like words subtly whispered.
Birago 53, Udine, (UD), 33100, Italy
avanzicarla@live.it
www.carlaavanzi.beepworld.it
“Violenza”, Mixed media on canvas
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Shefqet Avdush Emini currently lives and works in Holland, after having graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Prishtina, Kosovo. He has worked as a
lecturer but has always been occupied by his painting and sculpture, he now
works as a professional artist. The artist describes his work as“figurative abstract
expressionism” and incorporates a vibrant palette and a layering of colour. The
artist uses oil on canvas to create his expressive pieces that blur abstraction with
figurative elements. His works are often bold in their use of colour and brushstrokes. He has exhibited in Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany and Italy
in both group and solo exhibitions.
Shefqet Avdush Emini
Shefqet Avdush Emini
Meliskerkestraat 26, 6845 AW Arnhem, The Netherlands
shefqet_emini@hotmail.com
www.shefqetavdushemini.com
“untitled”, Oil on canvas
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Ted Barr
Ted Barr
Theodor Barr’s art is the result of a highly refined and complex technique, developed over much time and with much experimentation. He depicts the universe and
space with notable spirituality and he has recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale
and the FusionArts Museum of New York. “At a very young age I asked myself
about the origin of life. I used to raise my eyes to the stars and wonder if we came
from there. I try to paint what elevates my soul and spirit, galactic elements from
deep space with the marvel of stars and galaxies. The universe is dark, even the
largest stars as big as 20 times our sun would look like tiny pale dots in a larger
scale picture of the universe. It is very hard to communicate the universes vastness.
The basic element to my work is tar or asphalt, then I use combinations of oil and
acrylic colors and on top I use special lacquers that are used for wood coating.”
P.O. Box 1189, 47111, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
tedbarr@gmail.com
www.ted.co.il
“Fingers formation”, Tar and mixed media on canvas
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Jenny Bennett
Jenny Bennett
I paint to make something from nothing, to communicate my visions to others, to
put people where I have been, on journeys to remote and beautiful parts of New
Zealand. Like the author Anais Nin, I believe that art provides us with the antitoxins we need to live.
Landscape is my primary focus at present, in particular the New Zealand flora,
nikau palms, beaches, rocks and water. Nikau have a wonderful structure reminiscent of the gothic arch, a richness of colour, texture and lush foliage. All this contrasts with the more austere and subdued palette associated with the other theme
of rocks and water. As evident here, I am fascinated with the dualities of soft/hard,
solid/fluid, eroding/creating and light/dark.
41 Cockburn Street , Onerahi, 110, Whangarei, New Zealand
jenny@jennybennett.com
www.jennybennett.com
“Beneath Kapowairua, Spirits Bay” , Oil on linen
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Zina Bercovici, an Israeli artist, presents two paintings of gloomy human bodies.
Male or female? One can not tell. The mystical shapes do not reveal that. The
colors of the figures are soft and worm. They immerge gently out of the soft
background colors. The combination of the soft shapes and the delicate colors
is magnificent. The shape and the structure create mild and delicate contrasts.
The soft and fluidic strokes and the colors make pleasant pictures of human
bodies join together in unknown activities. The human shapes are of different
nations, sizes and origin, they symbolise the equality of humanity. It is left to
the imagination of the viewer to complete the picture and the story of the unity
of mankind. The artist plays with the mind of the viewer, letting his intelligence
and mentality interpret the scene. The combination of simple lines and shapes, yet sophisticated approach is the surprising and genuine style generated
by Zina Bercovici
Zina Bercovici
Zina Bercovici
Nitzanim 18\4, 34354, Haifa, Israel
zinaberko@gmail.com
www.artzina.com
“Untitled”, Oil on canvas
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Anneli Bergquist
Anneli Bergquist
Anneli was born in Finland in 1945 and came to Sweden in 1950. She currently
lives in Österlen, a notable center for artists and is a member of various art associations and groups. She was heavily influenced by Tiffany glass which she was
first exposed to in England in 1993, and started working on it then.
In 1997 she started experimenting with aquarelle, oils, and acrylics, and today
she uses all the techniques and mediums, making her a very dynamic artist. After
much study, she works as an interpreter of art and she teaches drawing, and is
also a teacher of oriental dance.
Her art is inspired by the people she meets and her travels. Her art exudes calmness and a rare internal harmony.
Holmåkravägen 4, 27660, Skillinge, Sweden
annelib@glocalnet.net
www.bildtolkning.se
“Life’s winding”, Metalwire and glass
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I depict freely from nature and more than often coastal motifs, lakes and
waterways. Water is for me a symbol of freedom, that also gives interesting
reflections, as light is the essence of the image. I strive to capture a mood, more
than to make a direct representation of reality. For me, nature has a soul and
my ambition is to convey some of the calm and the strengh it can bring. My
true drive is the wish to make pictures come alive, to share the creative process
in the making itself.
I paint in both oils and watercolours. I prefer to make my nature oil paintings
in large formats up to 3m.
Kathrin Bernekorn
Kathrin Bernekorn
Sparresväg 31, 247 53, Dalby, Sweden
kathrinbernekorn@hotmail.com
www.bernekorn.se
“Vårbäcken”, Oil on canvas
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Piera Bessone
Piera Bessone
The work of the Turinese artist Piera Bessone stands out due to its chromatic
structure.
The artist’s creations bring life to nature in a symphony of chromatic notes, and
the paintings are full of poetry. The use of acrylic on canvas leaves room for a rare
compositional power. The mixture of color is convincing and captivating. The expression is original and adopts a language that makes abstraction a more concrete
reality.
Via Pinerolo, 22, Cavour, (TO), 10061, Italy
piera@besspierre.com
www.besspierre.com
“Pioggia primaverile”, Acrylic on canvas
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It all happened many moonlit nights ago, this love affair with my oils. I didn’t
know myself very well then until I picked up the brush and took to painting in
the twilight of my aloneness. I found wisdom in solitude, earnestness in loneliness and a voice that was nurtured in silence. Edouard Manet once disclosed,
“…laws of artistic nature are baffling. It is when an artist has most reason to be
discouraged that he is, in fact, drawing near to his own particular truth...” My
paintings are a celebration of life and a true testament that my imagination is
for keeps and can be larger than life itself.
Plet Bolipata
Plet Bolipata
Casa San Miguel, Barangay San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales, Philippines
pletunia@hotmail.com
“Variations on Blue Hour: Appasionata”, Mixed media on Canvas
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Antonio Bono
Antonio Bono
Bono was born in Brindisi in 1969. Passionate from a young age about design and
colours, he graduated from the artistic lyceum. He resides in the historic district of
the city, where his passion for clay modeling and studying of the figure developed,
bringing him closer to the famous local paper mache workshops. Here he began
to work, dedicated to the creation of numerous portraits, commissioned for a
number of sacred sites. His closeness to the beautiful city of Lecce brought him to
start working the stone of Lecce, for which he received a number of commissions
for sacred statues and architectural decorations. He has participated in various
exhibitions and competitions. One such competition, organised by the municipality of Brindisi, had as a theme “the street of your city”. It brought him to observe
the people of his city, its little roads and harbor, and the countryside more closely,
and he came closer to impressionist painting. He currently lives in Umbria.
Via Campomicciolo 182, Terni, (TR), 05100, Italy
ericagiada@alice.it
“Raccolta”, Oil on canvas
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“An innate drive towards figurative art saw her graduate as teacher of Art, then to
graduate at the academy of Arts and subsequently in Psychology, longing to know man
intimately. Her creations: paintings, sculptures, buildings, glass fusions or ceramics,
strike us inside, causing emotions that stimulate our sense of being.”
Elena Morelli
“Already leading the staff at Palazzo Valentini, Rome, in 1990 where Professor Parracciani said: “For reasons of ‘life’... she creates new forms of light that plough through
infinite space”. The profound inner search of the artist leads to a sound expression of
art and an individual realisation: In 2003 she achieved the International Diploma
of OntoArte. The viewer, often unknowingly, spontaneously enters into a dimension
where she contacts her own intimate truth.”
Carmen Mennella
“The overwhelming tendency to the whole, to the cosmic, in a synergy, never calm, of
forms and symbiotic approaches, project her works towards a being that makes itself
exist in its creation, strength.” Giuseppe Spallotta
Letizia Borelli
Letizia Borelli
Via Coste della Madonna 8, Scandriglia, Rieti, (RI), 02038, Italy
centro.ludica@tiscali.it
“Senso e parola”, Oil and iron on canvas
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Elmer Borlongan
Elmer Borlongan
The human figure continues to be the focus of my works. The sound and the fury
of Manila street scenes have been the fitting accompaniment to the figures that
have graced my works throughout the years. I paint in a studio in the middle
of a mango farm surrounded by the sound of a sometimes wailing sea and the
chirping of the birds. People here have a deep attachment to the elements of the
earth, in spite of the deceiving laid back nature, there is a certain rhythm and
sense of purpose in everyday living, in the tilling of the soil or catching fish in
the sea. There is a profound beauty in the ordinariness and simplicity of it all that
must be expressed in the only way I know how. And that is, visually. I am here to
document what is there to see to make sense of my existence.
Casa San Miguel, Barangay San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales, Philippines
eborlongan@yahoo.com
“Waiting Shed”, Oil on Canvas
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Abstract Expressionism and action painting have always influenced my work.
My practise is heavily rooted in these two movements. I enjoy painting this way,
however in addition I am also influenced by more traditional mediums. Painting
for me becomes a physical gesture. I want to drip, rub, stain and apply the colour
with violence, almost ruining the image that I’m representing. The result is a
painting, vivid, vibrant, dynamic and full of energy. Through these brush strokes
I can make it even more dramatic and expressive, the faces of my characters
then evolve. The elderly and their loneliness is my recurring theme. The lack of
dialogue together with isolation means that the time spent becomes for them a
life devoid of any sense and meaning. Without contact and dialogue with other
people, life is reduced only to passivity and stagnation. My portraits are the representation of the transience of their lives and that behind every melancholy
gaze is always a story that deserves to be remembered.
Giancarlo Bozzani
Giancarlo Bozzani
Via Padova, Milano, (MI), 20154, Italy
bozzani@arthastudio.it
www.borronibrothers.com/giancarlo_bozzani.html
“Rebecca”, Oil on panel
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Caryia Breemen
Cariya Breemen
Cariya Breemen’s artwork utilizes an extensive range of materials, colors and formats to express thoughts and ideas in two and three dimensions. Her work spans
a wide genre, from almost monochrome pieces to more representational paintings
that utilize a wider range of colors and materials. There is also the combination of
a large selection of design elements, which in many cases feature materials such
as glass or wood that add texture and depth. Change and variation in the context
of Cariya’s work is a constant and necessary aspect of expressing the full meaning
of her work. Each piece has its own intrinsic meaning that provides the framework
for its full context, however, ultimately, it is left open to the individual interpretation of the viewer.
598 10th Avenue, Suite 6F, 10036, New York, USA
Cariya@CariyaBreemen.com
www.CariyaBreemen.com
“Disintegration”, Mixed media on canvas
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Born on the island of Rhodes in 1940. His uncle, Luigi Zucchelli initiated him
into the art of painting in 1950 and he subsequently attended the workshop of
master Aurelio Barbalonga and other Bolognese artists and eventually opened
his own study in 1965. The art world was a place of fervor in those days and Busi
took part with enthusiasm feeling increasingly that painting was his vocation.
Silvia Evangelisti writes of him: “In the paintings of Busi the paint, colour,and
image tend no longer to represent reality but to explore its essence, its soul, and
its identity, which the artist searches for within himself, within his relationship
with the world, and within his experience, his story, his memory. His paintings
speak of this, as if there were an emotive filter between the artist’s painting and
reality, creating a kind of perceptive ambiguity that insinuates itself between
vision and representation, bringing his paintings to the boundary between presence and evanescence, between reality and appearance, poised between abstraction and figuration.
Arturo Busi
Arturo Busi
Via G.Vasari 30, Bologna, (BO), 40128, Italy
arturobusi@alice.it
www..arturobusi.it
“Eclisse”, Oil on canvas
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Dagmar Calais
Dagmar Calais
The famous diptych“Ristratto di Battista Sforza e Federico da Montefeltro”by Piero della Francesca served as an example for my two paintings. Unlike many other
artists of his time, Piero was able to convey the artistic and humanistic achievements of the early Renaissance: he exposed the nature of the ducal couple in this
painting which is reminiscent of classical coin portraits through the depiction in
profile. The military leader is hiding the scarred part of his face from the contemplator, and only the striking infraction of the nose is an indicator for his dangerous
occupation, which I pointed out in my interpretation by using war paint and the
headdress. In contrast to her spouse, the well-educated Battista is showing proud
introversion with her gaze through the half-closed eyes, which refers to the posthumous origin of the Piero Portrait. The coin-like tondi of my paintings reveal
the intimate relationship of the ducal couple just like the two sides of a coin.
Föhrenstr. 76-78, 28207, Bremen, Germany
mail@dagmar-calais.de
www.dagmar-calais.de
“Federico da Montefeltro”, Oil on canvas
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I have a reverence for life, its rhythm, its connected song of celebration. I paint
stories with watercolour, oil, gouache and bits of foil and fabric. I listen to world
music while painting, music that is the heart beat of our collective soul. I create
paintings in one sitting and when I realise I am finished I can breathe.
I once lived in a centuries old farmhouse in the heart of Provence, France, and
walked the countryside conversing with the farmers, sketching the connection of
land to buildings.
Jill Louise Campbell
Jill Louise campbell
I now live on a small island on the Pacific Coast of Canada, my studio on the ocean
edge feeding my inspirations, I can feel the ancient legends of the native culture.
This deeply influences my paintings, my art is my joy and illumination.
120 Fruitvale Road, V8K 2M1, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
jilllouisecampbell@gmail.com
www.jlcgallery.com
“Cicada Sings”, Watercolour and gouache
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Cosimo Carola
Cosimo Carola
“Influenced by fashion, we become accustomed to appreciate artwork and artists which
are already widely recognized and celebrated and lose the pleasure of discovery.
I have rediscovered new perceptions by observing the works of the young painter Cosimo
Carola. Carola is able to portray his heart in the colourful approach of his works. An
emotion presents itself on the canvas in the lines and geometry, giving them shape, image, body and meaning. The brilliance and intensity of colour, together with the ordered
geometry of the forms seem to want to entrap in cages of stylistic lines; strong feelings
are ready to explode as cries for help in a deaf world. Tired posing, imploring gazes or lost
in emptiness: the masks that ineptly conceal inner pain, every single aspect of the works
generate feelings in the observer who feels almost defenceless. Cosimo Carola is an artist
to discover: his works breathe, live, speak, listen and evoke emotion.”
William Kerdudo Facchinetti
Via Antonio Gramsci 79, Vimodrone, (MI), 20090, Italy
cosimo.carola@gmail.com
www.cosimocarola.com
“Sottovetro”, Oil on canvas
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When we observe the creations of Alessia, our eyes rest on the beauty of the
feminine curves in their most natural shape. These nudes are an allegory of the
most real emotions, not the sensations felt in day to day life but the more intricate emotions we feel in private. More and more behavior patterns condition
our life. The rather impressive and peculiar aspects to each of these creations
are the absence of the face and the expressions. Alessia achieves in her work a
very poignant motif that some would say mirrors the soul. If the expression of
the body symbolises the natural and sincere emotions of oneself, then surely the
absence of one’s looks show how fickle and subjective our emotions can be. This
is very important in Alessia’s work, it shows that she works without egocentricity and without any sort of presumption. In a world that is becoming more and
more devoid of personality, where instead we are replaced by prejudices and
limited expression that can sometimes blur and overwhelm our emotions, Alessia’s work overrides all of this to bring in a new and transitional sense of feeling.
Alessia Carrara
Alessia Carrara
Via Mistorni, Alla Fontanella, Pura, Ticino, 6984, Switzerland
info@alessiacarrara.ch
www.alessiacarrara.ch
“Ramoe”, Bronze and lost wax
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Candela Casado Sastre
Candela Casado Sastre
In my painting, I believe that there is a mixture of the abstract and the figurative.
From far away it is figurative and from close up it is abstract. The colour is essential
to the overall meaning, but sometimes I try to place emphasis on the lines, though never so much so as to overwhelm the colour. This is an almost subconscious
act, the product of my creative impulse, like a power struggle between these two
factors of my artistic pursuits. There is another aspect which is now prominent:
collage. With sheets from newspapers and magazines, I incorporate these as elements of things that one has to see throughout the day: the here and now. The
newspaper serves as the foundation for the work because of its visual texture,
which inspires me and leads me to perhaps continue with other elements.
Candela Casado Sastre graduated from the national school of Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon, Buenos Aires and has exhibited in Italy, Uruguay, the USA and
Brazil in both solo and group exhibitions.
Madero 1390, Buenos Aires, Argentina
candelart@fibertel.com.ar
www.candelacasadosastre.com.ar
“El Tigre II”, Mixed media
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“Andrea Casalini manages to draw upon the mundanity of everyday life, such as cars,
flowers, motorcycles and human figures. He then crosses the border beyond realism
into the less descriptive through the use of colour, expression, the movement of brush
strokes, and by using sinuous curves, the subject of the painting becomes alive. The
artist is influenced by futurism and is inspired by Boccioni. He also adores the pop art
movement and looks upon the city graffiti of the 80s.
Casalini’s main focus is to convey his passion for art and the theory behind it, as a viewer we can see his interest for graphic design. And it is pop art which is more than ever
alive in the imagination of Casalini, as well as the strong brush strokes reminiscent of
80s graffiti. With his experience in the area of graphic communication he succeeds to
express his passion for art’s meaning.”
Dott. Carlo Pasquini
Andrea Casalini
Andrea Casalini
Via della Vecchia Ferrovia 6, Cecina, (LI), 57023, Italy
a.casalini@mollicamarino.it / casalini_a@yahoo.it
“Mitos”, Acrylic on canvas
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Leila Chalabi
Leila Chalabi
Leila Chalabi began her studies in Art in Lebanon, and continued in France, entering the St Roch Academy one year after her arrival. Since then she has exhibited
in Paris, Geneva, Kuwait, Istanbul, in Lebanon and other locations. ”It’s a subtle
matter, that fine relation between what comes out on the canvas, and the reality
to depict. It’s a struggle between tensions, circumstances and the spirit unfolding
with brushes. My canvas is my basic grounding structure, colours are my language. It is my way to express and show my understanding of life. I look for harmony
in my colours. Even the ugliest of feelings, violence, grieving and pain, will have to
be shown in a sense of equilibrium, of completeness in the space given.
3, Rue Francoise 1er, 75008, Paris, France
leila.chalabi@gmail.com
www.leilachalabi.com
“ Les Ailes du Plaisir”, Mixed media on canvas
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Born and educated in Hong Kong, Clementine Chan holds a Bachelor Degree
in Social Science. She studied pastel, drawing and oil painting with renowned
Hong Kong artist Alan Lau Chung Hang. In 1998, she was accepted by the Parsons School of Design and received an award of merit in the 7th annual competition of Manhattan Arts international magazine. She is currently a full-time arts
administrator of the leading modern dance company in Hong Kong.
A prolific painter, she has been actively exhibiting since 2002 in private galleries
and public venues, presenting ten solo exhibitions. She has also been commissioned to do illustrations for bestselling books and other publicity materials, as
well as stage sets in dance productions. In 2007, Chan was invited to exhibit her
works in the 6th Florence Biennale. Her works are collected by private collectors
in Hong Kong.
Clementine Chan
Clementine Chan
11C, Block 13, Phase 4 Seacrest Villa, Sham Tseng, N.T, Hong Kong, China
trustnil@yahoo.com
www.clementinestudio.com
“Night Watcher” , Oil on canvas
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Malaika Charbonneau
Malaika Charbonneau
Paraphrasing Omar Khayyam in ‘The Rubaiyat’, the written word exists forever. Yet,
conversations seldom see past the present. My series is based on the theory that
paint can be as permanent as the pen. Imagining the canvas as a studio equalizer,
the viewer is able to see the inflection and amplitude of the conversation. The
magnified or minimised geometric shapes give an aesthetic form to an audio experience. Charbonneau has studied Literature, Philosophy, Art and Architecture.
She recently received her BFA from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver in May
of 2008. Her work was featured in the Vancouver Theater Playhouse and at 999
Seymour in their showroom. Her paintings are in collections throughout North
America as well as Germany and England.
907B 9th St E, S7H 0M9, Saskatoon, Canada
mzc33.3@gmail.com
www.ThirtyThreeCircleThree.com
“Yellow Nude”, Mixed media on board.
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Born in Catania in 1972, Coglitori already showed an inclination for painting as
a child, and in 1988 he started attending classes in drawing and ceramics. He
developed greatly from 1990 to 1995, when he set off to visit numerous museums
and exhibitions and copied the works of the masters. It is in imitating a work of
Van Gogh that he discovered his creativity and he started to blossom as an artist.
Since then he has exhibited his works widely and attracted much positive criticism. The Umbrian painter Valan describies Coglitori’s works as follows:
Salvo Coglitori
Salvo Coglitori
“He sits on a fine line between Naif art and the figurative, and through his sunny
colours one can recognize his origins. He does not refrain from dealing with the most
varied subjects, the elderly are particularly striking in his paintings, as are the strong
trees, which sit so close to each other, and yet appear solitary”.
Via Santi Bonaccorsi, 3, Aci Catena, Catania, (CT), 95022, Italy
salvo.coglitori@tao.it
www.salvocoglitori.it
“La Donna in Giallo”, Oil on board
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Claudia Coppola
Claudia Coppola
Sinuous lines, strident colours, and compositional power are the elements that
bring life to Claudia Coppola’s artistic world. Faces of magical fairies, who live in
dreamlike atmospheres with languid eyes that are so huge they could almost open
a gate to one’s soul. Looking inside these eyes one can read immense fragility mixed with sadness and innocence. Strong femininity is expressed by the colour blue,
in addition a splash of the unconscious is mixed in with the spiritual world of infants which causes a certain magic that comes into play.
Via Francesco Zambrini 18, Milano, (MI), 20128, Italy
claudia.coppola@tiscali.it
www.premioceleste.it/claudiaemanuelacoppola
“Tornare s casa II”, Mixed media on panel
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Barbara Crimella was born in Rho, in the province of Milan, in 1973. Her fascination with the third dimension and construction have always provided the stimulus for her to try and express her emotions. She enrolled at the Brera Academy of
art and earned a diploma in sculpture with Igino Legnago. Her works composed
in silicon are capable of capturing the essence of skin, which the viewer himself
can touch and come into contact with. The principle concept in which the artist
finds inspiration is the use of the body as the highest expression of the inner
world of a person, anguish, pain and problems. Tall slender sculptures composed of rusted iron are the second form of sculpture created by the artist Barbara
Crimella who is inspired by the shapes of nature in which she takes refuge to
protect their own balance. Rust, due to the fact that it changes over time and its
warm colour is one of the materials favoured by the artist.
Barbara Crimella
Barbara Crimella
Via Pio XI, 69, Saronno, (VA), 21047, Italy
barbaracrimella@gmail.com
www.barbaracrimella.it
“L’Abbandono”, Silicon and rusted iron
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Marina Cuccus
Marina Cuccus
Marina Cuccus lives and works in Sardinia where she is professor of painting. Having graduated from the Artistic Lyceum of Cagliari, she continued her studies in
Rome, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in painting.
“Mixing genres such as Tachism and Gestural art, she walks a path full of painting to
achieve a formal and chromatic significance. The entirety of the painting shows the process
followed by the painter, and even the finest details are suggestive of metapainting. The gesture is automatically both reasoned and unconscious, it becomes a calligraphic sign. The
expressive urgency of communication passes through the filter of the meditated. The form
is not only distorted but annihilated, and the structural phase passes through the process
of deconstruction for which design and colour are generated in a balancing of opposites
where the content is form and form is content.”
Massimo Antonio Sanna
Piazza Galba 6, Monserrato, (CA), 9042, Italy
ahinamas@hotmail.it
http://ahinama.altervista.org/eureka.html
“Red & Black”, Mixed media on canvas
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Born in Catania, Sicily, in 1952, he lives and works in the eternal city. He has participated in important personal and collective exhibitions in Catania, Madrid and
Paris. He is an Engineer by education and therefore his technical and scientific
preparation lead him to study the influence of light and to apply the laws of optics
to his painting technique. Starting from the premise that every colour radiates
with a well defined wavelength, he theorises an abstract style, which defines the
Expressionism of reason, which is not produced by the unconsious, but from measured and balanced choices that are the result of a conscious selection of colors
and background. In his material compositions, using strong and vibrant colours,
he transcends the art-science dichotomy provoking new sensations and interpretations of reality.
Gaetano D’Alessandro
Gaetano D’Alessandro
Piazza B.C.Fragalà 15a, Catania, (CT), 95125, Italy
gaetano.dalessandro@tiscali.it
www.gaetanodalessandro.it
“ Quali colombe dal disio chiamate...”, Oil on canvas
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Patrizia Viviana De Filippo
Patrizia Viviana De Filippo
“Two worlds, in a fight to see the light on the paintings of Patrizia De Filippo. Strict and
rigorous, the first observes with respect the lessons of the great masters of the past. Irreverent, rebellious and a little cynical, the second can not resist the impulse to expose and
ridicule reality with painful irony. Between these two ways, the observation and dramatic
representation of feelings on the one hand, and the critical and disenchanted irony on the
other, we find a need for a synthesis, difficult but ever more urgent. The whole process seems permeated by the fear of the self, of one’s own inner world and the need to control it.
One cannot but nurture great expectations for this artist“
Antontella Russo
Via Passo Enea, 35, Trapani, (TP), 91100, Sicily, Italy
pattdefi@yahoo.it
www.vivianapdf.splinder.com/
“Oblio”, Oil on canvas
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Carlo Dezzani was born in Turin in 1957. He began his artistic life at a young
age and enrolled in the Artistic Lyceum in Turin, being taught by masters such as
Chessa and Sergio Albano. In 1993 he began exhibiting both in Italy and abroad
achieving notable critical acclaim, receiving attention from newspapers including
“La Stampa” of Turin, “La Repubblica” of Rome and the “NICE-MATIN” of Montecarlo. He has been written about by L. Carini, A. Spinardi, and L. Lepri and
received the compliments of Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi. He has exhibited widely in Italy,
in particular at EXPOARTE and has also exhibited in New York.
He prefers working with Aquarelle and divides himself between his informal soul
and metasurreal landscapes. His works are characterised by an atmosphere of
timelessness, where the time passes without ever really leaving, haunting castles
and haunting eyes.
Carlo Dezzani
Carlo Dezzani
Strada Basse n.5, Villafranca (TO), Piemonte, 10068, Italy
charlesdejan@libero.it
www.dezzaniarte.com
“La Maison de femme” , Oil on canvas
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Anneli Di Francis
Anneli Di Francis
I hand build my sculptures out of clay. In my work I depict humanity and small
things which move our conscience. Pictures are both individual pieces as well as
entities that form a series. When I begin working, the whole process with all its
stages and materials has already been thought through. The relation between the
name of the image and the picture itself is very important to me, how the image
expresses the matter and bears it’s name.
“She is a mass consumer of art who, in addition to making ceramics, writes poetry and
frequently visits art exhibitions and the theatre. Nevertheless, she does not take art and her
pieces too seriously but with a pinch of salt. Therefore she says she makes nonsense with a
clear conscience. She is torn by the fact that art is turned into something grave instead of
letting it just be a source of joy and resource.”
Kirsi-Maria Tuomisto
Törnäväntie 10 B 27, 60200, Seinäjoki, Finland
rissameister@gmail.com
www.1st4art.eu
“Working Method”, Ceramics and wood
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As an Architect, I used to design spaces and enclose them with walls, that defined their boundaries within the natural surrounding. As a sculptor, I think
about the inner spirit of my sculptures, and define boundaries with clay. This
inner spirit is the essence of my work. Life, Human Beings and the relationship
between them, have always inspired me. By joining them together, I can feel the
music of their movements, the colors, the shadows they cast on one another,
and the sensuality of couples and groups. Through them I can transmit my own
feelings and talk with my audience, in different ways.”
Lea Dolinsky
Lea Dolinsky
Lea Dolinsky has exhibited widely and internationally and has developed a powerful and unique style. In her art one can recognize different influences, including from Latin America and the Mediterranean. Her works are dignified but
sensual.
Rehavat Ilan 10, 54056, Guivat Shmuel, Israel
dlea21@gmail.com
www.leadolinsky-sculptor.com
“Bar” , Ceramics
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Jamie Donald
Jasmie Donald
My current studio work involves taking images from mass media sources and turning them into art. The process of making a painting starts with these images, and
from there I aim to re-mediate them and turn them into something else. The mere
process of spending time re-creating an image adds value and importance to what
the audience sees.
I like to play with the perceptions of the images: is it a painting of a celebrity, or is it
a painting of a drawing of a celebrity? By re-producing an image in different media,
I am removing it from the context in which it came from. There are clues to this in
the titles as well as in the way I have composed the pictures.
15H St Swithin Street, AB10 6XB, Aberdeen, Scotland
jamierdonald@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/jamierdonald
“Self Portrait (if my name was Caleb Followill)” , Oil on Canvas
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Her first public decoration was at the age of 16, when she won an open art competition and her first exhibition came two years later where she was described
as a young talent. She has consequently been represented in several private art
collections around the world, exhibiting in Paris, Norway and elsewhere.
She went on to study philosophy, design and humanities before moving to Paris
and starting an art education in the fields of painting, art history and sculpture.
She also had an art gallery in which she could explore other artist’s art, but she
now concentrates on her own work, with expressionist paintings, lithographs
and sculpture forming an exploration of the human being in relation to different
cultures, religions and the inner self.
Nina Dreyer Henjum
Nina Dreyer Henjum
Storgt 70, 2609, Lillehammer, Norway
nina@dreyerhenjum.com
www.ninadreyerhenjum.com
“Angels and Demons”, Mixed media
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Christine Drummond
Christine Drummond
The German poet Gotthold E. Lessing once said that ‘the ultimate goal of art is joy.’
Joy is what I want to bring to people through my paintings, through my choice of
colours, the theme, the life, the movement; each stroke of the palette knife on my
canvas conveying joy. When I complete a painting, I hope that those who see it will
be attracted to it and want to be enveloped by the atmosphere it creates.
If people feel good when they look at one of my pieces, if my paintings brighten
their day in any way, then my mission as an artist is fulfilled.
1591 Prestwick lane, IN 46032, Carmel, U.S.A.
chdrummond@yahoo.com
www.chdrummond.com
“Caribbean market” , Oil on canvas
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Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze is a German artist who lives in the United States. Born
and raised in Saarbruecken, Germany, she studied with the late artist Max Mertz
and after graduating in graphic design and book illustration, her focus gradually
shifted to figurative art. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she lived for more
than 13 years, Cathrine became a very active and recognized member of the art
community.
She taught art to children and adults and devoted most of her time to live figure
drawing. It became her passion and this is reflected in her distinct emotional
and personal artwork.
She recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been exhibited
in Germany, Italy and the United States and her collectors come from places as
diverse as Germany, Namibia, Canada, the United States and Japan.
Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze
Cathrine Edlinger-Kunze
4182 Mystic CT, 95124, San Jose, California, U.S.A
cathrine@edlinger-kunze.com
www.edlinger-kunze.com
“Lead me on”, Acrylic on Linen
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Joseph El Arid
Joseph El Arid
Joseph El Arid was born in 1963 in the beautiful Lebanese city of Zahle, famous
for its ancient churches and architecture. Joseph is a self-taught artist and studied
at the Royal Art society of Sydney. He has exhibited widely both in Lebanon and
around the world, and in particular in Australia for the Marian Apostolic Movement
and Paris where he has exhibited in many locations, and where in 2001 he was
guest of honour at the art saloon of Compiègne.
Joseph El Arid is an artist of remarkable skill and notable dynamism. He paints
using oil on canvas in different styles. His abstract works are geometric and of great
profundity, seemingly being characterised by many levels of depth. His landscapes
are mostly of his homeland, and many of them depict the city of Zahle with its
white houses, terracotta tiles, and cyprus trees. In these paintings his impressionist
style is both dreamy and enchanting.
Zahle haouch el omara-hraoui st, 961, Zahle, Lebanon
joes_arid@hotmail.com
www.onefineart.com
“Abstract Bird from Beyond”, Oil on Canvas
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The work of Antonio Esposito is characterised by a need to search, carried out
using different materials and developing a process of experimentation completely independent from stylistic orthodoxies. In his works, the unconscious
matrix of certain figures can appear or disappear behind the canvas in colour.
Through the network of lines, which is based on and meshed together with a
mental approach, the creativity that the artist produces is not an end in itself, it
is a ‘discovery.’ This is often linked to a certain ironic and disenchanted approach of an artist who allows himself to be influenced both by the sacred and the
profane.
Within his work, eclectic and rich, we can find a fine thread which links works of
various subjects: the need for research. Ultimately every work is a subject-object,
an answer and a new stimulus, expression both contingent and universal. A
creative research for the deepest meaning of what it is to “do” art.
Antonio Esposito
Antonio Esposito
Via Valle Pozzo, 17, Albano Laziale, Roma, (RM), 00041, Italy
espotonio@libero.it
www.artesposito.it
“Untitled” , Acrylic on Canvas
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Giulio Galgani
Giulio Galgani
Giuglio Galgani, is a highly creative and dynamic artist of many talents, and of
insatiable curiosity. He is a compulsive experimenter, not only a visual artist but
also involved in theater and cinema, and has been exhibited internationally in numerous exhibitions and museums, particularly in Italy and England, including at
the The Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Palagio, The Assembly house of Norwich,
and The Palazzo Piccolomini of Pienza.
“Giuglio Galgani is an artist inspired by the enigmatic silence of his land, La Val di Chiana. His name may not be known to many, but as the history of art has taught us, this is the
fate of those destined to meet a higher and indisputable affirmation in time.”
Giovanni Faccenda
Loc. Badicorte 13, Marciano Della Chiana, (AR), 52047, Italy
info@giuliogalgani.com
www.giuliogalgani.com
“La Chimera”, Bronze, and lost wax
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Portraits do not represent us as we really are, though many of us, in various epochs, have believed in this half truth. Portraits, if made by an artist of the court,
represent us as we would want to be. But if the artist is more than a mere court
artist, they represent us as we should recognise ourselves to be.
In a painting there are characters, scenes, frames, colours and lights exalting
the emotions and sentiments. This is the text by which the framework suggests
the narrative. Of course, imagination is static, whilst the story is dynamic, and
develops over time, but the compositional elements of the story, the core poetic
message in the background are all present in the picture.
The painting here expresses what is best in a single frame of the story, capturing
it on the canvas, representing the instant where the story has reached its greatest climax.
Corrado Gatti
Corrado Gatti
Via Lagustena, 16/18, Genova, (GE), 16131, Italy
corrado_gatti@libero.it
“Tris Pulp”, Mixed media on canvas
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Patrizio Gelli
Patrizio Gelli
Patrizio Gelli was born in 1956 in the municipality of Serravalle Pistoiese. He grew
up in Bonelle, a village near Pistoia, and still lives there today. Self-taught from a
very young age, he has a great passion for art and devotes a large part of his free
time to painting and has been displaying his works in solo and group exhibitions
since 1980.
He uses the ancient fresco technique on hard materials such as tablets and plywood
and conjures up the appearance and almost the very feel of the wall, as if the painted surfaces in the picture were parts of murals taken from the wall and glued onto
the tablet. The resulting consistency of the material is extraordinary. Due to a clever
mixture of pigments, at times also with ancient origins, he creates the opaque but
at the same time bright charm of times past, of things slowly, progressively eroded
by age.
Via Bonellina 174 Bonelle, Pistoia, (PT), 51100, Italy
info@patriziogelli.com
www.patriziogelli.com
“Vecchia finestra” , Fresco
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The figures are out of focus, the first is interacting with the second and they
meet together in unison. This duality is representing the possibility to change
our internal perspective. Life is never the same but constantly evolving. Our soul
is flowing from moments of stillness and isolation, to other moments that desire
the search for new horizons and the will to begin again is a driving force. The
events of the past are unchangeable however they shape the future.
“My paintings tell my pain and show my past. When painting the suffering of
others, I in turn remove my own anguish.”
Every work is represented by using loose brush strokes which appear transparent giving an almost invisible touch. Wood plays an intrinsic part in the production of the works.
Luigo Giagnorio
Luigo Giagnorio
G. Frescobaldi 5, Bologna, (BO), 40100, Italy
luigigia@hotmail.it
“Equilibrio” , Oil and acrylics on wood
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Franco Giomi
Franco Giomi
The Italian artist Franco Giomi is a lonesome and reserved man who ever marvels
at wild landscapes, everyday life and dreams. His narratives deal with notions of
strength, freedom, elegance and the rugged indomitable potency of nature: the
enchanting area of Maremma, his homeland, with its herds of horses and cows,
cattlemen, dawns and sunsets over wide wetlands is Giomi’s favourite ‘muse’. Giomi’s scenes are never still, but are fragment of some longer story he wants to tell us:
the movement and action are created by the predominance of white painted over
underlying spots of colour on oversized canvases. “In the paintings of Franco Giomi, watercolor functions as performing art in which his narratives become a dance
on paper” Alex Michon, Co-director of The Transition Gallery. Giomi has exhibited
extensively in London, St.Etienne, Milan, Florence, Rimini, Certaldo, Grosseto, and
Punta Ala.
Via Arrigo Boito, 7, Grosseto, (GR), 58100, Italy
info@francogiomi.com
www.francogiomi.com
“Nude”, Watercolour
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A work of art often mirrors one’s life experiences - this is true for the viewer
as well as the artist. Shirin Golestaneh’s work represents the journey from within - the world of imaginary landscapes, dreams and places we know inside
ourselves. She incorporates moons, suns, brooks, mountains and seas working
with layers of transparencies to create a mosaic of colours revealing images from
underneath.
Shirin Golestaneh
Shirin Golestaneh
The vitality and creativity shown in Shirin’s work derives from her multi-cultural
background. She was born in Boston to an American mother, also an artist and a
Persian father, then briefly lived in Switzerland and has studied in Pennsylvania
and Florence.
“Shirin has revealed herself in a work that shows a controlled, serenely conscious
journey to those childhood places, to the enchanted landscapes of timeless fables, which
tell the origins of things.’”
Ennio Pouchard.
145A King Henry’s Rd, NW3 3RD, London, England
shirin@shiringolestaneh.com
www.shiringolestaneh.com
“Abstract in Green”, Oil on canvas
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Teresa Gostanza
Teresa Gostanza
Teresa Gostanza, a Spanish surrealist, born in Germany and raised in Australia, is
currently residing in the US. A painter from early childhood, she always rebelled
against having to paint the facts. Reality is created from spontaneous thoughts of
fragmented images, or dreams:
“Therefore, I don’t usually plan out what I’m going to create since it evolves all by
itself. I’m just the vehicle which allows creation to manifest. Only as time passes
do I truly understand the true messages hidden within. The images speak to those
who listen. Throughout the years people have contacted me to explain how in the
dream state the paintings came alive as they wondered into them, to receive whatever messages they needed to hear. What is reality and what is the dream? This
has always been the question for me, as I journey within, into the outer limits of my
true existence.”
14941 E Ohio Ave, 80012, Aurora, U.S.A
tgostanza@yahoo.com
www.gostanza.com
“The Awakening”, Oil on canvas
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Art is Remedy. Remedy to the grind and tendency to gravitate to the mundane.
Art is poking and prodding thru the arrogance of censorship and the status quo
of “accepted” thought.
I use color, line, and shape to express emotion, sensuality, tell a story or evoke
critical thinking. Color is the integral cog in the wheel. I love the interactions
between disparate colors, the subtle hues created, or a bold brash passionate
passage, and then making these elements work as a unified whole.
I began in the arts at age seven playing the saxophone and performing in a jazz
band through college. After a long hiatus, I returned to the arts and taught myself to paint in the mid 1980’s. Experimentation and sensuality characterize my
art, as my improvisational skills are translated into the visual aesthetic .
Ian Edmund Grant
Ian Edmund Grant
2411 Soda Canyon Rd, 94558, Napa, U.S.A
edmundgrant@mac.com
www.edmundiangrant.com/
“The organ grinder”, Acrylic on board
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Chucho Guillen
Chucho Guillen
The American artist Chucho Guillen’s interest in painting started from a young age
and has since been fuelled by his travels, life experiences and inspirational teaching
from Fr. William B Wasson.
His technique is motivated by freedom that forms uninhibited brushstrokes, and a
sense of the artist’s passion and inner-energy emerges in his works.
This vibrant style and fresh look allows the mundane to become a point of departure, which in turn becomes revitalised and invigorated. This emotionally and energetically charged approach to painting develops a fresh perspective to art.
Mr Guillen paints murals and is very involved in public art in New Haven whilst
also being privately acquired by collectors and large companies in the USA. Mr
Guillen has developed a following in Amherst, Massachusetts, Soho in New York
and many other venues.
581 Elm Street, 1st floor, 6511, New Haven, Ct , USA
chuchoguillen@yahoo.com
www. jessealchemy.com
“Woman in sensuous rapture”, Oil on canvas
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In recent years I have moved from an abstract expressionist position towards a
figurative–expressionist, lyrical painting style, using an artistic process rich in
spontaneity, free association and the senses. After having started with drawings
and watercolour, I began working in oil for a series of works taking influence
from geology and arabesques. Soon my inspiration turned towards abstract expressionism before I became more interested in post-impressionism. Cézanne,
Klee and their followers influenced works focusing on motives from Copenhagen city landscapes in which I adopted an almost tonalist style, one that I coined
“zonation painting” due to the emphasis on the aesthetic integration of lines,
tones and colours. Most recently, with acrylics I have shifted toward an expressionist and figurative direction.
Hans Jorgen Henriksen
Hans Jorgen Henriksen
Kongestien 31, 2830, Virum, Denmark
hjh@dadlnet.dk
www.zonering.dk
“Politechnical students on a tour”, Acrylic on canvas
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Minna Herrala
Minna Herrala
Minna Herrala is a widely exhibited and widely travelled artist. Her art is colourful,
powerful but also gentle and sensitive, and shows her commitment to exploring
and understanding the natural world. She uses varied techniques and mediums,
and her experiences all over the world have contributed to generating a highly
distinctive style. In the words of the artist: “Cognition and research play a very important part in my work, but sketching or planning is rarely done before the painting has begun and mostly everything comes from the subconscious. I describe the
individuality and loneliness of one human as a part of nature, and one’s relation
with other human beings. I mainly prefer large canvases and acrylics, but I also experiment with different combinations including variations of pens, ink, coffee and
watercolour.”
Heleenkatu 3 a 1, 60120, Seinäjoki, Finland
minna.herrala@netikka.fi
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/taiteilija_english.asp?id=2450
“Wisdom”, Acrylic on canvas
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Colin Hill
Colin Hill
The creation of my work is an action of expression and exploration about the
desire to discover what it might be like to be inside the eye of a moment’s passage as it moves through time and space. The procession of paint mingles with
an internal struggle, to carve out the reflection of a moment, as it moves through
the here and now. Often in my paintings there is a sense of gravity and horizon
which hint at the possibility of a place or landscape. This is neither intentional
nor unintentional as I do not use photo reference and do not have a plan of
action when the process of painting begins. It seems that the concept of a horizon gives the mind’s eye perspective and therefore our minds eye will ground
the imagination, anchoring it someplace familiar. It is in this jaunted landscape
where I find potent aspects of calm, meditation, and existential reflection.
96 San Jose Avenue, 94110, San Francisco, U.S.A
hill.colin@gmail.com
www.colinhill.carbonmade.com
“Totem”, Oil on canvas
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Girmay Hiwet
Girmay Hiwet
Girmay Hiwet was born in Ethiopia in 1948 and now lives in Switzerland. He studied at the University of Art in Addis Ababa and Frankfurt and has exhibited his
works all over Europe, and they are present in various museums and collections.
“After five years of studies at the Art Academy and several exhibitions in Addis
Ababa I came to Europe in 1971 to be at the Mecca, the birth place of modern art.
Looking back as a young Ethiopian artist fresh from the Art Academy, filled with
idealistic ideas, trying to find the roots of the European masters like Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse, Van Gogh, hitch hiking from Paris to Amsterdam with little money,
drinking in the same coffee house where Picasso and Skunder met their friends
and colleagues, to see the galleries, the museums and the narrow streets, this experience was the beginning of my artistic life in Europe.”
Dammstrasse 19, 8702, Zurich, Switzerland
girmay.hiwet@swissonline.ch
www.hiwetart.com
“Roots no. IV “, Acrylic on Canvas
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Maria Holohan is a Textile Artist who is passionate about the drawing process.
Drawing with cloth, stitch & mixed media she explores, with exquisite technique, and portrays the dreams and nightmares of Paranoid Schizophrenia. Her
most significant work to date The Mental Fairy Tale is inspired by the darker side
of Classic Fairy Tales. Cinderella, for example is a bold but uncertain figure, constructed from fragments of cloth. The collage surface, quilted, scraped or raised,
connotes the inability of humans to master their emotional environment. The
character’s relationships with reality and fantasy, how they interact with each
other within her drawings and how this intertwines with the artists own memories and beliefs are central within the work. Maria’s most recent series, called
A Shabby Tale, experiments with oil and mixed media involving sketch books,
embroidery, appliqué & mono printing, exploring themes such as melancholy,
jealousy, sibling rivalry, submissive females, abandonment and the Prince Charming Syndrome.
Maria Holohan
Maria Holohan
28a Beddington Court, SN3 4UN, Swindon, England
mariaholohan@hotmail.co.uk
www.axisweb.org/seWork.aspx?WORKID=51667
Hansel & Gretel Series.“Friends”, Drawing with cloth & stitch on canvas
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Nicolette Ingeneeger
Nicolette Ingeneeger
She was born in Indonesia, lived for a long time with her partner in Nigeria and
lived afterwards in America and South-Africa too. Her gypsy-like existence made
her into who she is today: an artist with a social involvement, which she tries to
incorporate into her paintings. There is a tension between reality and magic, both
in her magic-realistic paintings and in her still lives, which have “ a touch of magic”
and an austerity, that counterbalances a increasingly turbulent world. She has had
exhibited in several European countries.
Korendijk 8, 4331 HP, Middelburg, The Netherlands
info@nicis-art.nl
www.nicis-art.nl
“See no evil,Talk no evil”, Oil on linen
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Living in a war torn Lebanon for many years, one of my favourite activities has
been painting. Drawing upon the Lebanese cultural heritage, I have been spurred to create this latest series of works, representing an ancient mythical hero
that inhabited current Lebanese land: a Phoenician person.
In a previous printmaking exhibit, I included several Lebanese symbols, hints
of Phoenician culture, alphabets, cedar trees and modern local city scenes. However, in my latest series of mixed media paintings on canvas, the main subject
is the abstraction of the native man. These ghost-like figures could be any of
us humans in our struggles to improve our earthly lot. Existentially, they are
characterless and devoid of an identity, blending into their surroundings, modern beings in search of a soul. They are fragments of a dreamlike imagination,
haunting and obsessive, bridging the past and future, roaming, wandering, and
searching for meaning.
Mona Jabbour
Mona Jabbour
Jabbur 8th fl Abd el Al Hamra, LAU Kraytem, 13 5053, Beirut, Lebanon
monajabbour2001@yahoo.com
www.monajabbour.mosaicglobe.com/
“Terra”, Mixed media on canvas
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Hillary Jackson
Hillary Jackson
Art is an exploratory process. I enter into a trial and error dialogue with my materials and work until I have produced an image which seems truthful to me and
evokes what I felt.
I communicate what I have seen through painting or printmaking, to express what
cannot be said in words, hoping that what I produce needs no verbal explanation.
I enjoy returning to a motif to explore different ways of presenting it, creating as
many as ten versions of the same subject using a variety of media. If I strike an evocative chord in myself and then the viewer, I have succeeded.
My subject matter varies with the seasons and I am inspired by colour and the effect
of light. Most of my landscapes are derived from studies and/or photographs, but
I occasionally use a model so that I can interact with their character and convey
personality and mood.
6 Milestone Way, Gillingham, SP8 4TB, Dorset, UK
hilaryjackson@hilaryjacksonpaintings.com
www.hilaryjacksonpaintings.com
“The Old Barn”, Oil on Canvas
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I was born into a very creative family of potters and musicians and my father
is a professional photographer, so I learned from an early age to look at things
carefully. I feel very free in my work and inspiration is my guide.
Winy Jacobs
Winy Jacobs
I followed the classical academic path of art school but I actually learned the most
through personal exploring and experimenting; extending my own boundaries
from within. I use oil and acrylics impressionistically and abstract paint daubs
help me search for the balance between form and expression. Colour, movement, line and light passionately shout from the canvas.
In my work horses play an important role. For me they symbolise vitality, power
and rebellion. My glamour paintings are also very striking as with this subject I
am able to show that the glitter is just a thin facade concealing the truth.
Heijenseweg 42, 6591 HC, Gennep, The Netherlands
winy.jacobs@gmail.com
www.winy.nl
“Show some emotion”, Oil on canvas
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Diego Jacobson
Diego Jacobson
“The most beautiful paintings do not originate in the mind. They are an expression
of the inner essence, of the soul. I like to apply paint in what I can only describe as
a random fashion, always keeping a sense of balance on the canvas, and mixing colors in a nice way. Mostly, I like to cooperate with the paint and see what appears. I
do not usually have a theme in mind when I start to paint. I always like the finished
product, and I have learned not to judge the painting in process. To me, painting is
also a lesson in trust. It is trusting that you will always like the end product, so that
you can just be totally free during the process.”
Box 1509, 00726-1509, Caguas, Puerto Rico
diego@diegojacobson.com
www.diegojacobson.com
“Behind the curtain”, Acrylic on Canvas
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Fascinated by different people and cultures, the sculptress and personal consultant, Hilde Klomp transforms emotion into sculpture, focusing on the movement of the figure. Her other passion for photography is reflected in her ability to capture in bronze a simple movement. Sculptors like Giacometti, Rodin,
Brancusi, Moore and Hepworth inspired her.
Hilde looks for intense emotions in the banal and it is the intensity of these
experiences that interests her. Some people see pride, grace, movement, excitement, daring and naughtiness in the sculptures whereas some people say that
the sculptures have a self-conscious appearance with the facial expressions remaining anonymous.
She works with the cire perdue method so that the front and the back side of the
sculptures are both interesting and can be interchanged. The work is made to
be captivating from every visual angle, thereby inviting the audience to feel the
sculptures for a full sensational experience.
Hilde Klomp
Hilde Klomp
Archipelstraat 15, 6524 Lk, 6524 LK Nijmegen, The Netherlands
info@hildeklomp.nl
www.hildeklomp.nl
“Balinese Oerkrachten voorkantb” , Bronze and lost wax
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Tien Gui Koh
Tien Gui Koh
Koh Tien Gui was born in Singapore in 1968. A lawyer by profession, it was only
when he worked with the United Nations and lived in Geneva that his interest in
art took hold and blossomed. Crayons or pastels are his speciality. His subject matter is his native Singapore and childhood memories of a time gone by. The colourful
beauty of Tien Gui’s art captures the essence of a simpler time and lifestyle. He has
been exhibiting his works since 2001, with solo exhibitions in Geneva, Switzerland
and Singapore. Tien Gui’s work is warm, nostalgic, colorful, romantic and even mysterious in imagery. His paintings are filled with symbolism that capture the feel
of a bygone era. The visual images invite poetic interpretation. The images make a
conscious effort to give the viewer hope, which Tien Gui suggests through the use
of brilliant colours and luminescent qualities. Beyond this, in all Tien Gui’s work,
there is a fundamental reconciliation of the mystery and the poetry for a world that
exists only in memories
37G Jervos Road, 242927, Singapore
tiengui@gmail.com
www.tiengui.com/about.php
“Just a bowl of rice”, Oil and pastel
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The blank canvas, to me, exemplifies infinity. While the sky may symbolize infinity to many others, I’m glad I see it in something so tangible and within my
reach – the “blank” canvas. Like life, it is what you make of it, and that is what
makes its challenge so real to me.
Namita Kulkarmi
Namita Kulkarmi
Creating art is also a way of keeping a visual personal journal, for each painting/
drawing is a visual “freeze-frame” capture of the fluid web of thoughts and sensitivities that I dwelled in during its creation, endowing it with peculiarity and
individuality.
The variety in my art is presumably a ramification of the dynamic medley that
life has always been to me. The innumerable diversities, eccentricities and idiosyncrasies - geographical and human - one witnessed over the years, all gladly
belong in my artistic arsenal today, waiting to be summoned in the creative
process.
Mumbai, India
graphicalmail@gmail.com
www.namitakulkarni.com
“Money Matters”, Pencil on paper
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Baebel Laenen
Baebel Laenen
I began as a member of several local art associations and contributed first to exhibitions in the north of Bavaria. Later on, I started to work with some galleries known
in Germany, for example, the Boehmer Gallery in Mannheim and finally in 2003
I was invited to take part in the Biennale in Florence. Furthermore, I took part in
exhibitions like the Kunstmesse Salzburg 2004 and the Art Domain Gallery in Leipzig 2005. I started to work intensively in the field of painting in 1983 and improved
my skills during a two year study of arts at the University of Darmstadt. The art I
prefer is based on experiments with colours on different materials like oil on metals
or plastics and, of course, oil on linen. Colours may be mixed with sand, whilst I
prefer pigments. I work also with encaustics and foils glued on plexiglass. The best
ideas I have come along during working.
Rosenstr.2, D - 95168, Marktleuthen, Germany
baerbel@laenen.de
http://www.laenen.de/Welcome_BL.html
“Rhapsody in Blue” , Oil on aluminium
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After her first subjects, figures and faces, the artist decides to use colour as a
primary means of communication almost manipulating it in order to extract feelings and emotions. She feels attracted by the informal style found in the New
York school, from Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko and the turning away from
the traditional paint brushes, and thus created her work “Ansia” (“Anxiety”)
working on the floor blending the colours with her hands in order to penetrate
the mind of the the viewer, to feel and model the paint as though it were alive
and thus releasing the emotions that it transmits while in direct contact with her
skin. The artist says that the pure colours in her explosive works bring us closer
to God, the inner movement reminding us of the beauty of creation, artwork
should capture us, free us from problems, and distract us and fascinate us, not
bore us in the search for an interpretation, but only transmit emotions.
Aurora Lanciotti
Aurora Lanciotti
Via G. Carini, 32, Roma, (RM), 00152, Italy
l.aurora@tiscali.it
“Anime”, Oil on canvas
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Dawn Lawrence
Dawn Lawrence
Once I am inspired from being out on the water, sketching the action, I become
compelled to recreate the emotions that the experience invoked in me as a painting.
I want the observer to feel that they are there, a part of the frenetic activity with
the exhilaration of powerful racing yachts surging towards them. I like to turn the
canvas into an arena for the scene to play out on, so that it has a life and energy of
it’s own.
With this approach, I can lift the painting beyond being a mere illustration and capture both the technicalities of the yachts along with the atmosphere and drama of
the race. A mixture of traditional materials and contemporary technique are employed to convey the history and innovation that combine to make the America’s Cup.
15 Church Road, Gosport, PO12 2LB, UK
info@quartergallery.com
www.quartergallery.com
“Desafio Español vs Luna Rossa : 32nd America’s Cup”, Oil on canvas
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Sinae Lee
Sinae Lee
Sinae Lee is a profound and powerful artist from Korea who has exhibited all
over the world, whose art shows the mystery of conversion from external to
internal representation. “After 25 years in painting what’s in the outside world,
I’ve come to realize I have more to paint within. What’s within is so much like
what’s on the outside, it may see chaotic, yet one can find order. Finding the
order is the subject matter of my painting. When I am standing in front of a
canvas, it confronts me as the chaotic world does. The noise, colors, shapes and
movements come across as thoughts and memories. After the first brush stroke
the painting almost takes on a life of its own. My hands become the instrument
of that life. If there is a good accident, it is because the process is controlled consciously or sub-consciously.”
16 Maggs street, L1T 4C5, Ajax, Canada
sinae@sinaelee.com
www.sinaelee.com
“Blue Moon Rising”, Acrylic on canvas
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Being the Third Patriarch of Buddhist Forshang, I consider my calling to bring
awakening to the true essence of life.To share my understanding and reflection
of the true reality, I create paintings to capture the ineffable transformative energies and harmony of the universe and to spark a sense of enlightenment and
transcendence in the viewer. I am grateful that my creations have been appreciated: in 2008, I had received more than ten invitations to hold exhibitions in
museums worldwide and won forty or so honorable recognitions in international juried expositions, including a Grand Prize awarded by World and Universal Academy in Netherlands. This year my itinerary includes the solo exhibition
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, a world-renowned Italian art critic, as part of
the Collateral Events of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale,
and exhibition at Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery in Moscow arranged by the Russian
Academy of Arts.
Sun Don Lee
Sun Don Lee
413 N. Rodeo, Beverly Hills, California, USA
andrew@gpdeva.com
arts.sundon.net
“No Dharma Exists Beyond; No Body Exists Beyond; No Mind Exists Beyond”, Oil on canvas
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Irit Levy
Irit Levy
Irit Levy is a highly thought provoking artist, whose art reflects a strong existential
contemplation of the world and of ordinary objects. She has become recognised
both for her paintings and for her mosaics and she has exhibited throughout France, the UK, Singapore and the US. “Over the years my art changes as I experiment
with new materials and new approaches. What remains most similar in my art is
the backgrounds. My works often show a certain emptiness. The backgrounds are
large and usually have a character of their own and at times the content of the paintings seem to be floating. For me, the backgrounds are no less important than the
content, in the same way that unspoken words are no less important than spoken
ones.”
2 Rue Honoré Labande, 98000, Monaco
iritlevymail@gmail.com
www.iritlevy.com
“Cranberry?”, Acrylic on canvas
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The series,“Human Condition”reflects various polarities struggling in my mind.
A pure and simple state of mind, calm as a newborn, affords me original vitality
and a direct insight into the world. Meanwhile, the wisdom gained from experiences attracts me to complicate thoughts and to agitate life’s course. When
trying to understand inner intention, my sensibility leads me to explore the mystical unknown and chaos. On the other hand, rationality shapes my thinking
on defining general and systemic statements of phenomena. While my subjective imaginative viewpoint originated from the traditional Chinese painting, the
classical western viewpoint influences me to see and express the world by means of solid presentation. In between life and death, by observing the existence
of life in periods, comparing their external and internal statuses of individuals, I
try to integrate the polarities, to clarify the human condition, to question about
the meaning of life.
Tsui Ting Lin
Tsui Ting Lin
4F, No. 94, 2nd, BA-DE Rd, Taipei, Taiwan
lttingplay@gmail.com
www.ltting.blogspot.com
“24-0 Question #2”, Acrylic and Chinese Ink on Polyester
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Anthony Lindhout
Anthony Lindhout
These days I live in rural Emsland in Germany. Before I start to paint, I love to walk
with Gino, my Labrador. This is a wonderful time for contemplation and it frequently inspires me. We explore the fields around our home, the hills further away and
the seashore; all have different ‘faces’ and, most of all, different light. My thoughts
and inspirations often mirror the change in the season, that is so clear when you
live in the countryside. Music and poetry also play vital parts in bringing the creative processes together. I would like to share all this with you. Please take your time
and enjoy.
Große Strasse 59, 49733, Haren-Fehndorf, Germany
art@tonlindhout.com
www.tonlindhout.com
“Eruption”, Acrylic on canvas
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Roberto Lucato, born in Castelfranco Veneto, expresses himself with both music
and painting. He is Professor of music and teaches the Bassoon at the Cagliari
Conservatorio. “I am always accompanied by a strong passion for Painting and
other mediums. Sometimes I am ashamed to be part of the human race, and this
is why I make my thinking men. They are the desire to represent the thought of
man in his most spiritual state, reflected in a mirror, asking oneself questions.
My art is also an attempt to awaken sleeping souls from the oppressions and
impositions of an uncontrolled society increasingly based on power. With my
thinking beings I want to invite the observer to a catharsis, metaphorically representing ourselves, our tortured and contradictory human condition, but still,
for those who can read, with a message of hope for a renewed sense of being
ourselves, thinking people”.
Roberto Lucato
Roberto Lucato
Via Castellana 158, Castelfranco Veneto, (TV), 31033, Italy
lucatoroberto@hotmail.it
www.robertolucato.it
“Contro Corrente”, Mixed media on canvas
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Lyzio
Lyzio
Lyzio, pseudonym of Lise Lavallée, born in Québec in 1946, has both Canadian and
French nationalities. Self-taught, she started painting in 1986 and began working
in a symbolism style ten years later. Central to her work is the attempt to show the
association of unity and duality in the momentary character of life. She has a preference for mythological and eternal forms, which in her work seem to perform in a
way similar to myths and folk tales.
She is metamorphosing the tangible into an imaginary state using the language of
radiant colours and evocative shapes in an intuitive approach: a perpetual transfiguration. Astronomical forms, nymphs and ethereal beings, a language of its own,
with a vibration of energy that comes from the heart rather than the myths of eternity, thereby unravelling her own tapestry of dreams, emotions and warmth. That
alchemy is the base of her personal and singular technique.
66 Rue du Tillet, 73100, Aix-Les-Bains, France
lyzlavale@lyzio.com
www.lyzio.com
“Tree of life”, Mixed media
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I feel that as a painter my objectives are to express the reality that surrounds us
now, at this very moment. The expression of reality however, reaches out to the
feelings and emotions of the spectator through a prism. I also believe that it is
fundamental for the painting to be pleasing to the eye of the beholder .
My present work is inspired by my experiences of watching the sea. The first
challenge was to discover how to halt the movement of the waves in order to
paint them. I feel that I have managed little by little to do this by careful observation of their ebbing and flowing.
Valentin Magallanes
Valentin Magallanes
The style of my painting is very personal and as far as I know I do not fit into
any past or present painting movement or technique. I have experimented with
surrealism, however, since this has allowed me to express my deepest feelings
through a veil of mystery and beauty.
Las Nieves 3375 Dep 42-Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
valentinmagallanesb@gmail.com
www.valentinmagallanesb.blogspot.com
“Caballos”, Oil on canvas
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Mais
Mais
Mais is from the Netherlands. She started to paint “by accident” in 2002 even though she had never had a pencil in her hands before. She paints with oil on canvas on
a professional level without any previous art education, making her work by intuition and primarily for herself. She made the decision by advice to show her work
to a greater public in the beginning of 2008, bringing her much acclaim. Her style
is usually figurative in a surrealist way with much white, grey and black and sometimes very colourful. The paintings of Mais cannot be placed under one genre, with
the series of “woman figures” her personal favourites. She did not find painting,
painting found her and she still has many pictures in her mind to paint for years.
Spui 301, 8032 VS, Zwolle, The Netherlands
mais.art.info@gmail.com
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/a/86074.html
“Roxanne”, Oil on canvas
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Alessandra Manfredini paints with oil and salt using a palette knife and her
hands. Her paintings are expressive of her emotions, her canvases are marked
by her emotional impulses. She always studies new techniques of painting, often working in the silence of her Atelier. Her expressive universe is enigmatic,
but simple at the same time, and leaves space for the imagination and interpretation. One may say that her abstract and highly tactile style delights the gaze
of whoever desires to perceive an emotion, savouring her paintings if only for a
moment.
Alessandra Manfredini
Alessandra Manfredini
Via Zambelli, 13, Magreta Formigine, Modena, (MO), 41013, Italy
alessandra@kerenda.eu
www.kerenda.eu
“The Passion”, Oil and salt on canvas
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Miria Mantelli
Miria Mantelli
Miria graduated in architecture at the University of Florence under Professor Bini,
and under Professor Pettena did indepth studies about the architect Fisterlin. She
has been apprentice of Professor Mucci in tools for visual communication, and she
has been the student of Professors Buti, Venturini and Giovannoni, with whom she
completed a project then exhibited at the Milan Triennial Exhibition, in the section
curated by Natalini, and then exhibited at the Exposition of Constantinople. Her
works are epitaphs of important people. “The inscription of the name, the date of
birth and death is unchanging. The name will be remembered and reinterpreted in
future epochs becoming immortal in the memory of the people. Reading the name
brings us back to the sounds, and the writing of the name contains symbolism and
messages to those who observe it.” Everyone sees in it that which they wish to see.
Via di Follettino 58, Campagnano di Roma, (RM), 00063, Italy
mary_a@mac.com
www.miriamantelliart.com
“Epitaffio John Fitzgerald Kennedy”, Cement on canvas
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“In today’s closely controlled society Alexandra Marati, as an analyst of extreme
phenomena (global warming, ecological accidents, genetically modified organisms), makes a powerful statement through a body of work that is both timely
and revealing. Obsessions, metaphysical passion, personal hallucinations of imprisonment and imminent catastrophe, the interaction between the universal
and the subjective – it is through these that the artist interprets the process and
the performance of painting. Discreetly punctuating her abstract imagery are
emblematic presences, human or insect, reinforcing the menace of the unexpected. The indeterminate depth of her compositions, due to repetitions of colour
(with a highly idiomatic use of sprays) and to the tension between multiple
chromatic layers, is a primary characteristic of her work.The interior illumination
with its “artificial” mutations strengthens both the sense of menace and that of
interior examination.” Dr. Sania Papa, Art Theoretician
Alexandra Marati
Alexandra Marati
Mitropoleos 97, 54622, Thessaloniki, Greece
artcau@gmail.com
www.artcau.gr
“A city turns to cemetery”, Mixed media with a touch of street art
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Ilona Marosi
Ilona Marosi
llona Marosi is an important figure in Hungarian art, and critics have suggested
that her analytical thinking, her stamina, and hard-working lifestyle have created
a stable base for her art. She began her studies in art in 1991 and established the
ART-MA foundation to help Hungarian artists become known both in Hungary
and abroad. Her art is inspired by ancient cultures and universal values. She has
achieved notable success in mural art and more than 20 of her mural works are permanently exhibited at the national airport and in the collection at the headquarters
of the Hungarian broadcasting organisation. She has received several international
awards, including the “Diplome de medaille d’argent” from the French Academy of
Art and Lettres, and “Medaille d’or” of the 2003 Grande Prix international de Monde de la Culture des arts exhibition in Cannes and the“Grande medaille d’or”of the
Exposition Marseille Mediteranee.
Daru Utca 2/C, 1023, Budapest, Hungary
ilonamarosi@gmail.com
www.marosi-ilona.com
“Brass Flowers”, Oil on Canvas
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“Questions posed are usually open ended, albeit, I frequently approach things
from a somewhat skeptical perspective and may hint at my own opinions on a
particular matter. My paintings are a visceral response to culture and are filtered
by my experience as a painter amidst an art world driven mad by market values
or other more global socio-political concerns. This somewhat cynical posture
allows me to juxtapose beauty with grotesqueness while referencing topics such
as world wars, organized religion, consumerism, terrorism, capitalism, fascism,
and racism.” Truman Marquez. “Truman Marquez is an artist with an almost
scholarly awareness of art history who often employs themes and motifs from
past masters, particularly Gauguin. Marquez is a powerful painter in his own
right with a style so fully developed that he can pay tribute to other artists without sacrificing his own identity.” Sean Simon, ArtSpeak Magazine, New York
Truman Marques
Truman Marques
2526 Pearce Rd, 78730, Austin, Texas
marquezstudios@hotmail.com
www.trumanmarquez.com
“Hold the Emperor Accountable”, Oil on linen
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Filip Matic
Filip Matic
My method, despite the logical consistency, is all beyond the forms, norms and
visual-historical heritage. The way its subjective look is presenting these events is
as if they were stripped of their symbolism or trauma.
In this set of things, the importance of these events is pure and unquestionable but
at the same time inseparable from them. These events were fabricated by history,
into which they were immediately returned.
I give you what already belongs to you, around which there has been a consensus
concerning the historical importance. This is something that you remember, something that belongs to our time, something that we have experienced, read about
or seen, and something we have feared but still carries the aura of an event.
Parkveien 76a, 254, Oslo, Norway
filipmatic39@hotmail.com
www.maticgallery.net
“Interior 1 “, Oil on canvas
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I strive for balance in my pictures, in form and colour, and this can be seen as
contradictory to my expressions on the theme of disorder.
Gun Mattsson
Gun Mattsson
However, for the spectators, this may contribute to a calm, meditative feeling,
inspiring reflections over the external and internal world; the human struggle
between choices and the range of impacts and consequences for different people. This is the question of power.
I have studied politics and philosophy and these influences combine with my
interest in psycho-analysis and the work of different cultures; contributing to
the variety of symbols I commonly employ.
Inedalsgatan 14, 112 33, Stockholm, Sweden
gunmattsson@tele2.se
www.gunmattsson.com
“Hesekiel 38:4”, Oil on canvas
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Michael May
Michael May
The artist’s work is a fusion of graphic art and the traditions of the old masters using
modern and traditional tools. He wishes to demonstrate a new way to think about
modern art, “to find something new and show it”. Looking at Malevich, the artist
explores the creation of light from a black border. He explores the contrast of material and light, his paintings are a “consequence of the infiltration of light, described
by white lines, and material, described by black”. Colour for the artist is the result
of a “diffusion of light and material” that can be brought together in many diverse
combinations.
Wincentego Witosa 3/8 St ,15 660, Bialystok, Poland
mi_may@wp.pl
www.artof-thelight.com
“Light in The Material or Words after Malevich”, Mixed media on board
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With my paintings, I do not set out to paint a particular thing. I start out with a
blank canvas, put my headphones on, pour a glass of wine and it just comes, relating to the things happening, not only in my life, but the life of others. Almost
like it has been put there for me to see and view and to learn from.
I am a New Zealander from Wellington. I began my creative work in a beautiful
Art Deco city on the east coast, starting out by teaching myself with slip cast ceramics, gathering inspiration from the environment and a strong visual creative
spirit.
Melinda McCarthy
Melinda McCarthy
After a life changing experience, I changed course, discovering a strong creative
desire to paint. My emotions, experiences and familiarity with design and colour
from my ceramics served as inspiration.
1 Connaught Gardens, London, N10 3LD, UK
melinda.mccarthy@gmail.com
www.artofmelush.com
“Gort”, Oil on canvas
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Nikola McCoy-Snell
Nikola McCoy-Snell
Nickola McCoy-Snell was born and has lived most of her life in The Cayman Islands where she is already recognized as one of the country’s finest talents to emerge
in recent years. She was the first winner of the Island’s highest artistic achievement
award, The “McCoy Prize” for Excellence in Caymanian Art in 2002, following it
up five years later with honours in the “Fine Art” category as well as the “People’s
Choice Award”.
Her work was used for the cover of the Cayman Islands Poetry Society’s annual
book release in 2005. McCoy-Snell is also very socially active in her support of local
charities, raising funds for the Cayman Cancer Society through a solo exhibition in
2007 and an auction of her paintings in aid of the Junior Achievement Program. Her
work is largely collected in the Cayman Islands, USA, UK, and Holland and can be
found in the various museums of her native land.
413, KY1-1502, Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman
art_by_mccoy@hotmail.com
“Splint II”, Acrylic on canvas
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Painting is simply a joy and a passion, for me it frees my soul, from past and
present emotions, so I am simply the expressionist painter.
With my paintings, I do not set out to paint a particular thing. I start out with
a blank canvas, put my headphones on, pour a glass of wine and it just comes,
obviously in an unconscious way, relating to the things happening, in not only
my life, but also the life of others.
Chris McDonald
Chris McDonald
I originally worked with slip cast ceramics, teaching myself and using my creative, visual spirit to take inspiration from the landscapes of my native New
Zealand. After a life changing experience, however, I decided to change course,
channelling my creativity into a desire to paint, drawing from my experiences,
emotions, and familiarity with colour and design from working with ceramics.
Po Box 815, North Adelaide, 5006, Adelaide, Australia
chris@cmdart.com.au
www.cmdart.com.au
“The Warrior Within”, Acrylic on canvas
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Franco Meloni
Franco Meloni
Meloni’s art is influenced by his dreams and moods and those of others. The characters of a fantasy world, elusive and hidden, live in a magical realism of this artist,
a realism borrowed from painting and interpreted in a sculptural language that
twists its physical appearance. The shapes of the objects are never trivial, as they
are rich in symbolism. His artwork is centered on imperfection, irregularity and
conflict. “Every form of expression, both conceptual and material, is in itself originally imperfect. Society on the other hand, exalts perfection, generating superficiality, discontent, and the search for the unattainable”. The artist opposes himself
to this kind of control exercised by the collective on the individual. His sculptural
and pictorial language is all-purpose, articulated in elements, surrealist, visionary,
expressionist and raw. They are works that allow the entering of a fluid universe,
suspended in the imaginary.
Via Copernico 9, Cagliari, (CA), 09131, Italy
franmel@libero.it
www.francomeloni.com
“Blood”, Red and white clay
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Antonio Milana began painting in the early 80s. He builds his expressive forms
and traces the lines of his creative language through a continuous search for signs, understood as furrows and tracks. His artistic path leads to expressions that
include forms mixed in dynamic solutions, which refer to a universal language.
By tweaking the balance between smoothness and roughness, he paints contemporary perceptions. He guesses modern emotions intercepting actual meanings and refusing simple and decorative solutions. Antonio Milana’s pictorial
language synthesises the experience of an artist who introduces a new way of
considering the meaning of art in relation to life, to all occurrences and to all the
matters of this world. In 2008, he was invited to exhibit his works at the Biennale
MAUI in Caserta. He lives and works near Rome.
Antonio Milana
Antonio Milana
Via Piane Pozza, 11, Sacrofano, (RM), 00060, Italy
studiomilana@tiscali.it
www.artbreak.com/milana
“In relazione” , Mixed media
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Judy Milazzo
Judy Milazzo
History evolves in spirals. From ancient times, aesthetics and society’s development
have been based in common principles of mathematics, astronomy, measures that
helped the farmers and fishermen, exact calculations filled with superstition and
thought. The delicate and precise drawings of Egyptian hieroglyphics and reliefs
speak to me through abstraction, these ancient works also very modern in their
content and realisation. Therefore, the symbols and images of these ancient civilisations appear in my work. Similarly, numbers feature in my narratives, mathematics
heralding the development of great cultures in the past. Geometry and algebra
form a universal and eternal language, a code of order in the theory of chaos, reuniting past and present. The path I have followed in my growth as an artist is, a tale
of the pain and effort it takes to become a person, to recognize oneself and step out
of the line to contemplate the road, a voyage from darkness to the light.
Palmas 75 casa 14, Col. Molino de Cuajimalpa, 5200, Ciudad de México, México
judymilazzo@yahoo.com
“Unconscious”, Mixed media on canvas
102
Ryszard Milek lives and creates his art in Nowy Sacz and in the USA. His predominant technique is pastel painting but his works also include acrylic and oil
painting and drawing. He is a Vice-president of the Polish Pastellist Association,
a member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, and an honorary member of the American Pastel Society in New York. He has had 58 individual shows
and participated in many collective exhibitions in Poland, Europe and in the US.
He has various awards including The First Prize at the Pastel Biennial of 1996,
the Jerzy Madeyski Honorary Award at the International Pastel Biennial Exhibition in 2008, and an award from the Minister of Culture and Art for promoting
art abroad.
Ryszard Milek
Ryszard Milek
Grottgera 14, 33-300, Nowy Sacz, Poland
rys.milek@wp.pl
www.ryszardmilek.com
“Miscellaneous improvisation”, Oil pastel on paper
103
Andrea Minciotti
Andrea Minciotti
Andrea Minciotti, born in Montefalco in 1978, began to paint after having met Domenico Muzi, a painter of great charisma and artistic value. Andrea created his first
works whilst devoting all of his free time to painting, convinced that painting is
the most noble of the arts. His goal is to create works that comfort and encourage
humanity. In fact, the vibrant colour and brushwork in his paintings quickly catch
the interest of the observer and his Van Gogh influenced style combines with the
actuality of the Umbrian landscape to make his works original and complete. Andrea frequently uses the figure of the horse to testify to the strength and beauty of
nature, he says that: “The Earth without horses is like the sky without angels”.
Via Roma,185 , Giano dell’Umbria, Bastardo, (PG), 06030, Italy
info@andreaminciotti.it
www.andreaminciotti.it
“Cavallo Nero”, Acrylic on canvas
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A journey through time, a journey through the furrows of memory of an artist
who draws from his training in the world of textiles to create new visual sensations and tactile revelations. Paths to rediscover to walk along streets that one
already knows, but should continue to explore, the testimony of landscapes and
existence, balanced and disproportioned. It is on this path that Molteni walks,
beginning with his choice of materials: sand, plaster and asphalt. Then he delicately exercises his power using engravings, dabs of colour, atmospheric effects
which generate a mist of memories, or perhaps a haze that envelops everything.
Visions from above, spaces with unstable borders, fields to be explored following
the furrows left by the spatula in the plaster as if ploughed in the ground. It is
all about exploration, to feel the change in the matter as an element of all the
possible transformations.
Maurizio Molteni
Maurizio Molteni
Via Plinio, 5, Montorfano, (CO), 22030, Italy
spaziomao@tiscali.it
“Fuori Giri”
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Sergio Muntoni
Sergio Muntoni
“With this painter from Nuoro we begin again to talk about serious figuration,
where reality cannot escape its destiny. Muntoni loves the typical landscape of his
troubled and melancholic land, but he also has the ability to capture the figures
of the farmers. He is quintessentially a realist. He seems to be looking back to the
social realism of the 1950s. The Subjects that he loves most to grasp are the ancient
ones of Sardinia: silent farmers, filled with pride and dignity, in the backdrop of a
field, a country house. Sergio Muntoni is a painter of dreams and memories where
men, countryside and nature are narrated with emotion by the poet. For whom
every morning represents the first day of creation. Sergio Muntoni is a painter of his
homeland, Sardinia, a land aristocratic as are its farmers, as joyful as its colours of
sea and land. Before beginning his work on his traditional palette where he mixes
the colours, he prepares the canvas with a light drawing of the outline. Only after
this does bring light to works such as the harbour of Arbatax or his other works of
docile realism” Paolo Levi (La Repubblica , Mondadori)
Via Tirso, 36, Tortolì, (CA), 08048, Italy
info@sergiomuntoni.it
www.sergiomuntoni.it
“Raccoglitori di fieno”, Oil on canvas
106
Whilst Philippe draws inspiration from great Québécois painters such as Théberge and Riopelle, his style is all his own. Facing an art era centred on the deconstruction of the object, Philippe prioritizes the reverse element of construction as a key motive in his primarily abstract work. Through the use of colour,
line, and form, he “builds” the pictorial space like an architect. With organic and
inorganic elements emerging from his paintings, we will occasionally witness a
flower or a portrait amidst a colourfully constructed landscape that is illustrative
of his life in an urban environment, embracing life and diversity.
Philippe Nault
Philippe Nault
7767 Saint-Gerard, H2R2K5, Montreal, Canada
identitty@hotmail.com
www.philippenault.com
“Appearance”, Acrylic on Canvas
107
Michele Nigrini
Michele Nigrini
Well-known South African artist Michèle Nigrini attracted public attention in 1994
when Dr. Anton Rupert from the Rembrandt foundation attended her first solo
exhibition and bought all the available paintings, launching her artistic career. Michèle believes that art is a medium for the elevation of the spirit yet remains rooted
in the experience of everyday life. She paints images of her own surroundings and
the environment she lives in. Her aim not to copy nature, but to interpret the essential character of things, submitting it to the spirit of the place.
P.O Box 31, 9720, Rosendal, South Africa
mnigrini@lantic.net
www.art.co.za
“Sunset soil”, Mixed media
108
Whilst Dag O’Pegren did do some courses in art, he is mostly self-taught. After
a long period of Existential Symbolism, he has drifted into a style that is hard to
place into any category.
Dag O’Pegren
Dag O’Pegren
“It has been said that being an artist is not a profession but rather a state of
being. I feel that is too loose and vague in its expression. I see the role of an artist as being more precise than that. To me it is more a question of life attitudes,
melted together through personal temperament, which in good moments give
origin to pictures with ‘high temperature’. To me the essence of ‘picture poetry’
lies so very close to that of music, in expressiveness, attraction and valour. Both
communicate directly with three of our senses: vision, hearing and the intuitive
sense in full resonance with the pounding heart.”
Prästlyckevägen 7A, SE-36010, Ullared, Sweden
pegren@pegren.com
www.pegren.com
“Un Zen-Orgásmo Carbeño en los pasos de Orozco y Tamayo”, Oil on canvas
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Gunilla Oldenburg
Gunilla Oldenburg
Gunilla Oldenburg is a Swedish artist now living in Stockholm. Born in Avesta,
Sweden, and raised at an idyllic place by the Dalecarlia River, the early influences
of nature became her greatest source of inspiration. Studying abstract painting at
the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, under the eminent
artists Emilio Vedova and Zao Wou Ki, her style became an interesting combination
of west and east, a mixture of poetic compositions, rhythm and texture. Her works
are a combination of imagination and reality, often with a serious touch reflecting
the opposites of life. Her techniques are principally acrylic, gouache and collage
but she often experiments with different materials: her latest project involves using
dried sea-algae from the Swedish west coast. She has participated in more than
forty solo and group exhibitions all over the world and is represented in numerous
collections.
Sköldgatan 5, 11863, Stockholm, Sweden
gunilla.oldenburg@comhem.se
www.gunillaoldenburg.com
“Duel”, Mixed media
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Michelle Oraa Ali, a fourteen year old artist from New Delhi, India, is mainly
self-taught and has already participated in two group exhibitions and one solo
exhibition. The artist is passionate about art and her work is often spontaneous
and reflects diverse sentiments. The artist’s work is inspired by her personal
observations. The artist uses watercolour on handmade watercolour paper to
create her delicate pieces that remain visually striking. ‘Through the Cracks’ demonstrates a subtle combination of monochrome tones and vibrant colour to
present an intimately evocative work. Large blank spaces allow for immediate
impact; the image is partly-concealed and stimulates the curiosity of the viewer.
Michelle Oraa
Michelle Oraa
11, Zakir Bagh Apts, Tower 1, New Delhi, 110025, India
josefina@vsnl.net
picasaweb.google.com/michelle.o.ali
“Through the Cracks”, Watercolour on handmade watercolour paper
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Natalia Orlowski
Natalia Orlowski
“Still life is a pictorial genre that has been worshiped by great personalities throughout the History of Art. Natalia Orlowski´s originality lies in starting from a still
life representative concept and to turn it into something alive... She raises a different scale which allows her to give them an outstanding character that exceeds naturalistic representation. Fruits are featured prominently, as if they were magnified
by zoom-lens. In that level they become closer, the textures assume a tactile and
sensuous condition, providing them with life, unexpected life. They are set dramatically as in scenery, placing them as if they were human beings, dancing a sort of
ballet or starring in a stage work. Inert things become alive. There is no doubt about
the metaphoric sense of this artist’s work, which has singularly restored the transforming power painting has over our senses as well as over concepts about things
we already have.”
Fermín Fèvre
Suipacha 1367 5to L , Castex 3123 1er, 1062, Buenos Aires, Argentina
natushka20@yahoo.com
www.natorlowski.com.ar
“Peras viridas”, Oil on canvas
112
To understand the painting of Simonetta Paganini, we can start with the definition that the writer Franco Mammarella gives us: “Those who know this young
woman, self-taught, cannot imagine a way for her to paint other than that which
she uses, those who see her paintings can only trace them back to the person
she is, such is the sign of her person: the sentiment becomes representation”.
But Simonetta’s works are not simple storytelling, she makes us live her dreams,
visions and perceptions, as described by the author Teatino Michele Ursini:“Her
canvas reveals a dream world, almost idealised, often populated with female
figures and horses, for her a symbol of elegance, passion and freedom”. The influence of Salvador Dali and Frida Kalho are evident in this artist whose passion
began at a very young age.
Simonetta Paganini
Simonetta Paganini
Via F. Pietrocola 1, Chieti, Chieti Scalo, (CH), 66100, Italy
paganini.simonetta@libero.it
www.simonettapaganini.com
“Scacchi e Rosa Rossa”, Oil on canvas
113
Bobbie Seright Palanuik
Bobbie Seright Palanuik
I find inspiration in the ever-changing rural landscapes of the Blindman Valley and
the lush boreal forests of the David Thompson Country in my native Canada. Therefore, my works mainly consist of landscapes and nature scenes using my preferred mediums of pastel and oil for their vibrancy, colour and visual effect.
I attempt to portray a synergy of colour and light merging in a harmonious flow
with each pastel mark and brush stroke creating an impressionistic reflection of my
love for the many beautiful faces and moods of Mother Earth.
P.O. Box 668 Bentley, Alberta, T0C 0J0, Canada
info@bobbieserightpalanuik.com
www.BobbieSerightPalanuik.com
“Early Winter Evening: Gull Lake, AB”, Oil on canvas
114
The artist’s way of working is characterized by a careful basic choice: the beginning is the formal iconographic aspect on which to construct a message of conceptually ironic roots, the key to reading the analysis of her work that arranges
itself like a particular vision of life. Specifically, idealised classical sculpture, it
enriches itself with a subtle ironic vein. The image, unlike the Dadaists, doesn’t
become deconstructed or twisted, it becomes transformed. The viewer remains
unaware because that which she sees, even recognising it, is presented from a
new point of view. The colour, rendered with delicate monochrome washes, is
suddenly completed with potent inserts of colour that envelope the classical
linearity. Her works are full of expressive power and of symbols; they open up
to fantasy, to invention, to the past, to the future, to dreams. The last cycle is, as
said by the artist, inspired by the classical nude intended as an evolution of a
dream-like symbolism.
Grazia Palomba
Grazia Palomba
Via Cesare Battisti 7, Torre del Greco, (NA), 80059, Italy
graziapalomba@yahoo.it
www.graziapalomba.it
“Il pathos del guerriero di Egina II”, Oil on canvas
115
Stefano Pani
Stefano Pani
Stefano Pani was born in Orroli in 1977, and he lives and works in Villaputzu. In
2008, he graduated from the Foiso Fois Artistic Lyceum of Cagliari, achieving excellent results. Since he was young, Pani has cultivated a passion for art, in particular
for drawing and oil painting. He has an excellent knowledge of various techniques
including charcoal, pastels, clay, watercolour and oil. He prefers painting in the figurative or realist styles and is indeed an excellent portraitist. He has participated in
several exhibitions, both solo and group shows, all of which have gained him great
critical acclaim. Pani’s passion is studying landscapes and representing the characters of Sardinia although most of all, he loves the subject of the nude, of which he
has accumulated a great collection.
Via Silvio Pellico 41, Villaputzu, (CA), 09040, Italy
stefanopani@arte-disegno.net
www.arte-disegno.net
“Banditi”, Oil on board
116
After studying art in Paris, Mariannic Parra opened her Atelier in Nantes, and
since then has become a highly recognised artist. Exhibiting across Europe and
particularly in Paris and France.“Whereas the horizon darkens, whereas the ugliness and the cacophony threaten ceaselessly to triumph, this is a creed which no
decline would be able to threaten. This faith means that the artistic commitment
has to pass on a spiritual heritage of works which assume the whole world with
man inside of it. The act of creating material, to give something for people to see
and think as part of a whole which does not think in itself but which weakens
the shadow of a past which does not pass. Imagine the past and the urgency of
a resurrection with very deep roots in what is archaic, primitive, and mythical.
To create an original terminology in a movement which extends to an unknown
territory”
Marriannic Parra
Marriannic Parra
13 rue Georges Clemenceau, 44000, Nantes, France
parra.jp@free.fr
www.parra-art.com
“Yeux sans cesse détournés de l’oeuvre” Sand, acrylic
117
Mauro Parrino
Mauro Parrino
Mauro Parrino was born in Agrigento and began his artistic life at the age of 18.
In his painting, Parrino is influenced by Amedeo Modigliani in his form and style,
highlighting the deep existential crisis of identity that man lives in a problematic
social context in which the more narrow scientism dominates the life of the individual. From here forwards the artist proceeds to find a style that identifies and
characterizes his way of painting, a style consisting of subjects and colours, notes
pasted on canvas. These new representations give the viewer a unique opportunity
for deep reflection and interior analysis. The effect of Parrino’s paintings is to shake
and wake up the observer from the indifference of a modern society and superficial
feelings. In recent years, the artist has been dedicated to the study of the human
figure.
Via Emilia, 2, Favara, (AG), 92026, Italy
mauro.parrino@tele2.it
www.gigarte.com/parrino
“Di giorno e di sera”, Mixed media on canvas
118
I did not have any formal training in the visual arts until I was in my mid-thirties,
but I have always been sketching. When I was introduced to charcoal as a medium, I immediately fell in love with the smooth texture and contrast that it
creates. It quickly became my favourite medium.
Isolde Paul
Isolde Paul
I also enjoy pencil sketching and have recently started to paint as well. In my
work, I create pieces that inspire conversation and are sometimes tongue in
cheek too.
P O Box 4601, R5G1R4, Steinbach, MB, Canada
isolde@mts.net
www.isoldepaul.com
“Hardship Engraved”, Charcoal, powder pastel and pencil on paper
119
Irini Penna
Irini Penna
Irini Penna was born in Piraieus, Greece but now lives in Corfu. She took her first
lessons in painting at the Corfu School of Art and attended courses at ABC art
school. She also had private lessons in painting Byzantine icons at a Corfian monastery. She has taken part in two solo exhibitions and participated in twenty group
shows, which were held at Athens, Piraieus, Patras, Corfu, Chania and Italy.
She worked for a year at the Ceraco factory, painting porcelain dishes and mugs but
now holds a position of artistic responsibility at a Corfian magazine. Irini Penna’s
work is displayed in the permanent exhibition of the Corfiot Gallery, Department
of Plus Corfiot Painting, as well as in the Municipality Theatre of Corfu, the Chinese
Embassy and in private collections. Various institutions have also used her paintings, including the Ministry of Health.
Nik Zervou 17, Kefalomantouko, 49100, Corfu, Greece
irinipenna@gmail.com
“Piano”, Mixed media on canvas
120
Zelmira is an Argentinean artist who has exhibited in South America, New York,
Italy and around the world. She studied the social sciences in depth but then
dedicated herself to her dynamic abstract art. “My work is guided by my internal
vibrations. When I paint with my fingers I feel the pleasurable sensation given
by the substance, I play with the movements of the air, with the space-time in
which I travel through the canvas. The wealth in which my inner being lives needs to be portrayed, sometimes as serene mood and other times in the painful
hopelessness of knowing that there will not be enough material to contain all
of my emotions. My movements go from an underground to a totally ethereal
world. My artistic expression is visceral, intestinal, lung-like, ventricular, venous,
arterial, ocular, finger-like, lingual, nasal, skinned and skin-like.”
Zelmira Peralta Ramos
Zelmira Peralta Ramos
Martin y Omar 866, San Isidro, 1642, Buenos Aires, Argentina
zelmirapr@fibertel.com.ar
www.zelmiraperaltaramos.com.ar
“Mi regalo es mi canción”, Oil on canvas
121
Igor Eugene Prokop
Igor Eugene Prokop
I love the sea, the grass, the trees, the animals, the material. Perhaps I am a narrowminded materialist? No, the spirit is immaterial but the material is the worldly manifestation of the spirit.
I have travelled around the world and from what I have seen it is small, blue and
fragile. However, through my microscope I can sense the cavalcade of momentary
magic as well. I am an earthling like so many, seemingly animate and inanimate
creatures of God abounding with colours and shapes.
I have experienced during my trips that all this is perishing. I do not want my children, my students, the explorers of the future, to be unable to see this magic. I am
presenting some fragments from the endless world and giving them to the spectators with love.
Csukavolgy12a, 2025, Visegrad, Hungary
prokopi@hu.inter.net
www.profusingart.com
“Butterfly’s Birth”, Mixed media on canvas
122
I was born in the Netherlands, in Eindhoven, where I spent the first twenty
five years of my life. In 1987 I moved to Tilburg (Nl) where I now live and work.
Between 1986 and 1992 I studied at the Art School (ABV) in Tilburg, specialising
in two dimensional arts: drawing, painting, photography and graphics.
I had the opportunity to exhibit my work at several places in Holland, Hamburg
and Belgium. Since 2006, my works have also been exhibited in France and in
Barcelona, by Carré d’artistes.
Art is very important to me and I have painted since I was a small child. Nature,
cities and houses are important sources of inspiration for me. The way we create
our environment and houses reflects the way we think. An important aspect is
that art is a way to communicate colour and beauty. I hope to inspire people and
to touch their hearts.
Huub Ragas
Huub Ragas
Batenburglaan 18, 5043ak, Tilburg, The Netherlands
huubragas@hotmail.com
www.huubragas.exto.nl
“Flowing world”, Gouache on panel
123
Sergio Rapetti
Sergio Rapetti
Sergio Rapetti was born in the Forties in Acqui Terme where he still resides, he
started painting in oils in 1984. His works range from the figurative to the impressionist-abstract. ‘For the Remembrance of History’ is a series of paintings representing an interpretative, philosophical idea. These impressionist-abstract works
bring back to life the history of the American Indians who lived in the desert plains
of Mexico, Arizona and California, struggling to survive. The works remind us that
they had everything taken away from them, even their own lives, only because, to
their misfortune, they were born in an area of immense wealth: gold, oil, and so
forth. This is still of great relevance today. The other works represent tribes of Bedouins, who share a great deal of similarity with the American Indians.
Via Moriondo 39, Acqui Terme, (AL), 15011, Italy
info@rapettisergio.it
www.rapettisergio.it
“Indiani d’America”,Oil on canvas
124
Marieta’s art combines both roughness and smoothness. She works with materials which she comes across during world tours or on a quick run through her
own home port Rotterdam. Marieta shapes materials without loosing respect for
the authenticity of the substances. Manipulations performed by artist Marieta
are modest. Her mastery and craftiness contribute to the subtlety of her artworks. “In the artwork and design she has made since 1995, after she completed her
study, you feel the zest of love for diverse intercultural printing techniques. In
her present-day 3D-objects, Marieta goes back to the base of printing. Besides
using old Chinese printing techniques and woodprints, Marieta still does tricks
with chemicals.” Annet Brugel, Rotterdam 2007
Marieta Reijerkerk
Marieta Reijerkerk
Rodenrijselaan 5b, 3037 XA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
mail@marieta-reijerkerk.com
www.marieta-reijerkerk.com
“Changing identity 1954” , Metal with photography
125
Jianhui Ren
Jianhui Ren
I have always dreamt of visiting Tibet and when this became a reality, I was showered with the fruits of their harvest and a variety of experiences.
Just like numerous pearls embedded on a piece of green silk, cattle graze on those
boundless grasslands. Voices of songs advancing in waves with rhythms strong and
primitive, yet earnest and benign, bringing along a mysterious spiritual vacuum,
as though heavenly voices reverberated in the atmosphere. It rocked my heart and
mind, comparable to the interaction and conglomeration of everything in heaven
and on earth: the voices floating towards the horizon alongside the clouds.
Gazing at the shepherd, who was so carefree, I was suddenly enlightened with the
truth in life, that we return to nature when we regain innocence. As we let go, we
become carefree.
55 Strathmore Avenue, 07-151, 140055, Singapore
renjianhui@yahoo.com
www.nanyang-cas.org
“Faraway Song”, Oil on canvas
126
Art is the warm sensitive route to truth, midway between the heat of emotion
and the coldness of intellect, and there are places where man simply cannot
compete with nature - except in an ultimate individual abstraction. My paintings are silent wings that let me fly, to transmit life with canvas and colour, the
source from which all beauty and wonder come.
In my younger years, I immersed myself in a structured life as a dentist. In 1989,
I experienced a devastating automobile accident that forced the loss of that profession. In the aftermath of that tragedy, a profound spiritual transformation
evolved. This life-changing event forged a path of serious painting and sculpting.
Kristi Rene
Kristi Rene
2411 Soda Canyon Rd, 94558, Napa, U.S.A.
kristirene@hughes.net
www.kristirene.com
“We opened our eyes”, Triptych, Acrylic on canvas board
127
Henry Riekena
Henry Riekena
Henry’s paintings are vivid abstractions that are very conscious of the role that the
passage of time plays in the act of viewing a work. Inspired by his own synaesthetic
responses to music and emotions, the paintings are not merely static images, but
are dynamic, immersive environments that are intended to be viewed slowly and
at length.
Colour, brushstroke and perceived depth swirl and overlap, creating a place without definite ground, inviting the observer to be drawn out of their day to day lives
and into the meditative, reflective experience of the piece.
PO Box 424394, 94142, San Francisco, U.S.A.
henry.riekena@gmail.com
www.henryriekena.com
“Golden Palace”, Oil on canvas
128
“I grew up with my summers filled with camping trips to the High Sierra
Mountains. That is where my interest in outer space began. I would lie in my
sleeping bag and just watch the billions of stars in the sky and wonder about
what else might be out there. That love and fascination with the cosmos never
left me. While studying for my BS degree at Arizona State University I took a
course in astronomy. But really I decided I just wanted to paint the universe...or
what I imagined the universe to look like.” Sandi Miller.
Sandi Ritchie Miller
Sandi Ritchie Miller
“Bursts of light provide loci of power, centers of radiation that effuse energy and
reaction...Miller’s seamless surfaces act as windows into vibrant galaxies...yet
her art is more fantastical than anything a scientist has seen” Elizabeth Schlatter, University of Richmond Museums
5747 blaine Rd, 20733, Churchton, U.S.A.
sdra1@hotmail.com
www.sandiritchiemiller.com
“A Moon”, Mixed media on lucite
129
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Giovanni Carlo Rocca was born in Tiriolo in 1960, moving to the province of
Turin whilst very young and then subsequently moving to the Piemontese capital. He finished his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and then
completed a course in restoration at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence becoming recognized by the Tuscan region as a restorer. During his academic education he
received positive influences from artists such as Sergio Saroni, Vincenzo Gatti
and Francesco Franco, his teachers.
Following these studies, he undertook a career as a restorer working for decades on precious masterpieces, entering into a symbiosis with painting that will
give life to the “re-Impressionism” movement. He has collaborated with major
international and national organisations creating and implementing projects to
support human rights using art as an instrument of social justice.
Giovanni Carlo Rocca
Giovanni Carlo Rocca
Via Don Bosco 62, Torino, (TO), 10144, Italy
info@giovannicarlorocca.it
www.giovannicarlorocca.it
“India”, Oil on canvas
131
Marit Elde Rosendahl
Marit Elde Rosendahl
Women in different ages, shapes and places fascinate me. I like to look at their role,
what has been accomplished and what is unchanged.
When I look at modern society’s attitude towards women, I think the liberation of
women has taken a few steps back. The space in which the women can be themselves has always been narrow and this is where Carrie and her friends from “Sex and
the City” make a difference. As a symbol for today’s women, they have the freedom
to make their own choices whilst maintaining their femininity. Carrie with her radiance and beautiful clothes is in my point of view, one of our time’s biggest icons.
As an artist, it is the expression of the painting that thrills and drives me. I work
figuratively and abstractly, both expressions are very important to me in my artistic
role.
Riiserveien37, 1860, Trøgstad, Norway
kaaros@online.no
www.mariteiderosendal.blogspot.com
“Carrie 2”, Acrylic on canvas
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The way they talk, the way they move, their gestures, their postures: people can
be such characters. More so when they are unaware of being watched. Ironically, in some cases, the best actor is he who does not act at all but is just himself.
Real life can indeed be a great stage, just detach from it, sit back and watch.
My work is inspired by these characters, how they interact with each other and
their behaviours in sometimes ‘unlikely’ situations. The result is what one may
perhaps, term ‘human archetypes’ and their stories. They are more real than one
may think though. And if the narrative should look contrived at times, viewers
rest assured, it borrows from reality more often than not.
Andrea Rossi
Andrea Rossi
ASC Studios, Worsley Bridge Road, London, SE26 5AZ, UK
plutoniumcathedral@yahoo.co.uk
www.andrearossi.biz
“The last slice of salame at the vernissage “, Oil on paper
133
Gianluca Russo
Gianluca Russo
His artistic production doesn’t follow academic layouts but denotes the freewill of
expression through the most varied colours and materials, transferring onto paper
and canvas all that fascinates him, giving greatest importance and authority to his
idea more than the perceived result of the work itself. His creations are quickly
sprinkled on the floor, carrying with it line and strong colours, making reference
to the traditions of the hot earth of his home town in Sicily. The artist tends to
hide some of the women that he represents, almost to communicate that “a certain
beauty doesn’t need to be contemplated in its entirety” but that the detail is the
important element and the key to reading his works. Faces deprived of smiles that
suggest stories and thoughts, perhaps until now unknown. The mixtures of colours
enjoy blending together, elaborating works that tread with the strong visual impact
of visual folk-lore that his entire collection wishes to communicate.
Via G.B. Valente 67, Roma, (RM), 00177, Italy
luca_r27@libero.it
“Safari”, Oil on panel
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Lidia Russo , born in Cercola in 1964, is a renowned Sculptress who has exhibited widely throughout Italy and won numerous prizes.
Lidia Russo
Lidia Russo
“The Sculptress Lidia Russo has mastered the ‘Raku’ technique, which with a
skilled combination of mixed enamels, has allowed her to give an air of antiquity
to her creations. Her works seem to take inspiration from primitive art and preserves its freshness and its poetry. Truly this artist demonstrates such mastership
of her technique, such unity to her poetic inspiration, that she is able to create
some true masterpieces” Emilio Bianchi
Corso Tullio Boccarusso, Massa di Somma, Napoli, (NA), 80040, Italy
www.lidiarusso.spaces.live.com
“Le grandi Idee dei geni” , Terrarossa biscottata
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Meir Salomon
Meir Salomon
Fire and water drawing is a new way of drawing, I use plain white paper, wetting it
with water and drawing on it, out of the sheer desire to shape the paper into form,
creating a relief with the use of the brush. Thus, the brush and the water create paper waves and a soft relief is formed. A “sculpture” is born of a mutual collaboration
between human handwriting and that of nature.
Bringing together fire and water, the constructed and the destroyed, the real and
the unreal.
Dov 28/9, 76804, Mazkeret Batya, Israel
meirsalomon@gmail.com
www.meirsalomon.com
“Rhododendron”, Oil on canvas
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It has been my privilege to study art in Florida, Colorado and Italy. Along the way
I have exhibited art in six countries and worked in museums in three. As a result
I have built up a unique collection of experiences both personal and professional. Through all of my travels (from Cambodia to Colombia and many points in
between) I have been more and more certain of one thing, I am and will always
be an artist. In sickness and in health I am married to art and can do nothing
about it, it is too late. My work is varied but is usually in a Neo-Expressive style
that both employs visual ideas of the Abstract Expressionists and the German
Expressionists. Occasionally straying into a Surrealist zone (creating works similar to the biological musing of Calder and Miro) I have allowed myself room
to explore a wide range of abstraction. Ever present is the use of intense color,
organic and expressive brushwork and a mixing in an almost mystical way, hints
of the visible natural world and that of the invisible or microscopic.
Jonathan Sanchez
Jonathan Sanchez
Waffengasse 4, 2502, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
jonathan@sanchezartwerk.com
www.sanchezartwerk.com
“Summer’s Caldron”, Acrylic on canvas
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Giancarlo Scarsi
Giancarlo Scarsi
Giancarlo Scarsi was born in 1956 in Alessandria. Painting is an old passion which
allowed him to exhibit his paintings around Italy. About him critics have written in
the main national newspapers and specialised magazines. (Avvenire, La Repubblica, Il Messaggero, Il Tempo, Libero, La Stampa, Il Giorno,L’Unità, Il Giornale,
Secolo d’Italia, Il Gazzettino di Venezia, Archivio, Art Journal). Giancarlo Scarsi
paints feelings, moments and places where he has been and where he would like
to be. The characters, who haven’t got a visible face, but who are always portrayed
from the back, let space to imagination and to the inevitable introspection which
from every picture is projected, as from the particular to the universal, towards the
most hidden places of the human soul. In the same way the observer can grasp the
phychological value of the silence, undisputed protagonist of the work, permeating
landscapes and people of sounds heard only by who, with real aesthetic sensibility,
can be on the same wavelength as an art work “Out of Time”.
Via Borgo Masone n.14, Masio, (AL), 15024, Italy
giancarloscarsi@tiscali.it
www.giancarloscarsi.it
“Ponte Vecchio, Firenze”, Oil on canvas
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Gillie and Marc are fascinated by the things that give us pleasure, the things that
make us happy. Their subjects are dogs, cats and smiling faces. But their paintings also hint at darker meanings: do these handsome dogs, beautiful people
and colourful objects belong to a world we can only dream of possessing? Gillie
and Marc Schattner’s work uses a colourful and exuberant meshing of figurative
expressionism and Pop Art to explore ideas of contentment and happiness. The
bold, simple shapes and rich colours and textures they use in their paintings and
sculptures are a source of simple, positive pleasure, while also suggesting metaphors for our search for happiness. They have painted together for the last 15
years and are international award winning artists and Archibald Prize Finalists.
Their portraits are demanded internationally and their subjects include Rhonda
Birchmore, Scarlett Johannson, John Konrad, Archbishop Pell, Dr Harry Cooper,
Jimmy Little, and the late Peter Brock.
Gille and Marc Schattner
Gille and Marc Schattner
PO Box, 56, Paddington, NSW 2021, Sydney, Australia
studio@gillieandmarc.com
www.gillieandmarc.com
“He’ll never be famous but he doesn’t give a damn, he’s a musician”Acrylic on Canvas
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Karine Schneider
Karine Schneider
Karine Schneider is an artist greatly influenced by nature and its healing power.
She often combines elements of nature with figurative studies, describing her vision of humanity as “humorous and mystical” she also attempts to incorporate the
“complexity of human desires” in her work. Her work includes the “violence and
magnificence”of man and woman, portrayed with a vibrant use of colour. The artist
has exhibited in Paris, Cannes, Shanghai, New York, and the Florence Biennale of
2007. Schneider’s work demonstrates her interest in light and symbols that work
together to form her striking pieces. The artist is also influenced by the concept of
ying yang, which she feels is “where violence and beauty are always bound”, an
element that she attempts to present in her work.
30 Rue Campestra, 6400, Cannes, France
karineschneider@sfr.fr
www.karineschneider.com
“The discovery of Yin 2”, Acrylic on Canvas
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A painter of German-Serbian origin from Sombor, Serbia, Atila Schroeder received first formal recognition in India, at a collective exhibition, where his work
was noticed for being specific and characterized by extremely original expression. Living as a monk for six years, for some time in India, Atila Schroeder has
deeply reached in the field of spirituality. Reflected in spontaneous movements
of his soul, his need for artistic expression is rooted in a deep lust for self-accomplishment. A rich and variegated language of his artistic expression, defined
by vibrant colors and movements, reveals traces of diversified cultural milieus of
Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy, India. All of his paintings disclose a need for freedom of movement, a quest for the true self and a heroic effort to leave a mark
on the water, a need to live happily and joyfully discovering the magic of life.
Atila Schoeder
Atila Schoeder
M. Gorkog 29, 25000, Sombor, Serbia
atilaschroeder1@yahoo.com
www.atilaschroeder.com
“Ancient Soul”, Oil on Canvas
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Mary Segerfalk
Mary Segerfalk
Mary Segerfalk is a powerful and sensitive Swedish artist, she takes inspiration
from her past experiences, and her art has been exhibited across the world from
Europe to the Americas to as far east as Korea. Currently Mary works with painting,
silk screen, sculptures and objects in urban environments. She is an explorer in life
and has a curious mind for people and the world. Mary has also had engagements
as a lecturer and is featured in a number of art books. Her art has a depth that comes as a result of the intricate thought process behind her painting. She is highly
spontaneous, and starts thinking about her art as soon as she wakes: she searches, creates, improves, recreates, replaces, and taking inspiration from everything
around her including her own art collection, she works at her pieces continually
until she is satisfied, and all of her works are a thoughtful journey.
Lundakragatan 4, 252 71, RÅÅ, Sweden
mary@segerfalk.com
www.marysegerfalk.se
“Knight12”, Coppersheet and leather
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“Settembrini Luigi was born in Rome in May 1968. Luigi is a painter, theatrical
set designer and works on digital art, having studied at the Accademia di Belle
Arti of Rome. Skill in the use of color and bright and expressive tonalities characterises the vivid works of an eclectic artist of undoubtable artistic ability. His
works of geometrical structure can communicate both warmth and harmony
or can be cold and melancholic, where plastic forms cause the works to emerge from their compact material individuality, making them interact physically
with the observer. The process of alienation from reality leads the observer into
an enchanted world, mysterious, a-temporal, where the interiority of the artist
can express itself in concentric lines and deep colours, where all is frozen in its
essence, in an abstract form, purified by conceptual relativity. All of this can be
found in Luigi Settembrini, who experiments continuously, escaping stereotypes to offer an original and personal art.”
Marco Filippa
Luigi Settembrini
Luigi Settembrini
Via Marco Valerio Corvo, 2, Roma, (RM), 00174, Italy
luigisettembrini@virgilio.it
www.settembrini.org
“Secondo solstizio”, Mixed media on canvas
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Claudio Souza Pinto
Claudio Souza Pinto
Claudio Souza Pinto is a painter, poet and comedian, an unusual definition for an
artist, but an apt one for this artist’s unusual style. Claudio has been well known in
France for many years, and recently has been attracting the attention of the public
in his home country as well. His works may at first seem like they depict a surreal
fantasy world, but the intention of this artist is actually the opposite: with these
works he portrays reality. His figures are made up of clothes and masks, symbolising that in society, it is external appearance that is valued. The masks Claudio portrays are the product of human creativity, and change depending on the occasion.
Thus Claudio is a surrealist, who uses surrealism to capture reality, and does so with
notable humour.
Rua Pedro Rabechi 220, 13257550, Itatiba, Brazil
big.ban@terra.com.br
www.claudiosouzapinto.net
“The Kiss”, Oil on linen
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It was in 2001 that Steven Spazuk discovered a new way to draw and paint. A
candle, a sheet of paper and swirls of black smoke transform the artist’s hand
into a seismograph that reveals gossamer transparencies, voluptuous spheres
with ephemeral halos and surprising x-rays of the soul’s body and of the body’s
soul. Spazuk has spent many years using the end of a candle to affix the imprints
of bodies onto canvases that have found their way back from a time lost.
Steven Spazuk
Steven Spazuk
Steven Spazuk’s journey has been multi-faceted: publicity, design and scenography.
In 1994, painting became his main occupation; since that time he has exhibited
and performed in Montréal, Ottawa, Paris, Berlin and Florence.
1442 chemin du Lac, J6N 1B1, Ville de Lery, Quebec, Canada
steve@spazuk.com
www.spazuk.net
“Autoportrait 2007”, Soot on paper
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Monika Stahl
Monika Stahl
Monika Stahl has been painting for only a couple of years and has already developed a unique acrylic technique. She has been deeply inspired by the writings of
Eric Fromm and his philosophy has notably influenced her art. Eric Fromm differentiates between possession-centered people and being-centered people. The
former are those who aim for possession and the latter privilege existence and life.
Monika uses bank notes to symbolise the possession-centered mentality, and depicts the destruction of banknotes through ripping , cutting, burning and painting
over them, signifying the transformation from the possession-centered mentality
into the being-centered mentality. She has recently been studying and developing
her technique in New York. She has met with notable success and has attracted
the attention of the banking and business world, where she has had numerous
vernissages.
Hauptstrasse 140/1/8, 3400, Klosterneuburg, Austria
stahl@moneyart.at
www.moneyart.at
“Austriastahlrot”, Collage on linen
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Her work began with landscape photography when she studied at the academy
of administration and business in NRW in Germany. Inspired by the different art
of Asian, African and North American cultures, she combines her impressions
with their historic techniques, producing silver jewellery with the influence of
several cultures. She also creates alluring paintings, notable for their bright palette, reduced imagery and flat areas of seductive colour. The main materials in
her workshop are silk, gypsum, bronze, wood, acrylic and silver.
She is attracted to attitudes and situations that provoke an extreme visceral
answer. The paintings hold up a mirror to both the banality of urban life and
solitude of glamour, giving order to the barrage of mass media images and information that confront us daily and the works reflect this vanity, made from
uninflected slicks of bright glossy paint, giving them a hermetically sealed, impenetrable perfection.
Ingrid Stiehler
Ingrid Stiehler
Talaue 56, 46286, Dorsten, Germany
ingrid.stiehler@yahoo.de
www.ingridsworkshop.de
“Human energy makes the world go on”, Acrylic/bronze on canvas
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Astrid Stoefhas
Astrid Stoefhas
”This omnipotent creativity of Astrid Stöfhas always keeps me fascinated in new
ways. Like her restlessness, quest, decided perception and the transcription of her
uncommon angle of view, always in the context of inconvenient stories. Aligned
with a perfected artistic method.“ Charlotte Menck
”She is a universal artist. You can‘t tell from looking at her pictures which country
she is from or what her style is. Her art appeals directly to the absence of barriers.”
Ligacao
“A. Stöfhas transforms paint into fire and brightness.” Nathalie Procaccia
“It‘s a special might, which comes from her paintings.” Paolo Ferrone, Formia
Elbberg 5, 22767, Hamburg, Germany
art@astridstoefhas.com
www.astridstoefhas.com
“Power (political might)”, Mixed media on canvas
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Josie Taglienti lives and works in Phoenix. She studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Guanajuato. Her academic training in drawing and painting provides a basis for
her thought process. She uses intense pastel colours on fibrous paper to create
images often taken from her environment.
Josie Taglienti
Josie Taglienti
Taglienti has described paper as an “awesome companion” and favours pastels
to create her dynamic and often serene works that the writer Dan Koon has
described as “singularly vibrant art”. Her one-woman shows have taken place
in Mexico, Chicago, Scottsdale and Phoenix, with group shows across America
from Delaware to Hawaii.
1717 E. Union Hills, #1043, 85024, Phoenix, U.S.A.
a_joyfulsunrise@yahoo.com
www.italiamerica.org/id303.htm
“Sogno del Cosimo II “, Papyrus paper/pastel
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Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor
In a tradition as old as people themselves, Tlingit women made garments and other
items for their loved ones. The mothers and grandmothers pass tailoring skills from
generation to generation. A memory of the simple organic beauty of relatives working on their art has inspired me to create images that honour this art rooted in
familial love. Items made include clothing, footwear, regalia and functional items
and objects for special occasions were elaborately ornamented. Porcupine quills,
beads, and dyed moose hair are commonly used to make colourful designs. Elaborate ornamentation on hide is stunningly beautiful art. I strive to create images that
capture the energy of dancers and bring the beat of the drum to life. When I paint
people of my culture in regalia, the rich vibrant colours, artistry and cultural significance fill me with a deep sense of pride and gratitude. I express my appreciation for
these powerful art forms by putting them on canvas.
Box 207, Y0A 1B0, Teslin, Canada
hrtaylor@northwestel.net
www.yessy.com/jtaylor
“Love made visible”, Oil on canvas
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I am trained as a nurse as well as a psychotherapist, and in both my artistic and
my health work, I am concerned with how the body, soul and spirit are inextricably linked together, mutually influencing each other. Since late 1600, Western
thinking, strongly influenced by the philosopher Descartes, has separated body
from the mind, and put God outside the human being. The mind has been associated with the male and spiritual pureness, while the body has been associated
with the woman, as something dirty, impure, humiliating. Some of these attitudes exist even today. In my works, I try to bring up the feeling or sensation of
being a physical female body, with special emphasis on sensuality and eroticism.
My main focus in my paintings is to make a homage to the female sexual body
and soul. I use acrylic on canvas, but also make sculptures and installations.
Guri Annikki Torgersen
Guri Annikki Torgersen
Grønnvoll allé 9G, 0663 Oslo, Norway
annikki@me.com
www.annikki.no
“Oppover, endelig!”, Oil on canvas
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Antonella Valori
Antonella Valori
To hear a sound, to smell a perfume, to proclaim an emotion transforming it into
colour, at times through the impressionism that our masters have taught us, at
other times, through the abstraction that every one of us interprets and personalises. For me, painting freezes me in the enjoyment of a landscape and regenerates
mind and body: to see children grow and to stop for a moment the speed of time
passing, leaving to others a part of myself. Without doubt it is communication with
the outside world, a product of a long learning curve, fruit of events that life preserves. It is all as captivating as a sunset, or a face seen by different eyes, by different
perceptions, with painting, it becomes my sun down, my face. I started, preferring
oil colours on canvas, with monochrome paintings, after which I ‘dared’ to use more
colours, creating contrasts that were sometimes strong. I would describe my painting as loaded, dense, veiled, and undefined.
Via di Rimedia, 13, Loc.Torre, Fucecchio (FI), 50054, Italy
antonellavalori@libero.it
www.antonellavalori.altervista.org
“La Vita”, Oil on canvas
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Juliëtte van Bavel is a multi-disciplined artist who makes creations in oil-paint,
macro-photography and stone. Before finishing the HBO Royal academy of arts
she was a professional ballet dancer and worked as such up to 1998. Juliëtte has
a fascination for light and movement and this became her study in art at all
levels. So independent of the discipline, this is what she is looking for. “Where
is the light, the movement, where is the light within the movement? And what
is it? Can I catch it ? Does it bring me the lines I am looking for? The harmony
and the tension? It is an everlasting fascination that opens up to new levels all
the time.”
Jullette Van Bavel
Jullette Van Bavel
Lange Dreef 112, 2285 LB, Rijswijk (ZH), The Netherlands
jubali@aol.nl
www.jubali-art.com
“Force”, Stone and marble
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Thea Van Herpt
Thea Van Herpt
The sculptures of Thea van Herpt (1960, Hooge Mierde, Netherlands), mainly portraits and nudes, are at once recognisable for their thoughtful use of various characteristic materials such as marble, bronze, plaster, stone, concrete and wax, and they
show a refined sense of light and dark.
Ever since attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Arendonk, Belgium, the artist
has been interested in the anatomy of the human figure. Although she has chosen
the classical approach to depict this subject, Thea nevertheless has found her own
way in doing so. She likes to take on the challenge of expressing the deep, innermost qualities on the surface of a sculpture, which is to be seen in her search for a
correlation between expressionist touch and a polished surface. This way, the artist
shows that a classical way of working doesn’t necessarily make it conservative or
old-fashioned. Since her graduation, Thea has participated in several international
exhibitions.
Schoolstraat 23, 5095AN, Hooge Mierde, The Netherlands
thea-vanherpt@hotmail.com
www.theavanherpt.nl
“Extralarge”, Bronze
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My new work is very much concerned with the universe and the place of humanity within it. My paintings are a constant voyage in space and time. I travel
stepping stones up and down and explore places and ideas which are concerned
with existence on a deeper level, where time seems to stand still and life is simpler and more contemplative yet deeper and more meaningful. My inspiration
comes from everything around me, my immediate environment in Ireland, and
the cosmos: the elements, earth, air and water, people and places, music and
emotion. My latest series is inspired by a dream-like place which is part of this
dream-like world. I feel the further back I travel, the closer I get to the future,
and so the cycle continues.
Mieke Vanmechelen
Mieke Vanmechelen
Rath, Bonane, Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland
info@miekevanmechelen.com
www.miekevanmechelen.com
“Realm of Perception”, Oil on canvas.
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Cora Vogtschmid
Cora Vogtschmid
Cora Vogtschmid was born in 1952, in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. After finishing
Modern High School she moved to Amsterdam, where she attended the Grafic
School and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art. She now lives and works in Amsterdam.
In the last few years Vogtschmid has been painting and drawing studies of water in
its various manifestations and the sea especially is becoming an important source
in her recent work. Periods of working in oil on canvas alternate with working in
black and white on paper; sometimes by means of dry-point and etching, sometimes by charcoal drawings. The drawings shown are part of a series of seven.
“A sea from which birds travel not within a year, so fast it is and fearful “
Homer.
Keizersgracht 247, 1016 EB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
vogtschmid@dabvastgoed.nl
www.coravogtschmid.nl
“Sea 2”,Charcoal
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I have been painting since I can remember and when I paint I am reminded that
I exist and that I am useful to myself and others. Painting for me is like food for
my soul. I create my feelings, my thoughts, my life’s experiences and I am trying
to pass them over to the viewers or even create some new ones depending on
individual experiences and feelings.
Ioanna Voskou
Ioanna Voskou
Being able to paint, I feel that for me it is a special gift – creating something from
nothing, I am inviting everyone to travel into their own thoughts through my
thoughts, a shared journey of the thoughts and ideas of the artist and spectator.
Pentadaktylou 18, Mesa Geitonia, 4001, Limassol, Cyprus
voskou_ioanna@cytanet.com.cy
www.ioannavoskou.com
“Untitled”, Oil on canvas
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John Wieser
John Wieser
John Wieser, a self-taught artist started his professional career in 1993. When reflecting nature, John incorporates aesthetic harmony in all of his work, whether
animals, landscapes, or the complexities of the human condition.
The artist begins with pencil as “equipment of the first hour”, which offers many
possibilities of organisation from the early sketch-up into a photo-realistic distinguished elaboration of combined medium representations. The variety of grey tones in graphite also permit the viewer to look more deeply into the character of the
subject, without being diverted by colour. One of the most important points for the
artist is, to create something special, to surprise the viewer. Few realise how many
details can be hidden in nature, in a flower, animal or human body.
In 2002, the artist began to work more on his nude-pencil-drawings, connecting
aesthetics and naturalism in a perfect artistic execution.
Sportplatzstraße 438, 5541, Altenmarkt, Austria
info@john-wieser.com
www.john-wieser.com
“Sunshine”, Pencil on paper
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Ulla Wobst, a respected German artist, first studied philology at the universities of Munich, Tuebingen, Berlin, Cologne, Muenster and Wuerzburg. As the
headmaster at the Kant-Gymnasium in Dortmund she was responsible for the
organisation of the language department and fine arts. She has been committed
to art for many years, and since 2001 working as a free-lance artist has been her
regular occupation, working in her Atelier in Dortmund. Wobst ‘s work is focused on man and the basic themes that surround humanity: life, love and death,
but literature and foreign cultures also play a dominant role. She experiments
with many different types of colours and materials, working either on paper
or canvas. Beside figurative painting, reaching from surrealism to realism, and
abstract painting, she is also fond of employing abstract elements together with
figurative ones in order to communicate her ideas. She has exhibited all over the
world from China to the US, and widely around Europe.
Ulla Wobst
Ulla Wobst
Ertmarweg, 4, 44319, Dortmund, Germany
info@atelier-ulla-wobst.de
www.ulla-wobst.net
“The Golden Bowl”, Oil and mixed media on Canvas
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Paul Ygartua
Paul Ygartua
Paul Ygartua, English by birth, studied at the Liverpool Art College before deciding
to take off across the ocean and emmigrate to Canada. His adventure into the art
world began in the 1960s in Vancouver. His inspiring West Coast Indian chief portraits first brought him recognition. These quickly led to his large scale murals, the
most famous being for the United Nations pavilion during Expo 86 in Vancouver. In
his paintings he seeks to interpret the fundamental values of the nomadic peoples
of the world and also in his more intimate work to illustrate the workings of the
mind and soul. His work is now moving towards abstract impressionism, vibrant
and passionate, colourful and bold. His paintings are in public and private collections worldwide and are treasured for their intrinsic and real value.
1108-1330 Harwood Street, V6E 1S8, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 1S8, Canada
info@ygartua.com
www.ygartua.com
“Carnival” Dyptych, Oil on canvas
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The vessels are meditations on permeability and containment, substance and
void. The process of making them is deeply meditative and references the sacred
arts of making prayers visible. These vessels belong to the cycle of work “Prayers
for the 21st Century”. As a sculptor, I continue to be interested in transformation
though now as an intra personal, rather than political, process of global consequence.
Millicent Young
Millicent Young
6180 Mannahoc Way, 22968, Ruckersville, U.S.A.
sculptor@millicentyoung.com
www.millicentyoung.com
“Striped Vessel”, Steel, wood and horsehair
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Mona Youssef
Mona Youssef
I believe that Art is a manifestation of love. We love the nature around us, the people we share our world with. When we truly love what we do, we do it wholeheartedly and become professionals at it. Yes, Art is a powerful tool and a silent
international language that can convey messages to the world reflecting culture,
history and civilization.
This language can speak up, announce, make known, unify, bring together, support,
up build, encourage, share, care for, show compassion and kind feelings toward all.
In a word, art is love.
202-840 Sutton Mills Court, K7P 2T1, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
monayoussef@cogeco.ca
www.mona-gallery.com
“Blue Shadows”, Oil on canvas
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Gianfranco Zazzeroni was born in 1945 in Urbino, where he attended the Artistic Lyceum, an environment sensitive and supportive of the arts. He has been
professor of design at the Pescara Art Institute and in 2002 he was professor of
editorial design and art publishing for IFTS courses. For the occasion he published the “Quaderno Progettazione Editoriale”. His interest in the publishing
sector has allowed him to work with cultural associations at an international
level. In addition to his participation in several exhibitions with paintings and
graphic works, he has an excellent knowledge of engraving techniques. He has
received various awards and his works are in museums and private collections
including the Franciscan Art Museum of Falconara, the Pinacoteca Corrado
Gizzi in Guglionesi, The Mail Art Museum of L’Aquila, The Museo delle Genti
d’Abruzzo in Pescara, and the Pinacoteca Barocci of Urbino.
Gianfranco Zazzeroni
Gianfranco Zazzeroni
C. da Barco, 6, Montesilvano, (PE), 65015, Italy
info@zazzeroniarteweb.it
www.zazzeroniarteweb.it
“Incontro”, Spatula on paper
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