All in Interview
For self-taught Dutch artist Irene Hoff, the world is out of balance which can be seen in the human & environmental challenges we are currently faced with. She craves a world where compassion, intuition and harmony are key elements for living. Irene’s art is filled with hope and inspiration that encourages viewers to become aware of their feelings and beliefs, making space for their true self.
Kay Kok Chung Oi received her Doctorate Degree in Education from Durham University, UK. Kay also graduated with a Master Degree in Art Education and a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, USA and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia respectively.
Daria Vorobyeva is a photo artist based in Moscow, Russia. She was born in 1994. In 2018, Daria graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2018, Daria completed intensive course on art business at Synergy Art Academy, in 2019 - on history of arts, contemporary art and contemporary cultural process at the Higher School of design.
Edmund was born in San Mateo California in 1950 and presently, lives and paints in the Napa Valley. He is an Internationally collected, award winning self- taught artist whose extensive exhibitions over the last 30 years include shows in many USA cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and New York, and International cities – Florence, Milan, Monte Carlo, Tel Aviv, Venice, London and Paris.
Born 1957 Ghent Belgium. Academy of Fine Arts Ghent. Photographer Since 1986. Publicity and Portrait photography for magazines, books and publicity agencies.
Mr. Ping He 和平. Born and living in Shanghai, China
I´m a philosopher and a creative person ... my self-taught education is important ... as an artist I consider myself an expressionist, abstraction is my work environment.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork? I am an artist that paints with emotion and I hope my art shows this emotion.I paint people who are invisible to the world and who live on the edge such as the homeless. I want my art to scream.
Albina Rolsing, based in Germany, is an artist open to exploring and creating different interdisciplinary artistic approaches. Her Art is versatile.
Artist, Wayne Charles Roth is part of the changing landscape in the art world. His work represents the blurring of the traditional art world boundaries substituting technology and new materials for traditional paint, brushes and canvas. Wayne was born in Rochester New York. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Rochester Institute of Technology. Educated as a classical painter, photographer and designer he became interested in computer technology in the 90’s.
Graduated from Fine Arts School of Versailles, France, Christine Marie Nobre works different technics such as painting, photography and video. She builds something like a small decor with her paintings, mirrors, lights and other things …which she manipulates with her hands. She goes off in search of adventure and on a journey in vastness as well as in infinitely small. Her mean of conveyance is light. She opens up passages to her imagination which become the visitor’s imagination through cosmic as well as spiritual or organic visions. These visions are the exact opposite of space and time.
What comes after death? This age-old question has been the cornerstone for many artists over the years. Makotu Nakagawa approaches the subject with intimacy, clarity and graphic representation, depicting his father and his body through numerous stages of life, death and the spaces inbetween.
Fatinha Ramos is an award-winning Antwerp-based illustrator and visual artist originally from Portugal. After working in art direction and design for twelve years, she took the giant leap of following her dream, working full-time as an illustrator. Since then her work has appeared all over the world and received awards from the Society of Illustrators NY, Creative Quarterly, 3x3 , Commarts magazine, Global Illustration Award, World Illustrations Awards, among others...
The French artist NPier photographs places where time seems to have stopped. Fascinated by abandonment, NPier believes that beauty in decay demonstrates the fragility of life. NPier researches sites extensively before visiting them. He always looks for places that appear to be anchored in a different reality than our present day-to-day. In his pictures, the light, the complex composition, and the textures of the interior represent a recollection of forgotten splendor. The photograph captures a perfect moment of stillness within the perpetually moving stream of time.
The German painter Christin Lutze was born in 1975 in Berlin, where she also lives and works today. She studied as a master student of Prof. Marwan at the University of the Arts in Berlin (1996-2002), during which she completed studies abroad in Venice (1999) and Geneva (2001).
How would you describe yourself and your artwork? The best characteristic is improvisation. I draw my feelings at that time.
Cho, Hui-Chin finished her Bachelor of Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art 2014-2018 (First-class honours on the Dean's list). Having grown up in a richly integrative country, She has a deep interest in using an amalgamation of materials, especially the vintage or antique materials, to create philosophical dialogue through distorted subject matter and abstract motifs, and the enduring insistence of a grotesque iconography of baby sustains her work.
Where do you get your inspiration from?
In the past work style, I need to be creative every day. My head has been trained to produce in a short period of time. However, art is a perceptual thinking, and it depends on the brewing, precipitation, rumbling, and presentation of the heart. It takes more time, and later discovers that travel is an excellent model that allows art to think through the tempering of time, creating an intriguing and eternal viewing.
Ana Nobre was born in Lisbon, 1979. Graduated in Fine Arts at Art and Design University of Caldas da Rainha. Currently teaches Fine Arts classes and workshops. In 2014 moved to Algarve, Lagoa, where she has further explored her own art and participated in numerous Artistic Projects.
Kumari Nahappan is a prominent artist in the region of Southeast Asia; her practice encompasses inter-disciplinary genres, painting, sculpture and installations. She has forged a reputation for effectively reconciling the language of “international contemporary art” with her own vocabulary and developing a visual identity that is decisively shaped by her cultural roots and beliefs.
