Interview with Ira Stein

Ira Stein is a trained artist, a Vietnam veteran, former commercial airline pilot, and a renown jeweler. With such an interesting and varied personal background, his works convey a well-rounded, multi-dimensional and inventive interpretation of the world surrounding us. His sculptures, mixed-media collages, and figurative paintings all provide a glimpse into the psyche of an artist grasping with the notion of genetic essentialism viewed from the perspective of the troubled, the vulnerable, and the erotic nature of the human condition.

Helga Palasser

Helga Palasser is an Austrian sculptor skilled in working with a great variety of different materials. Starting her career with an apprenticeship for sculpting in Bad Kleinkirchheim/ Austria in 1989, she has always been attracted by the possibility of going abroad with her work. Since then she has travelled to many different places around the world, leaving her sculptures in California, Zimbabwe, Nepal, France, Germany and Denmark.

Stavros Ditsios

Stavros Ditsios first solo exhibition was at the early age of nine years old in the Town Hall of Panorama in Greece where he was awarded the prize. He studied Fine Arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he graduated with Distinction (1997-2001 ). Among his tutors was professor Umberto Borella.

Lise Couture

Born in Canada and moved to Northern Ireland in 2002, Lise had never aspired to be an artist; she wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of painting for a living, but Art found her in the most unexpected place. Inspired by a Canadian artwork that had long- fascinated her, and which proved to be a turning point in her life, she started learning to paint, attending various Irish artists’ workshops, during which she discovered she enjoyed painting so much that she embarked upon studies in an intensive art programme.

Interview with Howard Harris

A Denver Colorado USA native, Mr. Harris has lived and worked in Kansas City, New York and Boston before returning to Denver to establish an integrated direct-marketing company. For over 35 years, he has been a practicing designer and marketer working with the understanding that design is defined as art that you do for others. Since retiring from the direct-marketing world Mr. Harris is now focusing on dimensional photographic fine art. Mr. Harris shows in galleries across the United States and Europe.

Interview with Patricia Gagic

Patricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist and award- winning Author. She is the President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprises Inc. represented by Art Production NYC agency, the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami, Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto and F@CEC in France.

Michai Morin

Michai's work could be described as visually euphoric. A sort of optical "high." He refers to his art as both tone-setting and atmospheric. Neither description truly does justice to the out of body feeling you get when you stare into one of his works.

Interview with Josip Rubes

Josip Rubes was born in Jastrebarsko, Croatia in 1942 and is graduate painter and a retired doctor. He graduated from Medical Faculty of Zagreb in 1970. Rubes also studied Painting at the Arthous College of Visual Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with his diploma thesis on Jackson Pollock Painting. Josip Rubes has been drawing and painting since his early youth.

Interview with Itziar Ramírez Elizondo

For her, painting means connecting with emotions and harmonizing them in a kind of deeply spiritual dance that turns a daily moment into something that transcends temporality and leaves its mark on the canvas. She is convinced that the complexity of the emotions and their recognition are topics that her continue to explore, because they largely determine the mystery of happiness and fully life.

Juliet Petrarulo

I studied for 4 years and gained a first degree in fine art on the Isle of Man. The paintings I have been currently working on are a series called 'childhood dreams' and 'childhood memories'. I paint subconsciously dreamlike and creating a story from my childhood capturing images from memory. I'm inspired by colour, tone and texture. The light and elements of nature.

Interview with Caren Akers

I feel that I am very privileged being surrounded by art my entire life. I grew up in the mid west and moved to south Florida with my family. Here I studied both photography and Business Administration where I worked as a corporate Human Resource Director for many years. I am also very fortunate to have a daughter who is an up and coming architect.