My work is about taking reference from various sources including books, the net and photos to comprise and create my own imagery. By creating my paintings through reference or made up elements, there becomes a play between artificiality and realism.
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Interview with Margaretha Gubernale
The figures allude to the practice of spirituality, to love of nature and humanity. Dialogue with God expands thought and the senses. The strands of light in my paintings symbolize forces, for example, the sun with its warmth and growth power, and the moon with its effect on water, especially on the sea with its ebb and flow, and on births, since humans are largely composed of water.
Artist Spotlight - Jocelyn Hobbie
Jocelyn Hobbie is a visual artist based in New York City known for her brilliantly painted canvases of attractive young women in introspective states. She creates a situation of inadvertent voyeurism with the viewer drawn into circumstances where personal judgment becomes subsumed by an overall mood.
Artist Spotlight - Katinka Lampe
Katinka Lampe paints portraits. Or at least, you can clearly recognise the representation of a person. Yet, this is not the main motive of the painting. The portrait merely serves as reason to make the painting. The portrait is the imagery concept. Her paintings greatly appeal to the beholders.
Artist Spotlight - Naomi Okubo
In her painterly practice, Naomi Okubo develops beautiful and seductive images that mask darker themes relating to her adolescence and that are connected to greater problems and inconsistencies in society.
Paco Pomet
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
Peter Doig
A leader of his generation, Peter Doig is a Scottish artist who was able to propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. In a time when new techniques were dominating and when painters and painting, in general, were considered quaintly anachronistic, he forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting landscape vistas.
Guy Yanai
Israeli oil painter Guy Yanai captures peaceful moments featuring architecture and plants. Often merging indoor and outdoor perspectives, Yanai presents placid scenes devoid of human figures. Instead, scraggly houseplants and open doors and windows act as visual focal points, suggesting the presence of human life that may have potted the plant or propped open the door.
Interview with Tina Mader
Tina Corrales-Mader is an American artist born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
She began her love of visual arts at a very young age mesmerized by Mexican folk art all around her. Growing up, Tina quickly recognized that colors, shapes, forms, music, and creativity is such a basic necessity and she needed to embrace it in any form.
Artist Spotlight - Eva Berler
My engagement with photography has rekindled my relationship with both nature and my inner world. My work revolves around nature, urban settings, macro subjects, abstract forms, and fine art photography. Rather than seeking out the extraordinary, I am drawn to the hidden, quiet, and often overlooked aspects of daily life. I seek to uncover beauty, wonder, and poetry within the ordinary, shaping what I call "my little mundane world."
Artist Spotlight - Ash Arash Bigdeli
Ash Arash Bigdeli (pronounced: âraš, IPA: [ʔɒːˈɾæʃ]) has been working as a jeweler, sculptor, and later as a prop and set builder in the film industry across various countries since the 1990s. With over three decades of experience in wood carving, jewelry-making, pottery, and sculpture, his artistic journey has resulted in the creation of many large and small 3D forms and sculptures, some of which are held in private collections or featured in public art projects worldwide. Since 1992, he has participated in four solo exhibitions and eleven group pottery and sculpture exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.
Artist Spotlight - Sukey Camacho
Sukey Camacho It’s a self taught Artist and, She is Born in Mexico and Currently living in United States of America. Studied Classical European Art for 4 years at a private school in Sofia Art Academy in Dallas Texas and now she’s winning a Multiple International Awards with the most prestigious Elite Certifications Titles and with the most highly degree Diploma from the Royal court of the “ Duke "of Chania, Greece. And she’s was selected for the important award and recognized Globally for ”Art Legend of Our Time”in the prestigious Art Contemporary Art Collectors Magazine.
Marcelle Mansour
Marcelle Mansour’s contribution to contemporary art extends beyond her technical achievements. Her oeuvre embodies a new model of artistic consciousness one that merges intellect with intuition, individual expression with universal message. In a cultural climate often dominated by irony and detachment, Mansour reasserts the sacred function of art: to restore wonder, to provoke reflection, to heal. Her work invites viewers to look beyond surfaces to perceive with what she calls “the third eye,” that inner faculty of vision capable of discerning the invisible truths beneath appearances.
Artist Spotlight - Hans van Wingerden
I (un)borrow images and recompose them. This concerns representations of concepts that are regularly discussed in our contemporary visual world, but through manipulation, context-alienation, an associative reference yield a new visual meaning. Since then (1995) I have made conceptual work with various subjects to address a critical note with regard to human functioning. In addition to the technical integration, it also gave me the inspiration to shape my intellectual objective. In this, applications of electronics, LED and neon light are also included as a possibility to achieve visual expression.
Artist Spotlight - Melissa Lohr
My photography is a depiction of how I see the natural world and all the mystery it holds. Sometimes bright and colorful in its beauty or dark and ominous, but beautiful just the same. Although I do feel that I'm more drawn to what exists in the shadows. A dreamlike entity that resides at the fringes of perception, a mystical presence that dances between reality and imagination.
Artist Spotlight - Danisa Glusevic Ferreira
My images are the process of self-discovery, of many elements which help to create our inner world. Nature and its symbols are represented in some of my works. I take fragments of images from landscapes and use those memories, which are very important, to create an abstraction and provide my art with a new vision.
A Space Oddity: In Conversation with Artist Will Wilford
In Will Wilford’s ‘The 11th Hour’, the artist’s exploration of ‘human absence’ – a theme that remains a source of constant exploration – is wholly realised. Long, tapered tree trunks eerily pierce the horizontality of the compositional space. Wilford beautifully renders the distinctive shapes and lines of a palm tree’s trunk in his subtle personification of their non-human form.
Artist Spotlight - Aura Op den Camp
I work from my inner view and connection with the subjects of my artworks. Sometimes they tell a complete story- sometimes they just show some details of the complexity of all existence. Artworks change whenever the observer changes. I am just trying to explain why I choose to be an artist and what it means to me.
Artist Spotlight - Gary Aagaard
As a traditional, non-digital painter (just oil on canvas), I’ve been commissioned by many publications from The New York Times to The Village Voice. Since 2001, I’ve concentrated on gallery work with an editorial, satirical slant..... essentially larger oil paintings with conceptual content reminiscent of my illustration years. Lampooning politicians, pundits or spiritual leaders who specialize in alternative facts, manufactured outrage, false equivalents, convoluted conspiracy theories and tunnel-visioned tribalism (whew) is my form of protest and provides a satisfying outlet.
Artist Spotlight - Stefan Fransson
Stefan Fransson, a contemporary artist from Sweden, is known for his innovative approach to artistic expression, skillfully combining digital collage, sculpture and organic forms. His works embody an intricate layering of abstract compositions, characterized by the interplay of soft tones and sharp contrasts, enhanced by transparency and depth. This unique blend results in visual structures that invite the viewer to explore themes such as space, memory and perception.