My art is about my many life experiences, some of which may leave you highly uncomfortable and some will make you feel you are on the highest mountain peak. My art is imperfect; a true reflection of me and something I now embrace wholeheartedly.
Artist Spotlight - Barbara Palka Winek
Painting is for me a link between the real world and the transcendent. Apart from artistic values, art should contain a mystery. In each painting, one can read the emotional load that was conveyed to him in the creative act.
Artist Spotlight - Nancy Anne Woolf-Pettyjohn
I am inspired by my parents and the Old Masters. My art evokes many emotions from others which is always exciting to hear. My goal as a world master artist and illustrator is to be my best with the talent God has given me. In sharing my art with others I want to create art that is enjoyable to look at but also to offer quality investments for art connoisseurs.
Artist Spotlight - R. Geoffrey Blackburn
R. Geoffrey Blackburn (born 1947) is an American fine artist, inventor, and polymath known for his realistic oil paintings of Western landscapes, particularly the red rock desert vistas of Utah, as well as for inventing a user-interactive art form called "Multi-Dimensionalism," for which he received a U.S. patent in 1990
Artist Spotlight - Norma Picciotto
My visual research stems from the intersection between reality and vision, between historical memory and poetic imagination. After many years working as a photojournalist, I chose to turn photography into a tool for inner reflection and symbolic narration. Each image is born from a layering of elements – documentary shots, urban fragments, traces of human presence – which I rework to create a dreamlike dimension where matter meets the invisible.
Interview with Liao WanNing
As a visual artist, my works are not intended for personal enjoyment alone but to explore complex issues of international politics, economics, war and peace, and state and international relations through the language of art. These works are not only part of the international political landscape but also an objective reflection of the current realities of people's lives.
Artist Spotlight - Patricia RAIN Gianneschi
In my work, my desire is to bring the viewer into a space where they become open to the forces of imagination and spirit. I believe Art can transform us. I believe art can take us to a new awareness, create new sensations, and form. For me, the act of painting is an act of spiritual practice. I enter the painting with body and mind, searching for the images as I wander through the canvas, pickup my guitar, play piano or sit down to write. I am a conjugated artist, working across poetics.
Artist Spotlight - Reinhardt Hollstein
Reinhardt Takeo Hollstein is a Seattle-based mixed-media artist renowned for pioneering the fusion of traditional painting with interactive technology. Born in Salina, Kansas, in 1961, he relocated to Seattle at a young age and developed a passion for art early on.
Artist Spotlight - Corinne Whitaker
Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 47 years as a pioneer in digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 80 solo and 260 group exhibitions, including “Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes” at the Monterey Museum of Art, “Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom” at the San Bernardino County Museum, “No Rules” at the Peninsula Museum in Burlingame, CA., and “CyberSphere” at Stanford University.
Artist Spotlight - Atom Hovhanesyan
The seemingly chaotic application of lines (cross hatches) is intentional, I'm trying to follow in line of the post divisionist paintings, creating a unified fabric of the plane, modeling with parallel hatch marks would go against this, and would make it more of a plastic approach, and would emphasize the distinction of background foreground. In short I'm trying to arrive at impressionistic use of ink as the medium with surreal or symbolic mindset.
Artist Spotlight - L. Scooter Morris
My goal is to make artwork that is so beautiful it cuts to the heart of what is true, to create art that is of this moment, but exists as something timeless. It resonates with the person viewing the work as real although it is not quite realistic. It has meaning, although that is not specifically stated because of its use of color or symbolism, or imagery.
Artist Spotlight - Marco Riha
After almost three decades of creating art instinctually, I realised my method has a long tradition called Surrealist Automatism. I had finally found a home in Art History. The simple act of putting myself aside and see what wants to be created, has led me on a long creative journey.
Artist Spotlight - Katerina Stavrou
Katerina Stavrou is a contemporary visual artist based in Larnaca, Cyprus. She began her academic journey in 2007, studying Visual Arts at the University of Salford, and later graduated with distinction in Fine Art (BA Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011.
Artist Spotlight - Maria-Helena Marconell
My artistic practice spans prints, oil paintings, and sculptures—ranging from portraiture and life studies to relief and abstract works. It is driven by a continual investigation into how life’s experiences shape emotions and thoughts over time. In my prints, this is explored through abstract lines; in my paintings, through colour and texture.
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 - Frank Gonzales
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.
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.
Artist Spotlight - Paco Pomet
Paco Pomet combines chilling social commentary with humorous juxtapositions of past, present, and future in his satirical paintings .
Artist Spotlight - Toyin Ojin Odutola
Toyin Ojin Odutola was born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1985, and later moved with her family to Alabama. In 2007 she was selected to attend the Norfolk Summer Residency for Music and Art at Yale University and continued her studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She then earned her master’s degree in Painting and Drawing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2012. She currently lives and works in New York.