As an artist, I create images that speak about the fragility of life, of us. I truly believe our children can make a difference. They might be young and seem fragile, but they have the power and will to change things.
All in Contemporary Art
Interview with Simon Darling – SDarling
Simon Darling is a Danish artist who grew up being exposed to the creative nature of his mother, who were an emerging abstract artist. In a young age he quickly engaged himself in drawing and painting.
“Through my paintings, I unite and express the unexplainable, indefinite and confusing emotions, from the obscure realm of imagination”
David Pallua
For the Italian painter David Pallua, to become an artist was to courageously refute the expectations of others in order to fulfill a personal dream. Not surprisingly, Pallua values integrity and authenticity as the most important aspect of his artwork.
Christo Anto Francis
Merging academic and contemporary painting into one, Christo Anto Francis, an illustrative painter hailing from Canada captures people at various moments of their lives. The artist carefully crafts paintings which have arresting emotions and shows beauty, simplicity, elegance, eccentricity and naughtiness in them.
Hye Ja Moon
The latest works by Hyeja Moon can be considered as the landmark that shows her long thoughts in her mind have reached to the starting point of her painting career all the way again. That is “Matisse’s colors and Mondrian’s abstracts geometric.” She titled the works <Compositions of Two Light Sources>. And the two light sources are, of course, Matisse and Mondrian who have long occupied her heart ever. What influences on Hyeja Moon’s work did those two great artists have? Matisse and Mondrian respectively.
Robert van de Graaf
Robert van de Graaf (1983, The Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, The Netherlands. He received a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Architecture (Technical University Delft) in 2009. Since 2011 he dedicated his life on the visual arts.
Miguel Balbás
Miguel Balbás’s artwork is solid and would stoically withstand any criticism from those who can’t bear for a piece of art to be beautiful, and nothing more. In contrast to proposals of questionable taste and poor content, both aesthetically and intellectually, the work of this artist is a tribute to the perfection of form, from someone whose objective, in his personal as well as professional life, is to make existence more tolerable for the rest of us.
Ming Ying
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Alexandre Egorov
Alexandre Egorov was born and brought up in St. Petersburg in an atmosphere of the cultural movement of what is known as Russian cosmism This philosophical movement combined ethics and philosophy of the origin, evolution and future existence of the cosmos and humankind, both from Western and Eastern traditions.
Patrick Joosten
A painter, born in Paris, residence in France & Cambodia. I have always been interested in arts from my early childhood, doing some paintings and drawings as a hobby. I really started painting on the daily basis from 2011. Under the great Influences by artists such as: Picasso, Klimt, Egon Schiele, Basquiat, Richter, Rothko, Modigliani; I’ve learnt much from their styles.
Tolmie MacRae
Tolmie MacRae explores the multiplicity of existence predominantly through the medium of video. His works have explored themes of meditation, transcendence and immanence by investigating the flow of light and time on people and landscapes generating visual and temporal abstractions. He plays with opposing ideas and then fuse them together.
BiHop
BiHop parodies the paintings of renowned artists such as Caravaggio, Bacon, Gogh, Lautrec and Cezanne, for escaping from this dichotomous ideology of the subject-object. It shows the intention of de-subjection and de-objection by removing the Sunflowers from the Gogh’s painting and taking away the Apples from Cezanne’s.
Bogdan Dyulgerov
Bogdan's artwork has a deep understanding of biomorphic forms and organic movement. He attempts to use colors and nuances that 'love each other' in such a way that the painting would echo beautifully. His use of multiple media and acrylics, as well as sculpture and bronze, is a testament to his adventurous and intuitive approach to his work.
Sal Ponce Enrile
Sal Ponce Enrile embraces the use of mixed media, acrylics, and textures that add character and depth to the uncensored expression of her work. She was once a legislator and it was her political background that gave her the opportunity to witness the real challenges people in extreme poverty are facing daily. It’s these genuinely kind and generous people she has met that’s given her a unique way to see the world. Today, reflecting on those moments remains her inspiration.
Daniel Butterworth
Daniel, a figurative artist who creates to connect to contemporary themes and ideas. Daniel’s use of non traditional materials gives his work a sense of immediacy and spontaneity. Using cardboard as his canvas and interior house paint, the idea of certain materials needed to be used to create “serious” art is questioned.
Interview with Michael Jiliak
My artistic biography began 11 years ago with training at an art school in Belgium. Before that, I traveled a lot and made a lot of sketches. Then I began to take part in art exhibitions in Belgium, Holland. Later in France and the UK.
Simone Monney
Beyond meditative serenity, Simone elaborates her canvases like musical compositions.
Having started her day with meditation, her mind is free and serene.
Aristotelis Deligiannidis
Born in 1984 in Kavala, Greece, where he lives and works. He studied Mathematics at the University of Ioannina, Greece (2001-2004). Aristotelis Deligiannidis has participated in biennales and large scale exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He creates works on paper with markers and felt-tip pens, painting installations, canvases, artists books and multiples. His work “LAYERS” is in permanent exhibition, since 2010, in the Blue Moon area of Lido island, Venice. In the Global Art Awards in Nov.2017 held in Burj Khalifa, Dubai he was in among the four finalists in the painting category.
Interview with Rostislav Romanov
Rostislav Romanov is a Russian born artist that lives and works in the southeast of England. He is a trained landscape painter that travels and captures nature between Russia and England. He uses his art as a way to understand the world which gives him, a unique soul voice and perspective.
Olan Ventura
Olan Ventura (b. 1976) took up his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the East, which hailed him as Most Outstanding Alumnus in 2007 for Fine Arts and Culture. He has mounted solo and group shows locally and internationally, and has explored themes ranging from identity, technology, popular culture, and more recently the folk Catholic traditions of his native Philippines and its expressions in contemporary life.