The painter and illustrator Marc Abele could be described – entirely accurately – as a documenter of images because his works expressively document the characteristics that come from the brush and the pencil.
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Interview with Ping He
My name is Ping He, I am based in Shanghai, China. I started my career in art for over 30 years. Color to me is like a symphony. Canvas is where I can unleash the power of color and let it breathe in the world.
Interview with Andrea Ivetic Vicai
Freelance illustrator by day, creature designer by night.
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.
Interview with Veerle Coucke
I am Veerle Coucke, 53 years old and a language teacher in a secondary school. Apart from painting, I am fond of theatre, reading novels, visiting exhibitions. I'm married and a mother of 3 daughters in their twenties.
Interview with Vita Lukstina
I was born in 1967 and grew up in Russia; I have Latvian and Russian blood. In my childhood I attended children’s art school in Russia. Then I went to Latvia and started to study at the Latvian University, Faculty of Pedagogy, in art department. Later I changed to the Pedagogical department of the Latvian Art Academy and graduated in 1993.
Interview with Mira Seeman
An international artist who is living in Bet Yitzhak, in Israel and painting from my inspiration and soul, not cooping at all, all my art original oil painting with unique colours as Gogen has done in his life I am bringing to the KANVA my fillings, dreamings and soul.
Eric Hubbes
Eric Hubbes creates works charged both pictorially and emotionally, delivering on the canvas the incessant river of his thoughts. Its vocation is to sublimate the inner joys and sufferings and transform them into works of art.
Interview with Orit Sharbat
Orit Sharbat lives and works at Tel Aviv, Israel. She likes to paints with passion and intensity. Her authentic style is marked by expressive, powerful colors, mainly oil or acrylic paint on canvas. Her paintings consist of multiple thick layers of color. At first sight, they may strike you as calm and harmonic, but when studied closely, the veneer of harmony and tranquility soon gives way to a multi-layered rich labyrinth of colors.
Antoine Aizier
Transcribing them in different ways, in a mixture of pointillism, impressionism and surrealism, i work with a black ink pen on paper. (0.15mm tip) All illustrations are only pieces of a story, a journey, which will eventually be understood with all parties. These stories are not insignificant ... Indeed, a little character travels in all these paintings, it is the you, the ego ...
Makotu Nakagawa
The subject of death is often of particular interest and intrigue for artists, and for Japanese photographer Makotu Nakagawa it is something he approaches with particular intimacy and clarity; depicting his late father and his body through numerous stages of life, death and the spaces in-between.
Patricia Borges
Patricia Borges, Brazilian photographer and multimedia artist, graduated in architecture, photography, cinematography and screenplay. Awarded at Florence and Rome biennials. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions around the world and it is part of major private collections.
Interview with Ai-Wen Wu Kratz
I am of Chinese origin. I came from Hong Kong to the U.S. for college education. I received my BFA degree from Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA and my MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI. Along the way, I attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Ceviga Frahm
Ceviga Frahm (Kyungok Paik) is a contemporary artist with studios in London and Seoul who brings colour and concept in harmonious symbiosis. Her artwork visualises the state of in-betweenness through ecstatic burst of colours, light, and forms
Interview with Clara de Bobes
I am a painter, biologist and professor. In that order. I have lived many lives in one. None perfect. I am lucky to be able to paint. Everything else is secondary. I continue and will continue painting.
Interview with Paul Paiement
Paiement has shown widely in solo and group shows in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Most recently Palazzo del Bargello, Museo della Balestra, Gubbio, Italy and the Carrousel du Louvre, The Louvre, Paris, France. Paiement’s work has been featured in numerous publications including New American Paintings, Las Toscana (Italy), Corriere dell’ Umbria (Italy), Ouest (France), Art in America, Artillary, ARTnews, Artscene, Modern Painters, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Orange County Register, Artweek, SF Weekly, and the New Art Examiner.
Hopper Prize: Spotlight on the Artists
The Hopper Prize has a strong history of supporting contemporary visual artists through their biannual artist grant program. This is a great program that provides unrestricted financial support to working artists of all backgrounds and disciplines. In the Spring and Fall, 5 artists each receive awards, for a total of 10 grants per year. On top of this, support is extended to an additional 30 artists per cycle who are selected for a shortlist.
Interview with Alfaro Carozzi
Alfaro Carozzi is originally from Lima, Peru / New York. She has worked in New York City most of her adult life. During an interview with Design & Fashion, she told us ” I am very interested in psychology. To create a painting I look at the scene from an analytical and psychological point of view. I see many stories within a story and I invite the viewer to engage and create his own story.
Howard Harris
The starting point of Howard Harris’ creative experience is the observation of the world, of what lives and what surrounds him: every image is the mirror of a story, the memory of a state of mind, the result of a visual and experiential association; it is the trace of an experience which retrieves as well a private dimension.