French artist Valerie Rey who, born in Paris and having been trained in Fine Arts and developed her first years of work in her homeland in the field of graphic design, textile, decoration and architecture.
All in Contemporary Art
Bo Song
When I was younger, I never attended any art academies to learn how to paint or draw, mainly because I never really had an interest in the arts. It was not until I got married and had children that I suddenly decided to take up painting. In 2008, I enrolled in an arts academy program at the Hyundai Department Store Culture Center. At what I then considered to be the relatively late age of 40, this was my first ever experience in learning how to paint.
Interview with Jan Zhou
I grew up in Shanghai in the 70s and 80s. We didn’t have many choices at the time. My studying was limited to classrooms and text books. The first time I was exposed to art was attending an art history lecture while I was studying the mechanical design in college. It marked a turning point in my life. Immediately, I was drawn to art as a means of self-expression and I started to learn drawing and painting. It was then that my artistic talent was recognized; I made up my mind to be a fashion designer because I thought that would be the more pragmatic choice.
Interview Hasti Sardashti
Iranian born artist living in London. She is always on the move. Moving through time & spaces through body & mind. Making art is for Hasti an attempt to stay in here & now -a vital practice to maintain stability, calm and fluidity in daily life. Making art is for Hasti like belonging to a place, having a home , like having a space where she can connect to the most genuine of herself and her immediate existence.
Interview with Jennifer Pazienza
The daughter of Italian immigrants, Jennifer Pazienza born in Newark, New Jersey, began making art as a child in her mother’s kitchen. She earned a Bachelor of Art Education at the William Paterson College of New Jersey and completed a Master of Art Education in 1985, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education in 1989 at the Pennsylvania State University.
Interview with Masaru Suyama
I'm a Japan based self-taught painter. I started my career in the arts after graduation from university. I wanted to be a cartoonist at first. So I applied some cartoon prizes and was selected as a finalist of GARO prize. GARO is one of famous cartoon magazines. It was my first experience in art making.
Interview with Danic Lago
Danic Lago, a Brazilian-British artist based in London after having lived in Switzerland and Mexico, has always had a sharp eye for the world. By exploring the different continents she has lived in, she began to translate her passion for beauty and aesthetic through her pieces.
Interview with Stephen Watkins
Stephen Watkins is an artist based in Suffolk, United Kingdom specialising in contemporary works of art of city skylines in various styles that blend his experience as an architect with his passion as an artist. He has been commissioned and sold over 200 paintings around the world focusing on major city skylines.
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.
Interview with Belle Roth
Belle Roth gained an appreciation for the arts while growing up in Southeast Asia. After experiencing art, music, and travel at a young age, she unveils her life experiences through her interpretation of colors, textures, and details.
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 Elmo Hood
Born in Southampton in 1989 and a resident of London, England since 2010; Elmo Hood is one of the most promising and exciting painters to arrive on the art scene in recent years. Self taught, he turned to painting as coping mechanism after a family bereavement in 2011 - and hasn't looked back.
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.
Interview with Kat Kleinman
Kat Kleinman is a floral collage artist from the Sacramento, California area. Kat specializes in floral collages, because the individual flowers combine to create a new and cohesive form, reflective of the healing process.
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.