All in Painting
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am from Sweden with roots in Hungary, that now lives in Paris/Chantilly. I work with horses and along side with my artistry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 (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
