Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, Hernan Bas creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature.
Photographer and filmmaker Richard Mosse focuses on war-torn regions, capturing the effects of conflict on landscapes and people in lush, cinematic images.
Exhibition period: September 20 - December 20, 2023
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Sadhana is a Sanskrit word that means a spiritual practice. My artworks are my painted prayers and painting is certainly a spiritual practice for me.
Hence, since 2008, when i founded Circles of Love, a non profit charity outreach program, using my art in the service of humanity, all monies from any sales of my paintings are donated entirely to charity.
Contemporary Art Curator Magazine in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Collectors platform and their Private Collectors Club, is pleased to announce the launch of the Collectors Art Prize!
He was born in Lands of Don Quixote (Castilla-La Mancha / Spain). His family environment and the multidisciplinary influence of his professional activity; in sports, music, engineering, inventions and art, in Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, she was decisive for the artistic creation of a very personal and different style, called Rivismo, based on the application of the Experiential Brushstroke. During the last eighteen years, his research has managed to reinforce the Concepts and Philosophy that predominate in Rivismo and that have given prominence to the material elements to which he has assigned aspects, functions and values of people.
Albert Oehlen was born in Krefeld, Germany in 1954. He attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, where he studied art under Sigmar Polke until 1981. During the early stages of his career, Oehlen’s artistic interests and associations were diverse, and included music and painting.
Can you tell us about the moment you decided to pursue a career as an artist?
I think I realized I was going to be an artist when I was 10 years old. My elementary school teacher asked me to draw a huge mural that stretched across the back of the classroom on a roll of white paper a meter wide on what we were studying in history about WWII. It took me several weeks to draw, and I was totally involved in it and inspired by the sense of accomplishment it gave me when done.
Can you tell us about the moment you decided to pursue a career as an artist?
After working twelve years as an art director, I realised that I needed to take a leap of faith for the things I really was passionate about. I restarted all over again, and that was the best decision I made in my life.
Robert van de Graaf (1983, born in The Hague, the Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Van de Graaf received a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Architecture (Technical University Delft) in 2009. In 2005 and 2006, he worked as an intern in architecture in New York City. At Steven Learner Studio he worked on several art-related projects.
Rory Bills - Everett is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal and the West of Ireland.
She is an intuitive artist and whilst her work is informed by the coastal regions in which she resides, ultimately her paintings are a manifestation of her internal dialogue.
In allowing her emotions to be represented on the canvas, Rory provides a platform from which to converse with the viewer. In doing so, she offers a space for the audience to embody the experience.
She uses expressive brushstrokes and a vibrant, energetic colour palette to create her works of art.
Rory will be featured in the upcoming edition of the Visionary Art Collective Magazine and her work has been shown in exhibitions in London and New York. Including “What Is Art?” and “Art For Real” at Boomer Gallery London, 2022. She has had a painting acquired for the permanent collection at the Children's Museum of Arts, NYC and she was spotlighted in the new visionary art collective magazine in October 2022.
Claire Davenhall graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen with a BA(hons) Fine Art Sculpture, studied at Athens School of Fine Art & North Karelia Polytechnic in Finland. She gained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Art Education, lecturing in both Fine Art and Art & Design; she won the Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and was nominated for two National Beacon Awards, before migrating to Australia in 2007.
Isabella is an Artist from Hemel Hempstead UK.
She studied her BA in Fine Art Photography at Camberwell college of Arts starting in 2017. Here is where she discovered more on what a multidisciplinary practice is. Her work evolved from photographs, to collages and to paintings.
Isabella then went on to complete her Masters Degree (Contemporary photography and philosophies) at Central Saint Martins in 2022. Here she developed her multidisciplinary practice further, exploring further into paint and sculpture.
Born close to Nuremberg she grew up in the city of Albrecht Dürer, a well-known German painter, and has been under the spell of this fascinating artist since she was a child. She attended a private grammar school in Nuremberg and her parents supported and strengthened her artistic and socio-political interest. She additionally absolved classes in art history and visual arts.
To improve and refine her techniques she started to study Fine Arts at the „Academy of Faber Castell“. Inspired by visits of museums all over Europe and the United States her art got influenced by „Informal Art“. Her role models are Emil Schumacher, Anselm Kiefer, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapies, Alberto Burri, Gerhard Richter and last but not least she was deeply impressed by Jason Pollock and Franz Kline.
She is really into collages of all kinds. She works with acrylic and oil colours, depending on the subject. With passion she processes heterogeneous materials such as sand, fabrics, plaster, wooden parts, trash as well as any kind of plastic.
Nowadays she receives most of her inspiration from our daily life: politics, ecology, environmental destruction and many more.
Born in Boston, MA in 1952, Nira Chorev was raised and received her general studies and arts education both in United States and Israel. From 1972-1974 she attended and graduated from the Art Teachers College in Israel, receiving a BA degree, and from 1974-1978 she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA), in Boston, MA receiving multiple degrees -Diploma (BFA) and Fifth-Year Post-Graduate certificate.
Born in Belgium in 1978, Frédéric Demeuse is a naturalist and ornithologist by training. He lives and works in Brussels. As naturalist and visual storyteller, he is both witness and interpreter of all the diversity of this so precious and unique planet we all share. Author of several books, his work has won awards in the most prestigious international competitions, including a first prize at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year. His work is regularly exhibited in Belgium, France and abroad.
Markus Åkesson is a neofigurative painter on the international stage. His work has been shown in galleries and institutions in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London, Vilnius and Stockholm. Living and working in Pukeberg in Nybro, Sweden, his home and studio are nestled in the woods where he is free to explore motives which relate man to nature and nature to the world unseen. His work is popular in public and private collections both in Sweden and abroad.
Can you tell us about the moment you decided to pursue a career as an artist?
I decided to pursue a career as an artist when I realized my work was being recognized and appreciated by the art world. I opened my Instagram Account to the public about two years ago and I have had much recognition from art galleries around the world for exhibitions from books and magazines for features internationally so and I have won several international awards. This is when I realized I wanted to pursue a career as an artist.
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Faces of Peace Art Prize!
The Faces of Peace Art Prize awards distinguished artists whose work significantly contributes to peace and human development and incites changes through their talent and creativity to restore balance to the relationship between humanity and the natural environment.
Ekaterina Popova is an award-winning artist known primarily for her original oil paintings of interiors. Popova received a Bachelor's in Fine Art from Kutztown University in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Cohle Gallery in Paris and Menorca, The Painting Center in New York, James Oliver Gallery in Philadelphia, Decorazon Gallery in New York, and Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia, among others. She has also previously shown at contemporary art fairs such as Affordable Art Fair and Art Miami.
