Stanislav Riha Visual Artist, photographer and writer Born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), surrounded by great medieval and modern art and artists that caused his desire to create. From early childhood, he enjoyed drawing and later painting; as a young man, he focused mainly on surrealism.
Cor Fafiani creates mysterious, multi-sensorial, perfect and almost metaphysical works of art. He plays with different materials and colours, and yet his art is never a pure aestheticism, but rather a code through which he can communicate his own ideas. He is, in fact, both an artist and a philosopher, and as such, he guesses the most inner selves of human beings, he reaches our onthological essence.
Francesco Casolari was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1982. He started to engrave when he was 6 and his first creation lasted until the age of 12. Right from the outset of his activity, he has focused on urban settings, engraving medieval and Parisian scenes or opera houses. He resumed his activity at 19 and, during his university studies in architecture and fashion design, began to develop his own style: futuristic metropolitan scenes in which he imagines buildings with European architectural features of the past centuries
As an artist I put myself in the footsteps of the all-embracing piece of art created by Mother Nature. For instance, look at the complex symmetry of a snail shell, better than a Mondrian. See the tension in the claw of an eagle, the most powerful Franz Kline; observe a bright, red berry against a green leaf; two strong complementary colours invented by Mother Nature long before Goethe or Johannes Itten wrote about them. And I could go on forever.
Kopplstätter was born in Hohenems, Austria, and studied architecture in Innsbruck before switching to fashion studies. He made a career in the fashion and design industry and worked as a designer, art director and creative director before returning to painting. The artworks, mostly painted in oil, are mainly large scale canvas. Today, the artist has created his own signature style by working through partial blurring between static and blurred planes that leave a vague sense of what lies beneath the surface.
The search for a space with the objective of a personal creative style without guidelines, which frequently eludes skill in its description, conveying elements that I cannot express in any other form because I cannot find the words, and that in visual terms, sometimes materializing in different results, transforming, adapting or interpreting a reality.
Natalia Rose is a Danish artist known for her expressive semi-abstract works which painted with broad and heavy brushstrokes. The artist raises questions about the nature of communication and the way in which one can express abstract ideas through colour and iconographic markings.
Cher Pruys was born in Regina. Over the years she lived in many places including Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Fort Frances, settling into her present home in Devlin, on the banks of the Rainy River with her husband Mark, and pets. By age three, Cher was seldom found without a drawing tool in hand. She worked in pencil, charcoal and ink over the years, until she picked up a paintbrush at the age of 35. Beginning with oil paints, she found her chosen mediums in acrylic, watercolor and gouache.
The most of mystic pictures of Margaretha Gubernale are painted in oil on canvas. The source of her inspiration are the nature and philosophy and anthroposophy. The pictures by Margaretha Gubernale are a tightrope walk. On the one hand she paints abstract thoughts and on the other hand she uses the forms of the nature, for focus the symbolic parable as clearly as possible.
Born in Ukraine, studied in Moscow, has lived and been a freelance artist in Vienna for 30 years. She paints various pictures with oil, acrylic and aquarel colors using her own technique between figurative and impreonist styles.
Tamara Michel uses an innovative method of color selection in painting, which makes her pictures special and interesting. Favorite motifs are sea landscapes and flowers.
Celine Chan is definitely one of the most dazzling emerging female artists in Asia these past few years. This talented young artist studied in Canada and Hong Kong and she is now being an artist focusing on creating her paper-quilling artworks. Celine’s artwork shows a really strong personality and the beauty of life. She has received many international awards including nominated by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2021, the Finalist Award of the International Artists Grand Prize Competition in Taiwan and the Talent Prize Award and Honorable Mention Awards of Portrait III organized by Art Show International Gallery. She is currently a full member of the Women’s Artist Association of Canada.
Spontaneity is vital aspect of my creative journey, allowing me to break free from rigid structures and expectations. I believe that art thrives in moments of surprise and unplanned discovery. I allow myself to make spontaneous decisions while working. I remain responsive to the energy of the piece. Layering techniques is a transformation itself. This process of layering creates depth and complexity. Some of my best pieces comes from this transformation.
I don’t speculate as to the degree a viewer needs to wade into an image, but I hope there are varying paths from piece to piece. I do hope I’m giving them reason, visually, to spend time with every piece and think about it, gain something from it, enjoy it. When I hear someone’s interpretation that maybe I did not anticipate, I feel the piece is working in a good way — that you can find different ways in for yourself and surprise even me.
Since my art is focused on observer the first step is to connect the audience to my art. To do that I use intensity in my compositions. The intensity of contrast of the elements in the composition, scene- drama, mood - colors I achieve by lines that are shaping the objects in the image by dividing it from the background and connecting it with everything else in the painting. Also, I merge everything else in the painting with this shape like with all other shapes of the composition.
Marilyn Mugot is a French graphic designer and photographer who hails from the Paris suburbs where she began drawing at an early age. Having joined a school of graphic design at the end of her adolescence, she soon found her love of photography supplanting her passion for drawing.
Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Kenichi Hoshine was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1977. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York City, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He also teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Mark Tennant received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, and an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art, in New York City. For the years 2008 and 2009, he was the Director of Graduate Fine Art Painting at Academy of Art University, in San Francisco, where he had been an instructor since 1998.
Akunyili Crosby was born in Nigeria, where she lived until the age of sixteen. In 1999 she moved to the United States, where she has remained since that time. Her cultural identity combines strong attachments to the country of her birth and to her adopted home, a hybrid identity that is reflected in her work. The artist populates her work with images of family and friends, in scenarios with details derived from everyday domestic experiences in Nigeria and America. These include recollections from the formative years of her upbringing, as well as more recent relationships and experiences. Her work often features an element of self-portrait, as in a series of intimate scenes of the artist with her husband made in the early years of their marriage.
Secundino Hernández's diverse and energetic painting practice resists easy characterisation. His work features intricately structured compositions that mix strong linear elements and rich bursts of colour. Some canvases feature abstracted, atomised forms, while others have more densely overlaid imagery in which it is possible to discern figurative elements.
