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Did you have an idea from the beginning of what you wanted to create?
After a year of experimenting with the technique and the basics of weaving, including making flower scenes and then small portraits, I got a larger loom, where I immediately started with my clear statement for African women.
Alexandros Reichenbach was born in Aschaffenburg (Germany) on 21.02.1998. He grew up billingual, as his parents were German (Father) and Greek (Mother). By the age of two (2000), he moved with his parents to Thessaloniki (Greece). There he attended a german kindergarden and afterwards a greek elementary school.
Imaginative, aesthetic, thought-provoking, they are the traits of Momo Meng's artwork. Momo loves observing society, exploring the deep emotions of humans and animals, and capturing them in her art. She creates works to be the voice for the voiceless, the powerless, the hopeless, in order to fight against the absurd, the violence and inequalities. She wishes her creations could resonate with the audience, raise their awareness, and be the standing point to fight for a better future, a better society which has variety, equality, unity, a healthy environment, and respect for all living beings.
Russell was born and educated in England, he now resides in Australia. After many years of promises Russell finally became a full time artist in 2015. He finds inspiration for his work from our landscapes and the many natural wonders that they contain. Russell usually works with acrylic paints using palette knives. He is an environmentalist, he hopes that his landscape painting is a connection for people and reminds them of the importance of protecting and caring for the environment.
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Her recent works mainly reflects a kind of collision between reality and unreality that can happen in the everyday world, such as when listening to music or seeing something familiar that creates a mental image. Such collisions intersect with daily experience. She is interested in the sense of such collision which is produced in a delicate relationship of contradiction and harmony in painting.
What are your ultimate career goals?
My main career goal is constant work, this is a creative process, this is the creation of new works of art, this is the creation of new artistic images. When I create new works of art, I live, for me it is a sign of life.
Born September 12, 1954 in Klockrike, Sweden. Grew up in Märsta just north of Stockholm. Been living in Uppsala for 35 years and since 10 years back, now living in Gävle. Studied at Lund University and Stockholm University, graduated in law at Uppsala University. Worked for the past 30 years in various managerial positions within universities as well as in municipal and private operations. The interest in culture has been around since my childhood. My father was an initiated collector of mainly fine clocks and exclusive glassware. Through my father I was surrounded by history and beautiful things. My mother was politically engaged, why politics often discussed at home
She studied Fine Arts, at Hampstead School of Art. London U.K & Photography, in Kingsway
College London,U.K. She received an award on a group of sculptures she created (1995) from “The Foundation for Supporting Artists of the United Kibbutz Movement”. She was awarded "The International Giotto Prize” in (2019) Lisbon Portugal & also awarded The “Leonardo Da Vinci International Prize” (1/2020) in Florence Italy.
Sampy Sicada is a Manchester-based artist and designer from Hong Kong. Currently residing in Savannah, Georgia. He mainly practises art in a traditional medium such as graphite, colour pencils and oil paints. He runs a Youtube channel critiquing film and television and has had his works exhibited in over 20 galleries internationally.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
My artwork is very colourful energetic and powerful it has a lot of feeling and emotion in it shamrocks are abstract mini or figurative and they all are somewhat bold and strong.
How do you go about beginning a new piece? Do you have an idea already in mind, or do you start working with materials or sketches to find the departure point?
Improvisation is a mode of creation, without any sketches, making artworks based on feelings. Choosing background paper and test the lighting to take a shot. After finishing the work, I will look for different people, such as relatives, classmates and friends to see their reactions and opinions. The process of sharing works is very interesting, they have different backgrounds and professions. Sometimes I will accept the opinions of others and modify the work. Originality is very important.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I would describe myself as a combination of conflict, but I enjoy the vibe of it, it makes me think about the relationship between me and the world all the time. I guess I will describe my artwork as a vague flowing cognition of illusion. Art to me is a life time project, I’m not in a rush, and yet to have a conclusion.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I consider myself to be a physically and spiritually active and curious person. Everything in the world around us is interesting to me; from myself studying, questioning and discovering interesting things about how people behave in society in general to my daily enjoyment, exploration, and discovery about how observing and investigating nature and all natural and man-made objects and how they can be combined to work for me to create communication art that stimulates the understanding of something familiar into something that becomes new in the process of manufacturing new meaning. I am constantly fascinated about how I can naturally spark my mind to have creative ideas at any given moment to help fuel my conceptual illustration art-making just by observing making art from anything that crosses my path as I journey through life in the world around us.
Did you have an idea of what you wanted to create right from the beginning?
I always knew what I wanted to create. I was always passionate about classic stories, but I wanted to give them a twist. I try to show the psychological part that all these stories have and demonstrate that, no matter how old the stories are they are still very current. In my opinion, that is why people are attracted to my work because one way or another they identified themselves with it.
Petra Štefanková studied graphic design and film and TV graphics in Bratislava and Prague, and she took a short course at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London. She has worked on advertising, editorial, animation and publishing projects for the University of Udine in Italy, Lynda.com, Microsoft Games Studios, Orange, The Guardian, The Economist, Popular Mechanics, Dialogue Review and Future Music. She collaborated with VooDooDog Animation in London on the animated title sequence for the Hollywood film Nanny McPhee 2. She is an author, designer and illustrator of books Moje malé more, Don't take my dreams from me, Čmáranica a Machuľa. Petra Štefanková is a winner of many awards, such as Channel4's 4Talent Award 2007, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic Award 2019, the Artist of the Future Award 2020, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Her works have been published in many publications and exhibited all around the world.
What is the meaning or creative inspiration for your work? We’re curious what the narrative or story is to what you are producing?
The meaning of my portraits is to carry on the traditions of the old masters and to try to display emotion and different feelings in my artworks. I guess the narrative of my artworks like the portraits is to achieve a likeness that is inspired by the old masters although original.
Roxana Werner paints on different surfaces using oil and mixed techniques. Her work is developed by investigating the history and culture of different places that inspired her. She said: “When I stand before the canvas, I feel like a writer whit a blank page. My painting is committed narration; it hides neither the dark nor light side of reality.
Aomi Kikuchi is a textile artist based in Kyoto, Japan. She holds a BFA from Kyoto University of Art & Design (Japan) and an MFA from Pratt Institute (USA). Aomi has exhibited her work throughout the world including at Woman’s Essence Show 2020 (Rome), The Body Language 2021(Italy), and will exhibit at Art Laguna 2021(Italy).
My artworks are a series of paintings of people. I often focus on the eyes to help emphasize the emotions and to enhance communications between the viewer and the piece. Each painting has its own story to tell, and the faces, the texture, the emotions, and the artist helps to tell that story. I enjoy painting in the expressionist style but with the ultimate control of the brush strokes and surface texture.
There are lots of ways to express art, with music, painting, sculpture, dancing, theater, and etc. Nature itself is the most perfect art that exists. The sound of the birds singing, the sound of the sea, the wind blowing, we reproduce with the music; a variety of incredible colors, thousands of shades, light, shadows, we reproduce in the painting; the movement of the seawater, of the leaves of the trees, we reproduce with the dancing.
