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Alicia H. Torres

THIRD EYE. MIXED MEDIA. Acrylic on Canvas, 40" x 30"

oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

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HARLEQUIN NIGHTS. Digital Art.

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Chester Arts Fair launches on Friday 20th November with a Charity VIP Preview General public Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd November 10:30 am to 17:00 pm

International Arts Fair Returns to City of Chester Showcasing Exclusive Works by Nelson Mandela Returning to the city for its fourth consecutive year, the Deepbridge Chester Arts Fair 2015 will take place at Chester Racecourse from 21-22 November, featuring over 1,000 pieces of art for sale from 40 high calibre British and international artists and independent art galleries.

This year, the Chester Arts Fair is proud to showcase artwork by some of the most highly regarded and influential individuals of the 20th & 21st Century. Original artwork by former World leader Nelson Mandela will go on public display and sale, a rare opportunity to view pieces taken from The Long Walk to Freedom collective inspired by his time on Robben Island. The drawing’s and handwritten motivations to accompany the works are of great historical significance. The Belgravia Gallery from London will be presenting this unique collection alongside original Lithographs by Henri Matisse and HRH the Prince of Wales.

Art Fair Co-Director, Laura O’Hare said “This will be a rare opportunity to view and buy original Nelson Mandela artwork. We are very privileged to be entrusted with the sale of these iconic pieces to allow his vision to continue. This art collection will no doubt be a highlight of the Fair”.

In addition to showcasing artwork by leading galleries and established artists, the Fair is also pleased to introduce a New Artist area designed specifically for 2015 to showcase work from a hand-picked selection of up and coming, emerging artists.

Selling affordable and investment art ranging from £40.00 to £10,000 plus, the Fair will include a range of visual art, photography, sculpture, ceramics and glass work and a full programme of live art demonstrations and talks by leading UK artists, curated tours and a dedicated children’s area offering fun arts and crafts activities.

For those looking to visit the fair to snap up some affordable art, there is a wide variety of original artwork on sale. Art Fair Director, Laura O’Hare advises “It’s never been easier to invest in paintings, prints and framed photographs. All our art is exhibited by leading galleries which guarantees its authenticity and high level of quality.”

Chester Arts Fair launches on Friday 20th November with a Charity VIP Preview which will give an opportunity for private buyers, interior designers, collectors, press and VIPs to view the collections in advance. The Fair is then open for the general public Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd November from 10:30am to 17:00. For tickets visit www. chesterartsfair.co.uk or alternatively you can register to enter at the Fair on the day.

For more information and tickets please visit www.chesterarts fair.co.uk Tel: 01244 893 185 Email: info@blackmango.co.uk

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In This issue: Art & Beyond is proved to announce to be an official Media Partner for the following Art Events: Chester Fair 2015, UK November 20-22.

Spectrum Miami Fair 2015, December 2-6.

Point of Interest

Contemporary Art Project USA, exhibitor at the Spectrum Miami Fair 2015. Presenting Help Hope Nepal Mural, fundraising project.

In the September/October issue in our column Point of Interest we published a pictorial dedicated to the Art & Beyond presentation at

the ArtMonaco 2015 which took place in July. The

pictorial includes a coverage on the Mona Youssef

Gallery honored the Excellence Prize for best gallery award for precision and fidelity.

Also not to miss in this issue an amazing article

by Vered Galor “Sacred Interactions – Modern Spirituality in Contemporary Art” where she prominently covers the historical, religious and spiritual aspects of her artwork on the current exhibition at The Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art. The next article we published is dedicated to the project “The Human Woman Project” by Ileana Collazo, which will be previewed at Contemporary Art Projects USA, Booth 315, during Spectrum Miami Art Fair, December 2-6 2015.

Jim Lively 28 Alessandra Lugli 29 Jane Ellen Murray 30 Natalya Parris 31 Alicia H Torres 32 Santiago Perez 34 Mark Pol 35 Steven Lustig 36 Alex Tolstoy 37 Patricio Moreno Toro 38 Grace Schlesier 40 Barbara Walder 42

The Memorable Moments from the ArtMonaco 2015 12

Sacred Interactions –

Modern Spirituality

in Contemporary Art

by Vered Galor 16

The Project

Human Woman:

The Female Identity

by Ileana Collazo 18

Jewelry

Fine Art • Sculpture Taras Bibilashvili Sabine Blodorn Maruka Carvajal Debbi Chan Gabi Domenig Joy LaCalamita

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Sandy Den Hartog

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Sue Eves Barbara Hazen Diana Whiley

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Photography Digital Art

Cover

Back Cover

Alicia H. Torres

Steven Lustig

Inside Front Cover

Inside Back Cover

Diana Whiley

Alex Tolstoy

We would like to congratulate the following winners published in this issue for their amazing work. Congratulations to ‪Alicia H. Torres who’s artwork “Third Eye” won the Front Cover for September/October Online issue.

The Inside Front Cover won beautiful work "Harlequin Nights" by Diana Whiley.

The Back Cover won a wonderful artwork "Falling Leaf” by Steven Lustig.

And Inside Back Cover was awarded to Alex Tolstoy for her work "The darkening II".

We would also like to congratulate those artists who have been chosen as Publishers Choice Award winners in this issue for their outstanding artwork: Natalya Parris, Debbi Chan, Sandy Den Hartog, Sue Eves, Patricio Moreno Toro, Taras Bibilashvili, Sabine Blodorn, Joy LaCalamita, Alessandra Lugli, Maruka Carvajal, Jane Ellen Murray, Mark Pol, Santiago Perez, Barbara Hazen, James Keeton Lively, Sandy Den Hartog with One Page article and Grace Schlesier and Barbara Walder with Two page article.

We thank all of the amazing and talented artists who participated in the competition and wish you all great success in your journey.

Publisher Art Director Interview Editor

Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Justin Hoffman Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.

Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other

Entry Form to apply to be published in the Art & Beyond Online magazine is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/ab-online-entry/ Membership Program application is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/membership/ For any additional information please contact Mila Ryk at mryk@art-beyond.com

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CONTEMPORARY

ART

PROJECTS

USA

has been accepted to exhibit their unique fundraising juried international call for artist “Help-Hope-Nepal Mural”, sponsored by Major Corporations, at Spectrum Fair Miami 2015, December 2-6|2015. Four Hundred Artists will come together to create the mural to benefit the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake victims through the MAITIRELIEFFUND; all innovative media will be accepted, including: painting, photography, 3D printing, digital art, and mixed media.

Headquartered in Miami, Contemporary Art Projects USA is dedicated to nurturing new contemporary art by providing exhibition opportunities and resources for emerging artists and curators. Our mission is to promote art appreciation within the international community, to inspire and assist with the process of art collection; and to generate resources that support artists’ creative endeavors through art awareness, artist promotion, and art procurement.

Contemporary Art Projects will join forces with MAITIRELIEFFUND by donating 50% of the Entry Fee, and 15% of the Sales. The Proceeds will go to support the women and children affected by the earthquake.

A Special Donation Account has been established by MAITI with Standard Chartered Bank Nepal LTD to receive the proceeds.

The following media is accepted: Computer Art, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, 3D Printing, as well as all Innovative New Technologies in Art. A esteemed jury will choose 400 artworks (1 per artists) based on excellence, innovation and originality.

The 2015 Jurors are: Silvia Medina, founder member of the Havana Biennial as Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba. The Mural will be curated by Ms. Medina. Richard L. Tooke, Former Curator of Fundraising Exhibitions for the Patty and Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, and Active Member of the Friends of Arts. Paul Fisher, private art dealer and owner of Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach, has represented world-famous glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly, since the 1980's.

BENEFITS FOR PARTICIPATION: THEME IS FREE... IT IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE RELATED TO NEPAL. The Jury Committee of Contemporary Art Projects USA will automatically admit one piece of the first 300 artists who apply upon acceptance by the jury; the next 100 spaces will be chosen by the Jury from the general applicant pool.

FIRST PRIZE: Participation at a major fair with one artwork 40” x 40” inches and curated by Contemporary Art Projects USA. The Fair will be determined by the gallery during 2016.

SECOND PRIZE: Three months placement at Contemporary Art Projects USA Amazon Fine Art Gallery.

THIRD PRIZE: Artist Interview published at Art Daily News International Magazine.

ONLINE CATALOG: All work will be displayed on a printable online catalogue published by Mag Cloud.

F or R equirements

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The Memorable Moments from the ArtMonaco 2015

with Art & Beyond Magazine

VIP Opening Night Reception!

Mila Ryk, publisher of Art & Beyond Magazine on the mission.

VIP reception.

VIP reception.

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you are born to create "YouI fwork very hard.

If you work very hard You have to share it!

If you have to share it This is the place where all the Magic happens!

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Mila Ryk, publisher

Svenska KonstGallerit, Mik Simcic sculpture.

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Michael Cheung work (top) at the Queen Art Studio Gallery.

Tiffany Pilon artists with Distorted Paintings.

Mila Ryk with artist Garsot presented by Nina Torres Fine Arts.

Mila Ryk with Shaenart Atelier.

Mila Ryk with Lbetho Art Studio.

Mila Ryk with Sergey Pustovoytov, owner at LavArto gallery.

Mila Ryk with Mona Youssef, owner at Mona Youssef Gallery and Isabelle Malo, Cover winner artist for the Art & Beyond Summer Print Edition Magazine.

Michelle Purves "Prix D'Excellence Artiste Emergent" award winner at the Gala dinner with her son Scott Purves.

Next stop is the Spectrum Miami 2015 .

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point of interest MONA YOUSSEF GALLERY at: www.mona-gallery.com has presented 33 Painters, Photographers and Digital Artists and Sculptors from 23 countries and from five continents of the world to Art Monaco which is one of the most exclusive modern and largest contemporary art exhibitions in the French Riviera. Mona Youssef is a gallerist, curator, jurist and poetic Artist. Selling her first oil painting at age of 12 was truly prodigy and later obtained a B. F. A. Her work combines previous experience of interior/ exterior and graphic design and architectural presentation that has caught the eyes of those from royal families and became her collectors. Mona’s realism oil paintings have received universal acclaim and won numerous national and international Awards. She creates quality work that found in large museums and with private collectors.

Some of her private collectors found her artwork to be equal to Carl Barks and Don Rosa. Hence, her experience carries over to each piece in a way that’s clearly, denoted with vivid colors and lively intricate details in every stroke of her brush. Believing that art is a manifestation of love, Mona extends her love and success to promote her fellow artists and presents them in honorable exhibitions worldwide. Canada.

www.mona-gallery.com • www.monayoussef.com Mona Youssef Gallery was honored with the Excellence Prize for best gallery award for precision and fidelity.

Some artists presented by Mona Youssef gallery. Mona Youssef Gallery's booth/ArtMonaco 2015. Mila Ryk with Mona Youssef, artist/gallery owner.

Mona Youssef Gallery's booth/ArtMonaco 2015. Mona Youssef Gallery's booth/ArtMonaco 2015.

Mila Ryk with artist Mila Agirre.

Mila Ryk with artist Alex Beck.

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point of interest The Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art - Current exhibition

Sacred Interactions –

by Vered Galor

Modern Spirituality

T

he intense discussion regarding spirituality has been going on for a while. What does one believe in when they call themselves spiritual? Does one define him or herself culturally rather then in religious terms? Albert Einstein, the genius physicist, said that with all his discoveries he still believes in the Almighty. I believe that being spiritual is being a person of faith, but also involves struggles with the issue of one’s ability to achieve and have control over their lives.

Artists as a group do well when expressing this struggle. They do it with line, form, color, texture, ideas, and concept. They communicate it in two and three-dimensional imagery and in a variety of media and formats.

This exhibition, which includes my work, presents seven well known and successful artists: Ira Reines, Antal Goldfinger, Gib Singleton, James Jensen, Larry Renzo, Helen Zarin, and Guillaume Azoulay.

Lynn Wexler, a writer, reporter and a contributor to magazines and newspapers locally and nationally, has reviewed the exhibit and commented: “ Beautifully curated, it featured moving and exquisite modern works of spirituality through sculpture, painting, and digital collage photography”. Lynn and I also shared an appreciation for two of the artists in particular who, despite their differences in media and style, their approach to the subject matter of the bible and imagery, related and was connected to my source of inspiration… Jerusalem.

When photographing in Israel, the amount of history, archaeology, culture, faith and natural beauty of the country can overwhelm anyone. In my Israel portfolio I combine the archeological, historical, political and emotional relationship to my subject. My artworks are digital collages. The work about Jerusalem is a diptych, depicting the holy city, which is mentioned throughout the Bible and is holy to all three major faiths. The city has been the site of constant friction and war regarding the control and religious practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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in C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t

As Lynn Wexler continues: “I was most drawn in by three of the artists represented.

Vered Galor's two digital collages depicting the diverse emotionally charged, and politically sensitive landscape of the hills of Jerusalem - bathed in golden light and set against the Western Wall - was for me the most powerful of the artworks. She beautifully illustrates, through layers of photographic imagery, the world's epicenter for truth, history and religion, imploring the viewer to peer deeper into this poignant and geographically spiritual conflicts”.

I thank Mrs. Wexler for her complementary and beautiful description of my artworks.

This is the best present an artist can wish for and hope to expect.

We both liked Helen Zarin’s large oil on canvas paintings, which tells stories of the Bible and of the Jewish culture. The work is very colorful and the imagery recognizable even though her abstract painting style. One can see Moses being found by Pharaoh’s daughter, and King David’s coronation, each side-by-side with King Solomon thinking deep thoughts.

We also both liked Gib Singleton’s bronze sculpture, which moves us through the Christian faith and the story of the crucifixion. The work is Emotional Realism, as he calls it, a mix of detail and abstraction, which pulls your emotional strings as it tells the horrific story of the torture of crucifixion, with 14 sculptures with stunning technical and visual effects.

www.veredgalor.com vgalor@hotmail.com www.snmfa.com

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the project ALONE WITH HER THOUGHTS. Digital Art

The Human Woman Project will be previewed at Contemporary Art Projects USA, Booth 315, during Spectrum Miami Art Fair, December 2-6 2015.

Human Woman: The Female Identity The struggle to properly categorize the female identity has been long and hard, and no nearer to a resolution today than it was two centuries ago when women began to demand their rights as "equally viable" members of a male-dominated society that subjugated and exploited them with callous disregard. A lot has changed since then, as our sex has risen to a level of power that exponentially exceeds the expectations of our ancestral equal-rights pioneering warriors. But, a sexual/cognitive component of the stigma - one that seems almost impossible to overcome - still holds us hostage to too many of the old labels and restrictions that we, ourselves, seem bent on perpetuating ; incomprehensibly, at the same time that we fight to finally gain full control of our rightful place in society.

The result of this conundrum: a woman running for president alongside scores of woman who are repeatedly abused by spouses that are too many times not properly held accountable for their actions; unequal pay for equal work; a sex-driven industry and endangers the female identity and damages the self-esteem of little girls who

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CONCEALED IDENTITY. Digital Art

AT THE STEPS OF WOMANHOOD 2. Digital Art

WASHED OUT. Digital Art

THE PAST IS ALWAYS NEAR. Digital Art

starve themselves to try to meet the unreasonable image projected by a fashion industry that does the complete opposite for our male counterparts.

Questions, then, need to be asked: When will it ever end? Will women ever be treated as equals in the workplace? Will the art world finally deem our work as valuable as that created by men? Will women's brains ever be deemed as precious as their bodies?

Women are soft, and curvy, and emotional; but at the same bear the strength of 100,000 warriors inside them. As that 70's Enjoli perfume commercial so eloquently stated: "We can bring home the bacon, cook it up in a pan, and still have plenty of time for romance". We have proven that and more; now it is time for society to truly start treating us as such.

EVERYDAY GODDESSES. Digital Art

Ileana Collazo, Visual Artist This is a long-overdue project the artist has been sub-consciously creating since her childhood, and one she plans to continue working on for the rest of her life.

Her hope is to create a collective of like-minded men and women creatives to collaborate on a global project that will yield funds through art sales/sponsorships which will be partially donated to improve women's lives around the globe; as well as provide welldeserved revenue for artists that dedicate their lives to creating thought-provoking, life-impacting works that benefit society at large.

If you want to become part of this initiative (as an artist or a sponsor), or are interested in this body of work contact: Ileana Collazo, Collazo Art Studio fivemuses@gmail.com

REMINESSING. Digital Art

Ileana is represented by: Contemporary Art Projects USA in Miami Florida Tata Fernandez, Director Silvia Medina, Curator

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fine art

GENDER EQUALITY SERIES.105cm x 135cm

Taras Bibilashvili was born on April 2, 1960 in Zestaponi, Georgia.

In 1977 Taras graduated the Arts School in Tbilisi and the year after began his career as an artist in the workshop of famous artist Professor Zurab Nizharadze. In 1983 Taras studied at the Lakob Nikoladze Arts College and has been participating in many local and international exhibitions since 1985.

In 1994 Taras traveled to Athens, Greece for creative work.

There he met famous artist and sculptor Khristos Ksarakaciano, sculptor, the director of modern museum.

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In 2014 Taras began working at the Artist Pablo Picasso Collection in Artist Star Arts Production, in Artist Star Arts Production Gallery and Art-On-Google.

Taras (Davit) Bilashvili (nickname – “Biblieli”) has held many personal and group exhibitions. He is rewarded with many encouraging rewards for his creative work. His many creative works (painting, sculptor, drawing) are included worldwide in both state and private collections. www.taras-bibilashvili.net

GENDER EGUALITY SERIES.105cm x 135cm

Sabine Blodorn Born, raised and educated in a small town in northern Germany I was fortunate to grow up in an artistic family, with an Architect for a father and Photographer for a mother.

During my childhood our family travelled extensively, experiencing the many different cultures within reach of today’s cosmopolitan society. Despite the wish of my parents to study art or architecture I opted to study the field of law, producing art in my spare time. Back then I met my husband with whom I ventured on an amazing journey around the world, until that day when we decided to call Australia home.

In 1997 beautiful but time consuming motherhood curtailed artistic ambitions; however when time allowed I continued to

produce colorful creations, with a relationship between land, life and beyond.

About 4 years ago my love to play with imaginations, fantasies, colour, texture and perception of the natural world – real or unreal – intensified, taking my work to another, more experimental level.

Today my main objective is reflection, but in more than one way. By using several techniques and not being constrained to a certain style while remaining faithful to a particular subject/ topic, my work is quite diverse, however, always abstract and expressionistic. artsablo@gmail.com

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SILENT NIGHT, Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 24"

Maruka Carvajal I was born in Bolivia, and I am a naturalized Spaniard. I have lived in Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, and currently in Washington DC. I was educated to be an architect but my passion led me to dedicate myself to the visual arts instead.

I enjoy painting so much! It is a chance to get involved with my thoughts, my memories and my feelings; it's my moment.

When I start a painting I always choose colors first; without thinking maybe it's just intuitively or sometimes based on my mood. In my art I like to explore the abstract secrets of cities I have lived in, cities I have passed through, and cities I hope to visit. I bring out the similarities between cities around the world, capturing their true nature. Using different shapes, lines, and vibrant colors I interpret onto my canvas the emotions that cities awaken inside of me. I recall my experiences in different cities that have impacted me and I look into that past at the feelings that came over me in those moments.

Some artists inspire me, especially Hans Hoffman because of his exuberant use of color, the relationship between them, and the spatial tension.

I use different acrylics in different to express myself. My strokes reflect my visual language and respond to the impulse to fill the canvas. Using geometric shapes adds structural order to how freely I use colors. In addition, I like to use both paint that is slightly watered down and pain that is thicker. To me this combination of shapes and my free use of colors along with varying viscosities of paint is the most appealing part of my creative process. The colorful nature of my painting makes them stand out and appear bright. Vibrant colors are very powerful tools and I am able to manage their effect on a composition.

I am fascinated by cities because they are short-lived but form a long lasting memory. I think my paintings serve the purpose I intended and convey what I want them to. My goal is to make the viewer curious about the meaning behind my painting. I expect my work to represent the places that I have had the fortune to visit or have lived in and I hope it shares these places with the viewer inviting them to take an emotional journey where their spirit can drive free. www.marukacarvajal.com

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CIAO ITALY ALBUM. Watercolor and ink in a traditional Chinese style,15" x 22"

Debbi Chan Born and raised in the metropolis of Houston where the glare of sunlit skyscrapers the landscape I was most familiar with did not stop the smooth transition to a landscape of pines and snow in Idaho. What the surprise move did was open my creative mind and allow me to expand and my art to grow.

I took up three new mediums and set my schedule to allow for art to be the focus of my time. The mediums were new but I managed to keep to the traditional Chinese style which I took up almost 15 years ago. Days for me are all about art . Making it keeps me busy and rarely does a day go by without it. If not painting I am gathering for it. Looking out my windows I see the vastness of nature about me and watch wildlife romping that I previously could only have seen in a zoo behind bars.

My tight drawings loosened and the subjects I once was afraid of painting flow across the leaves of 70 ft. Continuous story

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paintings in jumbo folding albums, my newest passion. They are being shown currently at Magnuson Gallery in Kendrick Idaho while awaiting a future home hopefully with WSU in their art museum. After completion I now publish each album as a wordless magazine and make them available to the public. And now the albums are coming to life in galleries you can carry in your pocket. The amazing 3-D app EXHIBBIT allows me to have entire albums on the wall. I have two shows open to the public now and a third will be open any day. You will most likely run into my blogs as well. Hopefully the albums will find their way to a permanent museum that appreciates story telling with art and without words. My time is still about making the art. If you don't make it you have nothing for others to see. http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/sosum

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fine art ROMYS EYES. Acrylic on Canvas, 30 cm x 30 cm

Gabi Domenig was born in 1963 in Lienz. Since her early childhood she was attracted to the fine arts, but especially to painting.

Gabi took classes in nude painting, color theory, drawing and composition. Especially charcoal, red chalk and pastels on paper and primed wood panels were the medium in the nineties. After her first exhibition in 1999, when she presented 20 large pastel paintings to the public, she began to paint with acrylics on canvas. The strong and bright colors and the way of working with acrylics approached very well to her nature.

She concerns herself primarily with the representation of man and especially of women. She tries to capture moments and to build up emotional tensions. The viewer should feel something of her passion when she paints. She does´nt want to stir up. For her art should be life-affirming and beautiful, touching and connecting. A language without words.

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Her characters send out varied emotions such as pride, pain, love, sadness, loneliness, joy and longing. They are sensuous, strong, vulnerable, thoughtful, dreamy, seductive, promising and cautious. The figures are mostely located in a particular environment cutout. The expression of the eyes should draw the viewer into its spell and animate him to enter in a deeper communication with the figures in the picture. Flowers, plants, animals, patterns and landscape sections are decorative parts, but are usually situated in the background. Because of her intensive color palette and the figurative painting she is attributed to the Neo-Expressionism. You can find her images in privat collections, in international art books, art magazines and online art galleries.

Participation in many national and international exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France, Italy United Kingdom, USA and Brazil. www.domenigartdesign.at

DREAMING CAN BE REALITY. Pastel.

Joy LaCalamita All my life I have wanted to be an Artist. Even at a year old my parents would take me out to dinner with them and just give me paper and crayons. I was happy for an hour and more. Then I met an artist when I was 6 years old and was fascinated how he could mix colors such as yellow and blue to make green. Moving on to grammar school. I did artwork every day after school. I even recall doing math in third grade making up stories because I thought it was boring and then my teacher cleaned up the easel and put out fresh paper and fresh yellow paint. I just wanted to paint yellow ducks. Then it was time for high school. I knew I was for sure I would be an artist. When I was a freshman there was only one year of art classes. I was so lucky because every year they added another year of art classes. So for me I had four years. Yes I continued every day to do artwork after school. When I went to college, I chose SIU as it had the best department for art. Those were golden years for me. I have had friends say to me that they loved their art classes. Loved their classes? I lived in the art

department and all the professors never minded if I attended their classes. The first art class I had led to some interesting developments. He was having his students draw spheres and cubes shading them to be 3-D. I stopped him after class and asked him if we were going to do something else. He asked me to bring in my artwork. I did and he flipped out over my work and took me to an art professor that taught graduate students. He offered me studio space. Then I graduated with a degree in art and education. I taught art at Deerfield high school. Loved it and then stayed home to raise my three boys.

I was always doing things to make extra art money. I became a floral designer, painted floor cloths and exhibited in juried art exhibits. I have also been accepted in the art journal East on Central for the last seven years. Last year my artwork was on the cover. This year the seventh year I was accepted again.

So this has been my gift of life as an artist. It is a gift to me as the endorphins kick in when I work. joylacalamita@hotmail.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 27

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OBVIOUSLY THEY PREFER MAGRITTE OVER LIVELY. Acrylic and Pinot Noir Wine, 24" x 30".

THE ART THIEF. Acrylic and Cabernet Sauvignon Wine, 24" x 30".

Jim Lively is an attorney who left the practice of law to pursue his passion full-time as a contemporary figurative and abstract artist. His works have been recognized in numerous juried competitions and publications. He was named to the 2013 and 2014 list of Art Tour International Magazine’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art (www.arttourinternational.com). In addition, he has participated in several group and a solo exhibitions across North America and in Europe. Jim has published four books containing images of his art including two novels.

Selected 2012 - 2014 Credits • Named to 2013 and 2014 list of Art Tour International Magazine’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art www.arttourinternational.com • Selected to represent Southwest Artists and appear in Art Portfolio Magazine, 2014 Northeast Artists vs. Southwest Artists Edition • Placed Second in the Abstract Category in 2013 American Art Awards for “Layers of Civilization” and First in the Humor Category for “A Second Cup of Coffee” (www.americanartawards.com) • Art and Beyond Magazine, March/April 2014, Publisher Selection for “Butterfly Effect” and “Breach” from the “Red Wine” series of paintings • Art Portfolio Magazine, Editor’s Selection for 2013 Landscape Competition for “Five for Fall” www.jimlivelyart.com • j.lively@sbcglobal.net

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ANANDA. Acrylics on Cotton, 75 cm x 110 cm

ARIEL. Acrylics on Cotton, 70 cm x 93 cm

Alessandra Lugli Alessandra Lugli’s (Alex) art can be classified as “figurative expressionism”. This new artistic dimension is very personal and identifiable only by this artist, since her figurative expression is not classical in style but is accentuated by strong emotional values and exceptional depths.

almost expressive and rich of instinctive lighting implied by the colour. In each of her works, you can see a singular composition which also holds within it a “narrative”. In this way, a pictorial story is born which is fluid, it fluctuates and undulates between reality and fantasy.

The power of her strokes leads one toward a perpetual maze of emotions which gives the public the opportunity to imagine a dialogue between the canvas and the artists' soul.

The many hues in the various touches of colour give the work a unique depth.

In this way many artistic ideas are incorporated, each searching for their own balance, often vividly recalling the feminine world. Not only, the figures appear richly filled with subtle signs which highlight the artists talent, but which are unnecessary for an objective viewpoint. However the rhythms created are a “gift” allowing the spectator to interpret their own personal viewpoint and create their own personal artistic space.

Her works follow a personal contemplation and represent an uncertain artistic expression that gives the public the opportunity to enjoy it and discover a strong intrinsic energy within it. Sometimes the artist’s brush strokes are

http://art-by-alessandra-lugli.it/

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IT'S MUSIC TO MY EARS ….

Oil on Canvas, 24" x 24"

SOUTH AFRICAN STEEPLE. Oil, 18" x 24"

Jane Ellen Murray In 2009 Jane Ellen was invited to display her paintings in Florence Italy at the Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea.

In 2010 She had an Opening at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea and the Broadway Gallery in New York City.

Her still life “Cherries Jubilee” was featured on the cover of the calendar sent out by Whitney Gallery to their patrons.

She is listed in International Contemporary MASTERS IV.

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Her work has been shown at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas, the Gora Gallery in Montreal, the Nina Torres World Tour Exhibition in London and the LuminArte Gallery in Dallas.

Next year her art will be featured at the opening of the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s new Tip Top Tap Gallery in Chicago’s Fine Arts Building. www.janeellenmurray.com • janellen@janeellenmurray.com

MARIA. Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12"

Natalya B. Parris is a well known artist and art instructor who has been teaching children and adults for over 9 years at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg; BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown; and Sunrise at Montgomery Village, MD. "Maria" is artwork from new series “Memories of Hillwood.”

(The Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C.) The artwork was inspired by orchid flower I saw in the Hillwood’s Greenhouse.

I named it after Maria the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. I created it in my unique artistic style - “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint – Dots” where perfectly round dots are overlaid onto sections of a previously-painted picture. To express very powerful emotions, I pile the dots on one another and the dots, like

music notes, interact with the rhythm of the melody - creating emotional counterpoints in a three-dimensional painting.

My dots connect to my past as a civil engineer, when I was doing many engineering drawings by hand (it was the time when I learned to paint such perfect dots) and the present time, when I use those dots to create my “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint “– dots artworks. You can see more of my artworks on my Facebook page Natalya B. Parris https://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalya-B-Parris/111488538880248 www.linkedin.com/pub/natalya-parris/18/a1b/820/ https://artavita.com/artists/8737-natalya-b-parris privatenbp@hotmail.com

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SPIRITUALITY AND LOVE IN ART Alicia Torres´ Aesthetic

by Piter Ortega Nuñez

vegetation I wish you could smell it. There are painters already using this method… It is fascinating.”

The use of the end of the brush is quite symbolic as part of the treatment of the textures because it generates pronounced cracks on the material and can have multiple interpretations. Alicia tells us that “working with the end of the brush eliminates tension, relaxes my body and creates in me an agreeable sensation. For me, it is therapy.

THE SILENCE OF A DREAM. Acrylic on Canvas, 40" x 30" Alicia Torres is an extremely spontaneous and intuitive artist. In her works there are no preconceived or thought in advanced outlines. She likes the ups and downs of life, the chaos of thoughts, the freshness of the unknown and unforeseen. There is a lot of psychic automatism in her creations. When she starts a piece of work she is never conscious of which will be the final result of that specific work. It is the result of the day, the moment, her frame of mind, the ups and downs of her deepest spirituality.

Regarding the art supplies and medium she fears nothing and likes constant experimentation. That is the reason for inserting in her works a great number of elements such as regular paper or paper towels, cement, clothing, seeds, jute, soil, oxide residues, egg shells, abandoned iron pieces among others. She also paints directly with her hands, the palette knife, the end of the brush, a nail and very often she uses the dripping paint…particularly in terms of enhancing the tactile universe. The artist likes that the viewer touches her work, brushes against it on an intimate relationship that becomes almost erotic. In this regard the author states: “I believe that art should cover all the senses: see, touch, smell, etc. “That is why I like Botero´s work so much. When I touch his work I feel a deep peace. I wish one day I were able to include smell to my works. For example, should my works have 32 • Art & Beyond • September/October 2015

As regard the metal oxidation process, the method used by the artist is quite significant: basically she uses vinegar, coca cola or sea water thus achieving amazing results where aged and deteriorated become something profoundly beautiful. The creator seeks creative aesthetic value in unusual elements where “reasoning” and “common sense” only expect to see waste. That is why she gives great importance to her volumetric works where she inserts abandoned unused iron. It is there where Alicia gives to those metals a new life and a new story; it is something as if they were born again from the metaphor of art. Beautiful gesture charged with poetry and spirituality,, These parts are, moreover unclassifiable as traditional genres. Speaking strictly they are neither paintings nor sculptures. They are the two things at the same time , a hybrid that turns out to be very suggestive, Moving indistinctly between the abstraction and figuration expressionism, the artist is interested in the visual games with the viewer, the challenges. That is why, on many occasions, the figures appear and disappear in front of our eyes…There where there are only stains, lines and colors we believe, at times, to see human figures, animals, objects. The author wants that each viewer invents, in front of the pieces of art, a world, a story; she wants that each of them make a fable, give rein to the imagination. In this way, the formats and disposition for the setting up of the works are also changeable. As Alicia states “If you buy one of my works, you will take four.” And that is why there is never a vision or main perspective. The height and width of the pieces can be rotated according to the liking of the viewer. In that aspect, far from diminishing the meaning of the work it makes it strong, increases the possibilities for the interpretation of the work of art.

The oval is one of the most recurrent symbols used by the artist.

She says that the oval seduces her a lot “because it is very ethereal, soft, filled with movement and can mean many things: fertility, birth, life, eroticism, mobility and even death.” In all of her works Alicia shows that she is in love with the wavy lines, the curves, inasmuch as they symbolize a tender gesture of love. In her works we will never find straight angles, crossing diagonal lines.

There is nothing that may suggest violence or aggressiveness.

The artist´s lines and areas are something similar to a sensual dance from where peace, affection and harmony come from. At the same time there is magic and mystery.

Another symbol frequently repeated is the butterfly as it represents hope. We can see it, for example on “El Rapto de América” no doubt one of the loftiest pieces of the artist. Here the artist shows us the two most political parties in the United States: the Democrats and the Republicans, the first one symbolized by the elephant and the second by the donkey. A huge red spot, (according to Alicia, comes out as a metaphor of the violence occurred on September 11 and of all crises involved).

And in the midst of all emerges the butterfly perhaps to remind us that many times crises are profitable when they represent a new awakening of conscience, a new birth. Following a rapture of words, actions, hope may come to flourish again. That is what the artist tells us through the wonderful piece of work charged with the most genuine energy and spirituality.

Another significant painting in the career of the artist is the one entitled “El Pequeño Comité” where using parody and humor the creator makes a strong challenge to certain models of humans that are inoperative, fictitious, charged with falseness and deceitfulness. The symbolic presence of the “devil” in the lower right corner of the work comes to mean the inquiring look, the killjoy who disbelieves what is said in the alleged “committee”. It is a very attractive piece of art that alert us about the emptiness of certain words, about the hollowness and lack of sense of many simulated discourses. It calls us to act rather than talk, since words without a solid and honest foundation can be very harmful.

But Alicia has also made pieces (and with much rigor) within the ceramic art. I will stop to talk about them because they happen to be very valuable. Her control of the texture with the use of mud, the relation between volume and space, like the ingenuity of the composition tells us of a bullet proof artist whose art knows no limits. Whether they are children figures, vases, animals or more abstract pieces they are all of a high aesthetic quality In some cases the artist has ventured into the human eroticism, specially the female. In those cases there is a curious element: the faces of the women always appear covered with a great spot that blocks their identity. This is an interesting gesture that makes us ask several questions: Modesty? The intention of making a more generic discourse and talk about “THE WOMAN” in abstract not emphasizing on any one in particular? The woman as a sex-erotic device where “facial” is not important but only the erogenous zones? Enigmatic works, no doubt, and just for that incredibly beautiful.

Her most recent works demonstrate an admirable maturity.

They appear to be more emphatic, forceful, both formally and conceptually. Let us think of pieces such as “El Tercer Ojo”, “Movements don´t Lie”, “The Depth of Silence”, “The Silence of a Dream”, “I Became a Child Again”, among others. In the latter, the composition treatment, the lines and the use of colors reminiscent of the fantasies of childhood imagination, the freshness of the universe of innocence that knows no limits. “One of my dreams”, says the artist, “is to return to my childhood years of innocence and freedom when worries, responsibilities and desire for perfection were not priorities in life”.

Graduated in Psychopedagogy it is obvious that her beautiful career training has greatly influenced the routes that her work has taken. Especially in regard to that great love and respect for

THE DEPTH OF THE SILENCE. Acrylic on Canvas, 40" x 30" life, for the small things from it. Alicia tells us:“I can find a source of creation in small things in life like a smile, love for your neighbor, hope, dreams…My work contains the beauty and wonder of the universe”.

In “The Depth of Silence” and in “The Silence of a Dream” the strong interest of the artist for the space of silence and solitude, of the most authentic meditation are manifested. Perhaps they are a song of the intimate moment of the artist in front of her paintings, an instant in which the “outside” ceases to exist, and wars, violence, hatred disappear leaving only that microworld full of love that is art, that bubble so needed without which life would have no sense. “Art is everything for me. It is a spiritual need, a passion. It is the way to find a balance to the symbolic violence of life. There are days when I wake up with an eagerness to create a piece of art. Only that makes me happy”.

Also, in the works of the artist there is a lot of the “real wonderful of Latinoamerica”, a great mixture of passion, drama, mystery and magic floods over her works with colors that make us remember the intensity of life in the tropics. We who have known her closely, can discover in her paints the great energy of her smile, the spirituality and transparency of her gaze. Her works are like she is: a celebration of life, the emancipator potential of the art, the privilege of our presence in the universe. And her works also tell us that there is still Alicia for a while – we have seen just the beginning.

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BOUND WORLD. Oil on Linen, 20" x 20"

Santiago Perez Santiago Perez Is a representational visual artist depicting the beauty, drama, and tragedy of life using primarily narrative figurative art. As a true romantic with a keen eye for detail and emotion, Santiago strives to depict emotion, romanticism and realism in different mediums but primarily oil, as the masters of the 18th and 19th centuries did. Above all else his works aim to tell a story of inspiration and hope.

The richness and translucency of colors achieved through multilayered glazing techniques is what gives his works captivating and life like qualities. Santiago had learned these techniques in airbrush mediums since the age of 18 when he first started airbrushing murals on cars, motorcycles and corporate walls with a vast array of paint types. His airbrushed artworks have been featured in magazines, books, and countless websites and have won awards at national car and motorcycle shows.

At middle age, Santiago had a paradigm shift after coming back from visiting the Prado museum in Madrid. He realized God had given him a gift and the time given to us on earth should be one of meaning and leaving a voice long after we're gone. Since then Santiago has worked feverously towards bringing forth his message of hope as a reflection of his inner most desire to be influential with his art despite having to work long hours in Corporate America.

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LOVE'S PAIN. Oil on Canvas, 48" x 24" Santiago is constantly looking to improve his skills by attending life drawing sessions. He attends workshops with living master artists yearly. Currently he is studying at Chiaroscuro Studio of Art in Miami, FL. Under Elkin Cañas who studied at Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and Milixa Moron who studied at Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. He is largely influenced by works from William Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, and Caravaggio. www.santiagoperezart.com

THE HUMAN INSECT. Acryl on Canvas, 60 x 80 cm

Own Vision of Mark Pol Hans Schwarzkächel, who is known in the art world as Mark Pol, has his artistic name chosen because it resembles the name of the Explorer Marco Polo. Such as Polo, and he discovers he is always looking for new areas. The images come directly from the subconscious and his first time in black signed on paper and later transferred onto the canvas. The addition of subsurface materials gives the paintings a rich quality in structure and varied Acrylic colors with emphasis on gradations between light and shadow create authentic peculiar and original works of art.

He builds a fantasy world and gives form to his own philosophical vision. The man, who is a central icon in his world is not complete and should be changed. The most part presented is the head and sometimes eyes, hands and feet. Also parts of the nervous system, but rarely the body. There is always the feeling of loose ends and imperfection of man.

Already in 1968, Anne Frank and Peter in black and white he painted as creepy skeletons. In 1969, he has a sad woman drawn with a blind eye. Existentialism is an important part of his world that represent the imperfect man who needs to be built. The man, such as the names of his paintings express is always looking, never satisfied, requires, is angry, sad and distraught, but must remain silent.

The properties and connections between the fragments form new creatures. Sometimes there are confrontations between man and beast and the relations between him and the world. The compositions are divided by the line that represents the horizon between heaven and Earth and sometimes there are diagonal lines that are a representation of three dimensional perspectives.

The development in his oeuvre allows more detailed and colorful work. The background and the gradations between light and shadow are more striking.

The creation of a own surreal world reminiscent of the French surrealist Ives Tanguy. As he builds his own a parallel world and its creatures express vision.

Dr. Dalia Hacker – Orion Art Historian November 2010 Ramat Hasharon Israel www.markpol.nl

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RECLINING-TWIST.1

STEVEN LUSTIG Art - Breath - Movement This art is born out of a love of the human form and its natural motion. It is powerful, passionate, and embraces both human and natural forms. Steven was born and raised near the North Shore of Chicago where he began drawing at a age five. In high school he met a regionally known sculptor and began his fine arts education. During that time, Steven was given a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. He became fascinated by what he saw and immediately began to draw directly from the book, changing the course of his life and starting a lifelong study of the human form. Steven received an art scholarship to Bradley University.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an emphasis on Bio-technical Illustration. While at the University of Illinois, Steven began to work for the Biomechanical Engineering department. His early work combining computers, art, and human motion became the genesis of Steven’s fine art, regardless of media. He would go on to draw, paint and sculpt thousands of interpretations of the human form in his own distinctive style. In 1982 Steven moved to Southern California for the opportunity to work at an Olympic research center focused on Sports Medicine and Biomechical Engineering. Looking to the future, Steve quickly recognized the promise of what computer illustration could bring to traditional graphic design techniques. After seven years of working in corporate presentation graphics, Steven founded

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BioDesign Communications in 1989. BioDesign was a highly specialized computer graphics company supplying creative illustrations to the Life Science, Medical Device, and Healthcare industries. Steven has produced medical and life science images for companies around the world, and has illustrated four books, completed a series of life science illustrations for the Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Throughout this time Steven continued to draw and sculpt, dedicating his life to the arts. His fascination with drawing the human form continues to ignite his creative talent and provides him with an endless supply of material. Steven currently teaches a stone sculpting class at the Laguna College of Art & Design. In addition to working as an Illustrator and fine artist, Steven has been the Cultural Arts Chair for the CA PTA and a leading art advocate Statewide. For the past twelve years Steven has been a volunteer legislative advocate, recruiting and training parents, running legislative junkets to Sacramento and leading parents in the cause of public education. Steven is a volunteer art teacher at a local elementary school and has taught students art privately. Steven has studied Kenpo Karate and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with his son and daughter and practices yoga. He lives in Huntington Beach with his wife and two children. www.stevenlustigfineart.com

FEARLESS. Watercolor, 8" x10"

Alex Tolstoy Alex is primarily a watercolorist.

Influences and inspirations include such classic master artists as J.M.W. Turner, Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sargent, Whistler, Homer, and more. Contemporary masters who are much admired include Thomas Schaller, Roger Whitlock, Roycroft, Lovett, Joseph Zbukvic, and others.

the Maryland Federation of Art Society (MFA), the Yellow Barn Studio, the McLean Art Society (MAS), the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), and the American Watercolor Society (AWS). She is also a member of the Foundry Gallery of DC and is married to photographer Ron Colbroth.

Alex was born in New York City but grew up in DC. She was a research scientist (mathematician, actually) for over 40 years (specializing in Ocean Acoustics from 1980 until 2012).

Her work is in private collections and has been or will be seen at the Foundry Gallery (DC), the Torpedo Factory (Alexandria, VA), the Circle Gallery (Annapolis, MD), NYC, Scotland, and elsewhere. She has had numerous solo shows in the DC area.

Alex is an award winning watercolorist and a member of the McLean Project of the Arts (MPA), the Art League of Alexandria,

www.atolstoyart.com

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LABERINTO. Oil on Paper, 120" x 120"

Patricio Moreno Toro Toro was born in Santiago, Chile in 1943. A self-taught painter, at the age of 19 he won a Chilean national competition for watercolor and his art career took off. His first solo exhibition was in 1963 at Taller 13 in Santiago. At the age of twentytwo, he left Chile on an ocean voyage to Europe, arriving in Barcelona, Spain in the summer of 1966. He traveled and worked in Spain, France Germany and Italy, finally settling in Sweden where he found his voice as an abstract expressionist and flourished. It was in Sweden where he began to paint his 38 • Art & Beyond • September/October 2015

trademark large-scale canvases. During his five decades as a professional artist, Toro has lived and shown his work in many places in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.

After moving to the United States in 1978, he became a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area art scene. At age 70, he now divides his time between Oakland, California and Concón, Chile and continues to paint prolifically. www.patriciomorenotoro.com

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DESERT MAGIC. Oil, 30" x 40"

Grace Schlesier award winning Plein Air oil painter specializing in the Natural World, named one of the Ten Top Women Artist in the Nov/ Dec 2012 issue of Art of the West magazine. Grace received Paint Americas Top 100 Award with her image of Torrey

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Pines, currently being shown at the Museum at Torrey Pines, CA. She is a Signature Member of American Impressionist Society and American Women Artists. This past year she was inducted into the prestigious Salmagundi Club, NYC., and in

EARLY SNOWFALL. Oil, 16" x 20"

2015 received a special recognition for her artwork for the California Senate’s California Contemporary Art Collection.

Her paintings are featured in many books such as How Did You Paint That? by International Artist Magazine; Dust on My

Shoes, Sun on My Back by Chapin and Art of the American West by Dull and Linscott. She exhibits in Museums and Galleries from coast to coast. www.graceschlesier.com

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OVERCOME POLARITY I AND II. 2015. CollagenMalerei© Mixed Media on Canvas, 2 x 120 x 40 cm

BARBARA WALDER Through the light to the matter - My journey of discovery in the artistic use of matter began with the delicate application of pastels. By way of large-scale shapes with bold colours in transparent gouache I came to use solidifying acrylic paint and then to my own CollagenMalerei©. This is created layer

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by layer. Through constant reduction I get answers to my questions about essence and balance.

In the opinion of Mona Youssef, curator, jurist and gallery owner:

HOMMAGE À MARGARET BOLZA. 2011.

On Paper with Gouache and Pastel Oil Chalk, 100 cm x 70 cm

“BARBARA WALDER is fascinated by nature since childhood which clearly reflected in painting striving to find answers about light and colors in nature and their relationship to man.

Working with chalk and gouache, she adds special emphasis on naturalness, authenticity and originality which is important part of her existence. The brief moment of 'now-ness', the

transition from night to day, day to night fascinates her with its peculiar color, a moment of indecision in which its perfect beauty unfolds.”

I am living and painting in the Principality of Liechtenstein. www.barbarawalder.gallery

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The second piece is a Tuareg Cross. Also fine Silver. The necklace has African Amber, Sterling Silver, and 2 Amber and Silver large Gemstones from Nepal.

This Tuareg piece is fine Silver inlaid into Ebony Wood. The necklace consists of Ebony, Sterling Silver Beads. The Tuareg are known to be the finest Silversmiths in the world. Being nomadic people there work is done using pins, screwdrivers, nail etc. Very primitive means yet so beautiful.

Sandy Den Hartog Sandy has had an interest in stones since childhood. Wherever she went, even as a young person, whether it was picnics, vacations, or field trips; she always made sure she had a cup along to collect rocks which were precious to her at the time.

Once in high school she took numerous classes in gemology and geology. Then she graduated, got married, and had children. Rocks and gems had to be put on hold for a while.

However, she was still able to attend gem shows and art shows when she had the opportunity. She was looking and learning and eventually was able to travel the globe and reignite her interest in gems and minerals. She was struck by how much stones, rocks, gems, and minerals change

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from country to country. In bringing back Ethiopian Crosses from Africa, she made her daughters and granddaughters necklaces with the crosses.

She was once again hooked with a creative passion for what she could now do with these artifacts.

Sandy’s work has been exhibited at Palace Hotel in San Francisco and the James Ratliff Gallery in Sedona, Arizona. She has also been a part of several juried shows winning a first place medal in 2010 and 2012 with a Award of Merit in 2012. sandzibarjc@hotmail.com

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ROAD 2. Digital Photograph on Black MDF. A4

Sue Eves Road

I am interested in moments we are barely aware of....and the manner in which our minds are bombarded with a myriad of images...so quickly that the conscious mind may store these partial scenes but has little chance of dwelling on each fractured piece.

I guess I am preoccupied with the passing of time and am trying to capture something that swiftly passes...’ to grab something from the world’ [ Bell] I am looking for the unique and awesome in the every day............but once captured the moment has already passed.

We may partially recognize ‘particles of reality’ [ Bell]...We identify something...having, maybe, already encountered it... which would explain the unexpected familiarity.... a distant memory of something partially viewed a multitude of times.

We make sense of this by rounding up and rationalizing the incomplete...as Bill Viola says...’ reality is open ended, our mental set imposes structure, order, connections’.

1. Bell, Julian. 2013. Symposium at Chichester University.

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2. Viola, Bill. Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

More information may be found in my Linkedin profile. http://ulsterartistsonline.org/user/130

BUBBLES. TIME PIECE. Digital Photograph, 32" x 32"

Barbara Hazen Photography is a tool for me to tell a story. My ambition is to show viewers that beauty can be found in many unlikely places. I am drawn to the many things in life that are often over-looked or ignored. I am looking for character in someone’s face, a unique location, or an unusual item found in flea markets. With the found objects I photograph, my goal is to encourage viewers to be curious and to observe the bit of mystery in all things, to bring light and life to that which we don’t understand. The ‘TIME PIECE’ series is an example of that ambition. Having collected old watch parts for a number of years, I began to explore their unique beauty in still life images. Breaking out of the assumption that this was all these items had to offer in terms of photography, I began to play with various methods and effects of motion, light and water.

This freedom to literally, ‘play’ with these discarded watch parts gave them new meaning and intriguing beauty that one would not normally associate with these inanimate objects.

It also gave me time to question how we all associate and keep track of time in our personal lives. Each viewer of the Time Piece photographs has their own personal connection to moments in their lives whether time was for the instant ‘frozen’, ‘fleeting’, ‘distorted’, ‘solid’ or ‘fluid’. For me, it was a time of growth and experimentation. The time spent with these watch pieces will remain a defined moment in my path as a photographer. www.barbarahazen.com

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INTERLUDE. Digital Art, 50cm x 70cm

Diana Whiley I first created fantasy art to go with my writing and found that the digital medium best fit my style. It took time to get the affect I wanted but I’ve now hopefully managed to get the colour and mood right.

I am transformed by the creation of art and enjoy opening myself to new experiences. Other pieces of my art range from abstract, to still life but I do love a portrait.

Over a number of years I have been both editor and contributor to a number of community art projects and exhibit locally.

Entering many on-line competition, I have won several

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awards: “Best in Competition” With “Your Choice Award” at the on-line website this year at “Exhibition Without Walls” being a highlight.

I have book covers published and appear in five International Contemporary Art Books.

Currently I am working on a graphic novel and look forward to creating more art. www.eltieradesigns.com

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THE DARKENING II. watercolor, 8" x 10"

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FALLING-LEAF.