Curated by Despina Tunberg A.M. Benz Avadka Colez Betty Cox, Beading Designs Tjeerd Doosje Onno Dröge Eleni Grafakou Eric Hubbes Iwona Jankowski Makeski ART Anna Masiul-Gozdecka Gabriele Musebrink Nati (Anastasia Yanchuk) Jean Jacques Porret Arati Reddy-Devlin Kamal Rezaei Stephanie Schröter Margaret Scott Helen Smithwick Ari Székely Josee Tellier Jan Teunissen Victoria V Albena Vatcheva Rachel Villari Hiroshi Wada Ping Yan
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Curated by Despina Tunberg
A.M. Benz Avadka Colez Betty Cox, Beading Designs Tjeerd Doosje Onno Dröge Eleni Grafakou Eric Hubbes Iwona Jankowski Makeski ART Anna Masiul-Gozdecka Gabriele Musebrink Nati (Anastasia Yanchuk) Jean Jacques Porret
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Arati Reddy-Devlin Kamal Rezaei Stephanie Schröter Margaret Scott Helen Smithwick Ari Székely Josee Tellier Jan Teunissen Victoria V Albena Vatcheva Rachel Villari Hiroshi Wada Ping Yan
RACHEL VILLARI
www.rachelvillari.com rachel.leah.villari@gmail.com Rachel Villari is an artist and educator based in Rhode Island. She has taught a wide variety of traditional studio, computer-based design and art history courses at Rhode Island School of Design|CE, Newport Art Museum and Johnson & Wales University. Her abstract paintings have shown domestically and internationally, most recently in London and Bologna, Italy. Rachel is a featured artist in Curatorial Volume 1, Leaders in Contemporary Art, a book that documents the creative practices of artists working in various disciplines from around the world. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate, studying Humanities with a focus in Art History at Salve Regina University.
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Primavera I Acrylic on canvas with a resin finish 24 x 48 in.
A.M. BENZ
https://www.studioambenz.com studioambenz@gmail.com A.M. Benz is an emerging artist from Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) working in mixed media with showings in over 30 juried exhibitions in Canada, the United States and China over the past three years. She is serious about seeking out the boundaries of multidimensional surfaces, textures and light. She primarily works with various types of glass, paper, and wire, exploring the play of light while using a limited color palette. A.M. was born in 1973 in Seattle (USA) and now lives in Ottawa (Canada).
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Kuro Piegare 9123 Mixed Media (vitreous glass, 24k gold smalti, porcelain, paper) 30.5 x 30.5 x 7.6 in. (framed)
AVADKA COLEZ
www.colesbrightcolors.com avadkacolez@gmail.com Avadka Colez was born February 9, 1976 in Dallas, Texas and lives in Garland. Colez was educated at Brookhaven College and the University of Texas at Dalllas. A four-time American Art Awards-winning artist, he has shown extensively and is represented at Rossocinabro Gallery in Rome, Italy. He is a member Circle Foundation of the Arts. He has shown at Arthouse.nyc (Soho Center for the Digital Art) since 2014 as well as at Auction shows with Perry Berns Gallery from 2007-2010 and 2014 2015.
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Invisible Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 in.
BETTY COX BETTY COX BEADING DESIGNS
Etsy.com/shop/Uniqueandmacabre booop56@aol.com “I am a bead embroidery artist but I create mostly large works. Inspired by others works to influence me. I recently retired as a Certified Nurse Midwife from San Diego, and presently live in Ohio and will be working part-time as a Midwife in a hospital. I teach, exhibit and create works to present as like no other. My works are noted to be whimsical, macabre and colorful. I have exhibited in CA, Italy, and have participated the last 7 years in The Battle Of The Beadsmith, an international contest. Published Nationally and internationally, I most importantly exhibited in the International Wearable Art contest 2017 in Pales Verdes.”
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My Life As The Midwife Mixed Media/Beading 22 X 9 X 4
TJEERD DOOSJE
https://www.studiotjeerd.nl info@studiotjeerd.nl Instagram@studiotjeerd Tjeerd Doosje was born in 1966 in Harderwijk, the Netherlands and is a self-taught and international awarded portrait photographer and retoucher. After graduating from high school he studied mathematics and chemistry at the Hogeschool Utrecht to become a teacher. He still works as a math teacher at a high school in Almere and around 2010, he discovered portrait photography. In school, he took a make-up art course and did some mini photoshoots with the pupils. He liked this so much that he wanted to start his own photostudio in 2016. His photos have won Finalist awards at The Celeste Contemporary Art Prize 2016 (London) and twice in The Global Art Awards 2018 (Dubai) and 2020 (Shanghai). Also, Tjeerd was several times a runnerup (nominated) for the Fine Art Photography Awards (2018, 2019, 2020). He received international prizes among them Andrea Mantegna Prize (Mantova, 2017), International Prize Velázquez (Barcelona, 2019), Prize Dante Alighieri (2021).
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Anoek (0229) Color digital photograph 40 x 60 cm
TJEERD DOOSJE
https://www.studiotjeerd.nl info@studiotjeerd.nl Instagram@studiotjeerd
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Saar (0401) Color digital photograph 40 x 60 cm
ONNO DRÖGE
www.artonno.nl onno.droge@gmail.com “My soul is strongly inclined to softness and roundness, to fluid lines and shapes, to space in and around my objects. In my objects, I like to refer to the spirit world and the heavenly atmosphere, represented through the fluent shapes, the presence of shadow and the colors.”
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In a space of softness Wooden sculpture on oil painting panel 123 x 94 cm
ONNO DRÖGE
www.artonno.nl onno.droge@gmail.com
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The spirit of Alexandria Wooden sculpture on oil painting panel 103 x 160 cm
ONNO DRÖGE
www.artonno.nl onno.droge@gmail.com
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Alexandra Mc Queen Wooden sculpture on oil painting panel 103 x 160 cm
IWONA JANKOWSKI IwonaJankowski.com
“My “Mottled Horses” – Equine/Western art developed since 2002-3 in my new “Mottled” style that merges abstract and expressionism with a touch of realism. The subject is created on a colorful abstract background to express feelings, often shown as a close-up, with special attention to the eyes and focusing on specific moods and composition. Often with secondary transparent image/s to show movement or a specific scenario. In my paintings, I don’t intend to replicate photo-realistic objects, but to capture the utmost uniqueness of life. Illustrating my subjects, I often pay no attention to exact shapes, textures, or real colors and emphasize just on a small fragment, sometimes a very tiny detail, in order to insinuate an idea. That approach leads me to concentrate on what I feel and not what I see or know about the subject. Also, it helps me to effectively use visuals to depict a story about my subject. My art captures just an indication of a subject to leave the rest for my viewer’s imagination to create the unique picture.”
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“Western Dust” – Mottled Horses Acrylic on canvas 30 x 24 in.
MAKESKI ART https://goranmakeski.ch makeski.g@gmail.com
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COVID Acrylic ink on paper 140 x 60 cm
NATI (ANASTASIA YANCHUK) Instagram@anastasia_nati anastasia.yanchuk@gmail.com
Nati (Anastasia Yanchuk) is an artist born in 1986 in Moscow who lives and works in Alba, Italy. The strength of Nati’s art lies in the harmony and balance of what it describes, narrates, evokes and leads us to imagine. The results are the offspring of a long, articulated and deep learning curve which began in Russia and has been perfected in Italy. Initially, art was just a hobby but after developing artistic skills Anastasia has begun an art career (2019-2020). She has participated in Art Fairs and Exhibitions in Italy and Monte Carlo and has affiliation with PassepARTout Unconventional Gallery in Milan (Italy).
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Il Sorriso della Geisha (The Smile of a Geisha) Mixed media on canvas 60 x 60 cm
JEAN JACQUES PORRET www.jjporret.com jj@jjporret.com
“Born in Switzerland, in 1941, to a prominent family of art and antique collectors, I started to sculpt wood at a very young age. I was drawn to and learned the technique of bronze and lost wax casting “because it is the most demanding material which is responsive and sweet to the touch.” My work is figurative but is not about the figure. I consider myself an expressionist as I am more interested in communicating an abstract feeling or idea than an actual image.”
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Belle du Soir Cast bronze Edition of 3, 20 cm
KAMAL REZAEI
http://afrapainting.com Kamal.rezaeii@gmail.com Kamal Rezaei Nazemi was born in 1966 in Iran where he lives today. He is a pediatrician but, due to excessive eagerness to painting studied art in private classes. During this period, he participates in several solo and group gallery exhibitions in Iran. His works belong to private and public collections in Iran and he is awarded artist and a member of Artavita.
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Needing Oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm
STEPHANIE SCHRÖTER www.dasbildhaueratelier.de Stephanie.schroeter@gmx.de
The artist’s interest in sculptural transformation of themes and ideas lies mainly in the field of abstraction. It is not illustration but the ‘’essence“ (following the tradition of Aristotle) or ‘’the essential“ (essentia) in Stephanie Schroeter’s sculptures that play a central role. In her work, the selected materials evolve ideally to contemporary but timeless forms. Several stays in Italy, nearby Carrara, helped Stephanie to perfect the handcraft in treating stones and inspired her to transform her chosen material into sculptures that express her interest in literature and philosophy. In 2013 she realized a live-sized sculpture out of concrete in a park in Cologne. The public attention was huge, which enabled her to sell some of her works to art collectors. She presents her artworks frequently in exhibitions and fairs in Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy, has cooperation with some academies and gives workshops in sculpting in her studio.
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River White marble 36 x 20 x 20 cm
MARGARET SCOTT www.margaretscott.co.nz artbythesea@xtra.co.nz
Margaret Scott was born in Opunake Taranaki and now lives in a beautiful seaside town called Oakura under Mount Taranaki in New Zealand. A self-taught artist, she has had 14 solo shows and been part of group exhibitions in New York, Paris, England and Melbourne and New Zealand. In 2017 she had a Retrospective Exhibition called ‘Sense of Place’ of 70 of her works from her 50-year painting career. Her works belong to private and public collections in many countries. She is an awarded artist and a member of many art groups including the Oakura and Taranaki Art Trail. She keeps studio ‘Art By the Sea’ at Oakura where she sells most of her work.
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Cape Gooseberries under Lockdown Acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 cm
ELENI GRAFAKOU www.elenigrafakou.gr eleni_grafakou@yahoo.gr
Eleni Grafakou was born in Athens, Greece and studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. She holds MSc and PhD degrees in art education from Barcelona University. Eleni has had 10 solo exhibitions in Greece, Spain, Indonesia and 40 group participations in Greece, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Syria, Indonesia. Her works belong to private and public collections in many countries. She has received four different scholarships from the Greek, Indonesian and Spanish State and she is an awarded artist.
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Contingencias Mixed media on canvas 90 x 90 cm
ERIC HUBBES
www.erichubbes.com erichubbes@gmail.com Eric Hubbes was born on February 20, 1988 in London, to a French mother and a German father. He spent his childhood and adolescence mainly in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne in Germany. In 2005/2006, he spent a year at the Glenalmond College in Scotland with a focus on fine arts. This year was for him the confirmation of his talent. After graduating from high school, he still needed some time to decide the path he will be following. He spent three successful semesters in Muenster, Westphalia studying Geo-Science, but then dedicated himself entirely to art. He chose the HKU Art Academy in Utrecht. After three successful semesters between September 2013 and May 2015, he decided to work independently and follow his own path. Hubbes returned to Cologne, where he now lives and has his atelier. Since 2017 he tries to find his place in the world of Art with exhibitions around the world and during this time of Covid-19, on the digital platform. He is an awarded artist. He already had 27 exhibitions (3 solo) in Paris, Deauville (France) Prag, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, New York, Miami. World Wide Art MAGAZINE VII
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Time Bomb 1 Mixed media on canvas 80 x 80 cm
ERIC HUBBES
www.erichubbes.com erichubbes@gmail.com
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The Scholar Oil on canvas 120 x 120 cm
ANNA MASIULGOZDECKA agozdecka.art.pl info@agozdecka.art.pl
Born in 1975, in Poland, Anna Masiul-Gozdecka studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She has had over 14 solo exhibitions as well as 14 group participations, in Poland, Spain, UK. Her works belong to private collections in many countries, like Germany, Italy, UK, the USA, Switzerland, to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia.
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GABRIELE MUSEBRINK
https://www.gabriele-musebrink.de mail@gabriele-musebrink.de Gabriele Musebrink was born in 1955 in Essen, Germany, and has German and Polish roots. After finishing her art studies, she worked as a graphic and visual artist in several German museums and institutions during 1983 and 1993. Since 1993, Musebrinkhas been working exclusively as a freelance artist in her own studio in Essen. She works all over Europe, demonstrating her unique working style at public art events, teaching seminars and doing exhibitions in Europe and Japan.
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NORGE STONE No.9 Fresco limestone, pigments on canvas 50 x 50 cm
GABRIELE MUSEBRINK
https://www.gabriele-musebrink.de mail@gabriele-musebrink.de
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NORGE STONE No.17 Fresco limestone, pigments on canvas 50 x 50 cm
ARATI REDDYDEVLIN www.arati.art arati@arati.art
“‘iREM’ - represents my enjoyment of working on the theme of robotics and mechanical parts. This painting is an exploration of the inner workings of our minds in particular at the most creative time during REM when images are the most vibrant and intense. The painting captures some of what I see as shapes and forms and detailed patterns as represented in the mechanical birds and the working parts of the brain and aims to fuse my intricate landscape drawings and current theme of robotics and mechanical parts.” Arati Reddy-Devlin was born in Natal, South Africa in 1962, and moved to the UK where she trained as a Graphic Designer, completing a postgraduate course in Fine Art Printmaking, an MEd in Applied Linguistics, and is a qualified Art and Design teacher. Reddy-Devlin was awarded a British Council scholarship in 1987 to study traditional printmaking techniques at the Ljubljana Art Academy, Slovenia. Her work has been published in Aesthetica Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming Publication and Observica Art along with other Canadian, USA and UK, online publications. Reddy-Devlin is an affiliate Artist with Circle Art and has work in private collections in the UK, Austria, Germany, China, Croatia, Slovenia, USA and Australia. World Wide Art MAGAZINE VII
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iREM Acrylic on paper 45 x 55 cm
CATHY M SHEPHERD cathymshepherd.glass cathymshepherd@verizon.net
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Edge of Heaven Glass 24 x 36 in.
ARI SZÉKELY
https://www.artsy.net/artist/drdot-szekely-aranka/works-for-sale arankadr@gmail.com Dr. Aranka Székely was born in 1966 in Transylvania, Romania. Having graduated from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, she relocated to Hungary. Aranka is a doctor by profession and an artist by her passion and creative mind. She currently runs her private medical practice in Alsózsolca and Miskolc, Hungary. As a self-taught artist, she tried her hand in different styles of painting from realistic to abstract using pastels, acrylic and watercolours. Aranka’s color palette is very vivid and at the same time very feminine. Aranka has participated to a lot of solo and group international exhibitions and has been awarded many times with international prizes. Her masterpieces are displayed in art magazines and yearbooks. Art gives her a huge joy and helps her cope with everyday stress.
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Vain Lady Acrylic on canvas 40 x 50 cm
HELEN SMITHWICK smithwickbotanicals.com smithwickbh@gmail.com
Helen was born in Long Sutton, England and currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. She graduated with distinction after completing the requirements for the Foundational Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration from the Denver School of Botanical Art and Illustration. Her work has been shown in many juried shows in Colorado. Her works belong to private collectors in England and the United States. Helen received the Sydney Parkinson Award for Excellence in Botanical Illustration. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists and the Commonwheel Artists Association of Manitou Springs, Colorado.
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Iris Germanica Watercolor on paper 13 x 17.5 in.
JOSEE TELLIER 3D ARTIST joseetellier.com joseetelliermail@gmail.com
Josee was born in the 60s in Trois-Rivieres and lives in Beloeil, south shore of Montreal. She is mainly self-taught but attended a few painting classes and training with Canadian masters Juan Cristobal and Ursula Kohfahl-Lampron. She has had eleven solo exhibitions in Canada and more than a hundred group participations in Canada, France and Italy. Her works belong to private and public collections in Canada, France, USA, Spain and China. Josee is an awarded artist with national and international awards and a member of Mondial Art Academia, Academie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Quebec and AAPARS.
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Descente dans le Petit Champlain Acrylic bas-relief+ stained glass 48 x 36 in.
JAN TEUNISSEN www.jteunissen.com
Jan Teunissen, born in 1949, grew up in Zeelst, in the south of The Netherlands under the smoke of Eindhoven. He lives and works in Best, also located in North Brabant. Initially, he followed a technical education and graduated as a business engineer. Until 2002, he did this alongside a job in business, after which he focused on painting. Jan Teunissen is a major autodidact and his work is characterized by a high level of reality and often somewhat mystical, clair-obscurious atmosphere. Still life with images of utensils and food such as bread and fruit. So lifelike, and basically no bigger than in real life, these paintings are such that they evoke comments and have ratings such as: “So real you would take a bite out of it”, “You can smell what fruit it’s all about” or “Any moment a worm can crawl out of those pears.” Studying many pieces of art from the old masters and experimenting with materials and subjects, gave Jan the ability to make realistic paintings in a responsible and artistic way.
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Pumpkins in Pewter Bowl Oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm
VICTORIA V www.victoriav.art hello@victoriav.art
Victoria V was born in 1982 in Ukraine and now is based in Vienna, Austria. She studied art privately at several art schools in Moscow, Russia. She has had group exhibitions in Russia, in the UK, USA, Italy and Switzerland, her artworks were published in different magazines.
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Don’t Say Acrylic and markers on canvas 40 x 40 x 2 cm
VICTORIA V www.victoriav.art hello@victoriav.art
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Don’t Look Acrylic and markers on canvas 40 x 40 x 2 cm
ALBENA VATCHEVA (ALBENA)
https://albena-vatcheva.pixels.com/ albena.painter@free.fr
“I am a French artist born in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. I am also an architect, a poet and a graphic designer. I create mainly oil paintings on canvas or wood. When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an artist painter or writer, I wanted to make people experience deep emotions while interacting with my work. As I was interested in many other subjects, I did long studies, published a book of poems and finally became an architect. For 5 years, I worked as an architect, mainly for bank offices. When I changed countries at the age of 29, I left everything behind and started a new life in France. I gradually became a self–employed, self-taught artist.”
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Adieu Mon Icare / Pietà Aux Azuléjos Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
HIROSHI WADA https://hiroshiwada.jp/ info@hiroshiwada.jp
Contemporary artist and calligrapher, Hiroshi Wada lives in Kyoto and began to practice Japanese Shodo (literally means the way of calligraphy) at the age of 5. Wada has received awards several times at the Nitten exhibition, which is the biggest and greatest general art exhibition in Japan. Currently, the artist has solo and group shows mainly in Europe and the USA. ““Sho” for which I aim is not what is known as traditional Japanese “sho”, but a modern “sho” that matches any scene in the world. Moreover, it is not avant-garde calligraphy (Bokusho), formative art with sumi ink, but it is more readable and comprehensible with containing the aforementioned elements. Other calligraphers use the technique of writing after a model, rinsho, which they have learned and write so-called calligraphers’ characters. On the other hand, in my case, I try to once forget what I have learned so far and start with a clean slate to write characters like a child who writes characters innocently. Even so, the lines of characters should be such lines as only a proficient calligrapher can draw, and the characters should be avant-garde but readable. This is the calligraphy I wish to achieve.” World Wide Art MAGAZINE VII
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ELEVEN_01 Japanese calligraphy on paper 120 x 90 cm
PING YAN
www.meipian9.cn 18523270077@163.com
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Rhyme Pastel 80 x 100 cm
Curated by Despina Tunberg A.M. Benz Avadka Colez Betty Cox, Beading Designs Tjeerd Doosje Onno Dröge Eleni Grafakou Eric Hubbes Iwona Jankowski Makeski ART Anna Masiul-Gozdecka Gabriele Musebrink Nati (Anastasia Yanchuk) Jean Jacques Porret Arati Reddy-Devlin Kamal Rezaei Stephanie Schröter Margaret Scott Helen Smithwick Ari Székely Josee Tellier Jan Teunissen Victoria V Albena Vatcheva Rachel Villari Hiroshi Wada Ping Yan
On the Cover
Onno Dröge
ISSUE #7