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Georgia Szollosi Ellis - director and editor Jurors: Georgia Szollosi Ellis Painter - director and editor Mike P. Ellis - art collector and advisor Zsolt Pinter - graphic designer and painter Valeria Kovacs - co-editor and curator
Cover: Capt. Stjepko Mamic St.Peter’s Sails acrylics on linen canvas 82x65cm 2014
Back: Linda McIntosh That Spoonful mixed media on paper 16x16in 2015 Featured artists: Anna Hausmann (Paintings, Drawings, Mixed Media) Bin Feng (Photography, Digital Art) David Crittin (Sculptures, Installations) Paul Hamanaka (Back Inside) Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine / Spring 2015 is published by HT Art Magazine Publishing Promotion and Publication London, UK www.ht-artmagazine.com info@ht-artmagazine.com
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh With great pride and an even greater sense of duty and responsibility we would like to present the first volume of the Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine / Spring 2015. Our mission is to connect and build a bridge between artists and art lovers by providing and presenting a high quality source of visual art and design through our book, website, magazine and other publications. We are dedicated to bringing happiness and recognition to the artists and joy, beauty and satisfaction to the art lovers let them be collectors, buyers, galleries, curators or others taking pleasure in art and design. This idea was embraced by 59 artists from 15 countries all over the world and this is why we believe that Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook has so much to offer both to the Artist and to the Readers.
Georgia Szollosi Ellis director, editor and curator
Why do people like art? “Human beings are visual. We react to symbols, colours and images in certain ways. Can you imagine a world without symbols? We all use symbols to live and work. Some we “read”, like the stop sign or the sign for the ladies or gents toilet - these are universal. Other symbols of images promote an emotional response - and art taps into this area. That’s why I love art.... that’s why people try to paint what makes them feel deeply.... in the hopes that their emotional response will make others feel then same way...” (Unknown)
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Artists Amélie Perron........................................64 Angelo Lotti.........................................106 Anna Hausmann.....................................7 Anne Bate-Williams...............................98 Bernard Sabri.......................................144 Bin Feng............................................ ..129 C Pat Haley...........................................74 Capt. Stjepko Mamic...........................38 Carrie Webster....................................138 Chim’s....................................................50 Christine Cézanne-Thauss....................26 Christopher Voss.............................. ....32 David Crittin...................................... ..136 Donald Roth..........................................10 Dufault R. ..............................................94 Ernie L. Fournet......................................48 Evelyn-Nicole Lefevre-Sandt...............46 Frédéric Chassériaud.........................114 Fu Wenjun............................................142 Giampietro Cudin............................ ..110 Graehound...........................................20 Igor Nelubovich....................................44 Ines Siri Trost...........................................58 Iryna Lialko.............................................99 Jack Gaucher.......................................54 Julie River.............................................108 Kay McFarlane Smith............................90 Laure Donnedieu de Vabres................40 LindaMcIntosh......................................56 Lasserre..................................................85 Leo Deville...........................................124
Malo Design.................................................11 Marcel Burger..............................................42 Marcio Decker.............................................62 Maria Ferrara........................................... Marian Sava............................................ ..120 Mike DeCesare............................................30 Monika Leonhardt.......................................68 Nadia Viguier...............................................66 Natalia Repina.............................................76 Noreen Larinde............................................13 Oenone Hammersley..................................82 Padmini.......................................................122 Päivyt Niemeläinen.....................................36 Paul Hamanaka............................................6 Peggy Wright - Ruby Wings Design...........28 Shae White.................................................116 Snopix.........................................................146 Delpierista77 - Stefania Grasso.................140 Susan Emine Kaube....................................36 Susanne Titze................................................88 Sussi Hodelart...............................................72 Sylvia Kanderal............................................16 Tatiyana Kraevskaya...................................28 Thomas B. Howard......................................24 Toni Carlton................................................104 Tyler J.R. Cannon.......................................112 Wei Yan.................................................... ....96 Yi-Cheng Yen.......................................... ....92 Interesting Facts Part 1................................35 Interesting Facts Part 2 .............................148 Why Artists Should Be Paid? ......................126 What Colour is Your Personality? ..............53 What Makes an Artwork Great? ...............84
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Image: Anna Hausmann Face Meets Africa acrylic on canvas 80x60 cm 2014
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Paul Hamanaka
www.myartmuseum.com www.myartmuseum-annex.com contact: Paul Hamanaka hama3001@gmail.com Address: 5543 Devon Street, Philadelphia, PA 19138, USA Tel: 215-992-9998
Q.R114/A Letter mixed media assemblage 69 x 33 x 9 in 2014
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Paul Hamanaka is drawn to visual phenomenon of objects seeming to disappear into the space surrounding them, as if enveloped in bright light all around. He perceives these moments as Qi, or life energy, flowing in and around everything. Through his work, recently he names it as Qi Realism,
Q.R115/Blessing mixed media assemblage 43 x 25 x 10 in 2015 Hamanaka seeks to grasp the intangible, indescribable, and invisible Qi utilizing opposite elements like, In and Out, Fake and Real, Painting and Sculpture, Movement and Stillness, and Yin and Yang. It is a means to capture the universal energy that he feels more powerfully each day.
Q=MC2 + mixed media assemblage 33 x 38 in 2014
Q.R214/Fire mixed media assemblage Size: 29 x 18 x 7 in Year: 2014
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AnnA Hausmann
www.anna-hausmann.de contact: Anna Hausmann anna-hausmann@freenet.de Germany
Yellow Face acrylic on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2014
“Life is a work of art.� As an artist, you have the power to change something. Perhaps people to move, to inspire or to be inspired. Through my art I want to make certain something visible in the form of faces, shape and Points...
Face Meets Africa acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2014
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Friendship acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2014
The full-time artist Anna Hausmann was born in 1983 in Russia and came to Germany at age six. Here she grew up in the wind stream (Ansbach district) which has been painting since the age of 16 and now lives with her husband and son in the gap. Their colourful and high-contrast images are acrylic that certain something visible in the form of faces, symbols and dots. If you study the works of Anna Hausmann, cannot verhelen a certain stylistic proximity to the great Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor Pablo Picasso - not be hidden. (18811973). “Picasso is my biggest role model,” - says Anna. Anna Hausmann images are line-stressed and inspirational surrealism. The boundaries between painted and real object up to the object flow smoothly into one. The stations have a “modern” in a positive way and also show echoes of Synthetic Cubism, as he was found about 1912 to 1916 in the history of art...
Green Face acrylic on canvas 100 x 50 cm 2014
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Don Roth www.kool-kats.com contact: Donald Roth donkat2@verizon.net United States
Touring Tabby
acrylic on canvas 18 x 24 in 2003
Southern California artist Don Roth utilizes his skill as a Draftsman and Illustrator in a subtle blend of precision and sensitivity, making his creations feel almost magical in their whimsical portrayal of cats and dogs enjoying “human” activities!
Feline Family Feast acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 in 2004
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Don’s natural art talent blossomed in college, and while serving in the Navy as an Illustrator. Ultimately, the artist found a home for nearly twenty years as an Industrial Design Illustrator for the commercial aircraft industry, where he acquired his skills with an airbrush creating extremely detailed renderings of commercial aircraft interior design proposals. This skill would distinguish Don’s fine art from his competition in his ultimate career as a fine artist.
Currently, Don Roth has had world-wide success with his on-going series titled “The Kool-Kat Kollection”, and is known as the “Norman Rockwell of Cats”. His images are seen on greeting cards and jigsaw puzzles, and prints of his work are available on cruise ship art auctions, and directly from the artist’s web site.
Tabby Road
acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 in 2008
Kool-Kat Holmes acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 in 2013
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Marcel Burger
La Donna
acrylic on 3D canvas 100 x 100 x 4 cm 2014
Marcel Burger (Anna Paulowna Noord-Holland, 1964) selftaught artist. Started drawing and painting in 1984. At the time, mainly engaged in airbrush. Won numerous awards (including trips to Milan and New York) in the course of time with this airbrush work. Been a participant in several exhibitions, for example Times Square NY. Nominee of the Florence Biennale 2013 and the Florence Biennale 2015. Little Secret
acrylic on 3D canvas 80 x 100 x 4 cm 2013
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www.marcellodesign.nl contact: Marcel Burger burger@quicknet.nl Karekietstraat 4 1761XR Anna Paulowna The Netherlands T: + 31 223532770
Shaula’s Child
acrylic on 3D canvas 70 x 100 x 4 cm 2014
In 2012 started painting in acrylic paint, on canvas. Current style: colorful, modern, abstract with the occasional touch of pop art. The original designs are characterized by their own power, simplicity and balance. Lover of contrasting and often primary colors. From profession graphic designer, for a cosmetics manufacturer. Co-responsible for overall design and appearance of this company.
The ArtCurl acrylic on 3D canvas 70 x 80 x 4 cm 2014
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Päivyt Niemeläinen Beginning
mixed media 50 x 50cm 2012
First she graduated as a textile artist, then studied at Helsinki University and graduated as Master of Arts (MA). Later she continued fine art studies and developed also special methods, such as relief painting, and making pictures in a prehistoric way using blood-water and pure pigments. Most of her works are oil paintings as well aquarelles, mixed media works and installations. To open new possibilities in artistic expression she uses many kind of materials, often straight from the nature to find and touch hidden miracles existing there. She loves colors, light, deep, strong colors. She works to find multitude and variety of expression. Human’s life, stories, music, impressions of nature, found the secret garden of existDescent
mixed media (installation) 35 x 32 x 32 cm 2009 14 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
www.paivytniemelainen.fi contact: Päivyt Niemeläinen pniemelainen@yahoo.com Et. Hesperiank.30 A 6, 00100 Helsinki Finland T: +358(0)407156544
Night Rain
mixed media (installation) 20 x 60 x 70 cm 2013
Red Moon
oil on canvas and board 84 x 231 cm (triptych) 2006
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Sylva Kanderal
www. sylvakanderal.ch contact: Sylva Kanderal s.kanderal@bluewin.ch Zollikerstr. 8, 8702 Zollikon Switzerland T: +41 443912628
Sinfonie oil and collage on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2014
Born in Brno, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Switzerland and Florida. It is the nature and the people who are in the center of her work. Whether her paintings are expressive or figurative are always full of radiant, bright colors that create a harmonious effect. Due to the brightness and clarity of the colors she also demonstrated her approach to life and environment.
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Round and Colorful oil on canvas 90 x 150 cm 2015
Scheherezade oil and collage on canvas 30 x 30 cm 2014
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Sylva Kanderal
Floating Balls oil on canvas 50 x 150 cm 2013
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Pink Flamingo Lake oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm 2013
Joy, serenity and love are positive emotions convey her images. She likes to work with transparent oil colors but can be found at her works many images in mix media, acrylic, aerocolour, ink and collage material of all kinds. She likes when her image can tell a little story or a joke and inspire emotions of the viewer.
La Traviata oil on Canvas 120 x 90 cm 2014
Blue Girl
oil on canvas 40 x 80 cm 2014
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Graehound Durner’s Chandelier
mixed media on Rives Black 44 x 30 in 2014
www.graehound.com contact: Graehound autobot@graehound.com 215 E Douglas Street #313 61701 Bloomington, IL United States T: + (1) 3098382982 Suspension
mixed media on Bristol 6.25 x 9 in 2014
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Graehound currently works predominantly in mixed media to create illustrative pieces that promote nuanced discussion between the broader concepts of disability and identity. She has an affinity for detail and enjoys the meditative quality of both creating and observing layered imagery. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in Drawing and is currently enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Studio Art Masters programme at Goddard College.
Seep mixed media on Bristol 10.75 x 6 in 2014
Lacquerice mixed media on Bristol 15.75 x 11 in 2015
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Graehound Inside Voice mixed media on Bristol 13.75 x 11 in 2015
Perpetually interested in discovering new formes of expression, Graehound has been included in national and international exhibitions and publications regarding her work in several different media, particularly drawing and beadwork.
Sakura mixed media on Bristol 13.75 x 10.25 in 2015
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Good News for those who wish to participate in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2016. Artists can decide until the 30th of October, 2015 if they like to be included in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2016.
Image: Shae White Beautiful acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 in 2014
If you wish to participate in Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2016, the same rules apply as for the Yearbook 2015 one. You can chose, whether you like to be part of our eMagazine (with two pages for 55.00 GBP) and later, if you decide to participate in the Yearbook 2016, you can be included without having to be selected and you pay less, since the participation fee for the eMagazine is part of the yearbook fees (Two Books with 1 page + Post&Packaging, Handling Fee and Banking Transaction Fees) So, you will be part of the eMagazine with two full pages, the eBook (the electronic version of the Yearbook with one page) and the paperback format of Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2016 (with one page) also you will receive a Free Membership in our Online Art Gallery (with two artworks and link to your website).
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Thomas B. Howard www.plus.google.com/u/0/+ThomasBHoward/posts contact: Thomas Bernard Howard thomas_h@optonline.net United States
Thomas is an 18 year old traditional / contemporary artist. He works in miniature with standard #2 pencil, and has exhibited in NYC, LA, WA, IA, Miami, NJ, and Southampton. In addition, his works are displayed on various internationally acclaimed websites, as well as showcased in global museum quality and exclusive catalogs, such as the International Contemporary Artists catalog by IncoArtists, and the Artists To Look Out For catalog by Starry Night Programs.
Carcass
standard writing pencil on paper 3 x 4 in 2014
Friend of Chief
standard writing pencil on paper 2 x 4 in 2015
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Beach House
standard writing pencil on paper 4,5 x 9 in 2014
While about his endeavors in the art community, his work was personally commended by Ivy League institutions such as Princeton University and Columbia University, and earned a membership in the American Artist Professional League. As a self-taught artist, it was vital that he surrounded himself with the proper resources in order to reach a professional level and harness his aptitude for detailed drawing. With inspirations like Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvidor Dali, he studied in his own time and painstakingly created his own technique which would allow him to achieve photorealism in his work. After about 8 years of intensive independent training he began exhibiting and was recognized for his proficiency despite never having been conventionally taught in any art school, a few of his pieces in particular being directly compared to Dali’s “Persistence of Memory”.
Deluxe Cape standard writing pencil on paper 4 x 9 in 2014
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Christine Cézanne-Thauss Christine Cézanne-Thauss was born in Vienna in 1952, where she is still living and working. She is taking part in various of solo- and group-exhibitions in Austria and other countries. The artist also is participating in works in public.
Profile 1
acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2014
As a painter her favourite theme is the human being, especially women. She engages herself against women-abuse and trafficking in women and she takes part in art-auctions for refugees as well. Christine Cézanne-Thauss did a lot of fantastic, surrealistic art pictures , but also a lot of nude-paintings. In these she specializes on women and their role in our society.
Profile 1
www.augenfisch.at contact: Christine Cézanne-Thauss cezanne.christi@hotmail.com Austria
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acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2014
Being together, but staying alone acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm 2013
Fairy tales and myths are also fascinating the artist. In the last years she is absorbed in painting a lot of portraits. She tries to show the variety of feelings being reflected in a face and she is doing this in a rather bizarre way. Christine CĂŠzanne-Thauss got several awards and her paintings are represented in private and public institutions. She is a member of IG-Bildende Kunst, International Association of Art to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO.
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Tatiyana Kraevskaya Amities
oil on canvas 36 x 48 in 2012
www.wisdomoflight.com contact: Tatiyana Kraevskaya tk@wisdomoflight.com United States
Tatiyana Kraevskaya says, “Art is a spiritual language I use to communicate with people, no matter what language they speak. My work is about reaching every single heart by touching the deepest sanctuaries of the human soul. I invite viewers of my paintings to feel a higher awareness of light and reality.� She was born in a small town in Moldova. At age 15, Tatiyana began studying at an art college.
Red Poppies oil on canvas 36 x 48 in 2013
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Blue Waltz oil on canvas 36 x 48 in 2013
After graduation four years later, she began working as an art teacher in a school and then worked as an assistant for an art director in movie productions. Her interest in movies prompted her to seek education in this field at the national institute of cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, Russia, where she studied for six productive years in the art department. For the next ten years, she designed costumes and sets for movies and for theaters, gave private art lessons and showed her paintings at art exhibitions. Tatiyana Kraevskaya immigrated to the United States, where she continues to paint and has exhibited her work at various galleries, rehabilitation centers and schools. Her paintings have received numerous awards, and her paintings are in a museum and in private art collections.
Rocio
oil on canvas 36 x 48 in 2014
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Moni Art Monika Leonhardt was born near Berlin. After a long illness, she had reoriented herself and placed painting in the focus of her life. In self-paced developments she first painted with oil and watercolour. 2012 then she swapped to acrylic and mixed media, as well as she makes experiments with abstract painting. Her motto is “Every day is unique� and it is important for you on capturing certain moods. Deceleration
www.monika-leonhardt.de contact: Monika Leonhardt monikaleonhardt1956@gmail.com Germany
acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2014
Evening
acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2015
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In The Morning Gray acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2015
Wilderness
acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 cm 2012
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Christopher Voss Toxin.Grace
mixed media 36 x 36 in 2014
www.vossartstudio.net contact: Christopher Voss vossartstudio@gmail.com United States
Faith.Construct oil on canvas 24 x 36 in 2014
Christopher Voss’s body of art consists of internal reflections addressing physical, psychological and spiritual proximities in relation to the contemporary home. Voss has most recently been working in a more direct way as he further studies the causes and effects of narratives, as objects act as surrogates for an idea or story being told. By painting fragmented parts onto a solid background Voss further dialogs and reflects on fragments or rejected parts as being unified onto a permanent ground.
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Lost.Found
oil on canvas 30 x 30 in 2015
The fragmented parts, with anatomical, metaphysical, and psychological imagery, become interactive and communal thus creating a sense of cohesive and conflicting narratives, and recollections. The fragments can be viewed as parts that have escaped a tumultuous environment in order to risk another refuge, a diagrammatical conversation between the separate parts, a dialectical or a causal construction. In these works the painted tape, for Voss adds a sense of illusionistic permanence as well as a fragile impermanence in the work. These studies were most recently exhibited at Angelo State University’s Gallery 193 in San Angelo TX, during Voss’s “Fragments and Causality” exhibition.
Nest.Fragility oil on canvas 24 x 24 in 2014
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Arterial.Tree
mixed media on canvas 24 x 24in 2014
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Interesting Facts Part 1
During Renaissance and particularly in 1500s artistic painting was not considered a suitable occupation for a gentleman. Since painting involved working with hands, artists were considered craftsmen and were given the same social standing as tailors or shoemakers.
The Renaissance masterpiece “The Pieta� is the only work that Michelangelo Buonarroti ever signed. He later regretted what he considered an outburst of pride and vowed to never sign another work again. The Pieta is housed at St. Peter Basilica in Vatican City.
Michelangelo Buonarroti’s father Lodovico was horrified when he found out that Michelangelo decided to become an artist. Michelangelo was often beaten by his father and uncles when he first began to draw. Lodovico was proud of his ancestry and he worried that an artist in the family will bring the family a disgrace (Image on the left: Restorers spot lost self-portrait of Renaissance master Michelangelo in Vatican fresco). Leonardo
Da Vinci started painting Mona Lisa in 1504 or 1505 and finished only shortly before he died in 1519. Some reports say that it took him 10 years. Pablo Picasso was considered a suspect in the theft of Mona Lisa in 1911. He was arrested and questioned after his friend Guillaume Apollinaire pointed a finger at Picasso. Both were later cleared and released.
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Suzan Emine Kaube
Easter Fire
acrylic on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2001
Born in Istanbul in 1942, Suzan Emine Kaube studied in Istanbul and Hamburg. After several years as a teacher, she followed her early love for literature and the fine arts. She published books with poems, reflections and a novel. Her pictures, painted in oil or acrylic on canvas, have been exhibited in various European and Turkish centers. She prefers an abstract, surreal, postmodern style, her main themes are environmental and social problems, which leave their traces in the artist’s soul. They show up spontaneously from the subconscious and find their characteristic, unique expression in shape and colours.
Compassion
acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm 2007
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www.suzaneminekaube.de contact: Suzan Emine Kaube suzan.e.kaube@web.de Germany
Imagine the Future acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2004
Evil Eye
acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm 2004
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Capt. Stjepko Mamic Capt. Stjepko Mamic, both a painter and sea captain was born in 1958 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. His paintings are unique, bursting with color created with powerful strokes of the palette knife, full of light and positive energy. He implements an array of media: oil, acrylic,combining them with glowing effects and golden leaves. He has perfected the techniques of contemporary painting at the Academy D’Arte Florence, Italy and Academy du Port Royal in Paris Stjepko is a member of The Croatian Association of Artists-Dubrovnik and ArtNation International Association.
Triptych Sails
acrylics over golden leaves on linen canvas 80 x 60 cm each 2014
St.Peters Sails
acrylics on linen canvas 82 x 65 cm 2014
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He has exhibited extensively in individually and with groups around the globe, Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin, Sao Paolo, New York, Zurich, Basel, Shanghai, Rome, Palermo, Florence, Berlin, Catania e.t.c. His works are in the holdings of numerous galleries and private collections worldwide. He is awarded artist, for his work he received some of the most prestigious award, like: “The best Artist in the world for the stylistic value “ (Eiffel Tower, Paris), the first Audience award at European exhibition in Denmark, “Pour le talent artistique” (European Biennial Paris), Raffaello Sanzio Award (Lecce, Italy), Botticelli Award (Florence, Italy) e.t.c. In 2015 he become Ambassador of culture in the world, for human right. Net
www.artbystjepko.com www.raguza.net contact: Capt. Stjepko Mamic stjepko17@yahoo.com Croatia
acrylic on linen canvas 100 x 80 cm 2013
Rush Hours
triptych, acrylics on linen canvas 100 x 240 cm 2015
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Donnedieu de Vabres www.lauredonnedieu.com contact: Donnedieu de Vabres laure@donnedieu.eu France Laure Donnedieu has discovered the bullfighting environment 30 years ago and is interested in it in different ways. After a first training in various painting workshops, she were specialized in the bullfighting painting under different formats: traditional bullfighting, horse bullfighting, bulls at land at the beginning in a very figurative way. Then, step by step, she has moved to a more abstractive technique emphasizing on the moves and lights very typical from the bullfighting culture. For the last 4 years, Laure has enlarged her scope of practice and is now painting cities like Paris or New York by using knife and acrylic techniques. She is also interest in street art. From High Line acrylic & knife 31,5 x 31,5 cm 2014
Cinco Dias 2
collages, acrylic and ink on canvas 12 x 36 in 2011
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Bleu Marine
acrylic & knife 31,5 x 31,5 cm 2014
Feu d’Artifice 2 acrylic & knife 31,5 x 31,5 cm 2015
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Marcio Decker www.deckerfinearts.com contact: Marcio Decker marcio@deckerfinearts.com Brazil
Decker’s abstract optical, mixed media pieces explore the effects of dimensional expansion on the canvas’ surfaces using acrylic paint in predominantly vibrant and contrasting hues, layered compositions and textures. The process involves optic and kinetic qualities to augment, enhance and displace color, texture and light in the works. The pieces then radiate, glow and move with the viewer. The process starts with freedom of expression and movement, flourishing imagination without restrictions and calculations. A place of contemplation and inspiration is established. Layers of paint and textures are overlapped generating dimensions, compared by the artist to his experiences, and the final coatings of pigment, glazes or metallic finishes are carefully applied utilizing fine decision making and technical skills, developed in the past 25 years, taking the paintings to a completion. This process can take many days, weeks, months or years. Lastly, a glass lens that ends the process and enhances, illuminates and bends form while concealing experiences and protecting the painting.
Colliding Elements mixed media 62 x 32 in 2013
Dynamic Dust mixed media 19 x 37 in 2013
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Notion
mixed media 51 x 51 in 2014
Conception is established from motion, vibrant energy and research of techniques and materials. Taking abstract expressionism from its traditional genesis, with ingenuity, entrapping time, experiences and emotions in the frame to manifest a new world, is how Decker describes his drive to produce. An image never seen before, the waves of magnified light running across the canvas, the bent forms and textures and the expressions of the admirers experiencing the results are the fulfillment and inspiration to evolve. Perception
mixed media 51 x 51 in 2014
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Igor nelubovich
H 401
acrylic on canvas 145 x 95 cm 2014
www.igornelubovich.com contact: Igor Nelubovich nelubovich@mail.ru Russia
I have always been interested in art, spending hours drawing since early childhood. I went to Art College, but soon realized that the most important thing for me was to be able to develop my individual style, not focus on learning the specific things taught there. I work in oil or acrylic on canvas, and am inspired by the world around me. I create landscapes which sometimes verge on abstraction. I am continually searching for perfection, not worrying about particular subjects but rather on composing something that is ‘right’ in an inexplicable sense.
SPB 02
acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 112 cm 2013
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V 501
acrilic and oil on canvas 95 x 145 cm 2015
NU 01
acrilic on canvas 112 x 70 cm 2012
SPB 03
acrilic on canvas 70 x 112 cm 2012
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Evelyn Nicole Lefèvre-Sandt Abjection
crayon, pencil and coal on paper 80 x 60 cm 2001
Evelyn Nicole LefèvreSandt is 45 years old an married. She’s painting, since she was 4 years old an she learns painting only of her own. She works on her paintings always in the night, so it’s not surprising, that her work arise in black and white. She had many exhibitions in Germany, Suisse, Austria, Italy and France and in the year 2005 she became award the European Art Award in Strasbourg and this year, at the 1st of March, she was awarding with the international Art Award “SANDRO. BOTTICELLI PRIZE” in Florenz.”. The specialized press, who wrote about Lefèvre-Sandt’s work seems. Footrace
crayon, pencil and coal on paper 80 x 60 cm 2004
www.evelyn-nicole-lefevre.de contact: Evelyn Nicole Lefèvre-Sandt evelyn-nicole-lefevre@web.de Germany
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Commitment
crayon, pencil and coal on paper 80 x 60 cm 2001
“Into her mysterious pictures she shows us a world without time and space, an behind the thoughts. She make our dreams illustrate. And the rhythm changes an that’s the pressure of sudden. And these sudden makes the allure of these paintings”
Model
crayon, pencil and coal on paper 80 x 60 cm 2001
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Ernie L. Fournet www.elfournet.com contact: Ernie L. Fournet fournetkp@bellsouth.net United States
After Action
graphite on paper 25 x 30 in 2004
Hang
acrylic on canvas 40 x 23 in 2004
Ernie L. Fournet is a contemporary realist from Acadiana in south Louisiana. He received his BFA art education from the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, and his MFA from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After a lengthy law enforcement career with the Baton Rouge and New Iberia Police Departments, he retired to devote his undivided effort to visual art.
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The drawings and paintings here are dedicated to all law enforcement world-wide, for their untiring effort to maintain control in chaos. Fournet’s primary media is freehand airbrush acrylic and graphite.
Knight Errant with Gas Mask acrylic on canvas 30 x 24 in 2003
Team Commander
graphite and acrylic on paper 25 x 25 in 2009
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Chim’s My creative force arose from within and I perform my activity with respect and integrity. I’m passionate about my arts and offer excellent quality products to my customers. I have participated in series of international art exhibitions in Johannesburg South Africa, Malabo Equatorial Guinea. Liege Belgium, Las Vegas USA, Shanghai China, and now painting in studio with universal experiences. In connection with my Chi, I create with good disposition of mind and spirit, revealing my inner splendor and our environmental beauty, placing Man and nature in harmony.
Power of the Nature oil on canvas 3d 244 x 250 cm 2012
www.chimsheritagefineart.com contact: Chima Ogbonnaya chima@chimsheritagefineart.com Gabon
Mother and Child
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Artist Portrait Chim’s Blessing the Nature oil on canvas 3d 100 x 100 cm 2015
Prince Charles, Presi. Ali Bongo Ondimba, Prof. Lee White Nature Protection Actors oil on canvas 3d 130 x 170 cm 2012
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Chim’s
I am Chima Ogbonnaya, a self-taught artist, born on 13-08-1966 in Obuohia Ibere Abia State Nigeria. Son of Mr. Samuel Mmadudobeonu Ogbonnaya and Mrs. Margret Njiole Ogbonnaya. I schooled at Obuohia Ibere Community School and passed my First School Leaving Certificate in 1981.I came to Gabon in 1983 and was trained as a professional barber. In 1985 my artistic mission arose and I pursued my Destiny. In 1989 I established my workshop as Chim’s Heritage Fine Art. My workshop is specialized in creating: Portraits, Nature, Elephant World, Abstracts, Spiritual Paintings and Family Museum. A working space where you can buy your favorite paintings and place the order of your choice. King of the Forest oil on canvas 3d 122 x 250 cm 2012
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What colour is your personality? Red, yellow, orange and blue which one is your favorite? Different colors represent key personality traits. Fill your life with colour and joy! Live Well, Be Well! Red relates to physicality. Orange reflects the need for community. Yellow is logic. The colour Green represents love and security. Blue stands for inner peace. Indigo stands for intuition. Purple and Violet are for harmony in life and humanitarian service. Pink stands for love. Turquoise helps you create your life on your own terms.
Laure Donnedieu de Vabres
Ah Barcelone!
Collages acrylique 31,5 x 23,6 in 2012
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Jack Gaucher www.gaucherjack.magix.net/public contact: Jack Gaucher gaucher.jack@hotmail.fr France
Jack Gaucher is a self-taught painter and sculptor. He has been painting for many years and started to sculpture later with different materials and then used stainless steel which brings luminosity to his works. Enjoying precious metals, he likes to hammer and chisel stainless steel which he adds to his sculptures, as well as his paintings uniting oil and acrylic paints with stainless steel while varying the different technical ways. Inspired by light and nature, fascinated by the terrestrial phenomena of flowing lava and melting metal he paints the cosmos from the big bang theory and magma.
Aigle
stainless steel 40 cm 2014
Chouette
stainless steel 30cm 2015
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We find in his paintings a powerful atmosphere with warm color, his cosmic dreams and his vision of his inside world. He searches for his own language through his art. Painting and sculpture is today the path that he took in the transition of a man to the light and reality. He gives volume and movement, transparency and brightness, all plunges us into a paradise of colours.
CoulĂŠe de lave
oil and stainless steel on wood 80 x 80 cm 2015
MĂŠtal en mouvement
oil, acrylic and stainless steel on wood 120 x 50 cm 2015
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Linda Ruscio Linda is an award-winning visual artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Guelph University. She has worked in numerous media although is currently exploring mixed media collage. Her background in printmaking, photography and graphic design provide the backbone to her experimental approach with various materials, which are fed through her printer onto washi (japanese hand-made paper). Resurrected drawings, paintings and monoprints are cut, pasted and layered with typography onto fine art paper or wood, creating new stories and playful comments on life for the viewer to discover. That Spoonful
mixed media collage on paper 16 x 16 in 2015
www.lindaruscio.com contact: Linda McIntosh linda@ruscio.ca Canada
Soul Surfacing
mixed media collage on paper 12 x 19 in 2014
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Nothing to Wear
mixed media collage on paper 16 x 20 in 2014
Air Horse
mixed media collage on paper 16 x 20 in 2015
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Ines Siri Trost
www.atelier-2.net www.inestrost.de contact: Ines Siri Trost kunst@inestrost.de Germany
Angel of Grace II.
oil on a rusty iron plate 40 x 40 cm applied on a wooden case 60x60 cm 2014
Ines Siri Trost was born in Berlin in 1967. Today she lives in Wetter/Ruhr. In her work as a freelancing woman artist she puts the main emphasis on: • Painting • Building up means of communication to the spiritual world by making art • Exhibitions and giving lectures/teaching art in different countries since 1991
As a painter she has learned to perceive fields of vibration of beings and places and to make them visible in colour and form. The paintings which arise from that, give a visual imprint in the material of her communication with the spiritual. Untitled
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They show moments of non material processes, of evolution and of energy fields and realms. Painting to Ines Siri Trost is meditation, is prayer and giving her thanks to creation. It is all about building up means of communication to the spiritual world.
Energy Field
oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm 2014
Places of study where the academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, and various other Art Colleges in London and in Switzerland. Since 2014 her work is presented by the Artodrome Gallery in Berlin, which also takes her work to international Art fairs, and by the ICA, International Contemporary Artists, New York. Many of her paintings found their way into public Art collections.
Untitled
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Peggy Wright, Ruby Wings Designs www.rubywings.com contact: Peggy Wright pwright@rubywings.com United States
Garland of Daisies mixed media textile 13 x 15 in 2014
I create with acrylic paints, fabrics, and threads using freehand machine stitching and hand stitching. While I have worked in other art media, I have found that I need to work with materials that sustain my sense of touch. I need to see, feel, and manipulate fabric and thread to remain content.
Gladiolus
mixed media textile 14 x 14 in 2014
When I make art, I get lost in the surface of fabric, using hue, texture, and form to explore the world. I think the sense of touch is a lost sense in western society, and I work to create a tactile surface that invites the viewer to look more closely. 60 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Serpentine 2
mixed media textile 14 x 14 in 2015
I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware but moved to St. Paul, Minnesota over 40 years ago. I love the easy access to nature here because it is a favorite subject of mine. When I observe nature, I find extravagant pattern and captivating detail. Interaction with nature provides me with refuge from the discordant notes in the world. A relationship with the natural world inherently incorporates the transformative experience, the touch of the metaphysical, and a vision of the possible. Whether I am creating my art or walking in the woods, I need contact with nature to live.
Hibiscus
mixed media textile 18 x 18 in 2014
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Maria Ferrara
www.ferrara.webartgallery.it contact: Ferrara Maria ferraramaria@hotmail.com Italy
M. Ferrara was born in San Pier Niceto (Messina), she shows ever since a very young age a marked inclination for artistic activities. At present she resides in Rome, after a long permanence abroad, first in Lausanne(Switzerland) and afterwards in London where she attends courses on creative techniques , coming to a passion for painting. Lightness (Leggerezza) oil on canvas 8o x 60 cm 2011
Lights over the Tiber (Luci sul Tevere) oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm 2011
In Rome she attends a School of Art and focuses her activity on figurative painting, having a preference for oil painting.
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Her works’ collection becomes more and more diverse throughout the years and she matures a predisposition on the use of strong and determined chromatic colours. Her whole work finds favor with the public interest, which leads to her participation in several collective and personal art exhibitions.
Abstract (Astrazioni)
oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2011
Lights on the city ( Luci sulla città) oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2011
“From a first analysis of Maria Ferrara’s art works, the observer is suddenly struck by the extraordinary and enviable sense of composition. A way of painting that is truly dreamy, so poetically profound and intense to the point that it reaches a quite engaging result; a kind of painting which runs along the lines of imagination, defining natural scenarios with her extremely secure way of expressing herself. A colour spread without repentances, dense and soft but at the same time brilliant, through which the painter is able to produce unforeseen and unexpected shades, within which she completely conveys herself and her truly sensitive soul, as the refined and creative artist that she is.”- Simone Fappanni, Art critic. HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015 I 63
Amélie Perron Close to Shore
mixed media on canvas 20 x 16 in 2015
www.amelieperronart.com contact: Amélie Perron ame1086@hotmail.com Canada
Land by Land
acrylic and mixed media on canvas 24 x 36 in 2014
I am a Montreal-based Canadian artist with two passions; abstract painting and television. I’ve decided to share my art with the world and demonstrate how I assimilate both passions into one canvas. The art of television is all about storytelling, and that is exactly what I create in an abstract biosphere. I am curious about the world, about topics and stories that affect and evoke us as human beings. I mostly focus on acrylics and mixed media while producing art that individuals can not only relate to but find their own story within.
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Alive
acrylic and mixed media on canvas 9 x 12 in 2015
Mme
acrylic on canvas 36 x 30 in 2015
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noreen larinde Los Angeles 2
oil on linen 18 x 24 in 2014
www.noreen-fine-artist.com contact: Noreen Larinde noreenl@earthlink.net 744 Haverford Avenue Pacific Palisades CA 90272 United States
In front of a segment of the Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, California, are two women, one floats in the upper right, while the second below at the left parades in front of a segment of the angel-themed sand-blasted windows of the new Catholic Cathedral nearby . A white semifore is placed in the center of the composition, creating a static counterbalance to the implied movement of the images.
Los Angeles 1 oil on linen 24 x 18 in 2014
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Noreen Larinde is a feminist painter and fine art photographer, who is also an art historian with a specialty in East Asian culture. She finds inspiration in Japanese Zen drama, which considers Woman knowable only through the subjectivity of the arts. For the Zen Buddhist life is constant change, thus Woman is always becoming transforming herself into higher spiritual states. Dream
oil on linen 36 x 48 in 2014
An image of a woman floats in the midst of greatly enlarged zucchini blossoms. In the upper left is another female image, an alter-ego.
To convey this is her paintings, she utilizes an architectural element, a building experienced in her frequent travels. This reference to a specific location is equivalent to the stage of Noh (Zen) Drama on which the transformation take place. Often in the paintings there is a flower which expresses Woman as a part of nature, irresistibly beautiful in herself, and also fleeting while at the same time powerful in that she controls her own destiny.
Bilbao
oil on linen 35 x 42 in 2014
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Nadia Viguier “One sees only with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes.” - Antoine de St. Exupèry www.nadia-viguier.artblog.fr contact: Nadia Viguier nviguier@hotmail.com France
Colored Dyke Anglet Beach Brittany acrylic on canvas 30 x4 0 cm 2011
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The Courthhouse Steps acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2011
The Thinning, Brittany
acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm 2011
Some works of Nadia Viguier give birth to allowing access not at her most intimate secret but the most intimate secret. It is to what the artist unkowinglly will. There is (and despite the idea of maternity) something about the “Carmelite” because loneliness calls for violent communion. The Artist - by sudden abstraction of reality - looking for a form to the shape of everything she brings out even thought it may seem strange since nothing in her is of the order of the simple demonstration of evidence. Emerges a form of enjoyment of the order of a pagan spirituality. A huge tide or a geyser springs from the earth. This is due to the fire (for color) and the telluric. This is no longer satisfied the kingdom of shadows. The artist goes currents, sometimes stairs of unknown where they lead. How to overcome this wave or this ascent? Somehow the artist releases us from the ground. We slip into such images, we become accomplices “innocent” (or not). Remain traces, wastelands. The moon or the sun takes us away from the slumber. Light opens the literary sense inexpressible. A powerful blast through space. - Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
The Traveller Egypt
pastels on paper 28 x 37 cm 2009
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Nadia Viguier Strasbourg Cathedral acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 cm 2010
The Cry of the Earth, I., oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm 2014
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Approaching Galleries It’s one thing being an established and famous artist, where all you have to do is paint the pictures and hand them over to an agent, then show up for the preview evening. It’s another to be at the beginning of your career as an artist. Most of us have to plan our own shows, as I have done over the last few years, and there is a lot of work involved if you want to get the most out of your art exhibition. I was fortunate in that I worked as a gallery assistant for artist Nerys Johnson when I was at Durham University, and assisted her with preparing for her shows. Even though she was an established artist, there was still a lot to be done. After you have planned an exhibition of your work, you will see that the commission galleries request is well worth the effort they put in!
Restaurants might be a good place to start, it works for both the restaurant in terms of attracting customers, and the artist. It is also a good place to get over your ‘art exhibition anxiety’ in a far less intimidating atmosphere than a public gallery. They charge no commission, but you have to do the work yourself… from the hanging to the promotion and subsequent sales. So, it is from this perspective that I write. In the Beginning: Your First Art Exhibition First of all, you must secure your ‘gallery space’. I had my first solo art exhibition at Pizza Express in Darlington, UK. As a corporation, they have a huge commitment to the arts, in particular local artists. Their restaurants are often designed as galleries themselves, and they know that their customers really appreciate the ever-changing work on their walls. To be continued...
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Sussi Hodel www.hodelart.ch contact: Sussi Hodel info@hodelart.ch Switzerland Hahaa
oil on canvas 120 x 100 cm 2013
Her paintings are characterized by the fine structures and a very personal touch of color. It is her play with color that makes the perception of figures and concrete forms creating a vivid impression. The game with the situations and colors in the works is often concise striking and gives each room a unique atmosphere and presence.
Her main goal is to express feelings, reduced to parts of the face and at same time not forgetting about the beauty of the depicted faces. Sussi Hodel has exhibited in various venues around Switzerland, Italy, France and Germany.
Blue Smile Not Blue oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm 2014
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Hmmm!
oil on canvas 130 x 60 cm 2011
Mmmpf
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C Pat Haley
Siesta
www.cpathaleyart.com contact: Charles Patrick Haley pathaleyart@msn.com United States Musica del Voladores acrylic on canvas 100 x 150 cm 2014
Ayudeme
acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 in 2011
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acrylic on canvas 100 x 150 cm 2012
The Paintings of Pat Haley reflect the Culture, Colors and Zest for LIFE of the Mexican people. While in Mexico, walking through the streets, riding the buses, attending cultural events or just sitting in the plazas, he is able to experiences daily life of the local people. Using his camera’s eye, he selects and captures an array of visual elements that are refined, extracted or amplified and then combined into a composite to become the focus of his final paintings.
Mujer Mayor en Rebozo acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 in 2011
Vista del Mundo de mi Caballo
acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 in 2010
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Natalia Repina www.nataliarepina.com contact: Natalia Repina info@nataliarepina.com Italy
Flamenco Dolls oil on canvas 100,5 x 80,5 cm 2012
The paintings of artist Natalia Repina combine the wonder of magical realism with her love for the light and movement of the Impressionists to create a truly moving art form. Drawn from childhood memories, lasting impressions, and the living breathing world around her, her images are sentient, transforming common landscapes and moments in time into vortexes of human emotion that magically transport the viewer into an unknown world of sentiment and memory.
Ligurian Seafront Near Noli
soft pastel on paper 35 x 50 cm 2012
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Portraits, Figurative Composition, Seascapes of Mediterranean zones is the favorite subject of artist. Oil painting and pastel painting is the technique favorite by Natalia Repina Natalia Repina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1967.She graduated from S.Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in1991. China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and USA are among the Countries where she has been exhibiting. Repina now lives and works in Italy.
Saxophonist
soft pastel on paper 55 x 75 cm 2013
Mother and Child
soft pastel on paper 70 x 50 cm 2012
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malo design Little Monsters
acrylic on canvas structure pastes 50 x 70 cm 2014
www.malo-design.de contact: Marleen Lorek malodesign@icloud.com Germany
Marleen Lorek works mostly with acrylic paints and a wide variety of structural pastes. However, the passion towards experimental expression drives her search for new materials. She was born in 1981 in eastern Germany where she still lives and works. In 2014/2015 Marleen was published in the “International Contemporary Artists Volume IX� featuring four of her art works.
Untitled acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2014
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Her works of art are saturated by their spatial and colorful floating designs. Through painting she has found another level of creativity which perfectly balances out her regular work as a lighting designer for rock concerts, gala events and touring productions for a different musicians. She loves these opposites in her life and would not give up any of them.
My Milky Way acrylic, mixed media on canvas 80 x 80 cm 2014
Golden Satellite
acrylic on canvas structure pastes 80 x 100 cm 2013
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malo design
Sky Blue acrylic on canvas, structure pastes 60 x 40 cm 2014
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Oenone Hammersley www.oenonehammersleycontemporaryart.com contact: Oenone Hammersley oenone.hammersley@yahoo.com Alexandria, VA United States T.: +(1) 703 838 0393 Bluebell Wood
oil on canvas with seeds 42 x 32 in 2013
Colour and light are used to emphasize a vanishing world of wildlife and wilderness that implores one to take notice, appreciate the rare and raw beauty about us, and allow our imagination to roam about the abstract compositions symbolizing the unsettled and unsettling world where man alters nature.
Oenone Hammersley was born in England and studied Theater Design at Wimbledon College of Art followed by print making at the City Literary Institute in London. In the 1970’s Oenone worked for many years making scenery at the Royal Opera House, The National Theater and Shepperton Studios. Deep Forest
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oil on canvas 40 x 28 in 2012
Oenone became deeply committed and involved with conservation of wildlife and wilderness in particular rain forest conservation following her travels to rain forests all over the world in the 1980’s. Oenone exhibited her paintings from her trips to raise money and awareness for conservation. In 1993 Oenone married a US Foreign Service diplomat and they lived in Africa for many years, followed by Greece then Australia. In the early years Oenone’s focus was to depict detailed paintings in watercolour and gouache of animals and birds to show the beauty of wildlife in all its glory and colour. Recently Oenone has been working in oils on canvas producing semi-abstract paintings with natural themes in bolder larger more powerful work. Oenone has been exhibiting her work regularly since 1980. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists and her paintings have won awards in Washington D.C and Florida. Museum and private acquisitions of Oenone’s work include The Shell Museum on Crete, the private collection of the Guggenheim families and H.R.H. Princess Fatima Bint Mubarak of the UAE.
Rice Paddies China oil on canvas 30 x 40 in 2014
Rice Terraces China oil on canvas 30 x 40 in 2014
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What makes an artwork great? After contemplating what it is about certain artworks and artists that remain relevant over time, There are three main considerations:
Motivation: The purpose for creating; connection to the subject; the intentional concept, message, or emotion that the artist is passionate about capturing.
Execution: Technical proficiency; ability and confidence in the various principles
of art so that the concept, message, or emotion comes through skillfully and convincingly.
Expression: A unique style; the heart and soul of the artist; where we see his/her
hand and feel what he or she was feeling; that “it� factor of the work that takes you to the time and place of the artist who created it and lets you become lost in the moment conveyed.
Image: Capt. Stjepco Mamic: Net / acrylic on linen canvas / 100 x 80 cm / 2013
In short, great art comes from great artists. Because, more than anything, the end product is a direct reflection of the mind, heart, soul, and life experience of the one creating it. When artists think and feel deeply, respect the responsibility that goes with their calling, and have a genuine connection to and interest in their subject matter, they are on their way to greatness. And if their motivation, execution, and expression are operating at high levels of skill and sincerity, great paintings can naturally occur. Allison Malafronte senior editor of American Artist
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Lasserre www.clothildelasserre.com contact: Clothilde Lasserre clothildelasserre@gmail.com France
Hommes en devenir oil on painting 100 x 80 cm 2014
Clothilde’s painting is the result of an unusual career within the world of contemporary art. She did not come to painting by accident but by necessity.
L’appât
oil on painting 60 x 120 cm 2015
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Lasserre
Mouvement d’espoir oil on painting 150 x 120 cm 2014
By painting, she found a way of expressing and sharing her perception of the world, her exaltations and her anxieties. Her art is a sort of testimony of the challenge of living together whilst trying to be unique. This is brightly evidenced in her various crowd scenes. She portrays crowds of individuals drowned in an alienating mass; yet through her palette of colors she is able to express the rich diversity of each individual, of each soul. However her work is not so much preoccupied by masses than by the fragility which leads us to abandon our individuality in an attempt to fit in. Oil and color create urban scenes in which our attention is first drawn to this recurrent crowd before we have come to a more nuanced view of the portraits.
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Nous, vous, eux oil on painting 100 x 100 cm 2014
ThĂŠorie du hasard
oil on painting 100 x 100 cm 2015
Her paintings succeed in establishing a connection with the viewer; our own hidden fears are eventually brought to life on the canvas.
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Susanne Titze
www.susanne-titze.de contact: Susanne Titze info@susanne-titze.de Germany
Internal Power
acrylic on canvas 66 x 66 cm 2014
King Forever – Michael Jackson acrylic on canvas 92 x 130 cm 2010
Susanne Titze lives and works as a freelance artist in Nuremberg. Her father, the famous german actor GĂźnter Strack, encouraged her creativity since her early childhood and gave her the ability of empathizing with other persons. This is a very important aspect of her work, as her paintings and plastic arts originate from deep inside, describing processes of becoming as well as of reshaping and recreating life.
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Mystic bronze 60 cm 2009
During origination, emotions are revealed, processed, transmuted and released. The artist calls these artworks spiritual art. Within it, she feels, hears, sees and builds colors and shapes so to speak “with all senses�. The powerful bright colors and swinging shapes in her artworks are characterized by optimism, lust for life and vitality. Thus, sensations, life themes and inner transformations of persons, situations and occurrences are expressed in a unique, very vivid way.
Unfold
bronze 30 cm 2013
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Kay McFarlane Smith www.kaymcfarlanesmith.com contact: Kay McFarlane Smith kaymcfarlanesmith@gmail.com Australia
Kimberley Floodplain oil on canvas 100 x 75 cm 2015
Lavender Bay Sydney Harbour watercolour 75 x 54 cm 2007
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Ord River Gorge oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm 2014
Kay McFarlane Smith is an award winning Australian living on the east coast of NSW. Working primarily in oil and watercolour media, she gains inspiration from her travels, which have taken her through more than through 30 countries across America Europe and Asia. Kay is passionate about painting and strives to capture the essence of her subjects through an intuitive, impressionist style. Currently she has been working on a series of paintings inspired by the Australian outback as well as the coastal landscape where she lives.
Sandstone Saltbush and Savanna oil on canvas 100 x 75 cm 2012
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Yi-Cheng Yen www.goo.gl/2ByPOe contact: Yi-Cheng Yen grayyen@gmail.com Taiwan
Waving Coast oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm 2014
LiWu Riverside with Blossoms oil on canvas 116,5 x 91 cm 2012
I started to learn painting twenty years ago when I was a high school student. I have been living in Taipei city, Taiwan. I always enjoyed the natural beauty of Taipei which is absolutely a great resource of my painting creations. I found that I am interested in oil painting when I studied in Visual Art in Shih Chien University because this technique creates many layers and represents the natural beauty very well. 92 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Good Memory WaiMu Mountain Coast oil on canvas 41 x 27 cm 2014
After graduating from Shih Chien University, I worked for several companies as a web designer and printing material designer. But I never give up on oil painting because I have a lot of passion for oil painting. I also had my very first personal painting exhibition in 2007. After working for companies for several years, I decided to quit the job and started my own painting studio in 2007, since I can focus on painting full time and also share my knowledge and passion with my students.
Rising Wave by the Wind I 93
oil on canvas 53 x 45,5 cm 2014
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Dufault R. Abstraction 452 (The City) mixed media 36 x 48 in 2014
Being caught in the magic of abstraction Rollande Dufault likes to work with the components that generate a state of mind which invites the viewer to expand its own dimension and creativity.
www.galeriedufault.ca contact: Rollande Dufault dufaultrm@hotmail.com Canada
Abstraction 455 (Space) mixed media 30 x 30 in 2014
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With Bachelor degrees in both Fine Arts and History of Art, she is a Canadian professional artist recipient of numerous awards. She has been active in promoting contemporary art in Canada, Spain, Belgium, Italy, France, Rumania, The United-States and in Brazil. In 2011, she was selected by the prestigious “Société nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris” to participate as a member of the Canadian delegation at the annual Salon SNBA held at the “Carrousel du Louvre’’. In July 2012, she was awarded a bronze medal in Rumania. She exhibited at the Red Dot Art Show in Miami, Art Expo New York, the Southern Nevada Museum of fine art in Las Vegas, in Rio de Janeiro Brazil…
Abstraction 516 (Square) mixed media 24 x 36 in 2014
In 2013, she won a gold medal in Rome Italy and another one in Spain last year. This February, she was chosen as one of the top two artists in the “Conscious Creation Art Contest of Vivid Arts Network 2015” to win the Vivid Arts Excellence Award which will be presented in Ferrara, Italy in August. Rollande Dufault is listed in the “Biennial Guide to Canadian Artists in Galleries” published by Art Magazine, in the “International Contemporary Art Masters”: Volume VI & IX, (Word Wide Art Books, California), in ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art 2013- 2014 and 2015, (Art Tour International) and in Show the Bola (Art of the of the World).
Abstraction 427 (Priority) mixed media 30 x 36 in 2012
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Wei Yan Yellow dream Chinese ink 12 x 16 in 2015
Wei Yan was born in Beijing, China, late 60s. At the year of 1995, Wei Yan’s art studio was founded. The art works have been in many exhibitions in Canada and China. Collected by people or enterprises from North America, China, Australia, and France. Many of his students have enrolled into different art schools in North America. He has been as the member of Portrait society of America he’s also a member of Portrait society of Canada, Society of Canadian Artists.
Education: 1991 Bachelor of Fine Art: Capital Normal University in Beijing, China 1994 Seneca College Toronto Ontario
Awaken
Chinese ink 12 x 16 in 2015 96 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Waterside
Chinese ink 16 x 18 in 2015
He describes his art as the following paragraph: “Please do not ask whether I am a realism painter or an abstract painter, I like them both. I use oil paint when I want to, but sometimes I like using traditional Chinese brush to create my art. My works about “era through”, about cultural differences and the relations between human and nature. I’m trying to not only let people understand more about my art, but also offer a range of soothing, restorative and positive energy with my painting.”
Face Time 2
oil on canvas 24 x 36 in 2014
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Anne Bate-Williams The Bay
mixed media 5 x 50 cm 2007
Anne spent most of her adult life fully occupied as a mother and a primary school teacher with a responsibility for art in the curriculum but always anticipating and hoping this ‘time’ would come into fruition. She works organically, using mixed media to develop a piece which will grow out of her experience of place, inspiration might come from a building, ruin or natural surroundings anything that sparks a sense of discovery...
www.annebatewilliams.co.uk contact: Anne Bate-Williams annebatewilliams@yahoo.co.uk United Kingdom
Rome
mixed media 13,1 x 31,9 cm 2014 98 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Iryna Lialko www.lialko.com.ua contact: Iryna Lialko irensoliss@gmail.com Ukraine T.: +1865 696 1689 Iryna Lialko was born in Central Ukraine in 1981. Graduated from high school and art school in 1996. At the age of 15 she went to the College of Arts, studied painting, graphic design, history of the fine arts, and other disciplines. Outstanding training and graphic talent resulted in a special grant to study art from the President of Ukraine. At 19, in the year 2000, she went to the Ukrainian National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev until 2006. Studied in the graphics department. Studied various graphic techniques - such as etching, linoleum cutting, lithography, tree engraving, silk-screen print-ing, and other graphic techniques. For four years studied the technology of manual book creation and book illustration; including binding and cutting. Studied oil, acrylic, water color, and other painting forms.
Metaphysics of Life ink on paper 55 x 65 cm 1998
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Iryna Lialko In 2004 in parallel with academic training, began working in the sphere of interior design and murals. Created murals in Ukraine, Europe. First international art competition of exlibris was in Poland in 1993; awarded prizes for excellence. In 1997, at 16, first participated in professional art exhibitions. In 2005 began working as a professional photographer. From 2010, until now is engaged in perfor-mance/show business. Creates live shows involving drawing with sand and speed painting. Creates hand crafted costumes for stage shows.
Indigo Meditation acrylic on paper 50 x 90 cm 2008
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Awakening Forces of Been Seeds
oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2010
She has visited and performed in 30 countries, has participated in art exhibitions and competitions of painting and photography. While in these various countries, studied the culture and the traditions of these countries in order to increase knowledge and understanding, and enable more creative and diverse art. Art works are located in private collections of people from many countries. Since 2014 is working and residing in the United States. Is working in large and small graphic and picturesque forms, such as mu-rals and exlibris. Excellent in creating digital graphics and using classical techniques. Constantly exper-imenting with innovative techniques.
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Iryna Lialko Artwork on the Top Right
Loneliness
acrylic on paper 18 x 28 cm 1999 Artwork on the Bottom Right
The Wing of Colors of Dawn Red Tears Fly Up oil on canvas 160 x 160 cm 2015
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ink on paper 65 x 90 cm 2013
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Toni Carlton www.tonicarltonart.com contact: Toni Carlton carltongallery@carltongallery.com United States I am committed to co-creating heartfelt expressions of life’s journey. My paintings combined with mixed media collage incorporate images from my personal life experiences, a love of dance, written messages, calligraphy and photographic images from my travels to Jamaica, Europe, Peru, Mexico, Belize, Hawaii and most recently India. I am inspired by different cultures, expressions of movement, heart connections and spiritual awareness. Calligraphy in various languages along with the texture I create as a fiber artist adds a three dimensional element to my paintings.
Prayers of Peace
acrylic, handwoven fibers mixed media on canvas 30 x 48 in 2014 104 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
The Guardian mixed media 30 x 24 in 2011
Most of my artwork represents deeper levels of feminine awakening by encoding multiple layers of images that trigger memories of ancient and present wisdom. In some of my recent compositions, the combination of calligraphic and Asian symbols, ancient text and sacred sites helps create a deeper level of resonance. I create my work to remind one to embrace the connection to all relations.
The expressions in the work come from the subconscious, the heart space and from within, rather than from a plan to create a specific image. Using movement, meditation and healing sounds as a prompt to begin the paintings, the artwork expresses the connection to the Divine Feminine and Mothering Peace. Through many layers of multiple media, writing in graphite, hand-woven fibers, painting and transfer images, I am revisiting my spiritual journey as an artist using creative expressions.
Healing Voices
acrylic, mixed media on canvas 36 x 24 in 2014
My hope is that my original creations open our hearts and touch our souls to inspire and lift our spirits. I will continue along a theme that speaks to people’s hearts and touches them in ways that are healing and helpful in developing an understanding of our interconnectedness.
Heart and Soul
acrylic, mixed media on canvas 24 x 18 in 2014
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Angelo Lotti www.clubpittori.it/schede.php?id=2702 contact: Angelo Lotti lottiangeloart@libero.it Italy T.: +39 3388804677
The Reflection of Regrets oil on canvas 45 x 55 cm 2011
Angelo Lotti was born in Brindisi in 1991, lives in Carovigno, in Salento. Graduated at the Agricultural Institute, currently a student at the Faculty of Architecture of Bari. Passionate about all things in the world, and especially the art of nature in all its shapes and forms, is also known as a sculptor.
Harmony in Lilac, Green and White oil on board 35 x 55 cm 2014
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Modernity - The Scream Persists oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm 2012
In 2012 he created a collection of poems written in different years. Selftaught in everything, even in the painting, which is always looking for different paths and personal, which reveal important topics such as the great themes of modernity, nature and above all the different human feelings. As media he uses everything from canvas to the plywood, fibreboard or boards, composing the work in a very short or very long depending on how the composition of the work requires. Its production is visible on the Internet, and every year during the summer sets in the rooms of the castle of his city or in the streets of the historic center, in addition to several exhibitions of national and international level.
The Persistence of the Art oil on canvas and cardboard 80 x 60 cm 2015
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Julie River
www.julieriver.be contact: Julie River julieriver.art@gmail.com Belgium A Venise
watercolour and ink on paper 25 x 35 cm 2012
“In her Brussels Studio, that artist loves to mix China ink and waters colours, feather and brush in concert. In that technique error does not forgive, the indelible stroke becomes a challenge that she finds amusing. In her peaceful gardens, she affirms her fantasy, in representing strange personages, often insects that she acts like actors on the stage. The wood, the trees, the leaves become the decor and the curtains�. Julie River 2012
En Piste
watercolour and ink on paper 30 x 40 cm 2012
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“The watercolours are worked in a non-conformist way, often with five or six layers, very meticulous work. In tone splashes of colour the artist juggles with the strokes of the feather, with rhythm, movements, and dynamism. Transported by the delicacy of the stroke, the insect himself becomes a comedian or a minstrel. And finally this strange world takes us to respect the differences. In feat, it means respect of the other, Love of Live, in all shapes and form”. N-P Louise, 2012
Vers La Lumière
watercolour and ink on paper 25 x 35 cm 2013
Sous Le Soleil De Saturne
watercolour and ink on paper 25 x 30 cm 2014
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Giampietro Cudin Caos
mixed technique and acrylic 100 x 80 cm 2012
www.cudin.it contact: Giampietro Cudin cudinilmaestro@gmail.com Italy
Positive, full of interest and always looking to the future, these words to define Cudin. He has studied Architecture in Canada and Psychology in Italy, painter, sculptor, elegant engraver, gentle and generous person, with great passion for poetry. The artist has always lived the art 360°, his artistic work is an ongoing process of analysis and comparison of the works from the past to the contemporary, between the contingent reality and conceptualism.
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He follows his emotions, exploring original languages to become spokesman for the complex of today’s man feelings. Not infrequently the reality itself enters into his paintings, through elements that the painter collects over time and in different moments of his life. They become part of his work, interfacing with a painting technique always strongly expressive, airline tickets and bus tickets, newspaper clippings and pieces of posters, papers and writings, the artist brings its back from his numerous trips in different countries world and put them in his artworks. He collects pieces of life, which he then transform into a paint. Signs that art saves and turns into memories and emotions.
Messenger
mixed technique and acrylic 100 x 70 cm 2013
Animals
mixed technique and acrylic 50 x 50 cm 2015
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Tyler J R Cannon Always Looking for a Shock
lithographic drawing with monotype 11 x 14 in 2013
www.tjrcannon.com contact: Tyler John Rutger Cannon tjrcannon@gmail.com Canada Tyler Cannon is a Vancouver based visual artist, working primarily in print media and drawing. Cannon’s mother began teaching him to draw and paint at an early age, focusing on wildlife and people. In 2009 his formal training began at North Island College in Courtenay, British Columbia. After completing a fine art diploma at NIC he continued on to Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At NSCAD he completed a BFA Major in Interdisciplinary Fine Art with a Minor in Art History focusing primarily in printmaking.
Generators for Fear of Night
colour lithograph with monotype 31 x 23 in 2014
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Monod Anatomy
lithographic drawing and etching as digital composite 30 x 22 in 2013
Cannon’s current work revolves around his ongoing narrative project called Singleton’s Epic. Cannon creates characters, bodies and systems within his other world which interact and live within a strange psychological economy or ecosystem. The central character of the narrative are the singletons, strange human like figures who loaf around the environment focused mainly on hedonistic pleasures. Currently Cannon is attending a Student Scholarship Residency at Malaspina Printmakers in Vancouver. His Newest work is in various states of completion which is tracked on his website and blog. Thematically the newest images orient around imaging states of the Singletons, enmeshed within their machine world as productive cogs, complicit, victims and rowdy fools.
Despot Love
viscosity print 14 x 18 in 2014
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Chassériaud Frédéric
www.libertart31.pagesperso-orange.fr contact: Chassériaud Frédéric libertart31@orange.fr France
The Human Robot
A robot is a Human who does not take the time to think linen and oil painting paint brush and knife 60 x 92 cm 2015
The Family
The sharing of your life with all your environment creates the family linen and oil painting knife 80 x 100 cm 2015
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The artistic activities, painting and writing, offer wings to my soul. I cannot live without these artistic activities which share my thoughts with others people. With these wings, I do not see the human frontiers which are the fears of the human’s ego. The freedom is the acceptation of others thoughts which create the only wealth of the human when you share them. With this richness, the Human has not harms but the joy to live in an human environment.
Human is his own Home
The Human Being creates that he is with his thoughts linen and oil painting paint brush and knife 46 x 60 cm 2010
The Contemplation
All that exists, lives to be a human fruit linen and oil painting knife 72 x 100 cm 2015
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Shae White
www.jeinshaewhite.com contact: Jein Shae White shaew2@gmail.com United States Kaleidoscope Lady acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 in 2013
Born in China, adopted at an early age and raised in the United States, Shae White brings both cultures alive in each of her canvases. Each painting tells so much about her and where she came from. Self-taught at an early age, she learned the most important values: the freedom to explore, to create, and best of all, to try.
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Some Kind of Wonderful acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 in 2014
“I feel I have more freedom to try different ways to open my mind and grow every day in ways that inspire me to be better,” - Shae White
The Boy I Love
acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 in 2014
Shae ignores the rules so she can express her thoughts in her own way. Her work isn’t abstract, surreal or cubism. It’s a synergy of all those and more. She refers to this style as “Geometrism.”
Natural
acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 in 2014
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Artists who are above 18 years old can submit their work for selection. All artworks must have been created by the submitting artists, who must have legal ownership and must be the sole owners of the copyright. All media and techniques of visual art can be submitted for review, such as painting, photography, sculpture, installations and digital art, etc.
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Marian Sava
Amapola
black belgian marble 56 x 17 x 18 cm 2009
www.mariansava.com contact: Marian Sava savamarian@gmail.com Belgium
“Marian Sava” makes the stone sing”
He received his artistic education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Bruxelles. When looking at his works, one word comes to mind ‘Emotion’, because one experiences a great pleasure, produced by the creative impulses of the artist, which are marked by the seal of extreme sensitivity. Marian Sava approaches the abstract art in his very nuanced manner, without ever falling on the side of pure and hard abstraction. He passes smoothly, from the strict image of a subject to the creation of new unexpected forms (...) Collette Bertot, Art Critic, Brussels 23 02 2008
Messenger
white marble 72 x 37 x 8 cm 2013 120 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Flight of Day
black belgian marble 73 x 27 x 6 cm 2008
Amapola
For the eye’s delight, in the summer, colored parasols invade fields and the roadsides … these are the poppies!
Light of Day
“Vibrations of the wings of insects, the day and the night”. A true rehersal in miniature, with an end unpredictable when you look carefully the vibration of insects’s wings
Burning Bush
Burning Bush
“Myth and reality in the history of humanity”. The burning Bush is, in the biblical tradition, the revelation of the Angel of the God inside a Bush that burned without ever burn on Mount Sinai. Here, God sends Moses deliver his people from slavery and gives him the tablets of the law with the ten commandments, carved in stone by the fire.
white marble 63 x 47 x 7 cm 2002
Messenger
Birds were always used to carry messages. Benefiting from their aerodynamic shape in their flight, one watches them, high above, in an imaginary form.
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Padmini
London based Andrea Peng was born in 1983 in Argentina to Taiwanese parents. Her work has been influenced by the search for her identity and explores mixed cultural associations and the nature of human existence. She has always been fascinated by unseen details, looking at things from the inside out in order to discover a sense in between.
www.andreapengprops.tumblr.com contact: Andrea Peng andreapengprops@gmail.com United Kingdom
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She is a versatile prop maker with a distinctive approach who is fully comfortable combining conceptual and practical realization. Andrea has a keen interest, and active involvement, in organizing various alternative art, music, and social projects. Culturally and politically aware these activities feed her practice. Currently in her final year at RCSSD, Andrea works as a freelance prop maker on various projects including for Pinewood Creative, Kimatica Studios, Mantaray Props, and artist Tom Price.
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Leo Deville
Ishka’s Moment ceramic and mixed media 26x19x12 cm 2014
www.leodeville.co.uk contact: Leo Deville hello@leodeville.co.uk United Kingdom
Birdeyes
ceramic and mixed media 32x17x6 cm 2013
Leo creates ceramic faces, figures, sculptures and jewellery that sometimes include coloured wires, textiles, beads and paint. When she has a black biro in her hand she produces surreal black & white illustrations and also paints in oils & acrylics. She started working spontaneously with the black biro drawings, which took her on subconscious journeys to a world far more interesting than the physical normality.
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She now lets her ceramics evolve and loves this process as she’s constantly intrigued to view where her mind has taken her. Leo’s eyes, ears and mind are forever open to new ideas and influences.
Fuzzy Dreads ceramic and mixed media 23x24x8 cm 2012
Spirit ‘G’
ceramic and mixed media 16x33x7 cm 2013
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Why Artists Should Be Paid for Their Artwork? “Artists shouldn’t be paid for their art. Getting paid prevents them from creating really good stuff.” - I read somewhere online. I want to make three points about Art, Contribution and Money with this article: Your art is a contribution to society. It brings joy, it solves problems, and it makes this world a better place. Being paid allows you to make that contribution to society. Your contribution expands in relation to the amount of time you put into it. More hours means expanded contribution to this world with your God-given talent. “Artists are better off working a job they hate and then painting in their spare time.” This is the problem I have with that: No one should work a job they hate. You were put on this earth with talents and you are meant to do that which you are good at and what you love! The world is missing out on your contribution. The less an artist creates, the less they grow. It requires hours upon hours to hone your craft. Charging for your artwork enables you to make a contribution to the world with your art. It allows you to develop your style and to get better and better at what you do. As long as we are stuck in a money based system, I find it an outright insult to all hardworking artists to say they shouldn’t be paid for what they do. It’s just a crazy notion that this one, single profession should work for free! (While everyone else gets paid.)
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Image: Bin Feng
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #6 digital C print 36 × 64 in 2014
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
Steve Jobs
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bin feng
www.binand.com contact: Bin Feng mashed7th@gmail.com United States
American Dream Approaching the Whitetail digital C Print 40 × 60 in 2015
THE AMERICAN DREAM photo series continues to explore the idea of “American Dream”.
American Dream Backyard 7am digital C Print 40 × 60 in 2015
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Bin Feng
American Dream - Starring Jackie Chan and John Cusack, Dragon Blade 3D IMAX will be released in February 2015 digital C print 40 × 60 in 2015
American Dream - The Visitor digital C print 40 × 60 in 2015
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THE AMERICAN DREAM photo series continues to explore the idea of “American Dream” from an eastern male gaze. By staging the moment of daily life, the artist performs as an actor and jumps between the fiction and reality, which essentially conveys the notion of the history of a man is mobilized by images.
American Dream - The Male Gaze
digital C print 40 × 60 in 2015
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bin feng
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #4 digital C print 40 × 60 in 2014
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Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #6 digital C print 36 × 64 in 2014
Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #2 digital C print 36 × 64 in 2014
PIN MAN - A SPACE ODYSSEY photo series shows him heading off to space to spread word of this new currency to other planets and cultures, hoping to find a more receptive audience around which he can call “home”. By expressing a plethora of ideas regarding simulation, cultural capital, currency, popularity and fabrication in various art forms, Pin Man - A Space Odyssey offers a sophisticated and complex look at the value placed on people and objects in today’s media-saturated, highly simulated age. Pin Man - A Space Odyssey #1 digital C print 36 × 64 in 2014
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Mike DeCesare
www.ProPhotoNorthwest.com contact: Mike DeCesare Mike@ProPhotoNorthwest.com United States
Alpine Falls photograph 16 x 20 in 2014
Mike DeCesare: Photography is my first language. My home is the Pacific Northwest where rugged, natural beauty and individuality have inspired and shaped my photography. My landscapes are not meant to chronicle what is, but rather to share my passion for nature with those who feel the same joy for the world we live in and accountability for the world we will pass on.
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Bryce Canyon First Light photograph 16 x 20 in 2015
Forest Road
photograph 16 x 20 in 2012
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david crittin www.davidcrittin.com contact: David Crittin david.crittin@hotmail.com Euloz 11 CH-1926 Fully Switzerland T: +41 78 800 75 03
“I try to give an account of the transcendent quality of nature and its function as a messenger of a ‘sense of infinity.”
David Crittin’s work is the expression of a contemplation. The composition of landscape in circle unfolds the mystery of the World: no beginning, no end; no quantifiable space, therefore, no time. It brings us back to fundamental existentialist questions, between finiteness and infinity. The circular landscapes are built after the classical plan of an architecture of the spirit, with a progressive densification of the sacred, of which the archetype in our culture would be Solomon’s Temple: outside–enclosure–sanctuary-Holy of holies. Paris doesn’t exist
Numeric photography collage under acrylic block – jesmonite base 137 x 112 x 50 cm 2012 Composition with center beyond #1 Numeric photography collage under matte diasec 100 x 100 cm 2008
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Gate of silence Numeric photography collage on aluminum – poplar wood base and sitting block 180 x 170 x 50 cm 2012
Composition with center beyond #9 Numeric photography collage under matte diasec 100 x 100 cm 2010
In the pictorial field, we note the Mandalas, sacred images used in the East to induce a deeper degree of knowledge through a reading going from the periphery to the center. This is precisely one way to read these images. Starting from the periphery, the observer can contemplate the unity of the World, which is a reflection of his own unity. Subsequently, he is brought to the center where it seems to be nothing left. Nature, space and time have disappeared. But the observer remains, facing himself: a consciousness beyond this World of shapes and definitions.
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carrie webster Facing your Demons with Kindness
digitally enhanced photograph limited edition signed print up to 40 x 40 in 2014
www.artfolio.com.au contact: Carrie Webster carrie@artfolio.com.au Australia
Carrie Webster works and lives in Sydney, Australia. Her recent work has been selected as finalist art work in a number of international online photographic & art competitions, and she was selected to participate in the prestigious Head On Photography Festival in May 2014. A solo exhibition of Carrie’s work was exhibited at the Angel Restaurant in Freshwater, Sydney, in April 2014, and her latest solo exhibition which is a re-imagining of the Chinese Horoscope animals mostly transforming fruit and vegetables into animals was held in February 2015.
Own Little World
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Let the Healing Begin
digitally enhanced photograph limited edition signed print up to 40 x 40 in 2014
Carrie currently works part-time as a UX specialist in IT. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at COFA in her early twenties, and evolved into the field of graphic and web design. She also has a Masters degree in Information Architecture. Along the way, she has always been creating and working on personal art projects in parallel with her professional life. Carrie has always had a passion for creating, and has experimented with many different mediums, such as painting, drawing, animation, video, lino prints, and of course, her current obsession, photography. Carrie plans to quit her day job when she becomes rich and famous :)
Royal Portrait
digitally enhanced photograph limited edition signed print up to 40 x 40 in 2014
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delpierista77 www.stefaniagrasso.it contact: Stefania Grasso aktis.a@alice.it Italy S.Cristoforo Paintings Of G.Ferrari, Chiesa S.Cristoforo Vercelli photography 3000 x 2008 2010
Stefania Grasso was born in Vercelli Italy in1977. She started to photograph in 1990. She loves mainly mountain and sea landscapes and to capture the most beautiful artworks in Italy. She gained prices in Italy, Vietnam, Michigan ad a finalist in various photocontests. Her favorite themes are travel photography, nature, landscapes and arts with photos of churches and monuments.
Ilaria Del Carretto, Duomo Di Lucca photography 3000 x 1987 2015
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Altare Piccolomini, Duomo Di Siena photography 3000 x 1987 2013
She also loves to create some photobooks to exhibit during cultural and naturalistic events. She has gained some prices in contests related To nature and arts. and several covers for travel rewievs. Some of her portfolios have been selected by CNN in the section report and by the review N-photography. Actually she experiments HDR photography.
Villa D’este, Tivoli (Roma) photography, 3000 x 2008, 2012
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Fu Wenjun Nepotism
conceptual photography 140 x 175 cm 2015
Fu Wenjun, Chinese important conceptual photography artist, talks about history of art; it’s not a means, but the main goal. He therefore analyses some aspects which are meant to express a timeless concept. In this way, the expression of every artwork becomes a thesis with no possibility of anti-thesis, full of proofs which we find again many times in history, western and oriental, to remember that history is repeating itself and that the mankind as a whole has similarities beyond geo-cultural position.
Life is Simple
conceptual photography 140 x 175 cm 2015
Among the Clouds
conceptual photography 140 x 175 cm 2015
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www.fuwenjun.com contact: Fu Wenjun China
350 B.C.
conceptual photography 140 x 175 cm 2015
Drift Away
conceptual photography 140 x 175 cm 2015
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Bernard Sabri www.art-photo.fr contact: Bernard Sabri Bernard_sabri@hotmail.com France
Network
inkjet mounted on dibond 40 x 30 cm 2003 The original picture was a view of the garden of the castle of Sceaux situated in the south suburb of Paris.
What Bernard searches most in his artistic expression is to create an image worked in a modern style, rather surrealist; an artwork which provokes, by the symphony of its colors and the originality of its composition, strong emotions as a sign of successful communion with the visitor. His works are based exclusively on computer processed digital photography. Printing is on various supports such as fine art paper, laminated wood, plastic, aluminum or canvas.
Paris, Montmartre
inkjet mounted on dibond 40 x 28 cm 2005
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Bernard Sabri explores photography by modern techniques in order to make “you” share his emotions of the universe of Digital-Art; where the Virtual and the Real merge; through works expressing his profound sensitivity to this new form of Contemporary Art. The happy marriage of photography and informatics, which gave birth to “Digital-Photography” and thus opened a new era of “Digital-Art”, allowed Bernard to get out of the initial frame of traditional photography to enjoy the freedom of digital art, an art representing well our “High-Tech” Epoch. He uses the virtual brushes of today’s digital tools to create a modern work of art.
Paris, Eiffel Tower
inkjet mounted on dibond 42 x 60 cm 2005 Seine Bank and Eiffel Tower seen from Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Paris Statue of Liberty
inkjet mounted on dibond 40 x 28 cm 2005
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SNOPIX www.snopix.co.uk contact: Peter Higgins snopixx@hotmail.com United Kingdom
The Escape
digital photo image 2009
Creator Peter “Snopix� Higgins had no idea when he set off on his creative journey in 1976 that it would turn into a life time addiction/ adventure. For him it was a positive way to use the spare time he had then, rather than just fritter it away doing nothing. So now in 2015 as he comes up to celebrate almost 40 years of creating. He has been honoured to receive the Sandro Botticelli prize for the original stylistic search. Something he could have never dreamed of when he purchased his first pencils and drawing pad in Amsterdam, all that time ago.
Vision C
digital photo image 2011
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Creativity for me, has become like an intravenous drug being pumped into my vein. Addicting my very life! My very soul! Taking me on what I can best describe as, the ultimate adventure of my life time exploring the very depths of my own mind. Even now after almost 4 decades of creating my own original images, I still get the same buzz. Through drawing, painting, photography, Photoshop, illustrator and now culminating with my first venture as an author with the novella “ILL BE DAMMED� (Available at Amazon.co.uk) the story of when I first had the idea to try to express myself through creativity.
Masquerade
digital photo image 2009
Kallide A In
digital photo image 2012
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Interesting Facts Part 2
Natural Ultramarine was as valuable as gold during Renaissance costing per ounce more than half the annual rent of a good size studio in Florence. It was considered one of the three purest colors beside gold and vermillion and a reflection of God’s glory. Because of its high cost it was reserved by artists for the most revered subjects such as robes of Madonna and Christ. Linseed oil, the most popular of all oils for painting, comes from the flax seed a common fiber crop. The linen, a popular oil painting support, is made from the flax plant. Pablo Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Fransisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso. The name contains 23 words and honors various saints and relatives. Vincent Van Gogh produced more than 2000 works during his life time: approx 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches. Although he is now considered one of the greatest artists of all times he was undervalued and only sold one painting during his life time. Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed and his personal notes were written in mirror writing starting from the right side of the page to the left.
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Paul Hamanaka Q.R114/A Letter mixed media assemblage 69 x 33 x 9 in 2014
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Image: Marian Sava
Final
black belgian marble 24 x 45 x 13 cm 2012
Get your artworks seen! Don’t disregard eyes and ears close to home. In your town or neighborhood? Is there a coffee shop or bookstore you love? Is it frequented by a lot of like-minded people? If so, take the opportunity and ask the owner or manager to display your paintings or drawings. You get publicity and they get their walls decorated for free, and you get to tap into a community you are already in sync with. Who are the top ten people whom you would love to get your artworks in front of? Make a list and email them. Tracking them down on the worldwide web should be easy enough, and you get the opportunity to make a presentation of your work to the people you respect and admire on your own terms - no filter and no middleman to work around.
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Linda McIntosh
That Spoonful
mixed media on paper 16x16in 2015