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You become better with age
Raymond Quenneville
An Article by: Hilarie M. Sheets
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Cover: La Plage Raymond Quenneville oil on canvas 40 x 30 in 2014 Back: Niko by Kirsten Høst oil on canvas 57 x 74 cm
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Artists Daniele.............................................. ....16 Danny Van der Elst...............................58 David Sheldon......................................12 Donnedieu De Vabres.........................46 Francesco Sandrelli..............................32 Gabi Domenig ................................ ....10 Germån Guerra Gonzalez............... ....60 Graehound Igor Nelubovich....................................48 Ivana Dollejs .................................... ......6 Kirsten Høst....................................... ....14 Lassere...................................................55 Linda Rusco...........................................50 Maria Ferrara.........................................52 Maysha S.................................................8 Mike Decesare......................................72 Moni Art.................................................38 Pauline Silberman.................................24 Portraits of Treasured Memories..........18 R. Geoffrey Blackburn..........................30 Raymond Quenneville.........................20 Ryan Leitao...........................................66 Wioletta Weselowski.............................68
Paintings Drawings Mixed Media
Ivana Dolejs She was born in 1961 in the Czech Republic. She lives and creates in Prague. Until thirty three years of age she was employed as a financial clerk. To paint she started when she was nearly thirty six years old. Together with her three years old daughter they created colour aquarelle abstracts, and at that time she experienced for the first time that strange, mysterious force, which literally led her hand. Since then the painting became an unseparable part of her life, and the meaning of her life too. She works with her subconscious, intuition. With the use of imagination by music and of meditation she penetrates into the unconscious.
Kings of the Bird Empire oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm 2010
contact: Ivana Dolejs radovan.d@email.cz
Eyes of the Truth oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm 2014 6 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
Snake’s Kiss oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm 2012
Waterman oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm 2010
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Maysha S Lebensbeginn mixed media 70 x 70 cm 2014
Maysha S born as Maysha Franziska Sattelberg 1983 in Berlin, growing up in the Netherlands and Bremen, is an Artist and Illustrator, living and working now in Hamburg. She set her main focus on Acrylic painting in an abstract way. Surrealism elements can also be found in her paintings. The Colours Maysha S uses mostly are very deep, strong and powerful.
Wise mixed media 70 x 70 cm 2014
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www.maysha-s.com contact: Maysha Franziska Sattelberg franziska1101@yahoo.com Germany
Firedance mixed media 70 x 70 cm 2014
She get her Inspiration for painting by travelling through Europe and Africa. Maysha S had already several international Exhibitions. Most of them in the United States and southern Europe. Colour is life that is what she says and Maysha means life, with her Art she want to show the beauty of life!
Dancer mixed media 70 x 70 cm 2014
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Gabi Domenig
www.domenigartdesign.at contact: Gabi Domenig gabidomenig@aon.at Austria
Flower Meadow Dreams Down at the Water Lily Pond acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm 2015
Born in Lienz, Austria. Gabi Domenig was attracted to fine arts in an early age. Her love for painting encouraged her to take classes in nude painting, color theory, drawing and composition. Following her first exhibition in 1999, where she presented 20 large pastel paintings, she started to paint with acrylics on canvas. Gabi is primarily concerned with the representation of man and women which shows through her artworks. She tries to capture moments and to build up emotional tensions. The viewer should feel something of her passion when she paints. For her art should be life-affirming and beautiful, touching and connecting. Her characters send out varied emotions such as pride, pain, love, sadness, loneliness, joy and longing.
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The figures are mostly located in a particular environment cutout. The expression of the eyes should animate the viewer to enter in a deeper communication with the figures in the picture. Flowers, plants, animals, patterns and landscape sections are decorative parts, but are usually situated in the background. Because of her intensive color palette and the figurative painting she is attributed to the Neo-Expressionism. You can find her images in private collections, in international art books, art magazines and online art galleries.
Queen of Fashion Time Out in the Flamingo Park acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm 2015
Birthday Garden Party Waiting for the Clown acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm 2015
Image on the bottom left
Sunday Walk on the Golden Beach acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm 2015
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David Sheldon www.davidsheldon.co.za contact: David Sheldon Horwitz david@davidsheldon.co.za Switzerland
X-Static Process mixed media 90 x 90 cm 2013
Influenced by graphic art and textile design, the motif depends on calculative detail, sometimes dealing with traditional African themes. The main medium is acrylic, applied in several layers ultimately achieving a bold, lustrous finish. Other materials include oils and metallic leaf. The colour palette is predominantly monochromatic with a prevalence using blue hues. Heavy patterning connecting the background and foreground emphasise equal importance while the overlapping of designs suggest our human complexities and different personas.
Chaplin
acrylic, and metallic leaf 70 x 100 cm 2015
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Non-conformist and constantly evolving, David’s work demonstrates a tendency to re-invent style and technique influenced by pop culture and current trends focussing primarily on abstract expressionism and pop art. The contrasting nature of these genres depicts both sides of his persona. His abstract is organic, often muted in tones, emulating movement and resonance. Dramatic and iridescent, yet calming and dimensional, the process is often unpredictable, inspired by aquatic themes, the earth and space. The fundamental focus relies on the study of the chemical reaction using water and oil based materials, including enamels, varnishes, inks, oils and industrial paints. In comparison, his genre of figurative pop art, often iconic in subject matter is methodical and precise, involving projection and stencilling incorporating strong linear and geometric shapes.
African Woman
acrylic and metallic leaf 20 x 50 cm 2014
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Kirsten Høst
www.hoestart.com contact: Kirsten Høst hoest.art@gmail.com Danmark Getting the Harvest Home oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm 2013
As One
oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm 2014
Kirsten Høst is a Danish artist, now living in Denmark, who has embarked on a new phase of her life and work, after spending 30 years in London, UK. This new phase emanates from a confident and sure belief and trust, that there is a plan for each one of us, if we allow our true gifts to unfold naturally. This trust has allowed her to find a new vision and a new voice working with oil painting and watercolour/ink/collages.
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Kirstens work is strongly influenced by geometry, which she sees reflected in all aspects of our universe. This theme was reinforced by her meticulous study and admiration of the great renaissance painters in the museums in Italy, where she has spent longer periods of time, especially in Firenze, Perugia and Venezia. Kirsten`s work frequently starts with a geometric shape and with an open mind, and inspiration develops a life and vibration of its own. Her work has been exhibited in London, Paris, Edinburg, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, and New York in the U.S.A, and will be in 2015 exhibited in Palermo and Firenze in Italy, Paris in France and in Barcelona in Spain. Two Women
oil on canvas 100 x 86 cm 2013
The Second Snow Queen
oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm 2015
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Daniele
Olive Trees in Chianti oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm 2005
www.danieleatelier.it contact: Daniele Vannucci info@danieleatelier.it T: +39 5841921530 Italy
Daniele Vannucci was born in Florence, where “breathes” the colors and forms of the beautiful city’s art. He lived a period in the Chianti countryside. The new enchanted destination take him by the hand and lead him through new paths, which give him a clear impression of the pictorial expressions of that moment. Subsequently, his work leads him close to Rome, on the hills of Sabina, from which you can see Rome at a certain distance. The sea of olive trees from Fara in Sabina, that dominate the Eternal City, the gentle hills that slope down towards the plain of the Tiber and the heart-breaking sunsets, so evidently, influence again his new works. He currently lives in Viareggio, where the city’s Carnival is able to give him a new artistic path where you can read the unique essence of life that flutters in Versilia.
Sunset in Chianti oil on canvas 70 x 70 cm 2010
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Already some effects are clearly visible in his works made in the early years of his stay in Riviera. His works are characterized by a careful study of the subject, by careful observation of the relationship between light and shadow, enriched with intense colors and pictorial traits not clearly defined, leaving the viewer the freedom to interpret the becoming of the work.
Carrara, Marble Quarry oil and acrylic on canvas 150 x 150 cm 2014
Rendezvous in via Veneto oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2014
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Portraits of Treasured Memories www.facebook.com/treasurethememories contact: Deborah Nicholas treasurethememories@hotmail.com United Kingdom Debbie Nicholas is a portrait artist based in Hampshire, U.K. She has always been a lover of art so about 6 years ago she decided to look into step by step books and teach herself how to draw realistically. She is most skilled at using graphite pencils but also uses colored pencils and pastels. Debbie strives to get a realistic portrait and works from photos mainly. If you enjoy her artworks, feel free to pop over to her page and follow her at www.facebook.com/treasurethememories.
It Wasn’t Me
coloured pencils on Bristol Board Smooth paper A4 2014
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Kyrie
graphite pencils on Bristol Board Smooth paper A4 2012
Bottom Right
Marshmellow
graphite pencils on Bristol Board Smooth paper A3 2015 Bottom Left
Shm All Mines Hidden Treasure graphite pencils on Bristol Board Smooth paper A4 2015
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Raymond Quenneville www.raymondquenneville.qc.ca contact: Raymond Quenneville rayque@webnet.qc.ca Canada Born in 1956 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (Canada), Raymond Quenneville is a self-taught artist who has been painting for over 35 years. In 1992, after having explored a variety of media, he went back to oil painting, and decided to pursue his own unique style in expressing landscape and light. By playing with complementary colours, Raymond Quenneville accentuates contrasts and creates impressive luminous effects. In his landscape paintings, subtle values variations almost make visible the fine consistency of the air itself and create an illusion of depth that is convincing to the eye. He likes to paint peaceful environments, expressing serenity and equanimity of places where it is good to stop and just be for a moment. Raymond Quenneville has held many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous collective exhibitions and symposia. Winner of several awards he has received many special mentions from juries and the public. He is a member of the Institut des arts figuratifs (IAF), of the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and of the Mondial Art Academia (MAA).
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Un Hiver Pas Comme Les Autres oil on canvas 18 x 36 in 2011
Sans Trop Réfléchir
oil on canvas 30 x 40 in 2013
On the Left
Retrouvailles oil on canvas 18 x 36 in 2013
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Raymond Quenneville Les Blues I oil on canvas I 18 x 36 in I 2011
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Pauline Silberman www.paulinesilbermanpaintings.com contact: Pauline L. Silberman plsilberman@sbcglobal.net United States
Armageddon Artifact: Spear
charcoal on paper 24 x 30 in 1998
Pauline Silberman knew from a very young age that drawing and painting could not be separated from her life. She is a Faculty Emerita from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she taught almost 30 years in Continuing Studies and Special Programs. She presently belongs to the Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago Society of Artists, Artist’s Breakfast Group, and a former Board Member of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Pauline received her BA in English Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan followed by an MAE at Concordia University in Lake Forest, Illinois in Interdisciplinary Arts. She is in private collections as well as Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC and Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Pauline and her husband, a professor at the University of Chicago have three adult children.
Armageddon Artifact: Axehead
charcoal on paper 24 x 30 in 1998
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Megiddo Artifacts was inspired by a trip to the historical site in Israel that we call Armageddon. There I contemplated relics in situ of longago lives affected by war. The first series, in oils, depicts vessel shards; the second, in charcoal and pastels, other fragments of antiquity: weapons, tools, and jewelry. The artifacts embody our humanness as well as that of those who made them and used them: despite the passage of time, they remain, forming a bond between us and those of the millennia past.
Armageddon Artifact: Double Axehead Armageddon Artifact: Jewelry Box Cover
charcoal on paper 24 x 30 in 1998
pastel on paper 30 x 50 in 2012
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You Become Better with Age At what age do people hit their stride professionally? Categorically speaking, athletes, engineers, politicians, television writers, salesmen, and actresses all have varying norms and shelf lives, sometimes affected by physical attributes or societal expectations. Seemingly immune to ageist perceptions and traditional notions of retirement are artists. A historical look reveals that a striking number have been highly productive and turned out some of their best work late into old age, including Bellini (who died at 86), Michelangelo (d. 89), Titian (d. between 86 and 103, depending on your source), Ingres (d. 86), Monet (d. 86), Matisse (d. 84), Picasso (d. 91), O’Keeffe (d. 98), and Bourgeois (d. 98).
“All the case histories point in one direction - the extraordinary flowering of artistic genius in old age” Thomas Dormandy wrote in his book Old Masters: Great Artists in Old Age. While Dormandy rejected the attractive idea of creativity as an antidote to physical or mental decline - “it is contradicted by the facts” - he explored the powerful inner shifts in old age that propelled many artists to new heights, whether it’s Monet painting his “Water Lilies” when he was almost blind after cataract surgery, or Matisse inventing his paper cutouts in his last years when confined to his bed and a wheelchair. The numerous recent exhibitions of actively working artists age 80 and up would bear out this anecdotal correlation between longevity and creative production. New “Old Masters”
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who have enjoyed gallery and museum shows over the last year include Wayne Thiebaud (92) at Acquavella, Robert Irwin (84) at Pace, Anthony Caro (89) at the Yale Center for British Art, Malcolm Morley (81) at the Parrish Art Museum, Yayoi Kusama (84) at the Whitney Museum, Alex Katz (85) at the Yale School of Art, John Baldessari (81) at Marian Goodman, and Philip Pearlstein (turning 89 in May) at Betty Cuningham. Thornton Dial (85) had a retrospective that traveled to several American museums, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted a survey of Jasper Johns (who turns 83 on May 15), Betye Saar (86) filled a room of the National Academy Museum with her birdcage sculptures, and an exhibition of Claes Oldenburg’s (84) work is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
“Being an artist is a way of life” says 82-year-old Faith Ringgold, who has a solo show opening in June at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and just closed one at ACA Galleries. “It’s not about ‘I’m going to major in this and get my degree, and then I’ll go to work, and then I’ll retire.’ It is something one has a passion for, does, and then becomes - and can do it literally until they pass away. It’s an old-age thing. You become better with age.” Ringgold is currently creating an online museum of her work since 1948 that will provide games for people to create their own art - an entirely new venture for her.
“I do think some young people have the mistaken notion, especially today, that they’re supposed to be successful right away”
says Ringgold, adding that many women artists don’t receive acclaim before 60, especially women of color. “There’s a great deal of racism and sexism in the art world. If you’re going to drop out early, you’re going to miss the whole thing.” Cuban-born painter Carmen Herrera, for instance, spent decades working unwaveringly on her hardedge abstractions before selling her first canvas in 2004, at age 89, to the collector Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. Since then, Herrera, who turns 98 this month, has experienced a flurry of interest in her work and shows at Lisson Gallery.
“I admire long-term careers” says Duane Michals, 81, who just had a show at DC Moore Gallery of 19th-century tintypes that he playfully embellished with various styles of modernist painting. He had painted on photographs during the 1980s but cycled back to it a couple years ago in an entirely new way. “Anyone can be the flavor of the month or the year,” he says. “I really admire people who evolve. What I’m doing now I wouldn’t have imagined five years ago. I’d like to think that five years from now I might be doing something I can’t imagine now.”
“If you’ve lasted this long in the game, you probably are making a living” says Michelle Stuart, who recently turned 80 and now proudly admits her age (she used to lie about it). In July, Stuart has a survey of paintings, sculpture, and photographic works from 1968 to the present going on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. She agrees with Ringgold that experience counts. “Experience certainly gives you insights into things
that you didn’t have in your earlier years,” Stuart says. “You’ve made more things, you’ve honed your craft, you’ve experienced more books, you’ve experienced more criticism or praise. You don’t need to worry about what people think. There’s that kind of freedom.” Joan Semmel, 80, feels relief in not having to hustle and put herself out there in the same way she did when she was younger. “In the work itself, you know who you are as an artist,” she says. She’s gratified by the current interest in her work, with an exhibition of her self-portraits from the last decade up through June 9 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a show of her most recent nudes juxtaposed with very early figurative paintings up through May 25 at Alexander Gray in New York. “You’re not struggling with finding your voice and doubting everything you do in quite the same way as when you’re younger. It’s all part of self-acceptance.”
“Working becomes your own little Eden” Thiebaud says, while acknowledging the challenge of overcoming the traps of what others think and say. “You make this little spot for yourself. You don’t have to succeed. You don’t have to be famous. You don’t have to be obligated to anything except that development of the self.” Risk taking seems to be a common trait among these artists, not just in old age but throughout their lives. “Artists are like gamblers,” says Stuart. “Who else would walk into life without a job, no credit? You’ve got to have that little extra frisson of adventure.”
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Morley has always eschewed working in any one predictable style. Being an artist is “a perpetual renewal, it’s always for the first time,” says the artist, widely credited with jump-starting bothphotorealism and Neo-Expressionism. “It’s rather like my dog. When you throw the ball, she runs for it as if she’s never run for it before, and it must be the millionth time.” Over the last decade, Morley has faced several health crises but has rallied and come back, taking new directions in his painting. “I seem to be a cat with nine lives,” he says, adding that it’s impossible to know whether his development would have been similar if none of his mishaps had happened. For Ellsworth Kelly, who turns 90 this month, the connection between physical and mental health has only become stronger with age. “Recently, I have had some physical challenges related to aging, though I accept it, and it has given me an added surge for continuing to create new work,” he says. Kelly has two new sculptures in his current exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
“Making art has always been a necessity” “I don’t know if being an artist is making me live longer,” says Semmel. “But certainly in terms of keeping me vital and interested and alive in the sense of how I live my life, being an artist is undoubtedly a very important part of that - even when I’m not well. Normally, I work standing. If I can’t stand, I sit - but I still work. That engagement is very important.” For Semmel, aging has become a central subject in the work itself. Since the 1970s, she has painted pictures of her
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own naked body. “Early on, I was interested in a non-idealization of the body, the body as one really experiences it,” she says. “Age, then, was a natural part of the way I was working. I felt it was important to focus on the changes in the way we look as a natural formation rather than something undesirable.” Semmel’s recent paintings, with layers of shifting views of her face and body, are much more psychologically complex than her earlier hard-edge canvases, which cropped out her face.
“These new paintings are really concerned with the understanding of the self in one’s total humanity rather than in one’s sensuality” she says. Other painters find the motivation to work every day in the legacy of painting itself. “I have to up the ante continuously,” says Morley. “I have a big ambition to sit in the pantheon of the greats. Whether or not it occurs, of course, other people will have to decide.” Thiebaud feels sustained by his ongoing dialogue with the history of the medium. “It’s great to have the community of that long tradition of painting, which, however small a part you have in it, is a comforting kind of life,” he says. Currently, he’s working on paintings of mountains, synthesizing memories and characteristics of various types of mountain formations experienced in his youth. “I must say, I don’t feel very successful,” he says. “I’m still trying to figure the damn things out. This probably helps me to keep going - new problems, new sensibilities, new challenges.”
“Whatever you feel is undone, you should do” says Stuart, a piece of advice she gives to artists and nonartists alike. For her, it meant creating an entirely photographic body of work, a medium she had previously only used for documentation. Her recent large-scale grids of images, surreal and cinematic ruminations on natural phenomena and human frailty, were shown last fall at Leslie Tonkonow in New York. “It’s that book I always wanted to write, the storytelling aspect of my psyche that needed to come out,” she adds. All of these artists have maintained consistent, disciplined studio schedules.
“When you’re 28, you feel like you’ve got infinite time in front of you, which you just don’t have when you’re my age” says Stuart. “You become more circumspect about how you spend it.” Semmel agrees that time is an important factor in why and how she works today. “You know that your time is limited, so you don’t want to waste your time doing work you don’t feel is important.” That means she gives herself permission to take occasional days off if she doesn’t have something she really wants to do.
“You’ve got to do just like the musicians do, you’ve got to practice every day” Ringgold says. “I plan to do that for the rest of my life, practice every day.” The luck of the gene pool as well as staying fit support the stamina and coordination required to remain at the top of one’s game. Morley says he treats himself like an athlete in terms of the seriousness with which he approaches his physical therapy. Thiebaud plays tennis three to four times a week, which he finds akin to the athleticism of painting. “This mind-body construct is a very important thing to recognize,” he says. “The plumb line in the body gives us a sense of things like grace or awkwardness or tension. In tennis, after all, you’re playing on a kind of surface like Mondrian where the parameters and limitations are as important as the spontaneity and freedom of the body.”
On the Picture: Oscar Eduardo Perén Chunai painter
“When I was younger, I had to work every day because I might not be an artist if I didn’t. - she says. - Now I’m pretty sure.”
Article by: Hilarie M. Sheets
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R. Geoffrey Blackburn
www.rgeoffreyblackburn.com contact: R. Geoffrey Blackburn rgeoffrey@rgeoffrey.com United States Canyon Jewel
oil on linen 50 x 38 in 1982
Born in 1947, R. Geoffrey Blackburn began his professional fine arts career in 1970. He has taught art and worked in various art-related fields his entire professional life. While in England, in the early 1970’s, he was the principle artist for an international magazine.
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Red Canyons oil on linen 24 x 30 in 1979
Although he has studied art both privately and at the University of Utah, he is essentially self-taught. His first recognition as an artist came at the age of eight when his work won first prize at the annual exhibit at the Old Mission at San Juan Capistrano, CA. During the last uranium boom of the 1970’s, Blackburn co-owned and operated a mining and exploration company, North American Resources Corp. working out of Moab, UT, which was how he came to focus on red rock landscapes. Blackburn’s art has been widely exhibited, collected and has hung in the White House and appeared on national television. In 1987, he invented a new, user-interactive art form for which he received a US Patent in 1990. His work is frequently commissioned by collectors.
Twilight on the Colorado oil on panel 14 x 24 in 2013
Desert Rules oil on panel 9 x 15.5 in 2008
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R. Geoffrey Blackburn Indian Summer oil on linen 28 x 36 in 2012
Road to Sedona oil on panel 6 x 21.25 in 2007
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Red Canyon, Lander
oil on linen 26 x 36 in 2004
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Francesco Sandrelli www.francescosandrelli.it contact: Francesco Sandrelli pitret@virgilio.it Italy
Donna Antica
oil on canvas 270 x160 cm 2012
Francesco Sandrelli is a self-taught artist from Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany. He had art exhibitions in France, Canada, UK and the United States. Although he had a keen interest in drawing since early childhood, he began to paint in the eighties, attending a private school in Florence. After four years spent in school, he felt exhausted and went to hospital for art therapy in painting. From 1994, he paints again. His works during this period reflect a ‘grande’ love for his family.
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Out of Time
oil on canvas 270 x 160 2012
For a while he paints large canvases, especially in remembrance of childhood memories, sensations and dreams: his virtual storytelling mixes fairy tales with inner visions, combining imperfection with sharpness and abstraction with figurative. Sometimes feeling everything farce around, Francesco is striving to find sense in turmoil through painting.
Narcosis
oil on canvas 270 x 160 2012
Cring Out of Beauty oil on canvas 280 x 160 2011
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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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Art Website - Do you have one? If you are an artist, you must proactively market your creations to the world to become acknowledged and appreciated in this highly competitive industry. While there are a number of ways to market your artistry and unique eye including participating in art shows, exhibits and contests, there is nothing more effective than creating an art website to market your skills and exceptional artwork. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you will give your visitors the visual samples that will affect their impression on you as both a person and an artist. While it is true that artists today have many choices as far as online art marketing is concerned the importance of having a presence via means of a personal website for your art is more valid today than ever. If you desire to sell art online it is crucial to have your own presence if you desire to reap the reward of your efforts. Having your own artist website is a key factor toward success if you desire to sell original art online without having to split profit from eCommerce with others.
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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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How to submit images when entering online art competitions “In this series, we will explore the importance of submitting quality images of your artwork when entering online art competitions. In the first part of these series I mentioned that artists need to pay attention to lighting when taking pictures of their artwork. In this edition of the series, I will stress the fact that submitted images should focus on the artwork itself - anything more is a distraction... and distractions rarely win online art competitions.
Remember that online art competition jurors want to view an image of your art! Make sure that the image you submit is of the artwork - just the artwork. It should go without saying that an art competition submission should be of the artwork itself... nothing less, nothing more. Unfortunately, many artists fail to do this. I’ve worked with enough online art competition jurors to know that a ‘cluttered’ image stands little to no chance of being selected. Below I will offer some examples of what I mean by ‘cluttered’ images.
Frames can distract from the strength of your submitted images It is not uncommon to find online art competition image submissions that include the frame around the artwork. The frame, in this context, takes away from the power of the artwork – it ‘clutters’ the image. The juror(s) must decide if the frame is considered part of the artwork itself. After all, most online art competitions request an image of the artwork... NOT an image of framed artwork. Pointblank, including a frame in the image can cause confusion. Additionally, any designer can tell you that a bad framing choice can ‘take away’ from an otherwise strong work of art. The same can be said of images of framed artwork that you submit to an online art competition. You won’t benefit from the added distraction. Remember to crop the image if you must take an image of a framed work of art.
Jurors want to see your artwork... NOT a studio view of your artwork: Another common problem with online art competition image submissions is the fact that some artists choose to take an image of their artwork on an easel or propped against a studio table. I have viewed online art competition image submissions that were ‘cluttered’ by coffee a mugs and 42 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015
packs of cigarettes placed in front of the artwork! Needless to say, a coffee mug (or any item for that matter) placed in front of the artwork is a HUGE distraction. Online art competition jurors don’t want to see your art studio clutter... they want to view your art.
Jurors don’t want to see you Over the years I have viewed hundreds of online art competition image submissions that involve the artist standing by his or her artwork, images that include the fingers and thumbs of someone holding the artwork up, and images that reveal the shadow of the person taking the photograph. These images - no matter how great the artwork is - always end up at the bottom of the pile. There is no reason to be in the image unless the competition specifically requests that. As for finger, thumbs and shadows - there is no excuse for those additions. Period. In closing, online art competition jurors - even if the artwork itself is outstanding will likely not select images that are cluttered by frames, art studio objects / items, or body parts. After all, they have to think of the professionalism of the competition... and ‘cluttered’ images are simply not professional. Can you imagine how angry the other artists would be if an image of a painting blocked by a coffee mug ended up selected as Best of Show? Think about that when taking images of your artwork with online art competitions in mind. Focus on the art.”
David Sheldon
Mandela
acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2013
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Capt. Stjepko Mamic
Interview
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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How and when did you start creating art? I remember, when I was only four years old I painted with white chalk on the walls, and that love and passion for arts holds me till today and hope that will never disappear. What media and genres do you work in? I like to paint ocean, underwater, fishes, boats, sails and marine landscapes. Positive energy and strong colours are the basis of my paintings. All my paintings have a very positive impact on the observer, some said that after looking into my paintings for only 10 minutes they felt relaxed, like somehow their bodies been recharged and refreshed. I use oil paints, acrylic paints, gold and silver flakes and leaves, various pigments and paints for glass on canvas. I prefer to work with a palette knives. I like to explore new techniques and abilities in painting. Who or what are your influences? I constantly improves techniques of contemporary art at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence and Academie de Port-Royal in Paris,but I do not belong to any artistic direction, any school, any group, I paint for pleasure, for spiritual needs. What are you working on currently? Now I’m working on a new series of paintings, colors of lights, which will be very interesting My goals are to continue to create images that ordinary people will like, and to work on large/huge formats Where can people view/purchase your work? My paintings can be seen in my studio at Dubrovnik, at Artitude Gallery / Paris, RO Gallery / New York (and I am looking for the good gallerist in London :-) and on many Web sites, just Google my name. HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Spring 2015 I 45
www.artbystjepko.com www.raguza.net contact: Capt. Stjepko Mamic stjepko17@yahoo.com Croatia
Upcoming exhibitions, shows, publications? Next exhibition will be in London 03/05/2015 at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, Pall Mall, than Brussels, Paris, New York, Sao Paolo .. next publication, HiddenTreasure Art eMagazine / Summer 2015.
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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.
Rush Hours - Detail
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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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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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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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 55
Be a part of
hiddentreasure Art eMagazine / Summer 2015 Eligibility
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.
Entry Information
Artists who are interested in showing their work in Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine / Summer 2015 must send their images and biography to: submission@ht-artmagazine.com
• Images of 6-8 artworks (minimum 1Mb images (300dpi) including details of the works, such as title, size, medium and the year of creation, • A short biography or description of artistic interests (maximum of 200 words, in the third person, in English, not a CV), • A profile picture, possibly portrait (minimum 400Kb images), • A website address.
Media Accepted
Painting, mixed media, decorative art, design, caricature, sketching, drawing, collage, sculpture, pottery, digital art, 3D art, photography, installations, print, graffiti, street art and custom painting.
Cost
£ 55.00 for 2 pages (or if you wish, you can pay in different currencies: $100.00 or €80.00 included tax. Banking transaction fees apply and must be paid by the artist). Additional pages £25.00 each (or in USD=$50.00 / in EUR=€40.00). Please, apply with this Submission Form.
Deadline
15th June, 2015- The eMagazine will be published at the end of June.
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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. 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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Photography Digital Art
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Danny Van der Elst www.dannyvanderelst.be contact: Danny Van der Elst danny@dannyvanderelst.be Belgium
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The work of Danny Van der Elst goes completely against any current standard of beauty in our society. Every day we are bombarded with images that proclaim a stereotype of men and women that we presumably should aspire to and we see how some people take those images or messages very seriously, provoking frustration. His photographs are refreshing before this social phenomenon; we come into contact with women who are proud to be who they are and are not afraid to appear vulnerable.
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Each image embodies a unique individuality in itself that he does not alter, leaving it to express itself freely and without censorship. It is a photograph that does not judge or choose, and where the motto is less is more. “My photography is based entirely on the idea of empathy. Rather than sought after my images will always be to the point”. (Text: Carolina Schmidt, Arte Al Limite Magazine).
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Germán Guerra Gonzalez Germán Guerra Gonzalez was born in Temuco city in Chile, 1957. Daily he works as a Computer Programmer. However, his spirit and soul made him study photography in “Escuela de Foto Arte De Chile”. After finishing his Photography Studies (1989) he felt that his mind, spirit and soul were connected with the abstract world. His body and mind need this connection to survive and maintain mental sanity while in this world. His instinct told him that in the abstract world he is able to find the primitive and basic expression of the human being. He could finally find freedom without predefined concepts and ideas.
Opus 210
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
www.absolutearts.com/ portfolios/g/germanguerra/ contact: Germán Guerra Gonzalez netracol@vtr.net Chile
Opus 300
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
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Germån Guerra Gonzalez The abstract work represents the harmony and balance that He isn’t able to find. He feels that when capturing an image, he is closer to something essential in the life; but that something remains unknown. He can only say that when capturing an image, his mind, soul and spirit get a little more harmony, peace and balance.
Opus 180
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
Opus 360
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
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The originals works are a slide of 35mm. digitalized with a professional scanner in high resolution for printing with a plotter in canvas. The images don’t have any digital manipulation.
Opus 330
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
Opus 340
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
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Germรกn Guerra Gonzalez www.absolutearts.com/ portfolios/g/germanguerra/ contact: Germรกn Guerra Gonzalez netracol@vtr.net Chile
Opus 370
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
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Opus 350
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
Opus 320
Slide 35mm printed on canvas 90 x 60 cm 2008
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Ryan Leitao
www.Freeflowart.com contact: Ryan Leitao Ryan@Freeflowart.com United Kingdom
What are You Drawing Ryan? digital art 8 x 10 in 2014
What are You Drawing Ryan? digital art 8 x 10 in 2014
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Ryan is an enthusiastic and extremely passionate young designer who is able to create fresh, creative and original ideas for a variety of projects that range from web design, through to print and social media campaigns. Since Mid-2014 Ryan has produced exciting daily portraits for people and has been featured popular sites such as Buzzfeed, Creativepool, Abudezzo and many more. His ambitions are fuelled by his love for art, and a strong passion to create work people love.
What are You Drawing Ryan? digital art 8 x 10 in 2014
What are You Drawing Ryan? digital art 8 x 10 in 2014
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Wioletta Wesolowski www.wiolettaphotography.com contact: Wioletta Wesolowski wwes@sympatico.ca Canada
Wioletta Wesolowski is a fine art photographer who combines her love of art, nature and history with exploring new perspectives. The camera allows Wioletta to capture all the unusual and beautiful things she finds in her home town and while travelling abroad. Wioletta’s images are inspired by her passion for meeting new people, seeing new places and learning about new cultures. Her recent work focuses on The Dreamscape series, which are staged historical settings that convey many faces of mankind: innocence, deceit, longing, loyalty, betrayal, love. The Gathering of the Beasts digital photography 30.5 x 9 in 2015
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The Trio
digital photography 20 x 14 in 2015
The latest series have evolved into more complex story lines by introducing new characters, new historical backgrounds and touches of symbolic imagery. She lives and exhibits her work in Toronto, Canada, while working as a graphic designer and an art director.
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A Cavalier Motivation digital photography 20 x 13 in 2015
The Herbalist
digital photography 20 x 13 in 2015
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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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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein
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Kirsten Høst
Niko
oil on canvas 57 x 74 cm