hiddentreasure Art eMagazine
SUMMER 2015
On the cover, the young Austrian artist:
Daniel Wimmer
HT Art Magazine Publishing I Summer 2015
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: Daniel Wimmer Back: Guillermo Grebe
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The Arts Do Live... “...continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.� - Katherine Anne Porter 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 April. 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. We believe that Hidden Treasure Art eMagazine has much to offer both to the Artist and to the Readers.
Georgia Szollosi Ellis director, editor and curator
Artists Alexander Breskin.................................24 CPleyer..................................................32 Daniel Wimmer.....................................12 Deborah Nicholas................................18 Elana Scwartz................................... ....56 ........................................................... ....58 Francesco Sandrelli..............................34 Fu Wenjun..............................................50 Gabi Dömenig......................................10 Giampietro Cudin................................44 Giuseppe Digiacomo..........................60 Gordon Tardio.......................................16 ............................................................ ....26 Graehound...........................................36 Gualat....................................................08 Guillermo Grebe...................................40 ........................................................... ....64 Julie River...............................................42 Kirsten Høst............................................14 Maria Fatjó Parés..................................06 Marian Sava..................................... ....62 Paola Adornato....................................38 Paul-Jürgen Weber..............................52 R. Geoffrey Blackburn..........................30 Raymond Quenneville.........................20 Rohe Wiliam..........................................28 Shae White............................................46
Paintings Drawings Mixed Media
Maria Fatjó Parés
La Sardana oil on canvas 92 x 38 cm 2015
www.mariafatjopares.com contact: Maria Fatjó Parés maria@mariafatjopares.com Spain
Maria was born and raised in Barcelona (Spain), where she still lives and works. She received a Bachelor Degree in Communication (Advertising and Public Relations) from Universitat Ramon Llull. However, as naïve painter she is a self-taught artist.
Grandi Formaggi oil on canvas 41 x 41 cm 2014 6 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Sumer 2015
La Gondoletta oil on canvas 41 x 41 cm 2014
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Facciamo la Pasta oil on canvas 61 x 24 cm 2014
Her main reference developing her painting style was the painter Pere Torné-Esquius (Barcelona 1879-Flavancourt 1936), particularly 11 naïve works which had been painted by him to decorate a child´s room. Maria tries to achieve an art for all ages: a kind of art dedicated to both child and adult. She shows her artwork both at regional and international scale.
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GUALAT www.bebopart.com contact: Maria Teresa Guala mariateresaguala@libero.it Italy
Maria Teresa Guala was born in Turin 1947, is coming from a family of painters and sculptors of “Monferrato”. Studied at Accademia Belle Arti of Turin (Studio Filippo Scroppo).
Kindergarten acrylic drawing on paper 50 x 70 cm 2014
“Dear Friend, the information you give me on your activity confirm you have no difficulty for your introduction in the Art World... I suggest you continuing your activity of painter because there is “good stuff in you”. - Vittorio Sgarbi
Red Cat acrylic drawing on board 34 x 50 cm 2013 8 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Sumer 2015
“...the expressive style of M. Teresa Guala identifies herself with a search tied to the colour, to the intense flowing of the line and to the vital scansion of the images. In particular, the painter has elaborated a speech in which the simplification of the representation results, as suggested by A. Bottello, by an adhesion to the German Expressionism.” Angelo Mistrangelo
Behind the Curtain acrylic drawing on board 50 x 70 cm 2013
Rock Guitar acrylic on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2012
“...some ‘stories’ having as support plan some Expressionistic references, revive without doubt these works evocative in the extreme and in ‘a pictorial figure’ – as said in precedence - Neoexpressionist... In fact in her works, above all in the most recent, we find a far analogy of line with some important painters of “Die Brucke” as Heckel, Kirchner, Schmidt, Rottluff.” - Arturo Bottello HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Summer 2015 I 9
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
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Sunday Walk on the Golden Beach acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm 2015 HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Summer 2015 I 11
Daniel Wimmer www.www.wida-art.com contact: Daniel Wimmer wida-art@gmx.at Austria
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“Daniel Wimmer was born in Salzburg and grew up in an artist family. He’s been drawing since childhood and since he has finished the Nursing School he is truly ‘addicted’ to it. Due to working in night-shifts he has more spare time and he started to draw and paint every day. With the help of different books and online courses he taught himself the techniques of the old masters and also other styles.
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In his paintings he loves playing with contrasts, compositions and different schools. He hardly repeats himself and this way he is learning from each new picture. His preferred subject are people. He loves the different, always changing colours of their skin and the fascinating shapes of their bodies and faces.”
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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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Gordon Tardio
www.www. facebook.com/ gordonartist contact: Gordon Tardio tgordont@hotmail.com Malaysia
Don’t Look Now acrylic on raw watercolour paper 22 x 30 in 2015
Sharing acrylic on watercolour paper 30 x 41 in 2015
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Gordon Tardio is a Canadian born artist now residing in Malaysia. Since 1980 he has exhibited his paintings in Vancouver, Canada, Bangkok, Singapore & Malaysia. Now his work can be seen online freeing him up for more quality studio time. Gordon has traveled extensively over the years and you’ll see that people, places and cultures are a recurring theme in his art, as are orchids and nature. But what dominates him is his love for the painting process, using acrylic colour on various art papers as his main medium. Then there’s book illustration, portrait, comic strip, caricature. He also works with camera and computer, to create images brush strokes just can’t deliver.
Robes acrylic on raw watercolour paper 22 x 30 in 2015
Temples & Wires, a Lane in Bangkok acrylic on handmade paper 21 x 31 in 2013
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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
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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
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Retrouvailles oil on canvas 18 x 36 in 2013 HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Summer 2015 I 21
Raymond Quenneville Les Blues I oil on canvas I 18 x 36 in I 2011
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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. 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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Alexander Breskin
www.breskinart.com contact: Alexander Breskin breskinart@mail.ru Ukraine Morning Ringing oil on canvas 75 x 95 cm 2012
Three Elements oil on canvas 112 x 96 cm 2002
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At the Root, Apostle Andrew oil on canvas 105 x 35 cm 2015
Alexander Breskin is a member of the Union of graphic artists of Kiev and the Union of Artists of the book. His works are represented in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the National Museum of Ukrainian Decorative and Applied Art, the Museum of History of Kiev, the Kiev Museum of Cultural Heritage, and the Museum Getmanstva as well as in private collections in different countries. The artist is teaching drawing and painting in his studio since 2005 and keeps painting himself. Two films about Breskin’s works were made in 2007 and 2010 by international TV channel UTR and they were broadcasted several times.
Inspiration oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm 2011
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Gordon Tardio Life goes on … Myanmar acrylic on watercolour paper I 22 x 30 in I 2014
Gordon Tardio is a Canadian born artist now residing in Malaysia. Since 1980 he has exhibited his paintings in Vancouver, Canada, Bangkok, Singapore & Malaysia. Now his work can be seen online freeing him up for more quality studio time. Gordon has traveled extensively over the years and you’ll see that people, places and cultures are a recurring theme in his art, as are orchids and nature. But what dominates him is his love for the painting process, using acrylic colour on various art papers as his main medium. Then there’s book illustration, portrait, comic strip, caricature. He also works with camera and computer, to create images brush strokes just can’t deliver. www. facebook.com/gordonartist
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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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Rohe William
www.wtrohe-art.eu contact: Rohe William rohel@otenet.gr Greece
Morning Mists aquarelle on paper 40 x 50 cm 2014
Chicago River acrylic on aluminum foil/board 16 x 12 cm 2014
William T. Rohe was a practicing architect until he picked up the brush in 1997. He is an American living on an island in Greece. He works in various media, abstract, landscape, people and realism in oils, acrylic, pastels, aquarelle and ink. He also constructs three dimensional montages. Mr. Rohe enjoys using painting on various materials and using the pallet knife. 28 I HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Summer 2015
Drinking Ouzo oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2004
Old Curiosity Shop, Aegina oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm 2015
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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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CPleyer www.cpleyer.eu contact: Christina Pleyer studio@cpleyer.eu Germany
Square photography print on brushed aluminium 120 x 75 cm 2015
Creativity is Christina’s middle name. Both in craft and art of her works. Her body of works consists exclusively of photography yet few of them are recognizable as such.
Spaceman 120 x 80 cm photography print on brushed aluminium 2015
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Big Wheel Wave photography, print on matt aluminium 120 x 80 cm 2014
‘I want to inspire people. I want others imagination run wild. Lovers of art won’t get answers instead the pictures evoke emotions.’ - was a recent quote of the photography artist who is based in Stuttgart, Germany. Her work was exhibited in major European cities like Berlin and Vienna. Upcoming exhibitions will be held in France and Germany both in 2015. Her work is represented at art fairs and galleries in Germany. All her works are limited and signed editions of scarce quantity to further increase their value.
Powerball Red photography print on acrylic glass 120 x 80 cm 2015
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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 HIDDEN TREASURE ART eMAGAZINE / Summer 2015 I 35
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.
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.
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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Paola Adornato www.paolaadornato.com contact: Paola Adornato Paolaado@Libero.It Italy
Untitled 20 acrylic on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2014
Paola Adornato was born in 1972 in Italy and work in Turin. Graduated at the Primo Liceo Artistico she attended Accademia of Belle Arti of Turin. She started her artistic trip and her approaching to the painting, finding in the acrylic, her current art expression.
Evevning acrylic on canvas 50 x 40 cm 2014
Senza Titolo 18 acrylic on canvas 45 x 30 cm 2009
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Her paint start by studying photos that she done at anonymous places. All the images, after, are elaborated... come to life, in this way: colors, contrast and prospective views. She told: I find interestingly make to know that many works show places that today be no more. They are structures that in this period of time has been knocked down or permanently closed.
Altrove acrylic on canvas 45 x 40 cm 2009
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Guillermo Grebe
Guillermo Grebe studied Visual Arts at the University of Chile between 1983 and 87 and design in 2010 to12. He has been studied from the masters as Gonzalo Diaz and Adolfo Couve. Since 1989 he dedicated himself to working in advertising as an artistic creative director.
www.guillermogrebe.cl contact: Guillermo Grebe guillermo.grebe@gmail.com Chile
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Guillermo Grebe has been teaching design and audiovisual communication at numerous universities also, he has been working in the same profession as creative director and strategic communicator until present days. He has been painting without great pretensions and intermittently since he left the School of Arts and has exhibited in group as well as in solo exhibitions in Chile. Since 2014, Guillermo dedicated himself to painting professionally and permanently.
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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.
Animals mixed technique and acrylic 50 x 50 cm 2015
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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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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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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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Paul-Jürgen Weber
Weber lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Art works since 1968, at first painting and assemblages, since the 1980ies primarily photography. He feels particular reference to Ansel Adams, Bernd Becher and Sebastiao Salgado. His works are preferentially focussed on landscapes in a broad sense, meaning “natural finished” and “manmade” settings. Source to his works is the world’s visible reality as it is. It actually provides an endless domain of endemic art basics.
Spouter IS43
www.pjweber.de contact: Paul-Jürgen Weber paul@pjweber.de Germany
Glacier Texture IS46 fineart print 36 x 47 cm 2015
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fineart pint 36 x 47 cm 2015
Glacier Texture IS89 fineart print 36 x 47 cm 2013
The particular feature is to discover, select and process the intrinsic essence from the huge diversity and variety of forms, substances and situations with a discrete power of attraction to be creatively converted into artworks. Sir Karl Popper very rightly accentuated the abundant beauty of our planet Earth. With his photographs Weber quests to contribute to it’s visualization. Wilfried Wiegand calls this the ‘detected beauty’, which has been already existing but has to be bared and recollected. It is no matter of words and reasons to get access to this kind of artwork. The key is to realize it subjectively as individual beholder in his respective perception. In this sense Weber’s artwork wants to touch people and at the best to fascinate and to inspire.
Glacier Texture IS53 fineart print 36 x 47 cm 2015
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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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SCULPTURES INSTALLATIONS
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Elana Schwartz www.ElanaSchwartz.com contact: Elana R. Schwartz schwartzelana@gmail.com United States
Sanasthros linden wood 28 x 8 x 7 in 2012
Judgement Day linden wood,
pine, cedar, mahogany 14 x 6 x 8 feet 2013
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Aphia linden wood mahagony 4 feet 2 in x 2 feet 5 in x 1 foot 2 in 2012
Erodon linden wood mahagony 5 feet 7 in x 1 foot 10 in x 2 feet 2013
Elana Schwartz is a wood sculptor from New Mexico. She has been drawn to the use of statuary as a conduit between the physical and metaphysical; concrete objects transcend the inherent limitations of the physical and provide a channel through which hidden meaning is unlocked. Wood is the perfect medium to explore concepts of the cyclical nature of life, containing within each piece a living history and future all its own. The recreation of wood into sculpture captures the transformative spirit of our own life cycles, and has the capacity to make any space sacred.
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ELANA SCHWARTZ “Kalsang” Good Fortune lindenwood, pine, moss, mixed media I 4’2” x 3’9” x 2’3” I 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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Giuseppe Digiacomo www.artigianatoartistico.weebly.com contact: Giuseppe Digiacomo murphy190@hotmail.it Italy
Giuseppe Digiacomo was born in Manduria on January 23, 1990. Since childhood he was fascinated by the art of shaping wood and by attending the workshop of an artisan, he acquired the rudiments that allowed him to learn how to assemble and transform materials readily available. At 9 years old, he moved to Rome, where he still lives and works. The eternal city stimulates and intrigue him, with its many shops and works of art in every alley. So, he get close on tiptoe to the art world that, in a short time, involves him completely. In January 2015, he made his first work, “Spazio Vitale”, in which he focuses the man with his own emotions. Emotions that are also his and that, since then, take shape in his works.
Icaro installation 130x45 cm 2015
In a short time, he experimented new materials and perfected his technique. The Maestro Alberto Vespaziani, President of “100 Pittori di via Margutta” Association, is the first who to take an interest in its work and, judging them as innovative, he agree, in 26.03.2015, to expose him with artists of the Association. Since then he has participated in several collective exhibition and in various artistic contest.
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Ricordi installation 50 x 50 cm 2015
Alla ricerca di… installation 70 x 92 x 40 cm 2015
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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
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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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Guillermo Grebe El rescate de las Sabinas (serie DIOSAS PUTAS) oil on canvas I 120 x 100 cm I 2014
Guillermo Grebe studied Visual Arts at the University of Chile between 1983 and 87 and design in 2010 to12. He has been studied from the masters as Gonzalo Diaz and Adolfo Couve. Since 1989 he dedicated himself to working in advertising as an artistic creative director. www.guillermogrebe.cl