London 2014 catalogue

London 2014 Group Exhibition

Gallery Pall Mall 8-13 December 2014

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In exhibition Sida 9

Catalogue Sida 49

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Gallery Pall Mall The Royal Opera Arcade Gallery is a gallery for exhibitions, events and auctions in the cultural heart of Central London.

The Royal Opera Arcade (ROA) Gallery is located in the oldest arcade in London, on Pall Mall, situated between Haymarket and Lower Regents Street, and only 5 minutes from Trafalgar Square.

The arcade was opened in 1818, giving the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery its prestige and history. The gallery is located close to art institutions such at the National Gallery, Christie's, the Mall Galleries and the Royal Academy of Arts, and opposite La Galleria Pall Mall.

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In exhibition: Teresa Palla Ahlin Gianluigi Alberio Gisella Battistini Ennio Benaia Ruggiero Buttaro Beatrize Bäckström Rolf Cabander Gilberto Carpo Maurizio Caruso Sisdel Cook Davide Cristofaro Maurizio D´Angió Pina Del Gaudio Stefano Dequarti Anna Engebrethsen Meith Fagerqvist Rachele Falei Samantha Faraglia Lena Frykholm Kraka Gustafson Eta Hedman Ann-Greth Hilding Monica Johansson Annette Johnnerfelt Lars Karlsson

Lambarri Margareta Lilliesköld Susan Lindström Ulla Lodsten Lydia Lorenzi Tatiana Makarkina Marco Masoni Gabriella Mingardi Michela Mirici Cappa Ugo Monti Harriet Morlin Domingo Parada Erika Persson Maria Pisignano Giselda Poscia Annamaria Ruggeri Andrea Sargeant Mikael Schmidt Alessio Serpetti Marit Simborn Margareta Skogsberg Ornella Stefanetti Benny Stigsson Ingebjørg Støyva Magnus Säker Dawn Yoshimura

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Catalogue

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Gianluigi Alberio

Panter, oil on wood, 50x50cm, 2012

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Gisella Battistini

Stone Flower, oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2014

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Rolf Cabander

Panter, mixed technique, 70x50cm, 2014

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Rolf Cabander

Black and Yellow, mixwd technique, 70x50cm, 201

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Maurizio Caruso

Panter, oil on wood, 50x50cm, 2012

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Sisdel Cook

The Family, mixed media on canvas, 47x61cm, 2013

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Davide Cristofaro

Rosita la Magia del Sogno, mixed technique on canvas, 80x80cm, 2013

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Stefano Dequarti

Dolcezza, oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2006

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Anna Engebrethsen

Still on the roses, oil linen, 41x66cm, 2014

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Anna Engebrethsen

In the garden, oil on linen, 41x66cm, 2014

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Meith Fagerqvist

Warrior V, clay, 28x36cm, 2013

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Lena Frykholm

Herb Garden, oil, 100x75cm, 2014

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Kraka Gustafson

Ancestor, mixed media, 50x60cm, 2014

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Eta Hedman

Memories, mixed technique, 22x22cm, 2014

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Monica Johansson

Pontus, akrylic, 45x64cm, 2014

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Monica Johansson

Tilda, akrylic, 45x64cm, 2014

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Annette Johnnerfelt

Tempting, Pottery, 16x13x47cm, 2014

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Margareta Lillieskรถld

Memory, mixed technique, 90x90cm, 2014

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Margareta Lillieskรถld

Man with a Flowerpot, oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2013

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Susan Lindström

”The Fire, my friend”, oil on canvas, 95x75cm, 2014

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Susan Lindstrรถm

Two Suns, oil pastel, 40x50cm, 2014

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Susan Lindstrรถm

We had just listened to Bob Dylan, oil pastel, 40x50cm, 2014

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Lydia Lorenzi

Guitar, mixed technique, 88x50cm, 1998

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Harriet Morlin

Voice of eternity, acrylic, 100x100cm, 2012

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Domingo Parada

Recollection, acrylics on d'arches 300 paper, 22”x28”, 2014

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Maria Cristina Pisignano

Il giardino racchiuso nel vasoNo. 2, watercolor on paper, 58x38cm, 2008

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Andrea Sargeant Branca

Cathedrals of the Earth, watercolor, 1000x70cm, 2014

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Mikael Schmidt

No.19, oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2014

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Mikael Schmidt

No.35, oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2014

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Mikael Schmidt

No.36, oil on canvas, 100x100cm, 2014

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Scuola Maestro Carpo

Annamaria Ruggeri, Hortensias

Marco Masoni, Dreaming the earth

Giselda Poscia, Untitled

Maurizio D'Angiò, Mente d´artista

Michela Mirici Cappa, Il musicista stanco

Gilberto Carpo, cesto rovesciato

Samantha Faraglia, Rubare l´identitá

Ornella Stefanetti, Donna con Fiori

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Alessio Serpetti

Tra l´attimo e l´eternitá, graphite on paper, 26x18cm, 2012

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Marit Simborn

He and she, mixed technique, 100x60cm, 2003

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Margareta Skogsberg

Now and then, acrylic, 1000x1000cm, 2014

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Ingebjørg Støyva

Red handkercief, akrylic on canvas, 60x80cm, 2014

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Magnus S채ker

Untitled, mixed technique, 70x100cm, 2014

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Magnus S채ker

Untitled, mixed technique, 70x100cm, 2014

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Dawn Yoshimura

Fall coffeebreak, watercolor, 28x35cm, 2014

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Presentations of the artists Gianluigi Alberio Gianluigi Alberio, born in 1951 in Rovello Porro (CO), Italy. Passionate about art from an early age. In 1969 he got the diploma at the School of Art of Como and in 1971 at the "Scuola Politecnica di Design" in Novara. Teachers of that school were the famous painter Nino Salvatore, as well as talented graphic designers and architects such as Max Hubert, Bru-no Munari, Gio Ponti, Rossetti, Conti and many other artists who have made the history of advertising in Italy.

In 2003 he discovered the ―Wildlife Art‖ and was intrigued by it.He decided that this would be his own ―Art‖, and thus he begun studying animals in order to make his paintings realistic. He has appeared on tv as an artist of Wild Life Art and has lectured on Animal Art. He was awarded the prestigious ―Environmental Award‖, like Oliviero Toscani, Umberto Veronesi, Amanda Lear and other personalities from the world of culture and art.

He is lecturer in ―Wildlife Painting Art‖ workshops in public and private institutions. In 2013 he participated in the 55th Biennale of Art in Venice, in the exhibition ―Symphonie de couleurs‖. He was selected and exhibited his works at the ―THREE-YEAR EXPOSURE OF VISU-AL ARTS ROMA 2014” along with Schifano, Calabrese, Kostaby and other international artists. His paintings have been exhibited in major Italian and foreign cities such as Milan, Rome, Treviso, Co-mo, Torino, Bologna, Venice, Paris, New York, Beijing, Dakar, Osaka, Berlin, Dallas, Chicago, Phil-adelphia, Miami, Stockholm, Oslo, Barcelona, etc., always receiving wide acclaim from critics and audiences.

Maurizio Caruso Maurizio Caruso was born on September 23th 1957 in a tiny hamlet of Montalto Uffugo, Paranto-ro to be precise, a town at the piedmont of the coastal mountain range in Cosenza province‘s country-side , Italy. Since 2000, he authors, as a designer, the frontpage of the poetry magazine ―Parole‖, fea-turing the poets group ―Laboratorio di Parole‖ (the words workshop) . Some of his poems are found in the ―laboratorio di parole‖ anthology published by Pendragon, Bologna, December 2005. He have participated in many personnal and collective exhibitions , he authors design pages, books and pham-phlets covers, posters for other artists as well as for cultural events. He is continuing his work search-ing for new painting themes, an endeavour that have brougth quite a number of reviews from high-flying names in Bologna‘s and Italy‘s cultural arena. (Picture non in the catalogue, just in exhibi-tion).

Sisdel Cook Sidsel Cook was born in Norway and grew up in Sweden. She has been living abroad for more than 20 years Ms Cook started to paint in oil at the age of 12. But has done other things in life as well.. She was working within The Hair Care Products Industry for many years and became the Licensee for Matrix in Great Britain in 1986.About her art: She grew up among artists. Her first teacher in Art was her grandfather. She consider herself mainly autodidact but has attended several courses in Sweden, Spain and the UK. Wanted to walk her own path and to create dreams to give other people pleasure.

Her first exhibition was i Fuengirola, Spain 1996 and she has participated in yearly exhibitions and had Solo exhibition in Sweden since 2006. Two of her paintings were shown at World Art Foundation in Santa Fe, USA 2010.

Sidsel Cook was one of ten finalists in a Talent Competition arranged by Art Now Gallery in Gothenburg 2011.

The painting “ The Family” illustrate the first Chapter in her book ”97% Sitna Jeans och 3 %Champagne” to be released in December 2014.

It is only, so far available in Swedish and can be ordered from the publisher info@siljansmasar.com In this book Ms Cook takes the reader on an illustrated journey that starts in Oslo 1925. The end is in London. at a Hotel not far away from Piccadilly Circus…

You can see more of her Art on www.sidselcook.hemsida24.se Davide Cristofaro Davide Cristofaro was born in Putignano, August 16th 1985, he lives in Martina Franca, a small town in the south of Italy. He showed at an early age an innate artistic ability inherited from his grandfathers: the father of his dad was a self -taught painter while the other was a famous tailor. Very important in his life was also his great grandfather a graduate sculptor at "Belle Arti Academy" in Florence. Davide decided to attend the high school of tourism management, but he has never neglected his passion for drawing and his interest into the relationship between Fashion and Art. As soon as he graduated he decided to study fashion and design at "Victoria Academy", where he got his degree in Fashion Design. He combined studies with his creativity and passion, two important elements that allowed him to refine his aesthetic sensibility, opening his mind to all artistic disciplines. He has participated successfully in several exhibitions, enjoying warm acclaim by critics and audiences. Davide is a young man, but he is prepared, distinct, and despite his young age enhances contemporary culture well. Thanks to his constant commitment and dedication, he is destined to achieve brighter and more rewarding horizons. Davide Cristofaro's Artworks can be admired in public and private collections, both national and international

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Anna Engebrethsen Born in a little coastal town in Sweden called Falkenberg, Anna Engebrethsen is a well-traveled artist. At only 27 years old, she has already exhibited her paintings in great places around the world. She has participated in exhibitions at the Grand Louvre in Paris, at Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Gallery 69 in New York, Art Gallery ADA in Barcelona and latest at Dubai International Art Center in Dubai, to name a few. With thick layers of oil, she tells the story of the often forgotten world, the world that keeps all the forest creatures and contains the spirit of life. With her unique technique she takes advantage of the Scandinavian color scheme and lets the abstract structure on the canvas create clear pictures of a flourished nature in our minds. She finds her inspiration in the nature, in humans and our hearts. Doc. Riccardo Baldelli wrote in an art critical review "Artists like Anna Engebrethsen could be the bridge between nature and humans that we have lost and that only a young soul like Anna can give us back."

Visit her website www.annaengebrethsen.com for more information and pictures of her art works.

Meith Fagerqvist Meith's profession has been in cartography with 40 years of experience in map design, which has been a 2-D artwork.

When lacking the 3-D method of representing things around us, she has developed her skill of sculpting artwork of clay, concrete, plaster and stone.

Her sculptures are realistic human portraits but also a more stylized form of humans in different social aspects. Her series of warriors are made to show the historical way of dressing and decorating themselves to show power and force.

Lena Frykholm Lena Frykholm is born and raised in northern part of sweden. She paint in oil and get her motives from the nature. She often uses her camera to capture the small details.

She is member in Swedish Artist Union.

To see more of her pictures, go to www. konstnärskvarteret.se Kraka Gustafson Kraka comes from Sweden and works as a shaman, a medicine woman.

Which means that she puts a lot of spiritual energy in all her crafts and artworks, thereby her paintings as well. She’s a specialist in the Nordic rituals and a lot of her work has inspiration from the norse gods, but she have influences from all kinds of shamanism. She is one of the greatest shamans in the north, she has over 30 years of experience.

Eta Hedman Artist / Art Instructor / Interior Designer / Photographer Warmth, serenity and colorful playfulness. Light, reflections and shadows. The hidden reality of the human being.

Eta Hedman's art reflects life and is created by layers of canvas, paper, colors, photographs and silkscreen printing on handmade glass and textiles. The art piece is complete when it has found its expression, it's soul and it's name. When the internal and the external has been interwoven and the piece has acquired a sprinkle of eternity's gold.

The inspiration is found through inner and outer meetings, through the scents and flavors of other cultures. Through the organic shapes found in nature. Through observing other people with ones own eyes. Through life itself and God's love.

With her art, Eta wants to show the beholder a glimpse of eternity and the possibility of life, a life of abundance.

Ann-Greth Hilding Impulsive, surprising, and full of verve, Ann-Greth Hilding’s paintings marry subtle surrealism and dramatic abstract technique. Hilding works with a variety of media, including silk paper and gold leaf on canvas, to provide extra texture underneath her acrylic paint, and both the combination of these materials and the subjects of the works changes in every piece, a reflection of the artist herself, her constantly developing nature, and her awareness that the act of painting is not merely a question of putting colors on a canvas. Hilding‘s body of work is appealingly spontaneous, with clean lines and a vivid palette coming together to express something powerful – often something the artist has seen in a dream, though it may have taken her years to understand how to express it. She paints women as opposed to men, for their soft shapes. Her compositions are skillfully designed to make the eye dance, being neither cluttered nor minimalist.

Hilding has put on several exhibitions in her home country of Sweden, as well as shows in Austria and Malaysia. She describes her artistic aim as ―being able to delight the viewer‖.

Monica Johansson The pencil is the artist's tool and friend. Jim is mostly working with characters in her graffiti. Details with or without colours are the funniest when it come to graffiti. She likes using different types of techniques, and to use different kind of colours.

Jim also likes, next to grafitti, to work with different tunes of paintings which create different moods and feelings in the

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viewer.

Small landscapes and portraits are also some of her favourites. With aquarelles most things can be created and acrylics are splendid for really big pictures. The model, Tilda Degerfeldt, is a three-year-old grandchild of the artist. That little girl knows what she wants and is a very nice and friendly child. Pontus is her babybrother.

The model Pontus Degerfeldt, is a one-year-old boy, who also is a grandchild of the artist. Pontus has a way of looking older than he really is, with a dignity that is noticable. Tilda is his older sister Annette Johnnerfelt Annette is a sculptor and a sociologist. Born in Sweden, she has her studio in Skanör. She lives part-time in Brighton.

Her sculptures are linked to the individual in the society; she tries to bring a thought, a reflection and recognition in today's society where social networking on the Internet overshadows human interaction. The viewer creates the role of human communication and relationships in his own life.

Annette gets inspired by encounters with other cultures. Her experience from many years of daily life in other cultures gave her the insight; it doesn’t matter in which part of the world you live because there are always relations between people who are independent of national boundaries, political landscape and ethnic background.

The natural power of the stoneware reconnects to basic values. The structure has natural differences and hand built evidences is preserved. She motivates the viewer to fill in the blanks. In the sculptures are an exciting balance between the Western mind-set and the Japanese traditions.

As a teenager Annette went to evening classes at University College of Art in Stockholm. Over the years many professional courses in ceramic work in Sweden. In 2003, she was at Fireborn Studios in Pittsburgh, United States. The American perfectionism was at all stages, in materials, in various glazes and detailed patterns. The following year she moved to Japan and she was first at Agape Ceramic Studio in Yokohama. When Yamate Tougei opened its business in 2005 in Tokyo, Annette asked (with the help of a Japanese friend) Hideaki-san if he could receive a student from Sweden. He spoke very little English and Annette spoke very little Japanese. But we need not always words; he turned, pointed and drawn when Annette didn’t understand. During these two years she saw his work and his empathy. She experienced his sense of the material and his facilities unaffected by Western thinking. She learned to look at the material's intrinsic beauty. During 2014, at The Henry Moore Sculpture Studio at Morley College in London, she is sculpturing after live models. The work evolves in harmony with the model and each object of art is unique.

Participated in group exhibitions in Tokyo, Yokohama, London, Paris, Brussels, Bologna (Italy), Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm Lars Karlsson The year was 2003 when he went to the Artschool "The Cube" in his city Orebro in Sweden for 18 mounths.

It was very inspirering to be with so many people wich had one thing incommen. ART! The teacher he had inspired him and gave him energy to continue to draw and paint every day. He always said the truth about his paintings and his way to paint and create.

That was very important for him so he could grow as a artist.

One time he asked him: Can you answer me to one question? Yes Sure! He respond.

Do you think that my art, my way to create can be succesfull in the future?

He looked at him for a few seconds, then he said: To be an succesfull artist you must have three things. The talent. The intelligence and the energy! You have the two first things.

The question is: Do you have the energy?

It started to go around in his head again and again and again. He asked him self so many times.

Do I have the energy? That thinking gave him energy to continue his art. He was smart.

The first time that he could say to his self: I am an artist! Was his first overseas exhibition in Vienna/Austria 2012. So That took him 17 years to have that feeling. Long time.

But the first time that he could say in public that he is an professionall artist was last year when he had his first exhibition at a Museum. Orebro Museum.

He think that we have a wide artworld with different styles and formes today.

He make Pop-Cartoon-Art. Because he have his strong contrasts and strong colors in his work He think it makes people interested. And his choice of characters.

He always paint in Acrylic. Draw in Indian Ink and Charcoal. He have tried in different kind of technics but he felt for acrylic.

His painting: Two Ways to Hard Rock he gave his best in his style if he can say it self.

Because the contrasts was the most strong lines. And high colors. Most in emotion way he expressed in that painting.

The painting is two painting in one.

Margareta Lilliesköld Margareta Lillieskold was born in Stockholm, Sweden and now lives in the Tuscan-Emilian Appenine mountains in Italy.

Through her life she has embraced the world of art and as an artist, she paints mostly abstract and still life, mainly use oil and working on big canvases. She is fluent in Swedish and English and with working knowledge of Italian, French and German.

She started her career as an apprentice in a Stockholm fashion studio and after qualifying, she achieved her aspiration to work in Paris for the Chanel fashion House and also completed a one year course in fashion design at Chambre Syndicate de la Haute Couture Parisienne.

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After two years in Paris, she left for Copenhagen, Denmark where she took a course in pattern construction and design at the Kobenhavns Tillskurer Akademi.

To realize her ambition, she returned to Stockholm, where she started a fashion boutique and studio in the heart of Stockholm.

Next step was a three years course at Beckman´s School of Design and after graduation together with a fellow students she established a design compny working for customers like Ikea, Boda shop, Rorstrand and also many overseas clients. The next change was a move to London establishing a Scandinavian shop in Regent Street, selling crystal, art

glass, tableware and fabrics and regularly holding art exhibitions.

Margareta also manages to take life drawing classes at Froebel College and Portrait paintings at Putney Art School. To live in Italy had always been her dream and in 2006 she decided to move to Italy, where she continues her passion for art. In her studio overlooking the hills and the mountains of the Apennines she now spends many hours with her painting.

Since living in Italy, she has participated in several local exhibitions, summer and winter exhibitions at Russel Gallery/ London 2010, 2 Artists at Saint Isaia/Bologna 2012, stand at Scandiano Art Fair 2013, exhibited with 7 Italian artists at Art&Co. Parma 2013 and is currently contracted with Art&Co galleries in Parma, Milano, Lecce, Caserta. www.margaretalillieskold.eu

Susan Lindström Susan Lindström was born in 1958 and lives in north-west Sweden in a very small village called Storjola (it means “Big Earth”!). The village lies in a mountain valley at the end of the road and the view from her studio is magnificent, extending across lakes, forests and fells. Here she paints full-time and runs her company “Susan Lindström Art”.

After music school it was her interest in art that took over and Susan spent 3 years at various arts and craft training establishments in Stockholm, amongst other places. Her final choice of career was to be an art teacher and she studied for 3 years at the University of Umeå and became an art teacher in 1982.

During her time there, Susan painted large commissioned dry pastel portraits and also obtained a commission to illustrate Selma Lagerlöf’s ”Gösta Berling’s Saga” with 20 watercolours of the Torsby Estate in Värmland.

Susan then worked as an art teacher for 20 years. After 8 years, she studied History of Art at the university and worked on the senior school’s painting and form program in Östersund, where she taught painting materials and art and cultural history.

Susan has had a number of exhibitions in northern and central Sweden, both with groups and individually, through various art associations and private galleries. She exhibited most recently at Virsbo art gallery, which showed “International Art/Landscape Subjects” with artists from all over the world.

Landscape painting is Susan’s great passion and the technique in which she works most is oil pastel chalks. She loves the technique and thinks it is underrated with its powerful expressiveness. She works in the chalks’ oils and softens the colours with each other in layers. Then she work and rubs, scrapes and scratches the layers of colour to create different effects. Susan makes her “fire paintings” with oil colours.

The subjects are taken from Nature and the environment around Susan, and her eye is caught both by the dramatic and the tranquil moment, in its entirety and in detail. There is often something of a darker tone in her paintings; a bit mysterious and melancholy, just as she experiences Lapland. Susan likes to work with contrasts between light and shade, cold and warmth, the joyful and the melancholy. And not least the romantic way of seeing.

Apart from the fact that Susan loves her world of the fells and wants to express the feelings and sensory impressions she herself receives here, she also is keen to pursue the question of the negative effects that forestry, development of hydroelectric power and exploitation of unspoiled natural areas that are worth protecting can bring about. Susan is worried about the short-term thinking that does not see values in nature other than the economic ones and she wants to put forward the philosophical pantheistic view of Nature where there is an inherent spiritual energy in every little thing around us. An energy that we humans should feel so much better for being able to appreciate and carry it forward into the future. www.susanlindstrom.se susanstorjola@telia.com

Lydia Lorenzi Lydia Lorenzi. Painter, sculptor, graphic design, was born in Bergamo where he is artistically formed in the 80s. Abroad it is known as a result of strong and intense collaborations with artists and curators prominent on the international scene. In its latest national artistic presence are: 2009, competition in the city-Sculpture Projects Milan by the Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition, which is currently associate artist; 2011 54th Venice Biennale-Italian Pavilion,

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curated by Prof. Vittorio Sgarbi and set in the cities of Milan, Turin and Viterbo; 2014 Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts in Rome, at the headquarters of the University La Sapienza, an event organized and sponsored by The Rose of the Winds, conducted under the direction of Prof. Daniel Radini- Germans and inaugurated by Prof. Achille Bonito Oliva.

September 2014, Farini Concept Gallery, Palazzo Fantuzzi, Bologna, presented by Giorgio Grasso.

Harriet Morlin Undergraduate education in the arts is Dalarö People’s University Stockholm, Goetes color theory and Rudolf Steiners’s philosophy Florence Italy, Vedic Art Stockholm etc.

The people who influenced her as an Artist and human being is Artist Curt Källman Founder to Vedic Art. Since childhood, she has had the insight she is an artist’s soul, but other parts of her life meant that she had to wait to take the step to become a professional Artist. She paints her pictures from inside their heart and soul ”ART FROM HEART” and shows her awareness in all aspects of life. She paints according Vedic Art, it’s a painting method which helps one to achieve a higher state of consciousness through creativity, beyond the limitations of the intellect and the demands of technique. Her painting ”Power in Love” represents her as an artist, and human being, the painting is filled with her strong inner energy. She held her solo exhibition at Gallery Knight Stockholm 2012, Group exhibition at the Royal Garden Stockholm 2013, Gallery Quirinius Köping 2014, Gallery Mowitz, Stockholm 2014, Group Exhibition Gallery 76, Dubai 2014. Harriet explores and heals herself through her art, and inspired by all the meetings with new people. Her plans for the future of art is to give her paintings around the world, to touch people on a deeper level, and also to spread harmony and peace between all cultures on mother earth. She is open to all that is positive and can please other people.

Domingo Parada DOMINGO PARADA FARJAT, Bolivian-American Artist born in Sucre,Bolivia. Graduated from the Universidad de San Francisco Xavier of Sucre,Bolivia. Attended classes with Ivan Serpa at the Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.

One of the most important figures in contemporary art in Bolivia and Latin America, he moved to the U.S in 1966. He has exhibited his work more than seventy times in several countries of South America and in many States of United States. His paintings are part of several private collections and Cultural Institutions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Domingo received several Prizes and Honors in South and North America. He represented his country of birth in the ”III Bienal de Arte Americano”, Cordoba, Argentina in 1966. He also represented the U.S. in the “Lisboa International Contemporary Exhibition” in 2013 in Portugal, and in 2014 a the “Downtown Chiado 14” also in Lisboa, Portugal.

Domingo believes that his creative work is fruit of his awareness of the world which surrounds us. That the world is not only a visual world, but also the immensurable world of our interior mind, its landscape of emotions, imagination and fantasy. All that exists in the Universe is constantly created by energy. and this energy manifests itself in billions of vibrations, among this is light. Light is color. The infinite colors of the spectrum together with the geometric forms that are the essence of the Universe give him a palette that he can use to express moments of conscious experience.

His work can be interpreted by consciously or un-consciously grasping the vibrations of the light in all of its forms and colors as if they were a form of pure music.

Mikael Schmidt MIKAEL SCHMIDT - ROARING SILENCE. Born in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1961. Mika-el Schmidt is working out of Malaga, Spain and his studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Mikael is auto-didact, working mainly in Oil on Canvas 100 x 100 cm or larger (US 36 x 36 in), mixing his own flu-orescent colors. Thick layers of Oil applied with aggressive strokes of kitchen tools and knives. Mika-el paints mainly his counseling clients as well as animals who he thinks reflects human behavior. The penetrating eyes of his figures, both humans and animals mirror the viewer, creating a lasting impres-sion and energy. ―In my art I want to express the colors of being authentic. The color of being true to yourself, and how beautiful and peaceful it is underneath the desire to be loved and to seek approval from others.‖

Scuola Maestro Carpo La presenza di miei ex allievi alla mostra Pall Mall Gallery di Londra, situata al centro della città, è una tappa riguardevole al loro impegno, reduci di alcune manifestazioni, che hanno promosso: capacità, ricerca, zelo, intuizioni estetiche e un appropriarsi di linguaggi atti allo sviluppo della loro pittura consolidate da tempo nella indagine peculiare di ogni artista. L’acquisizione dell’insegnamento avuto, ad una continua impostazione alla libera visione della propria personalità, ha avuto modo ad uno sviluppo sistematico e profondo nel risultato. Ben presente in ognuno di loro, ben acquisito nel proprio animo, ben posto in ogni opera, senza dimenticare che l’Arte produce continue variegate e poliedriche sperimentazioni e studi, al fine di prodigarsi all’infinito. Gilberto Carpo

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Alessio Serpetti Fortemente legato ad una concezione scenografica della composizione, e profondamente ispirato dalla poetica del Simbolismo e del Surrealismo, dai Maestri del Seicento e dai Preraffaelliti, Alessio Serpetti conduce una ricerca figurativa del tutto personale attraversando con raffinato gusto monocromatico paesaggi onirici e suggestioni metafisiche, atmosfere notturne e misteriose intrise di lirismo e di significati allegorici. Di lui la giornalista Elena Gollini dice “Esegue le opere con tecnica impeccabile, degna di un pittore di antica tradizione, con meticolosa e doviziosa raffinatezza nel tratto, con la scrupolosa attenzione di chi vuole rappresentare con lucida esattezza e precisione anche il minimo dettaglio narrativo e dare enfasi formale alle spettacolari immagini visionarie. Nei dipinti riscopre iconografie medievali e rinascimentali, simboli archetipi e miti dimenticati, in una raffigurazione che appare come la riproduzione

virtuale di un lungo viaggio notturno, di uno sprofondamento in un mondo sommerso e sotterraneo, dove sopravvivono le creature e le divinità, che popolano e animano la nostra sfera onirica e fantastica”.

Marit Simborn Marit Simborn was born 1961 in Stockholm now residing in Bålstad, fifty kilometers north of Stockholm. She started drawing and painting as a young girl encouraged by her father, a photographer and a painter. Simborn has attended various Art Schools, such as the Katarina Västra in Stockholm, the Nova Theatre in Stockholm (make-up artist), the Uppland Väsby Art School. Simborn’s achievements include being an Art Teacher at the Anthroposophist School Miu in Skokloster as well as her four major Art Exhibitions in Bålstad. Simborn uses different tools such as oil, acryl, water, ink, pencil and in mixed techniques. Simborn does murals and uses wood and rock for her layout. Animals, buildings, castles, portraits and spiritual paintings are her most common motives.

Margareta Skogsberg She is an artist who lives and works in a small town named Arboga in Sweden.

Today she works mainly as an artist and also as a light-and color therapist.

She has been painting for 25 years. Moustly in oil colour . Three years ago she change to acrylic.and lets go of the control over the painting, mixes different materials into the paint for structure and chooses colours and shapes by impulse.

She has had many exhibitions in Sweden and for the last two years, several international exhibitions.

In 2014 she has been selected for three international awards Throphy ‘’Knights of Malta’’ ‘’La Palma d’ Oro’’ Monaco ‘’Arte Catania’’ Sicily www.margaretaskogsberg.com

Ingebjørg Støyva Ingebjørg Støyva was born i Bergen, in Norway 1978. She grew up by the Sognefjord with her father, brother and grandmother.

In her early teens her elderly brother was badly hurt in a car accident. It was in this period the artist found interest in Art, and got a specially love for colors. She found joy in thinking about how much of each color it was in the sky, the mountains, and in the green grass- or in the dead, dry grass. Her painting gave her other ways to tell stories, and to communicate without using the spoken words. This continuessly follows her in her life.

In her work the artist seek to employ illustrative techniques to explore means to express the subtle and to an extent the subliminal. One can call her a narrative painter – she uses the act of suggesting, rather than stating, a mood or a story.

The elements in her work are somehow emotionally recognisable, as well as unexpected.

Magnus Säker

Magnus Säkers art comes from his inner lustful SOUL. Over the years this has shaped his art from drawing to contemporary and unbridled creativity in color and shape.

Education: 100 % AUTODIDACT During his willful progress he has tested many techniques and used different materials and thereby found a base in his way of working that he primarily use today. He work a lot with the combination of acrylic wet paint and spray paint. Time has taught him to handle these different techniques in his own way and to make them into ONE.

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He paint everything from abstract to somewhat figurative. In the abstract paintings He often work with depth at different levels, providing a large space of contemplation. The more figurative paintings always have an emotional theme, often love and intimacy either with a single form filled woman or with a joyful couple. And sometimes with a cocky and feminine sexiness without slipping over the edge and becoming pornographic.

Dawn Yoshimura I, Dawn Yoshimura, come from the Hawaiian Islands where Western and Asian cultures combined into a unique cosmopolitan culture. The Islander‘s point of view, together with my Japanese heritage informs my work, and can be seen in my preference for off-center composition and a deep appreciation for Japanese aesthetics. When you come from a remote island, no matter how beautiful, you are always com-pelled to look out to sea both in anticipation as well as a longing to see past the horizon and make contact. I suppose that is why I like to paint mountains and the sea— mountains offers the comfort of the anchor and water offers possibilities. The familiar and the unfamiliar. I could easily paint every morning for the next 10 years my beloved Ko‘olau Mountains and Kane‘ohe Bay where I grew up. Yet, I get excited when I travel and can capture the feel and sense of a place in a plein air painting. I return home every winter but while I am in Sweden, my current home, I love to walk the Scandavian West Coast landscape and capture the light that Anders Zorn was known for. My process is one of observation and reflection upon my spontaneous reaction to a place. I try to try to capture that feeling or sensation in my paintings of the landscape. As the islander stands on the shore waiting for some sign—I hope viewers of my work feel the same sense of the familiar or, alternatively, the sense of promise that particular landscape conjurs up in me, because, then the communication is complete and we have connected. I have always drawn from nature and real life, and enjoy exploring textures in painting. I moved to San Francisco to study at Rudolph Schaeffer‘s School of Design on a schol-arship, eventually earning a Bachelor‘s from the California School of Art. Although formally trained, I am a self-taught watercolourist and plein air painter. I enjoy watercolour because it suits my temperment and process. It forces me to make choices and to be honest. It also helps me to be brave, by throwing away pieces that don‘t work. I also work in encaustic, casein and oils. Just now I am fascinated by trees in all seasons and am exploring its form in different media. If mountains and water are symbolic for the mind, trees are symbols for our individuality and character.

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