JaamZIN Creative February 2019

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A MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE

JAAMZIN CREATIVE PAINTING

PHOTOGRAPHY Photographers and cinematographers

Visual artists, painters

GRAPHIC ART Graphic artists, illustrators, cartoonists

MUSIC INTERVIEWS Interviews with artists and creative people

Musicians, singers and songwriters

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Photography Photographers,, cinematographers

14 Painting, design and graphic arts Painters, visual artists, cartoonists

22 Illustrators Illustrations.. illustrators

23 Music, Events Singers, songwriters, musicians,, Art events

26 Interviews Artist interviews

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Helene Vallas I am a self-taught photographer living in Paris. The photographic act is not an activity for me but a real commitment to the world around me. I like various subjects; the landscapes, still life, emotions that I feel, I express them through my photos and I share them. I try to build a poetic language through photography while looking for a form of aesthetics.Some series that I present is the beginning of a work on my many travels and ballads in France to impose a poetic emotion.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Zak Collins Zak Collins is a photographer based in Charleston, South Carolina specializing in contemporary landscape. Zak’s interest in photography developed at an extremely difficult & transformative time in his life, following the losses of his twin son & daughter, both dying during delivery. As a coping mechanism for grief, the medium of photography would become a cathartic center of focus for Collins, eventually giving way to a regained sense of balance. Over time, Zak’s photographic work progressed from field study to career choice. Since 2013, he has pursued landscape as subject matter, concentrating on the coastal and wetland regions of the southern United States. Both regions are very diverse with their own distinctive aesthetic; an aesthetic that is mysterious and complex, characteristics he attempts to convey in his photographs.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Simon Manoha I try trough different ways to reach the depth of the world of which I am one. I study the language, its writing and its concepts with the help of philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and some poets like Basho or René Char. To feel things I study ceramics, the clay and the simplicity of Japanese one, specially the manufacture of chawans and the high temperature firing.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Ana Lora My name is Sandra (Ana Lora) and I'm a self taught photographer from Frankfurt, Germany. I love to take photos of beautiful & special people and have a passion for analog cameras.Â

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Rainer Tessmann I'm a self taught photographer and voyager searching for poetic, expressive or simply special moments in everyday life. I love strong vivid monochromes and also the beauty of color photos.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Zuzana Uhlíková I was born in the Czech Republic and live in Pilsen.

I'm a self-taught professional photographer and visual artist. I specialize in Fine Art, Landscape and Portraiture photography. I combine my experiences with portrait and landscape photography and create surreal, dreamy-look conceptual works.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Francesco Libassi I’m a fine art and landscape photographer from Italy, based in Japan since 2007.Originally I moved to Japan for reasons mostly unrelated with photography, but I soon realized I was living in such a beautiful country that I NEEDED to share my experiences and the places I was visiting with my family and friends, and why not, with everyone else! That’s how I started to take landscape images.

My main focus when photographing a place is to capture its essence and the emotions I’m experiencing while I’m there, avoiding all the distractions around me (the human presence and also colors): that’s one of the reasons why I find a combination of black and white and long exposure techniques makes a big part of my style. I think it helps suggesting a place instead of describing it, making the images “timeless”. I love to photograph seascapes by the coast and I have an overwhelming attraction to Mount Fuji.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Kremer/Johnson Kremer/Johnson = Neil Kremer + Cory Johnson.

Character-based portraits and narrativedriven scenes are our thing. Large & complex productions are where we thrive, and we specialize in capturing authentic moments in even the most manufactured of settings.

True collaborators at heart, we formed Kremer/Johnson to explore our combined creative vision. We share in all duties from ideation & preproduction through shooting & post.

Together we create still & moving images for advertising, editorial, and corporate clients nationwide.Â

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Desmond Low I am Desmond Low based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I like shooting street photos in my country hoping that many people can see my photos all around the world.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Johanna Brinckman Photographer can be a misleading title these days. Everyone with a smartphone believes that they are in fact a photographer while the real proof is in the artistry and ingenuity rather than the physical tools. German photographer Johanna Brinckman represents the modern face of photography with her work online and in high end print magazines.

It’s actually quite difficult to define what makes a good photograph because it’s almost subliminal. The images we see that are confined to being aesthetic pleasing are soon forgotten while other may stay in our memory for ages. Johanna has worked with celebrities and models from many different backgrounds; what stands out about her work is its depth.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Garret Suhrie I am your standard wanderer and photographer, guess you could say Los Angeles based though often living on the road in my Tacoma, or a tent in the backcountry. A lifetime ago, I went to school for painting and art history, which were a huge influence on my photography.

Though the aerial you chose doesn't reflect it, I focus mainly on long exposures and painting with light; I just traed in my paintbrush for a flashlight.

I've been an insomniac long as I can remember, and the night time is often such a strange and surreal stage, it gives a peculiar feeling which I try to fuse into my work. For myself at least, there's nothing better than the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Stéphanie Maille-Somma I am a visual artist from an applied arts background: Edaa pix. I am 37 years old.

Abstract art, which fascinates me, influences my compositions. I wish, through my photographs, to invite everyone to live the present moment, by becoming aware of what surrounds us.

To take the time, to slow down, to perceive the beauty of a flower, a tree, is for me a first step towards well-being and brings to the respect of the nature. I created my project in July 2016: Staging nature. It has a multitude of shapes and colors; That's where inspiration comes from.

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PAINTING

Silvia Pavarini Silvia lives in Italy, she attended the advertising academy in Milan, where she developed a great interest in illustration. She later approached painting that is still her today true great interest!

Initially, her artworks were characterized by girls with big eyes, later her art evolved into something different, but with the same dreamlike feeling! Today, her painting is figurative and feminine, the ethereal and immobile bodies emanate an invisible, fluid energy that passes through the body and becomes confetti, light, leaf and silence, a harmonious intertwining in an exchange of souls, an inner search that describes the naturalness of feelings, in its deepest nuances!

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PAINTING

Carolien Wissing Carolien Wissing (1976) makes canvases in a sober color palette, on which major architectural, abandoned buildings and landscapes can be identified. Twenty years ago Carolien moved from the countryside to the city to study at the Academy of Fine Art. She graduated as an ‘Architectural designer’ but during her study she found out, she was much more fascinated by absorbing the atmosphere of environment. Carolien gets inspired by the peri-urban fringe where the existence of culture fades and slowly merges into the landscape of nature.

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PAINTING

Ania Tomicka was born in 1985 in Łódz, Poland. When she was only 9 she moved to Italy, where she started to draw seriously: manga at first and realistic things afterward. She attended an art institute and graduated in

Ania Tomicka

2004. During the school years, she starts to paint with oil colors, a technique that soon to become her favorite. Hence she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice where she found a lot of inspiration for her realistic and academic art. A year later she moved to Tuscany where she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. She focused her interest in more things like digital art and illustration. She also completed her studies at the academy of digital arts NEMO NT where she gained the title of student of the year. Ania has always been interested in realistic, renaissance works. Her first loves are Salvador Dalí and Wojtek Siudmak’s big canvases, full of absurd and strange creations, painted in a divine way.

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PAINTING

I was born in Brest, Belarus in 1974. I've got artistic education in the studio of Tolmachev, an artist and an honored art teacher. After education, I spent time mostly traveling, visiting a lot of countries from Spain to Japan, and returned to painting only much later. But Since I did in 2015, I rarely spent a day without my favorite palette knife and

Svetlana Tikhonova

easel.

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PAINTING

I use the process of painting to document physical and psychological

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presence, investigating the communicative function of colour and form as a reaction.

The starting point of each painting is based on some form of narrative, which inevitably informs the course of painting. However, in the process of painting, it is not a question of making ever more references to the narrative, but a deliberate attempt to escape from it. Therefore the paintings may be observed for what they are rather than what they should mean.

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PAINTING

Anna Matykiewicz is an exciting Polish, Ireland-based artist whose works have featured in exhibitions and collections in the UK and Greece. In her aim to express dialogues that exist between the objects she paints and herself, she produces portrait paintings full of feeling and expression. Shifting from light hues to darker, more intense tones, she mixes colour and light according to her own

Anna Matykiewicz

personal experiences and intended represented moods.

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GRAPHIC ARTS

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Jean Paul Baret was born in 1952 in Grenoble. He lives and works in Viriville/France.

After studying at the School of Decorative Arts in Geneva, he performs a dozen group exhibitions and sets up his interior architecture firm. In parallel, he continues his work of creations in the continuity of movements such as those initiated by Constructivism, Neoplasticism, Suprematism, De Stijl etc ....

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VISUAL ARTS

arts and Art History from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he took classes from a.o. Iñigo ManglanoOvalle during the late 1990s. Nominated for the ‘Prince Bernhard Fund’ and ‘Piet Bakker Prize’ for his graduation exhibition (video piece ‘Everyday’) and more recently for the ‘Artist in Action Prize’. Voorbij is an interdisciplinary artist apart from working with ‘ready made’ materials, he works with 3D Software, video and (digital) collage.

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Roberto Voorbij (1974) lives and works in Amsterdam, holds a bachelor degree in Visual

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ILLUSTRATOR

Barbara Kuebel I’m inspired by people and their interaction as a group. I want to create impressions through fictive characters in a simplified and artificial environment and intend to give the viewer the reduced idea of a real and possible situation that is shaped by spontaneous emotion, aggression, affection, isolation and social density. The theme of a constructed and fooled reality as a result of actual dynamics is a reoccurring inspiration to me which I try to investigate in series of works that correspond with each other.

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MUSIC

Sasha Raven He was a very quiet child and very an introverted person. His passion was music and it’s still. His mother was a classical guitarist, but he didn’t show any interest in learning or playing guitar. He has started learning to play guitar when he was almost twenty years old. His friend convinced him into that, he showed him four chords and that was it. With that four chords, Sasha composed his first song. He was impressed by that and until today, Sasha has composed over four hundred songs.

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MUSIC

Jezekiah "Her queendom come" Jezekiah is born in southern Cameroon, son of the King of the Meta people. His art is inspired by his father's immense Highlife and Blues African music collection. In 2005 Jezekiah invents his universe. A surprising mix of hip-hop, African folklore, blues and poems finely woven with his electronic rebel. Caught between his love of arts and of the scienceof his art, he is also a sound and 3D designer.

You will propably see him on stage with an African Electro-Acoustic set, with self designed African bass string instrument, effects filters and sound processors.

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EVENTS

LOVE BLOOMS IN FEBRUARY With a pleasure to invite you to the upcoming exhibition in Carlow Library (Carlow, Ireland) 11th-16th February 2019.

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INTERVIEW

Artist Nicole Pon Horvath French born, NH (Nicole Pon Horvath) has been taught by Japanese Masters. She has studied the traditional disciplines of ‘Sumi-e’ (ink painting), ‘Nihonga’ (painting with pigments) and ‘Ikebana’ (Sogetsu Master). In addition, NH is a creative art framer, and fashion designer (Doreme).

NH’s work expresses the sensitive transformation of emotions which occur during meditative awareness. In this stillness, the search is for peaceful contemplation to open hearts and minds, creating moments of happiness and profound connection to the natural elements.

“For me, being mindful during the creative process is everything! Without this, I would be producing very different work. Part of my process is to be able to see and open my heart and my mind, which helps to attain stillness and permit contemplation. Without stillness, there is no contemplation. Being mindful helps process what I see, what I feel. It gives access to different layers of understanding. You need to empty your mind before you can see what is essential.” ~ NH; Photos by Paige Fulleton McFall NH’s current inspiration stems from nature, particularly exploring the moon, bamboo and trees – painting on canvas with acrylics. She is fascinated with rebirth after trauma, and the inspiration which ignites at times of new beginnings.

Continue reading to see how nature inspires NH and her artwork.

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INTERVIEW

‘Morning Reflections' by NH ( Nicole Pon Horvath), acrylic on canvas, 2016

How does nature inspire you? What kind of

My works comprise of various imagery including

artwork have you created based on these

forests, waterfalls and mountains amongst

inspirations?

others. I am inspired by the emotions I feel when I see the strength and flexibility of bamboo, the

To me, nature is energy, beauty, it is purifying and

delicate petals of cherry blossoms, the majesty of

revitalizing.

maples and pines, the lustre of the moon - and I

I look into the details found in nature that will

pick up my brush and begin my journey to put

evoke an emotion. The emotions set in and

these emotions down on paper or canvas.

stimulates the inspiration behind my paintings.

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‘‘Cherry Blossom And Winter Sky’ by NH ( Nicole Pon Horvath), acrylic on canvas, 2010 You have lived in several countries

I choose to work with, and that in turn creates

throughout your artistic career. Does where

different streams under the unifying theme of the

you live (Singapore, Japan, Amsterdam,

beauty and power of nature.

France) affect the subject matter and / or your style of painting?

The environment is crucial to the outcome of my works. The nature found in each of the places I have lived is all very different, but similar in the way that it affects me and my art. Each place brings about different inspiration in the colours and materials

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My life would not be complete without painting. It is the purpose of my life. I paint to go deeper into my feelings. I paint to satisfy an urge to express and share them. I listen to it. I feel it. I breathe it. I contemplate with my senses. I focus on one movement, one moment, one sensation, one feeling.

Like the zoom and click of a camera in the hands of a photographer.

INTERVIEW ‘I get my inspiration from the colours in the skies I have found in Japan, Nice and Amsterdam. They are a gentle reminder of my youth in Algeria.

If you can only choose one, do you prefer being a creative art framer or a fashion designer?

Why does rebirth after trauma fascinate you?

Rebirth after trauma fascinates me because in the cycle of life there will always be birth, life and death.

It is difficult to fall under any category, as all

It is a continuous loop that we as people, and

bring different types of inspiration and

nature, fall under.

creativity. But if I had to choose one it would be creative art framer. For me, it is a continuation

A birth is miraculous, a rebirth after trauma is

to my work. Whether it is a photograph, a poem

something magical and touching. When you look at

or a painting, the frame is another tool for me

nature and how it is continuously evolving through

to use to further extend my inspiration. The

environmental changes - be it through seasonal or

frame then becomes associated with the

climactic obstacles, it always finds a way to renew,

artwork, part of the subject, and brings a new

to replenish and to grow.

dimension to it.

What once was a void could be flourishing with How different is Sumi-e and Nihonga? Which is more challenging and which is more popular in today's context?

The two art forms are very different. Sumi-e is

beauty. And what we would think unimaginable can test our perceptions. Like a lotus growing out of mud or a patch of grass through cement walkways.

It is a true wonder of the world. And sometimes, just sometimes, nature has to retreat to renew itself.

ink painting and Nihonga refers to Japanese paintings that have been made with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials.

Sumi-e is the art of perfection of using ink, water, brushes, and paper. The perfection of each stroke, of every movement, the ever-soft touches of the brush on paper. But it is so much more... it is the subtle use of ink and the preparation of the ink. It is about the sensuality in your movements and the need to develop the art of perfection.

Nihonga literally means Japanese painting. It is based on the techniques in Sumi-e in regards to the strokes, colours, water and the added use of pigments and papers.

In Japan, the most popular in today’s context is Sumi-e – however, for the rest of the world, it is Nihonga.

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