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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 Musicians, singers and songwriters
INTERVIEWS I nt er vi ews wi t h ar t i st s and cr eat i ve peopl e
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Photography Photographers,, cinematographers
4 Painting and graphic arts Painters, visual artists, cartoonists
9 Design, illustration IIllustrators, designers, digital artists
16 Interview Singers, songwriters
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Caroline Chollet I am a self-taught French multidisciplinary artist and photographer.I discovered photography studying illustration, graphic design and painting in Lyon art schools. Inspired by alternative culture and feminist militancy I began my work by making roller derby'sports photos depicting powerful women and sisterhood. My universe is influenced by fashion photography, architecture and pop culture. Through their codes I express the unease and fragility of my models. I currently create videos and photo shoots for theaters and artists.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Roman Fleischen My name is Roman Fleischen, I'm a photo artist from Argentina.My works are mostly black and white photos, sometimes digitally manipulated. My goal is to tell a story through my photos, showing the dark side of beauty and the desperation of disparity, as depicted in my last series "Depravity"
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PAINTING
Avont Garcia My name is Avont Garcia I am an artist from Lowell, Massachusetts. I've been in Atlanta for the majority of my life. I've been drawing my whole life but decided to center my life around it in 2015. My artworks do not have an explanation, whatever I feel like making is between my brain and my hands I just provide a vessel for these creations.
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PAINTING
Ane Howard I'm a self-taught painter and would describe my style as a "Abstract Figurative Expressionist painter."Using deconstructed form born out of the expressionist movement, bold paint brush and contrasting hues of colors, I aim to imbue each brushstroke with meaning to evoke moods, my emotions, and ideas.
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PAINTING
Olivier Messas Olivier Messas' work creates a sense of unmovable serenity. In it, faraway echoes of the philosophies of Buddhism and Yoga can be seen. The artist leads us down a path to wellbeing and internal calm. Originally born in Vietnam, Olivier soon moved with his family to Lyon, France, where he spent his childhood and teenage years. Beginning his career with an apprenticeship and then practical experience in fashion design in Paris, after ten years, in June 2012, he began working on pictorial art. A self-taught artist, Messas’ approach borrows methods he developed during his career in fashion and textiles. Thus, his creative process is organised around a single subject which he reinterprets throughout the year.
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PAINTING
Frederic Belaubre What is germinating, what is hatching from limbo to appearance, from yourself to the others, digging a canal.
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DRAWING
Viktor Gråbøl An inquisitive individual from Copenhagen, Denmark. With a background in film and art schools, I have worked both with graphic design and in the film industry.
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DESIGN
Tulimond I'm an interior designer and visual artist living in Dubai. My curiosity in answering the question “what if?” leads me to explore surrealism to create art and design pieces that visualize a certain idea or thought I get from my mundane life. My absolute enjoyment in this process, is to observe a certain object, and give it a story of a different life than the one it’s having in this world. From that, I start world-building, using any mediums at my disposal. It being digital or traditional.
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DESIGN
Ahmed Borai Berlin, the eighties, where I taught myself in various studios and in collaboration with artists and artist groups, I laid the foundation for my artistic work. After completing my art studies in Hanover, I continued my interest in the projects - collaboration with artists - artrecycle - paperplaining. These projects have resulted in collages, paintings, sculptures and installations, mainly made of my preferred material - paper. I love this material, it is light and ideas can be implemented quickly. Object designs made of cardboard are partly realized as sculptures for public spaces, painting on paper, with the paperplainingtechnique presented as paste-ups in urban space.
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DESIGN
Odion Tobi I am Odion Tobi, an auto-didact visual designer, living and working in Lagos, Nigeria.My works are mostly 3d illustrations, I do it out of love and curiosity, while I focus on my days job which involves, branding, UI ux, and motion design. I love what I do.
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ILLUSTRATOR
Emma Philip A freelance Graphic Designer and Illustrator from Cape Town, South Africa, currently living in Lisbon, Portugal.
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ILLUSTRATOR
Kejun Zhao From the time she was just a child growing up in Shanghai, China, painting and drawing have been Kejun Zhao’s greatest passions. She was a born artist, and the moment she puts a pen to a piece of paper, it feels natural. As she grew, this love for the arts only intensified, and she knew that it was not a hobby, but a career.
Now, Zhao is an in-demand illustrator in her home country and abroad, showcasing her vast talent and versatility with every project she takes on. Whether storyboarding for popular television shows like Netflix’s award-winning hits Orange is the New Black and Dead to Me, promotional material for major brands like Anastasia Beverly Hills, or concept art for blockbuster films including Hotel Transylvania and Bad Moms, Zhao knows how to capture the essence of the story through her work.
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ILLUSTRATOR
Lukrezia ILukrezia is a self-taught painter, illustrator and stencil artist based in Vienna/Austria. She made her masters in art history (specialised in renaissance portraits and architecture), is working for a metal restorer and as a scientific researcher in industrial heritage. In 2018 she launched her own Design Label and works on different art projects. Lives and works in Vienna – her beloved hometown, which is a topic in her artwork very often.
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ILLUSTRATOR
Derek Moore My name is Derek Moore and I live in Austin, TX. I like putting the crumbs at the bottom of a bowl and then mixing it with salsa. I also like to draw things and make music. Hope you have a cool day!
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INTERVIEW
Contemporary realist artist Jennifer Chalklen talks about her art
Artist:Â Jennifer Chalklen; Image: Viveash Photography
Singapore-based, New Zealand born Jennifer Chalklen is a contemporary realist artist who is mostly self-taught. Her works are a journey into whimsy, delicate and beautiful, reflective and poignant.Jennifer developed a strong interest in realistic portraiture during her five years of living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Despite the chaos and abject poverty, Jennifer observed a quiet pulse of connectedness through acts of kindness, cultural nuances and the Islamic religious practices, which acted as an antidote to the disorder of the city, and an identity of togetherness within diversity. Her works display symbolism and imagery which act as a conjoint to invisible concepts that contain reflections of beauty, and act as visual explanations that are relatable across communication barriers.This is what it looks like when grit meets creation‌
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INTERVIEW As a self-taught artist, what made you choose the cool contemporary genre to represent your style of art?
I guess I never really consciously decided on a particular genre or theme, I just went ahead and experimented with a bunch of different ideas and through a massive volume of work, a consistent theme began to emerge. It gradually turned into a voice that felt like it belonged to me. Through that process I learnt the tools to effectively describe an inner landscape and project it into something physical through the act of touch onto the canvas. To me, my work has more questions than answers, the concepts remain unresolved but each work holds clues, even the unsuccessful ones that I carry forward to my next pieces. Basically, it’s like an excruciatingly slow, never ending jigsaw puzzle.
“I Know Where To Go”, Mixed media on canvas, 2019 “To me, my work has more questions than answers, the concepts remain unresolved but each work holds clues...”
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INTERVIEW What is your creative process like? I catch glimpses of imagery in my peripheral and on the edge of dreams, which I try to screenshot in my brain and capture on the canvas before they begin to dissolve in waking life. I work with reference images, some images that I find and blend together, or I photograph myself if I can’t find the correct image, then I intuitively work out the composition around it throughout the painting process - often the composition changes several times until I feel happy with it.
“Daydream In Pink”, Oil, gold leaf and digital elements on canvas, 2018 “I catch glimpses of imagery in my peripheral and on the edge of dreams, which I try to screenshot in my brain and capture on the canvas before they begin to dissolve in waking life.”
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INTERVIEW I work with a lot of thin glazes that produce a translucent or dreamlike quality. Some works are completed within a few weeks, but I often continue to work on them for months. I like to work intensely for about a week, then I allow the work to ‘breathe’, while I consider it and decide whether I need to develop it further or make any bold changes to the composition if I don’t feel balanced when observing it.
“Solace”, Oil and flower petals on canvas, 2017 “I work with a lot of thin glazes that produce a translucent or dreamlike quality.”
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INTERVIEW II like to work on two paintings at the same time, so my work often comes out in pairs, the reason behind this is methodical in terms of drying times, but also prevents the work from becoming too crowded from forcing too many ideas into a single work, and allows me to work on something else when I get stuck and can’t switch off, but need to move my mind onto something else. Which is your favourite art space in the world? Where have you lived before? I love the de Young Museum in San Francisco - the integration of art and landscape is beautiful and the energy of the works are imposing with the amount of history attached to the collections.
de Young Museum in San Francisco, Image Source: Trip Savvy
II was born in New Zealand and as a kid I grew up in a fairly rural area on a hobby farm with a fruit orchard and pet cows that would sometimes wander into our living room, which was starkly different to my lifestyle when I moved to Jakarta around 2010, which was a hot mess, and really difficult to find open green spaces, blue sky and clean air. I currently live in Singapore which is very clean, organised and quite lush.
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INTERVIEW Does where you live affect what you paint?
Definitely, after I travel to New Zealand, greens and blues creep into my work. It’s hard not to be affected by the landscape there because it is just so beautiful. Living in Jakarta was predominantly Muslim so I think that affected my composition around including headscarves on the women in my work. I don’t subscribe to any particular religion despite growing up in a fairly conservative Christian environment, but I did enjoy observing Islam during my time there, the city was absolutely chaotic on the surface, but it had its own rhythm and flow, and a lot of kindness - people who were just willing to work together to help each other out. The city taught me a lot of humility and grace… and patience.
“Let’s Get Out Of Here”, Mixed media on canvas, 2018“ … after I travel to New Zealand, greens and blues creep into my work. It’s hard not to be affected by the landscape there because it is just so beautiful.”
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“I Look For You, Still”, Mixed media on canvas, 2019 “Living in Jakarta was predominantly Muslim so I think that affected my composition around including headscarves on the women in my work.”
My current studio is in my apartment and it’s the most natural light-filled space I have worked in, so the quality is better, and more vibrant colour is coming through onto the canvas. I also have a garden attached to my studio which has been inspiring my composition and colour palette in interesting ways. My last studio in Singapore was in the attic of a shophouse, which was beautiful, but the designs of those old buildings are notoriously dark with fluorescent lighting so it affected my work in a way that the figures appeared more washed out and ghostly, perhaps more sombre.
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“I also have a garden attached to my studio which has been inspiring my composition and colour palette in interesting ways.”
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INTERVIEW What do you think it takes to create hyper-realistic art?
I don’t think I am really aiming for hyperrealism but something closer to classical realism. I’m currently trying to lean into something that is a bit more gestural and painterly rather than painting each hair, lash or pore. I do really admire this skill when artists are able to catch that amount of detail, but for my work I need to draw the line somewhere between what I'm actually trying to say with my work and hyperrealism. I am constantly trying to figure out where the point of diminishing returns is, i.e. if I paint each individual hair, does this add something more to what I’m trying to say in this work? Does it add more depth? Or is it just a more visually accurate duplication of the reference image. You can be a very good painter and copy a photograph almost down to the pixel and not be an artist and vice versa. I feel that there has to be some form of risk or visual editing to make the work honest through an artist’s lens.
“I don’t think I am really aiming for hyperrealism but something closer to classical realism.”
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INTERVIEW What’s next for Jennifer Chalklen?
At the moment I’m working on a few commissions which I'm trading for overseas holidays in gorgeous locations. Next stop Maldives! So feeling pretty lucky. I have a few group shows lined up over the next few months and hoping to start to think about another solo show next year, if I can balance it alongside commissioned work, supplying galleries, kid wrangling and life in general. I always love looking out and finding little surprises along the way, other artists, collaborations and interesting opportunities - life’s little magic, so let’s just wait and see...
“Follow Me”, Oil and digital elements on canvas, 2018
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