ISSUE 8 | VOL 1 | SEPTEMBER 2018
A MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
JAAMZIN CREATIVE
PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY
Visual artists, painters
Photographers and cinematographers
GRAPHIC ART
MUSIC
Graphic artists, illustrators, cartoonists
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Photography Photographers,, cinematographers
13 Painting and graphic arts Painters, visual artists, cartoonists
25 Illustrators Illustrations.. illustrators
30 Music, Film Singers, songwriters, musicians, filmmakers
34 Interviews Interviews with artists and creative people
Impressum JaamZIN Creative  UXScoops Pte. Ltd. Singapore Registration No.: 201601782G
PHOTOGRAPHER
AMPARO GARCÍA IGLESIAS My name is Amparo García Iglesias. I am Spanish. I am pshycologist and I also write children’s stories based on human values and solidarity. My biggest passion is photography that I practice in a self-taught way. In every work, I deposit all my energy with entusiasm, effort and pleasure, letting my imagination fly. I have done several exhibitions either individually or collective. In those exhibitions portraits or close-ups have predominated since those are the ones I like the most.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 2
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer Tapas Chaklader My name is Tapas Chaklader, I am an educator by profession, living in kolkata,india. I started photography with a simple prosumer few years back and soon upgraded to a mid range DSLR. No sooner it became my passion; with a mixed background of science and fine art, I found a sweet spot between them in order to express myself in the digital world of photography.
" People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile ..." On a winter morning, somewhere in a tribal village of rural india ..
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 3
PHOTOGRAPHER
CRISTÓBAL CARRETERO CASSINELLO
As Photographer I use photography to capture beauty, detail and unique moments of our daily life and existence; also to surprise and play with the spectator, questioning the prism with which he observes the reality of things. Photography tells us and helps us to understand our relationship with the world through our own narrative and visual language.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 4
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cristóbal Carretero Cassinello Dialogues: "These are apparently unrelated stories, spontaneous encounters, whimsical shapes, colors and textures that play, speak and intertwine, showing us a new and visual vision of the city of Almería (Spain)".
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 5
PHOTOGRAPHER
MANUEL ORERO
My name is Manuel Orero, and I am an international wedding photographer with residence in Sot de Chera, Valencia; Spain. For 12 years I have dedicated myself to this plot of photography. The reason why I dedicate myself to it is because I like "real photography". I have always said that the secret of a portrait is in the look (it is something obvious), and in a wedding is where I find the most honest looks. That's why I prefer to say that my photography is honest, rather than beautiful.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 6
PHOTOGRAPHY
Andy Vetter Andy Vetter, born 1961 in Germany, deals full-time with the strengthening of the human body as a physiotherapist. He dedicated his passion, the photography, with growing enthusiasm in the recent years. Since 2016 he is more and more frequently as street photographer on the way.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 7
PHOTOGRAPHY
Stuart Hassell I'm Stuart Hassell (Gingydadtog), a hobbyist photographer based in the West Midlands area of the UK. .
My interest in photography began with 110 & 126 film cameras. I purchased my first SLR, a Zenith 11, in the mid 80’s, and that eventually gave way to a Praktica BX20. During the 90's and 2000's photography took a back seat and it wasn’t until 2014, and the purchase of my first DSLR Never hadthat anythe formal photography bug bit me training. People are again. my favorite genre.
Portraits especially. Black and white are my favorite colors.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 8
PHOTOGRAPHY
James Noble I'm James Noble from Orange County, California USA. In 2009 I fell in love with photography. l love to take candid pictures of interesting strangers in interesting settings. I've never taken a class or read a photography book. I find inspiration from travel, photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Willy Ronis, photos by talented street photographers on Flickr and 500PX, and watching Italian Neorealism films. JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 9
PHOTOGRAPHY
Franรงois Aubret Franรงois Aubret is a French photographer currently living in Los Angeles. After graduating from a Masters degree in Environmental Design in Shanghai, he pursued a professional career as an exhibition and interior designer for five years but left this position to use his creativity towards his own artistic practice.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 10
PHOTOGRAPHY
GUILLERMO Ă LVAREZ
I am a self-taught photographer. I learned so much from analog photography working out the Ansel Adams Zone System in the darkroom, though I currently work only with digital cameras. I find B&W a more powerful way of self-expression when I shoot landscapes and working on the grey scale more liberating. I am a detailed and descriptive photographer and love the beauty found in nature.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 11
PHOTOGRAPHY
Matilde Stolfa I'm Matilde Stolfa and I'm 22 years old. I was born and raised by the seaside, in Ravenna and then moved to Milan to continue my studies. I'm a photographer and an architecture student, I also deal with illustration and graphic design and whichever matter can be used for representation and self expression.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 12
PAINTING
HK
HK's art finds its roots in American abstract expressionism (1940-1950s). HK's paintings are meant to be visceral and messy, yet maintain varying levels of coherency through color, line weight, and composition. For full effect, the work is often best viewed at a distance. HK regularly uses handwriting and lettering to inform mark making; thus, the work can also be associated with Asemic writing. HK graduated from Skidmore College in 2012 with a B.S. in Studio Art. Â
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 13
PAINTING
Karolina Ciężak I'm a 20 years old Polish artist, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. I make paintings, drawings and illustrations. My point of interest is to capture an impression of the subject in interesting and unique way. Also, I often take inspiration from dreams or everyday situations.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 14
PAINTING
PAINTER
MOONMAMBO Many people believe behind moonmambo there is a man and he is from the north of Europe, many people believe I am not who/what I am for real, many people want to find in my paintings a man or a woman. In my paintings there is no gender, no religion, no constraint. My work speaks of relationships. I love to watch people, I am interested in their gestures, their behaviors and I am interested in their experiences, the way they see the others and especially their behaviors regarding love, how much their hearts is educated about love, something difficult to find pure, but mainly made from interests at my eyes appears. Looking past the obvious.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 15
PAINTING
EMMANUEL SIGNORINO
Born in Cannes (France) Emmanuel Signorino is a creator of art in all its forms. Using and mixing all techniques, from acrylic to digital paint on iPad. His multiple universe is nourished by dreams, imaginary creatures.
As an adventurer of art, he did not impose any particular style on himself and moves from Street-art to figurative and abstract art. In his creations, he delivers a positive and awareness-raising message. He shares his dreams and hopes by writing his deepest thoughts in his paintings.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 16
PAINTING
Pegatina Criolla Fictional character, model ninety, experimental "melomano " of the beat drawn, addicted to the cereal, in himself same and obstinate to draw, soccer player of half time, sentimental advisor and in spite of all the setbacks and the decisions taken during these eight years dedicated to the drawing, the production of fanzines, by painting several murals in a new way, by doing an empirical beat and by telling short stories in an unprofessional way.
Today I can make a deeper analysis of Who is really a Creole sticker? "Cartoonist of vocation, empirical writer without full-time title, extensor and vinyl muralist and LOWBROW artist in the process of coming out of the closet, without a resume as an artist, graduated from the best school of anonymity and individualistic selfmanagement." This character comes from the hills of the divine child and now lives in the elipse fields of Zipaquira Colombia.
I went from being a Technician in Advertising Design, to working for three years in an audiovisual production company, then I went to the difficult world of independence called "freenlace" where his success was to be in the head for the wrong thing he received, until he was called to part of a digital magazine recognized in the medium to develop digital content for several months learned from the business, until he had the opportunity to be part of one of the best channels that Colombian television has and after several years working and a residency in Nobody's city now sticker is thrown into the ring as an artist, with two exhibitions in your life, several photocopied publications and an array of daily drawings share with you this drawn universe.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 17
PAINTING
Hailey Guzik Hailey Guzik is a visual artist from Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada. She received her BFA from Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB) in 2017 and currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. Her artistic practice questions traditions of landscape in art through material exploration in painting, assemblage, installation, and new media.
Challenging the fictiveness and realness within her own perceptions in response to her immediate surroundings and in the process of creating, transforms her experiences into physical representations. Using deconstructive acts of simplification and symbolizing, her work finds repose when invention disrupts abandoned attempts at mimicry. She was a recipient of an Emerging Artist Creative Grant from Artsnb New Brunswick Arts Board in 2017. Her work has been exhibited in across Eastern Canada, as well as included in auctions and small publications.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 18
VISUAL ARTIST
Katya Sikacheva Katya Sikacheva is a visual artist based in Moscow. She works with photography, mixed media & digital painting, metal & ceramic objects. In her practice Katya is looking for beauty in the everyday life. She is deeply inspired by the Bauhaus movement, Russian avant-garde, geometric patterns and the interaction between colour and form. Â
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 19
VISUAL ARTIST
LOU PATROU Born in Rochester, New York in the mid of 50's, Lou Patrou, a self-taught artist, has been steadily drawing and painting faces and figures for over 40 years. Lou's work is difficult to categorize because he doesn't always use the same artistic language, repeat the same disciplines or follow a straight direction with his work. One thing you could say is that he is obsessed with making faces and finding new ways to create designs and forms from them.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 20
As a working fine artist, Lou has a reputation for originality and a style all his own that he continues to follow and explore. He has a strong design sensibility that lends itself to an amazing range of contemporary product applications. His designs have a balanced modern aesthetic that, when paired with products create a fresh exciting direction.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 21
FINE ARTIST
Remy Francis Remy Francis @Rembrandz.com is a fine artist with versatile styles from being originally a realistic contemporary artist. She has over 20 years of practice in the art arena and is also an accomplished digital artist, animator and Creative Director. Her fine art themes are commissioned, experimental and personal work stems from her own life passions and experiences. Her abstracts stem from a realistic style and are still evolving. Her specializations in traditional painting are in oils, watercolour and drawing. In Digital art are Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, in animation she uses 3D software and Adobe products. Her academic qualification is into mathematics and management and vocational certificates are from New other NYC based tech. training centres.
Jersey City neighbourhood - This painting brings back memories from the artist’s own life during her working days in the United States, the day she moved into her new apartment in Jersey City on No. 3 East Street, wearing her heavy Bloomingdale's winter Coat. A very helpful Italian steward driving me in a Lincoln Sedan (a cab she arranged to take her from the Long Island airport to New Jersey, a 100 mile drive through the Lincoln tunnel in a post-Christmas season.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 22
GRAPHIC ARTIST
ÉDGAR MT I'm Édgar MT an artist from Guadalajara, México. I draw personal stories, autobiographics drawings, mainly sad awkward situations. I make portraits of reality that reflects different concerns of this actually difficult moment to be alive.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 23
GRAPHIC ART
Zohaib Younas Ansari I am a 21 years old Graphic Designer and 3D artist from Lahore, Pakistan.I love everything that has to do with Art & design and I've always been fascinated by abstract forms and shapes and i usually gather my inspiration from organic forms.Â
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 24
ILLUSTRATOR
CHARLIE PADGETT
Charlie Padgett is an American illustrator based in France. Charlie creates multilayered, conceptual work that tells a story and seeks to resonate with the audience long after they have turned the page, left the building and got on with the business of living. His work has been recognized by The AOI World Illustration Awards, the American Advertising Federation, Hiii Illustration awards, the Independent Publisher Awards, Illustrati magazine, Pantone Gallery, CNBC's top beer labels and his Mom says he’s pretty good.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 25
ILLUSTRATOR
YUSHIN KATO My name is Yushin Kato. I am a visual designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. Professionally I create commercial work, mostly digital design with occasional illustrations if given the opportunity. My personal work serves as a means of emotional expression. It is my way to gain a deeper understanding of my identity and how I relate to the world around me.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 26
ILLUSTRATOR YUSHIN KATO
Don’t Look at Me Most of my personal work stems from challenges I’ve struggled with growing up. This piece touches on self-image and selfworth, something I think a lot of people have had to grapple with at some point in their lives.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 27
ILLUSTRATOR
CellsDividing Currently residing in Southern Indiana, I am an independent illustrator and graphic designer. I have been drawing with traditional mediums since childhood but my love for technology has influenced me and now my work is often digital.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE |Â 28
ILLUSTRATOR
SOMEWAN Somewan (Tengwan Quek) is a Singapore based illustrator. An avid cat and nature lover, she often illustrate weird and whimsical stuffs. Her world is split between right brain passion in illustration and left brain analytical problem solving in UI/UX design.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 29
MUSIC
THE FLOODSHARK
For Selachimorpha and Homo Sapien ears, enter The FloodShark - a Saudi Arabian-raised, Florida-based producer/composer turned digital, cartilaginous thresher surfing the sonic waves with an eclectic musical style. I just released my new album Another William Blake on Friday, September 14th - with a total of 18 tracks across 110+ minutes. The new LP features a healthy dose of vivacious Van Morrison samples, William Blake poetry performed by professional voice actor Nazeeh Tarsha (One Piece, Dragon Ball Super), and a suite of eclectic compositions with influences from ambient electronic to Western classical, woven together by this digital shark. The album alludes to the works of William Blake, the acclaimed English poet and painter, whom I share a human name with. Musical themes include lost love, the process of growth, and ultimately, decay.Â
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 30
MUSIC
MAARJA NUUT
Photo: Kaupo Kikkas
Maarja Nuut is a singer from Estonia with breathtaking music. Her songs combine traditional songs, and stories with live electronics to create an intricate layered soundscape in a space where minimalism and experimental music meet the village musical traditions of pre-war Europe. Maarja Nuut is not your average violinist. Her music is eclectic and rather unique, crafting stunning sonic imageries by blending different genres and techniques in a very special way. Her melodies are inspired by sources such as traditional pre-war European folk music, but modern minimalism also plays a big part on her particular sound and compositional approach. For instance, Maarja is known to blend is traditional musicianship and academic-level violin skills with innovative technology, such as live looping, in order to achieve beautiful cascading melodies, and layers upon layers of sound. She excels at harmonizing different violin parts, creating haunting and blissful melodic drones. Often times, she would use her bare vocals as a way to complement the beautiful string melodies, remind the audience of artists as diverse as Sigur Ros, Enya and Mum, just to mention but a few.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 31
MUSIC
ADDICTED BAND
The Addicted Band launches their first music video accompanying their breakout release "Addicted" CD. Greg Smith‘s vocals are stellar in this highly anticipated full throttle rock band. This band hails from Fenton, MO, but the sound is from the complete Rock n Roll roadmap. Get Addicted! See them live for a real treat. "I can be your addiction, baby, I can be your cure"
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 32
EVENTS
WHEN CRAFTSMANSHIP MEETS MODERN ART
This already award-winning collection, Travel Mahjong City, combines Hong Kong heritage with modern art design to provide a wide range of contemporary products with creative illustrations related to Hong Kong culture, is now featured in a pop-up store at Hong Kong’s K11 from Friday to Sunday during 28 September to 21 October. The products highlights the value of mahjong craftsmanship while explaining Hong Kong’s traditional ways of making hand-carved mahjong tiles.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 33
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW WITH MIXED MEDIA ARTIST GREG BEEBE Meet Greg Beebe. Greg is a self-taught, mixed media artist who describes his work as Íža mixture of abstract expressionism, pop and graffiti street art. The Miami-based artist is also a successful financial entrepreneur that approaches his art practice with the same intention as he does his business interests...with an unstoppable impulse to create.
Greg Beebe - Art and Life Knows No Separation JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 34
With artwork featuring Playboy models to Einstein, the general theme that infuses his work is one of positivity where the specific message, elements and composition in each piece is fresh and handled differently each time. "Positive or energetic messaging is my key focus. I want to create artwork from a personal feeling of motivation or positivity. For example, seeing people work hard or working hard myself and achieving something is gratifying to me, so I want to create a piece of artwork that might give the viewer a piece of what I’m feeling.” He achieves this through a mixed media style comprising multiple layers of pop culture imagery, graffiti, collage, photography and resin. Continue reading to learn more about Greg whose art and life knows no separation.
Your pieces call to the level of intensity, drive and motivation one has to have to fully follow a dream, how do you decide which character eg: Marilyn Monroe; Betty Boop etc will best represent your message? Typically, I decide on an overall theme first, then I fill in the pieces of the puzzle with complimenting images, messages and representations. My artwork is done in layers with each layer supporting, in some manner, the overall theme, the main layer is where the focal point, or in the case of the question, where the character resides.
I use characters the viewer can quickly relate to, but also characters that bring something extra to the piece, something inherent but intangible in the actual artwork. Marilyn Monroe literally changed the behavioral patterns of an unquantifiable number of humans and altered the way we see beauty which separated her from the norm and saw her entering an iconic category. That ambiance is what I want the viewer to feel whilst also promoting a positive message of which the viewer can relate to. The piece “You a Star” was created theme first with the message being everyone is a star in their own way, you may just need to break through some barriers (which is why fists were used and Rolling Stone covers). Marilyn perfectly complimented the theme.
“You A Star” by Greg Beebe, mixed media (acrylic, spray paint, air brush, resin) on canvas, 2016 JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 35
Arty-Fact: 'You A Star' celebrates Marilyn Monroe's natural star power delivered in a pop / grafitti-esque style. Set on a backdrop of Rolling Stone magazine covers, the work also celebrates the star power of numerous other celebrities. Motivation is the message.
Is the ‘hero’ in your artwork a representation of you? If we define the “hero” as the primary take away, it’s a representation of what I want to do more of, or a message I want to give myself. Creating art with motivational themes serves as a tool to help me become the “hero” I want to be. Unless it’s a commissioned piece, I create art for myself, if people want to bring it into their life that’s great.
“Dreamer II” by Greg Beebe, mixed media (acrylic, spray paint, street posters [source: Wynwood Miami], photograph, resin) on canvas, 2018
Arty-Fact: This piece calls to light the level of intensity, drive and motivation one must have to completely follow a dream. With so many self or societally imposed walls and obstacles, rights and wrongs, one must be a superhero to rip past everything and follow a dream. Anarchy signs are shown throughout the piece particularly in the Superman "S" furthering the point that one must ignore the "taught" and think independently and outside the norm to achieve a dream.
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 36
I began selling art around three years ago. It wasn’t “To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow, To run where the brave dare not go..." ~ The Impossible Dream, Man of La Mancha
When did your art practice start to become a business?
really a conscious effort but one of those situations where friends see the work you’ve created and want it. The feeling of selling your artwork is rush so I began making more and more selling it online, then galleries and it went from there.
inquired because I don’t know if I really look at the
How important are travel, exposure to modern and pop artists in part of the inspirations to your creative artwork?
art practice as a business per se (which is a
These elements are hugely important to the
shortcoming and of course an opportunity), I do
details in my work. I source materials from my
however sell artwork. I have a very difficult time
travels (for example, Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
“selling my art-self” even with my business
features sugar packets from across Europe) and
background. There’s something about creating a
exposure to other artists means I get to see
personal handmade work and then trying to sell it.
different techniques, media and innovations all of
Becoming a successful artist is all about business,
which influence how I approach my work.
selling and self-marketing but I’m terrible at it so I
Personal experiences, and simply paying attention
just don’t really do it as much as I should. I
to my own life is where the messages and themes
leverage those good at the craft to help me out.
are derived for my art.
I’ll answer the question a bit differently than
“Blood, Sugar, Sex Magik” by Greg Beebe, mixed media (acrylic, spray paint, sugar packets [source: throughout Europe], photograph, resin) on canvas, 2018
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 37
Arty-Fact: This work is inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" album. The infamous Betty Boop is wearing the vintage Mickey Mouse sorcerer hat ("Sex" and "Magik"), with a background of various quotes by Betty Boop and others. In addition, Betty Boop stands next to a bloodied skull ("Blood") which hints she's been on a hunt - the cash surrounding the skull indicating exactly what she was hunting. The base of this piece is made from actual sugar packets collected from various locations throughout Europe ("Sugar").
What is your advice to someone who is up and coming, and desiring to be an artist like yourself?
Use the assets you’ve already created to help fund
For those who have an equal passion for art AND
CMO, CIO, Board of Directors, Human Resource
something else (in my case business) it’s as simple
Manager, AP Manager and Crew off the jump. You
as just doing. Get active in what you have a
can’t just sit around and paint or you won’t eat. I
passion for, post your work online; enter art
think artists often just want to be artists but unless
competitions and shows; get your friends to help
you’re an employed artist taking the easy,
you out and give support; be proactive and reach
comfortable road won’t work. Networking is
out to galleries and outlets you think can help
probably the single most important thing in a
promote your work. If you have a main source of
successful artist’s repertoire then comes artistic
income then use some of it to help you grow your
talent. Whatever stage you’re in as an artist the
art career, for example, hire representation that
hustle must be 1,000,000%.
and support your dream. If you’re plan is to be a 100% self-employed artist then get comfortable being the CEO, CFO, COO,
can help get your work out to a broader audience; enter fee-based larger scale art shows to get access to galleries, etc.
“Be First” by greg Beebe, mixed media (acrylic, spray paint, air brush, resin) on canvas, 2018
JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 38
About JaamZIN Creative JaamZIN Creative Studio is an online social media agency established in 2017 in Singapore.
We feature artists and creative people,Â
Contact us if you want to be featured!
Submit your art to JaamZIN Creative We are seeking for talented emerging and established artists to be part of the community of thousands of people who love art. We curate the submissions and the selected artists will be featured in JaamZIN Creative Contact us at info@jaamzin.com
