Artists Out of Bounds, Artists to Watch and Collect Visual Language Magazine Vol 3 No 9 Sept 2014

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OUT OF BOUNDS Artists to Watch and Collect

Isabelle Gautier . Lelija Roy . Linda McCoy . Bob Coonts . Alejandro Castanon

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September 2014 Volume 3 No. 9

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Artists to Watch and Collect Isabelle Gautier Lelija Roy Linda McCoy Bob Coonts Alejandro Castanon

Visual Language Magazine Featured Artists this month delve into the beauty of each of the five different artists and their unique approach to creativity.

Isabelle Gautier’s art is a fascinating reflection of her European heritage and adopted American culture. Her extensive travels across all continents have left a lasting impression on her oeuvre, making her artwork both personal and universal.

Lelija Roy paints landscapes: observed, remembered and imagined. Lelija’s current work speaks to her intense need to be one with the natural world and to celebrate the beauty of earth’s biodiversity. Linda McCoy found a fascination in birds when shooting with a new camera, captureing them in flight. .Bob Coonts works with a color palette reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and often combines both realism and abstraction in one piece. Coonts’ work has been likened to abstract surrealism, realism with an abstract point of view or imagined realism. Alejandro Castanon see life in colors and shapes. His senses are awakened to every nuance of movement and light as he faces the canvas to explore the fascination before him. Color explodes into energy.

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Isabelle Gautier

www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com Isabelle Gautier grew up in Normandy, in a little village just a few miles from the Mont-Saint-Michel, in western France.

It was not until 1999 that she moved to Atlanta with her American husband and their two sons where they live and work today.

Gautier’s art is a fascinating reflection of her European heritage and adopted American culture. Her extensive travels across all continents have left a lasting impression on her oeuvre, making her artwork both personal and universal.

Artist’s Statement“Is there a better way than art to bring people from all over the world together in a celebration of beauty?”

Each canvas is a new opportunity to release my emotions and leave behind conventions. It is where I find my own balance and freedom to explore. With each new canvas, I try to indulge myself in complete freedom of expression.

My quest is not to create the illusion of reality but to suggest with colors and composition the inherent nature of aesthetic objects and emotions.

Website: www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com E-mail: isagautier62@gmail.com Cell: 678 644 2527

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Isabelle Gautier

www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com

Collections, publishing and reviews: In March 2014, Gautier’s work was included in the Saatchi Art Rebecca Wilson Abstract Art Collection (London) .

In 2013 three of Gautier’s paintings were selected by Interior Designer Linda Woodram for HGTV Smart House in Jacksonville, Fl. In November 2013, Gautier was the featured artist in North Fulton Magazine.

More recently in April 2014, as well as in March and November 2013 her work was published in Visual Language Contemporary Fine Art -International Voices-.

You can also read reviews about the artist in Folio Weekly, FL - March 2013- Snap Roswell, GA - May 2010 and in Milton Herald, Milton GA - Sept 2008.

International artist Gautier’s art can be seen in the USA at: Muse & CO Gallery, Roswell, Atlanta GA : 2012-present Saatchi Art Gallery, London: 2013- present Bradford’s Interiors, Nashville, TN: 2013-present VIEW GALLERY, MS : 2014- Present Atlanta MADE: 2013-present

Website: www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com E-mail: isagautier62@gmail.com Cell: 678 644 2527

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Lelija Roy

http://www.lelija.net http://aspenspaces.com

Denver-based artist Lelija Roy offers landscapes: observed, remembered and imagined. Lelija’s current work speaks to her intense need to be one with the natural world and to celebrate the beauty of earth’s biodiversity.

Her creative process is essentially terra-forming. Her multi-layered canvases start with earth, water and sky.

Later she grows rocks and trees and plants.

Although her inspiration starts in nature, rarely does she reproduce a specific scene. You recognize mountains, shore lines, forests but her intend is to place you in this space. So what you see is less important than how you feel. She wants you to feel surrounded and embraced by these organic forms. Hence, her mixedmedia paintings are about the “space” created by the trees in a grove, the wind and water carved shape of a canyon, the quiet intersection of woodland and meadow or the ever-changing line between wet and dry sand on a beach.

As an only child, my best friends were a box of crayons. My spirit poured on to countless pieces of paper. Her formal art trained began in the 1970s at the Art Students League in New York City and a BFA from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her early career in graphic design morphed into publishing, educational research and teaching; avoidably completing the circle as a full-time artist since 2005. Her work is held in both public and private collections throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. Lelija’s artwork can be found in galleries in Sedona, AZ as well as Denver, Breckenridge and Vail, CO.

Break Free 18x24

Primal Woodlands-12x18 diptych

April Tapestry-20x16

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Lelija Roy

http://www.lelija.net http://aspenspaces.com

Sunlight Magic-20x16

Twilight Grove-12x36

Solstice-24x24

Day Dreaming-20x16

Finally October-20x20

Lelija expresses texture as color and color as texture. She works with acrylic paints and a long list of other water-based media pigments. Various rice papers, lace, silk, fibers, handmade paper and metals form the texture as well as the color. Lelija hand paints these materials and her process combines mono-printing, watermarks and numerous painting techniques. Resulting AspenSPACES typically include as many as twenty layers.

Lelija is very careful to select only professional quality pigments. No published or published papers are ever used. To further assure archival quality, each piece receives an acrylic gel and a final UV polymer varnish. She carefully extends the image to all four sides of her gallery-wrapped stretched canvases, so no framing is required.

You’ll find a wide range of sizes from 12”x12” to five foot by twelve foot triptychs. Lelija is very accomplished working on special landscapes for her clients and welcomes commission requests. www.aspenspaces.com aspen.spaces@gmail.com 303-355-0456

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Linda McCoy

www.lindamccoyart.blogspot.com

I’ve never painted birds until this past winter when the purchase of a new camera and an incredibly snowy, cold winter settled in on Ohio.

I perched myself on a stool by the window, sketchbook and camera nearby. I watched them day after wintery day; feathers fluffed, trying to keep warm, feet wound around frozen branches. I hadn’t intended to start a bird series, but first there was one painting, then another and another. The day I caught them mid-flight everything changed.

What were ordinary brown and grey Sparrows were now, with wings outstretched, glorious creatures in the sunlight.

I paint them in oil, honoring their beauty as best I can; staying true to their color and pattern using an impressionist palette. They continue to intrigue me with their antics; fighting over sunflower seeds and for the best position on the feeder. For them, these are the glory days of summer; sunshine and warmth, more than enough food. Winter will come again though and I will be watching.

I am represented by Davis &Co Fine Art Gallery in Spring, Texas, the Row House Gallery in Milford, Ohio, and ArtonSymmes in Fairfield, Ohio.

Email: Lindamccoyart@live.com

Homeward Bound

Sparrow in Flight_Linda

Female Finch

Cruise Control

Chickadee in Flight

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Bob Coonts

http://bobcoonts.com

A Colorado native and long-time Fort Collins resident, Bob’s painting style reflects his Western Heritage yet is uniquely his own. He strives for an image that is unusual and innovative. His work is often stylized, often whimsical, always colorful and strong in design and composition. Animals, landscapes, people, history and mythology provide him with a wealth of subject matter. He also produces images that are purely abstract or non-objective in nature.

Bob works with a color palette reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and often combines both realism and abstraction in one piece. Coonts’ work has been likened to abstract surrealism, realism with an abstract point of view or imagined realism.

He paints, sculpts and dreams in his home studio north of Fort Collins, Colorado, where he and his wife Sallie live near a lake with a view of the magnificent Rocky Mountains.

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Alejandro Castanon

http://www.alejandrocastanon.com/

Born in Torreon, Mexico in 1983 Alejandro soon moved overseas and spent most of his youth in Spain and Germany. His interest in art began at an early age and grew into a passion in his late teens. A self-taught artist he has explored many styles and mediums of art such as realism, abstract and use of graphite and charcoal. After serving eight years in the U.S Air Force he chose to move to San Angelo, TX to be present in his daughter’s life. In less than a year he opened the Vino Dipinte Art Gallery and began his artist career.

After just two short years Alejandro has established a firm presence in the local art community as well he has been featured as an emerging artist in Visual Language International Art Magazine, and has been published in American Art Collector. He held a solo-show in November 2013 where he exhibited over 20 portrait paintings from which only a handful remain. His secret to acheiving such an incredible pace of success, “I don’t stop dreaming even when I’m awake, every event is an opportunity and every obstacle a new door waiting for me to walk through it. Attitude is everything and there is no such thing as a prayer answered without hard work”.

Gallery Representation: Vino Dipinte Gallery San Angelo, Texas Davis & CO Spring, Texas

Western Series

Texas Series

Colorem Face Series

Commissions are welcome: Email: vinodipinte@hotmail.com Phone: Tel: 361.237.9358

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