Out of Bounds Top Artists to Watch Visual Language Magazine vol 3 no 6 June 2014

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Artists to Watch and Collect Melissa Davis Doron - Ines Fugina Malnar - Simon Kenny Janine Kilty - Kimberly Conrad - Suzy Pal Powell

OUT OF BOUNDS Melissa Davis Doron

Ines Fugina

Janine Kilty

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visual language magazine

June 2014 Volume 3 No. 6

Kimberly Conrad

Simon Kenny

Suzy Pal Powell

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Artists to Watch and Collect Simon Kenny Kimberly Conrad Ines Fugina Malnar Janine Kilty Melissa Doron Suzy Pal Powell

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

Simon Kenny is celebrated internationally for the passion in his abstract paintings.

Kimberly Conrad pours color into your life with her unique canvas pours. Ines Fugina Malner felt limited with 2D sketching and now creates expressive paintings. Janine Kilty nutures emerging stories on her canvas. Melissa Doron has stepped out of her studio and taken on representing other artists with Davis and Co Fine Art Gallery..

Suzy Powell started with doll clothes and found the celebration and the vibrancy of life with her mixed media work and watercolors.

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Simon Kenny

http://www.simonkennysart.com/

Abstract Paintings Simon Kenny is a multi-award winning artist, celebrated nationally and internationally for his vibrant, expressive paintings. His work is praised as being dramatic, atmospheric and totally captivating with a style is best described as ‘lyrical abstraction’. Simon’s technique encompasses brush and palette knife work, subtle under-painting and graduating alterations in colour. Characterised as a ‘radical Turner’, in recent press coverage he has attracted significant attention for his growing collection of colour burst oil paintings.

Simon’s fascination with the world around him clearly manifests itself through his work, yet no piece is ever site specific. His aim is for the viewer to connect personally with each composition - to be reminded of a place they once knew, or visited by an unexpected moment of emotion.

Born in 1976 in Dublin, Ireland, Simon discovered his love of art at a young age. Following his natural artistic instinct he acquired techniques and preferences which he relates through his work. His personality is a big part of his work, and as he starts on a new painting he embarks on a personal journey through a host of emotions, all carefully considered and expressed through both colour and form, offering the viewer a direct visual connection to his mind set.

Left:Core Center: Essence Right: Rise

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Simon Kenny

http://www.simonkennysart.com/

Left:Reach Right:Nova

With accolades such as a young master and a radical turner Simon Kenny is an internationally recognized artist specializing in abstract canvas paintings.

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Kimberly Conrad

http://www.kimberlyconradfineart.com

Abstract Paintings “Art and music are to my soul, as food and water are to my body. I believe that they are two of God’s most precious gifts to His children. As the author and giver of creativity, through these gifts, He has given us a portion of Himself. He created the very first canvas, magnificently painted it, and brought it to life” Kimberly is a full time artist, dividing her time between painting and teaching in her Denver Studio.

The artist considers herself to be an Abstract Expressionist, or more accurately, an Action Expressionist, as she is most definitely an “action painter”. Her preferred application, used in her non-representational abstracts, landscapes, seascapes and aspens is to “pour” her paint, manipulating the flow with water and body movement. She uses no brushes, other than to tone her canvas before pouring.

Kimberly’s work can be found in private and corporate collections, hospitals, hotels, resorts, restaurants, and most recently, motion pictures.

Kimberly is the founder of Daily Painters Abstract Gallery, Daily Painters of Colorado, and co founder and CEO of Contemporary Fine Art International. She is also an internet art marketing coach and teacher.

Right Page Top:A Beautiful Storm 24 x 36 Right Page Bottom: Sky in Motion 24 x 36 Left Page Below: Dreaming 36 x 48

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Kimberly Conrad

http://www.kimberlyconradfineart.com

In December 2013,Kimberly opened Kimberly Conrad Contemporary Art Gallery In downtown Denver,in a beautiful old boarding house built in 1906.

Shortly after opening the gallery, she rented an additional space just across the hall to use as her studio.

Both spaces overlook the 7th Avenue restaurant district,and provide beautiful city views. She now paints teaches and hosts workshops by other artists in the new studio.

Left Page Bottom: Royal Wave 30 x 24 Right Page: Kimberly Conrad and the Gallery

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Ines Fugina Malnar http://inesfugina.artspan.com/

Shades of Gold – Living Art - Intuitive Abstract Painting of Inner Landscapes I love art. I love expression. And I always admired painters but couldn’t draw anything more that 2D sketches. So I never tried. But a few years ago some abstract images started to come out through me: and all of a sudden I knew exactly which paper to buy, which color to take and where to put it - it was the kind of certainty one would like to have with everything in life.

And I realized I was actually painting. And that the time I spent doing that was the time I was very close to myself, to the part of me that is closest to my true self, that has no masks, disguises, manipulations, the one that does not need to play games to be real.

Becoming a painter was very much a part of my personal growth and transformation.

At first I didn’t know what to do with the paintings in the process of making them I liked them strongly but after that they became strangers. But as time went on, that creative part of me anchored deeper and I began to feel, love and honor them. I realized that they are alive, that their vibration contains some profound universal energy that resonates with ones soul, spirit and pristine being.

Once a lady came to choose a painting for herself and finding it she said: “I know this one!” I thought she had seen it in a shop but she said, “No, I’ve seen it in my soul”.

Through painting I remember the magic of being human, the beauty of being divine, the innocence and playfulness of expressing and creating, the gift of living art and sharing it. http://inesfuginamalnar.crevado.com/ http://inesfugina.com https://www.facebook.com/ines.fugina

Sound of Creation

White Woman Under Golden Veil

She Dances

A Couple

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Janine Kilty

http://www.janinekilty.com/

Emerging Stories Janine Kilty is a Cape Cod artist who specializes in realistic paintings in oil. She has trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and in the atelier of master artist Wade Schuman (New York City). Her work has been exhibited in galleries and public spaces in New England, Middle Atlantic and western New York, and hangs in private collections around the world. Mrs. Kilty has shown paintings in national exhibitions and competitions and has won prizes.

Artist’s Statement: I work in a realistic style that draws on my atelier studies to create contemporary works that have been described as evocative and engaging. I am especially inspired by the works of Velasquez, Sargent, Sorolla and Beaux.

To me, every image is a narrative: not only genre scenes, but still life and portrait, as well. Sometimes the story is obvious, sometimes it is enigmatic. Often the story that emerges in a painting surprises me. With portraiture, I strive not only to capture the likeness, but also to find the “story”: the spark of personality, the force of experience and the promise of things to come. Like a story, I believe a painting is only completed with the engagement of the viewer.

Right Top: Companions Left Below: Abbey Road Center Below: Nocturne Right Below: Park Street Dream

“The Timeless Tapestry” by Lesley Humphrey

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Melissa Doron

Davis & Company Contemporary Fine Art www.DandCgallery.com

http://artistdoron.com

The Spirit of Art As an artist it’s always been my dream to open a gallery.

With the help of my wonderful brother David as my partner, we’ve done just that. We have chosen 40 of the best artists around the world to display at Davis & Company and are so glad to have such a magnificent gallery space in which to show them. People keep asking me if my own art is in the gallery to which my reply is yes. I currently have five pieces exhibited in Davis & Company.

I feel very lucky to have realized my dream at such an early age and to have so many talented artists to show with Davis & Company.

My journey in life has brought me to this place in my life where I get to experience the joy of painting and the satisfaction of showing the work and getting to hear the feedback from the public at the same time. After hosting the Rites of Spring Exhibition for the Artists of Texas, an overwhelming amount of people are drawn through the gallery and it’s so exciting to be able to discuss art with serious collectors. Art consumes me; I love my place in the art world and all the artists I get to work with on a daily basis. I cannot wait to see what each and every day brings for us at Davis & Company.

Creation

Sailing

"Art is subjective. Not everyone will like your work but if you love it then everything else will fall into place." -Melissa Doron

The Peacock Tree

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Suzy Pal Powell

http://suzypal.blogspot.com/

The Spirit of the Paint Before ever starting to school, Suzy Pal was making and creating things—embroidery and doll clothes. She had always drawn and doodled on everything in the house. Her studio is in Yoakum County, 4 miles from Plains, TX. She never had any art in school, nor did she go to college.

Having lived in the same house now for 39 years...She grew up all over the West Texas area, moving every year, with no place to call home, married at 17 and has a wonderful husband and family of a son and daughter, and 4 grandchildren.

In 1982 in her mid 30’s the desire to paint finally won out, and she started out with oils. After realizing she was allergic to the oil paint she changed to pastels and pencil. Watercolor had always been her favorite so she finally started working with them in the 90’s. Favorite subjects vary. She paints whatever brings excitement to her, especially loving western art, and old vehicles. Nostalgic type subjects.

She paints mainly with watercolor on traditional watercolor paper, but has started using some of the different synthetic papers and also branching off with acrylics and gouache as well as torn paper collages.

The torn paper pieces have done really well, being accepted in shows, and in a North Light art book. As well as some being licensed.

In January of this year, she decided to try the duo oils, using water for clean up due to the allergy problems. So far it has been good.

She has been featured in Watercolor Magic Magazine website three times, and Artists Sketchbook Magazine with some of her sketches. She was also featured in North Light Magazine twice with her Christmas designs and once with a postcard design. ‘The Artistic Touch 4, 5, and 6’ by Chris Unwin. ‘Incite, Dreams Realized’ by North light art books. Also, The Colors of Texas, The Artists of Texas.

Her work was featured on Historical Society of Plains Calendar Cover for 2002, and also the cover for Lea County Electric annual report. She also painted western and Christmas scenes to be used as labels for Coffee City USA in Tyler, TX. She has designed the Yoakum County Connection Tshirt Design for 2002- 2005. A “One Woman Show” at Barnes and Nobles Bookstore in Lubbock, Texas in December 2003, and then again in July 2004. She had 2 solo shows at Asbury Gallery in Lubbock in 2005.

Another one woman exhibit at the Clovis Community College 2010 Clovis NM. Also, in many juried shows. She has signature status with Southwestern Watercolor Society, Wyoming Watercolor society and Artist of Texas.

She signs her paintings Suzy Pal (instead of Susie Powell) and stays busy painting as much as possible in her studio in her back yard in Plains, TX. She also teaches and is available for workshops. She can be reached at suzy_pal2000@yahoo.com and her website address is www. suzypal.com. Blog address is www.suzypal.blogspot.com, and you can see a lot of my work at www.bluecanvas.com/suzypal.

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Suzy Pal Powell

http://suzypal.blogspot.com/

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