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Adka

USA

Painting

In college I majored in school psychology and my love for psychology, people and a multitude of characters and cultures all combine into my artistic expressions. Watching my canvas characters come to life makes me want to create more and I am always curious to see where the story will go. It's a mix of unconsciousness and consciousness. Nature, with its patterns, colors, variations and wildlife get my creative juices flowing. Watching and absorbing birds in fight, peaceful fish, hawks hunting their prey or just crazy squirrels wildly chasing each other up a tree all help me create my imaginary characters. I create art that celebrates life and can be perceived as stories, day dreams or just simple emotional statements. To me, it is art that talks.

Alexander, Olivia

Australia

Painter

Born in London, England in 1961 but living in Australia, Olivia has pursued and studied painting, mainly using Mixed Media for many years. She has been in numerous Group exhibitions as well as Solo and Joint shows in Italy, United Arab Emirates and Australia. Her works have also been featured several times in two national magazines and she has won awards in both online and offline exhibitions. Using many specialized techniques and layering of colours, the Abstract, Expressionistic Land and Seascapes she creates show her love of colour, texture and shape.

Alibrandi, Elaine

USA

Painter

The inspiration for my abstractions is feminine imagery, which to me expresses strength and vulnerability, power, mystery, and creative potential. This imagery is everywhere, and is often overlooked. People can run their eyes not only over the surface of my work, but beyond it through openings in the canvas or inside and over its hills and valleys. My paintings celebrate color and texture, and reflect all the experiences of my life

van den Akker, Charlotte

Turkey

Sculpture

Sculpting is a lifetime translating emotions into sculptures that tell about life, our lifes, yours' and mine.

We all recognize emotions like love, loneliness, regret and nostalgia. To be recognized and to recognize automatically creates a bond. A bond without words nor borders. We people are so alike. My sculptures (stone, ceramics, metal or wood) are made from the depth of my inner life and I wish that my works will give the spectator a remembrance and hopefully a gentle smile.

Alstrom, Bo

Sweden

Painter

Bo Alström is a history painter, a uniquely modern representative of an age-old tradition. At the same time, he is a philosophical and profoundly intuitive modern artist. He empathizes with the experiences of people in distant times and places while maintaining a highly-calibrated sensitivity to color, form, and composition. Alström’s curiosity about human character and motivation, about past events, and about the world in which he lives finds expression in exhilerating images where abstraction and representation and description and imagination collide, interact, and harmonize.

Ambar, Doron

Israel

Photography

My photos reflect the everyday life, our surroundings and the nature around us all. I started my way focusing mainly on nature and landscapes, but in the last few years I became more of a geographical photographer. My work is characterized by a different perception on things that might look mundane at first glance. By seizing the special atmosphere of the moment, while bringing forward the themes of light and color, I try to stimulate the viewer to practice both emotion and logic. Held three solo exhibitions and participated in a group exhibition in Tel-Aviv and Italy

Ament, Daniela

Israel

Sculpture

The statues - the figures – are symbols of sensations, thoughts, senses and feelings. All these are present here - as parts of me – as parts of a riddle. This is my way of conversing with myself and with the world around me. This is my way of trying to participate in the experiences on my way. This is my way .
Born in Israel in 1945 to an art loving family. Grew up in Kibbutz Sarid , Israel. Lives and works now in Kiryat-Tivon, Israel. Has always been creative in various forms of art. Daniela studied for 2 years ceramic sculpting in 1993/4. Today she exhibits works in clay and bronze in Israel and world wide. Took part in Florence Biennale 2007, Israeli artists in Vancouver & Paris. Exhibition in Ferrara Italy, and about 20 solo and group axhibitions in Israel.

Arif, A.Q.

Pakistan

Painting

I paint the glories of nature and magnificence of God. I believe that there is nothing unnatural on this earth. Through my work, I need people to understand a simple fact that we all need to appreciate the beauty and harmony given to us by God. Beauty is not only in vibrant colors and pretty things like flowers, peacocks and angelic creatures; it lies in the hands of man and his heart. I have chosen architecture as my point of interest and I have shown the complexities as well as its simplicity side by side to compliment each other. I usually choose minimum colors and work in their tones, so that the attention of the viewer does not divert from my objective. I choose to use earthy tones and the various shades of the night sky because to me they depict our soil. Seeing my work the viewer undergoes a very serene and harmonious sense, due to its blissful equilibrium where time just stands still and one gets a moment to inhale the view and its tranquility.

Aramburu, Jorge

Uruguay

Photography

t takes one minute to realize what we love and a whole lifetime to master it. In life there are no coincidences, everything happens as if we were weaving our own web with the same precision and fortune as a spider. Every link is connected, united. It is in this vein that I have chosen to name my photographic works "Weaving the Footprints". True success in life rests in our hearts.

Aranyshev, Andrey

Russia

Painter

The characteristic features of Andrey Aranyshev's works are their clear composition, the fortunate combination of painting and graphic techniques, and optimal use of the colour. The main idea of the plot always governs formal means. Aranyshev's works are a complex combination of clear, sharp drawing and the exciting instability of the paint form. His canvases embody the ample diversity, expressiveness and beauty of images of the surrounding world

Ashley, Erin

USA

Painter

Erin Ashley's abstracts have an edgy vibe and contain a wide range of color and texture but are balanced with a modern fashionable design. Her paintings bring a dynamic pop of color to wherever they are hung, but the compositions remain livable and accessible, which make them appealing to a wide range of audiences. Her work has been published all over the world.

Bahat, Saadia

Israel

Sculpture

Mostly, when I am starting a new piece of art, I see it before my eyes, already in its final shape. The creative part of it is already almost complete. Then long and lonely hours of technical work start. Often I used to think that painters are much happier than sculptors: as long as they keep their paintbrush in their hand, creation is going on. Then I realized that there is a certain exciting point in time in a sculptor's work, which may compensate for that. What I have in mind is that at the beginning of work on a block of stone, or of wood, those are just pieces of material and that is the way I feel about them. Then a great moment comes, when all of a sudden they "get their soul": it is no more just material – it is a piece of art! The excitement of that moment, the care which the new born creation starts receiving – that is part of the compensation for hours behind the breathing mask, the safety glasses and the ear guards.

Balogh, Adam

Hungary

Painting, Photography

Adam Balogh painter-photographer was born in Budapest in 1971. His receptive, open personality and exotic journeys as well as the influence of Central and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are reflected in his art.
His paintings confess the inner journey made. Universal pictures, spiritual works that are clear and perceptible for everybody. Is this imagination or “another” reality? It takes us back to the origin: out to the stars or/and into ourselves? Is this mystical world to be found in distant universe or rather very near, in ourselves, in the rich internal images of the subconscious?

Barnhart, Gary

Canada

Sculpture

It was an honour to be invited by Trevisan International Art to exhibit at the 2010 "Creative Energy" Exhibition in Ferrara, Italy. I am a sculptor of stone. Marble, Limestone and Alabaster. I seek my inner self when I approach the stone knowing it has a life of its own and it is my gift to release this ethereal image into the physical world of shape and form. My intent is to commune with the natural material of stone and to discover through the creative process the essence beauty of the unknown.

Bartoo, John Weeronga

Australia

Painter

John was born in Brisbane and now lives in the peace and quiet of the mountains 200 klms from Brisbane with his wife Kay amongst the wildlife and land that inspires his art. He is a self taught artist and started painting in February 2003 while recovering from illness, his traditional dot paintings tell stories of his life and his interpretations of the Dreamtime. “My art is a search for myself and I believe that the spirits of my ancestors are guiding me. As for my future in art I will be guided by my heart and my ancestors.”

Battley, Sieglinde

Australia

Painter

I was born in the town of Gumbinnen in East Prussia, which is now called Gusev and belongs to Russia. I studied Graphic Design in Frankfurt / Germany under Carlo Ruppert. I lived in Indonesia and Iran before migrating to Australia in 1978. I hold a Diploma in Fine Art from the West Australian School of Art and Design and a Bachelor Degree of Art (Fine Art) from Curtin University in Western Australia. I paint what I see, hear, smell, feel and think. I am a storyteller. I often depict animals and these creatures end up sharing idiosyncrasies of friends and family. They become symbols of my own fears, hopes and desires as well. I am often surprised what looks back at me from my canvas and these accidents I love most. They might not be so accidental after all.

Beigel, Aviva

Israel

Painting, Sculpture, Mosaic

Born and live in Israel. Studies in History of Art, Vitrage, Mosaic. Exhibitions in Israel, Beijing, Istanbul Art Fair, Brukenthal National Museum Romania, Slovenia, New York, Canada, Germany, Spain. The pre-occupation with the human character, and what occurs to us as humans, in the physical and spiritual/emotional sense, became my main motif. My central theme is the human figure. It appears in various physical states: broken, incomplete, bound - and in a variety of mediums. In my late works I try to look inside the human body, painting on X-ray which gives me the ability to look inside - a world of silence, mystery and danger.

Bending, April

Canada

Painting

April Bending is a professional Fine Artist with over 35 years of international experience. Currently in the Cayman Islands, April has lived and worked in Japan and Canada. Her artwork is in collections in Canada, United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Bermuda, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. Representation: The New ARS ITALICA Galleria d'Arte, Milan, Italy; Paola Trevisan Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy; Galerie Gora, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Monkdogz Urban Art, New York, NY, USA; Sooke Harbour House Gallery, Victoria BC Canada; The Morgan Gallery, Grand Cayman; Pure Art Gallery, Grand Cayman.

Bennett, Yolande

Australia

Painting

Yolande has had an impressive exhibition schedule this year which has spanned across the globe from Perth to Bologna, Italy to Taipei, Taiwan early May and now Melbourne. Themes revolve around self identity and reflections from within - as well as a connection to the physical surrounding environment. There are two main streams of work: One is the Portrait/Urban series which is semi-abstract and embodies a convergence of technological tools with meticulous linework. The other, completely abstract, is the vehicle utilised to convey images of things seen and unseen in the artists mind.

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Berndsen, Jeannette

USA

Painting

Bright, vivid colors are what compose the art of Jeannette Berndsen. She loves to play with oil paint, as their vivid colors allow for endless possibilities. Jeannette’s paintings reflect the fantasy and energy of her personality and celebrate the splendor of gardens, flowers and trees in a unique graphic way. This fresh and magical style that Jeannette has created is playing an important role in bringing about a completely new style called "Graphic Impressionism". Last year her paintings have been in exhibits in The Netherlands, New York, Italy, Greece, Las Vegas and Ft. Lauderdale USA. For 2008 she plans to exhibit in The Netherlands, Argentina, Denmark, Germany and New York. Jeannette’s work can also be seen in several galleries and in numerous private collections throughout Europe and the U.S.

Birkheuer, Claudia

Germany

Painting

Claudia Birkheuer is graduated in journalism and worked for more than ten years for a German Radio- and TV-Station. She reported about people and told their stories. In 1997 she merely switched from creative reporting and making films to creative painting. Her artworks are different from the Zeitgeist because these are representational and narrative and at the same time colourful and decorative. Each of her artworks describes something important and catches our attention. Her work is open to multiple doors and comments, and reveals her own history. Her work is owned by companies and private collectors. The artist exhibits regularly in national and international galleries.

Boghiu, Verena

Switzerland

Painting

Verena Boghiu-Menzi attended the Art College (Textil - und Kunstgewerbeschule) in Zurich, with the renowned artist Johannes Itten. The Swiss painter and pedagogue was teaching from 1912 to 1923 at the Bauhaus and was especially well-known for teaching the application of color in art. His chromatics is being globally used and has a strong impact on the work of Verena. The elements of water, fire and light are inspiring her again and again. Strong colors and light effects are moving and fascinating the observer. And that is what she always wanted her paintings to do: to stimulate the lust for life.

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Boisclair, Thérèse

Canada

Painting

I am striving to inspire a variety of emotions in those admiring the specials effects achieved with my acrylics on tissue paper. I was involved with art it seems forever. I was constantly searching for the “perfect” medium. I found the “perfect” medium twenty years ago when I discovered watercolor.

Over the last year, I slowly began experimenting with acrylics on specialized papers. I found my new passion while painting directly on tissue paper. In less than a year, I won four major prizes – two of them, first prizes of the jury - while participating at different exhibits.

Bousquet, Eliora

France

Painting

Eliora Bousquet is a French Painter, born in 1970. She started painting at the age of 7 and has specialized through the years in abstract lyrical, visionary and expressionist art. Strangely, it is the French - and later English - romantic poetry, which drove her to drawing and painting and to her passion for colour. Charles Baudelaire, Théodore de Banville, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, William Blake, John Keats…. Indeed, the symbolic association of words and colours in their clever use of metaphors, circumlocutions and other surrealistic images, fascinated her. At first, inspiration drawn from such expressions drove her to write poetry. Then, combined with music - mainly classical and jazz - it went on to feed her imagination, and convinced her that painting, which allows the use of the widest possible choice of colours and shades, is not only an art form, but beyond this a language in itself, stemming from the musicality of the world, with its own rhythm and tempo and movement, associating shapes and colours to form a harmonious ensemble. Granted, a language without a voice, but unencumbered by the limitations of that voice - an art form which gave her complete freedom of expression…

Breig, Renée

Sweden

Painting

In hushed, ethereal hues and rich earth tones, Renee Breig's abstract compositions sustain an ecstatic, continuously emerging dialogue with the viewer. Blithe, luminous washes of color nebulously cohabit with rich, deep, primary pigments, evoking a vertiginous aura of light and space. Originally a floral designer in Sweden, she began painting through the principles of Vedic Art, which has its roots in Indian culture. Breig describes Vedic Art as a "way to remember how to paint." Through her audacious painting style, she strives to reach beyond the human instincts of hesitance to describe a personal vision of elation. Born in 1968, Breig has shown her art in Sweden, the USA, and Italy. She lives in Sweden with her husband Kristofer and son Simon.

Cababe. Michael

USA

Painting

My art is very colorful and spontaneous as color and negative space define the expression of a figure. I begin with a focus on the use of negative space, line, texture, and color, which serves as a tool of expression. I do this with an emphasis of watercolors, acrylics and colored ink to draw out my emotions to symbolize the world around me. Usually, I will work on a highly textured canvas, board or paper with very diluted paints and inks. I like this because it allows me to layer and blend the color to a point of confusion and movement. Most of the time my intent turns into something unplanned and spontaneous as the colors blend over each layer, they continuously redefine the image and the negative space. After it dries the color reveals a sense of depth and illusion for the viewer. Color is very interesting and important to me; being colorblind it’s not so easy for me to see things the way others do. I just apply the color as I see it and blend it in a way that looks and feels good to me…

Carter, Julia

Australia

Painting

Julia‘s paintings overflow with optimism, energy and a sense of celebration; such is her attitude to life. Enjoying an experimental approach, she captures the natural world in breathtaking and dynamic form, weaving together textures, symbols and vibrant colour. “I see connections in Nature and our own experiences and love to explore the power of synchronicity and our individual purpose. My paintings are landscapes of the soul.” Julia is an award winning artist who has exhibited widely and whose work is held in private and corporate collections around the world.

Casanova, Blanca Ruth

Mexico

Painting

"My paintings are intellectual and emotional reflections of my life as a Mexican woman. The act of painting is what motivates me. Textures and drippings are expressing events in my life. Geometric, Figurative or Abstract Expressionistic paintings emerge while I play with colors, textures and forms as life plays with me." Blanca Ruth studied Arts, Graphic Design, and art courses in Mexico and USA. As an expressionist and abstract artist, she experiments with textures and mixed media. She has exhibited fourteen solo and more than a hundred group artshows in Mexico, USA and Europe, participating at international contests. She has got seven awards.

Casas, Jose Maria

Argentina

Painting

Jose Maria Casas a.k.a. "two-" is a young artist from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Born in 1981 he has shown his works in his country and in the world. He has walked his own path through the world of abstraction. Trying to avoid common places, Jose Maria has developed a very strong personal style which distinguishes itself by its stunning but clear colour use, the balance and equilibrium of his compositions that create that "everything in its right place sensation", and the greater expressionism of his works. His tools of the trade are mainly acrylics, oils, and watercolours, and his creations are strongly influenced by music. He has shown his work in Turkey, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Honduras, Uruguay, and of course in Argentina.

Cobb, Jim

USA

Painting

I have painted all my life as time has allowed. I have been blessed with the opportunity to paint and with great teachers. I can never repay them for this joy. People have been painting for some 40 thousand years and it is highly unlikely that we will find a new approach to the process. Still, each of us is unique and it is this uniqueness that we must pursue rather than the style of the moment. Too many of us search for our style and when we find it, as Picasso says, we discover that it is as old as the hills. The artist, in my mind, does not see things much differently than anyone else; he tries instead to paint his feelings about the object and to understand “the nature we see and the nature that is outside” as Cezanne put it. Indeed, when we as artists share our feelings through spots of color, we hope for a spark which will lead to the beauty around us. We understand that the object and its shadow are illusions. Only the feeling is real.

Coeterier, Danielle

The Netherlands

Sculpture

As a self-taught artist I depend fully on images born in my mind. During sculpting thoughts are coming to a standstill and my intuition is leading my hands through the layers of stone till I land on the skin of my actual work of art. Sculpting feeds my connection with mother earth and her spiritual being. My sculptures always are an expression of the inner power of womanliness, the flying freedom of birds or the magic of fairy life.

Covey, Randy

USA

Sculpture

I use various metals and I favor long, winding, swooping forms that take on strong emotional resonances, with recurring motifs like flames, wind, water and cyclical patterns. Each sculpture portrays a dynamism and an impression of movement that I hope resonates unmistakably with viewers without pinning their interpretation to a single possibility. My passion is compounded as I demonstrate my feelings and thoughts with each of my creations. I create each piece in hopes that the viewer sees and feels my passion for each creation. My wish is that each person who views my creations ‘feels something’ as a reflection of the passion that went into creating the piece. I inspire for each person to feel the passion I possess as I create.

Day, Jerry L.

USA

Photography

Jerry Day is a Southern California based photographer specializing in nighttime and astronomical photography. Jerry’s photography reflects his fascination with the scenic beauty and history of the desert southwest. He finds particularly compelling the ruins of ghost towns to be found along lonely desert back roads, as well as the abandoned cliff dwellings and rock art of the Native American, remnants of an even more ancient people. Jerry is an active member of Trevisan International Art, the Ferrara Collective and the Redlands Art Association.

Dazai, Hiroe

Japan

Painting

Hiroe Dazai creates her art based on the traditional Japanese painting method which have used natural pigments made from ground rocks, shells, sumi, golds and other minerals, letting them harmonize on the Japanese paper. Hiroe has been creating the series 'Universe of flowers' since 2009 to express the energy of the natural world and its sacred beauty within. A beauty that one can strongly feel when even in the smallest natural setting. Her goal when producing art is to create something that allows people to feel peaceful and calm by just looking at it.

Dego

Canada

Painting, Sculpture

Making Art or why, is one of the most difficult things to explain or talk about in my opinion because it is certainly for me a solitary impulse or drive that is especially at the beginning not very clear, it is just there! Since a very early age I was just drawn to Images, pictures, forms, lines and color, and instinctively felt very comfortable looking at art especially paintings with a sense of wonder and curiosity. I’m constantly in the process to find a visual Language that seems to be always changing from one work to the next and every piece is leading me to another place where I’m wondering again what is behind the next painting or sculpture I’m making. It feels like a never ending winding track, and the only thing I can say for certain is that I will never stop exploring/climbing this path and hope it keeps going on forever.

De Knecht, Simone

The Netherlands

Painting

“Both modern urban cities with their adventuresome architecture and beautiful small villages in the country play an influential role in the artwork of Simone de Knecht. The canvas, filled from top to bottom, is reminiscent of a stained-glass-window through which the visitor is lured into an imaginative world. Although flat, almost devoid of perspective, de Knecht's work achieves depth through use of multiple layers of colour. Back lines and meticulous detail are distinctive features. They suggest a fascination with an ordered chaos, the autonomy and crowd, of urban city architecture. She was awarded “the Jeroen-Bosch-Concours” prize as part of Rotterdam City of Culture 2001.”

Denner, Ethel

France

Painting

My work is the result of an instinctive process which is based on a slow and deep maturation of anything that passes through my mind, moves or questions me. To paint with the diversity of body sensations, emotions and feelings which appear from the unconscious. Out of the body and gestures, colours are born which tell stories, whisper, shout and dance, complain and calm down. To let intense songs and vibrations rise in raptures and fears. As an archaeologist, to let the human experience and obsessions come up to the surface. Ever fascinated by prints, to fill the material with marks then erase the first scriptures with successive layers without losing memories from the beginning. Movements and tools tell the quest, its goings and comings in exploring inner topography. To use soft pads, spatulas, rollers, brushes and a burnisher to lay, scratch and groove the acrylic paints and oily chalks…

Dillan Antonsen, Inger

Norway

Painting

Art for me is about beauty, harmony and movement. I am inspired by dance, music and also everything that has to do with inner and outer space. I am educated at the National College of Fine Arts and Design in Oslo (Norway), and have exhibited all over Norway, Finland, California and Germany.

D'Neycho

The Netherlands

Painting

I admire the secret language of colors. I'm just their artistic interpreter in the process of my work. I give the opportunities to the colors to combine and mix each other. When I create a painting I don’t know and I don’t understand what I do, I’m only interested in the visual aspects of the colors. I compose with the colors on the canvas until I reveal their deep secrets in creating the soul of my paintings. Nothing is mine; all comes from something, from someone and from somewhere. It is not easy to find something new in art. By examining, reinventing and recreating history and present, overcoming the aesthetic and plastic limitations, to create not only beautiful, but influential art. My accomplishment as an artist is a complex result of creating quality. I am working for more than 35 years as a professional artist. I’m born in 1950 in Bulgaria where I graduated from the Art Academy. Presently l live in the Netherlands.

Duin, Marga

Netherlands

Painting

Color is the impetus in Marga Duin’s abstract paintings. Working from her seaside studio in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, she reaps continual inspiration from the waves, the beach and the capricious weather. The quality of her nudes is interesting, she selects parts of the figure to render, then she stops and chooses another selection of the body to delineate in a neighbouring area of the image. Marga works with a selected group of models; male and female.

Dunbar, Ann

France

Painting, Embroidery

It was thirty years ago when Ann studied Art & Design at degree level with Honors at Unversity of Farnham, England.,where she discovered her love of water color and her personal style of using embroidery on paper. Her success in marrying these two skills as her own signature of work is outstanding and very unique worldwide. It is a beautiful technique which gives extra-ordinary life to all her landscapes and to the more stylized collection of her more recent work inspired by her trips abroad like, Australia, India and China. These diverse cultures stimulates Ann’s imagination into creating original and exotic compositions with the use of gold leaf and metallic threads.

Engelman, Joy

Australia

Painting

Her new exhibition “The Eye of the Eagle” demonstrates this artist’s ability to capture and map out the outback from an aerial perspective through the laying down of washes and glazes, salts and inks in an abstract fashion with mixed media. Joy takes inspiration from the ancient landforms and a country that is the oldest on earth. Engelman believes we can all learn from this land if we take the time to look at the geology of the place and understand the forces over time that has formed the land. We might even come to terms with climate change and know that these forces that play a big part in our lives currently, have happened many times before. Her strong works can form a warning to us in these hotter days or they can be seen as highly colourful abstracts that have a strong Australian flavour.

Eshet, Rachel

Israel

Painting

Rachel Eshet, born in 1954, is an autodidact, has worked since 2004 with acrylic paint. Her works have a distinct signature of expression, using a unique technique - "sewing" together elements in an indelible image of color and pattern.Rachel’s artwork is an otherworldly voyage into the unknown that plunges the depth of the subconscious and the heights of her inspirational thoughts. “In creating a piece, an idea or story will evolve naturally throughout the process and at the very end the clarity of it is exposed, then I realize what the piece is all about”.

Fafiani, Cor

The Netherlands

Painting

Cor Fafiani creates mysterious, multi-sensorial, perfect and almost metaphysical works of art. He plays with different materials and colours, and yet his art is never a pure aestheticism, but rather a code through which he can communicate his own ideas. He is, in fact, both an artist and a philosopher, and as such, he guesses the most inner selves of human beings, he reaches our onthological essence. Nevertheless what is more disquieting for the observer of his works is the absolute lack of answers or points of reference, so that what is left is the doubt, the unsolved problem of the existence. That void can be filled only by Art, and that's the only certainty Cor Fafiani seems to voice in his works. Dott. Nadine Giove, Critico d'arte (translated to Englisch)

Fioravanti, Mauro

Italy

Photography

Professional photographer Mauro Fioravanti, born in La Spezia (Liguria), carries on his profession in his photography gallery sited in Monterosso al Mare, in the Cinque Terre Park heart. "... I love these borderline situations where there is a close interaction between elements which yearn to be transformed into each other constantly changing form, status, light but at the same time, remaining immutable. This why I love to photograph nature, because of the uncontrollable forces that govern it are very similar to the desire of freedom and change typical from every human being; in this case, ice and water interact repeatedly as well as daily lives in us a continued evolution from who we are into who we want to be. Changing, changing till finally discover ourselves as immutable creatures..."

Fiorentino, Matteo

Italy

Painting

Matteo Fiorentino was born in Vico del Gargano (Foggia) in 1953. Painter and art teacher, he has since early youth revealed his predisposition for painting, and he began his search with the modern figurative. The artist had his first exhibition in 1981. “In Matteo Fiorentino the natural is a pretext to make painting in a continuous job of digging and analysis, searching emotions outside the banality and predictably ‘beautiful’ of a photographic figurative, and from the nice souvenir imagery”. He has recently created a cycle of informal naturalistic artworks.

Fioretto, Giovanni

Italy

Painting

The canvas is the dissecting table where I dissect, separate and reassemble the body for reinventing it as a geographical area, in which the boundaries are overlapping and indistinguishable. I retrace anatomical geographies where organs overlap with other organs. Usually the gateways are a nostril, an intercostal space, a dental arch, which remain as only external body parts. A re-invented body to express the madness, pain, orgasm, death, life, fragments, verbally indefinable moments that I try to capture and comuincate only with the force of painting.

Fleming, Kiki

Italy

Painting

I live in the mountains high above the Upper Tiber Valley in Italy. Each day at dawn, I bid farewell to the night and observe the rise of the sun between two lofty peaks. The sky’s transition from darkness to daybreak is breathtaking. When night sets in again, the moon lights up the valley, revealing the silvery contours of the hills, deepening the ebony of the mountains against the darkening sky. These sights are a constant source of inspiration. My colours come from nature’s pallet but I never work straight from nature. My approach is more oriental and meditative. I prefer to memorize what I see and digest what I feel. I let the subject transform itself by filtering it through my mind. What happens on the canvas is not a direct reflection of reality but an emotive expression of captured time and inner space

Forsberg, Dagmar

Sweden

Painting

My professional artistry in painting was developed at the University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm. I emerged in the public domain about four years ago following a solid and lengthy career in graphic art design and book illustration. Bringing my expressionistic style in nonfigurative painting to the international public scenery is what I work with. My paintings are built of Acrylic on hardboard with softly forms of moving objects. The content could look threatening and sublime but there is also where the beautiful lurks. I always work towards a liberating lightness. My German heritage, Swedish upbringing and life in USA and Europe has formed and established my beliefs that we are all alike. We share the same need of respect and protection of life and our common habitat, the Earth. I try to express in my paintings the movements and forces that divide but also unite us.

Foy, Steven

UK

Painting

The works are concerned with man-made-order and organic growth; the tension between the construction of the painting, like an industrial process and the growing of something in nature from seed.
Somehow an imperfect shape is closer to nature and therefore more truthful than a strictly delineated form. For instance, a barrel of apples from the same tree will yield a variety of rounded shapes. All of which will be different. The results are a contemplation of the consequences. This is the point where more is possible.

Frengen, Frans

Belgium

Painting

Frans Frengen (Belgium) has developed a technique, coined "Fumagine", in which he uses the soot from a burning candle. He enlarges his ideas from a dozen of sketches and begins working on canvas using the candle flame to manifest these ideas. He lies on his back (from studying Michelangelo). On a tabletop he finishes; not only; with white acrylic paint to bring out light areas who complements the color of the burnt soot. Finally he adds a color square.

Gardiner, Penny

France

Painting

My art is inspired by my interests in nature, classical narratives and the esoteric arts and are constructed on a similar concept as a mandala or yantra. A colour scheme is created with care and drawn together as each tint, hue, and value lay side by side in specific proportions that complement each other, as they unit the idea to the composition that radiates towards the viewer transporting them on a spiritual journey in their unconscious mind. I have exhibited in France, England and Italy, and my paintings are in private collections in France, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Japan and Jamaica

Garon, Kristina

USA

Painting

My major focus is creativity. In abstract paintings I can express my creativity without limitation of a theme, subject or style. My abstract paintings reflect my love for vivid colors. I find very spiritually rewarding to explore my creativity and be able to bring to canvas what lies within me. Through the creative process I realized that the possibilities for artistic expression are endless. My canvas is a playground where I can let my inner world create my outer word. It is an inner journey of discovery and exploration of the gift I am blessed with.

Goddard, Inta

Australia

Painting, Sculpture

Inta Goddard is an Australian abstract artist. She now lives and works in Perth, WA, Austalia. Her art is expressed in sculptures, wall pieces, as well as paintings on canvas and paper. Born in Latvia, Inta Goddard emigrated to Australia in 1949 where she lived until 1968. This was followed by a six year stay in the UK, and travels through most of Europe, North Africa, Mexico, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bali and throughout Australia.

Her formal education includes Art, Philosophy, Education, Information Technology. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Tasmania, HongKong, Singapore, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Canada and UK. Her works are shown in art galleries, universities, various government sites, and are included in many private and corporate collections.

Gokay, Bahadir

Turkey

Painting

Bahadir Gokay graduated from the Department of Graphics in the State School of Higher Education of Applied Fine Arts-Istanbul, in 1982. He was a student yet when he started working as an art director in distinguished advertising companies. He established his own company in1984 and became the creative director of many significant brands. His unique style consists of strong figures, design concern and clear colours. He continues working in his atelier in Istanbul and also gives drawing and painting lessons at Erenus Art Gallery.

Goldsmith, Andrea

USA

Painting

For a long time I have used the imagery of Venice and the Italian landscape in my paintings. The layered work in oil is abstract yet retains the essence of the images which inspired them. Architectural elements such as grids, gates, hearts and passages symbolize the passing of time, changes in direction, barriers to communication, lost love. These fragments of buildings can also be seen to represent home or a longing for stability, a struggle against the transient nature of life and relationships. My most recent paintings were inspired by the broken pieces of ceramic tiles in the Serpentine bench in Guell Park, Barcelona, designed by the architect Gaudi. I love color and texture and I am always exploring how color and line come together to form the structure of a painting.

Gougeon, Jeffrey

Korea

Painting

Jeffrey Gougeon is a Canadian born painter currently living in Seoul, South Korea. An experienced composer and musician as well as a painter he feels his role as an artist is to give himself up to the art and the medium will take care of itself. Throughout these processes Jeffrey is always mostly concerned with dialogue in all its forms; internal, with the work, with the viewer or listener and back again.

Guicheteau, Cecile

France

Painting

By nature or education, I belong to that sort of people who like living alone. Is that fact the reason for my work or its result? I tend to believe that it is more the reason. Anyway, after working in the world of television and cinema, I am very happy today to be able to spend a lot of time alone and isolated in my workshop which is my actual universe.
I like to work getting my inspiration from writings which touch me deeply. That’s what I did, working from poets like Baudelaire. Through his work, Baudelaire sublimates themes of an extreme violence. He binds the evil to the beautiful; the sublime to the odious, violence and bliss, even death becomes a kind of aestheticism. I believe that it is precisely this I Baudelairian approach which interests me in the pictorial gesture.

Hart, Perri

USA

Photography

I was born in New York in 1957 to a cartoonist father, Johnny Hart. Photography is an art in the way we all perceive what we see, either in our mind or through our eyes. My camera is an extension of my vision. Looking through the lens, trying to capture it all, I see so much more. The camera invites me to focus on the smaller parts of life we sometimes take for granted, and often completely miss.

Haug, Kari Elisabeth

Norway

Painting

Beside painting I write poems and play the piano. Religion, astrology and existential questions get an even broader part of my attention. The expression is intuitive. I seek another reality than the one we can see and feel around us. Therefore I`m in the search for something else, a power, a source, a mystery I know I`m a part of. My way of expression is open which symbolizes life and man under continuous development and change.

Hogh, Magda

Denmark

Painting

Through her artwork Magda Høgh conveys a powerful and intense artistic awareness of the world that surrounds her. One cannot help but be moved by her paintings - through which she conveys a contagious vitality. Each piece of her work is filled with a brightness and joy which seems to radiate from her inner most self. Living in one of the most scenic areas of Denmark, at the foot of the “Hills of Mols” and on the edge of Begtrup Bay looking across to the beautiful peninsula of Helgenæs, she has her hands on the pulse of the land, air, sea and sky.

Holden, Mark

Canada

Painting

My paintings in the DJ Series are fun Expressionist-Pop works of record players. I wanted to bring art and music together in a colorful almost abstract style, so I chose the record player as a symbol because it looks more interesting than an MP3 player and I love the look of vinyl. I used oil paint, spray paint and graffiti markers, as it goes with the DJ culture of spinning records in clubs to create music. The titles honour some of the many musicians that have influenced me and got me through the last 12 years. I started the first painting in 1999 and finished it off in 2010.

Hong, Soojin

South Korea

Painting

Creating artworks is an easy and difficult job at the same time. When I am inspired by certain things, the creativity in me flows out of my heart and overflows on the canvas I am working on. But there is certain time that nothing inspires me and nothing wakes me up. That is the hardest time for an artist. I always try to stay alert artistically, which makes my works go on.

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Hori, Naomi

Japan

Painting, Photography

I have always aspired to express myself artistically through different genres and am happiest when I am creating something new. The simple and pure joy of creation is the essential motive of my art. I enjoy the freedom of exploring different mediums; oil on canvas, gouache on paper and digital photography. The common characteristics in my artwork are the exuberant use of vibrant colors and geometric forms, which create playful images with surreal impressions.www.naomihori.net
naomihori@earthlink.net

Horst, Daniela

The Netherlands

Painting

Born in Amsterdam, Holland. As a child she was always drawing. And as an adult she followed several drawing and painting studies one of which was in Den Bosch in The Netherlands and one in Arendonk, Belgium where she attended the ‘Academy of Fine Arts’. Daniela gets her inspiration mainly from nature. She is fascinated by the beautiful colours and shapes which she experiences during her walks. In her studio she transforms these impressions into feelings and subsequently onto the canvas.

Hulme, Beth

Australia

Painting

My subject matter ranges from realism to the abstract, but the focus of my art is the human form, abstracted to suggest an opinion, a mood or an emotion as well as playing with the idea of perfection and imperfection and it’s relationship to beauty. I am fascinated with the challenge of capturing movement and hope to project sensuality and dignity in my human depictions. I love to use vibrant colour and strong lines so that my feminine forms leap with light from the canvas. I draw inspiration from the beautiful people around me as well as a strong influence from my travels through South East Asia and Africa.

Jackson, Maz

UK

Painting

Born in East Anglia, UK, I’ve spent my life with my family, drawing and painting in this locality. The Norfolk landscape and its people enrich my imagery which can be interpreted in many ways and relate to many cultures across the globe. I continue to exhibit and be collected by galleries, museums and private collectors across Europe, Japan, China, USA and Mexico. My work continues to evolve. I have a deep interest in traditions of practice, in colour, line, mark-making and edge. Imagery springs from anything that excites: communication, laughter, touch, tension, flight, landscape, the spaces between and things sacred.

James, Jean

Canada

Painting

"As an explorer in her art and in the physical world Jean's paintings have evolved through content and colour phases.”

She works in series-- recently with the joy and exuberance of "reds": and now the latest which are muted and grayed but with strong lights. They are inspired by the northern winter world. Another ongoing series is one entitled "Palette Scrapings" which has been well received in several shows.

Jinnah, Nadiya

USA

Painting, Sculpture

Born in Uganda of South Asian origin, I have lived for many years in the West. This blend has created a cultural richness within my soul, that I explore in my paintings. For me, making Art is not only a way to express myself, but also to comprehend life. I call my work ‘Lifescapes' and begin by exploring my personal inner space, then extending out to the external landscape. I start with a clay surface to create a three-dimensional drawing. This sculpting allows me an infinite variety of textures and depths which I use to physically express the essences of organic landscapes. The impression is then transferred onto an acrylic canvas. Lastly, I use color on this very tactile background to create a subtle illusion and an experience of reality beyond the physical world.

Kae, Leni

Australia

Painting

Born in Sydney, Leni Kae has exhibited across Florence Biennale 2009, New York, Varese, London, Barcelona (upcoming) and around Australia. In essence her artwork integrates colour science and semiotics; satisfying both an artistic and scientific mission to capture beauty, but also to liberate emotions and elicit positive memories. A particular focus on the female form becomes the symbol of emotion and nurturing, but combines strength of pose, colour and composition to ignite a sense of strength. Flowing lines, bold forms and tones all interact to support liberation but also connectedness, to "remind the audience of the universal bond we carry as human beings - emotion, memory, desire and dream".

Kaschlik, Steffi

Germany

Painting, Art Reproduciton, Glass Painting

Born in Leubnitz/Saxony, Steffi Kaschlik currently works in her studio in Reutlingen, Germany. Kaschlik works in various media including painting, art reproduction and glass painting. Her dynamic creative career has enabled her to develop her own unique voice as an artist based on a concrete and a varied foundation of studies and relationships around the world. She has exhibited extensively throughout Germany, Europe and Asian and her work is included private, corporate and institutional collections around the world.

Kastner, David

USA

Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Ceramics, Furniture

For artist David Kastner, content is more important than technique. This multimedia artist moves beyond the mere technical to understand how materials he engages work, exploiting their properties to find what he is most interested in: meaning, ideas, and concepts. Through the years his art has been included in solo and group shows over the world.

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Kawabata, Hide

Japan

Painting

I want create a moving experience, as if electrifying the soul. And only the truth can do that. My works are completely original and different from the others. Just because I paint the pure form of passion gushing out like magma from a volcano in my mind, and imagine human blood and strong emotion such as anger, sorrow, fear, love and joy in my unique RED. It is my designation to draw the bound of life in the universe.

Kerr, Susan

Cyprus

Painting

London born Susan Kerr studied Painting and Graphics at Bath Academy of Art: [NDD], Leicester, ATD. Worked as practising artist; participated in International Biennale, others in Europe, and solo exhibitions in Cyprus. Taught Art at ‘American International School in Cyprus’: 1987-2008.‘In my paintings there is an investigation into the most essential elements of existence: light, colour, gravity, depth and space, through abstraction from natural phenomena as seen in the universe. Here is a revelation of light and colour in the deepest depths of space…..’

Khoy, Selda

The Netherlands

Painting

Selda Khoy-Emami was born in 1979 in Iran. From a young age, she practiced various forms of art such as music, drawing and painting. Her work of Selda is composed of various materials and techniques. Her love goes out to large projects based on acrylic or oil paint, with a balanced image of colors together in beautiful patterns, often with multiple interpretations. Her paintings are from life and give a picture of love and freedom.

Kim, Maria Kisook

Canada

Painting

Maria Kisook Kim is a professional fine artist with over twenty years experience. Her signature style is a combination of western abstract and oriental painting which she has developed through her studies and personal experiences in both the West and the East. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Education in Fine Art Education from Korea University. In Korea she has participated in various art exhibitions throughout the country including the distinguished joint exhibition between Korea and Tokyo Universities at the Japan Embassy in Seoul. Maria is an active artist in Toronto, Canada. Some highlights of her art career in Canada include "featured artist" designation at Toronto Art Expo for four consecutive years and a solo exhibition at Toronto's Korean Consulate General.

Kleyn, Hilda

The Netherlands

Painting

I was born in Ghana and left Africa when I was five years old. I studied and graduated at the Art Academy in Amsterdam and I am now living in Frankfurt. After over 50 exhibitions in various countries, I established a strong and successful relationship in Italy during the past few years, including Milan, Rome and Ancona. I work with oil paint on canvas. I am happy to participate in the exhibition Liberated Dreams in Ferrara. Exhibiting my work will very much emphasize how much my paintings have been valued by Italian people.

Knight, Gerry

Australia

Painting

Gerry started painting at a very early age; her desire to be an artist was constant. This culminated in her obtaining her degree in Fine Art. Gerry’s chosen fields are painting and her very unique lino cut prints. Her subjects vary from bright still life and expressive landscapes to swirling full-bodied seascapes. Notably, all works show a love of movement and intense colour. They nourish and inspire the viewer with their warmth and powerful composition as she uses colour and line to feed the soul. Gerry herself says that she is “profoundly moved by colour, often a whole subject of a work can be based around a colour inspiration and I cannot work at it quickly enough! I work in a predominately expressive style focusing on the life force within the subject.”

Krauss, Michele

USA

Painting

Michele Krauss was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. She moved to the United States in 1987, starting a never-ending journey of moves and experiences. She lived and studied Interior Architecture, Interior Design and Art while living in Milan, London, San Francisco, Miami, Madrid and New York.
Her years of traveling and studying have allowed her to develop a very particular style, composed of many different passions. Michele had not being able to accommodate herself to academics rules. As a self-taught artist, she keeps taking the opportunity to grow and learn, painting with different artists and absorbing what the world has to offer.
Today, her paintings are held in private collections worldwide.

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