Artists Describing Their Art:
Walter Crew - I am an active painter and I paint most every day - I have been actively painting for about 17 years and I exhibit mostly in our local area here in Contra Costa County - I belong to 4 Art groups and I am Co-president of "Las Juntas Artists" in Pleasant Hill. I have my paintings in different locations throughout our area - Pleasant Hill library , Diablo Valley College where I have 3 paintings in their permanent collection and I have had my own shows there in Feb 2010 and January 2014 - and the Pleasant Hill library until Jan 1st-2015 and I also exhibit in "Valley Art Gallery" in Walnut Creek . My paintings are in different mediums - acrylic & acrylic collage -Oils- Scratchboard - Watercolors & Pastels and I am always trying new things . I have been taking all of the painting classes at Diablo Valley College that I can take over the years as well as the Pleasant Hill Adults Art & Painting classes where I have my Fine Art certificate. I also do demos for local art groups on occasion and. I will continue to paint each day - it is my "therapy "...
Ariadna De Raadt - ItaEURtms always difficult to write about myself. I believe that I do not need many words to describe what I do. On my main page you can see hyperlinks that lead to my photos, paintings, vector illustrations, and a few articles. You can think that it is too many directions for one artist, but in reality everything what I do has a connection to architecture and design of interiors. IaEURtmd like to tell you that St. Petersburg (Leningrad) is my place of birth and it is always in my heart. Now, I live and feel like at home in The Hague (the Netherlands) and it is the most wonderful city in the world. As an artist I specialize in decorative painting. It's a new direction in my creativity, and it gives me a great inspiration since I can utilize new art materials and modern techniques. My last passion is photography. My photos are publishing in different American and European magazines....
Alla Alevtina Volkova - Throughout my whole life I always found myself drawing or painting when i have free time. I was always especially attracted to oil paintings, because they seemed to be alive. Painting has always been my hobby and I feel like it captures me best. I always try my absolute best to convey the beauty and subtlety of our world, nature and life, to capture the most amazing moments in life on a canvas...
Goksen Parlatan - As an artist, mosaic is a very practical way to express my thoughts, feelings and ideas even my hope. Working with the old techniques and giving innovation with creativity makes me happy in this area. Meanwhile mosaic always takes time and it gives me growth and strenght. Sometimes the work wears a different cloth than the first thought of it. So amazement and fun is always there. ...
John Hopper - Although my medium of choice is watercolor, I do oils and acrylics. I find watercolor more exciting, more FUN, and I tend to experiment with technique in watercolor, where I tend to vary my subject matter in other medium. I am a photographer also, however, I see photography as capturing a moment in time with everything static, where in painting, even representational, you put your experiences, history, your entire person into the painting. You bring together your sense of what youve painted aEUR" and hope that the viewer can feel some of that aEUR" along with, and more important, their sense of their own experiences mirrored in the painting. I love what I paint and have FUN expressing that love....
Heinrich Filter - Dear Friends of African wildlife, Taking inspiration from the bush and my previous experience as a safari guide my creations strive to capture the essence and beauty of the animals I sculpt. A completely self-taught artist, my expertise ranges from figurative, wildlife, bird, abstract to African works. Each piece is exclusively sculpted, chased and finished by myself and available in either solid Sterling silver or bronze and in any size - from coffee table pieces to life-size sculpture. For every purchase a donation is made to a conservation organisation of your choice. Warm regards from the southern hemisphere Heinrich Filter ...
Chris Walker - I am a painter from England, living and painting in Provence, France. I am passionate about original art, I paint mainly in oils, generally brightly coloured in all sizes and formats. Subjects vary from abstract, through whimsical and enigmatic to classic landscape. Styles also vary considerably depending on, viewpoint, season, surreal, impressionist, cubist. People, animals, trees and urban scenes feature in many of my works. Each painting is entirely original, influenced by my environment and by the masters and classics. My aim is to produce pleasing and thought provoking paintings, that can be lived with. I undertake special commissions. Please see more paintings and sold pieces at my website. New works are regularly added. New ideas are continuously considered. Just contact me....
Dick Drechsler - I have had a lifelong interest in photography. As a child, my best friends father owned a chain of photo processing plants, providing me the opportunity to learn much about the art. At the ripe old age of 14, I set up a darkroom in my bathroom. I even played around with my own primitive version of Photoshop by using an Exacto knife to cut negatives and merge images. Having spent most of my career in the resort development industry, I retired from that career in 2007 and have been posting quality images, doing commercial photography and photojournalism ever since. I am an active press member of the Los Angeles Press Club and accredited by the United States Press Agencys editorial board as a photojournalist and sports writer and am a member of the United States Press Association. I am also a Roving Reporter for Latitude 38, a contributor to the National Press Club, a photographer for Currents Magazine, Ventura County , CA, a contributor to Seven Seas Sailing Association and a photographer - contributor to Sharon, Ink, Public Relations. ...