Artists Describing Their Art:

Beverly Casey - I am a working muralist/artist in the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland. I previously worked 20 years as a muralist in the Southern California area. My clients include model home commissions for Linfield Design, local interior designers, restaurants, businesses and private commissions. Local clients may view my work at: Jalapeno's Restaurant; Ginger Cove Retirement Community, Atlas Tile and Marble and Anne Arrundel Community College's Culinary Arts Theater...all of Annapolis, Maryland. I am also the muralist for several kitchen design centers in Annapolis and the surrounding area. After focusing mainly on mural work for many years I branched out to include artwork on stone for kitchens and bar backsplashes as well as portraits on canvas. My favorite work at present includes sports and animal related subjects....

Lisa Lorenz - Art is a universal concept and there are as many opinions about what "Art" is as there are people in the world. I have always admired children's artwork; as it is imaginative, uninhibited and full of joyful colours. Exuberantly and cheerfully is the way I like to live and the way I like to paint. I am inspired by the simple things in life and captivated by the love, beauty and colours surrounding us. I love to create cheerful, bright, stylized paintings adding a little colour and happiness into our lives. My art is a celebration of life, colour and form. I want my paintings to bring out the child within; the part that is free to dream and forget about our everyday stresses. I work from my imagination, infusing my own playful personality into my work. I work mainly with acrylics which I love for their vivid colours and versatility. I love to paint with bright colours and experiment with juxtapose combinations of colors, shapes and ideas. My subject matter covers a varied range of subjects, all indicative of the many places and aspects of life I find intriguing: Flowers with their beautiful colours and organic shapes; Memories ...

Rickie Dickerson - I work from the core, I smear my guts on the canvas, all the pain and confusion...joy, lust and anger...right before your very eyes. I have to paint, I have no choice. My mentor, Luise "Mignon" Andersen, introduced me to acrylic paint and threw me deeper into the river of creativity. Everything I do is just to keep me from drowning... As for the photography, that's compulsive as well....

Pim Van Der Wel - Pim van der Wel (1950) combines the art of making watercolours with his work as a business economist. After lessons in all the basic drawing techniques by two Dutch painters in the periods 1980/1987 and 1994/1996 he specialised himself in watercolours. Watercolour offers hardly any limitations, so he can show what he likes and that is light and shadow in dents, creases and gloss etc. His objects are sports (mainly football), cans, torsos, animals (cows, sheep, dogs and chicken). In the last 10 years his work has been shown at (group-)exhibitions in the Netherlands. Some galleries have his works permanently in stock. ...

L. Kelen - I will be getting large files made of the art work I did while on some of the islands that suffered the Hurricanes. The originals will be available for sale believe it or not and there will be fine art prints available. Self-supporting bi-product of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and trial and error. Current activities lindakelen-artings.blogspot.com ...link found somewhere below. ...