Artists Describing Their Art:
Ed Immar - The intent is to express feeling, emotion, and beauty as I have experienced them. The light, colors, and artistic eye take a scene from nature, that is special and create art as my abilities allow. The wonder of an overlooked slice of nature becomes my image....
Sandi Carpenter - Due to my endless curiosity and wide range of interests, my work has evolved over the years. Just as a musician would change instruments to perfect the mood and rhythm created, I enjoy moving from one medium to another, be it French dyes on silk, watercolor or acrylic. I am always hopeful that the magic I feel in creating these images will be felt by the viewer with similar intensity. I believe it is only then that art really lives....
Colin Bailey - Colin Bailey is an artist and printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years. Originally an etcher, and still with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin has embraced the advance of recent technology through the use of digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality giclee printing. As a popular Rye artist Colin Bailey realised the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of the south east coast and set up this website as a showcase for his Rye and Kings Cross etchings. Now in Hastings, with a growing reputation as a Hastings artist he has expanded his portfolio and has produced a series of paintings which he scans and reproduces as limited edition fine art giclee prints, handling this whole process himself in order to maintain artistic integrity. As well as traditional views of Rye & Hastings, there is also a section of work exploring the textures and structures of Rye Bay (the East Sussex coast between Hastings and Dungeness). Ancient groynes, banks of constantly shifting shingle, fishing boats drying on the beach, and the prehistoric coast at the foot of the ...
Marilyn Valiente - My art is a dance between the outer world of nature and beauty and the inner world of intuition and subconscious symbols. My many years of training in the field of psychology, my work with individuals in therapy, and my art; all reflect the influence of my favorite psychologist Carl Jung. The observer can detect the dance of opposites as I try to use the obvious and the hidden, the light and the shadows, the ancient and the new; to invoke a sense of wonder. The subject itself is often insignificant. It is the play of light, the texture, the nuaces of the mingling of colors that interest me. It is my joy of the moment of being lost in the creative process that I will hope I can share with the viewer. And perhaps if just for a moment our soul is held captive to the joy and wonder of the creative force that lives within all....
Alkistis Wechsler - Reality meets myths. Personal visual impressions of chosen English gardens ... lately also Mediterranean seaside, are coming together in imaginative collages and alchemic transformation. . Sensitive to the environment as well as to human interactions and expressions it all translates into visual myths . Not only travels between geographical points, but also a thirst for such trips in the mind through myths and readings of initiatic rituals of metamorphosis, infiltrated as well my art of painting. At the end, every archetype (for example Heliogabalus, Persephone and Artemis) and every movement reaches back to the source of rhythm and scales creating a personal mythology and so I understand my self and the world after each painting is done by a hypersensitive process and not a premeditated rational plan. The seasons or the elements and their rhythm are interwoven with my vision of human soul and the soul of the sea ...
Mariusz Kula - MARIUSZ KULA - Exotic Plants and Scenes Photography. Mariusz Kula is a semi-retired entrepreneur who has had a passion for photography and cacti all his life. After emigrating from Poland to New Zealand in 1981, he took many photos of cacti and other exotic plants and scenes during his trips throughout New Zealand and Australia. Now he wishes to share the warmth and beauty of some of those photos with the rest of the world, particularly with people living in colder climate countries Prints and Posters from all Mariusz Kula's photos displayed on this site (and many more) are available in many different sizes, mediums and frames from
Lynda Lehmann - I have participated in numerous juried shows and had solo shows of my paintings. Ive sold my photography and digital art online, in galleries and other real-time venues, although I am currently marketing my work primarily online. My stock art sells well and Ive sold at least 2400 images in that venue. Life events had steered me away from painting but I am jumping back into that part of my process and hope to have new paintings online within the next few months. OTHER STUFF My painting Bibliophiles Dream has been featured on the cover of the Insights Journal of Austin Seminary. My paining Damariscotta Dream has been used for the cover of Chuck Sweetmans poetry chapbook published by Dream Horse Press. My image Enchanted Forest was used by the Sierra Club in their online feature Daily Ray of Hope. The Yellow Door has been published in Long Islands Canvas Magazine. I was a featured artist at Imagekind in July and have been featured from time to time on my other sites as well. February 1 - 28, 2009 - Metrimorphic III featuring new abstract paintings combining biomorphic and geometric elements, Harborfields Library, Greenlawn, NY. Due to time constraints I will ...
Lorrie Williamson - As time passes and history is made, it is exciting to try and capture a special moment of life in a painting. It might be inspired by an earth-shaking event or just an ordinary daily experience. More often it comes as a result of looking for something meaningful to say about life as it is today by painting a picture of it. I have a passion for painting, and a ongoing desire to master the never-ending possibilities that are inherent in making art. I hope to express a mood or tell a story that will grab and hold your attention and make you want to see more....
Dana Zivanovits - Dana Zivanovits was born in 1958 in Columbus, Ohio and received his art training from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1978 to 1982). After art school, he went abroad for a year and studied the art of the old masters in London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Venice. Returning to his studio in Columbus to develop these influences into a new body of work, he then traveled to Mexico and studied the sculpture and painting of that country for an extended period. The unique and vivid colors of Palenque and Vera Cruz intensified his palette. After a period in Ohio, he then moved to Venice Beach, California where the brilliant light of the region reinforced his desire to capture effects of sunlight and atmosphere. Returning to Ohio in 1995, he has continued to paint themes deriving inspiration form sources such as world mythology, classic and B-grade cinema, literature and dreams. However his primary inspiration is direct observation from nature, versus an approach based in art theories or cultural critique. Dana has been widely represented by galleries and exhibition projects including Julie Rico and Mega Boom in Los Angeles, the Venice Art Detour, Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago ...
Kenneth Burde - K.R. Burde has been painting scenes in and about New Jersey for over 50 years. Burde has studied at The Art Students League and the New School and is a graduate of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, New Jersey City University, and holds an M.A. in Fine Arts from Montclair State University. He currently teaches Graphic Design and Fine Arts at Ocean County College in Toms River, NJ and was an Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Essex County College for 16 years, as well as a Teacher of Art in The Belleville, NJ School District for over 35 years. He also paints in other mediums and takes on commissioned work. Burde is an Associate Member of the National Watercolor Society, the New Jersey Watercolor Society,a member of the Monmouth County Art Council, the Belmar Arts Council and registered in the artist directory of the Newark Arts Council and the City Without Walls Gallery in Newark,NJ. He has had many exhibitions and is collections in NJ, NY, PA & FL. "I enjoy the versatility that watercolor has as a painting medium. It affords me the opportunity to look at the world around me, and ...