Artists Describing Their Art:
Ian Willis - My love for the outdoors and my obsession with the sky drives my creativity.I'm a self taught artist and although watercolours can be difficult to work with i love the way the pigments compete with each other when different colours are floated in water. I use 300gm bockingford.and the sheets are the biggest i can find! Will quote additional price on all works bought for door to door courier delivery! ...
Michael Navascues - WELCOME TO THE PORTFOLIO OF MICHAEL NAVASCUES In recent years I have returned to a childhood joy of painting, which I relate to an abiding love of nature and the world's great artists. My work is inspired by places, scenes, and experiences where I have lived and traveled--North Carolina, New England, Germany, Spain, etc. I paint landscapes, waterscapes, gardens--and sometimes, people, buildings, and animals. All my life I have been fascinated by the beautiful changing colors, the light, and the infinite forms in Nature. In my paintings--oils, watercolors, acrylics--I try to capture these meditative moments, and the subtle feelings, moods, and spiritual hints that a scene may awaken in me and the viewer. My work has been exhibited in many local galleries, including three solo shows....
Louise Marquis - I sprang from inner New York City where my mother, an artist, was my first informal art teacher. But I chose to major in music at the High School of Music & Art (now LaGuardia Arts). After moving to Los Angeles, I studied art at Mission:Renaissance and a smattering of workshops. I have done much in a more traditional or classical vein, especially portraits. I would focus on physical features (mass) and try to convey some of the personality, emotions or motion (energy). One day, I got the idea to focus more on the energy than the mass of the subject. That slight shift in concept radically changed my approach. The resulting work can be called expressionist, intuitive or visionary; I call it energetic. My artwork is still very much influenced by music. And of course, the evolution continues....
Sandra Costa Bras - After trying several painting and photography techniques, I chose watercolour as the main media of expression of feelings, sensations and thoughts. The paintings always start with small dots of water and colour and through the interaction of both the paintings are born. All the things lost and lock in my memory, feelings and thoughts, images, landscapes, places, people and situations, appear between, the fields of colour, the lines, the forms and become alive. I found, working with watercolours, my inner self. Watercolours were chosen as my main technique cause, with then and with small pieces of paper, I express myself totally. I no longer fell the pressure and the need, I felt before, of working on large canvas and I feel free to do whatever it comes to my mind. So the result of these last years of work is those paintings full of light, colour, life and movement. I found myself as a painter....