Artists Describing Their Art:

Helena Wierzbicki - I have always enjoyed art from an early age. This love of Art has stayed with me and developed and grown, and now, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything else. Making art, for me, is an innate response to the inner and outer worlds, and a balancing act between the intuitive and the considered. I am interested in exploring my natural abilities and enthusiasm for my commitment to do an art within my innermost thoughts and emotions. Shades of colors and lines turning images of beings into landscapes and symbols. My art is an evolving process, I take and represent only elements which are the essence of the imaginary being. I rely on my desires for beauty, poetics and seduction. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) ...

Marinescu Cosmin - Aldous Huxley said that aEURoeexperience itaEURtms not what happens to you aEUR" itaEURtms how you interpret what happens to youaEUR. We are rushing through our lives with needs of fulfilment and forget the basic needs of the soul. Every single experience with people or spaces and their surroundings can give us an idea about the purpose of our lives as role plays. In a desire of changing the mentality of people I discovered different methods to have them knowing the importance of each individual. We are under the influence of mass media and we forgot that we are able to choose the life we like, being responsible for our actions at the same time. Each person has the option to have a dream and to follow it and not to try to copy other personsaEURtm lives and dreams. In a society in which we are fed with all kind of information, our status must be online aEUR" otherwise we are not existing. By that we try to find ourselves creating different representations of our personalities and realities. The illusion of a aEURoeperfectaEUR life comes to us in different forms and doesnaEURtmt allow us to discover our true beliefs and ...

Maja Djokic Mihajlovic - Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++ is an Academic , award- winning painter , full-time professional artist . Her work is widely collected both nationally and internationally and may be found in numerous private and corporate collections all around the world. Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++,born in Belgrade in December 1971.,graduated from The Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade,Painting Department,in the class of professor Milica StevanoviA++.She completed her postgraduate studies,with the same professor as her mentor,in 1999. She has been a member of the ULUS since 1997., and obtained the status of the independent artist in 2000. -Seventeen individual exhibitions. -Participated in more than hundred group exhibitions in our country and around,as well as activities of a number of painting colonies. -Five prizes for painting. ...

Larain Briggs - I began painting at the age of 10 and had work in a gallery by the time I was 14. When leaving art college I was chosen by'Sweet Waters Gallery' in Edgeware, London to exhibit with them and consequently exhibited at various venues such as the Business Design Centre in Islinton 1991 and the Sophia Arts Fair in Bulgaria. I was very humbled and priviledged to exhibit at the Business Design Centre with Walter Nessler. After that I had very unfortunate personal problems and had to focus on them. During that time the gallery closed down and I lost touch with the art world. I then had to move away from London and have now been working and exhibiting my art again on the coast in Essex, UK. Despite describing myself as a painter, I now work in mixed media to portray various styles and genres. My work was previously figurative but has now evolved more into abstract, Dada and sometimes surrealism. I studied art at Camberwell Art College and trained to teach art at Goldsmiths College. Having studied art therapy, psychology, fine art and computer aided visualisation; I enjoy the challenge posed by stretching multi-disciplinary skills and ...

Erik Brede - Producing a link between the landscapeaEURtms reality and that imagined by its conceiver is what BredeaEURtms artwork focuses on. Influenced by renowned artist like Ansel Adams and Rene Magritte, Brede creates surreal and fine digital artwork . Brede follows a conceptual approach thus utilizing a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered manner. His work focuses on concrete questions that determine our existence. Erik Brede is a photographer and Photoshop artist, born in 1971 in Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, Norway. His photography journey started at the age of 11 when his father introduced him to the great magic of film development and post-production in his low budget darkroom. Even if the old analog darkroom is replaced by Photoshop and Lightroom, his vision and craetive ideas are the same. With a conceptual approach, Brede tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way to produce a link between the landscapeaEURtms reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. His work have been sold to television company, record industries and collectors all over the world, and published in books like aEUR~The Best of Photography 2014aEURtm, aEUR~The ...

Pol Ledent - I am a self-taught artist. I was born in Belgium o, 23rd October 1952. I started painting in 1995 . I took some drawing lessons in the art academy in Dinant. I try to paint the landscapes of the countryside where I am living : the southern part of Belgium. Firts I took part in many collective exhibitions . Than, I had personal exhibitions in Rochehaut (Galerie La Potele), in Dinant (Galerie L'impression), in Paris (Rive Gauche Galerie Artimus) in Brussels (Galerie G-Loft).In 2004, I had three exhibitions, again In Rochehaut, galerie La Potele in May. Then, in September Exhibition Libr'art in Libramont. In November, Galerie Impression in Dinant. What people like most in my paintings are the colours. My art doesn't speak to the intellect but to the soul and to the feelings. Talink the risk to seem old fashioned , I would say it is rather romantic. I wish you much pleasure looking at my paintings. Pol Ledent ...

Elly De Martin - Born in Italy, raised in Libya, married and settled in Australia. My life has always involved change and adaptation, and this has continued well into my 8th decade on this wonderful planet. Coming from a background in fashion design and beauty, I turned to mosaic art after an accident forced me into a lifestyle change. Creating beautiful things is not something I like to do, its something I need to do. And once I discovered I could create artworks that reflected what I saw in my mind using tesserae, I knew I was going to be creating mosaic artworks for as long as I physically could. Many of my pieces are inspired by other artists works, however I never aim to replicate what has already been done. Instead, I create my pieces to pay tribute to other artists. My other inspirations include fantasy creatures, spiritual symbols and nature....