Artists Describing Their Art:
Diane Kastensmith Bradbury - I love the spontaneity and freshness of watercolor - especially the "accidental" movement of color that results from painting wet into wet. I usually start with a wet into wet technique, and work through all the stages of the paper, until I am painting wet into dry. I often soak the painting in the bathtub overnight to soften the edges and lighten the colors, going back in the next day to sharpen details and brighten or darken colors where needed. I repeat this process until I can see that the painting is finished. I believe the record for the number of times this was done was a painting I sold in 1985, called "Blue Tree". It had been soaked twenty-two times before I was satisfied with the result. Of course, high quality paint and paper are essential to this process. "Seasons ...
Ione Citrin - Ione is an avant garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages and mixed media assemblages. Her paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic - all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul. "When I paint, I dip my brush in my soul... Being an Artist is a life force, not a career choice. Each piece represents a fragment of my life's work. I present the world artistically as I see it, as I wish to see it, and occasionally as I once saw it. You see, It is my identity. Without this expression of self, I am nothing. Through my art I give love." Ione uses only one name but a variety of styles to soothe her wild imagination. A native of Chicago, she is a former television star and commercial voice-over artist. Now she wins awards and sells her creativity through her hands instead of through her larynx. Her art is as original as she is - bold, colorful and highly decorative....
Gopal Weling - Thoughts...the basic thing of any human being whether it's child in the arms of a mother or a old human sleeping on the bed waiting for the last minute....thoughts which can travel faster than anything....thoughts which leads to inventions...thoughts which can lead to destruction or thoughts which can bring a revolution... My paintings are presentation of spontaneity & my thoughts...thoughts flowing through the mind...through the life...through the experience & liveliness coming through spontaneity Colors....flows through the inner circles of mind...which reflects the dimensions of the thoughts that are traveling in a wavelength matching to the spontaneity of thoughts... ...Gopal Weling...
Micheline Hadjis - www.michelinehadjis.com Painting has always been a passion. For the longest time I did not want to depart with my artwork.I love to paint everything that is exotic like orchids,tropical flowers, exotic fish...Through the years,I developped my own technique. Liking the fluid effects of watercolors but not the glass, I work on a fabric canvas on which I let liquid acrylic, watercolors and sometimes inks do their work for the background and inspiration for the structured elements in the foreground. The result is one of vibrant colors and stunning contrast.The final artwork does not require a glass.I have been working intensively to build my career for a number of years now. The road is long and arduous. You need a lot of confidence in your work, perseverance and patience to be successful in this business. Communications and exchanges with other artists helped me to situate myself and computer knowledge has brought me international exposure through my Canadian and American website. From these came international exhibitions, stimulating comments, participation to extraordinary events and sale of my paintings around the world. My marine scenes are the most popular. No surprise there as I am one ...
Chris Jehn - I am primarily a self taught artist and have always felt creative. I worked my way through college by teaching crafts at an arts and crafts store, everything from embroidery and macrame to tole painting and pottery. I have taken numerous workshops from other practicing artists. Being with a group of other artists creates a synergy that inspires me. I now primarily work with acrylics and collage. I especially love intense color, and have made a study of color composition. One of the main reasons I live in Colorado is because almost everywhere you look there is something wonderful, and IaEURtmm compelled to try to paint what I see and feel. ...
Nebojsa Jovanovic - I want my paintings to give people moments of pleasure, reflection and memories. Every artist approaches their work in a different way. I like to think that my creations are born from a process of creating music that can be seen. I start with an empty and silent stage of white canvas. Then, I gradually introduce and bring to the stage my brushes using them as musical instruments that produce the colors, texture, rhythm and harmony. The process is finished when I hear visual harmony coming from my painting. With a background in still life and landscape painting, I have discovered that I feel true artistic freedom when creating non-objective abstract painting. Now I enjoy the playful dancing back and forth across the boundary lines between representational forms and abstract. My work today can best be described as contemporary abstract that is loosely based on landscape. I am interested in treatment of textural surfaces combined with glazing techniques that brings vibrant colors to my work....
S. Josephine Weaver - WHY AN ARTIST? WHY A PAINTER? "Some gifts are not given: you are delivered to them, bound by chains of nerves and genes stronger than iron or steel, although unseen." "You never know the force that drives you wild to paint that sky, and that bird flying, and is never satisfied but maybe tomorrow..." From: To A Daughter with Artistic Talent - J. Peter Meinke ...
Alain Nicolet - Alain Nicolet was born in 1951. He works on painting since 1977 and had a lot of exhibitions in France Switzerland, USA, etc. His work is like a long way to understand what painting, life, time or memory could mean. This painting asks questions, doesn't show final answers and try to find a way to ask more and more, and better...... Exhibitions selection 2010 Biennale Art Contemporain, Nogent-sur-Marne 2008 Galerie de l'Eveche, Vence 2007 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2006 Galerie Marlyse Calame,Vence 2005 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Valbonne 2005 Intra/Extra Muros, Yverdon-les-Bains 2003 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2002 Atelier 348 Bruxelles 2002 Galerie J-J. Hofstetter, Fribourg 2002 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2000 Galerie Terre d'Ombre, Sommieres 2001 START Foire d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg 2001 Artenim,Foire d'Art Contemporain, Nimes 2000 Galerie Odile Mauve, Paris 2000 Artenim,Foire d'Art Contemporain, Nimes 1998 Galerie Jonas, Cortaillod 1995 Galerie Espace suisse, Strasbourg 1994 Galerie Nane Cailler, Lausanne 1993 Manoir de la Ville, Martigny 1993 Galerie Europeenne, Boston Alain Nicolet has artsworks in many collections in Europe, USA and Japan. ...
Joan Shannon - Most of my fine art work a present involves mixed media and computer manipulation. The subject areas which interest me continue to be mostly landscape based. I like to see some sort of balance and composition while light and colour are significant. I also take straightforward colour photographs!...
Arnold Grace Jr - I cannot imagine what my life would be without the ability to express my inner-most thoughts, dreams and other realities in a visual manner. I express myself through acrylic and oil paintings, mostly on canvas medium.The urge to recreate and interpret my internal and external stimulants is primal and brings me much satisfaction. I do not limit myself to any particular style. However I do tend to paint in an impressionistic form, verging on surrealism, imaginative and figurative representation also. My designs are not complicated or over worked images, but are effective statements of my experiences, augmented by the use of brilliant shimmering color composed from a tight pallette of primary and secondary colors. My subjects are people scenes, landscapes, seascapes and whatever I am compelled to do....
Christa Skoff Oglan - The muse, the madonna and the goddess captured in an endless dream is a recurrent theme of the figurative paintings. I strive to provide a feeling of mystery and opulence that act as points of departure into personal inward journeys for the viewer. ...
Sara Diciero - Her philosophy: "The light, joy, optimism, hope, dreams, colors and music are my guide, my way, your way, that if you want we can share together ... looking at my artworks! " Her painting is part of Abstract Expressionism; image tends toward nature and conveys strong emotions. She captures from a point so far from Earth, another point on the earth as usual, so infinitesimal as close as observed under a microscope. In this way, you can see in her paintings from microorganisms to mountains, plowed fields, large trees, volcanoes, forest fires, remote villages, and coasts, rivers. And of course land of fantasy landscapes. Sara works the oil diluted with own inventive visual textures that puts on the canvas in each new proposal for enhancing the work, with intense color, energy and passion that invite the imagination to travel to places undreamed. ...