Artists Describing Their Art:

Diana Grappasonno - 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. ...

Win Peterman - Artist Statement "Alice in Wonderland" as a child that is how I felt looking at the drawings, paintings and sculpture in my Uncle's shop. When I become absorbed in creating, the same wondrous childhood feeling - my "magic moment" takes over. Like Alice, I am propelled along the path, capturing unexpected delights. My goal is to spark the "magic moment" feeling in those viewing my art by pulling them in-capturing their minds, hearts and emotions. I grew up surrounded by nature in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. When I was 8 years old I experienced an overwhelming need to capture the image of a deer. Only after I drew the deer did the "feeling" recede. I can still see the deer as if the incident happened yesterday. That awakening, so hard to describe, lives within me and I call it my "magic moment". My inspiration comes from the world around me. Nothing gives me more delight than to capture a "magic moment" and find that people viewing my art experience a similar feeling. A teacher once told me that most people are either two dimensional or three dimensional. She said I was both, which was very unusual. I find ...

Luisa Cleaves Luisa F. V. Cleaves Gallery - Fine portraiture is a sacred tool for me since it reflects and honor the subject in deeper ways. Every portrait that I have painted has generated strong emotional responses. In their testimonials, people speak of how looking at themselves,their children,or family members in their portraits has empowered them and made them feel more beautiful. About The Artist... South American artist Luisa F. V. Cleaves is a native of Argentina. She studied at The Superior School of Fine Arts majoring in Sculpture and Painting. Luisa exhibited her artwork in galleries, hotels, libraries, and art associations in Argentina as well as the U.S. Her work has been praised by such well known Argentinian art critics Cesar Magrini from "El Cronista Comercial" and E.R. from "Clarin." Luisa illustrated the title page of the book "Imagine", an homage to Frida Kahlo by international women poets. She has been interviewed by local newspapers, radio, and T.V. program "Aqui" Her work is in private collections in South America, Central America, Europe, and the U.S. She's an award winning artist and a member of The American Society of Portrait Artists. ...

David Larkins - I've always been intrigued by the luminosity and transparencies found in watercolor and acrylic mediums. I believe an artist must experience the painting - to absorb the surroundings, the atmosphere, to have a oneness with the subject matter before the first brush stroke is applied. My style is described as "Abstract Realism" and my strength is found in the composition. I'm drawn to diverse subject matter that challenges the viewer to see abstraction in the ordinary - to meld the "real" world with the "abstract". ...

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 ...

Maria Teresa Fernandes - Admiring Teresa's paintings we are touched by her pictorial sensitivity. Difficult task in light colors (volume and transparencies on a clear basis). Few do it due to the required dedication with pallete knife(no brush).It's painting consacrated by the love to paint. Radha Abramo(Renowned art critique)comments at Solo Exhibition Catalog at SESC Paulista in June 84 -( sent at request and reproduced in one of the pages of this site). ...

Julia Cake - Julia Cake: Sculptress Born: 1973 in Monaco Currently Living in England Introduction Julia's passion for sculpting began when she was 16 after an accident cut short a holiday from another of her true passions, skiing. She enrolled in the famous Beaux Art academy in France to more fully express what was already an over whelming artistic flair. She decided to move into the three-dimensional world of sculpting. This dynamic gave Julia the release she needed to allow her artistic ideas to flow. These ideas when suppressed in earlier years were sometimes misunderstood by those around her, who would comment that Julia's introspective behavior perhap's required a quite different therapy. Her first ever piece "Trois Elephants" was judged 2nd place at an international exhibition in Cannes. She was just 17 years old. From clay she moved into marble, which soon became the stone for which Julia's passion raged. Born in Monaco and growing up in the French Riviera, Julia was able to drive into Italy to hand pick the most beautiful pieces of naturally formed marble to work with. This is what developed her most sought after talent; the ability to take a stone and transform ...

Kichung Lizee - After coming to this country from Korea in the mid 60's to study art, among the many forms of Western art that I was introduced to, Abstract Expressionism interested me most. Currently I am in the process of synthesizing Eastern and Western approaches to art. Specifically, I'm adopting the techniques and materials of Eastern calligraphy to Western thematic material, my primary goal being to close the gap between East and West and reach for universal creativity. Eastern calligraphy I learned is a living and breathing spirit, rather than the dead and rigid tradition of thousands of years. It is uniquely a form that conveys the pulsation of life energy. Through it, one can experience all aspects of the living spectrum. Eastern calligraphic form reveals the kind of life the artist has led, as well as foreshadowing the person one will become. It is the art form that manifests the self as a way of life or philosophy of life. It is a powerful art form that operates through direct intuition. As an artist I rely heavily on creative intuition. Moving with changes in the stream of consciousness, my creative intuition somehow brings out the subconscious and superconscious through ...

Edward Skallberg - Dear Sir, Madam: Limited Editions are heavily embellished and come with a Certificate of Authenticity . One of the best seller is "Girl in a Rose Garden" Many have been sold. I am currently in the process of painting landscapes and still lifes. BIO Edward Skallberg began drawing and painting at the early age of nine in Freeport Long Island. In love with nature and color. My views of the world and life are the heart and soul of each brushstroke. Ed is influenced by the 19th century masters, Sargent, Moran, Winterhalter. The ability to paint all subject matter, landscape, seascape, still life and portraits. Using spontaneous brushwork and brilliant color by heightening with white to show the optical grays and luminosity by glazing over, as was painted during the 16th century renaissance. Ed studied at the School of Visual Arts studied under internationally-acclaimed artist Hogarth, and the Art Students League in New York City.And also studied with the late Jack Jackson, a well known portrait painter in Ocala Florida. Ed's works have been exhibited in many shows at Greenport, West Hampton on Long Island and the Soundview Gallery in Port Jefferson NY. His paintings were also exhibited ...

Edward Skallberg - Roberta Ekman - Roberta Ekman was born in Smithers, BC, Canada. Her family lived in Terrace, BC, but, because at that time there was no hospital in Terrace, her mother had to travel by car on the old rickety roads to Smithers, which had a hospital. She is the second youngest of a family of sixteen children from the same parents, Ted and Mary Johnston who were married in Terrace, BC. All the children were raised in Terrace. In the family there were two sets of twins of which she is one of the youngest set. She graduated from grade 12 at the Skeena High School. She has been drawing since she was very young and had no training, to speak of, in the field of art. She married Carl Ekman and raised five children. They now have seven grandchildren. Most of her life has been spent living in Terrace (except for the times spent in Alberta with her husband and another couple in a joint business venture). In between business ventures, she and her husband live in Terrace on their 35 acre property on the edge of the Kalum River canyon in a big log home which they built themselves with a ...

Shmuela Padnos - ARE YA READY TA GET THE BIG LEG BLUES FROM THE GAS MAN AS THE SPECIAL RIDER MAKES YOU MISSISSIPPI MOAN? ARE YA GONNA RIDE THE NEW HAMHOUND CRAVES A BLACK SNAKE MOAN WITH THE LITTLE LEG OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES? WELL TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME AS i TELL YOU ABOUT THAT CHERRY WOMAN ARTIST SHMUEL A PADNOS. AS THE DEVIL SENT THE RAIN TA N'AWLINS SHMUEL A WAS CONCEIVED DURING MARTI GRAS FUN OF LE BON TON ROULET. 9 MONTHS LATER IN THE FOOT HILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA, LAND OF RATTLE SNAKIN DADDY& STEP IT UP & GO, SHMUEL A WAS BORN. ALTHOUGH EXPOSED TO THE EAST COAST PICKIN OF BLIND BOOY FULLER, BUDDY MOSS& JOSH WHITE BY HER GRANDPARENTS, SHMUELA WAS ALWAYS FOUND WITH A PAINTBRUSH IN HER HAND INSTEAD OF A GUITAR. SHE FOUND THE MOVING OF THE BRUSH CREATED ITS OWN FUNKY SOUND&RHYTHM....

Suhas Tavkar - Since my childhood I was always thinking that our universe is the God's largest art Gallery with display of big and small moving planets. To see this exhibit during the day the God has created Sunlight and at night God has created Moonlight. So far our living planet earth is one of the nature's greatest and the best art piece, (until we discover another living planet like earth). Our earth's oceans are God's created largest and mysterious aquariums in the living world where you see real natural artistic creations in the light or in the dark deep blue sea. I was born in 1942 and raised in Mumbai (Bombay), India, and I was exposed to the art of fingernail embossing as a child but started doing fingernail embossing at the age of four. I have learned this unusual and rare fingernail relief art on paper from my late architect father Anant who in turn, learned it from his father and mother as a child (even today I can trace my family names from 1562, means Nakhachitra art has been practiced by my family before that time for generations). Today I can produce the most intricate and ...

Jeanne Guerin Daley - Painting large (murals) as well as smaller canvas paintings are my passion. Images of flowers, trees, pet and people portraits are my focus. "Why do I paint? I paint to express an deep appreciation of the wonders in our world, to spread nature's beauty, to bring the outdoors in, and to attempt to re-create some of the awesomeness of our world. There is so much to paint in this world and so little time to paint! Currently I am dividing my time between painting custom murals and creating smaller sized works that portray and celebrate images from nature. These smaller works are created in a variety of media. In addition to acrylic paints, I've been playing around with pastels, water-color pencils and a photographic process called cyanotypes. The cyanotypes allow me to get out into the garden and get up close and personal with nature, which feeds my soul. I have been using real parts of nature to create the prints. Now that the cold weather has come and the summer foliage is disappearing, I have started to experiment with cyanotypes using images on film....

Dmitry Rakov - Impossible reality (All new artworks and largerview at www.rakov.de and

Bessie Papazafiriou - Through my work I'm able to express reality in my own way. With a brush in hand suddenly horses can fly, the sky is ablaze, myths become reality and the world is transformed. To me, this is freedom. There is an unequaled sense of joy and satisfaction that comes from being able to express my vision and share it with others. I love it when a stranger views my work and feels a connection...suddenly we're no longer strangers. A new line of communication is open, one that transcends language....

Lyuba Zahova - Lyuba Zahova was born on 27.02.1952 in Shabla, Bulgaria. In 1975 she graduated from the fine-art institute in Dupnitsa. Untill 1990 she worked as a fine-art teacher and director of the fine-art gallery in Shabla, Bulgaria. She is taking part in fine-art exhibitions since 1980. Lyuba Zahova is painting landscapes, still lifes and modern compositions in oil. In 1990 Lyuba Zahova had her first solo exhibition in Schwalmtal, Germany. In 2005 Lyuba Zahova published her first book'Born near the lighthouse' - poetry and paintings. ...

Ljiljana Lazicic Putnik - "She paints scenarios with emphasize narrativity and symbolics.The human figure is in the center of her interests and ,in the same time,the starting point to build the picture.She draws and paints in combined technique,mostly with color inks and tempera.She became famouse with her abstracts and colorful immaginationes" Otmar Sirec Oto,prof.of Art History "Tende ad un'espressione moderna, una libera associazione di elementi realistici e fantastici, fondati da penello dell'artista in un hobbi per determinazione" Dott.Radoslav Putnik "Ricco orizzonte creativo, rappresentato con disegni e tecnica combinata, ci porta nell'insolito e ricerca l'immaginazione. Disegni di fiori con tempera su carta. L'espressione coloristica ci avvicina all individualita creativa" Prof.Nevena Tolanov...