Artists Describing Their Art:
Cheryl Dodds - In each of us there is an artist. We have only to allow the art freedom to exist.... I hold both a bachelors and masters degree from The Ohio State University and have also studied art at Ohio University. Currently, I teach art in a high school in Oregon. Previously, I taught art and multimedia in a distance education environment after 14 years in a traditional school. In 2006-2007 I lived in Chiayi, Taiwan and taught English for the Ministy of Education. Art instructors Dennis Adams and Pheoris West have influenced my direction in art. My wish is that you find personal meaning as you view my art....
Jorge Llaca - Introduction. The main features that best describe my work, are closely related to the unconscious images of death and eroticism. Both present as methaphors of life and death, and a clearly intended physical resolution of the symbolos behind the myth of "Eros & Thanatos". "Our existence is embedded in an endless circle of life and death. We are forced into the conflict, surrounded by metaphors of beginnings and endings". "Today, we find the real truth of our existence in recycling and composting: giving to the universe that which has been given to us in life, with the payment of our own death, so life can emerge again." Life-death-life. (Jorge Llaca, winter 2001) Professional career. The first period starts back in early 70's, as a fine arts student. Times in which I was involved working in private workshops and art centres, with an extense list of teachers and mentors. Some of which had a long course experience and recognition within the national art circles in Mexico, as it is the case of Teresa Citto a well known Italian painter. Also as part of this learning period, I attended private Universities such as the University of the Claustro de Sor ...
Donna Gallant - Art is a daily routine in my life. I see, hear, taste, feel and smell the life that surrounds me and I am inspired by the simplest aspects of this world. Whether it be the way the light hits an object or the way objects or forms move in space. I find it all so fascinating and alive. I try to portray these experiences and expressions through my art making....
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George Mulaudzi - In my art, I like to capture the beauty in mundane places objects, and faces. I use 1 medium though my paintings are versatile, beyond time and place allows me to express different ideas. Most of my paintings are from the imagination though motivated by things around me which I use art as a way to transform and elevate them, the simple yet sublime. I am in constant search of the best way to interpret the ideas that I have about myself and the world I live in. I do not limit myself to one concept or style, inspiration and ideas change. Each piece I create is a simultaneous extension from the past, where I come from, and what I have learned, as well as a preview of the future, where I am going....
Julia Tokar - Everything that an artist creates must come from his heart. I want my paintings to be positive, maybe even make someone happier or just give that boost of energy that I put into every work. I want to show not only the whole range of colors of nature, but also tell a story, make you think, dream, fantasize. My figurative artworks are like theater on canvas everyone plays their part, plays out the drama, their energy is so attractive. I always try to give my work a title to tell the viewer where to start and then delve into the story behind the work. Everything that the artist does should at least slightly improve this world or just lift the mood, and perhaps some of my paintings will find their place in the heart of the viewer....
Angu Walters - Angu Walters interest in painting started when he was a boy experimenting with ink from different pen colors, mixed and applied them on torn cardboards, which were sometimes hung on the walls of his motheraEURtms sitting room. His mother invited Spee, a very famous artist to show him what the child was doing with the materials he could find in his milieu, thereafter the artist took him to his workshop, under his guidance so to better improve on his skills. Since then, he has had a professional revolution with much inspiration drawn from his fine arts mentor. Angu Walters dwells mostly on abstract and surreal paintings which focus mostly on the painful side of life like poverty and disease. He also paints music which he claims reflects the happy side of life. His works express surrealism because he believes that his dreams are inspirational to his life and works. He titles his favorite painting aEURoeThe Happy FamilyaEUR because to him, the family is the foundation on which a successful professional and matrimonial life is built....
Laisk Serg - Idioeia. Nae/an y yoi iacuaath - oie/oiaeeoaeu iiaiaaaniuo nee. Oiaaa yoi auee CDA IAI ( Caieoii-daeaoiua aienea idioeaiaicaooiie iaidiiu NNND). An,, /oi iia inoaeinu a ianeaanoai ec oie aeecie, yoi ideau/ea niiodaou a iaai. Iniaaiii ii/uth, eiaaa Nedeon naiei ydeei iadoaieai iaiiieiaao i oii, /oi y aua aeea. Ianoiyuaa. Iunee i Aa/iii. Iinoaiiaea aiidina - aeeou eee ia aeeou, aaconeiaii, neeiiyaony e - AEEOU. Ii oaeia niadoe, a oi/iaa aiidina i aeecie iinea niadoe, a oi/iaa, i oii, /oi aea iaoiaeony ca adaiuth, aa/ii ia aaaae iieiy ethayi ai ana adaiaia. A oii /enea, iiaeao a aieuoae noaiaie, /ai ideiyoi, yoio aiidin ia aaaae iieiy e iia a ia/aea e idiaieaeaao canoaaeyou aidi/aouny ai nia, ii nae aaiu. Iiyoiio y eae au e ia ooaiaeiee, a neidaa denothuee enneaaiaaoaeu nooe auoey. Anoanoaaiii, aeaaiay oaeu ioeduou yoo oaeio. Eiaiii yoi aaiadedoao iaiy aio oaea neidi eae aaaaoaou eao. Aoaouaa. Ideaeeceouny, iieneaou iiaua iooe, dacaidioeou Nouaa, iaiadoaeeou iaaeaaiiia, ideioeduou caaano e acaeyioou /adac iaeaio aa/iinoe a aeaca AIAO. The past. Now I it name - destroyed celestial forces. Then it were CDA air defense (antiaircraft-rocket armies of antiaircraft defense of the USSR). Everything that remains to me in the inheritance from that life, it is a habit to look in the sky. Especially at night when Sirius the bright blinking reminds that I am still live. The present. Thoughts about Eternal. Question statement - to live or not to live, certainly, tends - to LIVE. But secret of death, to be exact a question on life after death, to be exact, that is behind a side, eternally didn't give rest to people at all times. Including, can in a greater degree, than it is accepted, this question didn't give rest and me in the beginning and continues to force to toss and turn, to this day. Therefore I as though and not the artist, and am faster the drawing researcher of an essence of life. Naturally, the overall objective to reveal this secret. It generates me here already soon as twenty years. The future. To come nearer, look for new ways, to stir Real, to find out unprecedented, to slightly open a veil and to look through an eternity...