Artists Describing Their Art:
Osnat Lippa - Art for me is about expressing my creative drive and pushing myself to experiment and work with an exciting yet undiscovered medium. I am a digital artist but also use photography and painting as reference material. I want to create beautiful images and colour is of primary concern but I also like my images to mean something. All my images are personal and depict an aspect of my life. Their symbolism is mysterious and can be interpreted in different ways. They mean different things to different people. I would call my art abstract expressionism with a figurative element....
Gaielle Lusk - For me photography is a means of expressing the passion I feel in living each day as though it were meant for me to record. Photography helps me connect with the invironment, nature & people. I have always been curious of what makes everything tick, while taking pictures I can get up close and personal...photography helps me to explore that inquisitive side and turn it into a work of art. Two of my great passions in life are travel and photography. I believe that travel broadens one's view of the world. Experiencing other cultures, meeting people from other communities and other countries and seeing the beauty, and sometimes ugliness, of the world has helped me understand that all of our lives are at once interconnected and individual. Through my photography I seek to document my own personal experiences, to capture scenes and events as I see them and to share with others the beauty and diversity of the world I've seen. I hope my own contributions will inspire others to do the same. ...
Rodolfo Chavarriaga - Rodolfo Chavarriaga Biographical Sketch Rodolfo Chavarriaga was born in Bogota, Colombia, S.A. in 1951 He lived in Bogota until the age of six, moved to Paris for a period of one year, and then returned to Bogota. Influenced by his grandfather, an impresario and filmmaker, as a young man Chavarriaga showed an interest in sculpture, film, dance, theatre and music. His surrounding changed again a year after returning to Bogota when his family moved to Medellin, Colombia. Returning to Bogota one year later, he attended several different schools between the ages of 8 and 13. Was later enrolled at the boarding school Colegio Sugamuxi in Sogamoso, Boyaca. Chavarriaga's world changed once again the summer of 1966. Fourteen at the time, his whole family migrated to Miami, Florida. Chavarriaga recognized his love for art early on. With an aptitude for the manual and visual arts, he started to realize his calling and inclination during his youth. He began to display talent in this area while living in Paris as a child. He focused on and had the opportunity to develop his skills in the plastic arts during his schooling in Colombia, enrolling in and excelling at coursework in the ...