Artists Describing Their Art:
Dominique Lecomte - To see a lot more of my work (prints, photos, books and watercolors), read updated resume and statements, learn about the techniques and history of printing relief, please go to lecomtedominique.com. To buy high quality reproductions on paper or canvas or read my blog, please go to ivimarketplace.weebly.com...
Raechel Running - Freelance photographer, Raechel Marie Running, creates images that are more than just photographs. Her work is rooted in the tradition of documentary and portrait photography and serves as a foundation for her collage and multimedia pieces that are as diverse as her subjects and interests. She photographs friends and the people she meets along the way, who pose simply as themselves and sometimes are transformed through the creative nature of the imagination into archtypical images that explore the pathos and skewed beauty of the universal drama and diversity of the human soul. Raechel continually draws inspiration from the visual influences of Impressionistic painters , Chicano art and other photographers and writers whose work has inspired her to walk the road less traveled. With her camera often serving as a passport, she explores the multifaceted world, recording her own experiences and impressions with pictures and scraps of memorabilia to make an eclectic record to serve as reference for her art. She combines hand painting and Polaroid transfers with a variety of mixed media to make elaborately embellished collages full of the vibrant colors of her multicultural heritage that pay homage to Beauty. Raechel, of Trinidadian and American descent grew up in the ...
Carla Macias - An artist that paints since 1992. Her works has explored a broad range of creations, blending a different technics, such as acrylic, oil, pastel, and many others. Her art work is highly flexible and provides the opportunity to make a connection with the public and to create an ample variety of ambience......
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Kanika Marshall - Kanika Marshall has created a distinctive collection of mixed-media art sculptures, which includes hand-painted tile mosaics and other two-dimensional wall pieces, three-dimensional sculptures, masks, garden art, wearable art, figurines, goddesses, breast cancer survivor art, and tribal-design pottery. She sculpts some pieces by hand from clay, paints them with a color glaze to form the varying hues of skin tones and other colors, and then low fires them in a kiln to ceramic perfection. Many of the pieces are draped with fabulously textured fabrics from Africa, and/or adorned with beadwork, glass, leather, recycled metal, stones, shells, or other finishing touches. Kanika believes her African ancestors work joyously through her hands to create each one-of-a-kind sculpture. Kanika studied with renowned potter/sculptor Ruth Rippon in 1980-81 and with figurative sculptor, Yoshio Taylor, in the early 1990s. Kanika's sculptures have been sold for years in the Crocker Art Museum, numerous art galleries and stores throughout Northern California, at juried art shows, on the World Wide Web, and to art aficionados all over the world. The City of Elk Grove purchased Kanika's "Leather Locks & Five Ancestors" and "Sea Jellies and River Rock." ...
Gonda Bastiaensen - I am a 61 years old Belgian artist. I have been working as a painter in watercolor and oil on canvas for many years. Some twelve years ago I detected the marvellous possibilities of claying as well. For eight/nine months a year I live in the superb French region of The Auvergne in a godforsaken hamlet. For the rest of the time I work in my Belgian atelier. All about my artistic inspiration can be found on my homepage at: www.gonda.be Be my e-guest there!...
Queenie Lam - I use acrylic and oil to showcase my imaginative world and to make a religious comment on the ideals. I also want my art to be a way to record the history of life as it has gone through, with occasional integration of my feelings at that particular moment. I am particularly interested in creating my work with a variety of vibrant colors because I believe that this is the way life is supposed to be portrayed. ...
Carmen Martinez - We have to deeeply look at other's eyes in order to understand and emphatize with our equals, and live fully... ... All undestanding art diferent, but at the end finding relief on it, loving and enjoying what we have each defined as beauty....
Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...
Pamela Henry - Who is to say what art is or is not? I am a spirit that captures emotions and place them on a canvas. My emotions seem to create my art and I hope that you will feel something special when you view it. It doesn't matter what you feel, just as long as it can leave you with a thought. I have been an artist since I was 5 years old. That was sometimes the only way I could get any special attention. As an adult, I use my art to say what I feel without the limitations of words. I love it when someone tells me that my art made them feel something and that is why they had to buy it, or that my art caused them to think. My job is done when I can make you feel and think. ...
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....