Artists Describing Their Art:

Daniel Clarke - Daniel E. Clarke is a Los Angeles Native who has been painting his entire career in the Los Angeles area. His art education has included studying under the internationally famous Timothy Clark, UCLA Extension University, and Glendale College. He has explored both pictorial and abstract designs but is dedicated to a free flow of color and dynamic composition. Mr. Clarke has concentrated on the acrylic and watercolor medium, and paints on location in his Los Angeles based studio. He also maintains his paintings and sales in his own company called Berrypunch Gallery. ...

Nguyen Huu Thuan - Artist Nguyen huu Thuan was born in 1956 in Hanoi - Vietnam. Self-studied in painting in secondary school. In 1974- entered Architect Faculty of University Construction, after that joined the army as amilitary truck driver. This helps the person to visit many places in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia for drawing people and landscape. In 1989- worked as a driver at the Vietnamese Embassy in Prague(former Czechslovakia). Thus having chances to visit Poland, Austria, Germany, Russia and learn from other painters on streets, parks, artist's museum... Since 1995 to 2009, Thuan participating international exhibition in Japan, Singapore, South-Korea and solo exhibition 12 times in Vietnam and The United State of America. Thuan like very much to paint oil on canvas and draw about still-life, Portrait,landscape. Having painting is displaying in Korea Culture Art Research Institute and SoKa University of America....

Harrie Sijbers - Born in 1953, Sint Oedenrode, Holland, Harrie Sijbers graduated with honour at the Design Academy Eindhoven His very expressive paintings show his pronounced taste for abstract, landscape and floral compositions almost like abstraction. Indeed, the artist is mainly inspired by nature to realize luminous artworks full of sensibility. Thanks to a very dynamic brushstroke and bright colors, Harrie passes on his enthusiasm and his love of life. Each of his works is resolute in its style and conveys a pictorial liveliness resulting in a unique and innovative perspective aEUR" such a rich perspective that it elevates his works to the level of pure aesthetic lyricism. As he often paints with only a palette knife his paintings show big amoounts of oilpaint and nice fabrics. He always works with high quality materials. See more at www.harriesijbers.nl ...

Vladimir Volosov - I was born in 1937 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). My way to art was a lengthy one. Before becoming an artist, I studied for thirty years at the forefront of modern physics as a PhD scientist and professor, author more than 150 scientific articles in contemporary laser physics. Thirty years of strenuous scientific work on the front edge of modern physics gives me a deep feeling for the anxiety and unprotectedness of the world's beauty. The formula, "beauty saves the world" fits my own attitude. My creed is also embodied in the statement: "to have time to realize everything given to you by Nature." At the threshold of my fifties, I decided to live one more life, a new, alluring life of the free artist. I walked away from my established scientific career and completely devoted myself to painting. In 1991 I founded and headed the association "Light, Color and Art" to connect with scientists engaged in the arts. The main directions of my paintings are lyrical realism and abstract compositions. My paintings are about light, color, atmosphere and space. For me, the most important elements are light and color and their juxtaposition/nexus/meeting of...

Raphael Perez Israeli Painter - Pride and Prejudice: on Raphael Perez's Artwork Raphael Perez, born in 1965, studied art at the College of Visual Arts in Beer Sheva, and from 1995 has been living and working in his studio in Tel Aviv. Today Perez plays an important role in actively promoting the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) art and culture in Tel Aviv, and the internet portal he set up helps artists from the community reach large audiences in Israel and abroad. Hundreds of his artworks are part of private collections in Israel and abroad, and his artworks were shown in several group exhibitions: in Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Zman Le'Omanut" art gallery, Camera Obscura, The Open House in Jerusalem, Ophir Gallery, The Haifa Forum and other private businesses and galleries. In 2003-4 his paintings and studio appeared in a full-length movie, three student films and two graduation films. Raphael Perez is the first Israeli artist to express his lifestyle as a Gay. His life and the life of the LGBT community are connected and unfold over hundreds of artwork pieces. His art creation is rare and extraordinary by every Israeli and international artistic standard. His sources of inspiration ...

Valda Fitzpatrick - I believe that art is a reflection of who you are as a person and artist. It is a culmination of ones experiences and exposure to life. Art has always been the heart of my soul.While growing up in Europe, I was exposed to a rich cultural environment. My fascination for flowers,their colors and shapes,trees,the alps, all are echoed in my work. Although abstract in form, the initial concept of my designs stem from reality. For wherever I go ,nature always follows me....