Naive Art For Sale (102)

Artists Describing Their Art:

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 ...

Jyoti Thomas - I feel passionate about creating in many different forms and mediums but I'm predominantly a painter. My art comes from my inner world giving a voice to thoughts and emotions that can't always be adequately expressed in other ways. I am always in awe of the deep power of creativity to heal and bring deep insight. Most of my works are rich in colour and symbols and are an emotional and soul felt interpretation of the world within me and around me. The works shown here are from several bodies of work those being Meet Anita, Gifts of Descent, Below the Surface, Fragments, Oceans of Choice. and Night Sea Journey. My artwork has been a constantly changing river of works following the journey of my life, through good times and difficult times and has always been a refuge and a deep love. While the artwork just IS in its own right I also hope that it taps into others experiences of life and links us together in our common humanity. I love art just for its own sake and nothing else in my world has the ability to lift my heart and soul like making art does. I ...

Adib Fattal - I believe that before anything art should bring happiness to the viewer . Life has alot of misery in it , so it is the artist duty to make people happy . Secondly , I believe that an artist must have his own unique style which I feel should differentiate him totally from another artist . In my view , I would even say a particular style is more important than what and how an artist paints . His style has to be so strong that the viewer should immedietly recognize the artist ....

Jan Chlpka - Jan Chlpka - naive imaginism The painter from Hlozany (Vojvodina, Serbia) Jan Chlpka (1965) belongs to our best and most original painters of naive art today. To poetics of inset imaginism tied him his increased imagination. As a result such an orientation we can find a reduced space of painting without any unnecessary details and expressed expressive stylization of shapes. He also uses colors in accordance with inter and not mimetic meaning. The most frequent themes of his painting creation are animals, which is natural while his occupation is veterinary surgeon. Here we can notice other rare component of painter's creation - humor. Vladimir Valentik, art historian...

Natalia Flaherty - I love simple unpretentious creatures, attitudes, people and ways. I believe in kindness and logic. I'm thankful when I see the beauty of the ocean, mountains and the desert, none of which depend on human touch, but also great architecture, art and music, which take my heart and breath. ...

Shane Watt - Working with a range of media, including paint, pen and ink, as well as less traditional materials, Watt produces intricate and inventive maps through a process of creative cartography. Each piece incorporates both real and imagined locations and all are connected through a cryptic and conceptual metanarrative constructed by the artist. The maps represent a world at once familiar and fundamentally foreign. Their aesthetic does bare some resemblance to traditional map-making, but upon close inspection the usual indicators of place and perspective are often undermined, overturned or imaginatively redesigned. These cities and spaces are mapped out according to the intricacies and interactions of people, politics and ideas, rather than standard statistics or coordinates. Encompassing political and personal statements on a wide range of topics (including women's rights, environmental uncertainty, love and addiction), Watt's artistic practice facilitates a form contemporary commentary displayed in the coded details and design of each map....

Don Wilson - About Don Wilson www.donwilson.co.nz Don Wilson has been a professional Artist, and Musician based in the Wellington region of New Zealand for over twenty years. He has enjoyed a very successful music career, which has included numerous recordings and television appearances resulting in a number of top ten hits, a gold disc and a number of music industry awards. His latest CD features cover artwork painted by Don and a booklet with reproductions of twelve of his paintings. Don's reputation as an artist is steadily growing and he presently divides his time between painting, sculpture, and music. He has had two very successful solo exhibitions and has exhibited at numerous galleries in the Wellington area. He has regularly exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts, and his paintings are represented in corporate and private collections both in New Zealand and overseas. He has received a Telecom Art Award, and has illustrated a children's book. He has produced sculpture reproductions that have been marketed in Australia, and he is currently working on a range for the New Zealand market. Don has an intense love of painting and works both in oil and watercolour. He describes his ...