Artists Describing Their Art:
Hans-Ruedi Kammermann - Painting for me is passion, a fascinating process of seeing that alters the vision of things. The everyday becomes special, unique, unknown. What is seen, is never what is painted, yet the painting becomes a new reality. I don't invent abstract images but the act of accumulating material on the canvas creates form and color - being materialistic in order to transform matter into imagination and perception. In the process of painting I find new images, something appears, stimulates vision, projects lost or remembered entities, becomes alive and finally communicates. ...
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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...
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....
Tatiana Siedlova - To me this transient existence between two worlds seems to evokes a deep almost spiritual yearning for ideals and wholeness. I believe we all live through this in our own way, and each strive for different ideals of perfection which can never be reached. Religion, beauty, love, sex, success, popularity, material possessions etc. all provide a set of ideals for us to strive towards in an attempt to feel complete. We are swept along in the ever-changing moment on a journey which ultimately leads to death. We are discontinuous beings yearning for continuity aEUR" looking for certainty within the fluid ever aEUR" changing experience of life. ...