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Artists Describing Their Art:

Tom Henderson Smith - Cornish artist Tom Henderson Smith here shows a series of paintings inspired by the summer festival in St Just-in-Penwith near Lands End in the UK. "This is a wonderful time of year in St Just" says Tom "in particular the carnival atmosphere of Lafrowda Day brings the whole town alive and what a pleasure it is for me to celebrate the life of this community in paint!" ...

Christine Winship - "I paint because it does make me feel some sense of accomplishment. I enjoy painting animals because they are great to look at and study. I have started recently painting some people portraits, but it may be a while before I display them. To me, a successful piece of art is one that makes one walk away feeling an emotion. Whether it be joy, awe or even sandness and anger, it was the artwork that brought that out. I believe my art work evokes a happiness (as most people see their own pet in my work). I believe that it's composition makes the painting. It is essential to have both positive and negative space interact with the eye-to-the-brain. I try to visit an art museum or gallery at least once a month. I can spend hours on myartspace.com just looking at what other people are doing. I believe it's essential to see where art is now as it was back then." ...

Ken Hillberry - In art and in life, dynamics of balance, integrity and tolerant interaction of all elements or participants ought to be see, experienced and maintained. At the same time, the challenge of affecting this balance is creatively encountering all changes and adapt accordingly. For some, the destination or pre-determined outcomes are sought more often than not. Then there are some who savor the journey, thus witnessing and enjoying developments along the way. I fall into the latter category. It's like watching the film develop in a darkroom. the image takes form a little at a time right before my eyes. The creative process, for me, is void of pressure and timeless. The ability and practice and discipline are central in my approach. My creative intent is to engage a viewer in thought and emotion, as well as, with their eyes. Using imagination, retrospect or model, my range of composition can be conceptual, perhaps impressionistic or abstract in application, but always developed to evoke an awareness and appreciation for the relative conditions in life experience and art form as I incisively or playfully interpret my experiences along the way. ...

Gina Shelley - Art gives the opportunity to capture a moment in time and embrace it for eternity. Drawing imparticular has allowed me to share with others the private second that I have witnessed. I find the human element to be crucial in my drawings, because it permits me to project the beauty that God has created and that is inside all of us. ...

Nermin Alpar - Sea and yatchs, fisher bouts, old houses, little mediteranin islands are main source of inspiration for me. Waters color, its light, its reflections--has fascinated me . Also womens, specially miesery womens are source of inspiration for me....

Vasily Zolottsev - There is only one law in art which carries objective character and comes from the very nature, conditional character and illusiveness of art! It is an indispensable condition of creation of an artistic image! It is necessary to judge an artwork by intensity and importance of the image and force of its emotional influence! Style, manner and technique don't have any importance and they are equivalent! The good picture of a primitive artist can be much more valuable in the art sense than a 'competent' picture of a realist and on the contrary! If there is an image, there is a work of art, if there isn't, it's no use crying for the moon! And it is not important which art means it has been reached by! Everyone to his 'own' taste! ...

Rina Miriam Drescher - There wasn't any more room in the sketchbook. I liked the world that I had created in my third sketchbook. Looking at that sketchbook felt like looking at a small insignificant story about a really really important world, and I felt like a left-out giant peering down at it. I decided to make the sketchbook world real and larger than me and something I could live inside of. I've been doing that ever since. It's to the point now that it's gotten a little out of control actually. I am completely surrounded by giant canvases, strange art objects, buckets, easels with paintings of animals, and huge rolls of paper. I've even had to let go of some nice furniture because I had to create space to store the artwork... world. Which has been ok. I love being surrounded by original artwork! Nothing is more thought provoking or helpful in bringing to attention the important connections and meanings behind everyday experiences. Thank you for your interest in my work! Rina Miriam Drescher Artist Statement, June 2013 Rochester, NY USA...

Jym Shipman - Once Upon a time in the early nineteen seventies there was a boy. This boy was very sick and had to live on a bed in a plastic oxygen bubble. Due to his illness he was alone without the usual ways to meet people and make friends. One day the boy's mother brought him a box of crayons and a pad of paper. He took the tools he was given and created a new life for himself. In this new life he created a healthy boy with friends and a world that understood and accepted him. Weeks had past and the boy soon left the "real" world to never come back. Weeks turned into years and the boy's mother greatly missed him. The mother reached into the boy's new world, with the help of a great doctor. Together the mother and the doctor did what they thought was best for the boy and brought him back to their "real" world. In the years since, the boy has grown into a man. His physical health has improved. However, because of his travels when he was a boy, he remained between the two worlds. This leaves the man today...

Maria Visser - This is the story of me and the women in my life. This is how I see us - all in black and white, with light and shade, being softcentered , hardcored , subtle , robust, demure and presumptuous for being like this, is the only way a society can be build on us women. This is the story of the women in my life - they are all farmworkers, working with us on a tablegrape farm next to the Orange river. To me . they are pillars of strength by being trustworthy, hardworking, honest , reliable and women .. I simply MUST draw them because I can see their true beauty - I hope you can too! ...