Artists Describing Their Art:

Hisham Zreiq - My art is a private perspective on life, private pains and disappointments, society, Death and a philosophical look at life. Death is the source for creation and the motor of life. Crucifixion a symbol for pain, pain caused by social, political and religious systems. I think that art is another way to communicate, to express my ideas , for me art should have a message of a sort. This is the way I saw art when I was a little boy trying to express his Ideas with simple drawings, and this is the way I see art when working on my digital art or writing poetry today. Some times I ask myself, if we can reach people through "reason"! but I think its better to get to people's hearts through emotions, through ART, and from there we might get to their reason. Or maybe use extremes in art - and that is what I usually try - in order to make people think and ponder after their emotions become tens. Then their analyses might bring with it reasoning. ...

Gregory Liffick - I like to find new life in old, found items. I perform a kind of plastic or reconstructive surgery on the materials that I find in thrift stores and other like places, refinishing and refreshing their skin with spray enamel or acrylic paint and reforming and improving their shapes with bits and pieces from elsewhere. In the process of reimaging the items, I resurrect them from the past and bring them into the present, making them current and relevant through the concepts and messages I attach to them, commentaries on the state of things in the world today. I give new purpose and interest to items that have lost their place in the onrush of use and fashion. I take once upon a time materials and try to make them timeless....

Matthew Isaacs - I am most interested in evaluating humanity's pursuit of its own value and purpose (religion, philosophy, etc.) in my art as well as through my criticism of art in general. I am currently studying for a Masters degree in Studio Art and then I hope to continue on to a Phd in Humanities. Ultimately, I would like to do research into the structures and fabrications of human purpose in history and contemporary society, teach at a college, stay involved in political and social activism, and continue making art.

Nathera Allam - I was born in the Middle East and traveled to Britain to settle and have been living here for the past 25 years. Having lived in the east and west of this world for equal times I feel I have mixed the magic of the Middle East from thousands of years of historic art with the sophisticated tones, colours and new subjects of western art. Although I found many similarities with art between my two cultures I have lived I found my self attracted to the more changing cycles and genres of art here in Europe. Though I am still very connected to the geometric architectural repeated patterns of many Middle Eastern artists using bold and bright colours, I have experienced many phases of my life dedicated to figurative and sculptural art but I realized now I want to be free. I regard myself as a sensitive person to nature, I love the remaining beauty of untouched parts of the world but I find it a necessity to include the effect of humans on nature and for every painting of beauty, one of the ugly sides of humanity emerges. For me my art is open and I find with each ...

Ulrich Osterloh - Born in Germany in 1969, I am an artist with a BA hons degree in Fine Art from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. I lived in London for many years 1988-2005, and am nowadays based in the Cologne Dusseldorf region of Germany. Originally a painter, for the last four years I have been focusing mainly on photography and digital experimentation. Ulrich Osterloh ...

T. Smith - Hunting PLC has announced the finalists for their prestigious annual competition, The Hunting Art Prize 2009, which awards $50,000 to one distinguished artist. Included as one of the 134 finalists was T. Smith's oil painting "A Palace and a Prison".The Hunting Art Prize is the most generous annual art prize in the U.S., intended to help the reputations, raise the profiles, and support the careers of distinguished artists. In April, a second panel of jurors will make their decision. On May 2, the prize will be awarded, and the art will be exhibited at a gala held at the Decorative Center in Houston. Legal Disclaimer The following website contains adult content. If you are under 18 years of age, offended by adult material in art, or if it is illegal in your community or country to view adult material, please leave now. By proceeding you agree to be exposed to these materials. Continuing means that you understand and accept responsibility for your own actions, thus releasing the owner of this web site from any and all liability. All material on this web site is copyrighted. This copyrighted material cannot be reproduced or posted without written permission ...

Gaurav Sharma - Gaurav Sharma, who works and lives in Bangalore, was born in 1976 in Meerut City of India. A self-taught artist and poet, Gaurav is a practicing physican & consultant. Yet though he studied medicine, his passion has been practicing art and poetry in relief, those being the things which appealed to his fancy more than any other. He treated patients, consoled them, alleviated their pain and miseries, and as painting was his passion he studied drawing from life. Gaurav Sharma's artworks spell subtle human feelings, obsessions, pains, miseries, hopes, dreams, and desires. His sensuously painted emotions and expressions emanate a mystical radiance that drifts and diverges in known as well as unknown. ...

Gaurav Sharma - Armando Bettencourt - Armando A. Bettencourt a Musician, Song Writer, Graphic Designer and Fine Artist. Born in the Azores Portugal and moved to Massachusetts at the age of 2. He is a graduate of The New England School of Art & Design (at Suffolk University). He has been a Graphic Designer/Art Director all of his working career and now just recently decided to pursue his dream of integrating visual arts with original music. In his search for life-truth, he combines spiritual-theological, conscious and subconscious themes into surreal visual imagery. In his recent series "The 7 Ages", oil paintings are accompanied each with an original song from his latest CD album also called "The 7 Ages". Through his passions of visual art, song and poetry, he exposes hidden societal elitist spins that have been subconsciously dead and buried to enslaved sheepled masses. Then through a spiritual rebirth made alive to conscious truth. A unique renaissance original in a troubled modern end of days. He's soon to begin 2 new series of paintings that will accompany themes from his CD albums, "Charlie's Parade" and "World Crying". ...Stay Tuned Folks....

Dov Lederberg - ******* I am engaged in the converging vectors of art and science, but receive added inspiration from kabbalah teachings & meditation and try to create visual forms conducive to mystical experience & self-transformation. ******** Page One Page Two Page Three - Selections from Dialogue - Antilogue series, Page Four - Selections from Kabbalah Mandala series, Page Five - Selection from Sacred Letters series, Page Six - Beyond Judaica, Page Seven - Biblical, Page Eight - Meditations, Page Nine - Visages of the Rebbe. ...