Artists Describing Their Art:
Maja Djokic Mihajlovic - Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++ is an Academic , award- winning painter , full-time professional artist . Her work is widely collected both nationally and internationally and may be found in numerous private and corporate collections all around the world. Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++,born in Belgrade in December 1971.,graduated from The Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade,Painting Department,in the class of professor Milica StevanoviA++.She completed her postgraduate studies,with the same professor as her mentor,in 1999. She has been a member of the ULUS since 1997., and obtained the status of the independent artist in 2000. -Seventeen individual exhibitions. -Participated in more than hundred group exhibitions in our country and around,as well as activities of a number of painting colonies. -Five prizes for painting. ...
Heloisa Castro - Im Heloisa Castro a Brazilian artist from Rio de Janeiro. I was born in a place known as The Montmatre Carioca in Santa Teresa neighborhood. There, when I was just a girl I had my first atelier ou studio. I graduated in Journalism pursuing visual and graphics art and got a postgraduate degree in Marketing. However, Ive never put away the ink tubes, spatulas and the canvas. I was awarded in lounges in Brazil and Europe among others. The traditional painting always led my ways until a new materalization art called my attention. The digital painting. or computer painting. this art is labeled in The Louvre Museum, Paris and Guggenheim foundation, Berlin. With the pioneering spirit of brazilian artists such as Celito Medeiros, I looked up to deepen in the new painting charms, learned the enchantments of Michelle Behars colors, an artist and professor of this modern technic in ParanA! Federal University. ...
Gill Bustamante - My name is Gill Bustamante and I paint large colourful semi-abstract magical landscape and wildlife paintings in oil on canvas. Whilst my paintings are mostly inspired by the Sussex landscapes I see around me, I reflect any landscape or seascape I have ever visited. My painting style fuses magical, colourful and ethereal elements along with Impressionist, semi-abstract, Art Nouveau and something I term aEUR~Memory ImpressionismaEURtm. This is where I go walking somewhere rural, look at and absorb the things I see and experience, and then come home and try to capture an echo of the place from memory, including any wildlife I may have seen. My paintings reflect, for me, the spiritual echoes of beautiful places such as those in Sussex and the English countryside generally and it always fascinates me what emerges on to a canvas from a simple memory. All of them have a story attached and are named once I have completed the painting and can see more clearly what the story is I completed a fine art degree in Brighton in 1983 and I have painted since I was three. I love what I do and consider myself very fortunate to have found a ...
John Haworth - John Haworth's limited edition digital fine art prints, done on both paper and canvas, have proved extremely popular with both corporate and private clients. John has an extensive amount of work including landscape, figurative and abstract. Printmaking has long been his chosen medium because of the potential it offers for the exciting exploration of delicate surface properties. The digital print medium he finds particularly attractive as a conduit for the idea of the vibrant transience of reality. In part, 'the medium is the message'. Many of his prints have been made as part of his practice- led research into creativity in digital fine art, funded by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Board in the UK. His prints incorporate a new photo-ethnographic project on 'The Way We are Now'. Some of his work can be seen in the gallery and on the site at www.creativity-embodiedmind.com ...
Yeshaya Dank - My watercolor art explores everything that is beautiful in this world...People, places, emotions, experiences, and opportunities. - Yeshaya Dank. I want beauty to be accessible to everyone, and for there to be the understanding that beauty exists everywhere, all the time, you just need to search for it and you will be dearly rewarded I paint the uncharted territory, the places and things that Ive never seen painted like this before or from this angle. I try to put many hidden gems into one painting, just waiting for you to discover. Showing how everything has beauty, its just waiting to be discovered. Same with my artworks with time you will discover new and beautiful details on each painting, which were previously hidden in plain sight...
John Hopper - Although my medium of choice is watercolor, I do oils and acrylics. I find watercolor more exciting, more FUN, and I tend to experiment with technique in watercolor, where I tend to vary my subject matter in other medium. I am a photographer also, however, I see photography as capturing a moment in time with everything static, where in painting, even representational, you put your experiences, history, your entire person into the painting. You bring together your sense of what youve painted aEUR" and hope that the viewer can feel some of that aEUR" along with, and more important, their sense of their own experiences mirrored in the painting. I love what I paint and have FUN expressing that love....
Oksana Grineva - Artist Statement: My new paintings celebrate the strength and beauty of women. Women who inspire us by their love, their kindness their vulnerability; Women who love deeply and show great capacity to love eternally no matter the consequence. Color and texture interplay with bold shapes and reflect the positive potential of the human experience. ...