Artists Describing Their Art:
Maristha Schellink - I create spiritual art - describing humans as spirit, energy and light. My paintings reflect my spiritual aspirations, experiences and journey. Colours are what I enjoy most about painting. The colours and forms create a vibration that the viewer can share. I have grouped my paintings into themes. I love runes, so I've chosen runic symbols as themes. The Isa series - The Isa rune is winter, cold and ice. It represents rest before activity, potential and possibility. It's the still form before the irresistible force. The Jera series - The Jera rune is change, development and reward. The reward comes from not fighting the changes, but accepting it. The Eihwaz series which symbolises a transformation process is about light - letting your light shine. Berkana is about new beginnings and growth. And connecting to others, sharing light and nourishment - sowing seeds of light. I enjoy creating my work on triangular support frames. For me a triangle symbolises the spiritual ascent of humans and our many facets. I like to describe my paintings with original haiku. It gives another dimension to the visual images. ...
Andreea Sarcani - Here comes the most amazing part.Talking about the most intimate dreams, visions, about the unknown inside me, about the beauty that plays hide and seek. About the birds that visit me seeking for food or for inspiration. My connection with art is a natural one. Painting is the most normal gesture I could do.Art is normal and luxurious at the same time.It is an enormous privilege, a huge blessing. Art is here to remind us that we have the ability to create and to express.And that we have the ability to be honest without any fears.I was offered art as being offered an orange juice on a droughty weather....
Kanika Marshall - Kanika Marshall has created a distinctive collection of mixed-media art sculptures, which includes hand-painted tile mosaics and other two-dimensional wall pieces, three-dimensional sculptures, masks, garden art, wearable art, figurines, goddesses, breast cancer survivor art, and tribal-design pottery. She sculpts some pieces by hand from clay, paints them with a color glaze to form the varying hues of skin tones and other colors, and then low fires them in a kiln to ceramic perfection. Many of the pieces are draped with fabulously textured fabrics from Africa, and/or adorned with beadwork, glass, leather, recycled metal, stones, shells, or other finishing touches. Kanika believes her African ancestors work joyously through her hands to create each one-of-a-kind sculpture. Kanika studied with renowned potter/sculptor Ruth Rippon in 1980-81 and with figurative sculptor, Yoshio Taylor, in the early 1990s. Kanika's sculptures have been sold for years in the Crocker Art Museum, numerous art galleries and stores throughout Northern California, at juried art shows, on the World Wide Web, and to art aficionados all over the world. The City of Elk Grove purchased Kanika's "Leather Locks & Five Ancestors" and "Sea Jellies and River Rock." ...
Liliya Garipova - Born in Russia, Liliya Garipova is currently residing in North Haven, Connecticut, USA, producing oil paintings in the symbolism genre. As a self-taught artist, she considers her painting to be primarily a means of self-investigation. Thus, every piece of work has its own pre-history, the meaning of which she explains in terms of Carl Jung's psychoanalytical theory. Liliya has never painted from nature, and has no formal academic background in art. Her main sources of inspiration are the images from the unconscious arising in dreams and visions. She believes that the most important task of an artist is to establish and maintain contact with the unconscious, translating its messages to the outer world. As these messages are often of a healing, reconciling, and sensible nature, and not 'for personal use only', she realizes that her occupation is a life pursuit, a duty which can be successfully fulfilled only if the artist's soul is open and her vision is clear. In keeping with Carl Jung, Liliya thinks there is no way to clarify this vision without psychology. Garipova's works, depicting archetypal images, speak of the reality of the inner, spiritual world, with which the modern ...
Richard Meric - RICMERIC has done very few exhibitions, although his artistic career has been supported by what we call in French -le succes d'estime-. Now and then, Ricmeric's goal is to track the greatest mystery of the created world: the double nature of all things. His main concern is to send clear and pleasant messages for the soul, to bring positive feelings to his fellow humans. So, one should not be astonished to find the traces of this quest in the majority of his pictures, in which the Masculine and the Feminine figures are reconciled or clashed, the top and bottom, the inside and the outside merged, the heat and the cold harmonized despite the violence of the primary colors which he uses, in their pure state. If one adds to that a very marked leaning toward wild nature and an unquestionable misanthropy, one will understand that his public life and his celebrity were reduced to their simpler expression. But be sure that Ricmeric is communicating with us, maybe with our subconscious too. Ric used to say that his paintings are like books, for they are meant to be read. He defines his style as Narrative Hyper-Surrealism; modern painting ...
Obert Fittje - In addition to the mythology of our culture, we all have certain experiences, expressions and images that have deep personal significance and meaning. These form the foundation of our personal mythology. Some of us have richer and more elaborate personal mythologies than others. Recently I came to the realization that I was mainly painting the images of my own personal mythology. I am self taught as a painter and after painting for eleven years, I consider that to my advantage as the icons of my mythology are rarely something out there in the material world. My paintings lie somewhere between the presence and the absence of an identifiable image. It would have been a waste of time for me to have spent years learning the techniques to make my paintings look realistic because the subjects of my mythology are mostly imaginary. I do not go outside to nature to find the subjects of my paintings, but rather I paint inside using my imagination and the images of my personal mythology. As a retired professional psychologist, I have been trained in the use of projective tests such as the Rorschach Inkblots where the observer is presented with purposely-vague images. The ...
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....
Nancy Bechtol - Artists explore and give the world a view of their personal heightened awareness. I visualize and think with keen beliefs and insights. Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken. My traditional art foundations of drawing, painting and printmaking, evolved into video, digital photography and experimental media. I use digital photography and imaging to envision the concepts originating from the creative pulse.An individual artist explores and gives the world a view of their personal heightened awareness. Artists see and think with keen beliefs and insights.Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken. My traditional art foundations of drawing, painting and printmaking, evolved into video, digital photography and experimental media. I use digital photography and imaging to envision the concepts originating from the creative pulse....
Yonka Agova - My interest of art has always been in its magical power as a vehicle of spiritual wisdom. Through valuing my paintings as a messengers carrying inner guidance, I am understanding ones life's journey as a path of self-discovery and self realization. Creating I have learned the wisdom of ancient symbols, I have travel with the stars, I have seen the beauty and the magic of the universe. My current path toward self realization synthesizes and applies the knowledge learned in practicing meditation and prayer. My medium is a unique in style of spray paint, scratches and pencils. When I paint, I see live images, beautiful colors, I feel joy and excitement. For my latest work, I am using the computer as a tool to create and further expand the capabilities of my individual'sexpression of the healing power of colors. I am using my work to bring joy and to nourish a spiritual awareness that gives life meaning....
Cecil Herring - "Find your bliss, " the great Philosopher- Anthropologist Joseph Campbell advised. Campbell was right. Fortunately, I found my'bliss' at an early age. I have loved every minute I have spent creating art works and to this day I still love my time spent painting and sculpting. Time stops and I don't age. I have worked in nearly every media, painting, sculpture, digital art, wearable art, music, writing. I try to keep the fresh edge and feelings of a beginner. My mentor/instructor Johann Eyfells of UCF said "Forget everything you know before you start to paint!...
Anna Jongeleen - Reflections in water surfaces, the game of shadow and light on a wall, veins underneath the skin, a hidden thought almost visual in the eyes, and colors meeting each other on paper or canvas. I am intrigued by the game of visual transparency. Dots and circles play their own game, showing their process from the start, creating new colors in between through their lack of consistence, and thus creating a fictive three-dimensional unlimited space. Also figures, faces, animals and symbols melt in with the vivid colors, to play a transparent game and to tell the tale of the never-ending creative stream of Life ...
Mary White - I have been a practicing illustrator and graphic designer for more than 25 years. The majority of my work is executed with traditional mediums -- but lately, I have begun introducing some digital compliments to the imagery. Thematically, I produce work for both commercial and editorial purposes. I prefer the editorial work and the challenges that are most often presented in attempting to successfully execute imagery to compliment abstract concepts. Please do not hesitate to contact me for a quote or to discuss a possible project. Thank you for looking....
Joylene Johnson - I purchased a Macomber loom in 2004 and have spent some time getting back the skills I once had for weaving. At one time, I was a weekend craft "person" who spent time selling handmade items around the local areas. It was very lucrative at the time. But 3 children later, I gave it up. I sold my first Macomber loom to pay college (grad school) tuition and have only just now been able to go back to it. I really enjoy creating a fabric and luxurious textiles out of thread. and the clothing is very wearable. Not funky or freaky. My creations are 100% hand made of natural fibers. If I use any synthetic it will be clearly labeled and actually, weaving is difficult with synthetics. The fibers stick together or "pill". Natural is the way to go. My 2009 collection of unique handweavings has been happily sold out. I still have a few standbys available and I am working to replenish my line of scarves and shawls. Custom work is possible, also. As for the painting, these economic times have put a real dent into the painting past time. But so it goes. Being able to express my ...
Sarah Hadley - I think every photographer talks about the magic of seeing that first image appear in a tray of developer and of being hooked for life. I believe a good photograph asks more questions than it answers, and my photography is a way for me to constantly challenge myself to really look at the world around me. There is something intangible about the best photographs, something that reminds us of the moment between wake and sleep, and of the beauty that we see and feel but cannot describe, and of our own mortality. These are the kinds of images I try to make....
David Powers - "What are these moments in our lives that leave us changed forever? I often wonder what they are made of. Moments when we are able to break through and see beyond the veil of forms and our identifications with such. For some of us these moments are much like fleeting dreams, perhaps the essence of all those (seemingly mystical) experiences that we never really speak about. For me, this passion has fueled a life long romance. A quest of self exploration, a quest to build bridges over the gaps in our communication with one another. If ever we are to survive as one race under the stars, it would appear that a higher state of awareness may be required of us. Lucid Windows is a vision I long to share. I only hope that my expressions are just that, windows of lucidity, windows, of love and light. I wish for my expressions to move the viewer like a dream they cannot shake, a reminder of all that is at work that we cannot see with our eyes. In a dream, in a vision, I saw the world as a beautiful chaotic happening. A set of scales spinning and fighting for...