Artists Describing Their Art:
Mikhail Evstafiev - "Instead of imitating reality, I prefer to interpret it, at times distorting it to achieve an emotional effect, playing with shapes, forms and colours, scratching a finished canvas to reveal the inner beauty of the layers beneath." Mikhail EVSTAFIEV ...
Alain Nicolet - Alain Nicolet was born in 1951. He works on painting since 1977 and had a lot of exhibitions in France Switzerland, USA, etc. His work is like a long way to understand what painting, life, time or memory could mean. This painting asks questions, doesn't show final answers and try to find a way to ask more and more, and better...... Exhibitions selection 2010 Biennale Art Contemporain, Nogent-sur-Marne 2008 Galerie de l'Eveche, Vence 2007 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2006 Galerie Marlyse Calame,Vence 2005 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Valbonne 2005 Intra/Extra Muros, Yverdon-les-Bains 2003 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2002 Atelier 348 Bruxelles 2002 Galerie J-J. Hofstetter, Fribourg 2002 Galerie Marlyse Calame, Vence 2000 Galerie Terre d'Ombre, Sommieres 2001 START Foire d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg 2001 Artenim,Foire d'Art Contemporain, Nimes 2000 Galerie Odile Mauve, Paris 2000 Artenim,Foire d'Art Contemporain, Nimes 1998 Galerie Jonas, Cortaillod 1995 Galerie Espace suisse, Strasbourg 1994 Galerie Nane Cailler, Lausanne 1993 Manoir de la Ville, Martigny 1993 Galerie Europeenne, Boston Alain Nicolet has artsworks in many collections in Europe, USA and Japan. ...
Javier Caņete - My name is Javier Canete. I'm from Argentina. My art is developed through the batik, acrylic painting and photography. In that I develop my restlessness and convictions, always treating that the beauty prevails. At the moment I expose my works in Buenos Aires but my art is in many places of the world. That is something that honors me and full with happiness....
David Welsh - David Welsh was born in Derbyshire (1937), and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. Now retired, his main career has been as a teacher, but painting has never been far behind, especially in the last ten years. He enjoys portrait painting as well as landscape work where his specialities are the effect of light, often on water, and interesting and dramatic clouds and skies. He has always worked in oils, a medium that he finds very suitable for all the effects he wants to achieve. He has been much influenced by a group of contemporary English artists, who are not Avant-garde, but rather proceed from the Impressionist tradition. He admires, among others, artists like Roy Petley, Fred Cuming, Ken Howard and Bernard Dunstan. ...
Richard Wynne - Richard is an acclaimed International Artist recently returned to the USA. Richard has lived in many Countries. "The last being Thailland. He started his art studies at a very young age at the John Herron Art Institute In Indianapolis, Indiana and then later at the Art Institute of Chicago Richard has lived in many countries, painting, and playing music. Mr Wynne has exhibited in Thailand, the United States, Spain, Argentina, Kuwait, Korea, Ihdia, and other Countries. Sometimes perhaps I say too much about my self but maybe it helps people understand what motivates my work. For your information I've lived in 8 different countries and have been around the world 5 times. I speak a few different languages, some very well; others not so well. By the way I am not a workaholic as I don't consider what I do work. I enjoy life too much. I forgot to say I am also a weight lifter as lifting weights is my Zen. When I am troubled the concentration it takes to lift makes me calm. I guess my page will probably be a little different from what people expect. Sorry I have not been uploading new work as ...
Jeffrey Gougeon - I do the work to go through the process of solving problems and completing thoughts in an ever simplifying language. My goal is to create visual spaces where, in a Rothko sense, the viewer will feel the spiritual experience of color. My aspiration is to record the least cluttered path to this experience. The decision making process while working is a dialogue with the work. The technique of applying paint and the language of line, shape and color is almost always the same, but the process is responsive to each new, physical or otherwise, place. Jeffrey Murray Ovila Gougeon, 2009 ...
Mark Porter - Artist webpage: www.markportersculpture.com Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves -- and the gallery -- as the show progresses. The mechanical-drawings-turned-sculptures in Nurture/Alter mimic the irregularity of human actions and portray narratives through a series of projected images, videos, and fluid expulsions. Porter places his project blueprints next to the sculptures to aid in the understanding of their development, which continues free of his influence for the duration of the exhibition. Check out the show sooner than later, though, so you can observe the counterproductive movements of Porter's work before it slowly self-destructs. - Morgan Phelps...
Karen Morecroft - My work is primarily based on my experiences of the city, including my travels through the US & Europe. Documentation is an important feature of my work as it is where I collect my source material, which is a key element to the images I create. My work relies on photographic and found imagery along with collected objects from many varied sources, including the mass media. Layering, repetition and opacity are key elements of of my work that strive to reflect a certain nostalgia....
Elena Paroucheva - Elena was born in Bulgaria, graduate of the fine arts at the University of Veliko Tirnovo "Sants Cyrille and Methode" Lives and work in France since 1991. Artist plastician, works in the fields of painting, the sculpture, the installations, the artistic actions, the public orders. For several years, it has developed its project on Art and the Environment: " High Voltage Sculptures and Installations ". Acquisitions: << Peter Ludwig >> Modern Art Museum - Aachen (Germany). Ministry of Culture - Sofia (Bulgaria). The National Art Museum - Sofia (Bulgaria). << Kliment Ohridski >> University of Sofia (Bulgaria). Fine Arts Museums - Sliven (Bulgaria). Fine Arts Museums - Iambol (Bulgaria). Modern Art Museum - Blois (France). << Art in Bulgaria >> collection (Bulgaria). Contemporary Art Museum - Lisbon (Portugal). Contemporary Art Museum - Les Ardennes (France). Galleries permanently: Gallery "Orsel" - Paris Gallery "Celine" - Paris Gallery "Aktuaryus" - Strasbourg Website: www.art-elena.com...
Bernhard Luettmer - The project is to create the image with a short composition as I wanted at times I took in here. Timing and movements of the camera or the machinery are important resources. Photography is listen to the world as we hear a beloved piece of music. For example: I see a tree just in vegetation, the wind gentle caresses the new leaves, the light shines and you hear all this on the skin. Now take a picture with the knowledge that this concentration and on the negative is something of the feeling....