Artists Describing Their Art:
Melita Kraus - Melita Kraus A painter, sculptor and writer was born in Bjelovar in 1954. Ms. Kraus is a member of Croatian Association of Applied Arts. From 1990 she participated in more than one hundred group exhibitions in the country and abroad. From 2010 her sculpture aEURoeTravelersaEUR was accepted by Curators of Museum Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, to be a part of an international permanent collection in the Museum. As a successor of a family of Holocaust survivors, she is devoted to the revival of themes in intellectually liberated manner, transforming the anxiety of nature and a terror of the theme into a sophisticated material of art, which pure and innocent yet bears an attractive stamp of the mystery of world long forgotten. Some of her finest works are also treasured in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia....
Sandro Cocco - Welcome to my profile page. Im born in Antwerp 1973 Belgium from a Belgian mother and an Italian father. I studied painting at the Charles the Great Academy in Antwerp, The Royal Academy and Saint-Luke in Ghent. In 1997 I started my abstract series Amorphous in which I use the technique of Automatic Drawing. In 2005 I started my ongoing series Imaginary Rooms...
Neal Alicakos - I always had a passion for abstract art and did many doodles when I was young. Through my school years I tried to design the year books. In college I minored in art but my majors were more geared for the business world. Although I was not in the art world for many years I always did my doodles to relieve my stress and fill in free time that I had. Now I am semi retired and want to take more of an interest in the things I like most, my doodles and abstract art work. I believe art is an expression of ones soul and mood behaviors. I used to draw mostly black and whites but find I like using colors now. Once in a while I like to combine black and whites, and the use of color in the same abstract drawing. Most times the viewer may not consider that as appealing, but I like to break boundaries as part of expression. Another medium I focus on time to time is photography. I like pictures of landscapes, seascapes, floral, and building structures. I find beauty in nature and architecture. ...
Ismo Jokiaho - My works and pictures are usually made in ink and oil colors. These are the two main styles and medias I am using. My works are reflections to my internal and the external life. In my work I will try to put my life-experiences visible as a whole. My surroundings and the presence of people in my life are very important to me, challenging and lively, but they do not appear as recognizable personalities in my works. In my art realism intertwined with fantasy, while maintaining a full-time touch with reality. My works is becoming increasingly human condition of humanity and the possibilities of a purely increasingly complex world, targeting with lifes passion, flair, and awareness of the common life forces. As an artist I transfer the understanding and feel of the unspoken onto a paper or canvas and dissolve the divide between the practice of different cultural forms and the practice of painting. ...