Artists Describing Their Art:

Anca Stefanescu - I was always in searching for something... was it identity... And it is not only my quest. The need for belonging We belong to a country, a culture, a family, a childaEUR| a man or a woman We belong to a GodaEUR| To somewhat or someone. Races, religions, countries and their boundaries. I donaEURtmt believe in boundaries, they are only in our minds. I believe in people. In what connects us and puts us apart from each other. In what we learn from each encounter, from each illusive separationaEUR| But always in searching for meeting the higher self, to be yourself... and yet to discover and recognize you are one with all the others. IaEURtmve drawn and painted my whole life, itaEURtms what kept me into alignment, dreaming or feelingaEUR| more into the now. I was born in Bucharest and I grew up in VAfdastra Olt county in the air of middle Neolithic, in between pieces of ceramics that were thousands of years old. I treasured each piece of painted pottery as if it was the keeper of my ancient memory and also a reminder that the time is just a concept. I felt connected my ...

Emilio Merlina - I was born in 1950 in the North East of Italy from a polish mother and a sicilian father. I toured the world until I was 35, then I returned to Italy and picked up again my old passion painting and sculpture. As for myself, I can only say thoughts and paintings, paintings and thoughts. Everything maybe useless, however everything is life. i?1/2The human being leaves its signs, graffiti, indian dreams and imagination. Now I only have left a few more possibilities to express the colors which are not. Only the sign, scratched, angry or brushed is the witness. The sign has passed from there and there it has lived.i?1/2 Emilio Merlina Some hear if a door opens Others hear a latch which opens or closes Others more they hear the Angel when he turns over a page of the Great Book From the novel Missa Sine Nomine By Ernst Wiechert I have words which relegate my hunger And the hunger which owns my body but which do not confine them I have words which are both my confined hunger and body By the Italian poetess Paola Lovisolo ...

Michael Schaffer - Exploring the realms of color, texture, drama, and feelings are the main ingredients of my art work. To inspire the viewer to deal with the issues presented to him is my goal. To inspire the viewer to interpret and react is my passion. I hope you have been inspired... or at least have an opinion. Art and life have many of the same ingredients for us to enjoy....

Eugenia Mangra - STATEMENT Concerning my creations, I take my inspiration out of the nature, I am fascinated by the interference of the four elements: fire, water, sky and earth. I am also interested in the intensity of the light at different times of the day, and its influence over the colors. The intensity of human emotions is another theme which has a lot of my attention. I try to filter all these through my personality and express them with certain symbols (sometimes geometrical) and mostly though color. The majority of my paintings are abstract compositions, sometimes combined with figurative elements, created with mixed media on stretched canvas. The heavy dripping goes across the paintings leaving gesture to its ultimate level of freedom. Present in a wide range of rhythms, it confers a dynamic aspect to the paintings. In my view, painting is part of the spectacle of life, it is a continuous source of energy and balance. EDUCATION & BIO I am a member of the Romanian Professional Artists Association, painting department. I graduated Francisc Hubik School of Art and I achieved a degree in Painting at the University of Fine Arts Oradea - Romania. I was born on the 27th of November 1956, ...

Chris Jehn - I am primarily a self taught artist and have always felt creative. I worked my way through college by teaching crafts at an arts and crafts store, everything from embroidery and macrame to tole painting and pottery. I have taken numerous workshops from other practicing artists. Being with a group of other artists creates a synergy that inspires me. I now primarily work with acrylics and collage. I especially love intense color, and have made a study of color composition. One of the main reasons I live in Colorado is because almost everywhere you look there is something wonderful, and IaEURtmm compelled to try to paint what I see and feel. ...

Dennis Mccallum - For a number of years I was the UK Government protected species rehabilitator to the wild of injured birds of prey. In this time I was able to observe and handle wild birds and animals. They were my inspiration and provided the subject matter for my paintings. Having been a surveyor with the UK Ordnance Survey which makes the British maps, I was trained to represent images with accuracy and detail and this I do in my paintings from studying the birds at close quarters. I also have the freedom to explore any subject that interests me. My work has been challenging, but always enjoyable and that is my reason for painting...

Sarah Leyva - Im inspired by uniting human nature with mother nature and fusing the wild with the life we see everyday.My goal is to help each and every view see that nature,animals and humans dont differ nearly as much as many assume and that we are connected we need only to look closer....

Oscar Garriga - Oscar Garriga 'Coragre Artist, Catalonia 1961 Begins to create his imaginary universe in the first years 60. With only some few springs illustrates the Catalan popular tale -Patufet- to the school. In the 70 of the hand of the cartoonist Antoni Ayne initiates his first happen in the world of the drawing and the Comic, to pursue his studies -in full teenage rebellion- to the School Massana of Barcelona 1977-82 where learns painting and engraving, is when overcome his timidity that begins to take part in contests,fairs and exhibitions showing his ironic character and surrealista, in a time that the fight against the dictatorship is present in any place of the country. Of this period highlight his paintings materiques of Popsurreal.Also it assists to the workshops of Comic of Rodolfo Pastor and of Raul Capitani engraving in the years 80. His facet Rocker and poetic begins to win terrain to the drawing and publishes -in the 90- his first LP as a Coragre in full effervescence of the Rock sung in Catalan.. It is necessary to put the accent in his collaboration in the world of the radio waves, to Radio Mataro to the years...

Abby Jones - As an artist I am fascinated with the basic scientific principle that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Energy changes form from potential energy to kinetic energy and back. I explore the threshold of change; when potential energy becomes kinetic energy. That energy exists in the creative process of art making as well as life. That tension that makes us hold our breaths in anticipation and the release into eventual movement is the potential and kinetic energy we encounter in everyday life. My works strive to capture these forms of energy that exist in all of us. I use multi-media including mirror, wood, metal, stained glass, and paper on top of silky oils to achieve a sense of texture and contrast that creates tension. I also use shapes, lines, and color vigorously applied to achieve a sense of movement and fluidity. If the potential energy of my idea can move someone to feel an emotion then that is the kinetic energy of life derived from art. If a work can convey that sense of energy to the observer then the piece has done its job. ...