Oil Paintings

Artists Describing Their Art:

Kimmie Hamm - Everywhere you dream to go can become a part of you and everywhere you have been is a part of you. I am an explorer and optimist at heart, so when I set out to create something one word always comes to mind: Possibilities I feel that through art I can explore the visions in my mind, everything from a small flower or blade of grass to distant worlds filled with whimsy and thoughts of what ifaEUR|aEUR|. Culturally I have two aspects that influence me one being my Native American ancestry and the other my German immigrant ancestry. I am deeply rooted in the beauty and wonderment of nature. My wise grandmother told me if you have strong roots your sprit can fly anywhere and still return home. That saying has always stuck with me and in many ways sparked my imagination. The explorer in me must come from my immigrant ancestry. My great grandfatheraEURtms family traveled to America on a steam ship in 1874. I can imagine them traveling for what must have seemed like an eternity. I often contemplate what they must have been thinking, and try to express the excitement of the unknown and the anticipation ...

Leonard Parker - Dr. Leonard W. Parker's artistic style lends realism to his landscapes and seascapes by viewing both from a distance or up close! As a university professor, he has grasped the techniques of oil painting from his own personal research and study. His works have been displayed locally, but his desire is to gain wider notariety. Parker has adopted the phrase "'Scapes in oil" to tell both buyers and sellers that his greatest love is representing as real as possible God's wonderful world in which we live! One would desire to display his landscapes and seascapes in a variety of settings. Dr. Parker also has had commissioned art from photographs. Buyers of his artwork have come to cherish their original oil painting on canvas as heirlooms. ...

Elohim Sanchez - I started painting in 2004, just before my film-making studies at the University of Montreal. Although guided by plain curiosity in the beginning, painting quickly transformed into an intriguing new field of artistic possibilities. To this day I have more ideas than time to work on them, but I try to be disciplined and paint on a daily basis. So far my work has been characterized by an extensive use of colored lines that define planes, surfaces and volumes. These lines and brushstrokes are to me like force fields that give form to the material world we live in. By drawing them I feel as if I took part in the creation of physical objects, as if I participated in the construction of the physical world. In that sense my paintings feel very close to sculpture. I don't copy what I see, I make my own the forms of the world. I infuse them with intention, direction, energy, personality and color, and I delight in the conflicts, contrasts and surprises that arise from the many parts of the painting, as if shapes strove to define themselves, as if they wanted to find the perfect place and the perfect ...

Costanza Zappa - Costanza Zappa (www.costanza.net). Farmacista, nata a Milano , acquarellista, sta portando avanti una singolare ricerca nell'alchim|a dei colori e dei soggetti pittorici, passando con estrema disinvoltura dal figurativo alle originali interpretazioni astratte. In entrambi i generi se ne riconosce l'impronta personale nel particolare utilizzo della pennellata. Si intuisce un percorso artistico preciso ed in continuo divenire. La sua formazione si >> avvalsa dell'aiuto di importanti maestri contemporanei quali Luigi Zucchero e Antonio Galloni. ...

Katalin Luczay - Painting to me is an expression, interpretation, and appreciation of the world around me. In my opinion any art should inspire and elevate the human spirit. These types of art works are immortal, such as the works of the old masters. In my paintings I strive to achieve these ideals. I would describe my works as related as representational realism. In my seascapes I bring many different colors together to illustrate the movement of water. In my landscapes and still life works I like to emphasize the play of light as it hits a focal point. I like to paint in oil because I can achieve this sense of light and motion by glazing over layers, as well as in oil I can achieve a richness that I find limiting in other mediums. Please see my website at

Jerry Ross - Manifesto of American Verismo By Jerry Ross, 2012 "American verismo", a movement that I have recently founded, is a catch-all phrase for an artistic style that draws its main inspiration from Italian art, both classical and modern. There is an implied nostalgia for work done "dal vero" (after life) whether classical (Raphael, Rubens, or Caravaggio, etc.) or 19th century (the Tuscan I Macchiaioli school) or more contemporary. Verismo is somewhat akin to contemporary "atelier realism" but the latter has been criticized for an academic uniformity and its over attention to details. American verismo is more poetic and linked to post-impressionism, the Milan-based Scapigliatura ('wild hair') movement, and the I Machiaioli's commitment to social issues. But like atelier realism, American verismo is associated with a painterly sketching style, use of broad brushstrokes, and the alla prima, "direct attack" technique of painting. It is also linked to all'aperto (open air) impressionist-style landscape painting. In short, to pleinairism which has become widely popular in recent years. I first introduced the term during several classes he taught at the Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene and then later at the "Angels Fight Road Art Center" plein air retreat...

Daniela Isache - Expressionism is my way to show the world as I see it. Since I was young, I looked at the world differently from my friends. I saw a strange world, wondering why the other people did not see it like me. The world I saw was unjust and made of unhappiness. Looking profoundly at the people's faces, I found them very expressive and I was stroked by their strange traits. I have never seen beautiful or ugly faces but only very expressive ones. Then, I began to paint these faces and I met my future love - Expressionism. At that time, I discovered and understood that the expressionist painting could express the life as I see it. I applied my Expressionism without making any concession to the beautiful or decorative painting. I applied it with force and sometimes with despair. However, when finishing a painting I felt released. I felt as if all my pain and troubles came out of my life. The dramatic motifs I found in everyday life created insurmountable interrogations and tensions. I became calm, but when I looked at my painting, I saw there fear, sorrow and I understood that my Expressionism saved me. Some people ...

Vassilis Karakatsanis - 'Alcohol 2009-2010' Catalogue 10/2010 ATHENS Wishing to interpret a work of art through a written text is undoubtedly a difficult task and I often wonder whether it is even necessary. A multitude of pages are written every day all over the world with the purpose of explaining the existence, necessity and worth of various instances of artistic expression. In and of itself, this may trick the writer into stating points of view that grow out of the tendencies of a particular era, out of a stagnant aesthetic, out of people who say one thing and do another and, through this process, give a nod of approval to an "ego" that is adventitious, selfish, and falsely illustrated, while they forget that the approach to art requires poise, profound knowledge, simplicity and honesty. Considering the speed with which, in the past few years, legions of artists have surfaced, the parameter that is used to measure the art trade as carried out by certain people who view their artistic work as shares in a unique yet nonetheless effective stock market, and whose sole purpose is financial gain, is an actual fact and, as far as many are concerned, lawful in a...

Paul Cairns - Most of the time my work is rooted in an exploration of structure, by nature and the landscapes of Northern Ireland where I grew up or Essex where I now live. Structurally the handling of the materials is very physical with the stretchers frequently becoming more sculptural or sculptures becoming painterly. Painting can sometimes be seen as passively hanging on the wall out of the way so to counter this viewpoint many of my works inhabit the space much more, from heavy relief to working fully in the round. Nature and landscape is never far away from my thoughts and being part of nature is what has enabled us to develop a sense of culture, so when I paint what may at first look like a conventional portrait, you will soon see that the sitter is a part of the landscape; they have had a hand in forming each other. ...

Paul Cairns - Chris Gould - Never the studious young boy, I spent most of my class time drawing sketches in the pages of my notebooks. Santa Anna, raising his sword in the battle for the Alamo buried deep within my notebook jumped out and attacked my father one evening while he help me with my homework. He counter attacked by hurling, "you will never be anything doing stuff like this", and I believed him. In school I loved art class, excelled and looked forward to it but never believed that I could be something there. When I went to college I focused on art and graduated near the top of my class with a BFA, and still believed that I would never be anything. After all, all I needed was a degree. With diploma in hand I entered the professional world with the ambition to climb the corporate ladder. Climb and climb to be something. Reaching to be something, I fall on art as therapy for the stress and anxiety that being something brings. Now I am something and nothing at the same time because I don't believe any more. And now I want to be something else. It is here in this ambition ...

Alicia Brizzio - Resumi?1/2 Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina and has lived since 1992 in Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires. He received his CPA and parallel began painting in his own. He attended intensive seminars to Painters featured both national and international , and then further refined , with outstanding teachers such as Axel Amuchastegui , Marcos Borio , Adelia DALESSANDRO , and Ricardo Celma . Since 2005 he teaches drawing and painting while continuing dedicated to creating their own works. His works are in private and institutional collections of Companies in Argentina and the United States , Puerto Rico , Ecuador , Chile, Spain , Italy and United Arab Emirates . Collective Exhibitions: 2015 aEURC/ Exhibicion en aEURoePolo Solidario 2Ao Torneo Ernesto TrotzaEUR- en Open Door Lujan aEURC/ Pallets Intervenidos. Proyecto de Pallets de Vida Ong- Arte Solidario en EstaciA3n PilarA!- Pilar aEURC/ ExposiciA3n Individual en Tcnl D. Ricardo Cornell. Ciudad de Buenos Aires. aEURC/ Sillas Intervenidas 2015 Otra Mirada Capitulo II- en GalerAa de Arte Imaginario, en el marco de integrA3 el circuito del GalleryNights y DirecciA3n ArtAstica del Prof. Juan Orellana. proyecto en GalerAa Imaginario, que comprende la zona de esta exposiciA3n. Ciudad de Buenos Aires aEURC/ TV. Programa aEURoeFusiA3n CrearaEUR. Canal Magazine- Bloque auspiciado por aEURoeEUREKAaEUR: Clases ...