Artists Describing Their Art:
Inge Van Der Meulen - Somehow mankind needs the expression of art; art may provide hope to the ones who need it, it can embrace and support the heart of the ones that don't feel understood any other way, art can bring us passed the limit of words... Kunst kan een gevangen ziel bevrijden, het kan de limiet van woorden overschrijden... Your comments, statements etc. will always be interesting te me, and I hope that my expessions at least will bring you the joy of watching......
Alex Mortensen - Currently I am most interested in painting of natural areas, especially coastal scenes and tend to concentrate on sunrise and sunsets when I really appreciate the glorious colours and patterns of clouds nteresting. I like, too, the waves at the beach. I hope that my portrayal of clouds and waves continually improve over time. Since travelling to Central Australia, the desert areas, I have done a number of paintings, mainly with oils, of desert landforms, especially The Breakaways just north of Coober Pedy in South Australia. I am very committed to art and am studying Fine Art through Curtin University. I have gained High Distinctions in each unit studied to date....
Sandy Wager - A member of The Association of British Naive Artists A member of British Women Artists A member of the Devon Artists Network (DAN) UK Representative for naivepainters.com Member of BAS7-Fringe 2011 EXHIBITIONS Cornerstones Art Centre, Didcot, Oxon, UK - 13th March until 18th April 2010. Plymouth Argyle Function Suite (Twestival), Plymouth, Devon, UK - 25th March 2010 The New Continental Hotel, Plymouth, Devon, UK - 12th June 2010 The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, UK - 6th November until 19th November 2010 The New Bere Alston Bowling Club & Gallery, Bere Alston, Yelverton, Devon, UK - from 26th November 2010 (Ongoing) AWARDS The Technicolour Abstract Art Award for FRUITY TUNES The Colour, DEEP, DARK, RICH Award for THE BRIGHT LIGHTS Award Winner in The Darkness Falls Challenge HOW MUCH FURTHER DADDY Award Winner in The Award Tree ARE WE THERE YET DADDY Runner-up in The Road Ahead Challenge LOOKING AHEAD ...
E. Tilly Strauss - I have been painting chickens for the last 20 years- beginning with the advertizing of our family's poultry farm business thru the eventual move of my studio into the defunct slaughterhouse. Somehow chickens fall easily from my brush, leaving painstaking impressions of my psyche and chronicling retrospective concerns of my community- such as the source of food, the use of land, the clarity of love, the isolation of individuals. With the inclusion of text from headlines to personal lists, stories emerge and dissolve through the process of the painting. Layering in the push and pull of darks and lights, the paintings gel into a narratives of our anxious era, a larger tale of the moods of soul and season. Because of the space and time I am afforded to work, much of my painting up to this has been intimate in dimension. I would like to enlarge the images to a much more confrontational scale. I recently moved out of the poultry slaughterhouse (because of ventilation needs) into a much larger barn. My goal is to further push the images so that they reflect the chicken as legend in our cultural mythology and account for my current truths. ...
Vaishnavi Desai - Artist Statement: Vaishnavi Desai My artistic evolution has moved from my engineering degree in Pigment chemistry and Textile design into the fine arts in graphic design. The art that I primarily work with is that of abstraction, Mixed media , fabric, Wood and found objects. My favorite artists who have influenced My expression include Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, De Kooning, and Rauschenberg, Judy Pfaff. I am currently exploring with hand - cast paper as well as hand embossed production. Nature is such a beautiful thing and the challenge that I am confronted with, as an artist is to reproduce this beauty and exotic's and to make it my own. Looking at it through my Own eyes. Charcoal drawing, printmaking techniques, oil painting and ceramic sculptures are some of the mediums I have been working with for the past ten years. I am constantly engaged by the pleasurable act of initiate the natural world and I am currently Incorporating this influence with my past work. One of my objectives is to learn and develop new and original techniques through which I can express my ideas further in my career as an artist. I believe that the artists are the essential threads in the cultural...
Richard Freer - My paintings are based upon natural light and colour effects performed by nature Richard Freer is a'specialist of light' his paintings are energising, thriving on natural daylight and magically taking the viewer far away to a warm place. Peggy Brodie, Modern Artists Gallery...
Gopal Weling - Thoughts...the basic thing of any human being whether it's child in the arms of a mother or a old human sleeping on the bed waiting for the last minute....thoughts which can travel faster than anything....thoughts which leads to inventions...thoughts which can lead to destruction or thoughts which can bring a revolution... My paintings are presentation of spontaneity & my thoughts...thoughts flowing through the mind...through the life...through the experience & liveliness coming through spontaneity Colors....flows through the inner circles of mind...which reflects the dimensions of the thoughts that are traveling in a wavelength matching to the spontaneity of thoughts... ...Gopal Weling...