Artists Describing Their Art:

Zigmars Grundmanis - My friends One day I stopped for a moment and realized........... I realized that I have to say about the beauty around us. Beauty, power and neverending energy of nature. Everything is so complex and simple at the same time. Oil painting is the way how I can show my emotions and how I see world around us. My goal is quality and realistic look of painting, positive energy and emotions....

Manuela Facchin Varalda - Why painting? For the desire of a deep knowledge of things. Painting, for me, is not only communication, but almost an additional sense, a further perception of world, of the real and of the imaginary, of the material and of the dream, of the objective and of the individual. Painting is for me the place of the revelation, of the primary reflection. As a self taught artist, I have been painting and drawing since I can remember - this is a part of me. I have discovered that Art Wanted is the opportunity to share this part with somebody else, from all over the world, trying to understand, to give a sense to our imagination and needs. Manuela...

Maja Djokic Mihajlovic - Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++ is an Academic , award- winning painter , full-time professional artist . Her work is widely collected both nationally and internationally and may be found in numerous private and corporate collections all around the world. Maja AokiA++ MihajloviA++,born in Belgrade in December 1971.,graduated from The Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade,Painting Department,in the class of professor Milica StevanoviA++.She completed her postgraduate studies,with the same professor as her mentor,in 1999. She has been a member of the ULUS since 1997., and obtained the status of the independent artist in 2000. -Seventeen individual exhibitions. -Participated in more than hundred group exhibitions in our country and around,as well as activities of a number of painting colonies. -Five prizes for painting. ...

Denise Dalzell - Every image sparks a story. Each of us has a story to tell. What do we have in common What unites us, what binds us together Part abstract, part figurative, part illustration, my current work is about understanding the body language, relationships and stories that develop amongst people in social settings. My paintings develop from images that I collect during my travels. How do we, as people of differing backgrounds, cultures, and experiences interact with each other within the immediacy of a crowd How do we respond to one another How do we share the common experience of being in a mass of people who have come together to protest, to celebrate, to commemorate I work in Acrylic and Colored Pencil to fashion illustrations of these evolving stories. The excitement of being in a crowd united, of being in a smaller, more intimate group intrigues me. Are we different in these different settings If we are, why All of these settings, and the people involved in these relationships tell stories of our adventures. And my adventure is developing into so much more to be what I imagined it would be. ...

Michelle Iglesias - As an active member of the National Association of Women Artists, Oil Painters of America and the Berkshire Art Association, Michelle Iglesias is a self-taught artist who first took to painting for its therapeutic values after being diagnosed with cancer. Her passion and perseverance has led her to become a nationally recognized award-winning artist, art instructor, and the successful business owner of Berkshire Paint and Sip. She continues to encourage and foster creativity in her students and others inspired by her art. Ms. IglesiasaEURtm paintings are influenced by family connections, nature, and travel. Consisting of the tumultuous dimensions that nature offers, portraits with personalities, and engaging exotic landscape compositions, her canvases invite viewer involvement and have been described as insightful, symbolic, and clarifying. She conveys the vision of natureaEURtms grandeur to produce artwork that is expressive, of the highest quality, and will grab the vieweraEURtms interest and attention. A Berkshire-area native, Michelle Iglesias was born in 1972 in Blandford, MA and currently resides in Dalton, MA. She entered in to the art scene in 2002 when she opened Piece of My Art Gallery and Frame Shop in Westfield, MA. Two years after opening the gallery ...

Vladimir Volosov - I was born in 1937 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). My way to art was a lengthy one. Before becoming an artist, I studied for thirty years at the forefront of modern physics as a PhD scientist and professor, author more than 150 scientific articles in contemporary laser physics. Thirty years of strenuous scientific work on the front edge of modern physics gives me a deep feeling for the anxiety and unprotectedness of the world's beauty. The formula, "beauty saves the world" fits my own attitude. My creed is also embodied in the statement: "to have time to realize everything given to you by Nature." At the threshold of my fifties, I decided to live one more life, a new, alluring life of the free artist. I walked away from my established scientific career and completely devoted myself to painting. In 1991 I founded and headed the association "Light, Color and Art" to connect with scientists engaged in the arts. The main directions of my paintings are lyrical realism and abstract compositions. My paintings are about light, color, atmosphere and space. For me, the most important elements are light and color and their juxtaposition/nexus/meeting of...

Michael Iskra - My appreciation of the female nude is evidenced by the fact that I make her the quintessential figure of my work. My nudes become your reality through the mediums of photography, oils, pen and ink and computer imagery. MICHAEL ISKRA ...

Elena Bissinger - Elena Bissinger artist and poet, born Oros on 02 January 1964, Beius, Bihor, Romania, the first child of a family of 5 girls . Father painter by profession, he found my little artistic talents and was my first mentor in the fine arts. I paint since middle school, but I consummate artistic talent in various art schools, graduating Art School Francis Hubik Oradea and licensed at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Oradea at painting department. In 1997 I made the first art exhibition was followed by many others in the country and abroad, especially in Illingen menzionez Germaia, Dien Hilfs Haushalts 2005. In many group exhibitions I attended I have been evidenced both in style and colors as diverse and full of optimism which is reflected in paintings executed. Thus paintings releasing a flow of positive energy and Themes of diversified impressionableness style of flowers with a knife technique gives the impression of real palpable. Also influenced by abstract fascination, I transposed on canvas gestural style and full of effervescence, inner passions lived experienced the increased intensity the thirst for life. In 2008 I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and that made &...

Vyara Tichkova - I get inspiration from everything around me. Its can be a song, an emotion, a book, a song, a story from my friend, its unpredictable what can touch my soul... Im amazed how much abstraction have in the nature in the simple thinks and in elementary pictures of everyday life. My passion is to traveling around the world, every new journey gives me a fresh opportunity to develop and change my vision and ideas. I see new cultures, learn curious stories and stand in front of amazing natural views, I meet the achievements of man in everyone aspect. That take my breath and poses new challenges to me as an artist. I would not want to explain my artworks because I believe that the works of art are the connection between the artist and the viewer. This is another level of communication, another kind of language that does not need words ......

Helena Wierzbicki - I have always enjoyed art from an early age. This love of Art has stayed with me and developed and grown, and now, I cannot imagine wanting to do anything else. Making art, for me, is an innate response to the inner and outer worlds, and a balancing act between the intuitive and the considered. I am interested in exploring my natural abilities and enthusiasm for my commitment to do an art within my innermost thoughts and emotions. Shades of colors and lines turning images of beings into landscapes and symbols. My art is an evolving process, I take and represent only elements which are the essence of the imaginary being. I rely on my desires for beauty, poetics and seduction. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) ...