Artists Describing Their Art:
B A Autery - I truly hope that I can inspire you with my creations, my images, and photos and maybe, give you a different thought perspective each time you view my paintings or photos as I had intended just for you in much of my work. Being a self-taught artist through experience, reading, researching artists past, present and me just doing the work. I believe when one myself and others creates a beginning and achieves total satisfaction all the way, on paper, on canvas or on any other type of substance, to me its all art regardless of the process. Art, which I learned in its final stage is a creation that no other person can see or visualize exactly than from its master. Thank You for visiting this part of my world. I hope my paintings and photographs will inspire you as they have to me in creating and captioning them. ...
Barry Greff - ARTIST STATEMENTS Atmosphere Ethereal Sea and Landscapes In a time of great challenge throughout our world, I seek to capture, and foster preservation of, the spectacular natural beauty that still exists on Earth. Each of my photographs stands alone as a testament to the astonishing visual feast that remains on our planet for those willing to seek it out. My sea and landscape images focus on capturing transitory conditions of light and atmosphere as a metaphor for the fleeting nature of life itself. These images memorialize a moment in timeaEUR| never to be repeated. I am drawn to these theatrical moments when elements collide to form moody, ethereal, and dramatic scenes. Of the Wild Intimate, Close-up Animal Portraits It is in various forms of captivity that I find the animals and birds for this series. They are protected from me and I am protected from them. My images capture the life force that is simultaneously controlled, yet untamed. I am drawn to their eyes as that draws the viewer into the frame. The framing device jolts the viewer from reading the images as a clichA(c). By abstracting the eye or face from the rest of the body, I force ...