Artists Describing Their Art:
Katja Liedle - Photography is a way of connecting with the world around me, capturing its more unusual nuances from a subjective point of view. This created a style which focuses on colors and forms and highlights tiny details thereby abstracting from everyday reality. focus * motto: close up * natural and other details * colors, forms, structures, patterns * abstractions * experiments with forced and cross processing ...
Emily Reed - I do oil paintings, calligraphy, designs and art photography. Oil paintings emphasize landscapes, water scenes, flowers, animals, birds, bees, butterflies, and occasional portraits. I tend to paint with the seasons, i.e., in winter I do snow scenes, in fall the leaves turning color, in spring pastel trees and spring flowers, and in summer - brilliancy and lush foliage. Recently, I have progressed to doing more photography and editing photos to add designs. My old Nikon Coolpix 950 has seen better days, so I now have a Nikon Coolpix 8800 which is awesome. I love nature shots, flowers, birds, trees, etc. and as always, cats and kittens. I hope you enjoy my photos. Calligraphy is ancient hand printing done on parchment paper using stylized scripts. The calligraphic prayer, bible verse, poem or saying is decorated with hand drawn designs and pictures using different colored inks. ...
Beatrice Van Winden - Artist statement For the last twelve years, Beatrice Van Winden, has lived on Vancouver Island, and has always had an interest in photography and the Arts, for as far back as she can remember the arts. Beatrice studied art and photography throughout her school years, and has continued to do so, on the island: - Traditional photography with Mitch Stringer and Susan Mulgreine-Professional photographers & teachers at various local colleges of photography. - Darkroom processing, & B/W photography with Professional photographer Bradford Stevenson & teacher at the Victoria college of photography. - Digital darkroom with professional photographer Andrew Ciesielski. - She studied art with Wendy Welsh, John Drake, Xane St-Francis at the Vancouver College of art, Camosun . - She studied Art Marketing with Alice Cormier, a well-known Vancouver Art Marketing Consultant. Beatrice combined her knowledge of traditional photography and art to create unique photos. The website Arts of Canada has described her photos as "Photos with a digital edge". Her photos are often thought of as beautiful paintings. She is known for her ability to see and capture colors with her traditional camera in a unique way. She is a member of the: - She is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art. -...
Gurdas Dua Fiipc Fbaf Hon.apasp - Pictorial is mother of all branches of Photography. So I always have a Pictorial approach towards my subject. When I select my subject matter, my priorities are- 1. Originality of the subject matter. 2. Interest in the subject matter. 3. Composition including lighting on subject. 4. Technique of taking Photograph. 5. Presentation. My Interests are in the field of- Landscapes, Still life, Children, Portraits, Nature, floral and especially Human Interest Photography. My Profession is Advertising & Industrial Photography. I strongly feel that just clicking the shot do not make anybody a photographer, but if one does all the processes like film developing, print making and print finishing or Digital Photo Finishing himself / herself then he or she can be called a photographer. That is the reason I do all the processes myself in mediums like Black & white, Color Negative, Color Positives and Digital etc. ...
Paul Pablo Sultana - **STOP PRESS** www.pablosultana.co.uk July 2007 - Just exhibited works from his latest series "221 years in the Making" as part of the UK`s International Festival of the Image (Rhubarb Festival) 2006 June 2007 - Produced his first public exhibition at the Custard Factory Gallery in Birmingham under the Mentorship of the Great Max Kandhola and Rhonda Wilson MBE. ********************************************************************* Born in Birmingham in 1963 to Anglo-Maltese parents - A diverse and multi-disciplined freelance artist Working predominately in Digital Photography, but successfully marries this with more traditional paint techniques and sculpture. The diversity of Pablo`s upbringing and career background to date is reflected in his Artwork; " .One Minute I was in the middle of the Gulf being taught how to kill people, a couple of months later I was visiting prisons helping rehabilitate Young Offenders". Not surprisingly then is the variety and seeming contradictions in both the media and subject matter of Pablos` work Pablo has never been either accepted or rejected--And he would have it no other way. Flirtations with Poetry, Prose, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Media, Oils, Acrilics, Water Colours and Pastels are regularly experienced, sometimes in charming combination. "..His eyes, hands and brain, in searching...
Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...
Michael Leyton - In his MIT Press book, Symmetry, Causality, Mind (630pages) and his book in Springer-Verlag, A Generative Theory of Shape (550pages), Michael Leyton has elaborated an extensive theory of why art has such a powerful impact on the human mind. This results in an ability to intensify the content of artworks through an increased understanding of compositional organization, that Leyton has provided in his scientific work, which includes his mathematical foundations for geometry. For example, theorems of his, such as the Symmetry-Curvature Duality Theorem, which are now used in over 40 disciplines including many branches of medicine and engineering, also explain the human perceptual response to art-works. Not only has he demonstrated this in his lengthy published analyses of classical and modern artists, but he has also demonstrated that it is possible to surpass the intensity of these artists. This he has done by using the theory developed in his books in the creation of his own artworks - his paintings, his published architectural designs, and the published scores of his musical compositions. The portfolio at the present site is currently under construction. While this is in progress, the reader can gain an extensive introduction to Leyton's artistic ...
Dianne Roberson - Artist Statement Alaska Artist Dianne Roberson As a young artist, I traveled every summer to the mountains where I sketched Native Americans expressing their creativity through pottery, weaving, beadwork, carving, and dancing. It was this tradition of recording their lives with art that bonded me to these distant Cherokee relatives. I have painted these artistic native people throughout North, South, and Central America. My Alaskan paintings are a continuation of these experiences, and a hope to create lasting visual images of native people and their traditions. Through the years, my life has taken me on many journeys far from my roots. I was drawn to Alaska, as if a magnet was pulling me back to nature. I didn't choose to come here, I simply could not stay away. My Northern Light Series was born on a January excursion. In the cold dark night surrounded by silence near the top of the world, I saw magnetic pulses of light. It was ten degrees below zero as the many colors of reflected lights were magnified by the accumulation of snow on the ground. An intense emotion encompassed me and I understood why our ancestors were so awed, even frightened, by the ...
Paula Roush - bio-blurb-propaganda [:::] paula roush (born in lisboa, portugal; lives and works in london). paula is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses public culture and urban space. With a visual art and urban/social studies background, she works across these disciplines as both a practitioner and a theorist. She works with the city as a site of investigation and develops ways of intervening in urban space, working in the mode of public art and tactical intervention into public debate but more generally, working with a problematic of the public and the politics of the public sphere. Paula is the founder of msdm [
Veselin Dimov - Vesselin Dimov Born in Popovo, Bulgaria on 15 December 1995. Lives and works in the countryside. Avant-garde artist Dissident. Nowadays his early work is considered to be the onset of Contemporary Bulgarian Art. ExpDurience From 1992-1993, he has been Chairman of the General Meeting of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, when on the communist government was overthrown on the Extraordinary Congress and the Union of Bulgarian Artists was reorganized in a democratic manner he has been a member of Board of the UBA from 1992 to 1995. Hobby aEUR" sports, riding a bicycle. Beliefs Art does not just describe reality. Art constructs it. This is how Sit. Close your eyes. Imagine an invisible field And now, carefully draw a squareaEUR| Here it is Your aEURoeInvisible Square in an Invisible Field.aEUR ...