Artists Describing Their Art:
Dario Impini - Serenity, Beauty, Harmony. In a perennially troubled world an artist has, generally speaking, two options in their creative process reflect the chaos or wallpaper over it. I have trouble imagining my living space decorated with turbulent images of despair and misery. Doesnt enough of the outside world invade ones life despite our best intentions Instead I offer images that inspire something more serene and calming to the soul. Visual anesthetic if you will. Imbued in me during my formative years was an amalgam of form and function that was definitive 60s and 70s. A focus on the yin yang of feminine flowing curves and masculine angles permeated that time span. It was the era of the road-borne starship Lamborghini, the gold dot Movado watch, the Chanel perfume that encouraged you to share the fantasy on the manicured lawns of a fabulous mansion, and the sound barrier piercing icons of flight - the Concorde and SR71 Blackbird. This brew of influences inspired the following collection of photographic artworks which have been published nationally and seen in art galleries coast to coast. Each one of these artworks is pre-visualized, crafted in dreams or visions, carefully planned, archived for the right moment, ...
Jo Francis Van Den Berg - Through my photography, I tell stories and orchestrate synaesthetic dream worlds, in which light, scent and fabrics become perceptible and tangible. Since the beginning of my career until today I continuously worked on my true passion aEUR" the sensuality of flowers and still-life, specializing on the composition of light and arrangement, creating a personal image language. I was always interested in the second dimension of known objects which can inspire oneaEURtms imagination and to create a new communication tool. I love to tell stories via sequences to create a movement of an individual image language and to inspire spectators and their phantasy. This is always a timeless process with relation to life....