Artists Describing Their Art:

Julie St Clair - Seattle artist JULIE ST. CLAIR has been working in photography, film and video for more than 30 years. She studied Fine Art and Commercial Photography at the Academy of Art, San Francisco. Julie began as a fashion industry color technologist - working with photographers in exposing film for optimum results for film to print process. She moved from color technologist to art director, creative director, and finally to commercial film and video director, producer and editor. Julie's first love has always been photography and she began working with her vast library of images several years ago. Nature plays a major role in Julie's work. Images of light, color, texture and shapes, captured in soft focus to erase boundaries, are layered with images of hard elements gathered from everywhere - public sculpture, public artworks, graffiti, architecture, nature, food - anything. The collection of images moves any single image beyond the range of its own limits. Work can be scaled or commissioned to fit the needs of space, communicate a brand message or lifestyle. ...

Manolis Tsantakis - The subject "Woman and Nature" which is the title of my photographs, It becomes an endless source of inspiration. Nature is perfect but also so fickle. The lighting and weather interchanges during a day could be unbelievable. Nature some times has a melancholic mood, but it could also elevate your senses. It offers tranquility and happiness, but also fear and insecurity. Woman, as a female gender by nature, matches perfectly with Nature, and it create within me, exactly the same feelings. It is a constant challenge for me, to tie together in perfect harmony these two live elements and create images of dreams and fantasy. ...

Nancy Bechtol - Artists explore and give the world a view of their personal heightened awareness. I visualize and think with keen beliefs and insights. Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken. My traditional art foundations of drawing, painting and printmaking, evolved into video, digital photography and experimental media. I use digital photography and imaging to envision the concepts originating from the creative pulse.An individual artist explores and gives the world a view of their personal heightened awareness. Artists see and think with keen beliefs and insights.Reflection of human and societal concerns which cross emotional boundaries-- communicating that which is unspoken. My traditional art foundations of drawing, painting and printmaking, evolved into video, digital photography and experimental media. I use digital photography and imaging to envision the concepts originating from the creative pulse....

Nancy Bechtol - Nancy Bechtol - Dmitry Savchenko - I love LIGHT. If there is no light, art photography cannot come to life. Light is the essense of photography and I am fascinating by ballet.... I always wanted to unite ballerinas and light through the art of photography. I discovered a new dimension in my photography art. It is an astonishing discovery of classic beauty in classic light . The art in the arts. One life doesnaEURtmt seem enough to convey this combinationaEUR|

Claudia Nierman - Some words about my work: The images I produce are deliberately enigmatic and multi-layered. They invite the viewer to engage in the process of storytelling whereby dreaming and living are woven together as a tapestry. I find the sources for my work in the urban environment: window displays, torn posters, graffiti, broken architecture. In short, the remains of man. These objects and situations are eventually transformed by rain, sun, reflections, and shadows, as well as additions made by the passerby. Shaped by the forces of chance, these ephemeral visions are captured on film (and now also in bits and bites) and used as raw material that merge one into another forming a new identity. The result? On one hand, a strange amalgam of my preoccupation with time and memory, and on the other, the way in which the deliberate manipulaton through photographic images can give us insight into our personal and collective struggles. Technical information: I usually work in three different formats: 25 cm x 30 cm and 32 cm x 45 cm printed on cibachrome paper; and a large format of 57 cm x 80 cm, digitilizing the final image and printing it on canvas. (Since this latter ...