Artists Describing Their Art:
Ellen Spencer - ARTIST'S STATEMENT Ellen Spencer is a well known artist and longtime environmental activist. Her work reflects her passion in the celebration of life, women's/children's health and its connection to our environment. Ellen is originally from the Boston area, but has been residing in the San Francisco bay area for the past ten years. She currently has her studio in Oakland, California. She has spent many years successfully exhibiting and selling her works throughout the United States and has received numerous awards. Her work has been hailed as, i?1/2exuberant and excitingi?1/2 by New York's Art Speak magazine. She is currently represented by 57th Street Gallery in Oakland, CA, ArtWorks in San Francisco, Artist Alley Gallery in San Francisco, Agora Gallery in New York and Marziart International Gallery in Hamburg, Germany. As an artist and an activist, my work represents the strength and unity inherent in the human spirit. These paintings are part of several different series about women, health and the environment. They celebrate what is possible when people come together as one. Each painting has a feeling of its own and is done in different mediums. The colors are vivid and rich reflecting the myriad ...
Leif Fleissig Hammelsvang - Statement:in viewing my work, one must remember,that it reflects the cultural outlook of the age in which we live. It reveals my personal feelings as influenced by the existing social, religious, economic and political situations. My paintings have certainly been created to serve a special function....
Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Quintana - Hi,my name is Pedro Ramon,I'm a painter of Spain,I work in Spain,and I'm work in art since a know the plastic art and concrete the paint plastic art,but I'm a artis to touch more form of expressions,sculpture,video,computer,photograf,and other temes,my referent idols in the paint work there are so mutch,and i'm have another idols to bright to me i'm my inspirations,like other artist of all genered of music overthere of modern musik,or cinema stars ,or films that all epoques, however I don't real in agree with all of they think and some postures and forms of live acctions,I'm don't considere me that a right or left political,I'm in the middel of some possitions in the world political,somewere I conffusion in this auctitudes,beacouse I don't have a great resolutions. I like painting in american and european styles,expressionism abstract,pop art and conceptual art,and some times I painting in all styles of the world.I'm living in Alcorcon, Madrid when I study and work with art since 1991,I compart my ...
Pamela Gilbert - A Maine native, who now lives in the Finger Lakes area in Ithaca NY. I attended Portland School of Art and continued my art education at the U of Maine in Augusta.I exhibit regularly in regional and national juried shows and has sucecessfully had a one woman show at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine and at Sltes of Hollowell, Maine, Best of Show at the annual art show at Toas Ski Valley in New Mexico. My Paintings are also in private collections throughout the US,Canada and Mexico....
Diane Kastensmith Bradbury - I love the spontaneity and freshness of watercolor - especially the "accidental" movement of color that results from painting wet into wet. I usually start with a wet into wet technique, and work through all the stages of the paper, until I am painting wet into dry. I often soak the painting in the bathtub overnight to soften the edges and lighten the colors, going back in the next day to sharpen details and brighten or darken colors where needed. I repeat this process until I can see that the painting is finished. I believe the record for the number of times this was done was a painting I sold in 1985, called "Blue Tree". It had been soaked twenty-two times before I was satisfied with the result. Of course, high quality paint and paper are essential to this process. "Seasons ...
Gopal Weling - Thoughts...the basic thing of any human being whether it's child in the arms of a mother or a old human sleeping on the bed waiting for the last minute....thoughts which can travel faster than anything....thoughts which leads to inventions...thoughts which can lead to destruction or thoughts which can bring a revolution... My paintings are presentation of spontaneity & my thoughts...thoughts flowing through the mind...through the life...through the experience & liveliness coming through spontaneity Colors....flows through the inner circles of mind...which reflects the dimensions of the thoughts that are traveling in a wavelength matching to the spontaneity of thoughts... ...Gopal Weling...
Joanna Batherson - My inspiration for art has come from drawing and the nature surrounding our world. My painting began as a hobby and through taking many courses and instruction from various Maine artists, traveling in USA and abroad, and moving to beautiful California,it has become a wonderful and fulfilling part of my life....
Eve Thompson - "Painting is my way of expressing the joy of seeing. By organizing the play of contrasts and vivid colors, I can capture the feeling of intense sunlight. This moment of illumination is what I hope to convey to my viewers."...
Maria Teresa Fernandes - Admiring Teresa's paintings we are touched by her pictorial sensitivity. Difficult task in light colors (volume and transparencies on a clear basis). Few do it due to the required dedication with pallete knife(no brush).It's painting consacrated by the love to paint. Radha Abramo(Renowned art critique)comments at Solo Exhibition Catalog at SESC Paulista in June 84 -( sent at request and reproduced in one of the pages of this site). ...