Artists Describing Their Art:
Bryan Patterson - Bryan Patterson is a Vermont artist and designer. Bryan is directly descended from Johannes Lapp, a founder of the Amish community in America. Among his relatives is Henry Lapp of the late 1800's. Henry was an amazing deaf mute carpenter/craftsman and has his work displayed in The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bryan says, i?1/2I've always had a love of wood and began creating with it before learning of my Lapp ancestors.i?1/2 Bryan started woodworking professionally in 1977 and has had his work featured in several publications over the years. Concretions have added the newest development to Bryani?1/2s work. He and his family harvest these treasures while swimming in the gorgeous rivers of Vermont. The real enjoyment comes from their display of as many wonderful pictures they make in the mind's eye like those you see in the clouds. Mythology of the Abenaki Indian says that "Wana-games-ak, reckless creatures or those who have lost their minds, are little people of another genus, who inhabit rivers. They have narrow faces'like the blade of a hatchet', so only the profile has an outline. Their noses are high and aquiline,'so large as to be all ...
Michelle Scott - Michelle Scott has been a visual artist since the 4th grade when her teacher introduced her to its "magic". She attended American River College in Sacramento and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena majoring in Illustration. Please visit her personal website at:
Rumy Stoianova - Rumiana Stoianova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on the 12 May 1960. From 1978 to 1979 shi is a student of Boris Angelakov who gave her first knowlege in the fiend of Art and Scenografy. 1980 - 1981 she is a private student of famoust Bulgarian graphic artists and a proffesor at the Academy of Art in Sofia Galiley Simeonov. 1984 - 1988 she masters the art of working with leather woodcarving and painting icons in the art studio of the most talanted Bulgarian artists Kamen Raichev. 1978 - 1993 works in the field of advertising in the Student Campus in Sofia as an artist and calligrapher....
Themis Koutras - MY JOB IN GOD THE TRINITY JEHOVAH CREATOR OF LIFE IS TO CREATE THINGS AS A ARTIST AND PLACE SCRIPTURE ON THEM TO RELATE IT TO THAT ITEM MY IDEA IS TO REACH OUT TO THE WORLD IN EVANGELIST REASONS TO GIVE OUT SOMETHING WITH A MESSAGE ON IT THAT RELATES TO THE WORK DONE AND FROM THE GOSPEL ALTHOUGH I MIGHT MAKE THINGS WITHOUT SCRIPTURE LIKE TOYS FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE FUN IN LIFE I WOULD THEN PRAY THAT GOD WILL TAKE A HOLD OF WHAT I DO AND LEAD ALL PEOPLE TO HIS SON HOLY THAT THEY BE SAVED SO ON FOR I RECON WE ALL NEED JESUS CHRIST...
Casper Waldner - Hi, I am Casper Waldner, my artist name is Fritz or FritsendeFritz I come from The Netherlands, Europe. My background is Dutch and English from my mothers side. Making sculptures, with wood, steel and clay for 15 years now. Mostly sculpture with polymer clay. I also do castings with molds. My mission is to make beautiful sculptures and make every sculpture better than the other one. I love to just work with my hands. I like to feel the woodgrain or see a sculpture get into the form I want. It just gives met the feeling that I am alive. When I am 90 and sitting in my rocking chair on my back porch, I want to have the feeling I will leave this world a prettier place than I found it. To make somebody smile when looking at my sculptures or in awe of the detail. And that the sculptures have a special place in their home. That is my mission in live, to give love and light to all the people in the world FritZ ...
Themis Koutras - MY JOB IN GOD THE TRINITY JEHOVAH CREATOR OF LIFE IS TO CREATE THINGS AS A ARTIST AND PLACE SCRIPTURE ON THEM TO RELATE IT TO THAT ITEM MY IDEA IS TO REACH OUT TO THE WORLD IN EVANGELIST REASONS TO GIVE OUT SOMETHING WITH A MESSAGE ON IT THAT RELATES TO THE WORK DONE AND FROM THE GOSPEL ALTHOUGH I MIGHT MAKE THINGS WITHOUT SCRIPTURE LIKE TOYS FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE FUN IN LIFE I WOULD THEN PRAY THAT GOD WILL TAKE A HOLD OF WHAT I DO AND LEAD ALL PEOPLE TO HIS SON HOLY THAT THEY BE SAVED SO ON FOR I RECON WE ALL NEED JESUS CHRIST...