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Jayne Butler
myartspace id:JayneButler
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Career in fashion and textile design exciting, colourful, demanding, fun! Interspersed with lecturing - fashion / art / painting. Now full time painter and textile artist (with a little lecturing thrown in) Love colour and travel


max sivan
myartspace id:maxsivan
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Max sivan was born in Israel in 1960. From childhood onwards, he displayed a marked talent for drawing and an all-embracing interest in art. Max's work has over time developed along various lines, all of which converged and fused into a very personal and feminine statement. It is characteristic of Max paintings that the flowing calligraphic drawing of the Ethnic figure is the centerpiece which forms the structural basis of the work. The pieces which are displayed in this site ethnic drawings. Max creates his art at a studio located in Dimona, Israel.


eleonora
myartspace id:leinora
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jessie Benicio jr
myartspace id:jesbee
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Paul Robertson
myartspace id:prfoto
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HyeSoo Park
myartspace id:qkrgptn
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1974 born in seoul


MYRIAM RIOUAL
myartspace id:MRIOUAL
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Been born on April 23rd, 1973 in Caen in the Calvados, it is in Cherbourg the second city of my childhood that I discovered this art which became mine. During my various journeys and experiences, I polished up my said technique of " the furniture polish ". And I continue to learn every day to master it more. One moment of obliged solitude, an operated kneecap, a conflict with my father who had faded of my life during some months. I then felt the need to entrust to my canvases and my colours, all this punishment which I felt in front of the absence of my confidant. It is with my painting that I was able to communicate and to express my evil to be and when we became reconciled, I was able to share my work with him. He considered in it following, without flattery nobody he said to me that I had a gift. Did not believe it; I said myself: " a gift? No everybody can make him But he was right for a thing it is because nobody can reproduce my work because it is "ME" my identity, my character, my personality. Nobody can copy it this art, with its part of fate which by way of real unique works. For me as for any artist, works are well the reflections of our personality, of our ME precisely. And then very quickly, others, many, encouraged me to expose then why not! The technique which is mine, and the tools which I chose to use being not very common, I could draw the attention of people who not being versed in art found themselves inspired by my fabrics My work comes straight of my spirit without the calculation nor formation, of major the my being. I like to play of the colors and the forms; this is why I liked this technique of continuation. It has many advantages, allowing easy final improvements, an excellent stability of the colors and a great strength to moisture. I am mom since February 4, 2004 of a fore-mentioned little boy “ROMAIN”; it is of him that all my inspiration comes today. I remember when it was put upright all alone, yes, I cried about it and the evening even, I composed the fabric which I named Romain. This table is for me the symbol of the hope of a better world or better; of a possible better world! I used the green color much because it represents for me the hope, happiness. The more I advanced in my fabric and the more I dreamed of a world without pollution nor cataclysm, of the rivers of fairy tales or one is sure to be able to bathe there without being sick; of a beautiful history on the life that I could tell in Romain, with the insurance that each moment of the perhaps marvellous life if one can give self without never anything to wait in return. His joys, his tears, his angers and mine, I pose them on the fabric and like it does not have yet the age all to include/understand, I started to tell him beautiful stories with imaginary and magic worlds of the colors blazing for later when it is a little larger. Romain is my angel, the angel of my life and it is with him that I find my inspiration of today. Thus, and as to buckle the loop, I offer to the ones and with the other my vision of this better world ...... , We give them Artistes, opportunity with people who cannot dream the chance any more to again be able to do it. Let us offer our love without anything to ask in return! What exists T there of more beautiful in the life than the moment when the conscious one leaves room to imagination and the dream! We have all need to believe in one day better; as for me the birth of my son was the most beautiful gift of the life


Mario Tendinha
myartspace id:paterhu
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Was born in Namibe, Angola, 1950. Living in Luanda


Marisabel Munoz
myartspace id:nephie8
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Born on August 24, 1986 in the United States and raised in Puerto Rico.


Michael Ivanenko
myartspace id:Streletz
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If the person thirsts a miracle, make for him this miracle! The new soul will be at him and new at you … (the captain Grey. « Scarlet Sails ») Michael was born on November, 24, 1960 in Taganrog. Has finished the Rostov art school of M.B.Grekov. Member of the Union of Artists of Kuban. The participant of numerous exhibitions in Russia and Europe. Pictures are in private assemblies and art galleries of Russia, the USA, Europe. Favourite creative child - creation Private children's art studio - ART - STUDIO « 8-th day of week ». The high level of works of pupils is awarded by numerous diplomas of city, republican and international exhibitions. Works are awarded to be stored in funds: Russian museum, Saint Petersburg, The Krasnodar Regional Showroom of the Fine arts, Krasnodar


Spencer Huffman
myartspace id:Cr8tiveF0lk
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I'm 28 years old and I live in North Carolina. I paint, draw, and do some photography just for fun. That's what art is about for me, just having fun with it. I enjoy the entire creative process.


Virginia Gardner
myartspace id:VGardner
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r.e. hergert
myartspace id:rehergert
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SUSANA FERNANDEZ BLANCO
myartspace id:susanafblanco
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Date of birth: 23rd August 1973, Madrid. QUALIFICATIONS 2000 Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in Art & Design. Anglya Polytechnic University, Colchester, England. 1999 Fine Arts Degree, Design specialist. Madrid Complutense University. 1993/97 Geography and History Degree (1st and 2nd stage). UNED University. EDUCATION 2004 Sale Techniques and Client Management to Companies. (ESIC) 2004 Presentation Skills (ESIC) 2003 Project Management, (Project Management Institute) 2003 Companies Management (CIFESAL) 1998 Freehand, Photoshop, QuarkXpress (Data Analysis) 1991/92 AutoCAD Design Specialist, (INEM) 1993 Drawing and painting school with Artium Peña workshop. 1991/94 Drawing and painting school with Amadeo Roca Gisbert workshop. PAINTING EXPOSITIONS Madrid Ateneo Torrelodones Cultural Centre, Madrid. Reina Sofía Art Centre, displayed with "El país de los Tuertos" exhibition. Spanish Contemporary Art Museum. Railway Museum, Madrid. Galileo Cultural Centre, Madrid. Puerta de Toledo Library, Madrid. La esquina del Bernabeu Shopping Centre, Madrid. ABC Serrano Shopping Centre, Madrid. Plaza de Aluche Shopping Centre, Madrid. Nuestra Sra. de Guadalupe High School, Madrid. Fine Arts University Complutense, Madrid. Victor's Gallery Art Gallery, Marbella. Los Arqueros Golf Club, Marbella. Málaga Cultural Center "Presencias XI" WORK Madrid Ateneo. Galileo Cultural Centre, Madrid. Engineer Technologist Institute, Madrid. COMPETITIONS 1999 SELECTION. Reina Sofía Art Museum. El pais de los tuertos exhibition. Madrid. 1998 HONOR MENTION. Madrid Engineer Technologist Institute Painting Competition C.O.P.I.T.I.98 1997 MENTION. Gran Via 2nd Painting Competition. Madrid. 1996 MENTION. El Escorial Summer School main board competition. Madrid. 1995 MENTION. Plaza de Aluche Fast Painting Competition.


Mandala Bob
myartspace id:mandalabob
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Jodi Hays
myartspace id:jodihays
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Jodi Hays studied Foundations at School of Visual Arts before getting a Bachelors of Fine Art in Drawing from the University of Tennessse. She graduated from Vermont College where she worked with Allan DeSousa, Janet Kaplan, Sowon Kwon, Craig Stockwell and Christine Hiebert, among others. Her work has been shown at Barbara Krakow Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art and Gordon College. You can view her work at The Drawing Center's Viewing Program (New York).


Regina Fernandes
myartspace id:rfernandes
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Regina Fernandes is Brazilian and has been living and working in Edinburgh since 1989. She is largely self-taught and has worked professionally in Brazil as an illustrator and in painted textiles, and in Scotland as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Her career has been developing under the combined influences of her professional experiences as a designer/illustrator and her thoughtful progress as an independent artist. Her work as a designer and illustrator is informed by graphical wit, and most aspects of her work tend toward a playful minimalism. Her work as an artist is figurative and questions of light and shadow are ever-present. When she paints interiors and still life, what she paints are inscapes and still lights.


Alfred Degens
myartspace id:alfreddegens
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erika nusser
myartspace id:erikaphoto451
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Erika Nusser's education includes a Masters in Photography from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelors Degree of Arts from SUNY New Paltz, where she studied abroad in Paris. She has studied under such great photographers such as Jules Allen, Anthony Aziz, Jenny Gage and Jaime Permuth. Erika's photography experience includes internships at Art + Commerce, Woodstock Center for Photography, Blackstar Publications and the Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art. She has been a photo assistant for Spencer Tunick and various other photographers . Erika has also worked as a teacher assistant at the International Center for Photography at their Bronx community center, "The Point" and The Fashion High school in NYC. In addition, she is an active member of Professional Women Photographers and National Association of Women Artists. Her work has been displayed internationally at various galleries including Houston Center for Photography, A.I.R. Gallery, Calumet Gallery, The New York Hall of Science, Thomas Werner Gallery, and The Gallery in Stamford. Erika's work is mainly in color and she uses a medium format camera. She has been influence by Bettina Rheims and Augustus Sanders. Erika’s work main intention is to be interactive with her audience and stimulate conversation.


Flounder Lee
myartspace id:photoflounder
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I grew up on a farm in Alabama, got my BFA from Florida in 2003 and my MFA from Cal State Long Beach in 2007. I now work as an assistant professor at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. My work has been shown both nationally and internationally including Art, Technology, and Society at the Digital Media Center in Santa Ana, Ca; Documentation: Photography as Witness at the University of Maine; the WRO Media Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland and the Santiago International MicroFilm Festival in Chile. Overall my work has generally dealt with the intersections and interactions between things. The intersections between public and private, art and life, history and the present, among others, have always informed my work. I use mapping and indexing to recreate/reconstruct the space-time surrounding my life.


Kathyanne White
myartspace id:kathyannewhite
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The fiber work of artist Kathyanne White. has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. White’s work has been shown in the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana; the Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia; the Vale Craft Gallery in Chicago; the Obsidian Gallery in Tucson, Arizona; the eklecticos Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the Nickle Art Museum, in Calgary, Alberta Canada along with the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art and the National Museum of History in China. In New York alone, White’s work has been shown at the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of American Folk Art and the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, her artwork is in numerous private, public and corporate collections, including those of The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City; The American Folk Art Museum, New York City. White has been featured in a variety of arts publications including Fiber Arts, Surface, American Style, Folk Art Magazine, The Metropolitan Spirit, Log Home Design Ideas, Quilting Arts, Cloth Paper Scissors, Surface Design Journal and New Zealand Quilter. In 2001 she was named a “trendsetter” in Art Business News, as an emerging artist. Fiber Arts Design Book #7 includes work by Kathyanne and her work appears in several catalogues including, Six Continents of Quilts: The Museum of Arts & Design Collection, 2003 Masterpieces: Spirit and Strength, and Tied Together: Textile Art in the 21st Century Kathyanne has taught workshops internationally from New Zealand to her studio in Prescott, Arizona. In 2009 she will be teaching a digital printing workshop at the Surface Design Association Conference “Off the Grid” in Kansas City, Art and Soul Retreats in Hampton Virginia, Mountain Artists Guild in Prescott Arizona and The Artists’ Nook in Fort Collins Colorado. In 2010 she is scheduled to teach at the Hudson River Valley Artists Workshops in New York. White joined the adjunct faculty at Yavapai College in the fall of 2008. She is a recipient of as Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for 2009.


John Kay
myartspace id:JohnK
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Anna Shearer
myartspace id:annashearer13
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Ton Haring
myartspace id:divee23
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Ton Haring has been active in the professional field as a painter since 1994. His main styles are surrealism and magic realism. He also produces portraits on a regular base. He finds inspiration in nature, science,arts, dreams etc. There is a lot of attention for detail in his work. The techniques are quite similar as the techniques used by painters during the middleages, a timeperiod when attention to detail was important. At this moment he is actively involved in collaborationprojects , and the digital realm, especially the techniques of 3D.


rachel morellet
myartspace id:morellet
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Jorge Gurmandi
myartspace id:Gurmandi
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Peter McCarthy
myartspace id:never
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I am a UK based artist. My work reflects the environment I live in my surroundings and my mood at the time of painting. I have drawn and painted from an early age. I have always been interested in art, both the method and the thought behind it as well as viewing and absorbing it. I'm particularly interested in more abstract work that holds you by its construction of form and technique. I work part time to support myself in order to continue to paint, my other interests are music and cinema, but my all consuming obsession is painting and expressing my inner thoughts.


Cyn Bird
myartspace id:cynbird
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Cyn Bird is from Queens, NY, and currently lives in Bergen County, NJ. She received a BFA from SUNY, and studied at the Art Students League in NY. Her work is in private collections around the US.


GFP-ART
myartspace id:gfp-art
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johnny haylo
myartspace id:haylo
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WHATS THE DEAL WITH ARTISTS BIO'S....... WELL LETS GET ARTSY FARTSY THEN............. WELL ANYWAY LETS SEE.......HMMMM,I WAS BORN, RAISED AS AN ARMY BRAT........ WHEN I WAS 17 MY FATHER LEFT MY MOTHER & WE WERE LEFT OUT IN COLD COLD WORLD........ I JOINED THE NAVY .......GOT INTO LOTS OF TROUBLE.......I'VE ALWAYS HAD A PROBLEM WITH AUTHORITY FIGURES..........BASICALLY BECAUSE THEY'RE ASSHOLES & CONTROL FREAKS........ I DECIDED TO BECOME AN ARTIST WHEN I WAS 49 BECAUSE I WAS SICK & TIRED OF GETTING UP EVERY DAY TO GO SLAVE AWAY FOR THE MAN.........I PAINT WITHOUT THE USE OF BRUSHS .........I HAD A DREAM IT WAS THIS PAINT BRUSH FLOATING IN MID AIR & IT JUST BROKE SMACK IN TWO.....SO I QUIT USING BRUSHES & STARTED PAINTING WITH MY FINGERS, NAILS,QTIPS.BOTTLE TOPS..........WHATEVER I SEE THAT WILL HELP GET THE EFFECT I NEED......IT LED TO A REFRESHINGLY ORIGINAL STYLE........... I WORK IN MIXED MEDIA ON WOOD PRIMARILY....... ITS ALL GOOD.........ITS CHICKEN BONES & VOODOO JUICE..........CHICKEN BONES & VOODOO JUICE.


Chris Grace
myartspace id:chrisgrace
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frederick jones
myartspace id:fjones
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Eric Walton 9 - Edub9
myartspace id:edub9
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Abstract Surrealist Expressionist Painter ERIC WALTON 9 / Edub9 (Born November 9, 1973 to Present) Eric Walton 9 is a native Floridian, born in Sarasota, now living in Miami. A contemporary Abstract Expressionist, his need to cry out is expressed in his art. It expresses an assertion of himself, his individuality, pathology and identity. Methods strong, colors expressive, and forms familiar, he reaches for understanding. He, like the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists before him, is caught in a world of social dictates. In a world of conformity and commercialism he delivers his assault. He is order and disorder, sadness and laughter, beauty and tragedy, unshackled and suspended, chaos filled, but infused with solid clarity. Through his art he explores and reclaims his right to be free. He is the human explorer. He is neither boxlike nor malignant, but awash in free color and form, and like the free form of dance and auto-writing he propels us ever further. Canvases simplified and shockingly brilliant they cry out to connect, painting the landscape that evolves within. We see the familiar and unexpected, the boldly clashing effects of primary color suggesting new ways to truly feel and communicate emotion through paths of free invention. They are spontaneous, deft, checked with rich surface texture and alluring in their tension and narrative. He asks: Where are we? Who do we want to be? Expressed through brush and paint he makes the profoundest of statements: We are multi-layered and yet transparent.


JOAKIM PAZ
myartspace id:joakimpaz
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Born in Sto.Antao do Tojal - Loures ¬ Portugal has completed the Course of Art & Design in 2005 and is currently attending the Architecture course at the University of Manchester. Having participated in various exhibitions and being represented in several private collections, he considers the Art, essentially, an exercise of freedom and release, and prefers to face painting as a space of discouvery and surprise always looking in his diversified artistic trajectory to avoid predefined styles or schools. ...STILL OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS FROM CURATORS,GALLERIES,AGENTS/COMMISSSIONISTS & INDIVIDUAL ART-LOVERS INTERESTED TO ACQUIRE/PROMOTE NEW ARTWORK...


Emily Bennett Beck
myartspace id:ebeck
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Current Position 2007 Adjunct Instructor- Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY. Currently teaching a section of Introduction to Studio Arts. 2007 Adjunct Instructor- Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Currently teaching Drawing and Painting for Digital Arts and Science majors. 2007 Adjunct Instructor- SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY. Currently teaching Color + Design.


larry treadway
myartspace id:tread
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A self-taught photographer and self-proclaimed smart-aleck. When not wasting film in musty, archaic, plastic toy cameras, long sleepless nights are spent watching bad movies with titles like "The World’s Greatest Sinner" and "Blood Feast." These bad movies and their zero budget cinematography, no doubt, have influenced Tread's work in some way, but so has fellow Lexingtonian Ralph Eugene Meatyard.


Laura Reader
myartspace id:lreader
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Born in West Sussex, England in 1980. I was inspired in my earliest years by draftsman and watercolour artist Bruce Reader, my father, and Lawrence Henry Reader, my grandfather who unfortunately passed away a month before I was born. As I grew as an artist, I took aspects of Salvador Dali's work into my own as well as being inspired by the form and structure of Michelangelo's work. Raised in an artistic family, my teenage years saw me winning 1st and 2nd price at an art competition sponsored by the Leominster Rotary Club in 1995. I also worked closely with the Rural Media Company by working on a talking pictures project aimed at young people throughout the UK. I qualified in 1998 at Herefordshire College of Art and Design with a National Diploma in Graphic Design. I've worked throughout London and the Midlands developing my graphic and design skills through various media such as photography, the Internet and print media but it wasn't until 2004 that I wanted to return to traditional painting. For years I had been uninspired by watercolours, often using the paint straight from the tube. I could never create the vivid colours I was looking to achieve. I decided to experiment with acrylics. I quickly found that they worked well with the artwork I was trying to achieve. Having a great love for people, travel and foreign culture I have travelled throughout Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, which has often inspired and influenced me within my work. My style is natural, original and vivid within a traditional recognisable landscape medium whilst creating a modern feel through the technique of diptychs and triptychs. Since 2004 I have exhibited locally through The Feathers Gallery in Ludlow, Shropshire as well as online through ZeroOneArt and Agora Gallery in New York with many unique paintings being sold. I was also a finalist at the Liberté d´Expression contemporary underground world of art exhibition in 2006 in association with Barclays and the NSPCC. I have also recently been accepted to exhibit through the online Saatchi gallery and have sold nationally throughout the UK as well as internationally to South Africa and Asia. Artistically, my aim is to balance abstraction and landscape in my contemporary art, and express my love of paint and the magic of serendipity during the act of painting as well as commenting on the subject matter. The colour and energy that radiates from my canvases seem to captivate my viewers. Each painting is valuable in its own right; each painting belongs to the collection as an aspect of concept exploration. Immediate suggestions come into my head about what to depict in my art and how to proceed & execute the artwork. When I follow these suggestions, I am enthralled. " .. Laura is quite simply an amazing artist." - K. Nagberi, Merseyside (Red Dragon)


seth rosenberg
myartspace id:seth
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www.rosenbergstudio.com


wim van de wege
myartspace id:wimvandewege
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Wim van de Wege was born in 1966. He uses wide range of techniques and materials. He will commit everything that takes his interest to paper, cardboard or canvas. He prefers to work thematically: series of stilllives, flowers, landscapes and architecture. He successively studied organ and piano at the Brabants Conservatorium, Dutch at the Highschool Rotterdam and visual arts and art at the Willem de Koning Acedemie. Last year he took Zeeland as his subject-theme. Various landscapes are shown in a grand way and on every work of art the characteristic scenery of Zeeland can be found. Space in the landscape creates freedom. Above the skies: together they mix in a magnificant magic-realisme image. Tension between freedom and threat can be read in the almost impressionistic style of Wim van de Wege.Combination with the used techniques offer the spectator a fascinating and mysterious atmosphere of the landscapes. It will defenitely influence the impression on thelandscape of Zeeland. Wim lately experiments with several material as you can see in several works.


Norma Walton
myartspace id:NormaWalton
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I live in Somerset and am married with two children and three grandchildren. My primary interest has always been photography, mainly flowers and still life. I have taken part in several shared photographic exhibitions and one personal exhibition in Exeter a few years ago. I am in my first year of a Fine Art Degree and am enjoying learning to paint and produce art work by means other than, and including photography


Dimitrov van der Weijden
myartspace id:Dimitrov
Personal Store:http://www.nyaxe.com/Dimitrov/
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Born 1973 (Holland). Started experimenting with spraypaint at age 10, inspired by his father and brother, who are artists too. Dimitrov was active as a graffiti-writer in the eighties and early nineties. In 1988 created his first paintings on paper using the airbrush-technique. Later on he mastered other techniques; acrylic and oilpainting with brushes. Since 1998 Dimitrov works on canvas using airbrush, acrylic and oilpaints. He started to exhibit his paintings and more and more people got interested in his works. Nowadays his work can be found in collections worldwide. Dimitrov exhibited paintings in Belgium, Germany, London and New York City. Since 2006 Dimitrov is working on a serie of bodypaints; these artworks can be found in his forthcoming book 'Cyboflexium' (published in spring 2009).


Christelle ROMULUS
myartspace id:Christelle
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Née le 20 novembre 1973 à Rodez dans l' Aveyron, en France. Christelle Romulus nous fait partager cette émotion intérieure, à travers un cocktail de couleurs riches et lumineuses... Cette artiste "vit" chaque tableau comme une expérience intime, instinctive...Ses peintures expression de sensibilité et de féminité, nous transportent dans une aventure spirituelle...


Alice Shintani
myartspace id:ashintani
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I am Brazilian, but my grandparents were Japanese immigrants. I try to reexamine and conciliate my hybrid oriental-ocidental roots through visual art.


Chris Coles
myartspace id:ChrisIPS
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Chris Coles is an artist and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles and Bangkok. He is one of the first artists to explore the world of the Bangkok Night. His paintings, in the Expressionist style, are jagged emotional portraits, revealing a raw and primitive layer of the human experience.


patrice palacio
myartspace id:patricepalacio
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born and lives in south of France


Bruce Flashnick
myartspace id:flashnick
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danin nouanthanuvanh
myartspace id:madyogurt
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Chris Alford
myartspace id:alfora
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The introduction to art for Alfora was the discovery of J M W Turner in the Tate gallery, in 1969. Influenced by the study of light, of which Turner was the master, the work of Alfora is complimented by a palette based on the colours used by Rembrandt, Delacroix and Bonnington. Brought into this, through studies based on derelict buildings and a continuing interest in architectural structures, is the depiction of line and structure of buildings within a field of colour. The breaking of the boundaries came with the discovery of the work of Raul Duffy and John Piper which, for Alfora, brought brighter colour through which the subject takes on a translucence allowing the viewer freedom of interpretation. The quintessence then is a personal style using colour, light and line to express the essence of place. This style, developed through subject matter in England and France, was further explored through travels in Portugal particularly the Alentejo and the Algarve. The move from semi-representational landscape to abstract symbolism was a natural one. The majority of the paintings of Alfora have a historical content. The scenes of Portugal, from 1998 to 2002, are based on places of historical interest and often painted in an abstract style yet containing symbolic representation. The later work used this concept to symbolically represent ancient historical places in an abstract manner. From this developed the more abstract work of the last few years which forms the bulk of recent exhibitions. The use of paint and collage produces a vibrancy of colour and form which relates to the imagery and culture of the places which inspired the work.


Laurie Karnatz
myartspace id:lauriemerlee
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Jeff Barnett-Winsby
myartspace id:jbarnettwinsby
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