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Artists Describing Their Art:

Sarah Longlands - I trained at Bristol and Manchester, where I gained a BA (hons) and completed my post-graduate studies at University College London (Slade School of Art). In the words of one of my collectors: "Ostensibly realistic, her work goes beyond this to explore the nature of reality, and of time and space. The artworks are refined, emphasizing her knowledge and meticulousness in the chosen medium. But her art is not just representational: it also has a rare imaginative flair. The objects are changed into something which is beyond the original and which creates a kind of parallel ideal artistic reality. If this sounds a little like surrealism, then maybe that is not so far from the truth, but the work is subtler than that." Having previously exhibited in many exhibitions in both the United Kingdom and France, Gold Fish Galleries in Sarasota, Florida then in the Lincoln Centre in New York and done many commissions for people both in London, the provinces but also in The United States, I finished a commission from Cunard Line in 2003, through the art consultants "Onderneming & Kunst" to do six oil paintings for the penthouses on board the new "Queen Mary 2", launched in ...

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). ...

Arwen Delyon - Imagine meeting the entire Universe for the first time. In your excitement you rush to greet it in all its wonder. You wish to know it, this living, breathing organism. From a distance it is a swirl of mysterious light and shadow. Upon closer examination, galaxies and stars appear. But there's more to this Universe than what lies on the surface. You take pause, and as you look closer, you realize this Universe contains something even more beautiful: Life. In fact, life is everywhere, in every seemingly quiet corner. You want to peek inside every corner, every hiding place, meet every creature, every person. Each with thier own personality and their own colors, dancing in rhythm to the movement of the Universe. you imagine what might be going on in a certain place, and who or what you might find there. Soon, you cannot stop wondering, nor do you posess the desire to do so. Imagining the inner workings of the Universe and all life within becomes as natural as simply breathing. This is life as I know it. I can see things in no other way, and my wish is simply to share this Universe I see with ...