Artists Describing Their Art:
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....
Lisa Mee - I transform vistas, figures, abstractions and still lifes by using spatial differentiations. My color-saturated paintings resonate with immediate emotional impact to convey an opulent stained-glass effect on canvas of mosaic-like patterns and light. I gather patterns found in nature water currents, geological forms such as stones, shells, skies, forests, flowers. IaEURtmll see a sunset streaming with rich colors. Or, I will be struck by luscious floral arrangements in huge pots. Gorgeous color combinations form the beginnings of my work. I begin by mixing matte mediums with different paint colors. I never know what hues will emerge. That is my joy to see the unexpected unfold. Beautiful tints manifest that I never would have gotten out of a paint tube. I create very spontaneously. When the paints are laid out, I integrate them together. While a canvas is sopping wet, I quickly apply a sheet of paper to the surface and carefully press it down. With great care, I lift the paper off the surface. Or, Ill leave the paper on the canvas if I like the veil-like effect. Often, I sketch a composition on to the canvas, particularly tree scenes and landscapes since they are ...
Rasheed Amodu - RASHEED AMODU Artist Statement I started as a professional artist in 1985, before adding a Fine Arts degree, specializing in Painting, in 1991. One of my major aims is to wed creativity and artistic rendering in my artwork leading to diverse range of themes in my oeuvre. My graphic art background in Realism and my degree aided abstractions as well as impressionistic and expressionistic tendencies are often reflected in my artwork, which include my drawings, paintings, mixed media, and assemblages. I draw with pencil, charcoal, penink, and gouache on paper or embossed cards. My oil or acrylic paintings are usually on canvas. I do mixed media on paper, embossed card, and canvas. My assemblages are works produced with commonplace objects or personal items arranged and fixed on hardboard before being painted with oil or acrylic for aesthetic finesse. Some of the objects employed in my assemblages are beads, fabrics, combs, watches, straps, chains, cards, belts, spoons, forks, pens, ropes, lighters, shaving sticks, plugs, and bottle covers. The sources of the images I used in my works are from my society, literature on African art and foreign cultures as well as personal synthesis. I employed my artwork to visually document the ...
Stef Dorin - Photography has always been my passion and I find the profession satisfying and interesting. I have a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts and I have more than 15 years extensive experience as a freelance photographer as well as an artist. Many of my art works have been displayed in exhibitions in European countries as well as in the United States of America. ...
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). ...