Mixed Media Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Susanta Das - Susanta Das, born in 1975 in Kolkata, is a self-taught artist whose creative journey is deeply shaped by literature, poetry, and prolonged engagement with the art world rather than formal artistic training. He holds a postgraduate degree in Bengali Language and Literature from the University of Calcutta and is also an accomplished poet, a literary foundation that strongly informs his visual practice. Over the years, Das has curated numerous exhibitions across India, working closely with artists of national repute, an experience that has significantly contributed to his artistic sensibility and can be regarded as an informal yet profound education. His work translates the lyrical language of poetry into visual form, with nature serving as his primary subject, rendered within a distinctive, often two-dimensional compositional space. His palette undergoes continual transformation, reflecting shifting moods and perceptions of the natural world. Drawing upon techniques associated with the Bengal School of Art, Das employs subtle colour gradations, along with nuanced plays of light and shadow, to evoke harmony and balance. By eliminating narrative context and focusing solely on the immediacy of the present moment, his works convey a sense of peace and serenity, while simultaneously revealing a deeply personal and individualistic ...

Jim Mroczkowski - MY ART WORK AND ITS MEANINGTypically, when it comes to reading an artistaEURtms statement or a curatoraEURtms remarks on an artist which is related to an exhibition in a gallery setting, the general public sometimes discovers that the accompanying statement is filled with artspeak, an obscure language that confounds people more than it clarifies how to understand the work behind the artistaEURtms intentions. Such statements are often laden with historically antecedent references, obscure and foreign philosophical posturing preferably 19th century French or German, fuliginous wording, and tenebrous and obfuscating expression. The terms Zeitgeist, transcendent, and dialogic are used a lot and loaded with excessively verbose ideas and phrasing in order to sound cerebrally profound. These last sentences are a perfect example of aEURoeartspeakaEUR. In truth, itaEURtms all just convoluted fluff. I prefer to keep it much simpler.My mixed media drawings and paintings result from interpreting randomly selected pieces of text torn from old, discarded books. Many years ago I acquired a large number of used, hard-covered books for a special art project. Afterwards, I began using these books and their words as a source of inspiration for my drawings and paintings. I still do...

Steve Doan - A Precarious Balance For The Abstract Painter aEURoeDoanaEURtms abstract paintings a precarious balance of abrupt explosions of uncontainable gestural energy and soothing, stabilizing structure, which seem to transcend the painterly marks that constitute it. The best abstract painting manages the doubleness with deceptive ease: this simultaneous sense of equilibrium and disequilibriumaEUR"not just aEUR~dynamic equilibriumaEURtm, as Kandinsky called it, but a double vision in which the picture seems a sum of disequilibrated parts that do not add up to a whole and an organically equilibrated whole that is more than the sum of any of its details. Indeed, it rises above then like a mirage of higher unity. DoanaEURtms recent abstractions achieve this complex magic. Whether mimetic of abstract, it is the undercurrent of abstract, seemingly arbitrary vividness-willing intensityaEUR"that is DoanaEURtms basic subject matter.aEUR Andrew Dunning - Blue Sky Creative aEURoeNA(c) au Texas, il a grandi en Afrique et en Arizona. Son travail est trA"s imprA(c)gnA(c) des lumiA"res et des couleurs vives de ces rA(c)gions ensoleillA(c)es. Il vit depuis plusieurs annA(c)es A" Bruxelles, aprA"s avoir parcouru l'Europe. Ces diffA(c)rentes terres d'accueil ont influencA(c) des style de cr...

Sam Thorp - My art is a way of communicating the resolving of the conflicts that occurs in all our lives. Whether it is a confrontation with another, struggle against the world, or a clash against ourselves; the figurative imagery represents the conflict as it is worked out on paper or canvas. When my work is going well I feel a sense of power and rhythm from the action of drawing, of moving through space with minimal effort and obstruction. No distraction just on to the next move. Much like mastering Tai Chi or some other martial art. I am constantly searching for the right pose to convey the right body language. I want a certain amount of challenge to the forms, negative space and contour. I try to use colors that have vibrancy. The most important element for me is gesture it is the movement of the line I enjoy most. ...

Sonja Tellison - More than simple faerie tales, myths can teach, heal, act as morality guides, or beacons of inspiration along a sometimes murky spiritual path. The myths of a culture are its soul. They are whats left behind when the political border lines have changed and the people themselves are gone. Myth helps us to understand our own nature as well as that of the world around us. Joseph Campbell, noted scholar and one of the foremost authorities on mythology states, Myth must be kept alive. The people who can do this are artists . . . . The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world. At a time when we, as a society, rely more on science and technology for answers to our various quandries, than a collective, traditional knowledge, refocusing on mythologization is more important then ever. Are you anxious Here, take a new pill Are kids more violent Must be the video games The adage Theres nothing new under the sun. is itself certainly not a new concept. If we delve deep enough, the answers are already existent, like diamonds in the dark. When we forget the stories of our ancestors, we forget our own past and...

Armineh Bakhtanians - I hold degrees in commercial art, design, and interior design from UCLA, Rio Hondo College and Mount. San Antonio college. Although my profession has been in the field of inerior design for many years, creating works of art in watercolor has been my passion. The world is full of colors, shapes, designs, and beauty, if we choose to see it. It keeps on moving to the rhythms of many sorts. As one observer of nature,and creator of art and beauty I am commited to telling stories in forms of shapes and images that have come to me through my herritage of centuries to the PRESENT MOMENT. My father was a great inspiration for me as a child, and led me to the wonderous world of art, and as an artist I am committed to the growth and change in my work just as it is innate in nature. Armineh...

Louise Parenteau - ARTISTIC STATEMENT I studied fine arts at the University Of QuA(c)bec In MontrA(c)al (1986-1991). I was involved in various artistic activities in which I took a strong stand against injustice, poverty, and social exclusion. My work took shape using different methods of research and observation. I articulated my artistic approach inspired by existential human sufferings. I created portraits of individuals with unusual physical traits, expressions, deformities, attitudes... These characters inspired me to use colour in contrasts and splashes. My aim was to express the life animating the characters by an internal light. For my installations, I used a physical space to transpose socio-political situations and dramatic events. With the barest resources, my intention was to stimulate the interest of the viewer. My material supplies: Acrylic, rubbish, wood, metal, rust, polystyrene panels, personal objects, used clothing, etc. In 1995, I realized that I had reached limits with my artistic approach. I decided to have a period of questioning with the aim of going further in my research in terms of intention and expression. This process enabled me to explore, to experiment with different materials and to reposition myself using sculpture as my main form of expression. Ever...

Tim Guider - Tims latest Protest Mural. To donate, search for - Tim Guider Artist Gofundme - to help fund more of Our Original Heroes Murals. Tim has collaborated with Aboriginal artist Frank Wright on this mural, and they want to create more of these murals in Sydney and in other cities and towns across Australia. Born with a natural talent for art, at age 22 years Tim decided to pursue a career as an artist. He studied at the National Art School, Sydney and received an Artists Development Grant from the Australia Council. He now has 45 years of professional artistic development to bring to his work. Since the mid 1980s his murals, canvas paintings and sculpture have attracted an enormous amount of television and press coverage both nationally and globally. A few image examples of Tims work are included in this portfolio which clearly show the wide range of materials and techniques this artist has mastered. He includes sculpture effects in murals. He has painted his sculptures and even uses internal illumination as well as mechanical movement in sculpture. Much of Tims artwork has a theme of multicultural Australia and our Aboriginal heritage. I have known Tim for over 30 years. I was ...

Esmoreit Koetsier - Sculpture for me has been redefined by where life has taken me. When I started in my early twenties, I had no idea that my simple flat pieces of steel were going to lead to mixed-materials and colorful fluid shapes. With each piece I challenge myself and push the envelope just a little more. I look outside of the traditional materials and discover new techniques. What has stayed true is that my work is an experiment with shapes, forms, objects, colors, arrangements, and materials. IAC/a,!a,,C/m inspired by my surroundings and journeys as well as artists working with different medias. ...

Lynda Stevens - I see my creative path as being one with no absolute destination AC/a,!aEURoe the process of creation is as important to me as the result. In my work I often like to explore the tensions between chaos and form AC/a,!aEURoe and how chaos can break up stagnant forms into something more dynamic, or how form can bring beauty out of what was inchoate. Thus, sources of inspiration might include city encroaching on country and vice-versa, the dynamism of volcanoes, oceanic tides and so on. However, as the creative process for me mainly comes about via a process of psychic automatism, so that it is guided by an ebb and flow of subconscious impressions, both inner and outer landscapes tend to be superimposed upon each other in any given composition. My pieces may be layered, worked and reworked again, so that an inner alchemical process runs through as a theme in all my works. This means that each piece is further altered and refined into something very different from what it might have been in the first place. I have sometimes used materials that might otherwise be perceived as rubbish AC/a,!aEURoe glass crystals from broken carsbuildings, gypsum, melted polystyrene and so on. More ...

Martin Montez - Well...I'm self taught. I let my native american and native earthling experiences influence my work. I don't believe there are mistakes in art. Anything created by a person is insight into however crazy, skewed or thoughtful a persons being is. Embrace it all. I believe if we as humans could learn to appreciate other humans artwork, even if we don't like it, we could learn to appreciate each other AS humans and not; black, white, mexican, iranian, scott etc...our differences are only our clothes and experiences. We were made by God. If we're good enough for him, we ought to be good enough for each other. This earth has two things it'll be known for when it's all over. Art, like music and visual arts....and the fact we kill each other instead of help each other. Let's focus more on ART!...