Artists Describing Their Art:
David Mihaly - The first series here represents notable historical and pop culture figures, many with Ohio roots, presented in a contemporary style. Each portrait can be seen as a celebration of the individual depicted as well as a meditation on the difference between the bygone era of actual achievement in the arts versus todays culture of instant celebrity. Also included here is a series of textured jazz musician portraits. Each musician painting was made using a layered acrylic technique, evoking the smoky atmosphere of the clubs where the music was born....
Diane Oliver - I love to create art. It doesn't matter what kind of art as long as I am creating. I found a quote, the author is unknown to me but it goes, "I will not limit my art to one style, medium, or subject matter. I did not become an artist to be boxed up and packaged like cereal." What I present on this website is only acrylic paintings, but I like many forms of art and I know there are mediums out there that I have yet to try, but I will. I make art for the joy and hopefully some money to buy more art supplies. I hope that you will like my art as well. "Life is like art. It's all in how you look at it." ...
Inge Van Der Meulen - Somehow mankind needs the expression of art; art may provide hope to the ones who need it, it can embrace and support the heart of the ones that don't feel understood any other way, art can bring us passed the limit of words... Kunst kan een gevangen ziel bevrijden, het kan de limiet van woorden overschrijden... Your comments, statements etc. will always be interesting te me, and I hope that my expessions at least will bring you the joy of watching......
E. Tilly Strauss - I have been painting chickens for the last 20 years- beginning with the advertizing of our family's poultry farm business thru the eventual move of my studio into the defunct slaughterhouse. Somehow chickens fall easily from my brush, leaving painstaking impressions of my psyche and chronicling retrospective concerns of my community- such as the source of food, the use of land, the clarity of love, the isolation of individuals. With the inclusion of text from headlines to personal lists, stories emerge and dissolve through the process of the painting. Layering in the push and pull of darks and lights, the paintings gel into a narratives of our anxious era, a larger tale of the moods of soul and season. Because of the space and time I am afforded to work, much of my painting up to this has been intimate in dimension. I would like to enlarge the images to a much more confrontational scale. I recently moved out of the poultry slaughterhouse (because of ventilation needs) into a much larger barn. My goal is to further push the images so that they reflect the chicken as legend in our cultural mythology and account for my current truths. ...
Gopal Weling - Thoughts...the basic thing of any human being whether it's child in the arms of a mother or a old human sleeping on the bed waiting for the last minute....thoughts which can travel faster than anything....thoughts which leads to inventions...thoughts which can lead to destruction or thoughts which can bring a revolution... My paintings are presentation of spontaneity & my thoughts...thoughts flowing through the mind...through the life...through the experience & liveliness coming through spontaneity Colors....flows through the inner circles of mind...which reflects the dimensions of the thoughts that are traveling in a wavelength matching to the spontaneity of thoughts... ...Gopal Weling...
Michael Arnold - Art for me is a creative release, therefore I have no boundaries in my work. I work on what moves me spiritually, visually and creatively. I enjoy many different styles including impressionism, pop art, abstract expressionism, naturalism, post-impressionism, art deco and contemporary. All of these styles influence my work, but do not define my style. I primarily work in acrylics, but have produced works in pastels, graphite, charcoal colored pencils and ink. Artists Affiliations 2005 Leadership Citrus 2007 Visual Arts Award-Central Florida Community College Member of Citrus County Chronicle Editorial Board Member of the Citrus Art Center Florida State University Graduate...