Artists Describing Their Art:
Jeanie Merila - Art surrounds my life like a blanket, filling my senses with joy and giving me a place to weep with color. Sometimes art is a mirror of my life, but other times it is what remains after life filters through my vision. My art is about color and light. The way light bounces off buildings in the afternoon sun, shadows flickering like transforming clouds. The colors vibrate next to each other, the patterns of leaves and bricks create harmony. The wavering reflections in windows, puddles and canals continue to fascinate me - sky and water become one. I have painted flowers over and over for 20 years, yet the pure hues continue to blend and dance in my watercolors like newborns. The silence of the ocean as I swim below the surface inspires me. The waves above leave twisting shadows on the progressing, swirling sand. The rainbow fish darting among the coral remind me of insects hovering around thriving buds as I gaze into the mystery of the deep azure, waiting for the turtle, manta or shark. The breath of my soul is often revealed through the mystical depths of the ocean or the burst of color on a fragrant bloom. ...
Marina Toshich - Marina Toshich Born in Sarajevo, lives in Tel Aviv -Isreal. Graduated from "Jan Mateiko" Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. Has her artworks at numerous private collections, as well as in Haifa Museum of Modern Arts, Israeli Museum in Jerusalemand the collection of Faber-Castell in Germany. ...
Nicole Peņa - In many of my paintings I depict entranced individuals who are seduced into a musical and psychic celebration. A song lives within the space of my canvas enrapturing participants to sway to its vibrations and experience its sensual essence. In one painting a frenzied conga compels hips to gyrate and eyes to close while in another a gentle psalm inspires as it soothes the soul. In these works, rhythm liberates the body and frees the spirit by compelling the participants to combine sensual movements with soulful meditations....
Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...
Nicola Lupoli - Hello and Welcome! My name is Nicola Lupoli, and I am an Artist from Boston Ma. I have been an Artist all my life having grown up in a family of Artists and Art lovers. Primarily self taught, my greatest influences are my late Artist brother Domenic and studying the paintings and styles of the Old Masters. My primary interest is in the area of portraiture. For me nothing captures the essence of the spirit like a portrait; it can be very challenging to execute but very rewarding when it finally comes together. I love the way a portrait captures a moment in the life of the subject and perhaps makes you wonder about them, who they are or were and what that person was about. I hope that when I produce a portrait it is more than just a static image but causes the observer to wonder about the subject and feel something of their spirit and emotion. The medium I prefer to work in is oil, I love the richness and the qualities that it produces I think it is particularly well suited to the kind of work that I do. Best Wishes, Nicola ...
Shaukat Mulla - i percive a patntig in terms of a poem.a poem presents the total picture of harmony.a poem-picture you read every line saperatly,but the meaning remains one with one another a painting like a poem ought to be a picture harmony--a harmony between the forms,space colours,lines texture and visual experience .the abstract content of painting my quest is for rediscovery of lost harmony a grammer of colours which effectively illuminates my attitude to everyday life my skill comes from everyday events,vibrant or tender brush stokes emerge straight from the heart,everything around is a source of inspiration....
Angel Alejandro - Hola Soy Angel Alejandro, natural de la Bella Isla del Encanto, Puerto Rico. Mi trabajo es el producto de un constante viaje de descubrimiento interior. Mi espiritu se manifiesta atraves de temas de corte espiritual y de naturaleza. Mi medio preferido es el acrilico aunque me encanta tambien las instalaciones y la fotografia digital. Hasta hace poco tiempo mantenia mi trabajo para mi disfrute personal y el de mis amigos. Al presente mis obras han participado en varias exposiciones con muy buena aceptacion del publico. Espero que a ustedes les guste tambien. Hasta pronto amigos. ...
Ashley Hancock - "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary," said Pablo Picasso. The canvas is my journal in which I paint my thoughts on life and my environment, ideas, emotions, and observation of others and myself. I am not interested in recreating what the human eye can see just by "looking." I strive to bring forth both my subconscious and conscious emotions and my perceptions in a visual form, primarily through oil painting. ...
Roger Farr - Born in Much Wenlock Shropshire, England 1957.One of 14. My family life and upbringing was in the countryside. Always having a love for wildlife and animals, Archibald Thorburn,Fenwick Landsdowne,Raymond Harris Ching,David Shepherd,Rembrant and Mary Cassat were great influences in the early stages and latter stages of my work, this was complimented with having a grandfather who was an artist and a father who was a gamekeeper. Much of my work was self taught up to the age of 18, this was when my first sale of original paintings took place in Salt Spring Island, Canada.Bought by a collector of wildlife paintings who had noticed my work through a member of my family who lives there. In 1985 I started to work for Shropshire Trust For Nature Conservation,providing illustrations of wildlife subjects for schools and colleges. My work started to be recognised and other opportunities arose including other wildlife and community based projects. Whilst visiting Shropshire Conservation Group one day, David Attenborough commented that I should develop this skill further. So in 1993 after a four year course I obtained a BA(Hons) in Visual Communication, specialising in Illustration at Wolverhampton University. On graduating ...
Carmella Dauria - I am a self-taught artist and have been painting in acrylics over 12 years. Some of my favorite subjects are Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe. I enjoy painting family and friends especially when a particular photo just grabs my eye, I make the decision right then and there that I must paint it. I really enjoy it and when they are finished and are no longer in my art room on my easel I actually miss them, and when I go to visit people who now have them on their walls in beautiful frames, it makes me so proud and happy to see them once again since they had been a part of me. ...
Richard Wynne - Richard is an acclaimed International Artist recently returned to the USA. Richard has lived in many Countries. "The last being Thailland. He started his art studies at a very young age at the John Herron Art Institute In Indianapolis, Indiana and then later at the Art Institute of Chicago Richard has lived in many countries, painting, and playing music. Mr Wynne has exhibited in Thailand, the United States, Spain, Argentina, Kuwait, Korea, Ihdia, and other Countries. Sometimes perhaps I say too much about my self but maybe it helps people understand what motivates my work. For your information I've lived in 8 different countries and have been around the world 5 times. I speak a few different languages, some very well; others not so well. By the way I am not a workaholic as I don't consider what I do work. I enjoy life too much. I forgot to say I am also a weight lifter as lifting weights is my Zen. When I am troubled the concentration it takes to lift makes me calm. I guess my page will probably be a little different from what people expect. Sorry I have not been uploading new work as ...