Artists Describing Their Art:
Hal Studholme -
Joan Shannon - Most of my fine art work a present involves mixed media and computer manipulation. The subject areas which interest me continue to be mostly landscape based. I like to see some sort of balance and composition while light and colour are significant. I also take straightforward colour photographs!...
Paul Litherland - Artist Statement - Paul Litherland Paul Litherland is a visual artist/performer living in Montreal. Primarily a photographer and producer of multimedia performances, Litherland works with themes of vulnerability, masculinity and ideas pertaining to how communications take place. His relationship to technology, one of simultaneous attraction and rejection is a constant underlying theme in all of his photo-based work. In life, as in his art, Litherland is compelled to create situations of physical and psychological danger. Finding ways to go through fear without panicking is a game of self-control that he enjoys on an almost daily basis. This desire to live an intense experience, as seen through his participation in the extreme sports of skydiving, motorcycling, BASE jumping and boxing is translated directly into his art practice. Litherland pinpoints these difficult, complex and sometimes cumbersome situations as mediums for direct and honest communications. His most recent works include multimedia productions and photographic projects such as: Art Photography, a photographic project inspired by the information that accompanies an artwork when it is photographed badly. It was developed while in residence in Mexico City. Most recently, the projects BOX, and ASCII Fighter, are boxing performances created for Le Rencontre Internationale ...
Russell Hansen - Master Photographer Russell Lee Hansen has been a professional photographer since 1986. When he was still in grade school Russell developed his art skills using oils and watercolor. He has been Nebraska photographer of the year, In the PPofA Loan collection several times and honored with many Judges awards from print competition. Russell developed his skills in digital imageing and found it to be the perfect marriage between his photography and his art skills. His photography has been displayed at Epcot, PPofA's traveling loan collection, and general collection. "I want people who see my work to relate to it somehow. Hopefully my images can evoke a feeling rather it be calmness, sadness, power, or a rememberence of times gone by." Russell Lee Hansen...
Jennifer Anne Buckley - Jennifer Anne Buckley attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a B.F.A. in 2003. Though majoring in drawing and painting, a love grew for landscape photography. She uses dark colors in her paintings and photographs to depict a darker subject matter. Her art has been exhibited and in permanent collection throughout the United States since 1986. Her work has been shown at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Woodruff Art Center in Atlanta Georgia, at galleries in the Chicagoland area and the East Coast....