Artists Describing Their Art:
Beatrice Van Winden - Artist statement For the last twelve years, Beatrice Van Winden, has lived on Vancouver Island, and has always had an interest in photography and the Arts, for as far back as she can remember the arts. Beatrice studied art and photography throughout her school years, and has continued to do so, on the island: - Traditional photography with Mitch Stringer and Susan Mulgreine-Professional photographers & teachers at various local colleges of photography. - Darkroom processing, & B/W photography with Professional photographer Bradford Stevenson & teacher at the Victoria college of photography. - Digital darkroom with professional photographer Andrew Ciesielski. - She studied art with Wendy Welsh, John Drake, Xane St-Francis at the Vancouver College of art, Camosun . - She studied Art Marketing with Alice Cormier, a well-known Vancouver Art Marketing Consultant. Beatrice combined her knowledge of traditional photography and art to create unique photos. The website Arts of Canada has described her photos as "Photos with a digital edge". Her photos are often thought of as beautiful paintings. She is known for her ability to see and capture colors with her traditional camera in a unique way. She is a member of the: - She is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art. -...
Corrie Ancone - Artist statement : "I don't care for the certainty of what's in front of my lens, but the creativity, the fantasy, the invention, that can gush from a thought before or thereafter. Between the certain and the uncertain there is a possible space, as in dreams and fables. Heavily influenced by mythology, nature and the techniques and working styles of the early European Dadaists, Impressionists and Baroque artists, my creativity stems from my lust for finding and exploring sympathies between the human body, the landscape and its textures. Oscillating between transparency and opacity, colours and images collide in my work, creating new visual and emotional images, often painterly and somewhat surreal, which affect perceptions of natural reality. This is sometimes described as 'synthetic realism'." Corrie Ancone ...
Ellen Rosenberg - aEURoeWhen you approach something to photograph, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then donaEURtmt leave until you have captured its essence.aEUR Minor White Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being. It is an expression of the human spirit and an integral part of all beings. My creative passion is expressed through the art of photography, allowing for a vocabulary of imagery that is my own. These photographs arise out of my own spirituality, a practice of mindfullness and being fully awake to the present moment. As my journey has taken me deeper into the study of Dharma I have recognized that the camera becomes an extension of my being. I bring the camera to my eyes and aEURoefeelaEUR the image that appears in front of me with a heightened awareness. An opening to the world precisely as it is, offering up all the richness and beauty that is present within this moment of time. I seek to create an intimacy with my photographs, allowing for the viewer to feel the art form, not as a two dimensional visual archive of a moment, but to...
Rosalinda Alejos - While taking an Art Appreciation course at a local community college, I realized that making art was what I wanted to do the rest of my life. Especially since in Austin I had the pleasure of observing an artists' black silohuette within a circular outline on the corner of a wall endlessly laughing and repeating "So you want to be an Artist!" Yes I do want to be an artist and I will continue to do so even though a great deal of my work maintains elements of "coincidences". ...
Alexandre Nodopaka - 1. To portray ideas in a fresh style, but most important I was Born for Art, I Live for Art and will die for Art. 2. Abstraction in art is the greatest spiritual meditation & an ideal cerebral masturbation. 3. Photography killed representational art some 150 years ago. The computer killed abstract art. Today, thousands abstracts can be created in a day, they may be worth a thousand words but not a penny! 1. Pour peindre des idees dans un style frais, mais plus important je suis ne pour l'Art, je vis pour l'art et mourrai pour l'art. 2. L'abstraction dans l'art est la plus grande meditation spirituelle & une masturbation cerebrale ideale. 3. La photographie a tue l'art figuratif il y a quelques 150 annees et l'ordinateur a tue l'art abstrait. Aujourd'hui, des milliers d'art abstrait peuvent etre crees dans un jour... ils peuvent valoir mille mots mais pas un centime! 1. Para retratar las ideas en un estilo fresco, pero mas importantes de que era nacido para Art, vivo para Art y morire por Art. 2. El caracter abstracto en el ...