Artist Lynnmarie Szpak

My work is concerned with examining/extracting moments of my own life that has shaped my identity, i use them to create personal highlights of my experiences, i have always been fascinated with the question of our purpose and meaning as humans. I am interested in what shapes our identity and our personality which includes aspects of what has made me who iam, from my upbringing in the ardler multis in dundee to my current situation. These are the fundamental ideas behind my work, it is these questions that have lead me to where i am at the present. By examining my own existence and scrutinising over my past and my route into this world objectively i hoping to gain more of an insight into burning question that ever himan must wonder about what is the purpose of human life.

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Artist Eleanor Gilpatrick

I believe that my work is telling about the visual wonders the eye can see despite the chaos, corruption, distortion, and ugliness we confront in every-day life. I consider myself a colorist with a strong sense of composition and a unique point of view. I rely on color theory and my own instincts to tell me what to do. I remain a representational painter because I am infatuated with how things look to me. While my subjects cover a wide spectrum of images, the paintings are unified by my eye, as beholder: a unique fragment of reality or the viewer's stance I choose. My landscapes reflect where I have been and what excites me. My people are intent on living their lives, unaware of the viewer. There is movement, intensity, energy, and an edge that is my personal "take."

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Artist Christine Winquist

I am an artist working in the Chicago area, USA. In the search for completely original subject matter, I first form abstract sculptures out of cardboard and then paint them in oil on large canvases. I am degreed in Fine Art and Sociology and the paintings either have a social theme, are meditations on emptiness or are celebrations of form, color and shadow. It is my hope that these works will compliment any space, inspire quiet contemplation and are innovative.

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Photographer Michael Tarn

I graduated from Cleveland Colllege of Art and Design 1986 H N D - Photography. Moved to London and worked as a freelance assistant photographer for advertising, editorial, and fashion photographers (1986-1992) I left London and the world of commercial advertising photography in an attempt to preserve my sanity; I am not always sure I left soon enought. I began shooting for photographic llibraries, and my images are represented by Images and Ace Stock photo agencies. Finally my work has gone back to its roots - Fine Art Photography, producing work for my pleasure and the pleasure of, all those pleased by it . View Gallery

Artist Peter Mock

Painting and drawing are my primary concern. As I see it, jointly they are the most expressive of the visual arts when the artist gets it right and the work has distinctive content.

The physical nature of paint even if used flatly has a quality that is unique and imparts something that can only be experienced in real life with the painting. i.e. something is missing, lost or disengaged with reproductions.

Recognising both this unique physical quality and the distinctive content a painting can have give artists a way forward and a future for painting.

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Artist Marcela Escobar

My name is Marcela Escobar. I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on August 19, 1986 and moved to Houston TX when I was 4 years old and have been living here since.

I was not into art growing up, I would just draw during school to get through the day. I started to have problems with social anxiety during highschool which resulted in me dropping out when I was 16. My anxiety went untreated causing me to become house bound for 3 years. But it was during those 3 years that art entered my life.

I am self taught and like to experiment with different materials. My favorite artists are Remedios Varo and Francis Bacon.

I'm inspired by.....many things....sometimes it's boredom, sometimes it's love, sometimes it's music or nothing at all.

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Photographer Katy Giles

I'm an art student currently working towards a degree in Fine Art in Leeds. I like to work with photography and many other mediums and am interested in Outsider art inparticular. I like to use photography in experimental ways aswell as traditional, I love to draw and often use my photographs as a canvas on which to draw upon.
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Artist John Naccarato

Our actions define us. They shape and break us, causing us to move forward or backwards. It is the consequences of our actions that teaches us to live, to learn, to understand – sometimes with the most dire of results. Actions are the paintbrush with which we paint our portrait.

It is with this most elemental philosophy that I approach my work. Art is essentially a portrait of ourselves. The portrait may exist in the diffused pastels of a landscape, the quick awkward paint stroke of a figurative, or the damning silence of a still life.

the Monologues Series: 2007

The Monologue series was an exploration into how the interaction of space/time affects our ability to interpret the content and context of a work. Monologues was presented through three different mediums. (1) as printed media, (2) as an interactive internet based presentation on video, and (3) as a video based presentation.

The Monologue Series was first presented as part of a student group exhibit with Shereen Solimon , Emily Rose Michaud and myself at the Sharon Ramsey Gallery, Belgo Building March 8-12, 2007. As a print series, Monologues explored the singular and multiple relationship of the images. There were 27 individual works displayed in random order across the gallery wall. As a web-based interactive work, Monologues was directly connected to the Net, where visitors could interact with the work. As a video work, “Monologues: a meditation in 3 movements: was presented through a TV monitor.

'air '- readyMade installation Series: 2007

... about reclaiming the environmental landscape… searching for beauty in the industrial remnants that litter our horizons. About our perceptions and the understanding of the space that surrounds us, and that which we inhibit. About inter-conections. About looking up. About social and personal space. About our relationship to the industrial past and the digital future.

outSide the Box Series: 2006

My concerns grow each day as to how things are framed and presented, socially, politically, and personally.

With the advent of digital technology - from the instamatic Kodak moment to the youTube constructs - we are in constant flux, recording and viewing the reality around us in the moment - unaware to a great extent of its effects on our views and understanding. This phenomena is unlike any previous form of communication - which once offered time lags to allow for refection and integration.

This may not necessarily be a good or bad thing - just something which seems to have inherent within it, many a implication which we have not yet come to fully understand. How does one move outside the boxed effects of TV, computer screens and digital technology or from the instant social digital networking effects of cell phones, ipods and the internet? How does this all play out in relationship to our physical reality - from a 2D to a 3D illusionary construct? How does it frame our psychological, emotional and spiritual worldviews?

In this series, I began to explore seemingly random areas of pavement during my walks. Within this supposed randomness, I began to notice that a story – an event - was or had taken place - referenced by the imprints and articles left behind. More importantly, the story was still in progress.

These stories seemed to offer up a 3rd, 4th and perhaps even, a 5th reference point outside the box. They seem to capture a moment that is still in transition, allowing for the viewer to contemplate their outcome.

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Artist Ellen Gardner

'The voyage of disscovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes' Marcel Proust The experience of landscape has many layers,the elements,the geology ,the topography and the most important, the emotional. These layers are constantly in flux,each moment the experience is different. To traverse a landscape and record its essence-the diversity of that experience is endless.

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Artist Marek Wojdylo

If you are not going to believe in yourself, nobody will. I don't know who said that but it made me think about my art. I am currently a student on University of Wales in Aberystwyth. I am also a Polish, so I have to believe in me because as a student far away from home it is difficult to find someone to do it for me:)

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Artist Anna Orliac

Anna is interested in a woman’s emotional relationship to her own body, incompatibility of dreams ,desires and ideals. Subconscious roots of the latter are complex and provide a fertile soil for experiment and creation. Nature is also a great source of inspiration of shapes and movements. There is a kind of quest for the meaningful essence in simple compositions and at the same time a real pleasure in refining and detailing the technique. In a way, each piece has two levels of understanding: the graphic one and the relevance of the idea.
Her understanding of hopes and inner-conflicts concerning the body and our relation to nature was enlightened by anthropological essays about primitive myths, hence the importance of subconscious symbols. Overall her work describes the tough struggle of being human but also celebrates life and the amazing natural world. Her main techniques are drawing, painting, photography and textile sculpture, and often combined. Anna has studied for 3 years at Pau school of Art( South West France) and for 2 years at Aix-en-Provence school of Art (South East France).

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Digital Artist Domen Lomberga

Domen Lombergar, young slovenian digital creator and artist, produces most of his artworks in only two dimensions. Putting aside some exceptions his computer screen represents his canvas and his tablet represents his brush. Yet not focusing on the used media Domen stays loyal to his expression ... the surrealistic motives often shock the viewer with their rawness and directness Uand emerge a wish to further explore the work and its message. Domen's refined sense for detail in combination with a high technical expertise lifts his creation on an even higher level. His style can most easily be defined as expressionistic, hyperrealistic or surrealistic. The quality of his art can also be described with numerous positive critiques on both slovenian and foreign websites and by various professional critics. His digital artworks have appeared in many prestigious Internet galleries.

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Artist Cecil Herring

Cecil Herring is a painter, sculptor, jeweler, digital artist living in central Florida, USA. Her works have been shown across the US, in Germany and China.
Collections:
Memorial Health University Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, Savannah, GA 10 paintings
Orlando Modern Art Collection,
First Lady Betty Ford collection, Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Kodak National Innovator Awards Collection, Rochester, N.Y.
Lane Bryant, Florida
Titusville City Hall, Titusville, FL
Saint Charles Cathedral, 7 bronze altar pieces
University of Florida Medical Center Library, Gainesville, Welded Steel Sculpture, Gainesville Dental Society commission
First Presbyterian Church of Orlando
Americatel Corp., Miami, prints, Corporate Office, commission
Phase 2 Publishing, Los Angeles,
Ikon Corp., Orlando, Corporate
United Way of Central Florida, Orlando, Lobby Mural
United Way of Central Florida, Lobby Plaque and portraits,commission
Paulucci Enterprises, Sanford, FL Sculpture
ReMax Realty, Indialantic, FL Watercolors
Goldfield Corp, Melbourne, Bronze Wall Hanging, commission
6 x 12 foot bronze and copper wall sculpture, Dr. Duane Seig, Indialantic, FL
Crealde Sculpture Garden, Winter Park, FL 7' "Man with 3 Arms,"bronze sculpture
Private collectors include Dr. Harold Reinhartz, Dr. and Mrs. David Rosner, Dr. and Mrs. Pat Unger, Mr. and Mrs. Denny Braatz, Mr. and Mrs. John Shultheis, Dr. Michael Branton, Dr. and Mrs. Steven Goll, Terry Hummel, Mr. and Mrs. John Hicks, Col. and Mrs. Chuck Berry

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Artist Melissa Fiorentino

I am Melissa Fiorentino a 23 year old acrylic painter and pencil artist. I was born in upstate New York and came to Ocala, Florida in 1990. I have been a pencil artist for over 8 years and began professionally drawing about 6 years ago. Painting came later, I have been painting for 5 years and professionally painting for 4 years. I studied at Central Florida Community College,. where I was taught how to use my drawing skills and imply them into my painting. Subject matter is vital to me. I love to incorporate many different ideas using figures, lines, an array of color and images that reflect life in it's personal subjective state. I paint a representational, abstract and a portrait all into one. It is a way to allow a way for there to be a reality and dream or nightmare enclosed onto one image. There is also a truth inside what we deem as unreal, a truth that can make us happy, focused or simply an escape…that is what I want to bring to the surface. If I can get away with creating a creation that allows me to apply mixed media, a figure or an interesting focal point, use a variety of colors and my lines than I feel I have totally succeeded with a painting. I always feel the need to challenge myself with every piece of artwork I do. It is a way for me to track my growth as an artist and as a person. Art is the escape from the reality of everyday life, a chance to leave this chaotic world for a while to a peaceful place and then come back. I know that is what I feel when I see a painting or anything that moves me. I just hope to find that people can see something in my art that moves them, that makes them get goosebumps or makes them feel the need to stop every time they walk by……..

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Artist Simon Smith

I am not trying to say something with my work; the work is in search of itself. It is a response to things both felt and seen, informed by my reading across a range of disciplines: art history, archaeology, philosophy of language, poetry and literature. I am on a continuous mission to find the truth and meaning underlying things. Every encounter and piece of knowledge gained is sifted through my value system to see if it has any potential to help define or redefine my path in life. This search finds expression in my work. When making work I trust my intuition, and encourage chance. I set out deliberately to disrupt established patterns, to take myself by surprise. I listen attentively, and try to recognise and respond to what is given. Much of my work has its origins in simple line drawings that I make on either tissue paper, the pages of receipt books, or on paper from old books that I have prepared with white emulsion. I photocopy and collage with the results, and these develop into paintings. I build up the fragments that I use in blocks, exploring the connection with language, syntax and grammar. I am interested in ‘the word’ and all its connotations, and conversely with all those things that cannot be said. I am fascinated by the fundamental problems of picture-making, and am conscious that that is what I do. I literally make my pictures: out of fragments of drawings, of layers of paint, tissue and pen. The process of making work is important to me, but I do not think of myself as a process painter. It is during the process of making that meaning emerges. I am interested in making art which discovers or expresses its own meaning, but this meaning is something I then have to respond to. I don’t make the work for its own sake: I want it to teach me how to live.


east – west artists culture club Group exhibition, Light Gallery, London 5 – 10 December 2006

liberte d’expression Barclays Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London 2 – 8 November 2006

Candid Arts Trust, Islington 9 – 12 November 2006

suffolk showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 8 July – 5 August 2006

FAB ART 05 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 25 Nov - 2 December 2005

'the scent of magnolia’ The Wall Gallery Ely Cambridgeshire 30 October – 24 November 2005

solo show

a fine line Euroart Gallery, Tottenham, London 9 - 20 November 2004

on the wall Olympia Grand Hall, London 29 September - 3 October 2004

'approaching silence' The Wall Gallery Ely Cambridgeshire 1 - 27 February 2004
solo show

FAB ART 03 Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University 28 Nov - 5 December 2003
silver prize winner

Eastern Open 2003 King's Lynn March - May 2003

Eastern Open 2002 King's Lynn March - May 2002

Visual Haiku Peterborough Art House 8 June - 7 July 2001

Eastern Open 2001 King's Lynn March - May 2001

Kettle's Yard Open Cambridge 1 - 30 July 2000

Eastern Open 2000 King's Lynn March - May 2000

Cheltenham Open Drawing 1999

Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels
Karl Hofer Gallery, Berlin
European Illustration Collection, Humberside University

Eastern Open 1999 King's Lynn March - May 1999

Drawings for All '96 Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Stamford Arts Centre; Chelmsford Art Gallery; King of Hearts, Norwich; De Montfort University, Lincoln

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Artist Frances Kiernan

My practice examines space in relation to containment and its effect on landscape and the people who inhabit it. The latest work - a series of rice terrace fields in southwest China - continues this fascinating exploration through photography. My other area of interest concerns aspects of sensorial awareness which I interpret through the material quality of print .

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Artist Jane Kellahan

Jane's visually rich and stimulating works are based on a tension between abstraction and representation, relying on an atmospheric ambiguity for much of their strength. While reducing elements to bare essentials, she employs consideration of scale, organic textures and constrained tonal variety to achieve stunning works that are imbued with light and potency. Jane has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, The Netherlands, and England. In 2006 Jane was selected for Denis Robinson’s latest book, “New Zealand’s Favourite Artists”. In December 2005 Jane was invited to exhibit at the Florence Biennale in Italy. Predominately self-taught, in 2000 Jane studied at Central St Martins and Camberwell College of Arts, London, where she had her work selected by the Royal Academy of Arts.

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Artist Jan Karpisek

I'm a Czech art graduate (FaVU Brno, Prof. Mainer, 2005) creating original paintings dedicated to time, spirituality, consciousness, problem of subject vs. object and other themes which appear in my mind. I paint in a various styles both abstract and naivist.

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Artist Eldi Dundee

Eldi Dundee: Born May 1970 in Brooklyn, raised in Long Island, now lives thousands of miles away, in London. "Eldi", which apparently means "fire" in archaic Icelandic, is self-taught, apart from her uncle's influence-- Nick Drakides, a successful commercial artist in 70's-80's Manhattan-- who not only taught her how to draw and paint, he gave her all his surplus art supplies. Education and biography: Her first and only solo exhibit to date was at the Railway pub in Clapham, SW London in 1996, after which, she did a bit more travelling before moving back to the US for a few years, leaving her work in storage until quite recently ("...getting nibbled by mice and shat on by bats in the attic of a friend's summer home in Normandy!"). Lately, rather than producing big bulky pieces that would get in the way of a nomadic lifestyle, Eldi took to digital photography "to lighten and simplify [her] load". Now that she has finally chosen to plant roots in one place (having had a child with a London-based Englishman) Eldi is looking forward to working on a much larger scale again. Eldi's education has been a fairly unconventional one. "My parents were trying to give me a safe and solid suburban middle class upbringing and I rebelled against it with all my might according to whatever reasons I held dear at the time." She attended Massapequa High School, from 1983 to '86, when she quit, aged 16, but returned again for a brief spell in '87 before dropping out completely and getting her GED (High School Equivelency Diploma) through Queen's College the following year (1988: the year her high school class would have been graduating anyway). She then attended Nassau Community College in Garden City, Long Island, where she studied Liberal Arts (Humanities) for an "Associate in the Arts" Degree (AA). However, at that point she was keen to go directly on to her BA, and had all her credits from her first year transferred at year 2 towards a degree in Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, Maine. She never completed her BA: "it cost $25k USD per year at the time (it now costs over $45k!!) and my father was going through a very difficult time financially. I dropped out, one year short of getting my BA. A modelling agency in Manhattan offered me a contract, so I went back to NY and did that instead. I had become quite disillusioned with my degree programme anyway, so it was the perfect excuse to branch out again." Future shows: Eldi will begin another degree (one she is determined to finish this time!) in Fine Art Skills and Practices at Central St Martins/Byam Shaw. She has been attending a short painting course at Camberwell, and will be showing in the summer with the rest of her class in her teacher's Depford studio...

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Artist Andrei Rabodzeenko

Recently I made a very sharp turn in my painting style towards the traditional language of the so-called “old masters”. This language that I am trying to use was developed through centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to our times. As one might imagine, any change of painting style cannot be accomplished by pushing a button on the remote. This is a real and ongoing challenge for me. It has involved a period of serious study, drawing and painting of the human figure, brushing up on my knowledge of anatomy, for a start. Even the greatest artists continued improving their mastery throughout life, and learning from their predecessors, so I am really excited about the new challenge of being their imaginary apprentice.
The world we live in today, with all its technology and megalopolises, makes us assume that humanity has entered a completely new stage of development. In many cases it's true. But I would like to focus more on the task of unveiling and understanding those aspects of our being where we aren't so different from people that lived centuries before and from those that might come after us. I started thinking of innovation in art. I realized that my innovation shouldn't reach the point where I began speaking a language that nobody understands -- or that people are forced to pretend that they understand. Thinking of art today, viewers seem to be floating in a confusing vacuum between a language we have lost and one we have not yet gained. I also realized that I can't jump out of my contemporary skin; I'm contemporary no matter what I do. So much of my energy was wasted on the simple act of staying contemporary, and why is it so important to my viewers? Is that the core question? I decided to try to make art that is more relevant to other people; my perception will be embedded in it anyway.

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Artist Rhiannon Archard

I was brought up on the beautiful south coast of Wales, where the sublime sense of freedom felt when by the sea has inspired me almost to point of obsession. My work is a continuous attempt to capture and communicate this feeling, and preserve it for others to see and feel. The need to preserve it stems from a recent realization of the diminishing state of the British coastline. An environment that is constantly scarred by human condition, to a point beyond repair. I have begun to highlight these concerns by incorporating objects found on the shore into the scene or mixed into the paint. This adds another dimension to the painting but also gives the piece a temporality that is reflective of the subject.

I take on a very direct, physical approach to painting. I often use my hands instead of brushes and move freely around the canvas. My paintings are always done spontaneously; I guide and encourage the paints to interact with each other naturally. They often have sculptural quality with the addition of found objects, or natural materials mixed in with the paint; or painting on a prepared ground of plaster. These textual, sculptural paintings are reminiscent of the work of Anslem Kiefer, with the spontaneity and physicality of Jackson Pollock. I combine this with my own experience and personality to produce a unique result.

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Artist Ellen Groth Reddie

I create cartoon style pop art for limited editions only. Every picture is limited to 100 high quality prints on stretched canvas. I can also do commission work please feel free to contact me if you are interested in something special.

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Artist Galina Lukshina

No more art for walls, leave them empty. No church needed between one and heaven, no show for public. We should live rather a life of creators than pieces of art. Picture is nothing. Ability to feel and to live with has sense only.

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Artist Julia Everett

Julia graduated in Fine Art at Brighton University and has recently successfully exhibited in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and New York. Many of her paintings are in private collections and in 2004 one of her paintings was purchased by the Art for Hospitals Commission for display at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, London. Later that year Julia won first prize in the Originate Competition showcased at Art on the Walls London, and was short listed for the Fusion Competition shown at The Artist's & Illustrators Expo at the Business Design Centre in July 2005 and the International Open Image in July 2006. Last September Julia collaborated with Italian artist Massimo Bartolini on a painting exhibited in 'Core' a group show at the Union Works on the South Bank.

Julia was recently short listed for the Barclays Bank Liberte d'Expression painting prize at their global headquarters in Canary Wharf. Julia’s paintings are expressive colourful abstracts with an organic landscape feel. They are concerned with the personal reflective aspects of natural beauty as realised in water, landscape, light and pure colour. Each painting is an emotional response to a sensory experience and an attempt to evoke a fleeting visual reference to something that is essentially ethereal.

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Illustrator Yulia Brodskaya

I'm an artist and illustrator originally from Russia, I gained a Masters degree in the UK and currently live here. As an illustrator I design theatre posters for the Abbey Theatre; the rights to use 5 of my recent illustrations were purchased by Orange™ UK to be used across their communication products. As an artist: 7 of my artworks are in several Russian corporate and private collections, in 2005 I was commited to design interior decorations for the biggest Moscow Advertising Agency A.R.M.I.

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