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.
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
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'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.
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.
'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.
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:)
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.
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.
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.
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……..
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. 
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 .
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.
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.
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...
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. 
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ryosuke Kondoh is a Japanese artist based in London. His current practice is primarily concerned with a stark contrast derived from such as conflict, collision and dissonance.
I am currently in my final few weeks of my fine art degree st Southampton Solent University. I have been making work which has looked at the concept of the cyborg and evolved into considoring how technology/machine affects us as humans in modern life and the future. 