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Giovanni Faccioli

February 3, 2014, 4:22 am
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Giovanni Faccioli was born on
September 5, 1942 in Colognola ai Colli (Verona).
Since he was young he attended Professor Dante Broglio’school, who
was a painter and engraver in Verona.
From Dante Broglio Giovanni Faccioli learned the drawing technique and
the passion for figurative arts. In 1997 he started with his first exhibitions
thanks to Bertrand Kass Gallery and with it Giovanni Faccioli still cooperates.


Giovanni Faccioli, é nato a Colognola ai Colli(Verona) il 5 Settembre 1942
Fin da giovanissimo ha frequentato la scuola del
Prof.Dante Broglio, pittore e incisore veronese, acquisendo
da questo, le tecniche e la passione per l'arte figurativa.
Ha cominciato la sua carriera espositiva nel 1997, con la Galleria Bertrand Kass,
con la quale collabora tuttora

Giovanni Faccioli wurde am 05. September 1942 in
Colognola ai Colli (Verona) geboren.
Jung besuchte er die Schule von Professor Dante Broglio, einem Maler
und Graveur. Von ihm lehrte Giovanni Faccioli die Technik
und die Liebe zur bildenden Künst.
Giovanni Faccioli beginnt im Jahr 1997 seine Ausstellunslaufbahn Dank
der Galerie Bertrand Kass, mit welcher er noch heute eng zusammenarbeitet.








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Deborah DeWit

February 3, 2014, 5:05 am
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Deborah DeWit


Deborah DeWit was born March 28th, 1956 in Portland, Oregon to naturalized Americans. Her mother, father and infant brother arrived by ship in 1950 in San Pedro, California, via South America from Holland.

One side of her father's family were etchers, illustrators and painters stretching back several generations in The Hague and grain handlers on the other.

On her mother's side of the family were Dutch plantation owners and British traders in the Dutch East Indies, also for several generations. Her father's career in the grain business took her and her family to live in many parts of the U.S. as well as around the world. This varied and somewhat exotic background had a strong influence on Deborah's professional yearnings.

Although entering Cornell University as an Agronomy major, the artistic pull of her father's blood and the adventurous streak in her mother's, combined to lead her away from University and set her on a journey to discover her own interests and talents. At the age of fifteen she found that the camera suited her quest and in her twenties set about discovering the world with young eyes recording her travels with image and word. Her photographs received immediate praise and she began the life of a working artist in 1976.

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Vera Osedovskaya - Вера Оседовская

February 3, 2014, 7:04 am
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Vera Osedovskaya  - Вера Оседовская

Belorussian Academy of Arts
Minsk



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Sniege Navickaite

February 3, 2014, 7:34 am
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Sniege Navickaite


Diplômée des Beaux Arts en Lituanie, Sniege trouve son inspiration dans sa passion pour les tissus, la mode, les femmes. Après s'être intéressée au travail du verre et du textile, elle se consacre à la peinture. Elle peint des personnages vêtus de robes fantastiques aux airs étranges et évoquant des défilés de haute couture.

Ses créations, issues de son imaginaire, sont au croisement de la mode et de la féerie. Elle s'est inventée un univers de personnages longilignes, femmes jeunes ou vieilles, aux couleurs chatoyantes et aux expressions parfois inquiétantes, toujours communicatives...












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Stanislav Zvolsky

February 3, 2014, 2:01 pm
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Stanislav Zvolsky


"All my artworks are created in awe and with love. Women's images occupy an important place in my paintings, because women are the most beautiful creatures on this planet :), and the universe has a feminine nature too"


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Jeannie Vodden

February 3, 2014, 3:58 pm
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Jeannie Vodden lives in the foothills of the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Her charming cottage studio is located on the Jackson Creek right off Highway 88 in Jackson, Ca. This is where she dedicates her time to expressing her love and passion for art in painting, drawing, teaching and continuing study of art and philosophy.

Jeannie, whose media is most often watercolor, is a versatile painter of portraits, still life, floral, landscape and fantasy.



Artist Statement:

Forms and textures:
I love painting the complex textures, forms and patterns found in nature. The scales of a reptile, the random branches of a nest, the tousled hair of a young child, a dried leaf, are some of my favorites. It’s fun to compare and contrast man-made textures. A few I’ve attempted are: a crocheted scarf, the floral print in the folds of a woman’s dress, a glass vase. And when I add beautiful, natural light it changes the whole look and feel of each surface and pattern, overlaying complexity and changing form.

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Teaching and Demoing:
Through numerous watercolor demonstrations, classes and workshops, I have been able to share my work and experience with others: artist’s groups, schools, county and state fairs, community organizations.. and, it is always a delight for me, and, I hope, for those I teach as well.
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Education:
I have been very fortunate to have studied with Sacramento artist, Gary Pruner, whose marvelous teaching grounded me in my craft, and whose passion for art inspired me. It is largely due to Gary’s encouragement that I am a full time painter and teacher. I am thankful for his generosity and support.











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Ellen C Brown

February 5, 2014, 2:24 am
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Ellen Brown’s love of fine art began in high school, where an inspiring teacher opened her eyes to still life painting. She continued her art education with weekend studies at the Corcoran Art Museum in Washington D.C., and a BFA from Ohio State University.

Having established a successful career in design and illustration, Ellen continued with easel painting, regularly exhibiting on the East Coast. On moving to Los Angeles, she pursued the study of figurative and large-scale works with Mario Rueda, a local billboard and portrait painter. With an increasing interest in portraiture, she later traveled to Baltimore to study at the renowned Schuler School of Art which emphasizes classical painting techniques, as well as mastery of traditional techniques such as grinding pigments, and making and using Maroger’s medium. Since that time, she has studied classical realism in Los Angeles, with Mark Westermoe, Sergio Sanchez, Rick Morris, and Ryan Wurmser, among others.

Ellen Brown is a regular exhibitor and award winner at both local and national competitions. She has been in Oil Painter’s of America’s (2009-2011) Western Regional Show and the (2010, 2012) National Shows; the 97th and 98th Gold Medal Exhibitions of the California Art Club at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; and the American Women Artists Master Signature and Signature Member Show at Galerie Gabrie in Pasadena in December 2008. She won 2nd place in the October 2010 competition on Fine Art Views, an Art Blog by Canvoo, an online magazine. She is an artist member of the California Art Club and Oil Painter's of America.











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Ford Smith

February 5, 2014, 3:45 am
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Ford Smith



"As the son of an Air Force serviceman stationed in a small Japanese village, Ford’s artistic sensibilities began to take root under the nurturing eye of an elderly Japanese painter when he was just twelve. After graduating from the University of Mississippi with a BFA in painting, Ford moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he realized a natural talent for photography. During the late 70’s and 80’s Ford established his reputation as Atlanta’s premier fashion and commercial photographer.

The early 90’s, however, brought a compelling urge to return to painting. He began painting again whenever his schedule permitted, which wasn’t often enough to satisfy his creative mind. So in 2000, as he approached his 50th birthday, Ford decided that he would no longer deny his passion for painting - despite his success and stature as the city’s top photographer. Believing his return to painting deserved 100% dedication, Ford sold his photography business and never took another professional photograph. He then set off to travel the world and seek inspiration.

After exploring different painting styles and themes, he found tremendous fulfillment creating contemporary landscapes conjured from the stunning horizons witnessed during his travels. Emboldened by critics and collector’s enthusiasm, he narrowed his focus there and pushed the creative boundaries of landscapes to arrive at the distinctive and radiant style for which he is known.

He never paints from a photograph - nor does he do studies. Instead, he enjoys the freedom and creative abandon to see where an impulse might lead. The intensity of working over a single piece to finish it makes the process very physical. Well known for his mosaics, splashes and seemingly endless ways of abstracting reflections, he lets layers of paint - acrylics on canvas - drip and flow, just letting things happen. "I was taught in college to let the paint find the imagery," he recalls. Ford then goes in with skilled precision to create the light, details and natural elements that define his fascinating style of painting.

Ford's sense of nature is not a Romantic's wild and angry universe. To the contrary, his distinctive paintings reflect a palpable optimism and vibrant confidence. The easy precision, subtlety and repose of his paintings may well derive from that Asian aesthetic he developed in his early years.

Now he’s arrived at what he believes to be his true destiny. “I’m grateful every day that I get to paint for a living,” Smith says, “I feel like the luckiest guy on earth, and I think that energy and optimism is reflected in my work.” Ford resides in Roswell, Georgia with his wife, Cristi, along with their two dogs and two cats. Their adored, 19 year old daughter, Hilary, also lives in Atlanta and is a talented, burgeoning filmmaker. Their son, Brian (a rising professional at AIG), also lives in Atlanta with his wife, Adrienne - and gave birth to their first grandchild, Nora 9 months ago!"


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Andrey Meschanov Viktorovich - Andrew Meschanov - АНДРЕЙ МЕЩАНОВ

February 5, 2014, 4:59 am
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Andrey Meschanov Viktorovich -  Andrew Meschanov  -  АНДРЕЙ МЕЩАНОВ

Naive symbolism


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Lydia Kozmina - Лидии Козьминой

February 5, 2014, 6:35 am
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Lydia Kozmina - Лидии Козьминой

City: Vladivostok
Date of Birth: 11.04.1966
 Degree in Art:

1987: Vladivostok Art School.
1993: Far East Institute of Arts on a class of painting at professor V.N.Doronin.

Awards and Titles:

The participant of the International female association of artists " Flowers of the world " (Russia, Japan, China, South Korea, Australia).
A member of the Union of artists of Russia since 2002.
Additional information:

Works are in galleries and private collections in Russia, Japan, the USA, South Korea, China, Australia.























Lydia Kozmina - Лидии Козьминой

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Galina Poloz - Галины Полоз

February 5, 2014, 7:48 am
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Galina Poloz




Graduated from the Art College in Chisinau. Repin

Graduated from the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (Tallinn).




Member of the Moscow Union of Artists, a member of the International Association "Union of Designers." Permanent participant exposure and traveling exhibitions gallery "ART WAY." Her works are in private collections in Russia, the CIS countries, as well as in Australia, USA, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Israel, Romania, the Philippines, Italy, Canada, Turkey. Lives and works in Moscow.












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Masha Shubina - Маша Шубина

February 5, 2014, 1:45 pm
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Masha Shubina - Маша Шубина



Masha Shubina. Born 1979 at USSR.
Works & Iives Kiev, Ukraine

Education
1992 - 1996 Art School. Kiev, Ukraine
1997 - 2003 National Ukraine Academy of Art & Architecture. Kiev.
2002 Moscow Architecture & Art Institute. Moscow. Russia



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Carolyn Epperly

February 5, 2014, 2:52 pm
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Carolyn Epperly



ARTIST’S STATEMENT
After working in several media, I finally discovered water
color. The splendid colors and the transparency allowed me to succeed in my goal of depicting dramatic light
on an object. Although my favorite subjects are figures, I am fascinated by the influence of liht on color
and impact. In fact, as I work, I am actually painting the light and its effect rather than the subject itself.

BIOGRAPHY
Education:
BA, University of South Carolina















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Paul Dmoch

February 5, 2014, 3:33 pm
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Paul Dmoch


I was born in Warsaw in 1958. Even as a child, I remember being obsessed with light. On sleepless nights in my room, I would watch the movement of car lights reflecting from the wall to the ceiling and back. Years later, I was astonished when I saw Rembrand's use of light for the first time. I remarked, ''This is the LIGHT''. At the time, I also believed in fairytales, in the magical worlds I had heard about. I loved to visualise them in my mind. Later on, I understood that all those worlds I created in my mind simply did not exist. I was very disappointed. But then, when I was 12, one of my teachers helped me to discover my passion for architecture. While studying architecture, I realised that I had found what I had been looking for. As architect, I thought I would be able to create a fantastic world with structure, where light could play on forms. Unfortunately, I soon discovered that there were many problems that had nothing to do with architecture, problems related to law, money, foolishness of investors, and so on. I became disillusioned with my career.I had never thought of becoming an artist, but I soon realised that painting would offer me the same opportunities to create my own world of light and to share my love to architecture.Today, painting interiors is my greatest challenge. It is my chance to share with the entire world the 'genius locci' of the places created by human genius. I am not interested in natural subjects, those not been made by human ''hands''. That's why I paint interiors, because there I can find man's glorious mind. I especially like to paint cathedrals. I can feel all the mystery of ''another space'', where we sometimes come, but not spend our lifetime. Inside these structures we feel small and not so important as we sometime think we are. We can see that incredible, enormous structure, filled with endless lights pouring through a stained-glass window. Ecclesiastical interiors give us a chance to contemplate our deepest thoughts. There we think no mundane thoughts - we leave them outside. There is a real border between the ''sacred'' and ''profane''. The harmony of light and darkness, showing all the beauty of details and space, make us calm and deeply happy. For me, light and shadow is a metaphor for the everlasting battle between these two basic elements of human existence. In the contrast between light and darkness lies the secret of every human beginning.

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Ce qui dans un sujet d'architecture m'attire, n'est pas le style architectural en question, mais l'impression de la lumière qu'il donne et comment il révèle les volumes et les courbes. J'aime découvrir (par l'aquarelle) l'âme d'un intérieur architectural. J'y pressens, entre la lumière et l'obscur, avec beaucoup de certitude, le secret de toute départ, de toute naissance.
Pour moi, la lumière en contraste avec l'obscurité, met en évidence le combat perpétuel entre ces deux eléments de base de l'existence humaine.


















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Layachi Hamidouche

February 6, 2014, 3:24 am
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Layachi Hamidouche

Layachi HAMIDOUCHE is born in 1947 in ANNABA (Algeria).

Education
Final exam in 1965 and superior mathematics (1965-1966). Mathematics professor since October 1966. 1968-1969: enrollment at the paintings'lessons to THE UNIVERSAL SCHOOL by correspondence of Paris (Boulevard Exelmans) Several exhibitions in Annaba stake out its pictorial course. August 1996: Homage of the office for the culture of the city of Annaba. June 2004 : Selected by the internal Commission of the Biennial Internationale of the Contemporary art (Florence , Italiy) to participate at 5th edition (December 2005)June 2006: Homage of The Direction's Culture of the city of Annaba.From 1999 he incorporates into his work computers and explores the extraordinary promise of grouping the digital painting associated with traditional techniques. Exhibitions on the Web since June 2000 .His style : "A style that combines synthetic figurative symbolism and surrealism."


















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Adel Megdiche

February 6, 2014, 4:46 am
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Adel Megdiche  born in Sfax, in 1949. Ggraduated from the Tunis School of Fine Arts. He started exhibiting with "the Groupe of Seventy for the Renewal of Tunisian Paiting." 
















Adel Megdiche


La couleur travaillée dans ses plus infimes nuances procure un jeu d’éclat subtil, velouté et tactile. Chaque touche de couleurs s’inscrit dans le feu d’un arrangement mathématique où elle contribue à donner toute son intensité. Cette lumière diffuse délicate l’ensemble de la toile où chacune des couleurs répond à son autre dans et par un dialogue qui se tisse telle une trame savamment réfléchie ne laissant rien au hasard.

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Eugene Titov - Evgeny Titov - Евгений Титов

February 6, 2014, 6:19 am
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Eugene Titov - Titov Evgeny - Евгений Титов



Evgeny Titov was born February 4, 1969 in the city of Ryazan.
1984-1988. - Ryazan Art School (diploma with honors).
1994-1999. - St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (formerly Imperial).

Knowledge and skills acquired in the walls of the Imperial Academy of Arts and largest museums in the world, helped create Evgeny Titov own unique artistic style, organically combines the tradition of high art of ancient Egypt, Greece, Russia, the Renaissance with the trends of the world of contemporary art.



























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Pablo Villicaña Lara

February 6, 2014, 1:08 pm
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Pablo Villicaña Lara


"I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts from St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA and Master of Fine Arts from College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. After creating with oils for several years as well as ceramics, pastel and textiles, discovering the quality of light and clarity of colors that could be achieved with watercolors changed the course of my artistic career and have exclusively worked with them for the past 22 years.
I have received numerous awards including Best of Show for the Society of Western Artists, many first, second, third and honorable mention awards with the California Watercolor Association, Included in the American Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society, Northwest Watercolor Society as well as other Societies and the International Guild of Realism.
I was raised in both Mexican and American cultures, most of my images reflect my love for Mexican/Native culture"

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Tetiana Cherevan - ТЕТЯНА ЧЕРЕВАНЬ

February 7, 2014, 1:44 am
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Tetiana Cherevan - ТЕТЯНА ЧЕРЕВАНЬ





Women and flowers in Tanya’s work are delicate and gentle creatures. Refined lines flow and dance captivating viewers by fascinating beauty. The images of young ladies are harmoniously floriated. Their bodies turn into ornamentation and ornamentation – into bodies. Gold adds daintiness and loftiness to her heroines. Tatiana encourages to look at woman with admiration by subtly depicting her individuality and rich inner world.




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Natalia Ivanova

February 7, 2014, 2:08 am
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"I was born on January 28, 1958, in the small Belarusian town of Orsha, which is situated on the banks of the Dnieper River, nestled among scenic forests. As far back as I can recall, I was always drawing pictures and from my early childhood I knew that I would be an artist. While in school I attended studio art classes, happily learning the rudiments of classical drawing and painting. Upon graduation, I enrolled in Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute's Department of Graphic Art. Those were the most beautiful years of engaging studies, student friendships, and new creative explorations. There I learned decorative applied arts (tapestry, embroidery) and sculpture as well as graphic art. Following that, I began working with various materials and in various fields of art, but over time painting became the most important and major foundation of my creative output. I have been a member of the Designers' Union of Belarus since 2003 participating in numerous group and one-woman art shows, both at home and abroad. My works can be found in the collections of the National Museum of History and Culture of Belarus in Minsk, the National Museum-Archive of History and Culture in Polotsk, and the Town Museum of Payerne, Switzerland, as well as in private collections in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, and the United States."



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