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Carole Bressan

February 18, 2014, 5:26 am
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Carole Bressan


"Carole Bressan est la créatrice d’un univers poétique, imaginaire et fantaisiste. Sa technique particulière sédimente et associe les questions de durée et d’espace et ses toiles sont comme des carnets de voyages lointains, qui composeraient un atlas d’explorations picturales dans lequel chacun serait libre de puiser sa propre destination et sa propre histoire. Ses toiles sont à son image, riches en couleurs, parcourues de mouvements, pleines de sincérité et de fantaisie, généreuses, libres et décidées. "
Marie-Anne Du Boullay (La Hêtraie biennale 2012)

Artiste peintre plasticienne, née en France en 1973.
(Formation: Arts Plastiques Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne)
La peinture de Carole Bressan est une sorte de peinture objet, hors du temps, sans âge, "hors d'époque".
Peindre pour penser la vie et la contraster au jour le jour. Il y a mille états dans la démarche de cette artiste, mille âmes, autant de voies à suivre que de regards à découvrir.
La toile est à voir, à sentir, comme une boîte à plaisirs, à emporter, à garder en souvenir.
La peinture s'organise autour de calligraphies diverses, de lettrines, des mystères de sphères suspendues, en discussion avec de fragiles fils qui s'étirent et se posent.
"Au gré de mes envies, je me laisse aller à des compositions colorées où le rouge domine souvent."
Et il est vrai que dans l'expression de ces thèmes bien souvent le rouge ouvre la voie de choix chromatiques flamboyants tempérés par des blancs lumineux.La matière elle, dense et docile à la fois, alimente le regard et cultive ses joyaux... des papiers marouflés, des papiers de culte, des fils cousus. Quant à l'encre de Chine, elle caresse et rassure. La marge, la frise, s'imposent de leur côté en retenant l'attention et en donnant le rythme dans de nombreuses compositions. Et s'il n'était d'ailleurs histoire que de ponctuation... de rythmes, de tonalités?
"La matière m'anime, ses strates conversant, ses couches se confondant comme autant d'époques."
Détérioration, grattage, retraits, effets d'usure, élaboration de filtres participent à une esthétique à la recherche de sa propre mémoire.
Ici la rigueur d'un schéma se conjugue à la fièvre d'une imagerie gourmande. Et, les saveurs de la désinvolture et celles de multiples sagesses féminines sont à retenir.

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Brahim Achir

February 18, 2014, 7:49 am
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Brahim Achir




Curriculum di Brahim Achir

nasce in Algeria nel gen. 1956.
Nel 1977 studia presso l'acc. navale di Livorno,che lascerà per trasferirsi in Olanda,
dedicandosi alla pittura.
Nel 1979 torna a Roma per proseguire la sua ricerca pittorica,esponendo in diverse
mostre colletive e personali.



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Patrick Vogel

February 18, 2014, 10:51 am
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Patrick Vogel



"La Figuration d’aujourd’hui demande toujours une grande maîtrise, mais aussi de la créativité pour ne pas épouser l’académisme. Toutes ses sculptures, techniques mixtes, associent le marbre, le bois, la pierre et le métal. Les marbres sont des marbres rares, très spécifiques, très colorés, comme le marbre de Sarrancolin. Les bois sont des bois usés, patinés, scarifiés par le temps. Le métal est rouillé. Sculpteur sur pierre, sculpteur sur bois, sculpteur sur le marbre comme Opéra Fantastico, sculpteur, tout simplement."



Né le 05-04-1953 à Troyes dans l'Aube. Issu des métiers d'art, autodidacte face à la création énigmatique et plurielle de son époque. Il habite un ancien moulin du Lot, au milieu d'une nature attachante.

Passionné très jeune par les Arts Premiers, admiratif des artistes contemporains pour leur aventure créative, leur savoir voir, il aime la sculpture sans contraintes, sans dogmes, sans frontières, dans une perpétuelle remise en question.

C'est un art tripal, primal et tribal d'Europe qu'il suggère avec humanité et poésie, qui jette vers l'espérance, de secrètes passerelles.

Il nourrit son évolution de pluralité, de mixité et d'hybridations.

« Il faut toujours tout réinventer pour mieux témoigner de ce qui existe » .
A travers l'abstraction, l'installation ou même la figuration, c'est une recherche ethnique improbable, incantatoire, de scarification qu'il entreprend. Influences croisées, affinités, émotions s'y mêlent inconsciemment, sans se figer dans la trouvaille d'une vie. Touche à tout, il n'a nul besoin de se situer, il conserve une curiosité intemporelle, une capacité à l'étonnement et à l'émerveillement. Transcendance des différentes cultures, son univers se recompose sans cesse. Il aime ériger en mythologie l'objet réel, quotidien et prosaïque.

«Je sculpte, je rêve, je sculpte, je vis, je sculpte, je doute, je sculpte, je pense, je sculpte, je crée, je sculpte, la vie est belle et c'est tant mieux ».

Son art est fait pour conjurer la terreur, pour survivre à la cruauté spirituelle environnante. Il semble naître tout à la fois de tâtonnements inspirés et de fulgurantes certitudes.

De nombreuses œuvres dans des collections privées, en France et à l'étranger.

Acquisitions publiques: Communes de Montauban, Pomarède, Bressuire, Julienne, St Martial de Nabirat, Conseil Général du Tarn et Garonne.

De nombreuses distinctions, prix, articles de presse, passages TV, sont venus récompenser cet artiste.









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February 18, 2014, 12:04 pm
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Matias Quetglas

February 19, 2014, 1:16 am
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Matias Quetglas

Matias Quetglas es un pintor figurativo perteneciente al grupo de realistas españoles nacidos en la postguerra. Nació en Ciudadela el 1946. Hizo su primera exposición a los dieciocho años en su ciudad de origen. Luego se traslada a Madrid donde ingresa en la Escuela de Bellas Artes.


Pintura
En los años setenta empieza a exponer en diferentes ciudades españolas y europeas, como Madrid, Oviedo, París y Estocolmo. Y en los ochenta inicia una serie de viajes a Italia que le sirven para conocer la pintura clásica y profundizar en las técnicas pictóricas. En sus primeras obras, el estilo de Quetglas se relaciona con diferentes corrientes del realismo como el hiperrealismo, el realismo mágico y el surrealismo. En ese inicio sus composiciones están inspiradas en la figura humana que empieza a adquirir una presencia importante, que posteriormente será uno de los temas más recurrentes. Entre estas obras podemos destacar L’actor amateur (1975) y Berenar amb ensaimada (1976).

En la década de los ochenta inicia una serie de autorretratos de un pintor y una modelo. En las últimas obras de esta etapa es frecuente que aparezca el mismo pintor y la misma modelo que parece ser su mujer, Maria Antonia. De esta manera, el pintor enseña su mundo, su vida dentro del estudio y sus diferentes experiencias plásticas.

La realidad inmediata se substituye por paisajes y modelos imaginarios donde el entorno del artista ya no es el protagonista. Empieza a aparecer la figura desnuda de la mujer con el sentido de representar la harmonía y la comprensión, para él es una transposición de humanismo, de enseñar la naturaleza humana en sentido espiritual.

El perfil de estas figuras cogen un canon griego, pues recuerdan a la tradición clásica. Otro tema dentro de este periodo son las parejas entrelazadas, como las obras Gran escena passional (1984) y Conversa amorosa (1985). Así, la figura se utiliza para poder plasmar las relaciones humanas como el odio, el amor y la pasión. Al final de los ochenta, siguiendo fiel a este estilo, son frecuentes las parejas en la playa y bañistas, que también aparecen en los noventa. Es entonces, cuando transforma la realidad en una visión sugestiva rodeada de una atmósfera metafísica llena de alusiones y símbolos de su entorno.

Escultura
Una etapa muy importante para su carrera es cuando su gran interés por el cuerpo humano le conduce a la escultura. Su estilo es conocido por la exageración del volumen de los cuerpos y figuras de grandes dimensiones, define el contorno y el volumen con gran libertad, lo que provoca que a veces las figuras adquieran algunas desproporciones. Utiliza colores muy característicos como el verde y el amarillo entre los años 1995 y 2005. Durante este periodo reside en Italia, donde acaba influido por la pintura renacentista y barroca.

Una escultura muy destacada es el bronze Tors Mític (1985) y Gran cap de freixe (1994) siguiendo los cánones clásicos. Su última escultura monumental que hizo en Menorca es Talia que se encuentra en el exterior del Teatro Principal de Mahón. Representa una figura femenina, con dos máscaras de teatro en la mano, una representa la tragedia y la otra la comedia.

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Quetglas también cultiva el grabado, tiene obras como Perfil rojo y Abrazo.
“Som fidel a una aroma que no sé descriure, i si en sabés no ho faria, i que pretenc que brolli de les meves obres. Fixar aquest olor és la meva tasca, i d’aquí les diferents maneres de fer el meu treball”. Així defineix Matias Quetglas la seva obra.






















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Salman Khoshroo

February 19, 2014, 1:47 am
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Salman Khoshroo



Salman Khoshroo was born in 1983 in Tehran. He spent his early schooling years in New York City and in 2004 received his bachelor’s degree in Digital Arts from the Australian National University. Upon completing his studies he moved back to Iran, where he currently lives and works.

Although Salman has lived in two worlds, his artistic inspiration derives from Iran and therefor has chosen to make it his permanent home. He first started exploring his motherland through the lens of a camera and has held three photography exhibitions. In retrospect perhaps most of his photographs were the work of a suppressed painter. The artist still relies heavily on photographs for his painting practice.

Salman is a self-taught painter who enjoys the progressive experience of this art form. It has been four years since he first picked up the brush and his main influences are Lucian Freud and Claude Monet among others.

Before turning to painting, the artist photographed mostly abstract and minimalistic spaces in the streets of Tehran, but following 2009 photography in the streets was not feasible. As his artistic practice was forced more and more indoors, he adapted painting. Soon he grew intrigued and obsessed with this discipline and painted portraits of many of the people he knew.

Now in 2014 he holds his first exhibition displaying 10 of his most recent portraits.

By Kamran Khademi for the Exhibition

I have known Salman Khoshroo’s work for almost two years. He has continuously impressed us as an artist struggling for discovery, awareness and consciousness. He is constantly working in that path, getting craftier and finding new insights.

Salman’s work reveals a tumultuous tension between what he sees and what there is. He ambitiously goes farther in creating effects that reveal a flow of intimate sensation of his subject, live and breathing!

He is of course a natural draftsman. But his work reaches deeper than what can be seen.He captures the throbbing soul of his subject with translucent layers of colors and bold strokes of brush and knife. Translucent colors, rough knife strokes to let the refraction of light seduce us to see the invisible, to see the undepictable! He has a vision through clouds of conscious and revelations.

The ethereal dream he has when he is hi with the fever, in that special moment sparks in an arc to the canvas a stream of conscious and leaves in its wake hallucination and daydreaming. His work requires acute awareness and concentration to watch and explore, an interaction rather than observation.

Strikingly intense and agonizingly honest, original and powerful, the urgency of his feelings and sensations is contagious. His enchanted work is going to get validated more and more as he finds exposure.


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Chris Anthem

February 19, 2014, 3:57 am
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Chris Anthem, Lebanon 2013

Chris Anthem is a painter presently based in Beirut Lebanon. Born in the UK in 1974. His paintings can be found in the collections of their excellencies the Al-Thani Family of Qatar and Byblos Bank, Lebanon, plus private collections in the USA, Hungary & the UK. He is represented by Fadi Mogabgab Art Contemporain in Lebanon, and Millennium in the UK. Recent projects include collaboration with the fashion house Basil Soda on their fall 2014 collection.














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Wolfgang Herzig

February 19, 2014, 4:59 am
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Wolfgang Herzig



Wolfgang Herzig is an Austrian visual artist who was born in 1941. Wolfgang Herzig has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Essl Museum (Sammlung Essl).

Born -24.10.1941
1955-1959 - School for arts and Crafts Graz
1959-1965 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , Mastershool Prof Sergius Pauser
1965 - Masterschool -award
1965  - Diploma Award
1968 - Co-founder of "Wirklchkeiten"
1968 -  membership in the "Wiener Secession "
1970  - Theodor Korner-foundation award
1981 -  City of Vienna-award for paintry
1993 -  member of the "Kunstlersonderbund" in Berlin
1997-2005 -  professor at the University of applied Art, Vienna








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Marie Pierre Kuhn

February 19, 2014, 6:13 am
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Marie Pierre Kuhn




Nus ou habillés, les personnages occupent toujours la première place dans les tableaux de
Marie-Pierre Kuhn, particulièrement les personnages féminins. L’hommage à la femme revêt
divers aspects mais est une constante indéniable de ses créations.

Souvent la présence d’un détail insolite dans la représentation de ces personnages nous fait
sentir que derrière la mise en scène ludique se cache un autre univers, plus déroutant, à peine
suggéré, et que le peintre nous laisse libre d’ imaginer. Ces éléments inattendus nous renvoient
à l’évidence à un monde onirique et symbolique.
Mais même s’ils suggèrent une autre réalité cachée derrière le quotidien, ces tableaux ne sont
jamais inquiétants ou pessimistes. L’utilisation gaie et tonique de la couleur nous laisse au
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Patricia Hervé

February 19, 2014, 8:43 am
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Patricia Hervé



"Patricia aime travailler le corps férsonnages féminins. Mais ces femmes, présentes par leur corps voluptueux dérobent au spectateur leur visage, leur regard. Puis elles ont levé la tête. Souriantes ou graves, boudeuses, moqueuses, elles se laissent deviner, mais restent les yeux baissés, leur regard tourné vers elles-mêmes. Patricia utilise différentes techniques (huile/ pastel…) qu’elle n’hésite pas à mélanger.

Son parcours : née en 1960 à Rennes, Patricia commence par exercer la profession d’enseignante. Puis elle suit des cours de psychologie à l’université de Rennes. Pendant quatre années, elle prend des cours de dessin avec pour thème de prédilection le corps. Puis elle commence à exposer à Rennes et ses alentours"







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Sylvie du Plessis

February 19, 2014, 9:21 am
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Sylvie du Plessis


"Sylvie du Plessis est née à Lyon en 1963. Son père est peintre, elle grandit dans une athmosphère de couleurs et d'esthétisme.

L'oeil, le regard et l'observatrion se développent et s'affirment chez elle au fil des années. A l'age de 10 ans, elle suit déjà les cours de dessin de la Ville de Lyon.

Après son bac elle rentre aux beaux arts de Tours, où elle passe trois années en arts plastiques. Ses premières expériences sont en peinture. Elle travaille le Dessin , particulièrement l'étude du nu et des attitudes du corps humain.

Son aisance dans l'appréciation des volumes l'amène à une formation de sculpture modelage dans les ateliers des beaux arts de Toulon. Elle travaille avec un céramiste et découvre le Raku. Elle expose ses peintures entre 1986 et 1996, puis ses sculptures à partir de 2000.

Elle réalise les trophées pour le festival internationnal du film maritime depuis 2006, et en 2009 le trophée du fair play pour la solitaire du Figaro. Elle a exposé pour le salon de la marine à paris en 2005 et 2007, et à la foire d'art contemporain de Paris en 2009."







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Jacques Pentel

February 19, 2014, 12:01 pm
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Jacques Pentel


Né en 1952

Vit et travaille à Arras.

Ancien membre d’Art-Présent

Peintre autodidacte.

Expose dans la région Nord depuis 1981.

Plusieurs participations au Salon d’automne à Paris.



















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David Renshaw

February 20, 2014, 4:07 am
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"Deep down I always knew what I wanted to do for a living and in my school years I remember my father teaching me some basic elements of drawing and I dreamed of one day becoming an artist.

Being only really interested in art I left school and studied Graphic Design, after which I started work at a local art gallery as a picture framer.

I continued to paint alongside my job, mainly developing techniques and ideas and in 2005 decided it was time to follow my dreams and dedicate myself to painting full time.

I always try to make my work feel atmospheric, and I like to pay particular attention to sky and cloud formations as I consider this element of my work to be extremely important to the mood of the finished painting, whether it be a dramatic sunset or a misty moonlit night.

In 2010 I attended my first solo exhibitions and feel really privileged that the work has been so well received by collectors. This gives me great encouragement to continue to develop my work in the future."

David Renshaw


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Patricia Boyd

February 20, 2014, 4:35 am
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Patricia Boyd



Patricia Boyd took a trip to Africa that transformed her life. While there she saw how the people lived in joy without the material-ness of American society. She noticed that they used every bit of anything they had. Nothing goes to waste. She listened to their stories, and when she returned home, she knew she had to share what she experienced through her art, the way she knew she could express these inspirations the best.

She grew up creative in a creative family. Her grandfather built houses, and he always added his own artistic twists. She didn’t realize till she was older how significant that was in a world where houses tend to be cookie cutter boxes repeated over and over. Her grandfather inspired her to make everything special, unique and beautiful. Patricia loved to make jewelry, but he parents convinced her that she couldn’t make a living making jewelry, so when someone said, “You’re a nice person, why don’t you be a nurse,” that’s what she did, but her creative passion was always there.


Her trip to Africa refreshed her creative urges and inspired her to use that burning talent she has to create gourds that would reflect the hearts of the people she saw there. She saw that in Africa, people don’t through anything away. There were no trash trucks or big dumps and recycling centers. The people just used and reused everything. For Patricia, this translated to her using the parts of gourds that other gourd artists throw away. She developed an amazing way to create vibrant, passionate faces using egg gourds and paper clay. The faces silently express the thoughts of the person they represent almost telepathically. Her vibrant use of color and texture bring their stories to life.


Of her future, she’d love to have her work in the Smithsonian and the Getty, and she deserves to be there. But more importantly to her, she would love for the people of Africa to see her work and how she brings their stories to the world.

I have included below pictures of some of the gourds she has already sold. Seeing the gourds in this work is a challenge since these lovely sculptures take on a life of their own.


“I see gourds like individual fingerprints. As earth’s original vessels, each grows in its own unique form.
I want my work to tell a story and speak to your heart. . . .
"I see a potential in almost every gourd because there is so much you can do as you allow your imagination to be free.”


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Chrystel Mialet

February 20, 2014, 6:19 am
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Chrystel Mialet





"Artiste peintre inspirée par l’Asie, le Japon, le Zen et plus particulièrement les Geisha, dont le sujet est une éternelle source d’inspiration... Véritable passionnée, elle exprime ce qu'elle ressent et ce qui la touche au travers de sa peinture… Peinture à l’huile et matière craquelée sur toile, avec pinceaux, spatules et chiffons…

Une artiste qui retranscrit ses sensations dans ses œuvres... les couleurs, les visages, la poésie, la tendresse, le charme, la sérénité se dégagent de ses toiles… un travail de peu de couleurs qui met en valeur les différentes nuances et le coté très épuré du style japonais… une grande sensibilité dans le travail…"

Expose régulièrement en Galerie et dans des Salons d’Art… également en tant qu’invitée d’honneur, a gagné plusieurs prix au cours de ces salons…
Membre du Collectif International d’artistes ArtMajeur, classée 1ière mondiale sur 28000 artistes…


...La peinture est d’une infinie solitude,
rien n’est pire que la critique pour l’aborder.
Seul l’amour peut la saisir, la garder, être juste envers elle.

...On n’aime pas être considéré comme solitaire, désespéré et sans mérite…
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Marius Markowski

February 20, 2014, 6:44 am
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Marius Markowski


"My name is Marius Markowski from switzerland and i use to paint digital. I started my first painting in oil and discovered from a short time my new passion in digital painting. many people thinks my digital painting are made wit oil ore acrylic. it looks very similar. i hope you like my work.

best regards to all artist and friends

Marius MArkowski"


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Pauline Gagnon

February 20, 2014, 8:43 am
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Pauline Gagnon



Born in 1955, Quebec, Canada
EDUCATION
Painting: Personal researches
Jewellery: École Armand Brochard, Montreal
Silkscreen: Atelier Guy Ruel, Montreal
Stone sculpture (marble): Studio Alessandro Ricci, Pietra Santa, Italy
Steel sculpture Atelier Notre Dame, Montreal
Theatre, decoration and costumes: Théâtre du Spéculum, Montreal
L’Atelier- théâtre, Montreal

After having spent two decades in the non-figurative style, Pauline Gagnon has adopted the portrait as the major genre of her work. Her larger than life portraits include oriental and calligraphic signs.


Pauline Gagnon’s process is very specific. She first takes hundreds of pictures of her models, then goes on to work on her approach, her angle and structure. The artist explains: “ I do not paint from the model in a classical way, but I take a series of picture of him/her, one hundred, two hundred, which I reframe on the computer, I print a few copies that I enlarge to a square. A centimeter square of the photographs becomes ten centimeters square of the canvas. With this grid traced on the canvas as a guide, I paint with large strokes the face or the silhouette and then freed from the constraint of representation, I paint in between the lines”.


To paint the body, the face of another, brings beyond the apparent simplicity of the action, a number of questions. What kind of relationship is established between the painter and her model? What links them to one another? What is the place of Desire? Seduction? Why has the body been an unavoidable theme in the arts since the beginning of its time? Why is it still such a fascinating theme whichever medium is chosen today?


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Judy Morris

February 20, 2014, 9:18 am
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Judy Morris

Judy Morris earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in art education from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. She taught art at South Medford High School for thirty years before retiring in 1996 to become a full time professional watercolorist. For over fifteen years Morris has been a popular juror and workshop teacher throughout the country and in Canada, Mexico, England, Switzerland, France, Italy and Japan.
Her paintings have received more than fifty national and regional awards and have been included in exhibitions throughout the country, most recently those sponsored by the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. Morris was one of 15 American artists invited to be included in the 2011 Taiwan International Watercolor Exhibition that was held at the Chung-Shan National Gallery in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Morris was one of 125 International outside-China artists from 62 countries to have her work selected for the 2012 Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolor Biennial Exhibition. She was also very happy to have been invited by Cheng-Khee Chee to exhibit in the Third Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia Masters at the Jiangsu Province Art Museum in Nanjing and Tianjin City, China in 2012.
She has had numerous feature articles in national publications including the August/September 2005 issue of INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE. Her work hangs in public and private collections from California to New York, Canada to Mexico, and in Europe.
She has been a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon since 1980 and is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is also a member of the West Coast Watercolor Society whose elected membership is limited to fifty artists living in the Pacific coast states.
Her work has been included in more than a dozen recent watercolor books and publications including nine SPLASH books. She is the author of WATERCOLOR BASICS: LIGHT published by North Light Books. (Highlights of her sold-out book are available as an instructional CD.
Her work is included in the new Chinese language book that highlights nine outstanding contemporary American watercolor artists. The book is titled, INSPIRATIONS & TECHNICAL BREAKTHROUGHS: Secrets from the Contemporary International Watercolor Masters (Volume 1).
Morris has been selected for inclusion in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the World , and the recent edition of Who’s Who in America. Her original watercolors are available at the Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland, Oregon and the Rogue Gallery & Art Center in Medford, Oregon. Morris maintains her studio in Lake Oswego, Oregon.







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Jezabel Nekranea

February 21, 2014, 3:46 am
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"Jezabel Nekranea is a multidisciplinary artist. She has worked as illustrator, graphic designer and character designer. She has participated in several projects of animation, comic and illustrated books.
Digital painting was her main technique before discovering polymer clay and start giving life to her little creatures.
Her recent work is more focused on sculpture and art dolls, mainly made of polymer clay and needle felting. Currently she's working on some pieces for gallery exhibitions and collaborations with her partner, the also artist Felideus, bringing together their skills and personal styles in illustrations that mix different techniques as sculpture, photo-manipulation and graphic design."


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Matt Small

February 21, 2014, 4:30 pm
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Matt Small


Education

MA Illustration, Royal College of Art, 2000

BA Illustration, Westminster (First Class), 1998

Awards

Hunting Art Prize Nominee, UK, 2002

Villiers David Art Prize UK, 2001

BP Portrait Award Nominee, 2001

E-D-F Man Drawing Competition, Second Place, 2000



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Small is a passionate believer in social inclusion and that, given the opportunities to be heard and respected, all individuals have something of value to contribute to society.

His paintings are an expression of his world view: by painting young marginalized figures of society he allows the viewer to spend time with these people in the hope that a shared a sense of humanity unrestricted by class and social boundaries will arise.

Previous projects include ‘Hope in Life’ where Matt ran a series of weekly workshops with people who have spent time in mental health institutions, and/or were homeless or educationally excluded. Each week this group would come together and, alongside established artists, express themselves through painting and music.







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