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Tatyana Palchuk was born on December 6, 1954, in Riga, Latvia, EU (then part of the Latvian SSR (Soviet Union). Her father was a Soviet soldier who died shortly after World War II, and she was raised by her mother under modest circumstances. Despite financial hardship, her mother encouraged cultural pursuits—Tatyana studied piano and fostered an early love of artistic expression where music notably influenced her later visual art.
Carl Jackson has been an Artist, Art Instructor for over 50 years. Along the way He has been an Illustrator, arts administrator, concept artist and gallery director. His work is included in various public collections including the Boston Public Library, The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and Rutgers University.
Another exciting, unknown world opened up to her when she started to meditate daily in 1996. This realm is what Silke Wolff interprets in her graphics. With 16 aura paintings she took part in the big exhibition at the famous Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen. After this remarkably start Silke Wolff put her resources into fine art.
Every painting tells a story. And that story is always one of Hope; of reaching out to the rainbow that is within us all: the rainbow after the rain. Thank you so much for visiting. I really hope you enjoy the paintings. And if you’d like to see more, visit my website – www.iamthebutterflyman.com – and there’s a book telling of my life and art to be published later this year. Robert Haworth, “The Butterfly Man”
Odilia Iaccarino was born in a small town in Mexico where she enjoyed her childhood in her family's ranch. Odilia is a self-taught artist who holds national and international awards, most recently from the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art and recognition from the CFA Circle Foundation of the Arts, Lyon, France. Her work consists of implementing figures of the menina-meaning “girl”- into the canvas by pinning the menina silhouette as the main character to then narrate anecdotes and memories through the painting.
Katrin Loy, born in 1969 in Germany, studied at the academy of fine arts in Düsseldorf and graduated as a master student of professor Jannis Kounellis in 2001. She lives and works in Munich since 2002. In Munich she absolved a postgraduate study in Visual Arts and Therapy and a continuing education in Psychoanalysis. Both of them had a strong influence on her artwork.
Flo Dinis Klopries is not content to simply depict the world. She seeks to capture its essence, to distill its fleeting beauty into something eternal. Her exploration of themes like fragility, resilience and the passage of time resonates deeply in our contemporary moment offering a space for reflection and renewal where the tactile and the transcendental converge.
Dex Hannon’s work does not present itself in grand gestures. Rather, it unfolds gradually through repetition, revision and recontextualisation. Hannon has developed a body of work that challenges conventional notions of completion and authorship. He navigates a space between painting, moving image and digital extraction, where the boundaries between disciplines are intentionally blurred.
She started to create art since she was 4 years old with fashion figurines that had images inspired in flowers, leafs and nature forms, next she has an incredible grandmother that inspire to become the artist she is today due to her flow of creativity expression.
My art is a reflection of where I come from and who I am. As a Chinookan carver and digital artist, I carry the stories, teachings, and spirit of my ancestors into every piece I create. I am an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, born and raised in Oregon, deeply rooted in this land and the traditions that shaped it.
Born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), surrounded by great medieval and modern art and artists that caused his desire to create.
From early childhood, he enjoyed drawing and later painting; as a young man, he focused mainly on surrealism. His artistic attitude was shaped by many art clubs in childhood, followed by art training by MgA Milos Saska and work in set production of the Realistic Theatre.
Belinda Balaski, a native of Southern California, creates colorful watercolor and pastel paintings. She is especially fond of painting horses, influenced by her childhood traveling the racetrack circuit with her father, the well-known jockey, Lester Balaski. Her work focuses on capturing the spirit and unique beauty of living creatures and the natural world. She is motivated by the desire to share a spiritual sense of serenity and peace through landscapes and seascapes.
I developed and refined my Post Divisionist style and technique in a series of paintings of women and landscapes. My goal was to utilize the entire surface of the canvas to challenge the viewer’s perception of negative space while borrowing from the Cubist approach to composition. Figures and forms are woven into the fabric of the plane so that space warps into figures and form. The juxtaposition of complimentary colors of thinly applied brushstrokes, over each other, creates a mesh-like pattern, so that figures rise or recede, at times becoming almost invisible.
Recognized for his thought-provoking style and clarity of expression, Seebohm has received notable awards and his work has been featured in exhibitions throughout Germany and beyond. His artistic philosophy is rooted in the belief that simplicity can reveal complexity—and that true impact lies in what remains unsaid
Sonia Roseval’s evolving journey underscores her commitment to touching lives globally through art, which she regards as a vital element of contemporary life. Her work represents her core values, making a compelling case for the indispensable role of art in society.
I am borne in the north of Sweden but now a days I live in the south of the country. Before I started my artistic education I was working in a classical style, but nowadays my work has become more modern. I am working with painting, graphic and drawing. In the painting there is a wide range of possibilities to express my intentions. When I am working with the graphics, I can work more with the drawing. Hans Johansson
Felipe Alarcón Echenique (Havana, 1966) is a Spanish-Cuban artist based in Madrid. His work spans painting, drawing, and installation, exploring themes such as identity, memory, and the cultural history of the Caribbean and Europe. Through a symbolic and expressive language, his creations engage in a dialogue between the ancestral and the contemporary. He has exhibited in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and other countries, building a career marked by introspection and visual strength.
Anne Walbring is a Brazilian visual artist whose work emerges from a deeply personal and intuitive place. Her artistic journey began in childhood, where drawing became both a refuge and a form of emotional expression. After studying Visual Arts at the University of Fine Arts in São Paulo, Anne developed a unique voice that blends restlessness with tenderness, often giving life to imagined characters who seem to dwell between dream and memory.
Nancy Staub Laughlin, an accomplished artist based in New Jersey, introduces a groundbreaking concept of the assemblage. She masters the combining of pastel on paper and photographs. In her own words, Nancy immerses the viewer into her radiant and captivating world of color, light, dimension, and beauty, crafting compelling compositions that represent the culmination of a meticulously executed process that defines her unique artistic approach.
Canadian sculptor Tom Ashbourne creates intriguing contemporary abstract sculptures in stone, mixed media, and metal. Tom’s sculptures and sculptural photography effortlessly find balance between contemporary and abstract art.
