Collectors Art Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
Carol Wates is a British Artist who creates iPad pictures using the Brushes App. Carol trained at Chelsea University of Art, subsequently worked as a visualiser in a London Advertising Agency. Exhibited in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Marie-Ghislaine Beaucé, a French artist currently living in London, has been passionate about textile fibers since childhood; at 12 years old her ambition was to become a fashion designer. At the National School of Fine Arts in Nantes, she experimented weaving various materials such as hemp, 8 mm film reels, ribbons cut from fabrics and painted cardboard tubes.
Ursa Schoepper first completed her studies in Natural Science with state examination. In addition she completed a study in cultural management, state examinaten, with a concentration in fine arts, new media. In her Agentur für Virtuelle Denkraeume she was working as a cultural manager. In 2001 she was awarded the Media Promotion Prize of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for „Das Museum der abwesenden Bilder“. Since 2003 Ursa Schöpper has been working primarily as a photographic artist. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and she is the recipient of notable awards.
Painting has been a spiritual journey for Fari from the past 50 years. Her canvasses are mainly in oils. Her style is a genre of fine arts —Photo Realism and Expressionism. Her intention has always been to integrate art into spirituality and hence express the beauty of the world : Through painting landscapes and monuments unaffected by the impurities of the environment we live in
Gianfranco Merati (b. Asmara, Eritrea, Africa) is an Italian photographer based in London. Gianfranco’s motivation as a photographer is that “beauty is everywhere”. He seeks to reveal it. For the last decade he has been developing his photographic practice, through building skills and reflecting on projects.
Taught illustration and typography. Wrote and illustrated for the children’s magazine, Pilon. Came to the US in 1985 where he was a freelance illustrator in NYC for 17 years. Illustrated regularly for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, as well as others. Illustrated, both in Israel and the US, 42 children’s books, two of which he also wrote. Studied Zen for 12 years with the late Chinese Zen master Shen-yen. Studied Art Therapy at NYU. Worked as an Art Therapist for 14 years.
Nora is a Hungarian artist-painter with the artist name Mano, born in Hungary, still living in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. She’s been painting in oil on canvas for decades, inspired first by the beautiful landscapes in Hungary and other countries where she has been residing with her family for a few years (Sweden, Israel, and Belgium).
Shulan Wang is a fine art photographer hailing from Hangzhou, China. She holds an M.A. in Photography from Spéos International School of Photography, an M.A. from the University of Westminster, and a B.A. from the China Academy of Art. Employing innovative creative approaches, she integrates a variety of techniques—digital darkroom processing, the soft immediacy of Polaroid, paper textures, visual installation, and the emerging language of artificial intelligence photography —each medium a thread in her visual tapestry.
Miranda’s work honours First Nations connections to Country, drawing on her heritage and her background in cultural heritage management. Hampson’s practice is grounded in the shared experiences of kin, Country and place. Her art extends beyond the ecological, suggesting it as a means to heal and strengthen the bonds between people, land and culture.
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.
Born in Munich, she lived in Brazil for several years during her youth. As a multiple international award-winning artist, she creates works distinguished by their unique expressiveness and artistic diversity. Simone von Anhalt has the talent to capture emotions on canvas and invite the viewer to immerse themselves in their own emotional world.
Hannon’s oeuvre examines transformation and reinvention, with each medium providing a distinct perspective on the human experience. His guiding philosophy, “What else could it be?” informs his multidisciplinary approach, continuously challenging boundaries and redefining the possibilities of art.
I am a based Visual artist from Panama. She is infatuated with nature, crystal healing, color psychology, chromotherapy, fashion, magic, women empowerment,nature, cosmos,obe experiences, entomology and human evolution. Which she combines with magnificent things she imagines everyday through her art.
Bobby Mercier is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon, where he has lived most of his life. With deep family roots in the community-both his mother and father are members of the tribe-Bobby has dedicated his life to preserving and revitalizing Chinookan culture and traditional art.
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.
