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www.artactif.com/bertina BERTINA

In every sense Frogs
acrylic on paper acrylic on paper
76x72 cm
2014 65x50 cm
2014

She was born on 1 April
1956 and has been paint-
ing since childhood. She
is dedicated entirely to
painting since 2013. After
painting many gouache,
she works now in acrylics.
Her painting reflects his
optimistic nature, her love
of nature and accuracy.
She participates in the Sa-
lon d’Automne in 2014 at
the Grand Palais in Paris.

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Shirley Maher [email protected]

Two Elderly Ladies Man Eating
acrylic on canvas acrylic on canvas
25x20 cm
2013 20x23 cm
2013

I have always been interested in people and
places and how they react to each other and
the environment they are in. In these small
pieces I firstly drew the figures in a cafe and
then decided what colours to use to suit the
situation. My most recent work looks at the
market places that people shop in and may
arrange to meet. The. Different cultures and
ways of dressing this can vary in different
market places making it very interesting for
an artist to study and find subjects to draw
and paint.

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www.valentinapiscopo.com Valentina Piscopo

Valentina was born in Marafa
1991 in Rome. She mixed media on alpaca wool
has travelled exten-
sively but Africa has 60x70 cm
always been her fa- 2014
vourite corner of the
world. Her work has
been shown inter-
nationally, includ-
ing New York, Lon-
don and Rotterdam. She has obtained her
Master’s degree in Contemporary Art with
Sotheby’s Institute and is now working in
London, UK. ‘Spending her childhood be-
tween Italy and Kenya, Valentina’s works
draws inspiration from African landscapes
as well as textiles and wildlife. By experi-
menting with a surprising variety of me-
dia, she creates pieces that share a com-
mon aesthetic that reflects the exoticism of
Kenya and Africa at large.’ East-wind
Artblog.

Golden Eye
mixed media on canvas
140x100 cm
2010

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Francesco Sandrelli www.francescosandrelli.it

Dream
oil on canvas
160x270 cm

2011

Travel Francesco Sandrelli is a self-taught
oil on canvas artist from Castiglion Fiorentino,
160x260 cm Tuscany. He had art exhibitions
2010 in France, Canada, UK and the
United States. Although he had
a keen interest in drawing since
early childhood, he began to paint
in the eighties, attending a private
school in Florence. After four years
spent in school, he felt exhausted
and went to hospital for art therapy in painting. From
1994, he paints again. His works during this period re-
flect a ‘grande’ love for his family. For a while he paints
large canvases, especially in remembrance of childhood
memories, sensations and dreams: his virtual storytelling
mixes fairy tales with inner visions, combining imper-
fection with sharpness and abstraction with figurative.
Sometimes feeling everything farce around, Francesco is
striving to find sense in turmoil through painting.

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www.wittbeat.com wittbeat

Karel Witt is a notorious moonshiner & retro-runner thru Wicked Ways
time… unbuttoning the past with offbeat methods, he distils acrylic on canvas
history’s indigestible events, thus laying down an all-time 120x70 cm (diptych)
valid guidance on how to stay out of reach & keep out of
range. So obviously… (NeO) dAdA or rather DEONADA is 2013
still alive! Born January 8, 1947 in Ostrava (Moravia). He
currently lives and works in Bern (Switzerland). Anthropoid
acrylic on canvas

80x80 cm
2014

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Noreen Larinde www.noreen-fine-artist.net

Dream
oil on canvas
18x24 inches
2012

Noreen Larinde has always been an artist, drawing and painting. And then when her position
as art historian demanded photographic skills, she took up the technique not just for docu-
mentation but more importantly as another fine art form. The digital camera and computer
enabled her to utilize her photographs as sources for her paintings, enabling her to plan her
works using these devices. Extensive world travels have been the sources for many paintings
which primarily concern feminist themes, hence a figure of a woman is always a significant
focal point.

Mexico
oil on canvas
26x40 inches

2011

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www.yukiyamamoto.cl Yuki Yamamoto

Arboles Born in Argentina of Japanese father
oil on canvas and​C​ hilean mother, lived in Kyoto
120x100 cm until 6 years old. Moved to Santiago
2013 de Chile and lived there till now. Stud-
ied fine arts and specialized in paint-
ing restoration. After 10 years working
as a restorer at the National Fine Arts
Museum of Santiago de Chile, she de-
cided it was time to give the chance
Cerro Alto to her own work. She has participated
oil on canvas in several collective and solo exhibits
80x80 cm in Chile, Buenos Aires, Bologna and
2014 Punta del Este.

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Monique Boutens www.monique-boutens.nl

Indian Summer
Glass
90x75 cm
2012

Monique Boutens is an artist true and pure. She has mastered Heatwaves
the art of portraying emotions and day to day life. The joy, the Glass
dreams, the passion, it all jumps of the screen. Using vivid colors
and distinct lines she applies her wondrous technique to create 75x60 cm
works that amaze. Her passion for her material is unmistakable. 2013
She produces unique exciting images that are full of life, layered
and send us a clear message: one of hope and joy.

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www.TheTimTaylor.com Tim Taylor

Tim Taylor’s art evolved, under the so- Lamp
cial challenges of being an independent multimedia
artist in the USA, to become a playful 10x12x16 inches
pleasure principle. He discarded “idea”
from his palette and found his art grow- 2004
ing into a space of shapes, surface, light
and colour. Subtracting content from Untitled
his work, he was left with the elements. acrylic on canvas
A set of art from that era includes very
simple sculptures and paintings that echo 54x36 inches
as postmodern reminders, while moving 2004
it a next step, celebrating art as object in
its own right.

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Eunice Choi www.eunicechoi.com

Potentiality
oil on canvas
80x80 inches
2012

Eunice Choi is an interdisciplinary artist who practices in drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Choi received her MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts Univer-
sity. Choi has received a number of awards including Artist-in-Residence awards at Vermont
Studio Center (VT), the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and other programs.
She was featured as an emerging artist in the Boston Sunday Globe. She has exhibited nation-
ally and internationally. Exhibitions include Boston Young Contemporaries, Wisconsin Artists
Biennial, Whitewater – Beijing in China, and Forget Me Not in Seoul, Korea. Currently, she
lives and works in Somerville, MA.

#9 Family Tree
colored pencil,
graphite on paper
28.5x40 inches

2014

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www.patbenincasa-art.com Pat Benincasa

Stelco - Hamilton, Benincasa explores a lost, 20th century tribe who shaped their
Ontario locale through sweat + labour in iconic industrial sites. Cities
Encaustic, oil paint, that formed around these mammoth worksites now struggle to
cement, wood, z-scale repurpose themselves. If memories reconstruct our past, then ex-
track on sheet metal amining these demolished sites provides a rich reflective lens.
36x24 inches Whether the land itself holds memory or there is residual energy
2012 from those who were here before us – her creative expression
hones in on collective memory frozen in time. Art is a timeless
lens to see where future meets the past in the form of these mag-
nificent worksites. What is absent is not forgotten.

Blast Furnace #1
Encaustic, rust, oil paint,

wood on sheet metal
24x24 inches
2011

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Ryan Butters www.RyanButtersArt.com

Vexation
oil on panel
36x36 inches

2014

Born in 1988, Ryan Butters is a painter from Pennsylvania who also creates art in wood, ce-
ramics, and cinema to influence his painting aesthetic. Fusing motion and three dimensional
experiences from his other areas of study has provided him with a distinct energetic style. Us-
ing color as light, Ryan captures the emotion of the portrait while creating a harmony through
saturation, hue, and temperature. He works with palette knives in oil to render the subject
with patches of color while his paint application gives the portrait life and a sense of visually
stimulating movement.

Discord
oil on panel
36x36 inches
2014

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www.ellenpieck.com Ellen Pieck

A Travers Lafaille
oil on canvas
50x70 cm
2013

Award winning Ellen Pieck, is painting
maps of her inner soul. The connec-
tions life are giving her, are visible on
her paintings. They are expressed with
colours and movement. Once on the
canvas they live their own lives and give
wherever they need to be taken.

Ombre 63
oil on canvas

40x80 cm
2014

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Jeanet Hönig www.jeanet-honig.com

Jeanet Hönig studied design and art in Paris and Tokyo. Her large-scale SHG Kliniken
floor art often stretch over several hundred square metres can be found Stairs Vö̈lklingen
around the world. As well as floor art, Jeanet Hönig has always worked
on the more traditional medium of canvases, and she also uses Poly- Germany
urethane here as a raw material. Jeanet has a clear and minimalistic
approach to colours. The most significant stylistic feature of any art is PU
however the recurrent elements of circles and lines. The dimensions
certainly differ depending on whether Jeanet is working on a flooring 370 qm
project or on a canvas, but this has no effect on her actual artistic pro-
cess. These two different fields both begin with a detailed artistic con- 2011-2013
cept, which has a concrete idea as its basis.

Office-building
Lounge Battice
Belgium

PU

560 qm

2007

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www.lindagleitzart.com Linda Gleitz

We Choose to
Let You Civilly

Unionize
oil on canvas
36x36 inches

2014

Linda studied art at the University of Colorado and then had a family and a job that consumed
most of her time for 35 years. She has been fortunate to turn back to her artwork full time for
the last three years. She is a mixed media artist using mostly oil paint, ceramic and mosaic.
She is most proud of her recent inclusion in the “National Women’s Caucus for the Arts Best
of 2014” show in Chicago!! She was in the company of some really amazing strong female
artists there and she felt honored to be included. Her work can be found in some publications

including “Night of A Hun-
dred Angels” and “Women’s
Right’s an Artist’s Perspective,
sponsored by Unite Women.
org”. She hopes to continue
making art until the day she
dies… hopefully making the
world a little more beautiful
and letting her voice be heard
on some very important issues.

We Chose to Tell You
That You Have No Choice
in This Matter
oil on canvas
36x36 inches
2014

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Michael H. Pröpper www.michaelproepper.de

Astray Michael Pröpper is predominantly a figurative painter, but also photo-
acrylic on canvas graphs, and builds installations. His interests cover the dynamics of life
150x90 cm as a ‘passage’; the fuzziness of human perception and agency; overcon-
2014 sumption; the transformation of values; light, seas and clouds. The goals
of all his experiments are non-passivized objects. His theoretical and
practical position emerged on various fields as he holds a PhD degree
in anthropology and a master’s degree in woodwork. He is teaching ‘art
and anthropology’ at Hamburg University and finds a rich field of syner-
gies between the scientific, the practical and the artistic paths through
the world.

Bernsteinfischer
oil on canvas
150x100 cm
2014

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www.michaelproepper.de Michael H. Pröpper

Rundu Man
oil on canvas

100x70 cm
2014

En passant
acrylic on canvas
150x95 cm
2014

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Evie www.eviearts.co.uk

Evie originates from Bu- Harbour Town
dapest, Hungary, and now acrylic on reclaimed
lives and works near Cam- pallet wood
bridge. She likes to show 30x19 cm
her art on different forms 2014
of canvas. She studied
art in Budapest and has
used the usual mediums
to paint on but has found
a particular liking paint-
ing on reclaimed wood,
keeping to her belief of
giving “life” to old dis-
carded wood. Evie paints
what makes her happy or
sad and hopes her work
brings emotions to others.

Cubic Cats
acrylic on reclaimed

pallet wood
15x23 cm
2014

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www.eviearts.co.uk Evie

Patchwork Cat
acrylic on reclaimed pallet wood
2013

Blue Night Meeting
acrylic on plywood

2014

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MGP Andersen www.mgpandersen.com.

MGP Andersen’s oil paintings have been de-
scribed as “secret, strange and surreal.” This
may be because she lets paint and time give
her the subject. She is currently a member
of the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery,
but has been juried into many shows, from
the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, to The
Phoenix Art Gallery in New York City.

Nothing Today
Miracle
oil on canvas
25x31 inches
2011

Sufficient
oil on canvas
13x17 inches

2011

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www.DianeNelsonStudio.com Diane Nelson

Joyful Dance
mixed media on canvas
24x30 inches
2013

My current work is a series of mixed media figurative paintings incorporating the human
form into microscopic images and imaginary environments. My paintings combine classical
drawing with contemporary sensibility; I am drawn as well to themes of power, freedom and
dynamic movement.

Is the figure on the surface or beneath it?
Are these cellular patterns a revealing view
of inner structures or merely a surface ele-
ment? Some of my figures attempt to break
through real or imagined limitations to a
more realized state of being.

I am inspired by the technical skill of Re-
naissance Masters and Surrealists like
Magritte and Dali, who combined dream-
like qualities with an awareness of the en-
vironment; and the spontaneity of contem-
porary artists who surprise us with unusual
visual metaphors. I am also enriched by
the anatomical and microscopic knowl-
edge I gained from my years as a medi-
cal illustrator. These images, patterns and
colors often push their way to the surface.

Another Page
mixed media on canvas

24x30 inches
2012

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Christine Schwarz www.christine-schwarz.com

Maria far away
oil on canvas
60x80 cm
1992

Dreaming
oil on canvas
80x100 cm
2001

Christine Schwarz was born in 1951.
She studied German and Arts. 20 years
ago she visited an exhibition of Tamara
Lempicka in London and was so fas-
cinated by her work that she began to
paint. Her subjects are women and she
tries to express their special and vari-
ous feelings: sadness, disappointment,
sexuality, hope, love and loneliness.
She works with oil, acrylic and pastel.
For her a painting is well done, when
the expression of a woman had been
realized. In 2005 she published a book.

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www.christine-schwarz.com Christine Schwarz

Revenge
oil on canvas

60x80 cm
2006

Waiting for
oil on canvas
40x120 cm
2009

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Anh BacH www.anhbachstudio.com

Anh Bach is an exciting and innovative artist from Vietnam who Night window shop
now resides in the US. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine oil on canvas
Arts from the Saigon Academy of Art. Her skill includes a superb 20x16 inches
blend of palette knife and brush. Her portraiture captures the em- 2014
bodiment of the subject as well as conveys a deep feeling for its
soul. Her strokes are both breath taking and brave, yet soft and
warm. Anh Bach paints with a wonderful sense of compassion
combined with boldness. Her works are gallery quality and can
warm a room with their vibrancy.

Valentina
oil on canvas
30x24 inches

2014

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www.lynngibsonart.co.uk Lynn Gibson

Colour Galore
encaustic
59x84 cm
2014

Untitled
encaustic
15x21 cm

2014

Born in 1984, Lynn Gibson is an abstract 75
and organic artist from Glasgow, work-
ing exclusively with hot wax her work is
fuelled by the extremities of science and
nature along with her fascination for all
things “a bit strange”. She first started
showcasing her paintings in Craft Fairs
and markets around the city in 2012,
even in this extremely competitive en-
vironment her art stood out from the
crowd so that within the year her work
was escalated to the cities Galleries and
Art Shows and she exhibits regularly in
and around Glasgow.

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Heelim Hwang www.heelimhwang.com

One who travels
acrylic, cut paper,

sticker, napkin,
fabric on panel

18x21 inches
2014

Born in 1987 in South Korea, Heelim Hwang is a young emerging Korean artist. Hwang
earned her BFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and she is cur-
rently enrolled in the Master of Fine Art program at the same school. Some parts of Hwang’s
works are extremely decorative, integrating patterns into space. Hwang attempts to create

visual atmospheres that allow for com-
plex and contradictory influences. She
pulls from various sources of inspira-
tion, including Indian miniature paint-
ings, biological structures, children’s
toys from thrift stores, and over-satu-
rated neon lights of Seoul.

Caterpillar II
acrylic, enamel on panel
21x24 inches
2012

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[email protected] Helen Chen

The Bridge
Oil on Canvas
106x76 cm
2013

Taiwanese-born Helen Chen came to California in 1978 and has been painting since 2008.
By 2011 her unique style began to reveal itself in multi-dimensional prismatic crystalline
expressions of the Divine which inspires the genius inherent in her art. Mirroring her strong
connection to Nature and the Earth, these works marry quantum mysticism with realism in an
accessible and decorative blend of abstract sacred geometry and organic imagery. The paint-
ings create a vision both in-
triguing and stimulating, and
invite the viewer to enter his
or her own individual other-
worldly experience.

Abundance
oil on canvas

23x30 cm
2014

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Jota LM www.jota-lm.tumblr.com

Jota LM is a self-taught artist and Surrounded
lives and works in Sao Paulo, watercolour on paper,
Brazil. His works distils complex
emotional traits into their simplest diptych
visual representations. The main 80x30 cm
themes of his work are fear, isola-
tion and frustration. Jota LM uses 2012
an experimental technique of ap-
plying clay onto canvas creating a Untitled Pink
complex texture, vibrancy, depth acrylic on canvas, diptych
and fragility to his works.
100x100 cm
2013

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www.dieter-borst.de Bo

Landscape 1
80x80 cm

Dieter Borst reduces the „seen“, the „experienced” and the „lived” to a minimum. Disturbing
attachments, which could divert of the essential point, has been omitted. Earthy and pastel
shades are dominating his paintings, beside of the black color. Bodies are broken up by him.
These elements, stripped down to their basic forms, will be recompiled for looking at them as
an abstracting memory of appearances in nature.

Landscape 2
80x80 cm

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ln [email protected]

Belle
acrylic on canvas

80x80 cm
2013

Hello My name is Hélène DESSALLE, I am 55 and live by the French seaside. Since my youth,
art and painting are essential to me. After three years studying at the «Beaux-Arts» in Bor-
deaux, my life completely changed and found the right balance between my family and my
job, physiotherapist, always with a pencil, brushes or a sketchbook at hand. My skills have
improved for the past five years: I paint my works on canvas, inspired by my job and my vi-
sion of the human body. I explore attitudes, transparency, a breast’s curve or the contour of
a cheekbone, emotion springs from lights, shadows and colors’ interplay. In my work, I seek
mystery, the beauty that satisfies my eye, the message carried by the body and the emotion
anyone can feel at its sight. I sketch nudes from models, and, once I am home, I transpose
these to canvas using acrylic, to my delight and for my friends and family pleasure.

Rêveuse De
Choses Qui
sont Loin

acrylic on canvas

116x81 cm

2013

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www.kochubey.net KOCHUBEY

The Last Dalai
Lama
acrylic on canvas
100x100 cm
2014

Painting since childhood under the leadership of her grandfather, who was a talented painter,
Vera had her first group exhibition already at the age of 14. After finishing the State Art School
in Moscow and her grandfather’s death she spends next years as a writer, working as a journal-
ist for the local media. In 2008 she was back to painting – this time seriously. Leaving Moscow
for good in 2011 she found herself in the middle of developing and fresh Art scene of Berlin.
Group exhibitions in hidden locations, and art performances in public spaces, lead her to the
understanding of her personal style and aims of her own Art.

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acrylic on canvas
120x120 cm
2014

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Parker Beaudoin www.pb-artist.com

Birth of Hope
water color and oils
16x20 inches
2014

My work expresses the simplistic things in life and modern culture and captures them in
abstract form with a realistic touch of elegance. Conveying a balance of uniformity between
a complex arrangement with the use of colors and shapes, combined with the boldness of
recognizable emblems. Created with the applica-
tion of watercolors and oils, I strive to involve the
viewer with bright colors and a sense of familiarity
to capture their attention and implement their mind.
Ever since I was able to hold a crayon, I was always
involved in art. Through the multitude of struggles in
life, art has always been there and given hope. My
work is meant to be inspiring and enlightening to
anyone who views it.

Flourishing
water color and oils

16x20 inches
2014

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www.tobiasginsborg.com Tobias Ginsborg

God of Nike
mixed media on canvas

200x200 cm
2012

Tobias Ginsborg has de-
veloped his phenomeno-
logical style through an
in-depth research into his
own sensibility, working
from chaos to form, he
expresses raw emotions.
In his pursuit for an ob-
jective art, Ginsborg has
worked and exhibited in
NY, London, Berlin, Mum-
bai, Copenhagen, and has
travelled far and broad, to
see and experience life from as many angles as possible. “Life is my
teacher and knowledge is just a steppingstone to life. Ginsborg exists
in the conviction that art is a sensual emancipation, which only exists
when shared in a total sensibility. He is currently creating an artistic
center, called the G foundation in Saltrup, Denmark.

U came out of
nothing
oil on linen
140x140 cm
2012-2014

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Julian Baslyk www.artwanted.com/julesbaslyk

Bright Ocean Scape
oil paint
24x20 inches
2013

Julian deals with the real and the abstract. Combining
landscape with particular shapes, forms and colours,
Julian creates psychedelic scenes that invoke thought,
feeling and wonder. The permanence of a landscape is
touched upon in his artwork. Julian uses these forms to add
dimensions and abstract perceptions, which create a vis-
ual stimulation. As Julian searches for his own artistic and
self-improvement, he strives for the relationship between
beautiful forms, colour, composition and landscape, and
to expose that in his paintings.

Piece In Hand
oil paint

30x30 inches
2012

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www.peerkriesel.de Peer Kriesel

Nettig doof
watercolour/pigment-ink
on paper
30x24 cm
2013

Peer Kriesel is born 1979 in Berlin. Data pro-
tection and an apparently increasing confusion
within society, the conflict between traditional
aesthetics, old values and ideas about what is
beautiful – these are some of the topics the artist
Peer Kriesel is dealing with in his work. For years
the artist has concentrated on these issues and
has been inspired by neglect and disappearance
of real aesthetics, but also real anti-aesthetics.
This is a clash Kriesel experiences in his every-
day life and his work is influenced by it.

Apostel?
acrylic/pigment-ink on canvas

105x135 cm
2013

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De Mar [email protected]

FADO of
Coimbra
watercolor
48x36 inches

2014

Higher Education Professor and Researcher, PhD, Aggregation. He co-
ordinates research on creative edutherapy and creative mentoring for
personal development. He has exhibited regularly since 1989. He par-
ticipated in about 85 art exhibitions (solo, collective and biennials), na-
tionally and internationally. He synthesizes various creative techniques
but he is particularly fascinated by the splendor of the watercolors tech-
nique. Five art referees made the critic registration of the artist’s creative
spontaneity that opens doors to imagination. De Mar is mentioned in
who’s who (Ed Anifa Taju 2007); Anuário (MAC 2011); International art
book Próspero (INSAT, 2012); State of the Art-Artist´s Book, 2013).

Dance of Fishermen
watercolor

70x40 inches
2013

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www.ann-dunbar.com Ann Dunbar

Lilypad Tapestry
mixed media
29x30 cm
2014

British artist, Ann Dunbar, now living and working near Paris, France, has a unique method
which has brought her much acclaim, particularly in France and Japan where she has been
awarded numerous medals and diplomas
for its quality and originality. Ann draws her
inspiration from her travelling and working
directly from her subject and using sketch
books to record ideas.

“Ann Dunbar’s art is the product of an
amazing synthesis. On a diluted water col-
our background with a romantic perspec-
tive, the foreground is embroidered with a
shimmering vibrancy and delicate detail.”
Bruno Siméon Art Critic & Gallery Director

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mixed media
29x30 cm
2014

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Photography, Digital art

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www.ptphoto.com Peter Treiber

Peter B. Treiber is a photographer Flame Cutting - Press Forge #2
with an Associate degree in Graphic photography, fine art paper print
Design from the State University of
New York and a Bachelor of Fine Arts 20x16 inches
degree in Photography from the Art 1987
Center College of Design in Califor-
nia. After earning his B.F.A. degree,
he worked in New York City for three
independent photographic studios.
Later, he became the Chief Photogra-
pher at International Nickel and then
advertising photographer for Bethle-
hem Steel.
“My purpose for these photographs
is to interpret the joy, excitement and
pleasure of public events, such as,
fireworks, light shows and amusement
parks. My primary criteria as a pho-
tographer is to make beautiful images,
but to make that beauty eye-catching,
both dynamic and fascinating.”

Ethereal Luminescence 152
photography, brushed
aluminium print
28x40 inches
2012

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Dan McCormack www.ulsterartistsonline.org/user/130

Elisa_D_5-17-
14--12AC
photography
20.00x17.77
inches
2014

Dan McCormack began photographing the nude with Wendy, now his wife, at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 while working on his MFA degree in Photography. Then
for over forty years, he explored various techniques and processes while photographing the
nude as a central theme. Dan won a NYSCA-CAPS fellowship in Photography in 1982. Around
1998, he began to explore pinhole photography and won the Ultimate Eye Foundation’s grant
for Figurative Photography in 2009 with his pinhole camera imagery of nudes. Currently, Dan
McCormack heads the Photography program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Molly_R_4-14-13--13AC
photography

20.00x20.63 inches
2013

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www.linnmarx.com Linn Marx

Linn Marx learned the trade of photogra- Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
phy in Hamburg, Germany from 2005- photography,
2007. She now works as a freelance
photographer with special interest in Greece/Bulgaria
documentary, culture and portrait. The 2006
nearby northern coast with its fresh
wind, light and changes of the sea influ- Strandhund (Beachdog)
ences her images. She has a strong pas- photography, Costa Rica
sion for colours, as well as a keen eye for
light and shadows. She also directed and 2009
shot a short movie and a full time docu-
mentary in 2012. Her recent multimedia
project and travelling exhibition is called
„Freight – Frontiers of Freedom“.

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Zgirdea Marius www.mariuszgirdea.com

My Nest
photo, tape
40x60 inches
2006

Upside down
photos, tape, polymer

medium, acrylic
60x80 inches
2012

My life as an artist began during my
teenage years in Romania, at that time
I would draw and cut used magazines
that I found around the house and then
tape, reshape into the images that I
desired. Many years passed by until I
discovered photography that made me
return to art, and got me a BA in Stu-
dio Arts. Once I returned, I started with
what I did when I was a teenager with
the big difference that now I use my
own images to create these collages,
which make my work very personal. My
works are real life-size.

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www.mariuszgirdea.com Zgirdea Marius

One
photo, tape
36x72 inches
2004

Help
photos, tape, polymer medium

40x60 inches
2013

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Jordan Poe www.jpoedigitalstudios.com

Bodie 5
photography
36x48 inches
2011

Jordan Poe utilizes a variety of scientific processes to create a unique perspective and aes-
thetic to provide a distinctive way to tell a story. Jordan’s work covers an array of abstract and
complex concepts such as isolation, greed, civil discourse, chaos theory and sociology are
conveyed in this story telling process.

Medicine Lake 18
photography
55x34 inches
2013

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www.rmlphotos.com Robert Meyers-Lussier

Ueno Park Stone
Lanterns
photography
4400 px
2013

Robert Meyers-Lussier’s art is spontaneous. It represents a travelogue of plain air scenes that
takes a bite out of time/space as he travels and experiences life. As an author, a journalist and
photographer; micro and macro moments matter. Colour and pattern; joy and regret; nature’s
beginnings and endings; all intrigue him, within the framework of time. Most importantly,
seasons matter. Based on a childhood spent weathering Minnesota’s extremes, combined
with an early, learned Japanese aesthetic; refinement of Meyers-Lussier’s eye continues. He is
forever in search of that most beautiful image that compels him to never forget that moment
in time/space.

Santa Fe Adobe Window
photography
5622 px
2014

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Gjert Rognli www.grognli.wix.com/theforgottenplace

Chasing Dreams Gjert Rognli is working
photography as a multimedia artist,
70x50 cm and has in recent years
2013 worked with his own
short films, sculpture,
photography and perfor-
mance. He is educated
partly in multimedia and
film, and has been rep-
resented by a number of
film festivals and exhi-
bitions in Norway and abroad. He has also
received several awards for his art films and
photographs, among other, award honourable
mentions from Photographer’s Forum maga-
zine’s in the United States. He comes from a
sea-Sami village in northern Norway, and his
photographs are staging in the region. In his
work he uses the North Norwegian nature and
his Sami identity to create new work coming
through his dreams and reality.

Come with me to the secret place
photography
50x70 cm
2013

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www.PeterBracke.com Peter Bracke

Peter Bracke investigates the photographic
medium in its visual and plastic aspects.
Bracke searches for the distinctions between
photography and other visual media and it is
at those intersections where he seeks to ex-
press his vision. The textures of unusual ma-
terials lead the viewer into a tempting, exotic
and dreamy world. Somehow Peter Bracke
turns around the citation of the French Nou-
velle-Vague director Jean-Luc Godard: “We
must confront vague ideas with clear images.
The artist however builds from clear ideas
and vague images which he allows to remain
dreamy, etheric and mystical.”

Twilight Zone
Fujipaper
2014

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Fujipaper
2014

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Han Zhao [email protected]

Collapsing Fortress
digital photomon-
tage
2012

Han Zhao is a current architecture student and artist born in Taiyuan, China, and now resid-
ing in Nottingham. His subject matters – produced in monochrome – usually draw inspira-
tion from (and are often meditations of) the systems, cybernetics and progression that occurs
around us. Whilst relying primarily on photography, his works can sometimes employ a vari-
ety of digital techniques; from 3D to digital painting.

The Universe
Experiencing Itself
digital photomontage

2014

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www.sezen.at Tolga Sezen

Ghosts
C-Print on AluDibond
100x70 cm
2014

Tolga Sezen dares the way from photo towards painting. During his creative process the real-
istic image becomes abstract. The “planned” randomness plays a substantial role in his work.
He was born in Istanbul 1965, as a child of a liberal, cosmopolitan artist family. In his youth,
he went to Vienna, studied computer engineering and finally he became an autodidact in
photography and digital photo processing. His artwork is photography-based. The first trigger
of his career as an artist has been an exhibition with photorealistic works. Tolga Sezen: The
moment of the transformation of a photo to a digital painting is magical – like a slightly ap-
proaching dream, searching its way from reality to an illuminated new existence.

Le Coque
C-Print on
AluDibond
100x67 cm

2014

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Alicia Wonderland Photography www.artofwonderland.com

Flawless
B&W Photography

2014

Alicia worked backstage for a theatre group, and studied for a BA in Film
and Media at the Birkbeck University of London, where her film work
is now used as an example for current students. From childhood, Alicia
was always going to be an artist. She has sketched, studied architecture,
and painted on canvas, before now finding her oeuvre as a full-time
photographer and photo-manipulator. Working in her London-based
studio, she creates a world of dreams, using black and white, light and
shadow, to tell memorable stories in every image or project. For Alicia,
art should create emotion in the artist and inspire pleasure for an audi-
ence, allowing both to explore themselves, as well as enjoy the images.

The Dark Dream
B&W Photography

2014

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