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Artist Portrait
Chim’s Blessing the Nature
oil on canvas 3d
100 x 100 cm
2015

Prince Charles, Presi.
Ali Bongo Ondimba,

Prof. Lee White
Nature Protection Actors

oil on canvas 3d
130 x 170 cm
2012

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Chim’s

I am Chima Ogbonnaya, King of the Forest
a self-taught artist, born oil on canvas 3d
on 13-08-1966 in Obuohia 122 x 250 cm
Ibere Abia State Nigeria. 2012
Son of Mr. Samuel Mmadu-
dobeonu Ogbonnaya and
Mrs. Margret Njiole Og-
bonnaya. I schooled at
Obuohia Ibere Community
School and passed my First
School Leaving Certificate
in 1981.I came to Gabon in
1983 and was trained as a
professional barber. In 1985
my artistic mission arose
and I pursued my Destiny.
In 1989 I established my
workshop as Chim’s Herit-
age Fine Art. My workshop
is specialized in creating:
Portraits, Nature, Elephant
World, Abstracts, Spiritual
Paintings and Family Muse-
um. A working space where
you can buy your favorite
paintings and place the or-
der of your choice.

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What colour is your personality?

Red, yellow, orange and blue which one is your favorite? Different colors
represent key personality traits. Fill your life with colour and joy!
Live Well, Be Well!
Red relates to physicality.
Orange reflects the need for community.
Yellow is logic.
The colour Green represents love and security.
Blue stands for inner peace.
Indigo stands for intuition.
Purple and Violet are for harmony in life and humanitarian service.
Pink stands for love.
Turquoise helps you create your life on your own terms.

Laure Donnedieu de Vabres
Ah Barcelone!

Collages acrylique
31,5 x 23,6 in
2012

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Jack Gaucher

www.gaucherjack.magix.net/public
contact: Jack Gaucher
[email protected]
France

Jack Gaucher is a self-taught painter and sculptor.
He has been painting for many years and started to
sculpture later with different materials and then used
stainless steel which brings luminosity to his works. En-
joying precious metals, he likes to hammer and chisel
stainless steel which he adds to his sculptures, as well
as his paintings uniting oil and acrylic paints with stain-
less steel while varying the different technical ways.
Inspired by light and nature, fascinated by the terres-
trial phenomena of flowing lava and melting metal
he paints the cosmos from the big bang theory and
magma.

Aigle
stainless steel

40 cm
2014

Chouette
stainless steel
30cm
2015

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We find in his paint-
ings a powerful atmos-
phere with warm color,
his cosmic dreams and
his vision of his inside
world. He searches
for his own language
through his art. Paint-
ing and sculpture is to-
day the path that he
took in the transition of
a man to the light and
reality.

He gives volume and
movement, transpar-
ency and brightness,
all plunges us into a
paradise of colours.

Coulée de lave
oil and stainless steel on wood
80 x 80 cm
2015

Métal en mouvement
oil, acrylic and stainless steel

on wood
120 x 50 cm

2015

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Linda Ruscio

That Spoonful Linda is an award-winning visual
mixed media collage on paper artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
16 x 16 in degree from Guelph University.
2015 She has worked in numerous me-
dia although is currently exploring
mixed media collage. Her back-
ground in printmaking, photogra-
phy and graphic design provide
the backbone to her experimental
approach with various materials,
which are fed through her printer
onto washi (japanese hand-made
paper). Resurrected drawings,
paintings and monoprints are cut,
pasted and layered with typogra-
phy onto fine art paper or wood,
creating new stories and playful
comments on life for the viewer to
discover.

www.lindaruscio.com
contact: Linda McIntosh

[email protected]
Canada

Soul Surfacing
mixed media collage on paper
12 x 19 in

2014

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Nothing to Wear
mixed media collage on paper
16 x 20 in
2014

Air Horse
mixed media collage on paper

16 x 20 in
2015
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Ines Siri Trost

www.atelier-2.net
www.inestrost.de
contact: Ines Siri Trost
[email protected]
Germany

Angel of Grace II.
oil on a rusty iron plate
40 x 40 cm
applied on a wooden case
60x60 cm
2014

Ines Siri Trost was born in Berlin in 1967. Today she lives in Wetter/Ruhr. In her work as a
freelancing woman artist she puts the main emphasis on:
• Painting
• Building up means of communication to the spiritual world by making art
• Exhibitions and giving lectures/teaching art in different countries since 1991

As a painter she has learned to perceive
fields of vibration of beings and places
and to make them visible in colour and
form. The paintings which arise from that,
give a visual imprint in the material of her
communication with the spiritual.

Untitled
oil on cardboard
20 x 20 cm
2014

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They show moments of
non material processes,
of evolution and of en-
ergy fields and realms.
Painting to Ines Siri Trost
is meditation, is prayer
and giving her thanks to
creation. It is all about
building up means of
communication to the
spiritual world.

Places of study where the Energy Field
academy of Fine Arts in oil on canvas
Hamburg, and various oth- 80 x 80 cm
er Art Colleges in London 2014
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by the Artodrome Gallery
in Berlin, which also takes
her work to international
Art fairs, and by the ICA, In-
ternational Contemporary
Artists, New York. Many of
her paintings found their
way into public Art collec-
tions.

Untitled
oil on cardboard

20 x 20cm
2014

Peggy Wright, Ruby Wings Designs

www.rubywings.com
contact: Peggy Wright
[email protected]
United States

Garland of Daisies
mixed media textile

13 x 15 in
2014

I create with acrylic paints, fabrics,
and threads using freehand machine
stitching and hand stitching. While
I have worked in other art media, I
have found that I need to work with
materials that sustain my sense of
touch. I need to see, feel, and ma-
nipulate fabric and thread to remain
content.

Gladiolus
mixed media textile
14 x 14 in
2014

When I make art, I get lost in the sur-
face of fabric, using hue, texture, and
form to explore the world. I think the
sense of touch is a lost sense in western
society, and I work to create a tactile
surface that invites the viewer to look
more closely.

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Serpentine 2
mixed media textile
14 x 14 in
2015

I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware but moved to St. Paul, Minnesota over 40 years
ago. I love the easy access to nature here because it is a favorite subject of mine.

When I observe nature, I find extravagant pattern and captivating detail. Interac-
tion with nature provides me with refuge from the discordant notes in the world.
A relationship with the natural
world inherently incorporates
the transformative experience,
the touch of the metaphysical,
and a vision of the possible.
Whether I am creating my art
or walking in the woods, I need
contact with nature to live.

Hibiscus
mixed media textile

18 x 18 in
2014

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Maria Ferrara

www.ferrara.webartgallery.it
contact: Ferrara Maria
[email protected]
Italy

M. Ferrara was born in San Pier
Niceto (Messina), she shows
ever since a very young age
a marked inclination for artis-
tic activities. At present she
resides in Rome, after a long
permanence abroad, first in
Lausanne(Switzerland) and
afterwards in London where
she attends courses on crea-
tive techniques , coming to a
passion for painting.

Lightness Lights over the Tiber
(Leggerezza) (Luci sul Tevere)
oil on canvas oil on canvas
8o x 60 cm 70 x 90 cm
2011 2011

In Rome she attends a School
of Art and focuses her activity
on figurative painting, having a
preference for oil painting.

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Her works’ collection becomes more and more diverse throughout the years and
she matures a predisposition on the use of strong and determined chromatic col-
ours. Her whole work finds favor with the public interest, which leads to her partici-
pation in several collective and personal art exhibitions.

Abstract
(Astrazioni)
oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2011

Lights on the city
( Luci sulla città)

oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
2011

“From a first analysis of Maria Ferrara’s art works, the observer is suddenly struck by
the extraordinary and enviable sense of composition. A way of painting that is tru-
ly dreamy, so poetically profound and intense to the point that it reaches a quite
engaging result; a kind of painting which runs along the lines of imagination, defin-
ing natural scenarios with her extremely secure way of expressing herself. A colour
spread without repentances, dense and soft but at the same time brilliant, through
which the painter is able to produce unforeseen and unexpected shades, within
which she completely conveys herself and her truly sensitive soul, as the refined and
creative artist that she is.”- Simone Fappanni, Art critic.

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Amélie Perron

Close to Shore
mixed media on canvas
20 x 16 in
2015

www.amelieperronart.com
contact: Amélie Perron
[email protected]
Canada

Land by Land
acrylic and mixed media

on canvas
24 x 36 in
2014

I am a Montreal-based Cana-
dian artist with two passions;
abstract painting and televi-
sion. I’ve decided to share my
art with the world and demon-
strate how I assimilate both
passions into one canvas. The
art of television is all about sto-
rytelling, and that is exactly
what I create in an abstract
biosphere. I am curious about
the world, about topics and
stories that affect and evoke us
as human beings. I mostly focus
on acrylics and mixed media
while producing art that indi-
viduals can not only relate to
but find their own story within.

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Alive
acrylic and mixed media
on canvas
9 x 12 in
2015

Mme
acrylic on canvas

36 x 30 in
2015

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noreen larinde

Los Angeles 2
oil on linen
18 x 24 in
2014

www.noreen-fine-artist.com
contact: Noreen Larinde
[email protected]
744 Haverford Avenue
Pacific Palisades
CA 90272
United States

In front of a segment of the Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los
Angeles, California, are two women, one floats in the upper right, while the second
below at the left parades in front of a segment of the angel-themed sand-blasted
windows of the new Catholic Cathedral nearby . A white semifore is placed in the
center of the composition, creating a static counterbalance to the implied move-
ment of the images.

Los Angeles 1
oil on linen
24 x 18 in
2014

The backdrop is the Gehry-de-
signed Disney Concert Hall in
downtown Los Angeles, Califor-
nia. Also there are the sand-blast-
ed windows showing floating
angels of the new Catholic
Cathedral nearby. In the front
parade two confident women,
while a third extends her arms
out in a gesture of insecurity.

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Noreen Larinde is a feminist painter and fine art
photographer, who is also an art historian with
a specialty in East Asian culture. She finds inspi-
ration in Japanese Zen drama, which considers
Woman knowable only through the subjectiv-
ity of the arts. For the Zen Buddhist life is con-
stant change, thus Woman is always becoming
transforming herself into higher spiritual states.

Dream
oil on linen
36 x 48 in
2014

An image of a woman floats in the midst of
greatly enlarged zucchini blossoms. In the upper
left is another female image, an alter-ego.

To convey this is her paintings,
she utilizes an architectural el-
ement, a building experienced
in her frequent travels. This ref-
erence to a specific location is
equivalent to the stage of Noh
(Zen) Drama on which the trans-
formation take place. Often in
the paintings there is a flower
which expresses Woman as a
part of nature, irresistibly beau-
tiful in herself, and also fleeting
while at the same time power-
ful in that she controls her own
destiny.

Bilbao
oil on linen

35 x 42 in

2014

With the backdrop of the Gehry-designed Bil-
bao Museum in Spain, a woman dances exu-
berantly. In front there is a red flower.

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Nadia Viguier The Courthhouse Steps
acrylic on canvas
“One sees only with the heart, the essential is 40 x 40 cm
invisible to the eyes.” - Antoine de St. Exupèry 2011

www.nadia-viguier.artblog.fr
contact: Nadia Viguier
[email protected]
France

Colored Dyke
Anglet Beach Brittany
acrylic on canvas
30 x4 0 cm
2011

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The Thinning,
Brittany
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2011

Some works of Nadia
Viguier give birth to
allowing access not
at her most intimate
secret but the most
intimate secret. It is
to what the artist un-
kowinglly will. There
is (and despite the idea of maternity) something about the “Carmelite” because
loneliness calls for violent communion.

The Artist - by sudden abstraction of reality - looking for a form to the shape of
everything she brings out even thought it may seem strange since nothing in her is of
the order of the simple demonstration of evidence. Emerges a form of enjoyment of
the order of a pagan spirituality. A huge tide or a geyser springs from the earth. This
is due to the fire (for color) and the telluric. This is no longer satisfied the kingdom of
shadows.

The artist goes currents, sometimes stairs of unknown where they lead. How to over-
come this wave or this ascent? Somehow the artist releases us from the ground. We
slip into such images, we become accomplices “innocent” (or not).

Remain traces, waste-
lands. The moon or
the sun takes us away
from the slumber.
Light opens the literary
sense inexpressible. A
powerful blast through
space. - Jean-Paul
Gavard-Perret

The Traveller
Egypt

pastels on paper
28 x 37 cm
2009

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Nadia Viguier

Strasbourg Cathedral
acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 cm
2010

The Cry of the Earth, I.,
oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm
2014

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Approaching Galleries

It’s one thing being an established and Restaurants might be a good place to
famous artist, where all you have to do start, it works for both the restaurant in
is paint the pictures and hand them terms of attracting customers, and the
over to an agent, then show up for the artist. It is also a good place to get over
preview evening. It’s another to be at your ‘art exhibition anxiety’ in a far less
the beginning of your career as an art- intimidating atmosphere than a public
ist. gallery. They charge no commission,
but you have to do the work yourself…
Most of us have to plan our own shows, from the hanging to the promotion
as I have done over the last few years, and subsequent sales. So, it is from this
and there is a lot of work involved if perspective that I write.
you want to get the most out of your
art exhibition. I was fortunate in that I In the Beginning: Your First Art Exhibition
worked as a gallery assistant for artist First of all, you must secure your ‘gal-
Nerys Johnson when I was at Durham lery space’. I had my first solo art exhi-
University, and assisted her with pre- bition at Pizza Express in Darlington, UK.
paring for her shows. Even though she As a corporation, they have a huge
was an established artist, there was still commitment to the arts, in particular
a lot to be done. local artists. Their restaurants are often
designed as galleries themselves, and
After you have planned an exhibition they know that their customers really
of your work, you will see that the com- appreciate the ever-changing work
mission galleries request is well worth on their walls. To be continued...
the effort they put in!

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Sussi Hodel

www.hodelart.ch
contact: Sussi Hodel
[email protected]
Switzerland

Hahaa
oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm

2013

Her paintings are characterized
by the fine structures and a very
personal touch of color. It is her
play with color that makes the
perception of figures and con-
crete forms creating a vivid im-
pression. The game with the sit-
uations and colors in the works is
often concise striking and gives
each room a unique atmos-
phere and presence.

Her main goal is to express feel- Blue Smile Not Blue
ings, reduced to parts of the oil on canvas
face and at same time not for- 120 x 80 cm
getting about the beauty of 2014
the depicted faces. Sussi Hodel
has exhibited in various venues
around Switzerland, Italy, France
and Germany.

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Hmmm!
oil on canvas

130 x 60 cm
2011

Mmmpf
oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
2012

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C Pat Haley

www.cpathaleyart.com Siesta
contact: Charles Patrick Haley acrylic on canvas
[email protected]
United States 100 x 150 cm
2012
Musica del Voladores
acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2014

Ayudeme
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 in
2011

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The Paintings of Pat Haley reflect the
Culture, Colors and Zest for LIFE of the
Mexican people. While in Mexico,
walking through the streets, riding
the buses, attending cultural events
or just sitting in the plazas, he is able
to experiences daily life of the local
people. Using his camera’s eye,
he selects and captures an array of
visual elements that are refined, ex-
tracted or amplified and then com-
bined into a composite to become
the focus of his final paintings.

Mujer Mayor en Rebozo
acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 in
2011

Vista del Mundo
de mi Caballo
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in
2010

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Natalia Repina Flamenco Dolls
oil on canvas
www.nataliarepina.com
contact: Natalia Repina 100,5 x 80,5 cm
[email protected] 2012
Italy

The paintings of artist Natalia Repi-
na combine the wonder of magi-
cal realism with her love for the light
and movement of the Impressionists
to create a truly moving art form.
Drawn from childhood memories,
lasting impressions, and the living
breathing world around her, her im-
ages are sentient, transforming com-
mon landscapes and moments in
time into vortexes of human emotion
that magically transport the viewer
into an unknown world of sentiment
and memory.

Ligurian Seafront
Near Noli
soft pastel on paper
35 x 50 cm
2012

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Portraits, Figurative Composition, Seascapes of
Mediterranean zones is the favorite subject of artist.
Oil painting and pastel painting is the technique fa-
vorite by Natalia Repina Natalia Repina was born in
St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1967.She graduated from
S.Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in1991. China,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and USA
are among the Countries where she has been ex-
hibiting. Repina now lives and works in Italy.

Saxophonist
soft pastel on paper
55 x 75 cm
2013

Mother and Child
soft pastel on paper

70 x 50 cm
2012

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malo design

Little Monsters
acrylic on canvas
structure pastes
50 x 70 cm
2014

www.malo-design.de
contact: Marleen Lorek
[email protected]
Germany

Marleen Lorek works mostly with acrylic paints and a wide variety of structural pastes.
However, the passion towards experimental expression drives her search for new ma-
terials. She was born in 1981 in eastern Germany where she still lives and works. In
2014/2015 Marleen was published in the “International Contemporary Artists Volume
IX” featuring four of her art works.

Untitled
acrylic on canvas

80 x 60 cm
2014

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Her works of art are satu-
rated by their spatial and
colorful floating designs.
Through painting she has
found another level of cre-
ativity which perfectly bal-
ances out her regular work
as a lighting designer for
rock concerts, gala events
and touring productions
for a different musicians.
She loves these opposites
in her life and would not
give up any of them.

My Milky Way
acrylic, mixed media on canvas

80 x 80 cm
2014

Golden Satellite
acrylic on canvas
structure pastes
80 x 100 cm
2013

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malo design

Sky Blue
acrylic on canvas,
structure pastes
60 x 40 cm
2014
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Oenone Hammersley

www.oenonehammersleycontemporaryart.com
contact: Oenone Hammersley
[email protected]
Alexandria, VA
United States
T.: +(1) 703 838 0393

Bluebell Wood Colour and light are used to emphasize
oil on canvas with seeds a vanishing world of wildlife and wilder-
42 x 32 in ness that implores one to take notice,
2013 appreciate the rare and raw beauty
about us, and allow our imagination to
roam about the abstract compositions
symbolizing the unsettled and unset-
tling world where man alters nature.

Oenone Hammersley was born in Eng- Deep Forest
land and studied Theater Design at oil on canvas
Wimbledon College of Art followed by
print making at the City Literary Institute 40 x 28 in
in London. In the 1970’s Oenone worked 2012
for many years making scenery at the
Royal Opera House, The National Theat-
er and Shepperton Studios.

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Oenone became deeply committed and involved with conservation of wildlife and
wilderness in particular rain forest conservation following her travels to rain forests all
over the world in the 1980’s. Oenone exhibited her paintings from her trips to raise
money and awareness for conservation.

In 1993 Oenone married a US Foreign Service diplomat and they lived in Africa for
many years, followed by Greece then Australia. In the early years Oenone’s focus
was to depict detailed paintings in watercolour and gouache of animals and birds
to show the beauty of wildlife in all its glory and colour. Recently Oenone has been
working in oils on canvas producing semi-abstract paintings with natural themes in
bolder larger more powerful work.

Oenone has been exhibiting her work regularly since 1980. She is a member of the
National Association of Women Artists and her paintings have won awards in Wash-
ington D.C and Florida.

Museum and private acquisitions
of Oenone’s work include The Shell
Museum on Crete, the private col-
lection of the Guggenheim fami-
lies and H.R.H. Princess Fatima Bint
Mubarak of the UAE.

Rice Paddies China
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in
2014

Rice Terraces China
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in
2014

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What makes an artwork great?

After contemplating what it is about certain artworks and artists that remain rele-
vant over time, There are three main considerations:

Motivation: The purpose for creating; connection to the subject; the intentional

concept, message, or emotion that the artist is passionate about capturing.

Execution: Technical proficiency; ability and confidence in the various principles

of art so that the concept, message, or emotion comes through skillfully and con-
vincingly.

Expression: A unique style; the heart and soul of the artist; where we see his/her

hand and feel what he or she was feeling; that “it” factor of the work that takes you
to the time and place of the artist who created it and lets you become lost in the
moment conveyed.

Image: Capt. Stjepco Mamic: Net / acrylic on linen canvas / 100 x 80 cm / 2013
In short, great art comes from great artists. Because, more than anything, the end
product is a direct reflection of the mind, heart, soul, and life experience of the one
creating it. When artists think and feel deeply, respect the responsibility that goes
with their calling, and have a genuine connection to and interest in their subject
matter, they are on their way to greatness. And if their motivation, execution, and
expression are operating at high levels of skill and sincerity, great paintings can nat-
urally occur.

Allison Malafronte
senior editor of American Artist

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Lasserre

www.clothildelasserre.com
contact: Clothilde Lasserre
[email protected]
France

Hommes en devenir
oil on painting
100 x 80 cm
2014

Clothilde’s painting is the result of an
unusual career within the world of con-
temporary art. She did not come to
painting by accident but by necessity.

L’appât
oil on painting

60 x 120 cm
2015

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Lasserre

Mouvement d’espoir
oil on painting
150 x 120 cm
2014

By painting, she found a way of expressing and sharing her perception of the world,
her exaltations and her anxieties. Her art is a sort of testimony of the challenge of
living together whilst trying to be unique. This is brightly evidenced in her various
crowd scenes. She portrays crowds of individuals drowned in an alienating mass;
yet through her palette of colors she is able to express the rich diversity of each indi-
vidual, of each soul. However her work is not so much preoccupied by masses than
by the fragility which leads us to abandon our individuality in an attempt to fit in. Oil
and color create urban scenes in which our attention is first drawn to this recurrent
crowd before we have come to a more nuanced view of the portraits.

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Nous, vous, eux
oil on painting
100 x 100 cm
2014

Théorie du hasard
oil on painting
100 x 100 cm
2015

Her paintings succeed
in establishing a con-
nection with the viewer;
our own hidden fears
are eventually brought
to life on the canvas.

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Susanne Titze

www.susanne-titze.de Internal Power
contact: Susanne Titze acrylic on canvas
[email protected] 66 x 66 cm
Germany 2014

King Forever – Michael Jackson
acrylic on canvas
92 x 130 cm
2010

Susanne Titze lives and works as a
freelance artist in Nuremberg. Her fa-
ther, the famous german actor Günter
Strack, encouraged her creativity since
her early childhood and gave her the
ability of empathizing with other per-
sons. This is a very important aspect of
her work, as her paintings and plastic
arts originate from deep inside, describ-
ing processes of becoming as well as of
reshaping and recreating life.

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Mystic
bronze
60 cm
2009

During origination, emotions are re-
vealed, processed, transmuted and
released. The artist calls these artworks
spiritual art. Within it, she feels, hears,
sees and builds colors and shapes so
to speak “with all senses”. The powerful
bright colors and swinging shapes in her
artworks are characterized by optimism,
lust for life and vitality. Thus, sensations,
life themes and inner transformations of
persons, situations and occurrences are
expressed in a unique, very vivid way.

Unfold
bronze
30 cm

2013

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Kay McFarlane Smith

www.kaymcfarlanesmith.com
contact: Kay McFarlane Smith
[email protected]
Australia

Kimberley Floodplain
oil on canvas
100 x 75 cm
2015

Lavender Bay
Sydney Harbour
watercolour
75 x 54 cm
2007

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Ord River Gorge
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
2014

Kay McFarlane Smith is an award winning
Australian living on the east coast of NSW.
Working primarily in oil and watercolour
media, she gains inspiration from her trav-
els, which have taken her through more
than through 30 countries across America
Europe and Asia. Kay is passionate about
painting and strives to capture the essence
of her subjects through an intuitive, impres-
sionist style. Currently she has been work-
ing on a series of paintings inspired by the
Australian outback as well as the coastal
landscape where she lives.

Sandstone Saltbush and Savanna
oil on canvas
100 x 75 cm
2012

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Yi-Cheng Yen

www.goo.gl/2ByPOe
contact: Yi-Cheng Yen
[email protected]
Taiwan

Waving Coast
oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
2014

LiWu Riverside with Blossoms
oil on canvas
116,5 x 91 cm
2012

I started to learn painting twenty
years ago when I was a high school
student. I have been living in Taipei
city, Taiwan. I always enjoyed the
natural beauty of Taipei which is
absolutely a great resource of my
painting creations. I found that I
am interested in oil painting when
I studied in Visual Art in Shih Chien
University because this technique
creates many layers and repre-
sents the natural beauty very well.

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Good Memory
WaiMu Mountain
Coast
oil on canvas
41 x 27 cm
2014

After graduating from Shih Chien University, I worked for several companies as a
web designer and printing material designer. But I never give up on oil painting be-
cause I have a lot of passion for oil painting. I also had my very first personal painting
exhibition in 2007. After working for companies for several years, I decided to quit
the job and started my own painting studio in 2007, since I can focus on painting full
time and also share my knowledge and passion with my students.

Rising Wave

by the Wind

I 93 oil on canvas
53 x 45,5 cm

2014

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Dufault R.

Abstraction 452 (The City)
mixed media
36 x 48 in
2014

Being caught in the magic of abstrac-
tion Rollande Dufault likes to work with
the components that generate a state of
mind which invites the viewer to expand
its own dimension and creativity.

www.galeriedufault.ca
contact: Rollande Dufault
[email protected]
Canada

Abstraction 455 (Space)
mixed media
30 x 30 in
2014

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With Bachelor degrees in both Fine Abstraction 516 (Square)
Arts and History of Art, she is a Ca- mixed media
nadian professional artist recipi- 24 x 36 in
ent of numerous awards. She has 2014
been active in promoting contem-
porary art in Canada, Spain, Bel-
gium, Italy, France, Rumania, The
United-States and in Brazil. In 2011,
she was selected by the prestigious
“Société nationale des Beaux-Arts
de Paris” to participate as a mem-
ber of the Canadian delegation
at the annual Salon SNBA held at
the “Carrousel du Louvre’’. In July
2012, she was awarded a bronze
medal in Rumania. She exhibited
at the Red Dot Art Show in Miami,
Art Expo New York, the Southern
Nevada Museum of fine art in Las
Vegas, in Rio de Janeiro Brazil…

In 2013, she won a gold medal
in Rome Italy and another one in
Spain last year. This February, she
was chosen as one of the top two
artists in the “Conscious Creation
Art Contest of Vivid Arts Network
2015” to win the Vivid Arts Excel-
lence Award which will be pre-
sented in Ferrara, Italy in August.

Rollande Dufault is listed in the “Bi-
ennial Guide to Canadian Artists in
Galleries” published by Art Maga-
zine, in the “International Contem-
porary Art Masters”: Volume VI &
IX, (Word Wide Art Books, Califor-
nia), in ATIM’s Top 60 Masters of
Contemporary Art 2013- 2014 and
2015, (Art Tour International) and
in Show the Bola (Art of the of the
World).

Abstraction 427 (Priority)
mixed media
30 x 36 in
2012

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Wei Yan

Yellow dream
Chinese ink
12 x 16 in
2015

Wei Yan was born in Beijing, China, late 60s. At the year of 1995, Wei Yan’s art studio
was founded. The art works have been in many exhibitions in Canada and China.
Collected by people or enterprises from North America, China, Australia, and France.
Many of his students have enrolled into different art schools in North America. He has
been as the member of Portrait society of America he’s also a member of Portrait
society of Canada, Society of Canadian Artists.

Education:

1991 Bachelor of Fine Art:
Capital Normal University in
Beijing, China

1994 Seneca College
Toronto Ontario

Awaken
Chinese ink
12 x 16 in
2015

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Waterside
Chinese ink
16 x 18 in
2015

He describes his art as the fol-
lowing paragraph: “Please do
not ask whether I am a realism
painter or an abstract painter,
I like them both. I use oil paint
when I want to, but sometimes
I like using traditional Chinese
brush to create my art. My
works about “era through”,
about cultural differences and
the relations between human
and nature. I’m trying to not
only let people understand
more about my art, but also of-
fer a range of soothing, restor-
ative and positive energy with
my painting.”

www.yansart.ca Face Time 2
contact: Wei Yan oil on canvas
[email protected]
Canada 24 x 36 in
2014

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Anne Bate-Williams

The Bay
mixed media
5 x 50 cm
2007

Anne spent most of her adult life fully occupied as a mother and a primary school
teacher with a responsibility for art in the curriculum but always anticipating and
hoping this ‘time’ would come into fruition. She works organically, using mixed me-
dia to develop a piece which will grow out of her experience of place, inspira-
tion might come from a building, ruin or natural surroundings anything that sparks a
sense of discovery...

www.annebatewilliams.co.uk
contact: Anne Bate-Williams
[email protected]
United Kingdom

Rome
mixed media
13,1 x 31,9 cm
2014

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Iryna Lialko

www.lialko.com.ua
contact: Iryna Lialko
[email protected]
Ukraine
T.: +1865 696 1689

Iryna Lialko was born in Central Ukraine in 1981. Grad-
uated from high school and art school in 1996. At the
age of 15 she went to the College of Arts, studied
painting, graphic design, history of the fine arts, and
other disciplines. Outstanding training and graphic
talent resulted in a special grant to study art from the
President of Ukraine.

At 19, in the year 2000, she went to the Ukrainian National Academy of Visual Arts and
Architecture in Kiev until 2006. Studied in the graphics department. Studied various
graphic techniques - such as etching, linoleum cutting, lithography, tree engraving,
silk-screen print-ing, and other graphic techniques. For four years studied the tech-
nology of manual book creation and book illustration; including binding and cutting.
Studied oil, acrylic, water color, and other painting forms.

Metaphysics of Life
ink on paper
55 x 65 cm
1998

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Iryna Lialko In 2004 in parallel with ac-
ademic training, began
Indigo Meditation working in the sphere of
acrylic on paper interior design and mu-
50 x 90 cm rals. Created murals in
2008 Ukraine, Europe. First in-
ternational art competi-
tion of exlibris was in Po-
land in 1993; awarded
prizes for excellence. In
1997, at 16, first partici-
pated in professional art
exhibitions.

In 2005 began working as
a professional photogra-
pher. From 2010, until
now is engaged in per-
for-mance/show busi-
ness. Creates live shows
involving drawing with
sand and speed paint-
ing. Creates hand craft-
ed costumes for stage
shows.

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