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www.belagold.org BelaGold

No name
drawing and engraving-with fire on
recycled wood
93x93x10 cm
2013

Portraits – (No name 5) 99
laser shot on slate, stone engraving

and mixed media
75x85 cm
2013

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SòniaFerréToneu www.soniaferretoneu.wix.com/imaginecreate

Matriu, acrylic on canvas, 30.5x24.5 cm, 2012

Sònia Ferré Toneu was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1988, studied
painting at Escola Massana and graphic design. She has worked for
a short time in Manchester (UK), which influenced her at her early
artistic practice and led her to reaffirm even more her particular vision
of an imaginary world where the explosion of life combined with the
rhythm of a musical beat embodied in forms and colors. Updating the
ideas of Kandinsky, Sònia Ferré tries to get us deep into a visual scores
of electric music, interior and enveloping.

Why I love 01, digital, 200x700 cm, 2013

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www.irenaorlov.com IrenaOrlov

Los Angeles Industrial
mixed media
24x36 inches
2013

What is beauty? It is much better to seek beau-
ty where no one expects it to find. A simple
imperfection can be more attractive than bor-
ing perfection. 

My current body of work focuses on an Intrigu-
ing combination of texture, color, and compo-
sition. Each piece is manipulated with a unique
surface finish of textures.

In my art I combine charcoal, pastels, water-
color, ink, acrylic paint, pen and digital pho-
tography to create textural abstract drawings.
Regardless of the media, I strive to capture na-
ture’s innate beauty through each of my piece.
I try to focus on organic contours and unique
textures.

My hope is that the viewer is enticed to feel
the textures thus able to interact with the work.

Old plane 101
mixed media
24x36 inches

2013

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JenniferMyersKirton www.fineartamerica.com

Hibiscus in Orange
ink and prisma on rag
20x15 inches
2013

Jennifer Myers Kirton of Florida has
been drawing her entire life and has
been professional for over 40 years.
She works on a daily basis to enrich
her creativity and skill. Working from
nature or her imagination, she tries
to tell a story or capture a moment in
time. She won many awards and rec-
ognitions starting at 12 when she won
her first national award. Although her
only formal training is a partial year in
High school, she has been both men-
tored and encouraged by other artist.

Illusions of a Pineapple
ink drawing on rag paper
14x11 inches
2013

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www.TorvaFineArt.com LucretiaTorva

Silver Dream
Lucretia Torva received her MFA from the U. of Illinois and has been
painting for decades. She traveled extensively and studied Art History,
all of which informs her art. Lucretia became self-employed in 2000,
creating custom decorative painting projects in homes and businesses
across the Phoenix, AZ area. In 2009, she made the decision to concen-
trate on traditional “easel” painting. Having always been intrigued with
the ingenuity of man made things, automobiles were a natural choice.
Cars as a subject not only express creativity and problem solving, they
are symbolic of freedom, they are beautiful and colorful. Everyone has
a memorable car story.

BAMF Series, #4: Split

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NawafAl-Hmeli www.Nawafalhmeli.com

The Pearl Hunter
oil on canvas
120x100 cm
2013

The Falconer
oil on canvas
120x100 cm

2013

Nawaf Al-Hmeli was born
in 1976. An Aircraft En-
gineer and a self taught
Kuwaiti artist with a pas-
sion for Realism, Symbol-
ism and Surrealism whose
name stood out in a very
short period of time and
became one of the van-
guard names in Kuwaiti
art movement today. Al-
though he started drawing
& painting when he was
very little he never got the
chance to study Fine Arts
but he was keen on learn-
ing and improving his
technique and style on his
own. Becoming a profes-
sional artist never crossed
Nawaf’s mind until he par-
ticipated in his first ever
exhibition in 2004 which
echoed in his favor and
harvested great critiques’
reviews.

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www.pennywilton.co.uk PennyWilton

Spring
watercolour

60x45 cm

Textured sea
mixed media
90x60 cm

I am Penny Wilton – from Poole in Dor-
set. I have taught painting for thirty years
firstly in Adult Education and now pri-
vately. I run my own business teaching
and working on commissions for paint-
ings. I love the sea, my work is influenced
by the waves and textures found in the
countryside. I like abstract art and have
done many paintings for private clients,
in a chain of wine bars, hotels and Show
flats in Sandbanks and Sunseeker yachts.
I work large paintings in Acrylic and also
colourful works in watercolour, or mixed
media.

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ZhangFan [email protected]

These days – Onlookers, oil on canvas, 130x97 cm, 2012
Zhang Fan lives and works in Wuhan, China. His artworks are on display in the United States,
in the United Kingdom and other locations as well and have been included in many inter-
national art publications. Zhang Fan has also published his personal art book “These Days”.
About Zhang Fan’s works: These days there are a lot of problems, the air exudes a kind of
made me feel uncomfortable atmosphere. The situation is too complex, the reality is too
cruel, flies in the fly, life in the withered bloom, flesh proves nothingness and existence, and
everyone will go to another place…

These days – Fighting
each other

oil on canvas
130x110 cm

2011

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www.magoddess.com Mariska

Neem Tree
Mother and
Earth Mother –
Dancing with
the New Moon

Mother
healing transfor-

mation
self-made natu-

ral colours on
cotton cloth
45,5x60 cm
2013

MAriska (MA) – eco-spiritual Earth-Nature Goddess Art

The inspiration of MAriska who has lived since 2003 in Southern Tamil
Nadu, India are Mother Earth and Mother Nature, especially the Neem
Tree Mothers. Through their inspiration she discovered the source of her
artistic expression and creativity. The first two letters of her name, MA
refer to these Mother-Goddesses. In her works of art, MAriska uses only
self-made natural colours.

Tree Mothers Dancing with the Wind Mother and Sunlight – Waxing Moon
self-made natural colours on cotton cloth, 37.5x50.5 cm, 2013

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JunkoO’Neill www.junkooneill.com

Lissome
mixed media on panel
100x60 cm
2013

Junko O’Neill gained her MA and
BA in Fine Art Painting from Win-
chester School of Art, University
of Southampton, where she was
given the Stephen Heffer Memo-
rial Award. Her work reflects the
Japanese spatial and temporal
concept called Ma. The concept
considers negative space having
a form of existence, with space
perceived alongside time. O’Neill
expresses this concept both in
figurative and abstract work, pre-
dominantly using the medium of
painting. In March 2013 she had
her successful first solo show in
London entitled Fragments of
Time. She was shortlisted for the
Kudos International Competition
2013 and for the Celeste Prize
2011. She is a resident at The Sort-
ing Office Studios. Born in Tokyo,
she now lives in Winchester, UK.

Efflorescence
mixed media on panel

100x60 cm
2013

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www.kerriewarren.com.au KerrieWarren

Locking Horns
acrylic on linen

180x180 cm
2013

Kerrie Warren was born in 1968, Melbourne Australia. Exhibiting an impeccable instinct for
the emotional and evocative power of colour, movement, texture and shape, Kerrie’s work
relates more to a state of mind, mood or feeling than a tangible object. An exhibiting artist
with international representation, Kerrie Warren works at a professional level from her coun-
try studio in Crossover where she creates large scale paintings for both private and corporate
collections.

“Abstract expressionism provides me with a direct link to self as I work ‘within the moment’.
Through gestural movement, gravity and paint, the essence of these moments is captured and
recorded on canvas”.

Skipping Girl, acrylic on linen, 140x240 cm, 2013

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LaraGhassanAlKhatib www.laragalkhatib.com

Four Seasons
acrylics on canvas, consists of 4 pieces dimensions of each piece, 70x140 cm, 2011

I paint out of passion… To me, art is self expression, communication, a
tribute and an emotional portray. The first step in making decision in the
course of my work is brainstorming for inspiring thoughts & views. Next,
I visualize the concept of the painting in my head, how it will look like
and the feelings it will provoke. Finally, I translate that on canvas leaving
room for improvisation and spontaneous brush strokes. When it comes
to techniques, I
set myself free
from any restric-
tions, my style is neither classic nor
abstract, I see my self as an impression-
ist. Themes are often chosen based on
what moves me the most, a message
I would like to convey or even some-
thing I come across that strikes me as
interesting and worth highlighting. My
current work revolves around a group
of themes one of them is the theme of
Attraction, a collection that invites peo-
ple to welcome all what’s positive into
their lives.

Spirituality
oil on canvas

50x70 cm
2009

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www.markokrajcar.webs.com MarkoKrajcar

Born and raised in a small industrial town
of Sisak, Croatia. Studied painting at the
Academy of fine arts in Zagreb under re-
spected Croatian artists of the newer age;
Lovro Artukovic and Damir Sokic, who be-
came his mentor in 2003. Participated and
exhibited in numerous projects such as:
The Annual Academy exhibition, the An-
nual Salon of young artists, festival of con-
temporary art Kontakt, published his works
in the Croatian national magazine “Grafi-
ka”. His work was published and featured
in the International Contemporary Artists
Art Book NY in 2012. Lived and worked in
Brussels, Belgium for 3 years.

Surrealism
acrylic on canvas
65x92 cm
2010

Color Organism
acrylic on canvas

120x100 cm
2009

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YumikoReynolds www.yumikoreynolds.com

Dancer Triptych
Fibre rayon and silk threads, silk fleece and water soluble paper which dissolve on completion,
Left: 45x45x2 cm, 45x45x2 cm, Centre: 95x45x2 cm, Right: 45x45x2 cm, 45x45x2 cm, 2013

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www.yumikoreynolds.com YumikoReynolds

Anorexia Triptych
free machine

stitches using ray-
on and silk threads

on silk fleece and
water soluble pa-
per which dissolve

on completion
260x80,86,80x1 cm

2012

My works are called ‘Stitch Drawings’ that I create using a sewing ma-
chine and surface manipulation. My challenge is to push the boundaries
of stitching and drawing and to create a new kind of art form – Stitch
Drawing, on a surface constructed by fibre, thread or paper. My current
investigation is creating human forms and portraits experimenting with
light and shadow by using lacy effects. I also work with tonal values using
various thicknesses of threads on painted and manipulated brown paper.

Women Series
Various threads
and fleece on
painted and
manipulated
brown paper
46x35.5x2 cm
2008

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Yi-ChengYen www.grayyen.pixnet.net/blog

Golden Sunshine, oil painting, 162x130 cm, 2011

I started to learn painting twenty years ago when I was a high school student. I have been liv-
ing in Keelung city, Taiwan. I always enjoyed the natural beauty of Keelung 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
represents the natural beauty very well.
After graduating from Shih Chien Uni-
versity, I worked for several companies
as a web designer and printing mate-
rial designer. But I never give up on oil
painting because 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 sev-
eral years, I decided to quit the job and

started my own
painting studio in
2007, since I can
focus on paint-
ing full time and
also share my
knowledge and
passion with my
students.

Returning Home
oil painting
91x72.5 cm
2010

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www.susynski.com KennethSusynski

Pool Boxers Kenneth Susynski was
oil, acrylic, auto basecoat raised abroad due to
paint, ink and charcoal his father’s work with
on canvas the US government,
58x46 inches mostly in Germany
2013 yet also in Turkey,
South Korea and the
United Kingdom. The
combination of his
varied cultural experiences and the distinc-
tive personalities encountered along the
way impact his work more than any artistic
influence. He combines gestural abstrac-
tion based upon narrative events and unfor-
gettable experiences of the past few years
into compositions that project the emotion-
al relationship between heart and color.

Wisconsin
oil, acrylic, and charcoal

on canvas
36x24 inches

2012

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Aktrice (EdithMariaLesnik) www.aktrice.net

Aktrice’s creations invite us to contemplate and enjoy. Eroticism and mysticism are joined to
form an insoluble unity. Aktrice’s dramatic use of light and shadow and the intensity of her
colour, especially the colour red underscore her passion for life and the suffering that reveals
life’s meaning to us. The artist shows us a world that seems to be unreal and yet at the same
time, speaks of very real people and emotions. She uses ordinary objects like roses and chains
as well as plants and buildings to symbolize the inner workings of our minds and souls.

Aktrice’s love of detail is brilliantly executed through the use of the Old
Masters mixed media techniques to attract the attention oft he viewer
and to lead him into the magical world of her paintings.

This painting technique goes back tot he late gothic era and makes it
possible to create masterpieces of amazing colour intensity and lumi-
nosity. Often oil paints produced by the artist themselves are used as
well as colours that even today are made with granite rolls and cold
pressed windmill-linseed oil. This very expensive and time consuming
method produces immaculate, unaltered, lightfast colours.

When will you open the lock
oil on linen
50x50 cm
MMXIII

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www.aktrice.net Aktrice (EdithMariaLesnik)

When is it ready Fork with red ribbon
oil on linen oil on linen
60x30 cm 100x50 cm
MMXIII MMXIII

Water it will cost how much
oil on linen
40x80 cm
MMXIII

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GabiDomenig www.domenigartdesign.at

Angel with dove
acrylic and pastels
on paper
30x30 cm
2012

Gabi Domenig is an Austrian painter. She concerns herself primarily with the representation
of women. Her characters send out varied emotions such as pride, love, sadness, loneliness,
joy and longing. They are sensuous, strong, vulnerable, thoughtful, dreamy, seductive and
promising. The figures are mostly located in a particular environment cutout. The strong col-
ours, the expression of the eyes and the emotion should draw the viewer into its spell and
animate him to enter in a deeper communication with the figures in the picture. Flowers,
plants, animals, patterns and landscape sections are decorative parts, but are usually situated
in the background.

Four graces colored
acrylic on canvas
80x80 cm
2012

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www.csnyderpaint.com CaseySnyder

Devise
oil & mixed media

on panel
53x45 inches

2012

I am a mixed media painter and adjunct professor who lives and works
in the DC metro area. I received my MFA in Painting from Kendall Col-
lege of Art and Design in Grand Rapids MI, and my BFA from Ashland
University in Ashland Ohio. I have exhibited through out the Midwest
and East coast most recently exhibiting at the Fountain Art Fair for Ar-
mory week in New York. With my work I am interested in encouraging
viewers to question truth in narratives, and to create with imagery. I rel-
ish in transforming imagery and leading audiences to take a fresh look
at the illusion of memory.

Erratic
oil & mixed media
on panel
171/2x14 inches
2012

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GiancarloFlati www.giancarloflati.com

Giancarlo Flati was born in Aquila. Winner of the Prize Michetti-Muse-
um on 2005. According to Claudio Strinati* “Flati is an artist endowed
with great awareness. The balance he displays between the spontane-
ous flow of inspiration and the capacity to reflect on the work produced
is a quality seldom found. While he has already been active for a good
many years, there can be no doubt about the fact that his work fits in
perfectly with the renewal of this new millennium. The master has in
fact succeeded over the years in developing a highly personal style,
deriving in part also from his specific experiences both in art and in sci-
ence, to the point of bringing wholly spontaneous impulse into line with the results of intense
reflection involving a convergence of psychological, metaphysical, technical and spiritual
themes.” It’s the subtle ad deep relationship between primordial Information and creative
consciousness that represents the fertile ground and the substance of his artistic experience.

*In “Giancarlo Flati Intersezioni del Tempo” – Matteo Editore 2008.

Holographic sacro gral 2, acrylic on canvas, 160x120 cm, 2013

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www.giancarloflati.com GiancarloFlati

Bright darkening 1 Meilin’s view 2
acrylic on canvas acrylic on canvas
100x100 cm
2013 100x100 cm
2013
Meilin’s view 1, acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2013

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LindsayTerhorstNorth www.lindsayterhorstnorth.com

Lindsay is primarily a painter and installation artist. Her work is influ-
enced by the primitive cultures of her youth in South Africa and the
contrasting urban cultures of her adulthood in London, as she journeys
through and between the two in search of meaning drawing from her
life experiences.

Many of the themes that run through her work look at how trauma
imprints on the psyche and the healing and redemption that can come
through faith. Her work tends towards the distressed – she works and
reworks the surface allowing the process to lead her, as if the work is
deciding what it will be and her role is to uncover it

Shelter beneath the willow
mixed media on canvas
50x100 cm
2013

Beneath the surface
mixed media on canvas
60x90 cm
2013

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www.lindsayterhorstnorth.com LindsayTerhorstNorth

Stripped
acrylic on canvas

36x46 cm
2010

In the Shadows of
Trees
mixed media on
canvas
100x100 cm
2013

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Meredith Cope www.meredithcope.com

Infinite Energy, oil on canvas-(triptych), 64x30 inches, 2013

There is a hyper realism to her work that is rarely used simultaneously
with emotion, a pull, a belief. And yet all of these qualities are unde-
niably trademarks of her work. She uses realistic form because of its
beauty – plain and simple. But the work displays visionary, intuitive
symbolism because of the totally dreamlike and magical qualities pre-
sent – which leads to the emotional attraction of the work and, for most
people, a deeper meaning. And by the way, isn’t that what we are? –
realistic form with deeper meaning? Our bodies are tangible. Our pur-
pose and meaning are not – until we manifest them. This body of work
is the manifestation of the meaning and connection she perceives we
all have in life to nature, each other, and to all that is.

Interconnected, oil on canvas, 40x30 inches, 2012

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www.nicholasdown.net NicholasDown

Sonoma, oil on gesso panel, 50x65 cm, 2010

Born in Uganda in 1957, Nicholas Down spent a formative childhood in East Africa before
returning to the United Kingdom to study at the Kings School Canterbury and the London
Hospital Medical College where he qualified with Distinction as a Doctor in 1980. He retired
from family medicine in 2012 and emigrated to the USA to pursue his career as a Professional
Artist, having exhibited widely in the UK and Europe. His critically acclaimed paintings have
become highly sought after and are held in private collections in the USA, the UK, Germany,
Italy and the Far East.

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oil on gesso panel

60x60 cm
2011

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KarinPaland www.karin-paland.com

The dancing
Pierrot

80x60 cm
2011

Painter Karin Paland completed various art studies and perfected her
skills in many different painting techniques. Over the years she devel-
oped her own individual pictorial language-a fusion of different art
movements like realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstraction.
Like a trademark her paintings show a positive, enormous colourful
and dynamic radiance, which beam with lightness and reflect her own
life experiences. Thanks to diverse national and international art exhi-
bitions, e.g. in Italy, Switzerland, France, Austria and the US, her public
awareness has grown continuously. Born in Berlin in 1945, Karin is
living at Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria/Germany.

Against
windmills
90x70 cm
2011

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www.fructoseface.wordpress.com MatthewSteidley

xyfy
red ballpoint pen
19x24 cm
2012

I grew up in Southern spineless
California skateboard- red ballpoint pen
ing, playing Atari, and
collecting comic books 22.5x30 cm
and Garbage Pail Kids. 2012
I became obsessed
with art history and
with the technical skills
I developed drawing as
a child, I started to stretch. Painting in oils be-
came my focus along with some experimental
work. I received my BA from San Diego State
University in Painting with a minor in Art His-
tory in 2004. Then in 2006 I moved to the
rural north of Japan. The Japanese language
and arts of ikebana, zen gardens, ukiyo-e,
and anime have heavily influenced my work.
I have since returned to San Diego and been
changed deeply by Japan which has led me
back into drawing as a means of meditation.
My work is now done primarily on a small
scale and monochromatically in red ink. Ink
is an unforgiving medium much like life; there
is no erasing mistakes or over painting – one
must stay in the moment.

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DinaTorrans www.artdesign.to

Transiting, mixed media, 38x26 cm, 2013
Dina Torrans’ works from the series “Adventures on Earth”, delicately en-
gage in acts of bricolage. They transport us in ways that sculpt strong
narratives. Each work is like looking into a microscope focused on an im-
aginary Natural world. This ruptures the viewer’s sense of perception by
inviting an attention to detail to a creative process and a world of wonder.
For Dina, each work is a poem open to multiple interpretations.

Bountiful, mixed media, 38x26 cm, 2013

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www.artdesign.to DinaTorrans

Many rivers, one sea, mixed media, 38x26 cm, 2013
Treasure, mixed media, 38x26 cm, 2013

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GuangYuan http://art.china.cn/focusart/node_516796.htm

Skin of mountain Clouds on Namco Lake
oil on canvas oil on canvas
97×130 cm 200×200 cm
2001 2008

Guang Yuan, Born in March,
1961; graduated from Fine Art
Academy of Capital Normal
University in 1982; from 1987
to 1989, studying in the re-
searching class that hold by Oil
Painting Department of China
Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Now, Guang Yuan is working
as an professor and master’s
mentor in Fine Art Academy of
Capital Normal University.

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Poetry of waves No.2
oil on canvas
110×110 cm
2011

Sound of light
oil on canvas
200×200 cm
2009

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JuanDomingoLinaresZaragozá www.jd-linares.blogspot.com.es

UNTITLE
167x122 cm

2013

The combination of shapes or other figu-
rative abstract structures form a symbi-
otic relationship necessary to express the
need coexistences assimilation. These
labyrinthine structures, in which space
is occupied by the self as independent,
conscious and value individuality evo-
lutionary reflection in a moment, an inti-
mate space where the vacuum includes a
whole unique world, sometimes fluctuat-
ing other scanning in the depths of one-
self. Mazes that limit our ability to under-
stand and that lead to other uncertainties.

UNTITLE
122X197 cm
2013

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www.arnoldjongkind.nl ArnoldJongkind

Answers His paintings tells us more
oil on masonite about light and dark, good
60×80 cm and evil, hate and love: in
2010 short all perspectives in the
ingredients of live gives him
the inspiration for his work
as an artist. His oeuvre often
deals with the contrast wich
occur in almost everything.
Unfortunately, temtations are
often in the spotlight and bring
us into conflict with our envi-
ronment and with ourselves
also. Fortunately, this world
does not only bring us mis-
ery, for live gives birth to
many beautiful moments.
Therefore, it is the artist`s
task to unite beauty and dra-
ma and to make them public
in his work.

The archaeologist
oil on masonite
110×90 cm
2004

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EvaPilipar www.piliparart.hu

Golgota
pastel on sandpaper

16,5x11,8 inches
2012

Eva Pilipar – a native of Hungary –
was born in Budapest in 1968. Af-
ter graduating from High School
she brushed aside her dream to
become an artist and pursued her
second love: Movies. She’s been
editing films ever since. Her first
visit to Feszty Korkep left an ever
lasting impression and ‘till today
influencing her. It is a giant circu-
lar panoramic painting of early Hungarian History done by many artists including Pal Vago an
ancestor of Eva. She is a self-taught artist. Many of her paintings can be found in private collec-
tions now in Hungary, Ireland, the USA and Germany. Eva likes to explore uncharted waters, ex-
periment with new technics and materials. She lets her feelings, the given situation or simply the
materials guide her and all these elements come alive on the canvas vividly. There is no greater
gratification to her than seeing people in this 24 hour world to stop and take a few minutes to
become one with one of her beloved pieces.

Lost summer
acrylic on canvas
9,4x9,4 inches
2012

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www.francesbildner.com FrancesBildner

Impressions magazine called her a
passionate and seductive painter,
New York’s Village Voice declared
Bildner’s work to be “varied and
vital enough to renew a jaded spir-
it” Frances was inspired to go into
Art after having won a competition
at the age of 13 where Sir Charles
Wheeler, the past president of the
Royal Academy wanted to buy her
painting!

I love colour, I love it in its vital-
ity, in its aliveness, in its courage
and magnitude, in its fullness and
wellness in its darkness and pain.
Colour in its highs and lows, its
definition and freedom. I love its
childlike, friendly, approachable
intensity, its spontaneity and hon-
esty. For me a world devoid of col-
our is unimaginable.

Central Park, acrylic on canvas, 61x91 cm, 2013

Vegas at Night, acrylic on canvas, 122x91 cm, 2013

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MayshaS www.maisha-s.com

Maysha was born 1983 in Ber- Dream 3
lin. Living in the Netherlands
and Bremen and based now
since 2004 in Hamburg.

“Maysha means life. With my
Art I want to show the beauty of
life! Mostly I paint with acrylic/
mixed media on canvas. The
Colours in my paintings are very
expressive. I want to reflect the
feelings we have all in us.“

Flow 1, mixed media on canvas, 45x50 cm, 2013

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[email protected] JennyElson

Woman of Africa
acrylic on canvas
2ft 6 x 1ft 6 inches
2012

I am inspired by the beauty of people and places I have visited
around the world. However one does not have to travel to see the
beauty of nature as it is all around us.

The Battle
acrylic on canvas
3ft x 2ft inches
2012

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MariaBobrovskaya www.studiomb.narod.ru/index.htm

Lotus
acrylic on canvas

40x70 cm
2013

Free artist (painting, batik, author
bears etc.). She participated in inter-
national art exhibitions, competitions,
international auctions. Awards: Medal
“For promoting ideas of peace” (Alli-
ance “Peacemaker”), gold medal New
York Realism Fine Art in the category
of FANTASY. His works are in collec-
tions Alliance “Peacemaker”, private
collections of Russia, Germany and
Bulgaria. The work represented in gal-
leries in Moscow, Sochi, New York,
Paris. Member of the Professional
Union of Artists, the International Art
Fund, JADA.

Tree under snow
acrylic on canvas
60x80 cm
2012

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www.soekeland-galerie.de BennoSökeland

Do It Again, acrylic on canvas, 120x160 cm, 2012

Art should be fun and art should also say something – or even both. Benno Sökeland paints
what he just comes into his head. Most of his work are figurative and sometimes he works also
abstract. You can see it like it is or you can see it in a ironical way – the ambivalence of the view
you also can find in his work. The artist defines a position to the world, like it was told in the
talmud “You don’t see the world how it is, you see the world how you are“.

Murphy’s paradise
acrylic on canvas
170x155 cm
2013

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NaokoMorisawa www.naokomorisawa.artspan.com

Mask I – Hannya Contemporary
Japonism
mixed media, handcrafted oil stained
wood mosaics, acrylic,
oil/sumi
30x24 inches
2013

Naoko Morisawa’s (Seattle) artwork is made of hundreds of very small

slices of natural/oil-dyed woodchips on board. The variety of wood grain

is very beautiful and the pattern is never the same. The combination of

natural grains creates interesting shadows and impressions. When seen

from a distance, her artwork looks like a painting the details of the work

slowly emerge when viewer comes closer. Bright, fun, and unusual sub-

jects attract and inspire her to work in new directions. Mysterious crea-

tures and Illusions are recurring themes in her work. Naoko has exhibited

Photo by Zorn Taylor her art at Seattle Art Museum Gallery, ArtXchange gallery, Northwind Art
Centre Gallery, Nord-

strom Corporate Gallery, Lynnwood Conven-

tion Centre, FCA Gallery Vancouver-BC, The

Contemporary Arts Centre, Las Vegas, What-

com Museum in Bellingham and General

Electric Cultural Gallery. Before moving into

the US, she taught art at Yokohama and Tokyo

community centre and Canadian Embassy

etc, as well as being freelance illustrator. She

had worked at a Trading Company in Tokyo,

Japan where she worked for package designs

for Godiva Chocolate, and Twining Tea Com-

pany etc. Winners London Creative Competi-

tion 2013 by International Awards Inc, New

York/ London.

Magic Mushroom World X- Flying
Mushroom

mixed media, handcrafted oil stained
wood mosaics, acrylic, oil/sumi
30x24 inches
2013

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Delírio, 80x100 cm, 2009

Sula Dray has graduated in Fashion design at the University Candido Mendes, RJ and she’s a
member of the Brazilian Academy of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro. She held exhibitions in the
Hall of Conrad Hotel, in Uruguay, and received highly favorable critiques assigned by the well
known Uruguayan artist Carlos Paez Vilaro, Pablo Picasso’s disciple. Sula’s paintings were ex-
hibited int the International Hall of Art in Portugal, in the Ward-Nasse Gallery in N.Y, USA, in
the Everarts Gallery in Paris, France, where she got a silver medal from the Academie des Beaux
Arts, Sciences et Lettres de Paris. She has also participated in “Carrousel Du Louvre Awards,
Paris. Prix Special 2011.

Silhuetas II 141
60x83 cm
2010

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FrancesAlleblas www.francesalleblas.com

Tedjakula’s horsebath
(Covarrubias series)
watercolour & char-
coal on paper
150x180 cm
2013

Alleblas’ artwork consists of
charcoal and pencil draw-
ings, prints and watercolours
of different sizes. The drawings
have a figurative, narrative at-
mosphere and show a world
in which often-unexpected re-
lations between different ele-
ments confront the viewer with
unclear feelings and certain confusion; beautiful but
odly mysterious, disquieting.
The work is not so much influenced by the art histor-
ical context, but is more related to a wider view of
human experience, relations between cultures and re-
lations between the self and other. The protagonists,
whether human or animal, are enigmatic, elusive and
seem absorbed in their own world.

Unveiling vigour
monoprint, charcoal,
pierre noir & pencil on paper

70x140 cm
2009

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www.godart.kr JuchulKim

Brooklyn Bridge New York, oil on canvas, 72.7x53 cm, 2013

In recent years I have enjoyed drawing bridges and exploring their role
and meaning. The bridge can represent many things to many people,
such as history, cultural exchange and communication. I travelled to Eu-
rope for 2 weeks in October 2011 and visited New York for my exhibition
for a further 2 weeks, and these trips gave a new direction to my work as
I observed bridges and the landscapes around them in their original col-
ours. I am often reminded of the Simon and Garfunkel song “bridge over
troubled water”, which evokes a feeling of the arduous journey of life in
the 21st century and I hope to convey this in my pictures.

Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Japan, oil on canvas, 182x62.2 cm, 2010

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JuliusBabilonia www.jba-d.com

Inked Born 1966, New York
oil on canvas City native, Julius Ba-
90x120 cm bilonia studied at Pratt
2013 Institute School of Ar-
chitecture where he re-
ceived his Bachelors of
Architecture in 1990.
Owner of JB Art and
Design, a creative bou-
tique design studio focusing on all aspects of
Architectural Design, with the goal to provide
a unique artistic approach to the design ex-
perience. Julius searches for the heroic no-
tions in all recurring shapes and movements
of nature’s design and the ongoing man made
evolving environment. Julius tries to reinter-
pret these notions by using my own Artistic
and Architectural fictional narratives. Each
work is an interpretation of a new notion
of design with the accidental free forming
shapes and ambiguous landscapes.

The robot dream
oil on canvas
90x120 cm
2011

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www.saatchionline.com/martonbende MartonBende

Blue-dotted vase
oil on canvas
100x70 cm
2013

The suppressor and
the suppressed
oil on canvas
90x60 cm
2013

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interested in art from his early age and is paint-
ing for over a year now. He did not attend to any
art schools, he is a self-taught artist. He paints
with oil and usually uses big sized canvases.
His paintings show figures an unusual forms,
made from different geometrical shapes. Mar-
ton is greatly affected by the style of Jean-Michel
Basquiat and Pablo Picasso as well as the mod-
ern street art. He is continuously improving
himself and developing his own style.

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RobertoTrejo www.trejo.guidarts.com

Peysage d’Orient, acrylic on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2009
The Yin, acrylic on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2011

Born in Mexico city in
1948. Studies drawing and
painting in Paris, France.
Living in Gif sur Yvette,
Ile-de-France, France.

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www.trejo.guidarts.com RobertoTrejo

The Yang, acrylic on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2009
Wather Folks, acrylic on canvas, 50x70 cm, 2013

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MeshaSendyk www.meshasendyk.com

Visual Koan LIV
mixed media on
canvas
160x160 cm
(four panels
80x80 cm each)

Visual Koan
XXXVIII
mixed media on
canvas
100x100 cm

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