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www.meshasendyk.com MeshaSendyk

”I believe that in the present work by Mesha Sendyk, we are offered an opportunity to access
the realm of the eternal where space and time are informed by consciousness. These works
seem to act as a portal into a deeper view of the world beyond action and reaction I perceive
them as devotional works referencing the primal essence of existence.” – Robert Bleakley –
Founder & Former CEO Sothebys Australia and former director of the Tribal Art Department,
Sothebys London.

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JonathanMavuaLessor www.mavuart.com

After The Massacre
oil on canvas
40x40 inches
2012

Jonathan Mavua Lessor was born on 26th November, 1960. Studied art and design at the Auchi
Polytechnic School of Art and Design Auchi, Nigeria. Majored in painting and graduated in
1986 with a Higher National Diploma (H.N.D) in painting. Foremost Nigeria artist widely col-
lected around the world.
Art is my passion, as well as my profession. My work is characterised by heavy, warm, vibrant
colours, often on texturised surfaces depicting subjects ranging from social, economic, cultural
and environmental interest. A medium and an instrument of bond, my art helps to contact and
unite me, my people and my environment with the rest of the world, even when they are be-
yond my material senses.

Generations
mixed media, cord,
fibre, acrylic, oil on
canvas
16x45 inches 3 panels
2012

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www.galerie-meli.at MeliHuszar

I started painting in 2006. I was The beauty of nature Lonely Cottage
born and raised in Bosnia. As a kid acrylic on canvas acrylic on canvas
I always wanted to be an artist, but 30x30 cm
growing up in a family with 7 kids 2009 80x60 cm
wasn’t always easy. I couldn’t effort 2009
myself an art study. After I moved to
Austria, I started painting, because I
realized it helped me through hard
times. Painting, for me, feels like a
therapy. I can relax and it’s a good
way to calm yourself. I try to show
people the beauty of our world
through my paintings. I always see
the good and beautiful in everyone
and everything around me. As a
mother of three children I have a lot
of work, so I really enjoy the time
off. I get myself a coffee, sit down
and let all my thoughts flow into a
painting.

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ARINA www.arina-art.com

The Smile
oil on linen
122x92 cm

2013

The Red in my works has a
deep meaning. In Russian
language the word ‘red’
often has an equal mean-
ing to the word ‘beauti-
ful’. Russian writer Fyodor
Dostoevsky said ‘Beauty
will save the World’, so I
believe that in my works
I transform my perception
of the ‘red’ as ‘beautiful’
into a symbol of ‘saving
the world’. I believe that a purpose of art is keeping the world in balance and harmony. It’s an
honour, but also a huge responsibility to be an artist. Artists are responsible for what we are
bringing to the world within our creativity, for every single brush stroke we produce. I believe
that images and objects created with passion can transform reality. We all create the world
around, and the more positive and beautiful art created today, the better will be the world to
live in tomorrow. Beauty will Save the World and Art IS this powerful tool to bring the Beauty to
the World – to Save it.

Renaissance as Augury 1
oil on linen
92x122 cm
2011

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www.spyroskolyvas-art.blogspot.gr SpyrosKolyvas

Old house in Mantouki, Corfu
watercolor
35x20 cm
2012

Spyros Kolyvas was born in Corfu where he took his first lessons in paint-
ing at the School of Fine Arts of Corfu under the famous painter Nikos
Zervos. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the 1st
Painting Workshop under the famous teachers D. Mytaras and Z. Arvani-
tis. In academic year 1997-98 he received scholarship and grant from the
State Scholarship Foundation. He is a Member of the Greek Chamber of
Visual Arts. His work can be found in public and private collections in
Greece and abroad.

The boats
watercolor
67x65 cm

2010

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JohnSzabo [email protected]

Ultraviolence at Walmart
oil on canvas
2009

I am a full time concep- Warning Signs
tual designer. In addition, pencil on paper
I have my own business
where I also work as a con- 19x24 inches
ceptual display designer. 2013
I studied art history at
Rider College and Mercer
County Community Col-
lege. I obtained an Asso-
ciates degree in advertising design. In whatever
time that is left for me, I enjoy painting and draw-
ing. Some of my work hangs permanently in the
Square Peg Round Hole gallery in Bordentown
as well as private collections around the world.
I have won several awards. I am inspired by sci-
entific, ecological, and political ideas, shortcom-
ings, and prejudices. I feel that artwork for me is
an extension of my innermost dreams and night-
mares as well as a representation of life’s many
disappointments and inequities. I like to use ab-
stract symbolism to convey what I am thinking.
Since I do not possess the gift of writing I find art-
work to be a great conduit for expressing myself.
The best feeling for me is watching somebody
stare at my artwork and comment on it while I
observe in the background.

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www.paintingsinlove.com/artist/johnszabo JohnSzabo

One Step Backward, Beyond the Forward
oil on board
36x48 inches
2012

Unfit Survival 155
oil on board
36x48 inches
2013

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GaetanneLavoie www.gaetannelavoie.com

I am working to express my
personal philosophies of spir-
ituality in relation to being hu-
man by developing composi-
tions that project emotional
contrast. I use bright, saturated
colors, and feminine patterns
combined with a somber and
introspective mood, projected
by the figure to enhance the contradictions that I’ve
experienced in seeking a different vibrational plane
of existence. I hope to create naratives that are relat-
able on several different levels. I received my BFA
from York University, Toronto, MFA from The Acad-
emy of Art University in San Francisco and a second
MFA which I consider to be my personal Ph D from
The New York Academy of Art.

No I Won’t Dance Happy Pills
oil on board oil on board
30x16 inches 40x60 inches
2013
2012

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www.gaetannelavoie.com GaetanneLavoie

Freedom
oil on canvas
70x35 inches

2013

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IshiButcher www.rasishi.com

Journey Ras Ishi ‘Secret Diary’ series (2001-
mixed media on canvas 2010) a new chapter opened in
195.6x195.6 cm Barbadian art history. Ishi – a well-
2005-2010 known member of the Caribbean
post-colonial avant-garde – had so
far been associated with the repre-
sentation of the Black Diasporic ex-
perience. In these works, however,
form and scale itself became the mes-
sage. These austere, black and white
paintings consist of multiple icons
and patterns, which are inverted, repeated and adjusted
in ever-changing combinations. Given the difficult condi-
tions under which artists like Ishi exist, the most compel-
ling aspect of the series is its virtually architectural scale,
and the unapologetic insistence on their own materiality.

Art Conquerors
mixed media
on canvas

129.5x129.5 cm
2005-2010

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www.aofsmith.com AofSmith

Monker Honker First Sight
oil on canvas oil on canvas
150x150 cm 180x200 cm
2013
2012
Every single journey
of lifetime, a man ex-
periences various sit-
uations arousing his
happiness, suffering,
sadness and loneli-
ness. Moreover, the
fast approach of sev-
eral temptations se-
duces those men into obsession of corpore-
ality, taste and scent of dream. However, the
human emotion varies. It depends on many
factors; inside and outside of his mind. Only
ephemeral and instability of moods can
fade away his obsessions in each day. But if
we scrutinize them, they define themselves.
Those are lingering experiences in his mind
which lead us to contemplation. They cre-
ate the world of imagination awaiting you to
discover them.

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BekirSmolski www.bekir.org

Graduated from Belarusian Academy of Art, Department of Monu- Shadows
mental-Decorative Art in 1994. Member of Union of Artists of Be- oil on canvas
larus since 1996 and of the Stained Glass Association of America
since 2007. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Light, with its trans- 50x40 cm
formations and changeability, variety of forms, uncommonness of 2012
structure has always been the source of inspiration for artists. There
are a few good examples of it throughout the centuries – ranging
from the elegant play of light in the paintings of Dutch artists of the
seventeenth century to the harsh, at times exaggerated, chiaroscuro
in the work of some contemporary artists.

The Leading Light
oil on canvas
120x80 cm
2013

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www.naturalfantasy.co.nz CarolBanner

Hybrid
pencil on paper

53x36 cm
2010

Carol is a self taught artist whose work is influenced by the Art Nouveau
era and the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. Art Nouveau was mainly based on
nature with natural shapes and forms. Escher also based a lot of his art
on nature but used distortion, fantasy and metamorphosis to produce his outstanding work.
Carol works in coloured pencil, pastels or a combination of both as well as black and white
drawing. The foundation
for her work is nature
with slight variations
so anything different or
unusual appeals to her,
hence the name for her
work “Natural Fantasy”.

After Midnight
pastel on paper

43x58 cm
2009

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DavidJones davidjonesart.co.uk

Kimono my House
acrylic on canvas
52x71 cm
2012

David’s recent work explores the
subliminal effects of media such
as billboards, logos and computer
games on our cognition and in turn
our relationship with our physical
environment, be it a landscape,
motorway flyover or the decora-
tion in an interior. He regards his
work as a synthesis of an inner and
outer world. Paintings of a highly
stylized abstract landscape may have an unnatural intervention imposed on them or the op-
posite where figurative scenes of nature encroach upon an urban setting. His work is influ-
enced by SF writers such as Olaf Stapledon, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick and Charles Stross.

One Hundred Years of Sleep No 2, acrylic on wood, 50x30 cm, 2013

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[email protected] TeresaKerin

Tango Fire
oil on board
30x46 cm
2013

The Chat, Lifeu Island
oil on board
40x55 cm
2011

Tess’s paintings are inspired by the 163
emotion she feels when she sees some-
thing beautiful or witnesses beauti-
ful things taking place and wishes to
share that emotion. She was inspired
by the Dancers in Buenos Aires. She
also loves to discover new places with
their own magic. Rather than make her
paintings busy, she prefers the silence
of the paintings to whisper ‘visit me’.

She loves painting her ‘Red Umbrella’
series, each one depicting a different
street from different cities from around
the world, conveying the solitude and
just enjoying the walk in the rain.

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YaroslavKoporulin www.yarkoporulin.com

La Danza Macabra I, silkscreen on wood, 38x48x3 inches, 2011

Growing up in Moscow during the post-Soviet Era, I witnessed a dramatic transformation of
Russian people and culture. This societal change, reinforced by my personal experiences,
influenced my interest in an individuals’ way to self recognition, emotional conflicts and
struggle with the indoctrination that accompanies modern life. With the use of metaphori-
cal characters and surreal setting, I portray man and the world as a complex tangle of strings
where each character consists of polar emotions and unpredictable reactions. Humanity
balances, blindfolded on a thread of existence between dualities – love and loss; life and
death – in the search for values and purpose.

Cloud Hunt
graphite on paper
20x16 inches
2013

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www.yansart.com WeiYan

Wei Yan was born in Beijing,
China 1968. He graduated from
Beijing Normal University Fine
Art department with B.A degree
in 1991. Wei Yan’s art studio
was found in 1995 after he im-
migrated in Canada. His work
can be found in public and pri-
vate art collection in China and
Canada, and has been seen in
numerous exhibitions both Can-
ada and China. He is the mem-
ber of Portrait Society of Canada,
Portrait Society of America and
Federation of Canadian Artists.
He currently lives and works in
Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Face Time
oil on canvas
24x36 inches
2013

Depart 165
acrylic on canvas

16x20 inches
2013

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VikePedersen www.24-7-366.eu

City life
acryl/silkscreen

on canvas
80x80 cm

2012

I have worked with art for at least 40 years. First abstract motives printed with serigraphy in
smaller print runs. Now, I do acrylic painting and serigraphy on canvas, solely one-off pieces.
I want to show you my world of images as I see life unfolding in town and country in many
places around the world 24-7-366. – Often with a touch of poetry and moods!

How to run a bike
acryl/silkscreen
on canvas
80x80 cm
2012

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www.24-7-366.eu VikePedersen

Cross the Bridge
acryl/silkscreen on canvas
80x80 cm
2012

Meeting point 167
acryl/silkscreen on canvas

80x80 cm
2010

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BirgitL.Dörfer www.amandasart.de

Peony – the Queen of Flowers Love of animals
cut from paper and applied to the substrate acrylic and mixed media on cardboard
29x21 cm
2009 29x21 cm
2009

Birgit L. Dörfer creates
scenes of nature. Riv-
ers, lakes, mountains
and trees have the air of
Japanese miniature draw-
ings: whispered, outlined,
shaded. Her works exude meditative balance
and inner peace. The artist uses predominantly
acrylic paints and is thus capable of depicting
natural phenomena in a most inspiring and orig-
inal fashion.

The painter is best known, however, for her
unusual and delicate Feng-Shui-Collages. The
technique behind their manufacturing was de-
veloped by her and combines the Far Eastern
science of Feng-Shui with modern art, render-
ing her works unique in Germany. The aim is to
evoke positive feelings and to instill calm and
serenity. Moreover, her works are imaginative
decorations for any kind of living space.

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www.g-urumov.com GeorgiUrumov

Sacrament Georgi Petrov Urumov, born on Novem-
mixed media ber 12, 1954 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is a
31.5x23.6 inches member of the Bulgarian Artists’ Union
2012 and member of Plovdiv Artists’ Group.
He has many a solo exhibition and over
sixty group participations in numerous
Bulgarian and international exhibitions
and private gallery expositions: namely
ART COLLAGE International Art Exhibi-
tion in Paris, International General Ex-
hibition in Liege, the XXth International
Collage Salon in Paris and many more.
Georgi Urumov currently resides and
paints in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Many of his
works are owned by private collections
and galleries worldwide.

Prehistory
mixed media
27.6x19.7x1.2 inches

2012

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LucilleMarcotte www.lucillemarcotte.com

In 2000, Lucille Marcotte began her Bach- Regarder ailleurs
elor’s degree in Visual Arts at Laval Uni- oil on canvas
versity. She had previously completed a 152x152 cm
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the Uni- 2012
versity of Quebec in Psychology, as well
as a degree in Education and Cultural Re- Seule sur le sable
search. Several years later, she decided to oil on canvas
leave her career in Psychology to follow 121x91 cm
her dream and work as a painter. She has 2013
had 7 solo exhibitions among them the
solo exhibition « L’invitation au voyage »
at the gallery « Le Violon Bleu « was sup-
ported by the « Délégation du Québec » in
London (UK). During this event, the artist
was rewarded for the remarkable quality of
her work. She has had also at the 14 group
participations in Boston, at the Jules Place
gallery, Belgique, Prague, Toronto, Mon-
tréal and Québec and recently at the Car-
rés d’artistes gallery, Strasbourg (France).

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www.marekemuellerkunst.de MarekeMüller

Blow
oil on canvas
100x100 cm

2012

Mareke Müller was born in 1967 in Leer, a small town in the north of
Germany. She moved to Berlin after finishing school and started the
High School of Fine Art in Berlin in 1989. After her degree in 1993 she
started a new period of painting in oil colours. To this day the subject
stays the development of the society and the human characters inside
this society.

Pillenkasperine
oil on canvas
140x100 cm
2013

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DerekCulley www.derekculley.com/golgotha

Untitled
mixed media on
canvas
60x30 inches
2009

Self-taught artist, born and educated in Dublin.
Culley was a founder member and chairman of Celtic Vision with the
painters John Bellany and Denis Bowen, and participated in the group’s
exhibition tour in 1986-7. He took part in many other group shows
including The London Group tour 1987; Modern Irish Painting, Dillon
Gallery, 1995; and Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Republic of
Macedonia, 1996. FIS
2008/9 Liverpool. Gal-
lery Different–London
2012/13. Selected Solo shows include “Five
Years of Culley” The Royal Hospital Kilmain-
ham, Dublin Ireland, 1989, “Golgotha” Liver-
pool Anglican Cathedral-2011, Tamh Lacht”
RUA/RED Gallery-Dublin 2011, Golgotha’
Prayer Room IEC2012 Congress RDS-2012
Lives in Southport – Merseyside.”
Awards: Art Colony Galicnick residency:
Macedonia 1994 BIRD2005 International
Art Award – China, The Cill Rialaig Project
Ireland – residency 2008, Recipient of a Pol-
lock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2006-2007
for artistic merit.

Tamh-Lacht The Wall
(series of 14 canvas’s) 8/14

microcemento and acrylic
30x48 inches
2011

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www.martinakolle.eu MartinaKolle

Every topic, the colours and com-
position of each single painting,
are given to me in quiescence
and are then transferred onto can-
vas. The interplay of the objective
and the non-objective generates
tension: The real importance lies
in the disconnection of the paint-
ing from possible associations.
Apart from their positive effects
on the atmosphere in the room,
the painting also leads the viewer
to his own inner life and feelings.
If a painting appeals to someone
in such a way, there is an inner
resonance to the topic and the
viewer finds mental balance at a
deep emotional level.

Ful daily program, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm, 2012

Farewell and anticipation, oil on canvas, 100x70 cm, 2010

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IvanaDolejs [email protected]

All is in One – 2x
oil on canvas
70x70 cm
2010

Ivana Dolejs was born in 1961 in the
Czech Republic. She lives and creates
in Prague. Until thirty three years of age
she was employed as a financial clerk.
To paint she started when she was near-
ly thirty six years old. Together with her
three years old daughter they created
colour aquarelle abstracts, and at that
time she experienced for the first time
that strange, mysterious force, which lit-
erally led her hand. Since then the paint-
ing became an unseparable part of her
life. She works with her subconscious,
intuition. With the use of imagination by
music and of meditation she penetrates
into the unconscious.

Gimmell-Despair
oil on canvas
85x100 cm
2008

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www.ostapcev.com PAVELOSTAPCEV

Rezekne, Cityskape, oil on canvas, 50x40 cm, 2011

He was born in 1958 in Rezekne, Latvia. In 1979 he graduated from Penza Art School in Rus-
sia. In 1984 he joined the Artist’s Union of the Latvian Republic. The artist constantly partici-
pates with his graphics and paintings in the exhibitions of Latvian artists as well as abroad. The
works have been exhibited in Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Byelorussia, Cuba, England,
Korea. The beauty of native land nature is the source of inspiration and the main theme in
the artist’s works. The artist unites the influence of Russian artistic school and the traditions of
Latvian artists in his creation.

Self-portrait
oil on canvas

50x40 cm
2012

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VictorHagea www.victor-hagea.de

Rebus
oil on canvas
80x100 cm
2008

The focus of my artistic creation is the human being in connection with his activities, actions
and desires which determine and form his fate – the human who creates his ‘surreality’. If I
had to characterize my style, I should call it ‘magical surrealism’ with indefinite boundaries
between reality and dream. So I would like to invite the spectator to be witness to the interac-
tion of the states where the reality escapes into the dream and the dream will turn to some as-
pects of the reality. In contrast with
other representatives of the various
art movements, I do not doubt the
traditional values of art, but I try to
find a new way and to use them in
an updated context. The assertion
of Delacroix “The painting must be
a feast for the eye” is for me still up
to date and significant and it opens
up for me new perspectives to im-
plement my artistic ideas.

Waiting for Icarus
oil on canvas
100x85 cm
2008

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www.jenneglover.com JenneGlover

Flower Child
mixed media collage

12x16 inches
2012

Daddy Long Legs
Playing with the King
mixed media collage
12x16 inches
2011

My evolution from a figura-
tive, expressionist painter
to mixed-media collagist
evolved over 30+ years.
And, over the past five
years, mixed media collage
has become my primary
medium. I am inspired by
the human spirit; and work-
ing colors, patterns, rhythm, and repetition into
my compositions. I like seeing how many ways
I can use an element yet keep it fresh and dif-
ferent from how I used it previously. Lately, I’ve
been repurposing earlier works because I like
seeing the essence of older works transformed
anew. Attention to detail and storytelling bring
fluidity, movement, and a cinematic quality to
my art – each piece reading like the part of a
greater whole.

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DorotheeColditz www.design-malerei.de

Info-Flut
acrylic on canvas
80x120 cm
2011

Dorothee Colditz was born in 1944
and she is now living in hear adopted
country Baden-Baden. First there was
the writing, since school poems. 1983
she published the first volume of poems
and the first story. 2012 she published
the second volume of poems “Le-
ben mit allen Sinnen” and “Mut zum
Gefühl”. Then the colors and shapes
came. Her acrylic on canvas paintings

are provocative,
abstract and full
of energy. An ap-
peal to the sens-
es. She calls her
images ”design
painting” Crea-
tivity is her life
motto.

Würfel, acrylic on canvas, 80x120 cm, 2012

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www.anarisingart.com PAULSCOTTMALONE

RED #3, Composition 557, oil on canvas, 72x48 inches, 2012
Malone was born and reared in Houston, Texas USA. He holds an MFA
in creative writing and contemporary literary from The University of Ari-
zona. Malone has worked as a newspaper journalist, an antiques dealer,
a literary writer of fiction, poetry and criticism (published three books
of fiction and edited a textbook while in graduate school), as well as a
university lecturer in English literature and writing at five institutions of
higher learning. Currently he earns his living as an art dealer, the owner
of a small gallery which exhibits his own work only, and, of course, an
oil painter. By and large he is a self-taught visual artist. Now he lives and
works at his studio in Benson, Arizona.

STORM #1, Composition 517, oil on canvas, 60x36 inches, 2011

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HeeSookKim www.heesookkim.com

Her work is about her experiences as a female
immigrant and spirituality from nature and cul-
ture from East and West. “I create to share expe-
riences I’ve had in America filtered by the culture
I grew up in. When people ask me what artists
influenced my work the most and I mention old
Korean paintings, it puzzles and confuses those
with only knowledge of Western art and its art-
ists. I know it especially challenges those who
feel superior to Asian culture. I use Sumi ink,
water based colors, Calligraphic brush strokes,
strange marks, and texts in foreign languages. As
a result, they see waxy surfaces and numerous
mysterious layers. A work that doesn’t belong to
any categories of art makes them wonder. Is it
a painting or a print? Where is the root coming
from? There is no connection to Western art tra-
dition that they can easily refer to. The strange
foreign object has something they never knew
before. Something that they cannot clearly de-
scribe or explain makes them uncomfortable, yet
curious.”

Transformation 1
prints, acrylics,

sumi ink on wood
panel

30x80 inches
2013

Beosun
pritns on Korean
traditional female
socks
8x6 inches
2013

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www.vaultproject.com HerbSellin

Challenging the
Sun God

acrylic on canvas
48x48 inches
2012

The paintings shown here are part of a series of 24 contemporary (abstract) Artworks entitled
“Spirits of the Rockies” which have recently been completed with the assistance of a generous
grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. The paintings are the artist’s spiritual response to
the power and majesty of the Canadian Rockies, the undulating repetitious contours of the
foothills and the vast loneliness of the rolling prairies. Herb is as well-versed in the Fine Arts
of painting Realism as he is with painting Abstraction. His hobbies include Theoretical Physics
and all the Arts. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Chaos Theory
acrylic on canvas
48x48 inches
2012

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JOEFUR www.joefur.com

Headache of London
Marker on Wood
594x841 mm
2010

Sense Me
Pigment Ink
297x420 mm
2013

Joe Furlong is a self-taught ‘live’-drawing
artist and printmaker based in London, UK.
Drawing in front of audiences under the alias
of JOEFUR, Joe is also co-founder of the new
and exciting ‘Minesweeper Collective’ Artis-
tic Co-Operative in Deptford, having being
personally immersed in other autonomous
DIY projects. Without shrouding his upfront
work in concept, he states his current graphic
based endeavours are “a personal search for
creative purity which is open to interpreta-
tion”. Specializing in organizing collabora-
tive exhibitions and artistic residencies for in-
ternational collectives with The Minesweeper,
the live spontaneous creation is just the start
of Joe’s energetic practice.

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www.kriszlen.com KrisztinaLencsés

A moment
oil on canvas
72x102 cm
2012

Krisztina Lencses was born in 1976. She is a uk based hungarian artist currently living in
Exeter, Devon. Krisztina has been drawing and painting for more than 20 years starting her
career back in Hungary. Krisztina never went to art school, she was a member of a local art
society led by a famous artist, Albert Soltesz. At that time Krisztina had her first solo exhibi-
tion as well as other joint exhibitions. In 2004 Krisztina moved to England. Here she joined
the Exeter Art Society and has been a member for a number of years and has had a few joint

exhibition with them. To take herself to
another level Krisztina took an online
course with Linda Huber, an american
graphite pencil artist who she highly
recommends to anyone who takes in-
terest in drawing in the style of realism.
Krisztina paints and draws all subject
matter: portraits, landscapes, still life,
murals, etc. She creates her works in
very detailed style mostly for commis-
sions using many different mediums:
oil, acrylic, graphite pencil, charcoal,
gouache.

Tiger 183
oil on canvas
90x90 cm
2013

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www.martimoreno.com ManuelMartiMoreno

If we analyze his sculp-
tures, even though they
seem very physical,
they awaken a special
sensibility in the spec-
tator nearly instantly:
the smooth flow of the
shapes, the rhythm of
the outlines of the bod-
ies which in a vast majority start disintegrat-
ing, provide a continuous melody, which
combines both calmness and surprise at the
same time. His works wants to leave the
space occupied by the void free, the essence
which they contain. He speaks to us through
his sculptures of physical, material, fragility
but it is easy to discern that for Martí Moreno
the void is stronger, it is permanently there,
between spirit and body. This may be the rea-
son why they are disintegrating, maybe they
are always opening. Body - matter, yes, but
also, Essence - Void.

(Carmela Falomir Ventura)

Caminante
iron
200x75x125 cm
2012

Eternidad
iron and stainless steel
200x53x53 cm
2010

Ícaro
iron

31x123x57 cm
2012

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Annick B. Cuadrado www.annickbcuadrado.com

Annick b. Cuadrado is a French art-
ist, born and working in Paris. Her
inspiration mostly comes from our
most famous and usual consumer
products: there is some piece of art
in each of these products, brands
and logos that she reveals to us with
elegance, vigor and humor. The
image and memory of these well-
known candies, soft drinks, washing powders, is an actual
appeal to our taste buds: Coca-cola, Heinz Ketchup, Tide,
Tagada strawberries, Car en Sac, Marshmallows, Haribo
Dragibus, Pez, La Vache qui rit, etc… The art of painting
of Annick b. Cuadrado is just like the Tagada strawberries:
a pleasure at any age, for kids and adults, which can be
enjoyed as much as you like.

Vache qui rit Bonbon PEZ,
acrylic and plexiglas acrylic and resin
130x130 cm
2013 110x66,5 cm
2013

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www.cmthornton-sculpture.com CatherineMontgomeryThornton

Bull 1&2
sculpture
60x60 inches
2013

I’ve always been a visual person and spent
countless hours drawing as an adolescent.
I earned my Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree
from Rowan University and subsequently
studied Computer Graphic Design in Ari-
zona. College awakened my fascination for
creating sculptures. After college, I was em-
ployed as a graphic artist in South Jersey and
in 1983 joined the US Air Force. I received
an honourable discharge and attained a ci-
vilian position as an illustrator in Hunsruck,
Germany. After four years, I returned to the
states pursuing other occupations which
lead me back to the arts. By 2010, I was self-
employed as a designer and sculptor. The
sculptures are abstracts derived from proto-
types I’ve created and are expressed by line
and colour. They are a composition of con-
tinual lines that are built using layers creating
a relief. The intent of my art is to keep evolv-
ing into more movement and symmetry but
still focusing on simplicity and non-chaotic
compositions.

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sculpture
48x31 inches

2011

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LeifNielsen www.artleif.dk

Musical cock
made of old violins and a cello anything
from a rattle one violin bow
height of 53 cm

Vinder
scrap metal

Adventure narrator as Hans Christian Andersen
and La Fontaine often used birds in their stories
to tell about people. It’s the same thing I strive
for. All my little birds sculptures are created from
authentic recycled materials that have served us
humans. Now reborn into something completely
different and can now tell a completely new and
different story. In this way, I am a visual story-
teller. The viewer forms its own story through
the title and the seen and thus even interpret my
visual “adventure”.

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www.klaba-online.de KlausBast

Playboy
diabas

20x40x20 cm
2011

Klaus Bast was born in Heidelberg Germany and is living nearby. Since
his days of youth he is interested in art. He started his artwork with paint-
ings in oil and acrylic in the style of the “fantastic realism “. Curious of the
possibility to press in the three-dimension he changed the field of activ-
ity and began in
1994 as a sculp-
ture working with
stone. The love of
fantastic he re-
tained. Sociological subjects are often
basis for his works. However, he also
makes sculptures containing an amus-
ing statement, which brings a smile to
the viewers face.

Catching the light
marble

57x20x10 cm
2010

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MelindaCrider www.melindacrider.com

Enchanted
multi fired red clay, beeswax
and graphite
18x14x9 cm

“I find the activity of creat-
ing necessary to me so I can
liberate emotions and express
myself. Perceptions of the self
and the psyche also provide
inspiration.“

“My work is predominately figurative in nature ex-
pressing a celebration of life’s mysterious intrica-
cies that intrigue and fascinate me. I fire my work
several times using underglazes, slips and stains
and sometimes beeswax. Each step in the process
is carefully considered as the work evolves while
considering clay as my canvas.”

The Jester
multi fired earthenware with

gold luster
23x11x8 cm

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www.mariansava.com MarianSava

TENTATION
white marble
79x29x04 cm
2009

“In the ceaseless quest for the universal, for what
is permanent and essential, the truths that hide
in the cores of things, the art of Marian Sava is
an art of intellectual concentration, of concept,
of almost mathematical precision and sobriety.
His goal is to capture and retain an instant, to
represent an idea, a movement, a momentum,
or a state of mind, to being able to show the im-
ponderable. The process of purification of the
form through gradual elimination of unnecessary
details which is absolutely necessary to obtain
such conciseness, and the construction of the
future sculpture are entirely coming from the art-
ist’s mind. It evolves in his head to the smallest
details.“

(Paris, France February 1998 Lionel Scanteye)

HIBOU
little belgian granit

30x30x30 cm
2006

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PariRavan www.pariravan.de

Catlady Pari Ravan was born in 1942 in Iran. She
resine studied art at the Fine Arts Academy of Te-
41x41 cm heran (Iran) and Mayence (Germany). She
followed a two years ceramic school at
Valauris (France.)
She graduated with medals of art in Ja-
pan, China, Iran, Germany, and France.
She has participated in many group and
personal exhibitions in the USA and other
countries. She had more than 130 group
and personal exhibitions up today and her
works belong to private and public collec-
tions in many countries. She is an award-
ed artist. The access to the painting of Pari
Ravan is only at first glance unmistakably
indicated. Her pictures tell stories. And
certainly, the very consciously chosen ti-
tles offer a key to entering these stories.
However, here the clearance of meaning
begins to gradually disappear. This is be-
cause none of the stories is really told to
the end in the pictures. Only the observer
can do so (Prof. Dr. Uwe Henrik Peters,
professor for psychiatry and psychoanaly-
sis university of Cologne/Germany).

Danger
oil and acrylic on canvas
60x50 cm

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www.sharonbrill.com SharonBrill

Flow 2
porcelain
19x26x15 cm
2013, NY USA

Sharon’s current works are abstract organic sculptural shapes. Their
scale varies and some can be held in your hand and observed from any
angle. The lines and movement leads the eye around the shape and into
it. Her work is create out of personal vision, as if emerging out of itself.
What intrigues her is how she merges herself into the object, how she
steeps herself into the process to create spontaneously and intuitively,
opening the layers, in search for what lies behind the overt, what is hid-
den within. The concept of her works exists in the marriage between
two poles: aspiration for meticulous and restrained aesthetic on the one
hand, and unrestricted spontaneous and intuitive search on the other,
the understading of the integration between perfection and freedoom.
The forms are made from wheel thrown and altered porcelain.

Conch 25
porcelain
16x35x16 cm
2012, NY USA

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AramHan www.aramhan.com

Grain of Truth, digital c-print, 24x36 inches, 2012

Everyday, the pace of life gets quicker as it fills up with mindless errands
and tasks. In reaction, Aran Han makes slow work; she hand-stitches. It
calls for tremendous diligence and discipline. Though tedious and often
futile, she dedicates herself to patiently build a line, image, and sur-
face, stitch by stitch. The politics of invisible labor is a subtext for her
work. As an immigrant, she is interested in under-appreciated, invisible,
and Sisyphean labor practices. In solidarity, she uses her art practice
to symbolically mimic her mother’s labor as a seamstress. Additionally,
through the repetitive use of materials such as rice, denim scraps, salt,
and sweat, she pulls upon rich social histories and meanings, and utilize these to create a
personal mythology of materials.

Sweat Shirt, white and black rice stitched into a white collared shirt with cotton thread,
soaked in sweat, 27x24x2 inches, 2013

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www.ayiszita.net AyisZita

Artist’s work mantra: “My art
is all about clarity, it’s laconic,
sometimes aggressive, some-
times peaceful, or both simul-
taneously but always intense.”
It is also a research on how
simplicity and complexity in-
terchange and/or are embed-
ded in one another, in every-
thing. My artistic influences
stem from minimalism, ab-
stract expressionism, construc-
tivism and the Chaos theory.

FLIGHT
assemblage
210x40x14 cm

2013

META-CUBE
assemblage
35x33x30 cm
2012

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JaneTPayne www.janetpayne.webs.com

Ring me media Paynes work crosses the boundaries of Fine
mixed media art, needlework, paint and embroidery, the
construction, using stitch and the brush. All used in the context
pvc fabric, cord and ideology of Fine Art. Before taking her
and found object. degrees in Fine Art at Central St. Martins
college of Art in London, she trained in soft
furnishings and upholstery, so her work con-
tains a multiplicity of ideas. The PVC fabric
that she uses is shiny like paint and the cord-
ing gives the work its very tactile quality. The
repetitious use of pattern and aesthetics is
reminiscent of the Pop Art movement, artists
such as Bridget Riley and some of the artists
of the sixty’s. The sculptures are made from
very mundane found objects mirroring the
Dada movement, and are transformed into
colourful unique works of art.

A women’ s work is
never done

mixed media construc-
tion, using pvc fabric,
cord and found object.

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www.williamsteinberg.ca WilliamSteinberg

Drawbridge, cast bronze on steel beam, 44x4x24 inches, 2012

Spar, cast concrete and steel, 37x25x5 inches, 2012

As an architect, William Steinberg de-
signed for steel and concrete, but he
now sculpts it directly; he is his own
iron worker and mason. His immer-
sion in the act of making involves a
myriad of experiments and reactions
that send his pieces in unexpected di-
rections. Beneath his patinas we see
structures that function as memorials
to ingenuity, or as prophetic shards
of future ruins, where the facade of
veneer has eroded away leaving only
skeletal members exposed, like con-
ceptual lines in space that architects
once drew (From George Rammell
review – William Steinberg/Architect
of the Ruin).

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RobinAntar www.rantar.com

Robin Antar’s passion as a
sculptor involves a technique
she coined more than 20
years ago – the precise art
of creating “virtual records”
of contemporary culture…
capturing everyday objects in
carved stone. She is ambiva-
lent about what she sculpts...
these foodstuffs, yet she loves
to carve them since she rec-
ognizes their significance far
beyond what they represent
on a store shelf or on some-
one’s table. Who can know
if a bottle of ketchup will ex-
ist in 4025AD? Or if a can
of soda can stand the test of
time as well? In the nature of Vanitas paintings, she strives for an absolute realism in texture
and form from a solid block of stone. Her sculptures are a record of the present; a preservation
of the mundanities and morbidities of our culture for references in years to come. „Essentially,
I replicate these items on a real life-scale, complete with meticulous detail. I achieve this
absolute realism by incorporating parts of the actual object, as well as custom-made stains,
paints, plastics and gold leaf. It’s more than art imitating life; it’s art-mirroring life.

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