When Alessandra was a child she wanted to sell ice creams. She said she couldn’t draw and she loved watching her aunt drawing for her. Then one day she discovered she really loved drawing, even if colouring was really boring. So she changed her mind, she didn’t want to become an ice cream seller anymore. Since that day Alessandra Fusi has never stopped drawing. Now she likes colouring too, and she has decided to be an illustrator.
She absolutely loves music, even if she still can’t play it. But she decided she will learn very soon.
Gwen lives in Northampton, England. She has always been interested in art from as far back as she can remember but due to circumstances wasn’t able to study art full time until 1996. It was then that Gwen decided to go back to college and take an access course which lead onto a degree from the local university, which she achieved in 2000.
Gwen worked at Lings Upper School as an assistant to the art department but Gwen didn’t feel that she was achieving what she set out to do with in the art industry and decided to take the next leap into full filling her dream, of becoming a full time artist.
Gwen did this with strong faith and believed she could find what she wanted as she flew to the other side of the world, Wanganui, New Zealand to find an art group, gallery and studio. Within a week of arriving in Wanganui, her dreams all came possible as she walked through the doors of the Paint Pit.
Gwen is very passionate about her work and has produced many lovely paintings. She likes to use oil and acrylic paints, encaustic wax and mixed media. Like most artists she also likes to experiment with all mediums of being creative.
Gwen and will be holding encaustic wax workshops and offers her time to working with people with Autism as her Grandson also has this condition. Gwen has been to courses and understands the needs of Autistic children and adults.
Gwen reads angel and tarot cards for those who are interested in looking into their paths and direction of life.
Self taught in the arts, I have been engaging in some form of art/expression since I can remember.
I claim my inspiration from pure emotions; powerful and oftentimes personal, ranging from love, anger, betrayal and the scores in-between. I feel honouring the human soul, spirit and determination wholeheartedly breathes life into my creations and my hope is that the images and expressions fuel the desire for life and walk a path of their own through each of my viewer's interpretations.
I feel that as I continue to evolve and explore the human spirit with flights and pursuits I gain new ground in my motivation to create my own world. I spend a majority of my time continuing my mostly self-taught artistic endeavours and maintaining and growing in skills, not only with my artist brush, but though my need to express my life and feelings though music, performance, design and writing.
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Alan Malzard English Artist
I was born in Australia, came to England in my mid 20's and have been here 30 years.
I am very passionate about my art and wish I had more time explore it. I am self taught and squeeze art in between family and working to pay the rent.
All my work is autobiographical, events that have happened in my life, things I have seen and heard. Each work has a title which I think is self explanatory, if others see something which was not intended, that is fine by me.
Art is all about exploration in all its forms.
Art fills me with optimism, it is a great healer, the more art I see from around the world, the more optimistic I become.
Domen Lombergar Slovenian digital creator and artist
Domen produces most of his artworks in only two dimensions. Putting aside some exceptions his computer screen represents his canvas and his tablet represents his brush. Yet not focusing on the used media Domen stays loyal to his expression ... the surrealistic motives often shock the viewer with their rawness and directness and emerge a wish to further explore the work and its message.
Domen's refined sense for detail in combination with a high technical expertise lifts his creation on an even higher level. His style can most easily be defined as expressionistic, hyper realistic or surrealistic.
The quality of his art can also be described with numerous positive critiques on both Slovenian and foreign websites and by various professional critics. His digital artworks have appeared in many prestigious Internet galleries.
Born on 20th September 1968, Stephanie is a blood-descendant of Thomas South; notorious for his part in the Littleport riots, and hung in 1816 for his fight against the injustice of poverty amongst the working classes. Hard work, loyalty and a sense of what's right and wrong have formed the character of Stephanie, who at the age of just 24 formed her own design consultancy; One Vision Ltd., which is still going strong today, working for high-profile clients such as News Magazines (Sunday Times Travel magazine, insideout, loveit!), Life Fitness UK Ltd and Acambis plc, amongst many others.
Stephanie began her artistic career studying Art & Design at The Isle College before progressing into Design for Marketing, and studying Marketing Management with Henley Management College.
During Stephanie's career as Creative Director of One Vision Ltd., she has been voted a finalist in The Designer of The Year competition, been awarded a 'Supplier of Excellence' by Domino (the printing sciences company), and voted a Top Ten Agency by Business Weekly (2005 & 2006).
Stephanie's overriding passion for design and creativity keeps her ideas fresh and her mind constantly thinking of the next innovative and exciting piece of art.
With works of art such as Kate Moss (depicting the abstract portrayal of the super model) and Faith (the calming, yet vibrant, creation of a Buddha's head), Steph hopes to make an impact on the contemporary art world.Stephanie is married, with two young children, and lives in the heart of the Brecks, in Norfolk.
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Dan Goorevitch Toronto Artist
I decided to become an artist at the age of six. Dad took us down to the bank of the North Saskatchewan River and he skipped stones nearly all the way across it. He pointed out animal tracks in the sand and I tried to imitate them by writing my name with a stick on the wet bank.
I wondered if we came back next Sunday, would my name still be there? Looking down the level sand, my heart sank. As it is human nature to look up when feeling down, so I did. What I saw made my heart leap for joy. Some crazy bugger climbed 30 feet up and painted a yellow and red X on the bridge’s buttress. “That will last,” I said.
I forgot about that though, since my father died the next year and my mother became ill. My mentor, Ron Stonier, used to say that an artist was made by an idyllic childhood suddenly cut short, forcing the child to withdraw, there to create a vision of a better world which, when he discovers his medium, he brings out into the world.
And so it was. On a perfect summer day I remember thinking “there must be more to life than perfection” and stumbled into the dark basement where my hand, magically it seemed, magnetically attracted paint to it, a piece of paper, a jar for water and, moving the muddy paint around (it was black and white) I suddenly saw an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. That, I knew, was my door to bring everything inside me out into the world.
I paint because I like to watch the magic happen. It is rather like magic, seeing the images grow from an experience or an emotion, to something visible. I like to watch the paint move, to see the conversation between the colours. I am always aware of the visual rhythm of the art. Like a piece of music, it leads you on to a crescendo and then gently out again. It syncopates, drifts, or thunders.
I guess I'm a story teller. Using pastels, acrylics, or oils, I create from my life experiences. I have been painting professionally for over 20 years. Due to various circumstances, I have only been able to paint and show sporadically. Even so, I have received local and national awards, and have sold work from coast to coast. Now, circumstances have changed and I look forward to showing up more often.
2002-2003 : After finishing a Master of French Literature degree at the University of Paris III (the Sorbonne Nouvelle), decides to devote herself to Painting and receives the instruction at the master Aime Venel' studio in Paris. 2003 : Art meeting of Fontenay-le-Fleury (78330). 2004 : Art meeting (75014 Paris). 2005 : Hmong Arts Summit and Exhibition (HASE) in Fresno (USA, California). Galerie Mouvances (place des Vosges, 75004 Paris). Art meeting (75014 Paris). 83e Art meeting of Fontenay-le-Fleury (78330). Collective exhibit "Small formats" in the Galerie Lacydon (Marseille). Gets into the "Drouot Cotation" Dictionary. 2006 : Personal exhibit in La Galerie (Luxembourg) and in the Horset Opera Hotel (Paris). Exhibit in the Tourelles Castle (Le Plessis-Trevise, 94). 2007 : Personal exhibit at the Jolly Hotel Lotti (Paris). Art meeting (75014 Paris), personal exhibit at the Jolly Hotel du Grand Sablon (Brussels) ; guest of honour of the 9th Salon d'Automne of Cours-les-Barres (18320) ; selected by the Salon of the French artists at the Grand Palais (Paris) and by the SNBA of Paris for its salon in the Carrousel du Louvre.
Particular collections : USA, England, Luxembourg, France.
On one hand Aurelia has an Italian degree in history of art and on the other hand a model-making degree.
Aurelia has always known that one day, she would work in Fashion. While in training, she discovered a passion for beautiful coloured print fabrics and she created her fashion brand 'Bloomi' in 2005.
Aurelia enjoys sharing her vision of elegant aesthetics, thanks to accessories which harmonize colours and materials with originality.
You can meet attention and great care in every of her attractive creations (limited production or exclusive articles) which are undeniably out of ordinary.
A new definition of 'elegance' in the contemporary figurative arts.
Heir to the Great Symbolists of the end of the 19th century, Aimé Venel offers a luminous work to us.
From 1974 until 1978: meeting and work in the studio of Master Edouard MAC'AVOY (1905-1991), student of Bonnard and Vuillard and who worked with Braque; meeting with J.L. de MONTCASSIN, founder of the Art Work's International Safeguard in 1979.
Aimé Venel received the honourable mention in 1981 and silver medal in 1985 from the French Artists Salon. Price of Mayor (Paris Xe) in 1996.
In 1989, he enters the "Who's Who in international Art", in 1991, in "Prestige of Painting and Sculpture of today in the world" and since 2001, in the "Dictionary Drouot Cotation". Aimé Venel is named "As one of the World's Best Artists for the Year 2003" by the World Art Celebrities Journal.
Particular collections : FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ENGLAND, BRAZIL, USA, JAPAN, GUATEMALA, RUSSIA, LUXEMBOURG, ISRAEL, purchases by the state (France).
Rainer is an emerging artist who was born in Duesseldorf, Germany in 1959.He received a formal education at the FH Lippe, Detmold in Interior Design and Architecture. In 1988 he moved to the San Francisco Bay area to open his first retail store specializing in the import and retail of modern European furniture. In 2007 he sold his share of the business so he could concentrate on his passion; sculpture.Rainer uses metal to sculpt the human form, creating works that illicit both the strength and delicacy of the body.
When I was young a lot of moments in surrounding reality caught my eye, especially those intimate and private. They were too short to reflect on them and on the other hand too strong to not keep in mind. My artistic inspirations come from these moments discovering constantly next themes. Creating, distance and closeness, hedonism and humility, everything it is making the image of the man up. It often brings very surprising solutions. This "moment" has been accompanying me for ages in my works. Beginning the adventure with the drawing from normal painting portraits of people, through desire for expressing something more, to the attempt to show the entire complexity of situation - it's my way.
My bio: Born in 1972 in Pulawy, Poland. Studies in the Institute of Bringing Artistic UMCS in Lublin in 1990-95, diploma in the studio of the linocut at the M. Snoch Prof. One-man exhibitions in 1994-96 in Pulawy (POK "House of the Chemist"), Lublin (Gallery of the NN Theatre) and Chelm (KMPiK) Participation in Directory of Print 2003 Cracow Triennial Society (linocut "Remembrance") and in V International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola 2006 (Macedonia) Work at the Cracow Unit of S.G Stained glass. Zelenski in Cracow in 2002-2005 and original projects of stained glass (Geneva, Cracow, Warsaw, Zary, Kalnica) Participation in "Stichting Culturele Droomwevers" AB-CD boek 2006-2008 Member of Santa Fe Art World and Bein Art, Nearest exhibitions: Marziart Gallery (Hamburg) - July 2008 Ico Gallery (NYC) - September 2008 Cooperation with Galerie Princesse de Kiev (Nice) Works in private harvests at home and abroad.
Born in Cattolica Italy where he lives and works, He has been painting without interruption from 1969 to 1989 searching for new form of expression. He has assiduously participated at showings and contests, winning numerous awards and positive reviews from the critics. In 1989 he abandons painting. Finally, in 2006 he is reborn, and with great enthusiasm he digs up his now yellowed unfinished drawings, and repaints the old unfinished canvases, he modifies others, and he continues working alternating drawing and painting, abstract art to surreal art. But right from the beginning his maturity can be admired. He brings forth many new ideas on sexy and abstract nudes, of surreal flowers and still life, and therefore we cannot but await the new works by this inexhaustible artist.
Alessandra Fusi
Gwen Coggin
Aunia Kahn
Domen Lombergar
Stephanie J Brown
Ixia
AZARN
Aurelia Venel
Rainer Lagemann 
Maciej Gador
Paul Bonnie-Kent