📖 Artist Statement

My career began in the theatrical arts as a specialist in theatrical puppetry.

I always enjoyed the process of visual problem-solving: How can I take rigid materials and manipulate them to move in a fluid, life-like way? As I refined my techniques in the visual arts, I discovered that by manipulating charcoal and oil paint in the same way, it is uniquely possible to contain the entirety of a complex story in a single image. I developed a particular interest in mythology and history painting, and my work has become an extension of this style of storytelling.

Realism gives me the ability to clearly communicate through recognizable imagery. I find inspiration in other artistic media that focuses on storytelling - music, movies, tv shows, folklore, mythology - but I’m most inspired by theatrical arts and puppetry. I enjoy creating artwork containing several figures or dense still-life, and most of my work falls somewhere in that range.

There is a revival of realism happening now that I strive to be a part of. My sense of theatricality has continued to influence my compositions and has developed into a portfolio of dramatic portraiture and dense still life with a focus on storytelling.

📖 Artist Biography

Maxwell G. Miller (b.1992) is an American contemporary realist artist working in the Dominican Republic. His artistic career began in the theatrical arts, where he became well known for specializing in large-scale theatrical puppetry. He served as director, artistic designer, and scenic artist for several theater organizations based in Cleveland, Ohio before pursuing visual art professionally in 2017. After refining his technique and developing an interest in mythology and history painting, he relocated to Scranton, PA in 2020 to complete an apprenticeship with master artist Anthony Waichulis at the ÀNI Art Academy. Maxwell completed his apprenticeship in 2022, and now serves as the Dean of the ÀNI Art Academies Dominicana in Río San Juan, Dominican Republic, where he strives to cultivate a richer artistic community through artistic education.

Maxwell’s sense of theatricality has continued to influence his compositions and has developed into a portfolio of dramatic portraiture and dense still life with a focus on storytelling. His work has received international awards and recognition from leading art competitions and major arts publications including The Art Renewal Center, National Art League, The FiKVA Foundation, Bold Brush, The Artist’s Network, Southwest Art Magazine, Art Base, and Art Week. He is an affiliated artist of Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, OK, and has works in private collections across the globe.

📖 Artist Statement

Working on a new piece is akin to a new journey in life. You never know where it will take you, it probably wasn't what you had planned, but it will be beautiful in the end!

📖 Artist Biography

My name is Christine Sewell and I am a mixed media artist specializing in acrylic, resin, and alcohol ink abstract art.

I have been producing art for the past nine years and am completely self-taught. I have been a member of a few local art leagues and recently opened a retail store featuring original art, refurbished furniture, and home decor.

📖 Artist Statement

Based in Melbourne, I am a self-taught artist who paints in acrylic on large canvases.

I’m a drama queen, so I am drawn to visually striking, high-impact images that command the viewer's attention.

I paint intuitively and challenge rules. Using bold colours, I execute simple ideas in provocative ways.

I like using graffiti to communicate an unfiltered narrative and share relevant stories. I am finding my identity by exploring diverse themes that are personal and honest.

Now in my 50’s, I have learned to embrace my creative ability. I have found the courage to be authentic and endure feeling vulnerable.

My collective life experiences viewed through a current lens perpetually deliver an abundance of inspiration. New life is being given to existing concepts and ideas that I am revisiting.

📖 Artist Statement

I am a British artist, who trained in the USA in the early '90s, interested in using light and colour effects to describe my physical and transcendent reality. Inspired by Bay Area figurative artists, I explore the extraordinary within the ordinary.

I paint my connectedness with the landscape and our need to protect it and admire Kurt Jackson for this. I paint to process life events and share the human experience and Frida Kahlo has been influential. I am fascinated by art as prayer, for example in early Flemish art and Pre-Raphaelite religious symbolism. And I love the exuberant joy of Hockney and Matisse, expressed through vibrant patterns and colour.

📖 Artist Biography

I trained in the late 80s and early 90s at Wrexham Art College, Wales, then Louisiana State University, USA. I sold my work at a number of exhibitions in Baton Rouge between 1992 and 1994, and in the UK in 1994 and 1995.

I then moved into an unrelated profession and raised a family. I resumed creative work in a serious way in 2020. In 2023, I turn my attention to showing my work and continuing my creative output.

📖 Artist Statement

Painting for me means turning the invisible into the visible.
Discovering the world that is behind the visible and transferring it to the visible.

📖 Artist Biography

Teodora is born in Belgrade, where she lives and creates. She has been painting since elementary school and won numerous awards that gave her an incentive and opened the way to continue.

She has a master's degree in philosophy and a specialist in painting degree.

She paints with acrylic paints on canvas or with a combined technique. Image formats vary from large to miniature. She had 20 solo and over 100 group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad.

She is the winner of several awards and a member of several art associations. Image formats vary from large to miniature.

Creation is always guided by the emotions of the moment.

All pictures are a mixture of feelings of love, sadness, pain, anger, and disappointment...

In addition, they are also the product of thinking about the world, life, and existence.

God, the future, death, will... and many other things that are mystical and unfathomable are the subject of the paintings. -

"This thought process takes place before the creation, only emotion remains in creation. I paint freely, extracting the form from thrown colours on the canvas. It's as if my task is to extract from the canvas that mixture of colours of beings that are hidden and trapped in them, that seek to free them and transfer them from another dimension to the visible world".

📖 Artist Statement

Born and educated in Austria, I landed in Sri Lanka in 1995. Fascinated & inspired by this stunning island I took a sabbatical from my tour guide job to embark on a long creative journey.

As a self-taught artist, I only learned much later, that what I am doing is called Automatism:

'In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.' (Tate Art Term)

After traveling and painting for some years I found in Mexico my creative home base.

I experimented with all types of mediums including a long fascination with oils on canvas -

a symbolic period filled with therapeutic releases, inner and outer travel logs and first screams in color.

The colorDrops series from 2014 mark the beginning of my abstract works in mixed media. This current period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, multiculturalism, ecocide, division and unity.

📖 Exhibitions

Exhibitions

2011 : 'wanderjahre', Wien, AT

2013: Hotel Asiana, 'behind the surface', Dubai, UAE

2015: Las Galerías, 'exposición de arte', Puerto Morelos, MX

2017: ArtboxProjects Basel, CH

2018: Olympus Tours Gallery, collective expo 'alas' Cancun, MX

2018: La Verdad Noticias, MX Issue 01

2019: Jardín Botánico, 'artistas por la paz', Puerto Morelos, MX

2019: ArtboxProjects, Miami, US

2 019: WOTISART? Art Magazine, London, UK Issue 12

2020: AlTiba9, Contemporary Art, Algier, DZ Issue 04

2020: Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, London, UK Issue 09

2020: Winner of the Special Prize, Mellow Art Award, Japan

2021: Arte Visual Mexico, MX, Issue 01 & 04

2021/06: Focus Art Fair, L'Atelier Richelieu, Paris, FR by HongLee Curators:

2021/08: Colour of Life, Saatchi Gallery &

2021/09: Colour of Emotion FOLD Gallery, London, UK

2021/10: Tokyo International Art Fair, Japan

2021/11: Dubai Art Expo, UAE

2021/11: ARTSPER featured artist

2021/12: ARTJOBS.COM Artist of the Month

2022/07: ARTMAGAZiNEUM, Istanbul, TR

2022/11: Represented by Laura I Gallery, London

🗪 Interview

Interview with the Artist:

Travelling, Automatism & The Round Canvas: An Interview With Marco Riha

📖 Artist Statement

In the creative process, Bobby favors more derivative and generative arts over painting and brushes. Both techniques called for high-level digital processing using similar image processing and presentation software such as Adobe, PowerPoint, and beyond. Bobby is never afraid to experiment futuristic digital methods and software to meet his artistic objectives in the following elements within his artworks: (1) Light (e.g., shining contrast); (2) Space (e.g., depth, 3D); (3) Time (e.g., still or motion); (4) Optical Illusion.

Bobby further believes the introduction digital science into arts would eventually bring about a paradigm switch as to how arts would be appreciate in the future, particularly in its presentation. For example, expression may no longer need to be confined to the creative itself as additional elements of surprise, participation, interaction, engagement, etc., may now be “extended” outside the realm of the original creative with the help of technology onto other “digital devices” such as mobile phones, VR glasses, etc.

In Bobby’s view, digital arts are indeed unique: in dimension, technological codes application, and display, just to name a few.

Digital arts could not really be measured by dimension and size but by pixels as good resolutions images could fit something as small as a phone but as big as a TV set. Bobby’s artworks normally has a resolution of 1080 (H) x 1920 (W) pixels, which is equivalent to industry-standard Full HD 1080p. This is about 11.25 inches (28.6 cm) x 20 inches (50.8 cm) in dimension, based on a rather meaningless scientific conversion.

In terms of technological code application, QR and/or Augmented Reality Marker technology requires the codes to be exactly square to function. If the code is on the image, one should take this into consideration should the image needs to be resized or stretched.

If the above “square” requirement is met, the code application would work and does not matter whether the image remains “digital” on digital frames, monitors, tv, through projection using a projector, etc., or even when printed.

📖 Interview

Accountancy, Technology & Projectors: An Interview With Bobby Kim Ling Chen

📖 Artist Statement

The reason I fell in love with filmmaking is that it naturally triggers all of my senses and passions. When I make films, I show my most sincere kindness and sensitive feelings to reflect and express my perspectives on viewing the world and the society around me.

My artwork always includes the elements of critical analysis and radical opinions towards the environment where I live, but I apply a moderate form of expression in my work to deliver the ideas.

My film itself creates a strong contrast and irony between the content and format. I believe that everything that happens in our daily life is a representation, which has a deeper meaning.

I enjoy observing, thinking, reflecting, and communicating my ideas to the audience by using visual and audio language, because I believe that film as the most effective art format can always offer a positive influence to the public and justify unexposed inequities.

My attitude to my work is humble and modest, but it’s pure, determined, and respectful. I’m not an articulate speaker, so let my films be my voice.

📖 Interview

A Beautiful Accident, Awards & Theatres: An Interview With Lizzy Yang Liu

📖 Artist Statement

The interesting thing is that I've felt like an artist my whole life, I've always known that I was born an artist. I'm self-taught from the age of 8 that I can remember going that far back.

I can't remember when I wasn't drawing or creating. I decided that I wasn't going to art school because I was advised to "stay the fuck out of art school."

The story goes when I was in the 4th grade asking my teacher for the paper from the trash can, to draw, was horrified, and in turn believed in me and encouraged my drawing by giving me a stack of new white clean paper.

That was when I knew in my little heart that I was truly an artist.

I'm a portrait painter, my whole life and I began painting abstracts a few years ago by divine inspiration, something I had never done but the liberty it has taught me has become my creative lifestyle, feel and spiritual flow.

"You have to feel it".

Elisa Velasquez

📖 Artist Biography

Elisa Velasquez Ŧine Art • Abstract, Contemporary, Modern, Portraits, Sculptures

—уσυ нανє тσ ƒєєℓ ιт.

📖 Artist Statement

Shapes without definition is the concept, I'm always trying to create an image to generate multiple perceptions.

Nothing much to say, colours speak for themselves.

📖 Artist Biography

Born in Venezuela in 1989, living in Manchester, uk since 2016.

I discovered during lockdown time how amazingly the brain reacts to different shapes and colours combined, since then i have been trying to leave pieces of my dreams in this world.

📖 Artist Statement

My art – by passion rather than design – records Sydney's ever-changing horizons and values in glass, steel, concrete and colour. These canvases entitled “SKYSCAPES” are like a series of surreal chronicles of our surroundings.

They make the viewer stop and look at the paintings and examine just what they are looking at ....they encourage the viewer to think about and evaluate these structures that surround them.

These works record the past(QVB); mirror the present (Sydney Tower); and project to the future (the myriad cranes at work on the city's horizon – like giant birds of prey picking over the bones of the past and becoming harbingers of the next millennium).

Because I paint glass structures I can use this medium to reflect, mirror and distort reality. The result is a sea of glass and stone shimmering, glowing and turning organic.

📖 Artist Biography

Louise Beck, a Julian Ashton Art School graduate.

Her work has been featured in a number of joint and solo exhibitions around Sydney including the Watch House Gallery Balmain, the Delmar Gallery Ashfield, The Art House Hotel Sydney and the Gallery HM at Redfern.

She has won many awards for both her landscapes and her portraiture while exhibiting at the Hunters Hill Exhibition as well as the Drummoyne and the Lane Cove Art Society Shows.

Louise was feature artist in the 2004 Manly Art Festival, having an extremely successful solo show in the Manly Pacific Hotel Gallery. Many of her works were purchased for local and overseas collections.

She has been a finalist in the Lester Art Prize (formerly The Black Swan) twice, and a finalist in the Percival Tucker Portrait Prize in Townsville.

For the past twenty years Louise has been working on a particular body of work which she refers to as her “SKYSCAPES”. These works, which debuted at Studio W Woolloomooloo in November 2005, represent quite a departure from her earlier work – focusing on Sydney glass skyscrapers, their reflections, their distortions and their refraction of light, colour and image. The result is a challenging, vibrant and somewhat surreal view of Sydney and its surroundings.

Martha Matthews, the curator of the St Vincents Hospital ArtSpace, where Louise had a recent solo exhibition described Louise's Skyscapes as “their surreal quality question both the physical quality of the reflective surface and the resulting broken image of the original object, like the unfolding of a “Transformer” like object.”

📖 Artist Statement

I've been working as a contemporary artist in China since 2006 when the Chinese art market was booming. Luckily, my work was shown in a few exhibitions and auctions over the years. However, after a few years, I grew tired of this commercial repetition of art even though I love my pig series.

In 2019, I moved to the UK and trained to be an art psychotherapist. Meanwhile, without commercial pressure, naturally, my focus on art switched to human beings, cultural differences, and discrimination since Covid-19. And art, for me, becomes a bridge between my two identities, artist and art psychotherapist. I put my feelings and understanding/assumptions of the people I draw/paint into my artwork. What fascinated me was not the accuracy of my assumptions, but the unknowability.

📖 Artist Biography

Main Exhibitions:

2008 2008 The ICS Night of Charity, Shanghai China

2008 Songzhuang Female Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2007 “Pig Quotation” Art Exhibition, Beijing & Hong Kong China

2007 “ Doll Era” Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2007 “Foodartisticamente” Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2007 Songzhuang Female Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2006 “Deserted City” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2006 “Consumption Age” Art Exhibition, Beijing China

2006 Chinese International Gallery Exhibition (CIGE), Beijing China

2005 “Infinite” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Beijing China

Education:

MA Art Psychotherapy, University of Roehampton, London, UK 2019 – 2021.

Postgraduate certificate in Oil Painting, Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing, China, 2004 -2005.

BA in Fine Art, Yanbei Normal University, Datong, China, 2000 – 2004.

Major in Film Art, Shanxi Art College, Taiyuan, China, 1997-2000.

📖 Artist Statement

My paintings capture a moment that cannot be repeated.

There is something melancholic, lively, and ephemeral at this moment.

I think that makes the painting attractive.

📖 Artist Biography

I studied elementary school with the specifics of fine arts where I was taught colour theory and drawing.

1989-1993 Education in the studio of the Academy of Fine Arts, Riga, Latvia.

Focus on painting, drawing, and composition.

In 1993, I was studying at the Ralph Janson`s Painting Studio. Then fI was one-year painting in Bruno Celmins's Painting Studio.

📖 Artist Statement

When you see my art, you witness hours of experimenting, a glimpse into my imagination, and a piece of my heart and soul. I hope you enjoy it. — Lizzie Jayne.

📖 Artist Biography

I discovered my passion for painting only recently, after receiving a box of watercolours as a gift.

I haven’t stopped painting since. I have always loved art, books, dance, music, theatre and all things creative. I am an award-winning author of a children’s book, a choreographer and now an artist.

As a Christian, I believe these gifts are bestowed to us by the best creator of all and in many ways. I am grateful and blessed to have been given these treasures, even if it has been later on in life.

Dream, express and be free with your creations. Use them to change the world for the better. What a wonderful way to pass the time.” LJ x

📖 Artist Statement

Aristotle Solounias

1939 - 2009

Solounias was a sculptor and painter who successfully brought together various elements and techniques to create truly, timeless masterpieces.

His works are both a boldly personal expression and a universal truth hidden under a recognizable layer of form, texture, and line.

📖 Artist Biography

Aristotle Solounias, a painter and sculptor, was born in Athens, Greece in 1939 and was raised in the old center of “Plaka” near the foothill of the “Acropolis”.

In 1957 he went to the United States of America to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he obtained a Βachelors Degree in Fine Arts. At the university he held several positions, such as assistant director of the Andrew White museum in the academic year 1962-63.

During that time period, having presented the first exhibitions of his work, he received his Masters degree in Fine Arts.

Upon completion of his academic studies he moved to Manhattan in New York and began his professional career in his own studio in the Bowery area.

He also worked as director of the Graphics Arts Department in the Museum of Fine Arts in Brooklyn. With the driving force being his connection to Classical Greek art, he repatriated to Greece and settled in his own studio in Athens in the “Philopappou” area, where he began a notable career in his homeland.

During the summer months, he worked on the island of Samos, the place of his ancestral origin, in the town of “Pythagoreion” where he founded in 1972 the Pythagorean Academy of Fine Arts.

It was accomplished with the cooperation of the Boston Academy of Art. The project ended abruptly in July 1974, due to the geopolitical turmoil in the area. Shortly thereafter, he became well known in the contemporary Greek Art world, holding exhibitions in major Athenian galleries, institutes and foundations.

He was featured in major newspapers, magazines and national Greek television. In 1972 he was commissioned to make a bronze relief for the National Railroad building in Athens. A big turning point in his career came in 1976 when he was given the commission to create two monumental sculptures (Aves) in Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.

He continued with numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad as his work was featured in literary and scientific reviews and magazines over the years, while his unique style put an indelible mark in the art society. An enthusiast in his intrinsic solitude, he preferred observing life from the sidelines and focusing on art. He said and taught that being an artist is a way of life, a modus vivendi.

Devoted to his work, he strived to refine and perfect his technique while constantly experimenting with materials and procedures. Inspiration from classical antiquity, the renaissance and mannerism, as well as the most significant schools of the 19th and 20th centuries, marked the path of his aesthetic choices and living experience.

By continuous study and experimentation, he developed a unique medium for executing his special alla prima, glazing, chiaroscuro and sfumato techniques.

Concurrently, regarding his sculpting technique, and after working with the lost wax technique and using materials such as thin wire mesh, he turned to Vienna plaster where he worked on a system which he called the “Multiple Support System”.

The main idea, using a new refining method, was to overcome the expectation that a piece of sculpture must hold a definite position. According to this, a piece of sculpture is supported from all possible angles making it impossible for artist or viewer to choose a single position in which it is to be seen.

Since 1993 and until the final years of his career, he put a halt in large-scale projects and only made professional appearances in exhibitions, due to serious health problems. He died in August 2009 at the age of 70.

In 2021, following a unanimous municipal decision, a square in the town of Pythagoreion in Samos was named “Aristotle Solounias Square” as a tribute to his contribution to the island’s cultural heritage.

Works of Aristotle Solounias are exhibited in Museums and held in Greek government buildings, foundations and private collections. Private collections of his work are also held in the U.S.A and many European countries including the Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the U.K, Cyprus as well as Australia and Saudi Arabia.

📖 Artist Statement

Art is a game I play with myself.

My creations are bright and bold colours, a constant change, and infinitive movement to convey the explosion of emotions that I feel every time I create.

My materials include paper, canvases, found objects and acrylic paint. I like to use trash in my artworks, transforming unwanted into desired.

Creating is my key to happiness. I am inspired by the colours I see every day: the sunlight, bright lemons, and playful blue sky.

Art allows every problem to be presented beautifully and vibrantly. It encourages dialogue about our world. We artists act as a mirror of society.

📖 Artist Biography

M. Mystery Artist was born in March 1998, in Belarus. From a young age, she lived in many countries including Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Hungary.

M. always had a necessity for self-expression.

During her childhood M. directed funny home plays with her siblings.

Her adolescence was spent writing scripts and making short films. Following her passion for cinema, M. got a Bachelor’s degree in the United Kingdom.

When the pandemic hit the world, she was working as a bookshop assistant in Belarus. One day M. decided to quit and become a painter. Finally, it felt like she found her path.

In 2020 M. moved back to the United Kingdom and continued her creative journey.

Her work can be found in private collections in Belarus, the United States of America, Denmark, Hungary and the United Kingdom.

📖 Artist Statement

My elaborate acrylic and watercolor drawings take shape instinctively. My process is a spiritual experience guided by my heart and intuition.

When I create, I shut out the rational side of my brain and let the subconscious and intuitive voice speak through my hand and onto the paper.

I often start with a simple idea, such as vines, hearts, and geometric forms, and let the outline take shape organically. I never know until I fill in the outline of the piece which colors or patterns I will use.

I trust my intuition and enjoy the thrill of seeing where it will take me. In many ways, it is therapeutic for me. I want my pieces to brighten my viewers’ lives, make them pause in their busy life, and bring a smile to their face.

📖 Artist Biography

Julie Reby Waas has been creating abstract drawings for as long as she can remember. It was only during the isolating, stressful time of the coronavirus pandemic, however, that Waas began turning her original designs into artwork.

Waas felt a desire to bring joy into her life and the lives of others through creative expression, using bright color and compelling patterns to stimulate the viewer’s spontaneous reaction to each one of her pieces.

Her geometric shapes and patterns serve as a way to bring order to her sometimes disordered life, and Waas identifies three recurring symbols in her work: vines, Venn diagrams, and jigsaw puzzle-like designs.

To her, these symbols represent friendship, connection, common ground, and fragments coming together to create a bigger picture, which all relate to Waas’s belief that everything and everyone is interrelated in some way, and when we come together in friendship and strength we create a beautiful tapestry.

In addition to creating her art, Waas also works as a labor and employment lawyer at Baptist Health South Florida. She exhibits her work in galleries in New York, London and Miami, and is influenced by other geometrically-inclined predecessors like Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró.

Most potently, Waas is inspired by her autistic son, Jonathan, who as a little boy would mix plaid shorts with bright, geometric t-shirts to create his own bold and unique style.

Waas’s style is certainly her own flavor of bold and unique, successfully achieving her goal of bringing happiness and enthusiasm to each one of her viewers.

📖 Artist Statement

As a duo, we work at an intersection of material and ephemeral, acoustic and electronic, order and chaos.

Many of our projects spring out of ongoing research on the subject of the Anthropocene, with its by-products and materiality presented through junk, abjected matter, abandoned pieces, and found objects.

We contrive distinct sonic spaces using esoteric, and odd musical instruments, feedback systems, as well as unaltered found sounds. These elements become descriptive of the new paradigm on micro and macro levels.

By addressing the objects of man-made production in combination with the modes in which these objects are produced, inhabited, and used, we hope to re-interpret the relationship between humans and nature.

We are doing this through fragmented multi-sensory experiences, improvisation, and immersive media projects that occupy both digital and physical spaces and bring in a set of alternative frames for addressing contemporary reality in artistic research.