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Interview with Josh Andrews
San Francisco, CA
United States
Josh Andrews’ photography takes the viewer on a journey to Greenland and Spitsbergen in the Arctic, Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and the slot canyons of Northern Arizona. Through his photography he creates a unique perspective of the world that is both artistic and environmentally conscious. Be on the look out for images from Escalante Canyon in May 2009.
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Interview with Elizabeth Apgar-Smith
Schoharie, NY
United States
Elizabeth’s work represents the beauty she observes in peoples everyday activities. Her “Faithful Labors” series is a culmination of two years work that expresses the essence and beauty of farmers working to sustain their existence.
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Interview with Leslie Barnwell
Hazelton, British Columbia
Canada
Leslie Barnwell's work shows a deep concern for people, social issues and our place in this world. Using various techniques and styles, Leslie's paintings demonstrate her fascination with colour, pattern, and form. Also a writer, Leslie's book "The Rosemary Suite" tells the story of her friend's courage and struggle with breast cancer.
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Interview with Russell Bentley
Stockbridge, Ga.
United States
Russell's work is full of detail and realism, yet he has the ability to explore the surreal aspect of a subject and give it a slight "Disney" quality. His scenic and wildlife pieces have a delicate and peaceful feel, as if you were looking out an open door or window and seeing something that in real life would only be accessible from a great distance.
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Interview with Henri Bertrand
Apples, Vaud
Switzerland
Henri Bertrand, a Swiss geographer, is a sculptor who works with pieces of wood and transforms them into a combination of folds, forms, tensions, colours and rhythms which he associates to heterogeneous metallic elements. His pieces are inspired from the past and present forces that have contributed to the shaping of the terrestrial globe. In some of his most recent work, including numerous human silhouettes, his inspiration is completed by a clear expression of his sensitivity to Human fragility as opposed to “eternal” and powerful Earth’s forces.
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Interview with Neil Borrell
New York, NY
United States
Neil’s finely detailed pen and ink drawings, of country and nautical scenes, take the viewer on a visual journey around the world. His works have been published and exhibited extensively throughout New York and Massachusetts as well as Spain.
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Interview with Vicky Brago-Mitchell
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Vicky considers fractals to be “divine geometry.” Using her background in photography, she creates her pieces by choosing patterns, studying the light and shadows and then manipulating the colors to create images with intricacy and beauty. Each piece, although not a real object, has a familiarity that viewers often associate with.
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Interview with Sherman Bryce
Peekskill, NY
United States
Sherman Bryce is a visual artist who creates photographs of serenity and warmth celebrating the gifts nature offers when we take a moment to look around us. He hopes by sharing his vision he will awaken the calm and serene spirit that dwells in each of us when we allow ourselves to reconnect with nature.
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Interview with Robert Cantor
Mill Valley, California
United States
Robert’s sculptures are all about the human figure and face. His work captures the psychological ambiguities, conflicts, emotions, and hidden meanings of everyday life. He uses movement, kinetic tension, exaggerated form and the beauty of smooth lines to reveal the heartfelt aspect of a human experience.
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Interview with Natalie Chapman
Vernon, British Columbia
Canada
Natalie goes beyond the normal scope of photography by using specialized equipment and techniques to record an image that isn’t always visible to the naked eye. She believes that “seeing beauty” in ones surroundings is an art in itself, abstracting from the canvass of life and taking that special vision into a photograph.
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Interview with Ione Citrin
Los Angeles, CA
United States
Ione is an avant garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages and mixed media assemblages. Her contemporary paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic - all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul.
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Interview with Beverly Claridge
Invercargill
New Zealand
Beverly's narrative style is inspired by the activities and lifestyles of ordinary people. She creates her figurative compositions using a strong colour palette to tell a story about her subject. Her fascination with human activity and what people do to live a satisfying life is what inspires her. She knows that every person, and every situation has a story, and her fascination is recording that story in her paintings.
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Interview with Kathleen Norris Cook
Ouray, CO
United States
Kathleen Norris Cook is a landscape and commercial photographer who has published four books, the most recent, a national award winning coffee table book, Sprit of the San Juans. Using natural light she photographs at specific times so the effect of that light brings out all the beauty nature has to offer.
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Interview with Shirley Cross
Salem, Oregon
United States
Shirley takes her photography beyond a realist's perspective by manipulating and combining her subjects to produce an image with an ethereal mystical beauty. Her fine art photographs are awe-inspiring and go beyond what is normally expected or anticipated.
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Interview with Ingrid de Jong
Qualicum Beach, B.C.
Canada
Ingrid works almost exclusively in watercolors and with the use of powerful light and strong, rich colours her floral and landscapes demand the viewers’ attention. Although she is a realist at heart, she has recently experimented in abstractions and representational portraits that let the viewer linger and think about what the artwork represents.
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Interview with Robyn Eastman
McHenry, IL
United States
Robyn is a volcano of expression, utilizing vibrant colors to express the gentle whisperings from the heart of her world to help others to touch the heart of theirs. Robyn has worked in a variety of mediums over the years and as a ‘sixties’ child, she has ever been the rebel, finding that she could not separate her painting from her writing or other visual work, such as video/film.
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Interview with Leo (Christianna) Ellingson
La Mesa, California
United States
Leo Ellingson is a retired geologist who later in life pursued her artistic talent as a watercolorist and sculpture. Her wonderful sense of humor is the contributing factor to her success as a “Junk Artist.” Her Junk Art’s whimsical characters delight viewers and evoke chuckles and curious smiles from everyone who sees them.
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Interview with Cynthia Fleury
Eden Prairie, MN
United States
Cynthia’s photographs impart a sense of beauty and quiet serenity. As a former painter in oils she approaches her photography on an artistic and intuitive level rather than technical. She captures the beauty around her through the interplay of color, light and composition both in her color and black and white images.
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Interview with Pnina Granirer
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada
Pnina is a very prolific artist whose imagery and ideas have spanned over four decades and three continents. Her work has formed a personal allegory that combines imagery from her life and family, her visions, and travels. She took a stand against oppression and racism, which is expressed in works now hanging at the offices of the UN Human Rights Commission in New York and the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. A major work, THE TRIALS OF EVE, was published as a prize winning limited edition book and made into a film by the same title.
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Interview with Francine Gravel
Kelowna, BC
Canada
Francine’s work will take you into a magical world that drifts between reality and total illusion, a place where you played as children and now often yearn to re-explore as an adult. With her vivid imagination and philosophical insight, she captures a world that is peaceful and
happy yet full of mystery and intrigue.
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Interview with Micheline Hadjis
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Micheline Hadjis creates her artworks using multiple layers of translucent colors and textured highlights of opaque acrylics, which results in an explosion of color that captivates her audience. Using this technique, Micheline brilliantly portrays the texture, color, and vibrancy of her exotic and tropical subjects taking the viewer on a personal journey within her imagery
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Interview with Heimo Christian Haikala
Toronto
Canada
Heimo's work is a combination of personal and spiritual symbolism. Using vivid colours in a mosaic format he creates artworks that allow the viewer to look at the work as a colour study or look deeper to find the narrative depiction.
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Interview with Pol Sioson Herrera
Livingston, New Jersey
United States
Pol's art, which conveys a gentle beauty, reflects his passion for life and his love for music and nature. His work is expressed in a number of styles and media including "Polinearism"--A new way of seeing.
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Interview with Donna Ion
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
Donna uses bold complementary colours to produce powerful images with dramatic impact. Her work has evolved from expressing the local landscapes that she loves in a realistic manner to a much more abstract and interpretive approach.
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Interview with Jean James
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada
Jean James work will enlighten the viewer and give them a new perspective on the world we all share. She combines shapes, colour and light to produce a combination of realism, fantasy and abstraction that gives us a glimpse of a world that few of us could imagine.
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Interview with Kevin Jenne
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Kevin Jenne’s appeal lies in his “Impressionistic, slightly “Cubist” style. His paintings are infused with an inner glow and luminosity that gives each piece a life of their own. He uses intense colours to elicit an emotional response and to stir passion in those who view his work. Recently, Jenne has evolved into his current style “Fragmentation” and is creating works in which light seems to emanate from within the canvas.
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Interview with Leonard King
Malvern, PA
United States
Influenced by the realist tradition, much of Leonard King’s work depicts the American Country Scene. He shows a great sensitivity in depicting animals and excels in capturing nuances of the land by choosing light sources and shadows that express his feelings for nature.
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Interview with Jennifer Myers Kirton
MOUNT DORA, FL
United States
Jennifer Myers Kirton tells a story with her ink and pencil drawings using a process that is devoted to technique, detail and uniqueness. Kirton developed what she calls a “spotlight technique” where she infuses portions of her pencil and ink drawings with color to incorporate another view into the picture. Her work has received numerous awards and has been published and exhibited throughout the US and Europe.
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Interview with Kristin Krimmel
Maple Ridge,, British Columbia
Canada
Kristin's work has an astonishing variety. She takes the viewer on a journey into a world of whimsical imagination and delights them with images filled with beauty or humour. In her work, she expresses images of everyday life where she presents ordinary objects that she finds beautiful and noteworthy. Kristin has exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions in France, Canada and the United States. Steven Cannell Studios have used her work as decor in several of their serial productions and movies as have other movie productions created in the Vancouver area.
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Interview with Guy Levrier
France
Guy Levrier’s abstract paintings are a creation of beauty. He chose not to name his works so they can be viewed at any angle in order to discover the infinity of luminous, transparent colored universes which represent the relations between his artistic creation and our harmonious cosmos.
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Interview with Asbjorn Lonvig
Hedensted
Denmark
Asbjorn’s artistic expression is created through the use of simple shapes and bright colors that are brought together to tell a story and communicate his message globally. He uses symbolism to produce his emotional expressionistic paintings and describes his work as a “Colorful Simplicity in Art as in Life”
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Interview with GLENN MACKINNON
Englewood, Florida
United States
Glen McKinnon uses light and form to produce photographic images that are not only sensual but portray themselves to the viewer in a unique way. His detailed artistic interpretation of reality is revealed in his creation of memorable and aesthetically pleasing images.
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Interview with Stanley Maltzman
Freehold, New York
United States
Inspired by nature and its beauty, Stanley takes the elements it presents and interprets them in the light of his own feelings to create each work. He feels that there is a certain sense of communion with nature that he captures in the field or woods that cannot be achieved by working indoors. Highly acclaimed as a landscape artist, Stanley is also an accomplished author and educator.
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Interview with Joan Meade
Chapel Hill, NC
United States
Joan creates her artwork by applying various acrylic media to the painting surface, reflecting water, rocks and trees (her favorite subjects). At this interim stage, she has created a white composition in relief, thus the term “sculptural acrylics”. She then applies the color for richness of detail, and to bring out further the contrast in textures found in nature. Capturing the play of light on her subject draws the viewer into the scene, which reflects a moment in time and allows them to feel the warmth or coolness of the subject that lies before them.
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Interview with Leith Nance
Nanoose Bay, BC
Canada
Leith Nance, who has worked and traveled in a number of countries, describes herself as a “citizen of the world.” Her paintings are as diverse as her life experiences, encompassing all subject matter imaginable. Her artwork, although varied, is unique and can be identified immediately.
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Interview with Noriko Ohashi
Tokyo
Japan
Noriko Ohashi’s imagination will take you on a visual journey to places you may never see, allowing you to drift off into her intimate space to share her thoughts and emotions. Finding it hard to live well in the real world, Noriko moved to an inner world that was more tolerant and forgiving. This enabled her to see what she does not normally see and remember places where she can never return.
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Interview with Leon Oks
Niles, IL
United States
Leon has exceptional vision, combining dynamic movement and multiple perspectives with
romanticism and emotion, to reveal joy and sadness in equal measures. With fluid brush strokes, he unites form and vivid color into a tapestry of unique inspiration that taps into a range of human experiences
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Interview with Denise Paquette
St Lazare de Vaudreuil, QC
Canada
Denise’s work is stunning and takes the observant viewer into a world where realism and abstraction have no boundaries. She works with many mediums and materials, which she often combines to create subtle intricacies and dimension to her work.
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Interview with Ingeborg Raymer
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada
Ingeborg Raymer marvels at the fleetingness of each experience and finds the human body and human condition something that moves her to explore and catch the mood of each moment. While trying to be realistic, her biggest concern is expressing her feelings for the individual or the setting.
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Interview with David Rose
Saint Hubert, Quebec
Canada
David Rose is a low-vision artist living in Montreal who utilizes visual aids when creating his paintings. He uses photographs as source material for a variety of themes, such as portraits, natural landscapes, and urban landscapes which often include Montreal street musicians. While his artworks are unified by light, colour and technique, his paintings can also reveal something of the process by which they were created.
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Interview with Bob Sanov
Florence, Oregon
United States
Bob Sanov, is a traditional photographer who is a master at his craft both in and out of the darkroom. Waiting for just the right light, he works magic to transform the sensuous contours of the landscape and the sensuality of the human form into a black and white image. His images are reflections of his feelings about a subject and it¹s in the darkroom that he brings his images to life to represent these feelings.
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Interview with Bogdan Soban
Sempeter pri Gorici
Slovenia
Bogdan is a revolutionary artist whose art is entirely
computer generated and based exclusively on the aesthetic ability of mathematics and generative designed software. His geometric abstractions are magical creations of color and design that represent his emotions during the creative process.
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Interview with roger sonneland
New Zealand
Roger describes his macro photography as a personal experience between himself and the flower he is photographing. He looks at the “Rose” as the Rolls Royce of flowers and one that holds so many untold stories. As Roger moves in close and looks deeply into the rose he reveals an explosion of color along with an ever-changing landscape.
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Interview with Jan Woodford
Florence, OR
United States
The Oregon coast has been the stimulus for much of Jan Woodford’s work. Her landscapes lead the viewer into a scene that exudes tranquility and peacefulness. Jan initially worked in oils but has become more and more charmed with the immediacy of pastels which allow her to show the subtlety and the soft beauty of nature
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