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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 Ingrid Baker
Rossland, 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 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 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 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 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 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 Brad Greek
Mary Esther, Florida
United States
Brad s greatest pleasure comes from creating a painting from an inner vision that appears while working on a piece. Although he is inclined to paint with a detailed style of realism, he will often venture into a symbolic, surrealistic style which is magical and awe-inspiring.
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Interview with Micah W. Guenther
Girard, Kansas
United States
Micah’s work is heavily influenced by his mood and the sights and sounds around him. His “Space/Continuum Series,” which was inspired by music, is evidenced by the visual movement of each artwork. The method used to develop this series has created artworks with great depth and texture that allows the viewer to enter into the fantasy world the artist created.
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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 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 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
Vancouver, 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 Terri Lloyd
Los Angeles, California
United States
Terri’s quick wit and zest for humor is ever present in her work. She believes that even in the darkest of themes there is light and by using humor, vibrant color, cartoonish
iconography, and the ever-wonderful pun, she shares the irony and the joy that human conditions bring.
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Interview with Asbjorn Lonvig
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 Joan Meade
Chapel Hill, NC
United States
Joan creates her artwork by layering colors and shapes and using a number of different media, which often include acrylics, string, charcoal or any number of hand painted papers. Capturing the play of light on her subject her work 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 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 Tatiana Roulin
Norwood, MA
United States
Tatiana Kuznetsova’s work is magical and reaches to the soul, showing the glory and value of life in the world around us. She is like a wizard using her magical wand to open portals into other worlds using complicated combinations of several artistic techniques to produce the final image.
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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 Pamela Vosseller
Florence, OR
United States
Pamella Vosseller’s watercolors, which are focused on realism, come from a passion deep in her heart. Using delicate brush strokes and bold explosions of color, her work takes the viewer on a journey where they can hear the crunch of crisp dry leaves, smell the freshness of flowers kissed by the morning dew and recall fond memories of places and things that are dear to them.
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