All in Contemporary Art
My work begins with enlightenment I find in nature. Themes of inspiration with inner peace and belonging are intentional expressions throughout my work. Using atmosphere and light by tapping into all of the senses, I aim to share this feeling with my viewers.
Hailing from New York and currently residing in the picturesque West of Ireland, I immerse myself in the world of abstract, neo-expressionist, and art brut styles, using a diverse array of mediums such as oil, acrylic, oil stick, pastels, charcoal, and pencil. I firmly believe in creating art for art’s sake, valuing the authenticity of spontaneous artistic expression.
Born in Australia in 1962, AnnaK reflects on the unexpected twists of life that led her to embrace a newfound passion for art at the age of 60. Beginning with tentative explorations into drawing in 2019, AnnaK's artistic journey took flight in 2022 when her creative pursuits blossomed into a nightly ritual, expanding to encompass every available moment.
Rania Abulhasan is a Kuwaiti multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by her background in fashion and product design. Her work is a meditative reflection on the simplicity and beauty of life, using neutral colors, shapes, and subtle contrasts to emphasize life and movement. Designed to create a grounding experience, her pieces emanate calm, peace, and serenity, offering viewers a quiet space for reflection—a moment to escape the hustle of everyday life.
Stefano Paradiso is a photographer and a Cinematographer born in Rome in 1969. Graduated from the R. Rossellini School of Cinematography and Photography in 1988, he works as a director of photography and camera operator in cinema and advertising, boasting numerous collaborations with well-known Italian directors, French and American; for television he has made documentaries and reportages in various countries of the world. A lover and scholar of photography in its broadest sense, he is inspired by great photographers such as Josef Koudelka, Luigi Ghirri, Japanese Nihonga pictorial art, Chinese Guóhuà, impressionism and obviously "le cinéma d’auteur".
The only way to keep myself alive is to paint. Drawing is like drinking water when you're thirsty. That's why I don't pay much attention to the way I express my paintings. I just have to draw everything that is there. The way of expression is taught by the strong desire to draw. To be a little more precise, when you start painting, everyone starts drawing with an image as a starting point. But in my case, that image quickly breaks down, and I start hearing the voice of heaven. That's how I express my paintings.
When I think of myself as an artist I started young to perform, because I liked the idea of an audience. The certainty of a vulnerable position reflected in the exactness of a live theater always thought me to stumble, not to walk. That is often what is reflected in my art as well. I wonder where to go, because the direction is not fixed and the road is not driven before me. We are all drivers in an unknown landscape.
Antonia blends traditional techniques with innovative approaches, such as acrylic layering on canvas and creating Time-Icon-Installations with 3D elements like Barbie dolls and robot toys. For Antonia, art is more than expression—it's a medium to challenge and enrich our understanding of the world.
Gunilla Daga is an artist known for her mesmerizing works of art. She draws inspiration from her natural surroundings and the human interactions she experiences. Her artwork results from an ongoing interaction between life and material, in which each image is born from the previous. This cycle of life inspiring art and art inspiring life is what defines Gunilla Daga’s work, making her one of the most intriguing artists of our time.
The themes in my work are often inspired by the feminine nature that comes from within, as a woman and a mother. Many of my sculptures depict female subjects created to empower and inspire the feminine balance in this world. The sacred feminine is the essence of life, a symbol of creation, unconditional love, resilience and hope.
My work is like the wind, perceiving perspective.
A perspective which touches and surrounds me, and in its essence forms the source of my work and sparkles in endless interfaces.
Tinamaria Marongiu is a Sardinian sculptor who has made waste material her most intimate artistic signature. A pioneer of COMPACT ART, an expression that translated into art in 2013, she invents a specific way of creating 3D art, combining old waste materials and new materials, inorganic and organic, metals, pastes and colors, which, when joined together, become a single and compact body, fragments of the universe and events of our existence.
When I was 13 years old I started drawing, a teacher noticed this and showed the pictures to her mother who was an artist. She had told the girl that it is a gift and a talent she has. I have never gone to art school but I'm self-taught, I consider my art as the freedom of art and see art as a development. In my paintings I often have a message behind it. I'm not the one who is afraid to express my feelings through my art.
I like capturing the beauty and essence of a moment in time or an idea I have that I want to explore on canvas. The content of my artwork ranges from landscapes, abstract art, portraits, and figures. I paint quite deliberately, engaging both traditional and innovative techniques; creating a custom palate for each painting with one dominant color that takes precedence throughout the piece.
Atom relocated from Los Angeles to New York in 2009 and began painting-- the passion of his childhood and youth. Initially, the focus was on getting a feel for applying paint on canvas. His first paintings were abstract. He then began to paint portraits and landscapes. A considered and methodical autodidact, he busied himself with the study of anatomy, perspective, effects of light, color theory, art history, and the works of the Old Masters and the Modern Masters.
Stanislav Riha Visual Artist, photographer and writer Born in 1952 in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lesser Town (Malá Strana), surrounded by great medieval and modern art and artists that caused his desire to create. From early childhood, he enjoyed drawing and later painting; as a young man, he focused mainly on surrealism.
Cor Fafiani creates mysterious, multi-sensorial, perfect and almost metaphysical works of art. He plays with different materials and colours, and yet his art is never a pure aestheticism, but rather a code through which he can communicate his own ideas. He is, in fact, both an artist and a philosopher, and as such, he guesses the most inner selves of human beings, he reaches our onthological essence.
Francesco Casolari was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1982. He started to engrave when he was 6 and his first creation lasted until the age of 12. Right from the outset of his activity, he has focused on urban settings, engraving medieval and Parisian scenes or opera houses. He resumed his activity at 19 and, during his university studies in architecture and fashion design, began to develop his own style: futuristic metropolitan scenes in which he imagines buildings with European architectural features of the past centuries
As an artist I put myself in the footsteps of the all-embracing piece of art created by Mother Nature. For instance, look at the complex symmetry of a snail shell, better than a Mondrian. See the tension in the claw of an eagle, the most powerful Franz Kline; observe a bright, red berry against a green leaf; two strong complementary colours invented by Mother Nature long before Goethe or Johannes Itten wrote about them. And I could go on forever.
Kopplstätter was born in Hohenems, Austria, and studied architecture in Innsbruck before switching to fashion studies. He made a career in the fashion and design industry and worked as a designer, art director and creative director before returning to painting. The artworks, mostly painted in oil, are mainly large scale canvas. Today, the artist has created his own signature style by working through partial blurring between static and blurred planes that leave a vague sense of what lies beneath the surface.
