All in Painting
I studied for 4 years and gained a first degree in fine art on the Isle of Man. The paintings I have been currently working on are a series called 'childhood dreams' and 'childhood memories'. I paint subconsciously dreamlike and creating a story from my childhood capturing images from memory. I'm inspired by colour, tone and texture. The light and elements of nature.
I feel that I am very privileged being surrounded by art my entire life. I grew up in the mid west and moved to south Florida with my family. Here I studied both photography and Business Administration where I worked as a corporate Human Resource Director for many years. I am also very fortunate to have a daughter who is an up and coming architect.
I am Veerle Coucke, 53 years old and a language teacher in a secondary school. Apart from painting, I am fond of theatre, reading novels, visiting exhibitions. I'm married and a mother of 3 daughters in their twenties.
I was born in 1967 and grew up in Russia; I have Latvian and Russian blood. In my childhood I attended children’s art school in Russia. Then I went to Latvia and started to study at the Latvian University, Faculty of Pedagogy, in art department. Later I changed to the Pedagogical department of the Latvian Art Academy and graduated in 1993.
Eric Hubbes creates works charged both pictorially and emotionally, delivering on the canvas the incessant river of his thoughts. Its vocation is to sublimate the inner joys and sufferings and transform them into works of art.
Orit Sharbat lives and works at Tel Aviv, Israel. She likes to paints with passion and intensity. Her authentic style is marked by expressive, powerful colors, mainly oil or acrylic paint on canvas. Her paintings consist of multiple thick layers of color. At first sight, they may strike you as calm and harmonic, but when studied closely, the veneer of harmony and tranquility soon gives way to a multi-layered rich labyrinth of colors.
Transcribing them in different ways, in a mixture of pointillism, impressionism and surrealism, i work with a black ink pen on paper. (0.15mm tip) All illustrations are only pieces of a story, a journey, which will eventually be understood with all parties. These stories are not insignificant ... Indeed, a little character travels in all these paintings, it is the you, the ego ...
I am of Chinese origin. I came from Hong Kong to the U.S. for college education. I received my BFA degree from Fort Wright College, Spokane, WA and my MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI. Along the way, I attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Ceviga Frahm (Kyungok Paik) is a contemporary artist with studios in London and Seoul who brings colour and concept in harmonious symbiosis. Her artwork visualises the state of in-betweenness through ecstatic burst of colours, light, and forms
I am a painter, biologist and professor. In that order. I have lived many lives in one. None perfect. I am lucky to be able to paint. Everything else is secondary. I continue and will continue painting.
The Hopper Prize has a strong history of supporting contemporary visual artists through their biannual artist grant program. This is a great program that provides unrestricted financial support to working artists of all backgrounds and disciplines. In the Spring and Fall, 5 artists each receive awards, for a total of 10 grants per year. On top of this, support is extended to an additional 30 artists per cycle who are selected for a shortlist.
Alfaro Carozzi is originally from Lima, Peru / New York. She has worked in New York City most of her adult life. During an interview with Design & Fashion, she told us ” I am very interested in psychology. To create a painting I look at the scene from an analytical and psychological point of view. I see many stories within a story and I invite the viewer to engage and create his own story.
For over 20 years I have been developing my own painterly language through portraiture and atmospheric scapes. I don't seek realism, but rather a catalyst that will begin a dialogue between viewer, painting and artist. My artworks are a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, nationality and a journey with my own physicality and spirituality. I am obsessed with the painting process, but also enjoy running workshops, sharing my knowledge and passion.
Attila Mata, currently residing in Hungary, was born in Hungary in 1953.He always wanted to be an artist, maybe because he has been surrounded by artworks since his early childhood. He chose sculpture over painting as he was better at it and most of the time his teachers praised him for his sculptures.
Simon Darling is a Danish artist who grew up being exposed to the creative nature of his mother, who were an emerging abstract artist. In a young age he quickly engaged himself in drawing and painting.
“Through my paintings, I unite and express the unexplainable, indefinite and confusing emotions, from the obscure realm of imagination”
For the Italian painter David Pallua, to become an artist was to courageously refute the expectations of others in order to fulfill a personal dream. Not surprisingly, Pallua values integrity and authenticity as the most important aspect of his artwork.
The latest works by Hyeja Moon can be considered as the landmark that shows her long thoughts in her mind have reached to the starting point of her painting career all the way again. That is “Matisse’s colors and Mondrian’s abstracts geometric.” She titled the works <Compositions of Two Light Sources>. And the two light sources are, of course, Matisse and Mondrian who have long occupied her heart ever. What influences on Hyeja Moon’s work did those two great artists have? Matisse and Mondrian respectively.
Miguel Balbás’s artwork is solid and would stoically withstand any criticism from those who can’t bear for a piece of art to be beautiful, and nothing more. In contrast to proposals of questionable taste and poor content, both aesthetically and intellectually, the work of this artist is a tribute to the perfection of form, from someone whose objective, in his personal as well as professional life, is to make existence more tolerable for the rest of us.
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Alexandre Egorov was born and brought up in St. Petersburg in an atmosphere of the cultural movement of what is known as Russian cosmism This philosophical movement combined ethics and philosophy of the origin, evolution and future existence of the cosmos and humankind, both from Western and Eastern traditions.
