All in Painting

Interview with Ivan Kanchev

Interview with Ivan Kanchev

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Contemporary Art, Interview

Could you walk us through your creative process? How do you approach the inception of a new piece, and what are the key stages in your workflow?

I don't like to explain my work. I define myself as an intuitive artist. I accept that instinct surpasses knowledge. For me, conceptual understanding always follows the image. I see the works ready in my mind like in a picture - with details and with colors. All I do is materialize the image that has appeared. I do not improvise. Only when I see an image do I start working. In the process of creation, other ideas naturally follow. On certain occasions I leave the work in reality different from what I saw in my mind. And isn't that improvisation?

Interview with Gustavs Filipsons

Interview with Gustavs Filipsons

ContemporaryArtCurator
Interview, Painting, Contemporary Art

I was born in 1974, Riga. When I was a child, I was deeply inspired by the cities old architecture and its different moods in different seasons. At that time everything seemed to live its own life and had its special spirit. Dark Art Nouveau style houses in Autumn evenings became alive in feeble lamplight, which was swinging in the wind above the street. Those mythical silhouettes and symbols at that time had much greater influence on me than the bypassing Soviet Era.

Interview with Katja Lührs

Interview with Katja Lührs

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Photography, Interview

You describe your art using words like 'wonderworld nature', highlighting the influence of natural beauty. Can you share a specific moment or experience in nature that profoundly impacted your artistic vision?

Even as a child, I was fascinated by nature and its diversity, by the sun and its play of light and shadow. I loved animals and had a dog called Blacky, he was my best friend. It took me about an hour to walk to school and Blacky was always by my side. He also picked me up on time. This long daily walk through the forest along a railroad line showed me how beautiful nature is in every season and how loyal and loving an animal can be.

Interview with Stanislav Riha - Standa

Interview with Stanislav Riha - Standa

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Contemporary Art, Interview

Growing up in Lesser Town, Prague, surrounded by medieval and modern art, can you share how this environment influenced your early desire to create and your artistic style?

I do not know If the art of the Lesser Town shaped my artistic style but drew out my creative abilities and desire to create art. Growing up in an atmosphere of admiration for artistic values made me want to create as well, using the most accessible tools I had as a child, pencil and paper, which was the base of my style, always starting with pencil and paper.

Interview with Natalie Egger

Interview with Natalie Egger

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Being featured in various art books and magazines is a significant accomplishment. How do you feel this recognition has impacted your career and artistic journey? Has it influenced the way you approach your art?

Being featured in books and magazines is a great opportunity and chance to get my art brought to a wider audience, however it has not influenced my process of creation. But I admit that it is interesting to observe how curators, art lovers, friends and family prefer artworks of mine which I would never choose to be my favorites. So, art is always a very private, very personal, very intimate relationship with the viewer this I have learned so far through publishing my artworks.

Interview with Caroline Reid

Interview with Caroline Reid

ContemporaryArtCurator
Interview, Painting, Contemporary Art

 What are your short-term and long-term goals as a contemporary artist? Are there specific milestones you aspire to achieve in your career?

I am currently planning to continue painting abstract landscapes, with a series based on the sea and the sky in mind, after extensively painting regional inland landscapes. This will result in a collection suitable for a solo exhibition.

Interview with Jenny Jiyoung Han

Interview with Jenny Jiyoung Han

ContemporaryArtCurator
Digital Art, Interview, Painting

Can you walk us through your creative process? How do you blend whimsical, abstract elements with more realistic ones to create your unique digital paintings?

I capture every detail of the chosen subject I selected for more realistic languages in the creation. Whimsy in every sense of elements beings shifting more positive or energetic mindset that empowers my soul and heart into the enthusiasm in life. The contents of whimsical elements renders from episodes of my favorites, personal experiences, and fun, or some hopeful futures I have been dreaming of. We may not recognize how the world works in our reality, which is meant to be not easily read or understood.

Interview with Ingemar Härdelin

Interview with Ingemar Härdelin

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Contemporary Art

What have been some of the biggest challenges you have faced in your artistic career and how did you overcome them?

The biggest challenge has been to dare to follow one's intentions to the end during the painting process. Instead of settling for a half-decent result, one can perhaps develop the painting if one dares to go further, with the risk of destroying the painting. It requires courage and faith in one's ability, something I have learned to handle over the years.

Interview with Felipe Alarcón Echenique

Interview with Felipe Alarcón Echenique

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

In what ways do your practices as a painter and a writer complement and influence each other, and how do you balance these two distinct yet potentially interconnected forms of expression?

My work as a painter and artist feeds each other since one is the continuity of the other, in painting the literal language is very present in a poetic and fabled way, represented with dreamlike colors and in my creation as a writer I also give free rein to freedom when writing free prose or a specific topic, generally painting and writing in my case go together.

Interview with Eveline Göldi

Interview with Eveline Göldi

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Contemporary Art, Interview

Can you tell us when you decided to pursue a career as an artist? 

I had the enthusiasm for art since I was a child, but when I started painting with acrylics in the mid-90s, I grew the desire to put my messages into pictures and make happy faces. When I was able to sell the first paintings, I wanted to refine my technique and so the next steps came naturally.

Interview with Natha Out of the Blue

Interview with Natha Out of the Blue

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Interview, Contemporary Art

Natha Out of the Blue represents part of her name (Nathakorn) and her spontaneity. Chiangmai, north of Thailand is her origin working studio base. She is a self-taught artist that has been creating her subject matter that blends with her inspiration and design on her canvas with several techniques she inspired.
Painting on canvas, she will be preparing her gouache color from the pigment mixing them with the binders. She uses gouache to have some earth tone that she likes. Acrylic colors still take part and are playful on her canvas. The way “OUT OF THE BLUE” action has inspired her most of the time. It is when she feels drawn to establish the creation with a plentiful amount of energy.

Interview with Jiawei Fu

Interview with Jiawei Fu

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Jiawei Fu (b.1998) was born and raised in Guangzhou, China. She has received a BFA in Interior Design from Pratt Institute, NY. Jiawei’s practice depicts mundanity and emptiness through surrealized reality. Utilize the understated diary to wake up subconsciousness and create new conversation between people. Her dedicated palette exposes the sugar-coated modern ignorance and relentlessness in all beings. Yet collision with egg yolk to bring back subtle similarities of just being alive. Her work is representing a perspective from the invisible introspection, creating a space for the viewer to reflect on their own, and addressing the mutual language that will be shared together for cherishing the unique sameness.

Hernan Bas

Hernan Bas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, Hernan Bas creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. 

Gloria Keh

Gloria Keh

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Contemporary Art

Sadhana is a Sanskrit word that means a spiritual practice. My artworks are my painted prayers and painting is certainly a spiritual practice for me.

Hence, since 2008, when i founded Circles of Love, a non profit charity outreach program, using my art in the service of humanity, all monies from any sales of my paintings are donated entirely to charity.

Interview with Ramón Rivas

Interview with Ramón Rivas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting, Digital Art

He was born in Lands of Don Quixote (Castilla-La Mancha / Spain). His family environment and the multidisciplinary influence of his professional activity; in sports, music, engineering, inventions and art, in Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, she was decisive for the artistic creation of a very personal and different style, called Rivismo, based on the application of the Experiential Brushstroke. During the last eighteen years, his research has managed to reinforce the Concepts and Philosophy that predominate in Rivismo and that have given prominence to the material elements to which he has assigned aspects, functions and values of people.

Interview with Lou Bermingham

Interview with Lou Bermingham

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Can you tell us about the moment you decided to pursue a career as an artist? 

I think I realized I was going to be an artist when I was 10 years old.  My elementary school teacher asked me to draw a huge mural that stretched across the back of the classroom on a roll of white paper a meter wide on what we were studying in history about WWII. It took me several weeks to draw, and I was totally involved in it and inspired by the sense of accomplishment it gave me when done. 

Interview with Robert van de Graaf

Interview with Robert van de Graaf

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Interview

Robert van de Graaf (1983, born in The Hague, the Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Van de Graaf received a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Architecture (Technical University Delft) in 2009. In 2005 and 2006, he worked as an intern in architecture in New York City. At Steven Learner Studio he worked on several art-related projects.

Interview with Rory Bills-Everett

Interview with Rory Bills-Everett

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Collage

Rory Bills - Everett is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal and the West of Ireland.
She is an intuitive artist and whilst her work is informed by the coastal regions in which she resides, ultimately her paintings are a manifestation of her internal dialogue.
In allowing her emotions to be represented on the canvas, Rory provides a platform from which to converse with the viewer. In doing so, she offers a space for the audience to embody the experience.
She uses expressive brushstrokes and a vibrant, energetic colour palette to create her works of art.
Rory will be featured in the upcoming edition of the Visionary Art Collective Magazine and her work has been shown in exhibitions in London and New York. Including “What Is Art?” and “Art For Real” at Boomer Gallery London, 2022. She has had a painting acquired for the permanent collection at the Children's Museum of Arts, NYC and she was spotlighted in the new visionary art collective magazine in October 2022.

Interview with Claire Davenhall

Interview with Claire Davenhall

ContemporaryArtCurator
Painting, Digital Art, Contemporary Art, Collage, Interview

Claire Davenhall graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen with a BA(hons) Fine Art Sculpture, studied at Athens School of Fine Art & North Karelia Polytechnic in Finland. She gained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Art Education, lecturing in both Fine Art and Art & Design; she won the Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and was nominated for two National Beacon Awards, before migrating to Australia in 2007. 

Interview with Isabella Sherwani-Keeling

Interview with Isabella Sherwani-Keeling

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting, Interview

Isabella is an Artist from Hemel Hempstead UK. 
She studied her BA in Fine Art Photography at Camberwell college of Arts starting in 2017. Here is where she discovered more on what a multidisciplinary practice is. Her work evolved from photographs, to collages and to paintings.
Isabella then went on to complete her Masters Degree (Contemporary photography and philosophies) at Central Saint Martins in 2022. Here she developed her multidisciplinary practice further, exploring further into paint and sculpture.

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