All in Painting

Interview with Sotaro Takanami

Interview with Sotaro Takanami

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

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.

Interview with Tone Aaness

Interview with Tone Aaness

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting, Performance

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.

Artist Spotlight - Gunilla Daga

Artist Spotlight - Gunilla Daga

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Melinda Bunjaku

Artist Spotlight - Melinda Bunjaku

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Karen Kanas

Artist Spotlight - Karen Kanas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Atom Hovhanesyan

Artist Spotlight - Atom Hovhanesyan

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Stanislav Riha

Artist Spotlight - Stanislav Riha

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Cor Fafiani

Artist Spotlight - Cor Fafiani

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Francesco Casolari

Artist Spotlight - Francesco Casolari

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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

Artist Spotlight - Gís Marí

Artist Spotlight - Gís Marí

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Michael Kopplstätter

Artist Spotlight - Michael Kopplstätter

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

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.

Artist Spotlight - Cher Pruys

Artist Spotlight - Cher Pruys

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Cher Pruys was born in Regina. Over the years she lived in many places including Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Fort Frances, settling into her present home in Devlin, on the banks of the Rainy River with her husband Mark, and pets. By age three, Cher was seldom found without a drawing tool in hand. She worked in pencil, charcoal and ink over the years, until she picked up a paintbrush at the age of 35. Beginning with oil paints, she found her chosen mediums in acrylic, watercolor and gouache.

Artist Spotlight - Margaretha Gubernale

Artist Spotlight - Margaretha Gubernale

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

The most of mystic pictures of Margaretha Gubernale are painted in oil on canvas. The source of her inspiration are the nature and philosophy and anthroposophy. The pictures by Margaretha Gubernale are a tightrope walk. On the one hand she paints abstract thoughts and on the other hand she uses the forms of the nature, for focus the symbolic parable as clearly as possible.

Artist Spotlight - Tamara Michel

Artist Spotlight - Tamara Michel

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Painting

Born in Ukraine, studied in Moscow, has lived and been a freelance artist in Vienna for 30 years. She paints various pictures with oil, acrylic and aquarel colors using her own technique between figurative and impreonist styles.
Tamara Michel uses an innovative method of color selection in painting, which makes her pictures special and interesting. Favorite motifs are sea landscapes and flowers.

Interview with Celine Chan

Interview with Celine Chan

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Celine Chan is definitely one of the most dazzling emerging female artists in Asia these past few years. This talented young artist studied in Canada and Hong Kong and she is now being an artist focusing on creating her paper-quilling artworks. Celine’s artwork shows a really strong personality and the beauty of life. She has received many international awards including nominated by Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2021, the Finalist Award of the International Artists Grand Prize Competition in Taiwan and the Talent Prize Award and Honorable Mention Awards of Portrait III organized by Art Show International Gallery. She is currently a full member of the Women’s Artist Association of Canada.

Interview with Michele Knox

Interview with Michele Knox

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

Spontaneity is vital aspect of my creative journey, allowing me to break free from rigid structures and expectations. I believe that art thrives in moments of surprise and unplanned discovery.  I allow myself to make spontaneous decisions while working. I remain responsive to the energy of the piece. Layering techniques is a transformation itself. This process of layering creates depth and complexity. Some of my best pieces comes from this transformation.

Interview with Jack Balas

Interview with Jack Balas

ContemporaryArtCurator
Contemporary Art, Interview, Painting

I don’t speculate as to the degree a viewer needs to wade into an image, but I hope there are varying paths from piece to piece. I do hope I’m giving them reason, visually, to spend time with every piece and think about it, gain something from it, enjoy it. When I hear someone’s interpretation that maybe I did not anticipate, I feel the piece is working in a good way — that you can find different ways in for yourself and surprise even me.

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