Marcel Hoppenbrouwers
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My ability to draw and sketch was developed strongly by a well known local artist and school teacher in the city where I lived when I was young, but I never put it to serious use, until I was asked to design a float for the local Mardigrass events.
Shelley Whitney
annie de wiest is a bona fide Belgian artist who works on photographs, texts, and images. She was tutored by Berthe Dubail and inspired by masterpieces from the greats.
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Marilyn Gaffney Memories I am interested in our relationship to landscape and how particular places hold memories and can invoke emotional responses. A snapshot memory of a place may be recreated through automatic responses with worked material providing a form of remembering.
My art is influenced by caricature and mural art. When I was fifteen years old I realized that realism did not capture the emotion or essence of the human experience. So I took a sketch pad and started experimenting with methods of distorting faces.
David Wilde
annie de wiest
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The process of creating and the presentation of art is a fundamental blessing and encouragement for human society that arises from the artists' ability to open to the primal elements of life's appearances. Feeling the heart of events and finding the freedom to express that in media and terms beyond the distortions of ego is a liberating thing that wakes people up to the natural benevolent vividness of circumstances.
Erin O’Malley “With digital macro photography I have been exploring the interaction of light with transparent and reflective surfaces. I consider my photography a series of experiments, a process of trial and error that builds upon past successes through the manipulation of variables�
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