Artistcloseup - Contemporary Art Magazine #3

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Jaq Grantford

Jaq is an award winning artist with MEAM Musem, and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. To capture the essence of a person is one of her greatest joys. She loves to tell the stories through visual imagery: the influences, the environment, the joy, the humanity.

jaqgrantford.com @jaq_grantford_art

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2020 oil on canvas 102 cm x 86 cm x 3 cm 2021

Skip Nall

When I was 12 my father gave me an Argus Rangefinder. I fell in love with photography. Today I produce abstract and minimalist photographic art and am beginning to paint. Artistic creation is my passion. I am continually trying to see things in a new way and grow as an artist.

skipnall.com @skipnall

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61 cm
102
cm 2022
Thunder Head BW (top left) photography
x
cm x 4
61
2012
The Dream (bottom) photography
cm x 102 cm x 4 cm
61 cm
2022
Sunrise On The Lake Silver Edition (top right) photography
x 102 cm x 4 cm

Tony Leonardo Cimino

I am an artist, classical musician, photographer & poet. I have a Doctorate in Flute Performance and am a classical pianist. As an artist, I create every day and have an extensive volume of work in many mediums. This has been my life - ART.

tonycimino.artonomo.com @tonyartboycimino

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BWV 971 watercolor 31 cm x 23 cm 2022

Patrick Peters

PJPIII (The Artist) is a revolutionary multi-dimensional creator. His style is self described as contemporary Vibrational Anti-Perfectionist! After almost dying from COVID 19 he became a full-time artist. He believes art with purpose can make the world a better place. “My mission is to use art to inspire people to live out their dreams. No matter how hard it gets. I will donate 20% of my profits to charities from art to make the world a better place.”

rememberthisart.com @pjpiii

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Excuse Me While I Go Get Lost In The Magic Of London acrylic on canvas 36 cm x 28 cm 2022

Nataliya Gurshman

I am a professional fine artist and university faculty. I grew up in the cold, snowy climate of the city of Leningrad in the former Soviet Union. Therefore, I absolutely love snow and winter. My heart elates when it snows especially in the city.

natikart.com @natikartcities

Julia Kennedy-Bell

My practice so far has sought to resolve formal oppositions via abstraction. As well as the interpretation of the many and varied results and their associations to meanings and references in the continuum of personal experience, history and culture and the contemporary context.

juliakbell.com @joolsk

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Magical NYC oil 20 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm 2022 Renew 1 acrylic 20 cm x 30 cm x 5 cm 2021

Olga Bossart

Zurich-based photographer. The main focus in her work is aimed at understanding the inner world and the influence of the surrounding world on it.

agibelf.com @olgabossart

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SANTI #2 (top right) 47 cm x 70 cm 2022 SANTI #3 (bottom) 47 cm x 70 cm 2022 SANTI #1 (top left) 47 cm x 70 cm 2022

Nick Dale

I dreamed of becoming a photographer when I was 15, but my mother wanted me to go to Oxford instead! I have a passion for wildlife, and I want to celebrate all its facets in my photography, including power, beauty, cuteness and humour. These are the qualities I want to share.

nickdalephotography.com @nickdalephotography

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2015
Bear
Gills photographic print on paper 97 cm x 135 cm x 5 cm

Aileen Donovan

I am a visual artist from Ireland. I draw with a glue gun so most of my work has a 3d type effect. I paint mostly moon/sun, trees, wildflower meadows, butterflies, whatever I feel like. I use sponges, my fingers, qtips, old toothbrushes along with my brushes. I use bitumen to age work.

So I Watch you

metallic

(background

gold

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Beyond The Sea (top right) acrylic and glue on canvas 76 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
2022
From Afar (bottom) acrylic, pastes, leaf pen pattern) and glue 60 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
2022
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (top left) acrylic, glue and metallic pastes 100 cm x 76 cm x 4 cm
2022

Gerd Stritzel

Gerd Stritzel born 1961, comes from a family of artists. After studying art and graphics in Stuttgart, he continued to develop his artistic skills in the USA. Gerd has created sets for the San Francis Opera. Now he uses his skills to make fine art.

gerdstritzel.de @gerdstritzel

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LINda (top right) acrylic on wood 90 cm x 70 cm x 5 cm
2022
Ludwig II (bottom) acrylic, paper canvas 150 cm x 120 cm x 4 cm
2023
2022
BERnd (top left) acrylic on wood 90 cm x 70 cm x 5 cm

Hans Fleischner

Born 1948 in Vienna, Austria. Studied photography from 1964-67 in Vienna. Born again 1968 in New York. Lived in Tokyo from 1975 till 1995. Since then Vienna based. Someone asked, are you still photographing? I answered, are you still breathing. No harm, we’re still friends. hansfleischner.com @hansfleischner

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ZERO, NEW YORK 1969 black and white film 30 cm x 21 cm
1969

Il Maltese

Born in Malta 73 years ago, he lived in London, Paris and North of Italy (Turin) until he moved to Hong Kong for 20 years before coming back to Malta 7 year ago. His first Personal exhibition was in Turin in 1970. In the year he participates to many International Art exhibitions.

@mariozammitlewis

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I AM WATCHING YOU oil painting on canvas 40 cm x 40 cm x 2 cm 2022

Shante’ Young

She classifies her work as art that “Captures the Human Spirit.” She defines her work as raw, rich, cut compositions using the simplest techniques in full detail, while capturing the human spirit.

artbyshanteyoung.com @artbyshante

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Douglas Ross

I began my visual arts career as a painter and sculptor in the early 1980s. Today the camera is my main art making tool. I work closely with the people that I photograph in the development of themes. I have exhibited my work in 14 countries across Europe and North America.

dougrossart.com @douglasross6060

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Jesper Krijgsman

Jesper Krijgsman constructs supernatural landscapes where dreams and biology blend together. His detailed collages are so vividly realised, one could almost step into these compositions and explore his paradisaical dreamscapes.

jesperkrijgsman.com @jesper.krijgsman

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100
2022
cm x
cm

Jac Deuss

2022

Self taught artist. Born in the Netherlands, momentarily living in Belgium. After successfully business career painting since 1996 After period of figurative and landscape painting nowadays only abstract painting; I see myself as an intuitive abstract expressionist painter.

@deussjac

Peter Philip Berg

The Artist’s Apartment pencil on paper 28 cm x 36 cm 2003

Peter Philip Berg, a native of Richmond, BC, is a life-long artist who taught himself to master the use of pencil and charcoal. Having first picked up a drawing tool early in his childhood, he’s been at it ever since, working mostly outdoors (which is why he prefers the tropics).

@peterphilipberg

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Sky Lights 1 acrylic 60 cm x 60 cm x 2 cm

Kat Alyst

Kat Alyst creates fictional worlds that don’t exist, yet share authentic narratives through oddly familiar glances into the abstract through a stylized camera lens. Born in Lufkin, Texas, Alyst now works and resides between Austin, Los Angeles, and New York City.

mynameiskat.com @katinthecloudz

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Caught Pink-Handed digital photograph 40 cm x 60 cm x 3 cm
2021

Luis Del Castillo

Luis Lopez Del Castillo ,1976; He studied at the Vocational Arts School and at The Fine Arts Academy where he Graduate in 2001. He was a member of ‘’the 16’’, sixteen young artists that were selected to the show

‘’Projecto Personal’’ at Centro de Desarrollo, Havana, Cuba. studiodelcastillo.com @luis_lopezdelcastillo_

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185
2020
Presence #1 (Polarization) oil on canvas
160 cm x
cm x 1 cm

Zonchrono

Watercolor & 3D artist. Through his works, values as an important factor in creation the connecting elements of the conscious reality with the subconscious. He reassembles visualized versions of abstract concepts, instincts, emotions and ideas as he gives an unrealistic substance

zonchrono.wixsite.com/zonchronoart @zonchrono

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Misconception (bottom) watercolors on paper 70 cm x 100 cm 2021 Confinement / Pandemic 3D (top right) digital 3D artwork 2022
76 cm
56 cm 2021
Confinement / Pandemic (top left) watercolors on paper
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Christyan Lundblad

Christyan Lundblad is a Danish artist age 41 with a BAC in character animation. During his education he started to focus ore on visual design instead of motion and started to paint in 2009 by himself. He is very inspired by graffiti and animation-oriented pop culture.

christyanlundblad.blogspot.com @christyanlundblad

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Cat Face (top right) pastel on watercolor paper 60 cm x 80 cm x 2 cm 2021
2020
Ghost in the Pink (top left) acrylics & graffiti markers on canvas 90 cm x 70 cm x 2 cm Slime Dude (bottom) acrylics on canvases 50 cm x 110 cm x 2 cm 2021

Claire van der Boog

Claire van der Boog, a Franco-Dutch artist, has made space her chosen focus for experimentation and conceptualises it through her work, transforming the materiality of a place as well as how it is perceived by the observers.

clairevanderboog.com @clairevanderboog

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Time Lapse A1 - Shot 4 print on hahnemühle german etching paper 84 cm x 59 cm 2022

David

I was born deaf in Armenia. I got my first hearing aids in Japan when I was eleven years old. I settled in the USA in 1995. I have graduated from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in December of 2010. I attained a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts and Illustration. eyeimaginationforever.com @eyeandglaz

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91 cm x 122 cm x 5 cm 2011
The eyes of Color Unite (top left) oils
60.96 cm x 45.72 cm x 3 cm 2021
The Three River Eyes (bottom) acrylics
acrylics 99.06 cm x 50.8 cm x 5 cm 2011
The Solar Eye (top right)

Bridges IV

acrylic & mixed media

40 cm x 40 cm x 1 cm

2022

Louise Brook

UK based artist Louise Brook is inspired by a natural curiosity to explore complex topics. Layers of acrylic paint & mixed media create rich texture and visual interest, whilst the underlying narrative intends to inform & intrigue, sparking interest, curiosity, and conversation.

louisebrookcreative.com

@louisebrookcreative

Maggie Smith

Soul contemporary art photography

24 cm x 24 cm 2022

My love of Art has been with me for as long as I can remember. Whether it is the Art of Being or the Art of Creative Expression though Photography and Mixed Media. To bring joy, creativity and understanding through artistic expression.

@maggie.smith.927758

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Robert Scott McMillan

Myth of Creation: New Century Rhymes, pt.13 Nuclear Interaction acrylic

183 cm x 122 cm x 5 cm 2010

b.1968. Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. Occupation: Existential Archaeologist. My practice is something that exists between a love for paintings of a more traditional subject matter, and a love for a research of concerns primarily of an astro/techno/bio/ill/-logical equation.

robertscottmcmillan.com @rm_archive.v2

Amanda Bigelow

Strange Still Life acrylic & pastel on canvas 75 cm x 75 cm x 4 cm 2022

@amandabigelowart

Amanda Bigelow is an Australian painter who loves working in colour, and adding a sense of ‘wonkiness’ to her work. Her style is abstract expressionism, abstract landscape, and still life. Amanda works in acrylic, mixed media: on canvas and board.
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Mishel Schwartz

If you ask Toronto-based artist Mishel Schwartz to pinpoint the exact moment when being an artist became her heart’s desire, she’d tell you, without hesitation, the story of her younger self hiding on the stairs, watching her mother in her basement studio paint live models.

mishelschwartzart.com @mishelart2

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Count To 10 Then Come Find Me (top left) alcohol ink 121.92 cm x 152.4 cm x 5.08 2022 Taking A Road Less Traveled (bottom) alcohol ink/goldleaf 30 cm x 47 cm x 5 cm 2022 Tapestry (top right) alcohol ink 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm x 2 cm 2019

Miguel de Miguel

Pintor autodidacta, haciendo muestras alrededor del mundo desde hace más de 40años,nacido en España y actualmente residiendo en Italia.

@miguel.demiguel

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160 cm x 120 cm x 3 cm 2022
Testa di Donna oleo sobre lienzo

Antonietta Sole

Antonietta Sole is an artist with Austrian and Italian origins. Born in 1971 she currently lives in Vienna and Southern Italy. She mainly works in acrylic, drawing her inspiration from the world and colors that surround her.

artbyasole.com @artbyasole

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Female Sensitivity 1 acrylic 80 cm x 100 cm x 1 cm 2022

Michael Sudheer

I have been a fine art photographer for over 40 years. My camera becomes my paintbrush and I literally paint with light. This approach has landed me several one man shows. I was the first photographer to be exhibited in the windows of Tiffany’s flagship store in Manhattan.

michaelsudheer.com @sudsy42

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50.8
2020
Come Sit with Me (top right) photography
cm x 60.96 cm
51
76
2017
A Lovely Morning in Kyoto (bottom) photography
cm x
cm
photography 50.8 cm
60.96 cm 2021
On Golden Pond (top left)
x

Christine Roychowdhury

Christine Roychowdhury studied at Goldsmith’s College in the 1980’s and this influenced her belief that art should work on both a visual intellectual and emotional basis She was born in Lancashire within a workingclass family exhibited in the Scottish Portrait Awards and SRA. artandbailey.co.uk @christineroychowdhury

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150
At the End of The Day (top right) oil on canvas & mixed media cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
2022
Isolation (bottom) oil on canvas
120
cm x 90 cm x 2 cm
2020
1520
2020
Pandemic (top left) oil on canvas cm x 120 cm x 2 cm

Augustinas Našlėnas

Augustinas’ fine-art practice consists of multimedia installations and performances. Augustinas also works as a digital illustrator, graphic designer and photographer. He develops his brand of design called Vandenis Media.

augustinas-naslenas.net @augustinas.art

The

Žemyna

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2018
Dream Weaver (top left) digital photo-montage, inkjet print 120 cm x 80 cm - Baltic Goddess of the Earth (bottom) digital photo-montage, inkjet print 70 cm x 120 cm
2017
Psychedelic Surfer of the Peak District (top right) digital photo-montage, inkjet print 80 cm x 120 cm
2015

Nicole Irvine

Maree resin

76 cm x 76 cm x 3 cm

2022

Nicole is a married mom of two, as well as a nurse. She resides in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, and when she isn’t wearing the hat of Kid uber driver, or her nursing cap, she escapes to her studio to create stunning 3d resin beach art, with crystal inspired nuances thrown in. nicolespaintescape.com @nicolespaintescape

MDahl Art

Bonzai

acrylic and clay

36 cm x 29 cm x 3 cm

2022

Michelle Dahl is a self-taught artist who captures life’s fleeting moments in her acrylic paintings. She uses texture and color to bring her images to life. She enjoys florals and landscapes, but animal portraits allow her to give back through fundraisers for animal rescues.

mdahlart.com @mdahlart

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Kyle Sorensen

Canadian artist Kyle Sorensen is best known for his rich portrayal of landscapes through the lens of geometric abstraction. Sorensen’s fractured acrylic landscapes are a fresh approach to traditional landscape paintings.

kylesorensen.net @ks.fineart

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Granite Shoreline (top left) acrylic on birch panel 122 cm x 92 cm x 4 cm
2022
Savage Shores (top right) acrylic on birch panel 61 cm x 61 cm x 4 cm 2022 Westerly Winds (bottom) acrylic on birch panel 61 cm x 61 cm x 4 cm
2022

Derek Glaskin

Originally l come from the landownunder; back in ‘88 l was invited to Hawaii for thirty day art exhibit and l’ve never been able to leave this spooky place. It’s taught me, l must be a real, selfish bugga giving up everything to paint about the Hawaiians & their culture. Aloha.

Stephen Wysocki

In 1996 I finished my Bachelor of Arts degree in the University of Wisconsin of Green Bay. During this time, I studied art abroad in England. Professional artist since 2010. Painting mainly in oil paints. I compete regularly in local and national Plein Air Festivals.

swysockiart.faso.com @swysockiart

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KULIA I KA NU’U (Strive to Meet the Highest) latex acrylic mix medium on canvas 122 cm x 91 cm x 3 cm 2000 Curve in the Road oil on canvas 20 cm x 20 cm x 3 cm 2022

Marciana Biasiello

Marciana Biasiello’s work has been exhibited in the USA and Europe, and is included in private collections in the US and Canada. She has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught at The University of Illinois and The School of the Art Institute.

marciabiasiello.com @marcia_biasiello

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BlueRain_ acrylic on canvas 91 cm x 61 cm x 1 cm 2020

2018

Amreen Hussain

Hi my name is Amreen Hussain. I am an independent Artist. Art has always been my childhood best friend, my first love, my life long passion. I feel like my soul has been immersed in and out of my art journey. I create bespoke abstract, arabic calligraphy, modern contemporary art.

@amreen_artist

Nu Renaissance

122 cm x 102 cm

2003

A native of Foxworth, MS now living and working in Jackson, MS and former graduate of Jackson State University, his works are done primarily in oil with an abstracted Afrocentric twist influenced by his philosophies and ideals of life and bringing them to a physical realm. nurenaissance.com

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Journey of the Soul charcoal, acrylic, & oil paints 178 cm x 152 cm x 2 cm Behold Adam oil & tar

Clover Laurier

Over 30 years ago I dropped out of a Fine Arts Degree to earn “real money”, but never stopped tapping into my creative side. I draw inspiration from street art, abstract, and cubism. My work is proudly naive and I would refer to myself as a novice outsider artist. artintegral.com.au @art_integral

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2022
Just like Heaven (top left) acrylic on canvas in floating frame 120 cm x 120 cm x 6 cm
2022
Walk with Red Dog (bottom) acrylic on canvas 60 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
2022
Flower Girls (top right) acrylic on canvas 60 cm x 40 cm x 5 cm

Julia Rose

35 cm x 25 cm 2022

I have been painting landscapes on and off all my life especially during the 1980s in Spain where I had a few exhibitions and sold most of my work. Art has always been a big part of my life but now I’m less involved with the process and just paint as I want to.

@julia.rose.painting

Greg Stirling

30 in x 48 in x 1 in 2022

Greg Stirling started painting in 1980. After going through three decades of self-guided exploration in abstract expressionism, art of the 20th century, and post-war impressionism, he arrived at the door of realism. Mr. Stirling is also a kinetic metal sculptor, and engineer.

gregstirling.com @greg.stirling

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El Roble oil Porsche 962C Rothmans #17 acrylic on canvas

Hugh Savage

Born on a farm near Newtownhamilton northern Ireland. Got in to painting and doing art when I got off alcohol went to a life drawing class. Have painted about 1000 paintings in that time. My motto is I hope to do a masterpiece some day.

Paula Irene Payne

As a painter of natural environments, I can consider how the impact of the Anthropocene affects the ways that humans relate to land - or to Country - or to place. But this series of paintings also belies my interest in the processes and materiality of painting.

paulapayne.com.au @irenejalopayne

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Human Nature acrylic on canvas 91 cm x 122 cm x 5 cm 2022 Man Walking in the Light acrylic 30 cm x 40 cm x 160 cm 2022

Anja Slomma

Anja Slomma crosses the lines between fine art, narrative, visual poetry, and portraiture. Her images are illustrating a lot of ideas to do with issues of identity, the human experience and the expression of that experience. Her photos are alluring stories of the body and mind.

anjaslomma.com @anjaslomma

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Looking to the Bright Side photography 90 cm x 120 cm x 2 cm 2021

Emma Jackson

I started drawing faces during lock down and I have not stopped drawing faces. I want to create emotion and a life lived with some pencil and charcoal and to make pictures that people want to look at. Art does not need to be pretentious. It just needs to portray something.

jackson-drawings.ueniweb.com @jacksonsrawingsatcromer

Patricia Askew

Patricia Askew was a Native New Yorker that currently resides in Winter Park, Florida. She has always had a love for the arts. In and out of college several times and was once very dedicated dancer. Currently she seeks to brand her vision of one planet and art belongs to all.

soufullvisins.com @Itsitsnotjustart

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Wild West graphite and pastel pencil on hand made paper 29 cm x 21 cm 2022 In My Room acrylic 20 cm x 16 cm 2013

Ruth Lane

I am a Toronto born painter residing in Elora, ON. I paint almost exclusively in oils and rely on personal memories to render subject matter. For me, painting is a highly personal experience, during which time I explore questions regarding identity as fluid rather than fixed.

@ruthlanejohnston

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2021
Beam of Light (top right) oil on canvas 40 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm Sunrise (bottom) oil on canvas 30.5 cm x 40.5 cm x 4 cm
2020
2021
Cabin Fever (top left) oil on canvas 64 cm x 64 cm x 4 cm

Suzanne Claire

My work reflects colour, texture, movement, and vibrancy to create art. The human face, figure are the inspiration behind my work to reflect a feeling of happiness.

@suzannetaitmarchant

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Just Breathe (top left) mixed media 152 cm x 90 cm x 4 cm 2022 Sorrow (bottom) mixed media 76 cm x 76 cm x 4 cm
2020
2021
The look (top left) mixed media on stretched canvas 51 cm x 76 cm x 4 cm

Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher

I paint abstract paintings but also paintings in which colors, shapes and silhouettes emerge from the depths of my memories and condense into fictional places or impressions of nature, where it is not only abstracted landscape but rather its character, the silence, the vastness, a horizon. Sometimes it is simply the desire for powerful brush strokes that drives me. To feel this energy, to let it become visible, captivates and challenges me every time anew.

oberlik-burtscher.at @oberlikburtscherbri

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50
2019
Mountain (top right) acrylic on canvas
cm x 50 cm x 2 cm
120
120
2017
Ufer (bottom) acrylic on canvas
cm x
cm x 3 cm
2022
Colors of Spring II (top left) watercolor on handmade paper 50 cm x 40 cm

Mariami Maghlakelidze

Mariami Maghlakelidze is a transdisciplinary Artist and Architectural Designer working across various mediums to explore the symbiosis and entanglement of natural and built ecologies between architecture, science, art, and technology.

maglabdesign.com @mari_abstract

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Migrating Ecology wooden frame, acrylic sheet, elastic cord wire 70 cm x 20 cm x 25 cm 2021

Sarah Fenwick

Sarah Fenwick was born in Kenya in 1966 to a Greek-Cypriot mother and an English father. Her background as a jazz singer inspires her paintings with musical themes and she is keen to transform the big ideas of life and the Universe into visual art.

sarahfenwickart.com @sarah1jazzsinger

Laura Cooper

123 cm x 123 cm x 4 cm

I’ve been drawing all my life! Someone told me I was born with a pencil in my hand. I specialize in murals and love plein air with all the Canadian nature! I love oil, acrylic and watercolours. But favourite is oil. lolosart.ca @laura.e.cooper.39

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Ancient
140
2020
Dance acrylics on archival paper
cm x 100 cm
Portugal
2021
oil

Justin Robinson is a multi-provincial Expressionist. The works often consist of capturing human behavior, and atmospheres across Canada. Currently, Justin is a student at the London Art College. Cover Photo Credit: West Mountain Print Co - Virgil EB Davies

@jr7artworks

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Her One Wish Acrylic on canvas 91 cm x 91 cm x 3 cm
2017

20 cm x 18 cm

Jennifer B

Freelance Artist; usually nature and fandoms. Different media used. Mom & Grandma; also cats, fish and a snake at home. Horse lover; Mustang advocate. Coffee, book, music and hockey lover. behance.net/jenniferB13 @jenniferb_artist

Armida Espaillat

61 cm x 76 cm

Armida is an award-winning self-taught Dominican-American artist, art teacher and interior designer. Armida’s work express passion and beauty in an artistic message in multiple mediums. Her paintings are full of life and flavors. Her art tells a story of life and feelings.

armidaespaillat.com @armidaespaillatstudio

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Freedom Acrylic paints, watercolor paint, & brush pens
2022
Memories from Home oil
2018

Toti Cuesta

Toti Cuesta is a watercolorist based in Madrid. Art is her great passion and the driving force of her life. Her elements are the human figure, usually female, the explosion of color and the symbol.

toticuesta.com

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Toledo Street, Madrid watercolor on 640 gr. paper 76 cm x 56 cm
2022

Raj Chauhan

I am a Travel and Street photographer. I love exploring different places and capturing scenic beauty. It’s been two years since I started photography. I have been selected in two galleries for my photography work: Boomergallery (UK) and Holy Art Athens (UK). photofuzz.net @photo_fuzz

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2022
Moody Fall (bottom) photography 30 cm x 50 cm
2022
Wander in forest (top right) photography 30 cm x 50 cm
2022
Dark in Chaos (top left) photography
30 cm x 50 cm

Martin Lundby Haupt

Martin is very interested in telling stories about the less fortunate people, og what is not regarded as bring pretty. The characters are fictional, but recognizable. We All share some og their pain. However grimm or sad, sunlight always finds a way through the cracks.

@lundbyhaupt

Anna Młyniec

She is not afraid to experiment and reaches for various forms and techniques. A graduate of the graphics department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. As she says, “I paint expressively, I surrender to the moment, I convey emotions with colors, brush movement and structure”.

@ankawoo

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Breakout Kid acrylics in canvas 100 cm x 150 cm x 3 cm 2020 Unnamed 16 acrylic on canvas 180 cm x 120 cm x 1 cm 2022

Anthony Blazevic

At a young age, Anthony was drawn to the concrete playgrounds of skateboarding. The role models in these genres were labeled as outcasts, rebels, and anarchists, making a statement. Their identities were portrayed through artwork and that was the fascination for Anthony.

ablazefineart.com @a.blaze_fineart

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Soaring High Above The Clouds (top right) mixed media on sheet metal 60 cm x 90 cm
2022
2021
Koi Pond (bottom) mixed media on sheet metal 30 cm x 60 cm
2020
My Trip To Peggy’s Cove Part 1 (top left) mixed media on sheet metal 90 cm x 60 cm

Chris Marshall

A Welsh artist based in Warwickshire. Marshall’s art is deeply linked to his spiritual practice. Often describing his work as an ‘extension of self’, ‘Roots’ is just one example of how his use of colour, form & texture can convey a transcendent moment between canvas and artist.

ARTIST CLOSEUP | 51 Roots oils 100 cm x 150 cm x 3 cm 2021

After a gauntlet of physical and emotional trauma, I paint to help cope with my PTSD. I listened to the universe, and she told me to paint.

5iveart.com @p5ive_art

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5ive
The Sovereign acrylic 122 cm x 91 cm x 2 cm 2022

Susan Kistner

I Graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2016 with a degree in Textiles. I studied at the University of the Arts at Chelsea, completing my studies in 2019 with an MA in Textiles. I work in different mediums from digital photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

bright-hopes.com @susan.kistner2018

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Wind
digital 100 cm x 150 cm x 6 cm 2022 Wind
digital print 100 cm x 200 cm x 6 cm 2023 Wind Time
digital 100 cm x 200 cm x 6 cm 2022
Time 2 (top left)
Scene Scape (top right)
(bottom)

Maja Ban

Maja Ban is a Slovenian artist, based in Ireland. She participated in many art courses with renowned painters and developed a unique style of drawing. It is surrealistic, symbolic, graceful, and witty. Now she is printing her drawings on everyday objects and home decor.

majaban.com @artistmajaban

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The Next Minute, You ‘re Gone pencil on paper 30 cm x 40 cm
2020

Hans Lehmann

I was born in 1949, Swiss chemical scientist and academic librarian, since 2014 retired at last. Since 2010 I am - encouraged by my wife - active as painter. Often I use collages on canvas which I transfer to paintings with acrylics, oil, pigment colors and leveling compounds.

wonderland-atelier.ch @damiangodbluff

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70 cm x 50 cm x 2 cm 2020
Saint Stephen collage, acrylics in sand structure paste and pastel colors on canvas

Stairs and Shadows

photography

40 cm x 49 cm

2022

Claudia Griebl

charcoal , conté and acrylic

53 cm x 37 cm

2022

claudia-griebl.com

John platingsart

Studied art at St Martins school of art in London. Changed direction and built a 50ft trimaran in back yard, 12 years work, managed to smash it up in Majorca! New direction family, work and more work, kids left nest, time for ART! Have gone back to my roots, figure and portraits. johnplatingsart.com @j.platings

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Annabel

Sara De Pasquale

Sara (1974) is a Zurich-based interdisciplinary fine artist and creative director in the financial sector. Her work reveals what we often don’t see in depth and deals with the concept of decontextualization and the violencethe priority of process over content.

saradepasquale.com @sa_d_kit

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Deconstruction III (bottom) mixed media 80 cm x 100 cm x 3 cm 2023 Deconstruction II (top right) mixed media 100 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
2023
2023
Deconstruction I (top left) mixed media
100 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
Corrosion mixed media 120 cm x 100 cm 2022

Nicholas Marino

Nicholas is a self-taught contemporary artist specializing in 2D and abstract art through the use of acrylic and aerosol paint. Nicholas enjoys using art as a gateway to inspire positive messages using vibrant colors, as well as his photography for inspirational pieces.

instagram.com/the.mtv8r @always.strive.to.elevate.life

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Frontline Superhero (bottom) concrete wall 213 cm x 365 cm 2020
2023
M Loves NYG/J (top left) canvas 25 cm x 25 cm Playing With Bubbles (top right) canvas 25 cm x 20 cm 2022

acrylic

121 cm x 152 cm x 5 cm

Terry Lee Nelson

An abstractionist by choice exploring the world one image at a time. From Greensboro,North Carolina but a citizen of the world. Self taught and proud of it. I think the most important thing is to keep experimenting.

@mercurymover

Glory-G

120 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm

Meditation is my tool to pause and see everything from another viewpoint and get back to my true Self. Once I’m finished with my daily meditation, I cover my fingertips with colours and paint. I believe that people and their homes absorb the energy I put into my artworks. glorygart.com @artgloryg

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Turmoil 2020 The Family 2020

Olaniyi R. Akindiya Akirash

Olaniyi R. Akindiya aka AKIRASH was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He is an interdisciplinary artist & activist. He lives and works between Pflugerville, Texas & Lagos, Nigeria. He’s a recipient of multi - awards, exhibited solo & group worldwide, commissioned for many public arts. artwithakirash.com @artwithakirash

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102 cm
56 cm
102
2018
RIRUN - WRINKLE #7 (top left) mixed media tapestry sculpture
x
x
cm
102
56 cm
102 cm 2018
RIRUN - WRINKLE #2 (top right) mixed media tapestry sculpture
cm x
x
154
2021
NOT ALL THAT GLITTER IS GOLD #1 (bottom) mixed media tapestry sculpture installation cm x 335 cm x 554 cm

Josée Bourbonnière

I grew up with a pencil in my hand. As far as I can remember, my favorite activity, the one that allowed me to dream by inventing an imaginary world, was drawing. I have a very free and instinctive approach. I work in successive layers, and the work emerges by itself.

@jobouboune

Micki Holmgren

I’m a 23 year old artist from Sweden who does watercolor illustrations, tattoo designs, ceramics and photography. My art is full of longing, shame and anxiety, and mostly focuses on human bodies and what they can express.

@ndsn.art

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The Infinite Dance acrylic on canvas 60 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm 2021 The Dream of an Ant cold pressed watercolor paper 20 cm x 20 cm 2022

Alan M Vietze

I began “doing” art in the 1960’s at Harpur College in NY . My work has taken many turns but has always had the underpinnings of the interaction of Color, form and mood which evolved from my mentor Fred DeVito. I currently live and paint in Vallejo, California with evolving work.

alanvietzeart.com @alanvietzeart

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Further 2 acrylic on canvas 91 cm x 60 cm x 5 cm 2022

Anthony E. Dozier

The never-ending human spirit of accomplishment when once there was Opticals that kept me from being heard or taken seriously (speech impediments). I’ve prayed and continue to so in creating art that the World desire to see, and we having opportunity to share with the world.

anthonyedozier.com @anthonys_56art

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2021
Infected (top left) acrylic on canvas 47 cm x 53 cm x 1 cm Vibrant (top right) acrylic on canvas 47 cm x 53 cm x 1 cm 2021 Autumn Moon Light (bottom) acrylic on canvas 47 cm x 53 cm x 1 cm
2021

Ericka Figueroa

I’m a Las Vegas Native that has been drawing since I can remember. I would sketch on the edge of notebook papers and draw on sidewalks with chalk. That quickly evolved to aerosols, watercolors, and digital mediums. Art will forever be my undying passion.

redbubble.com/people/EFBytes/shop @efbytes

Amica Aindow

ink, whiskey, coffee, smoke and enamel on canvas 90 cm x 153 cm x 3 cm 2022

Amica is an abstract, Australian artist whose paintings transcend the every day and channel the eternal. Translating the energy of chaos into calm, she embraces transience and imperfection into an ephemeral feeling of natural simplicity and beauty through organic techniques.

amica.net.au @amica_artist

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Koroembi Midnight Angst canvas 91 cm x 61 cm x 5 cm 2022

Josef Bürgi

Born in 1965 in Stans, Switzerland, Josef Buergi started around 2000 with photography. He studied engineering at the Bale Institute of Technology and works now full-time as a project and team leader for the local government.

joebuergi.ch @josefbuergi

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70 cm x 50 cm 2019
Haunting Portraits online

Juliana De Leon

Brazilian artist who has lived and traveled all over the world, she has found a home in the vibrant city of Barcelona, where she creates stunning works of art using a variety of media including biro pen, bic pen, pencil, acrylic paint, and digital drawing.

behance.net/julianaleonink @earthorigin

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2022
The Smoker Goat with John Lennon Glasses (top left) canvas on board acrylic paint & biro pen 43 cm x 33 cm x 2 cm
2022
Monkey with 3D Glasses Having Fun (top right) canvas on board acrylic paint & biro pen 43 cm x 33 cm x 2 cm
2022
Lion Dah Vinci (bottom) canvas on board acrylic paint & biro pen 43 cm x 33 cm x 2 cm

iVision

Born and raised in Baltimore. My passion for photography started when I was in high school but I took it more seriously in college when I enrolled in a digital photography class and it opened my eyes to photography even more and haven’t looked back since.

@ivisionphotos

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Better Dayz (bottom) photography 9 cm x 11 cm 2022 Self- Titled (top left) photography 2021 Connection (top right) photography 2021

Jeane Seah

I sculpt, paint, make jewelry, photograph, write and cook. It is never boring because I never repeat! Every piece of art, so it is like an art thriller. This connecting medium between people uncovers all kinds of secrets, messages, and truths.

jeaneseah.com

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80 cm
54 cm
29
2019
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2011
Sharing the Weight (top left) bronze
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cm
Fighter 1 (top right) bronze
cm x
cm x 55 cm
25
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2019
The Key to Life is in Your Heart (bottom) mixed media
cm x
cm x 16 cm

Stefanie Lueck

I paint to tell stories. Stories arouse curiosity, they open up new horizons and give us a fresh perspective on the world. I intend my work to show the beauty and uniqueness that lies in the diversity of different cultures . I studied fine art with Per Kirkeby and Bruce McLean. stefanielueck.com @stefanielueckart

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The Prophecy acrylic painting/ photo print on canvas 100 cm x 148 cm x 2 cm 2022

Katharina Rubin

Modern Woman acryl on canvas 100 cm x 75 cm x 2 cm 2018

I am a polish artist based in Germany. Born in Stettin. University Frankfurt finished 2010, Goethe University. I have a Atelier in Frankfurt where I make subject exhibition with poetry and Musik. I also invite other artists to contribute. I am a paintress and sculptor.

@katharinasaart

José F Bolet

Morning oil 23 cm x 31 cm 2022

Award winning artist and author whose artwork has been featured in many international publications and exhibitions in South America, North America and Asia. He is also the author of acclaimed book Rendering in black, 25 drawings across US.

@boletjose

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Stella

Montana born, bred, and raised, I was blessed with artistic and patient parents. Surrounded by tools and materials my imagination was nurtured and allowed to run rampant in their taxidermy shop. Above all my goal is always to honor the beauty found in death.

@sera_stella_art

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2019
Go Figure (top left) bone on wood 45 cm x 30 cm x 35 cm
2020
Lady May (top right) taxidermy supplies and secrets 130 cm x 90 cm x 30 cm Shadow Cast (bottom) moose antlers, quartz crystal, black walnut base 60 cm x 100 cm x 25 cm
2019

Elin Kereby

Elin Kereby is a contemporary artist based in Sweden. The spiritual aspect of being alive today is the subject of her work. Her vibrant oil and mixed media paintings composed of layered lines are mirroring how she sees the world; made up by layers upon layers of energetic fields.

elinkereby.com @elinkereby

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2022
Inner Reflection (top left) oil, acrylics and oil pastel
150
cm x 100 cm x 4 cm Language of Love (top right) oil, acrylics and oil pastel 100 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
2022
2022
Flow of Life (bottom) oil, acrylics and oil pastel 120 cm x 150 cm x 4 cm

Ryley James

Ryley James is a self-taught Intuitive Expressionist Painter, from Ontario Canada. Ryley tells a story within each painting, expressing femininity, nature & energy. She invites you to look between the petals, step into her garden and find the real secrets that lay within.

ryleyjames.com @ryleyjamesart

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91.44
121.92
2022
Dreamy (top left) acrylic & oil paint
cm x
cm x 3.81 cm
91.44
91.44
3.81 cm 2020
Baby Belle (top right) acrylic paint
cm x
cm x
76
122
2022
Bumblebee (bottom) acrylic & oil paint
cm x
cm x 4 cm

bjornart photo

Putting an artistic touch on a photograph, Björn has a past in painting. Discovering editing tools when I started photography was like comparing these to a color palette and brush, I could suddenly start painting my photo to enhance certain elements of the image, or create a certain mood

bjornartphoto.com @bjornolofc

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2022
Glowing Mushroom (top left) photography 50 cm x 70 cm
2022
Bridge in Fog (top right) photography 70 cm x 50 cm
2022
Moonlight (bottom) photography 50 cm x 70 cm

ralfernestkuvi_ art

Selbst studierenden Künstler, geboren in Temeswar Rumänien, lebt zur Zeit in Schwabmünchen Deutschland. Seine Kunst: Acryl auf Leinwand, Bilder die aus Erfahrung und Gedanken erstehen. Ein Spiel zwischen Licht und Dunkel eine Verknüpfung von Traum und Wirklichkeit, Angst und Liebe. @ralfernestkuvi_art

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2022
Saturn Gestern acryl on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm

Guilmette

Guilmette is trained as an architect and artist in Grenoble, France. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. She is passionate about minimalist portraits, the movement and rhythm, the heart. Her artistic identity is characterised by the simplicity and purity of the line, with mostly gold and primary colours. When it comes to sculpture, it is the human body that she is currently drawn to, although she has other projects in mind.

guilmette.art @guilmetteart

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Souffle de l’âme (top left) acrylic and mixed medias on canvas 80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm 2022 Meteorit (top right) acrylic on canvas 80 cm x 80 cm x 1.5 cm 2020 Golden Rain (bottom) acrylic on canvas 66 cm x 96 cm x 3 cm 2022

Catherine Winkler

My name is Catherine Winkler, and I am a Danish artist. I always have many perspectives and considerations. When speech falls on life. Both the loving landscapes, and the diverse life with edge, meaning, bullying, loneliness, a twist of provocation and the truth in life.

shup.dk/shop @catherinewinkler_14

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Live’s
Adventurous Days (left) 93 cm x 43 cm 2022 The Wealth of Life (middle) 93 cm x 43 cm 2022 The Beauty in You (right) 93 cm x 43 cm 2022

Marcel Vlamynck

Having the Blues glass/ blown and formed 30 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm 2022

Glass, my Alpha and Omega. My art is about frozen moments and feelings in time. Mostly expressed in a Lightsculpture. artinglass.online

Virginia Garrigos

Puzzled acrylic 30 cm x 30 cm x 2 cm 2022

I am an Abstract Mixed Media Artist, who discovered painting at a young age. Each painting is a fragment of myself. Through my life I have curated shows and participated in many gallery openings. My art brings an extensive mastery of color theory, innate sense of rhythm.

artandsoulstudio1.org @virginiagarrigos

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Philip Laforest

I am a Haitian, self-taught mixed-media artist living in NYC. Bombarded by digital media, I use my art to show appreciation for the mediums disappearing from our world: newspapers, magazines, postcards, etc. I hope my art memorializes the human connection found within paper.

philiplaforest.com @philiplaforest

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2015
Native Head (top left) acrylic paint on wood 47 cm x 32 cm x 3 cm
2017
Robot Head (top right) mixed media on canvas 28 cm x 35 cm x 1 cm
2020
Five Guys (bottom) mixed media on canvas 50 cm x 40 cm x 1 cm

Julie Dean Griffin

I was to be an artist. I attended FSU in 1985 and earned a BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History and Art Education. Sadly, I did not learn what I went to learn and searched for 15 years until 1999 when I found Frank Covino and his Academic way of teaching art.

juliegriffinstudios.com @juliegriffinstudios

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20 cm x 24 cm x 2 cm 2022
Love (top left) oil
48 cm x 72 cm x 1.5 cm 2021
Psychedelic Sunset (top right) oil
18 cm x 24 cm x 1.5 cm 2005
After Hurricane Charlie (bottom) oil

Pauline Schulze

Pauline Schulze is a German based mixed media artist. She studied International Business and holds a master degree in Design Professional Practice. It was these years working in fashion that set the foundation for her art which is inspired by fashion and materials.

projectfashionart.com

@project.fashionart

I was born in Omsk, Siberia, and I moved to USA in 1992. I’ve began drawings and paintings in 1996. I do not have any formal education, but I love to express my emotions and feeling on canvas, and it helps me to communicate with myself and others. My favorite media is oil.

dientra.com

@dientrasystem

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COLLECTION 01 leather swathes, charcoal, wall paint and gesso on raw canvas 90 cm x 80 cm x 2 cm 2022 Last Day of Pompey oil on canvas 205 cm x 150 cm x 6 cm 2022

Powerofinfinite LoveART

Lost My Way acrylic on canvas 80 cm x 60 cm x 1 cm 2022

Hi I am Tanya, born on July 7, 1991 in Timisoara, Romania. At the end of 2018 i was hit by a heavy blow of fate. I lost my motor skills. Abstract acrylic painting helped me to learn it all again. In connection with music i experience pure magic & feel more alive than ever before.

@t.powerofinfinitelove77_art

Pauly Solway

Pauly Solway is a Perth based artist who’s works are divided into pastel/charcoal, and acrylic paint. Recent works have completely disregarded human form. All bodies of work approach abstraction in varied forms, but provide thought, contemplation and confrontation from the viewer.

paulysolway.com.au/home @pauly_solway_art

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Ribs (Diptych) acrylic paint 254 cm x 170 cm x 5 cm 2022

Ivan in Abstracts

Ivan Horvat, born 1964 in Slovenia. Open minded for new impulses, new ideas and changing directions at the numerous crossroads of life I am “Ivan in Abstracts”, searching for myself, my style, a never-ending journey and the footprints I leave are the pictures which I create. horvat.de @ivan_im_abstrakten.de

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2022
A Dream within a Dream (top left) photography, printed on Alu-Dibond 75 cm x 60 cm x 3 cm All the Birds have Flown Away (top right) photography, printed on Alu-Dibond 75 cm x 60 cm x 3 cm
2021
The Emperor’s New Clothes (bottom) photography, printed on Alu-Dibond 60 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
2022

Nadia Louis

Self-taught artist born in Denmark in 1983, currently residing north of Copenhagen. I love to experiment with many different techniques and my form of expression is interchangeable. To me, creating art is about acknowledging the journey and making it my own.

ateliernadiah.com @atelier.nadiah

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2022
Gratitude (top left) mixed media on paper 29 cm x 21 cm Finding my WHY (top right) mixed media on canvas 40 cm x 30 cm x 2 cm 2023 Where Energy Flows (bottom) mixed media on canvas 40 cm x 30 cm x 2 cm 2023

Melissa Waters

I am an abstract artist living in Queensland, Australia. My art is strongly influenced by urban and natural designs, the designs of everyday that are often overlooked but which connect to the universal designs of nature. I work in acrylic, collage and mixed media.

melissa waters-artist.com @melissawatersartist

Ernest Compta Llinàs

Barcelona, 1973; Catalan artist and architect, I live and work in Barcelona. My works try to express social and emotional diversity through the face. Over the years I have moved between styles and formats, but I have always worked with the same theme.

ernestcompta.com @ernestcompta

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2020
Highlights acrylic on canvas 61 cm x 61 cm x 3 cm
2022
Yesterday acrylic on paper 70 cm x 50 cm
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