Archive for ART

JASON JaFleu FLEURANT’S IGNITION!

 JASON FLEURANT is from West Palm Beach, Florida and lives there actually.  But as he says “the artist JaFleu is who I am”.  After the devastation of his homeland Haiti, Jafleu was born out of the hurt and started expressing the un-expressable.
Jason, welcome and thank you so much for particpating in this project,  I feel [...]

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CINDEE MOYER’S FULL ARTISTIC CIRCLE!

 
CINDEE MOYER, artist,  painter, designer, dress maker, teacher, sculptor… Cindee Moyer is all of this and more.  Cindee Moyer is a doll maker but I think she’s more than that, I think she’s a story teller…
“I was born and raised in the Des Moines, Iowa area.  In fact, I live about five miles from the [...]

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PAUL McCLOSKEY’S ROAD TO ENLIGHTENMENT!

 
PAUL McCLOSKEY was born in Carrickmacross Co. Monaghan, Ireland. But is now living and working in Gorey, Co. Wexford.  Along side his painting career, Paul has been a teacher of art and design for the past 26 years, and has taught both adults and students from 11 to 18 years.   “I have always tried to [...]

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GILLES VALLÉE’S EMOTIONAL TRACES!

 
 
GILLES VALLÉE, is a self-thought sculptor, native of Montreal and although he loves the visual arts, he’s had to earn his living doing something else.  Having never found other artists who did the kind of work he does, he’s developed his own techniques.  He considers his art to be primarily the art of assembling and marry [...]

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TÂNIA LEAL WATERING ARTISTIC SEEDS!

 
 
TÂNIA LEAL is Brazilian, born in Londrina and now living in Curitiba.  Already as a child, she had this passion for drawing and painting which she developed more seriously once she became an adult.  Art history held her interest because it involved her emotionally into the lives of artists such as Gaugin, Toulouse-Lautrec, VanGogh… Tânia [...]

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LAURA BARBOSA’S CITY/COUNTRY NOISE!

 
‘I am a self taught artist living in New Jersey down the street from where they filmed the reality show “Jersey Shore”. I take trips down to the boardwalk every weekend for inspiration and get to meet some interesting people. I have always been an artist since childhood, I guess you can say I was [...]

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PAUL MEGENS EMOTION IN LIVING COLOUR!

 
“I’ve been painting all my life.  In my head.  And in my throat.  The possibility to use shapes and forms, hasn’t occur to me for a lifetime.  What I could do, was fantasise.  But the School for Journalism didn’t have a place for me, twice.  We made music.  In a small basement.
Very loud.  Feeling the [...]

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PATRICK LARRIVÉE’S OWN BRAND OF MUSIC!

 PATRICK LARRIVÉE’s  keen sense of observation since childhood led him to a strong interest in art.  “In grade school, says Patrick,  my performance in visual art classes was excellent and my work was often awarded honourable mentions if many contests.”
In 1988, emerging from the field of architecture, Patrick Larrivée  begins to pursue his passion more [...]

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS TOPIC. 48(3)

 
HOW TO LIVE AN OPTIMAL LIFE
Part 3…
Chapter 5:
3 Practical Essentials for Optimal Living – Food, Fun and Exercise
Summary
You need to be happy to have an optimal life. Happiness is brought by material things, however temporal that happiness might be.
3 Practical Essentials for Optimal Living –
Food, Fun and Exercise
Different things drive different [...]

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MARTINE L’ÉTOILE’S IMAGINARY WORLD!

 
MARTINE L’ÉTOILE’s journey since her birth has greatly inspired her art, her values, her vision.  Martine, tell us a bit about yourself. 
“I was born in Los Angeles, California in 1970 and soon after my family moved to Malaysia. There, my father had a business making miniature furniture for dolls houses. I believe growing up in a [...]

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About

My name is Michele Andree. I am an artist, I paint musicians in action. I think I’m a musician at heart, my instrument being… a brush, so I play…brush and I paint… music.
I love jazz. I call it freedom music. It promotes special values. I love intelligent people and good conversations.

Some people ask me how music relates to art. Personally I find they go hand in hand. Music is what turns me on to painting. It makes me see colours