Archive for ART

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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ANNIE SLIWKA’S SWEETNESS EXPRESSED(2)

 
ANNIE SLIWKA, part two: “…I was born in Paris, France, in 1946. As far back as I can remember, my childhood and my youth were lulled by the atmosphere of nature, colors, sounds, scents, water and lights… I was an only child, and every day I was buzy with my colour pencils, my box of [...]

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ANNIE SLIWKA’S SWEETNESS EXPRESSED!

 
 
ANNIE SLIWKA’s story is, in my eyes, so very romantic, that I’ve decided to publish it in full.  – I was born in Paris, France, in 1946. As far back as I can remember, my childhood and my youth were lulled by the atmosphere of nature, colors, sounds, scents, water and lights… I was an [...]

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JEAN DAVID NKOT PAINTING FOR CHANGE!

 
JEAN DAVID NKOT, lives in Cameroon, actually in the western area in a city called Foumban.  Foumban is considered by Cameroonian people to be the City of the Arts!  Eldest of a family of three, Jean David lost his mother a year ago.  He says painting is a gift from God.
“I could not really give [...]

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SYLVIE SOULARD’S FINE ENCAUSTIC ART!

 
 
Born in Mauricie, SYLVIE SOULARD, has no formal art training other than what she learned in high school.  As a young girl, one day a teacher had her grate coloured wax on paper and then melt it with a hot iron.  She’s gone from there to developing her own technique in encaustic painting, working with [...]

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GISÈLE L’ÉPICIER & LA JOIE DE VIVRE!

 
GISÈLE L’ÉPICIER is from Joliette, Québec, Canada.  “I’ve always been interested in the arts.  As a teenager, piano lessons, classical ballet, sketching and constant listening to music occupied  the greater part of my time.  Of course, as we had to be “serious”,  I began studying nursing at the Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal (boarder during 1095 [...]

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JEREL ROWAN BAKER AND THE PAINTED PATH!

 
 
It was just after dark, and our family had finished eating. I noticed my big brother slip away outside as everyone was unusually captivated by the television. I quietly followed him. He walked to the edge of the woods and stood there silently, looking at the moon. I snapped a twig and he turned and [...]

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DAN BUNEA’S RETURN TO HIS FIRST LOVE!

 
 
“I was born in May 1978,  I lived near the mountains, until I turned 18, with a permanent fascination for drawing, painting and science, discovery. As a child my grandmother used to take me to church every Sunday, and while I was there I was completely focused on the painting, always wondering how they achieved [...]

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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