Archive for ART

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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COCO MOBULI REVEALING A DEEPER TRUTH(2)

COCO MOBULI was born in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo,  on the 24th of December 1974.  He enjoys painting every day life in Africa, especially images of women, folklore,  and as you will notice, the spiritual aspects coupled with  a strong cultural faith in the hereafter ever present in his work .  He […]

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COCO MOBULI REVEALING A DEEPER TRUTH!(1)

  COCO MOBULI was born in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo,  on the 24th of December 1974.  He enjoys painting every day life in Africa, especially images of women, folklore,  and as you will notice, the spiritual aspects coupled with  a strong cultural faith in the hereafter ever present in his work . […]

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JOE ROCK SAMPOUW’S EYE FOR THE “FEEL”!

JOE SAMPOUW, a most charming young man better known as JOE ROCK  on Facebook.  Joe  is Indonesian,  born in Makassar, South Celeles.  He lives in Jakarta and works as a jingle maker.  “I started my photography journey about 20 years back. I had won a local student photo competition back then…:-)  Then I studied psychology at the […]

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ROSANA MARIA RUIZ’S ARTISTIC GENES!

  ROSANA MARIA RUIZ was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Having a painter grandmother, another musician and a mother dancer, Rosana says she inherited all of it!  As she puts it so well: “ I always enjoyed painting and expressing myself accompanied with music.  Dancing and painting my whole life, art has been around me […]

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MAJ LETH CONNECTING TO THE HIGHER SELF!(2)

MAJ LETH, from Denmark, shared with us last week, her thoughts and feelings about art and continues this week.  Welcome back Maj, for this most enlightening article and your honesty and sincerity in answering my questions. No. 7)  Under what conditions do you work best? This question I have to answer compared to my surroundings. […]

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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