Anna Grear

Artist Anna Grear

Anna's work is inspired by a combination of her former time as a physical performance artist exploring improvisational mime and dance work and by her love of New Materialist philosophy. 

She loves the sense of 'play' between the paint, the canvas, the brushes and other tools, and the artist, as partners in the emergence of a painting. 

Anna loves to respond to the 'nudges' provided by the paints, the canvas and the tools themselves as material components of working. 

Her love of colour earned her the tag #ColourWitch in 2016 and it stuck!

Her entry in the Big Art Directory is here.

Pintura del Norte Argentino - Painting of North Argentina

Todos los trabajos están realizados con espátula sobre lienzo. The all works are with painting knife on canvas.

Dina Brozzi Fine Art Portraiture

Dina was born in Parma, Italy in 1971. At the age of 10, her father gave her a set of oil paints on the understanding that it would remain a hobby, but in reality it has been, ever since, her life’s passion and full time profession. She studied at the Artistic Lyceum in Bologna, the Institute of Decorative Arts in Paris and the Charles Cecil Studio in Florence. Dina began her career at the age of 20 with large public and private commissions in Europe and America before settling in Antigua, with her husband, Architect Andrew Goodenough where she continues to combine commissioned projects and independent ‘genre paintings’.
Her favorite subjects go from traditional portraiture from life, to colorful Caribbean scenes, but, above all she prefer to work on people’s story telling character studies which address contemporary topics such as religion, sexuality, consumerism, emotional behaviors and mind fixations. Her recent journey of recovery from breast cancer has sparked a desire to explore freer and more abstract images in mixed media. “Cellular Memories” is the first of a new upcoming series.
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Amit Bar

In 1950 I was born in Kibbutz Kfar Hamaccabi, Israel, where I lived until 1988. Since 1988 I live in Doetinchem, The Netherlands, and work as a freelance-photographer and painter. In my commercial work I take photographs for a stock agency and make commissioned work. Wishing to combine my photography with drawing and painting, I began to mix them in my artistic work. It began in 1992 with photo collages and took another form in 1996 with body-paintings.

For many years I am searching in my artistic work the relation between painting and photography. At first I did it by creating photo-collages. Since 1995 I do it by making body-paintings, as expression of my love to these two forms of art.

My body-paintings are made on a manner which is seldom done. The painting is no imitation of clothes or a prolonged background. By matching colours and forms in my imagination, the body gets an extra dimension.

The models have a great share in the success of the art-work. While painting they should stand unmovable and patient, even when it takes any hours. After completing the painting, they should bring all their energy in posing full elegance and charm.

The painting itself is already an artistic expression which should succeed right away, because there is no place for experiments and faults. But, if the painting is not taken on the photo, then is nothing left of all the

effort after some hours. Therefore it is the task of the photo to revive the extra dimension, which the paint gave to the bare body. Sometimes I ask the models to dance while posing, in order to create more dynamic in the photos.

Most of the photos were made, because of the climatologically circumstances in the Netherlands, in the studio. If the weather allows it, I am happy to use the nature as a reference. This had been done also with paintings which were made in Israel and France.

You can find a big selection of more than 1000 photos on my website, Amit Bar Fine Art Photography, at www.amitbar.com

Judy Graham Carter

Judy uses many techniques and mediums in her work. Her portfolio is comprehensive, from mono prints to complicated colour saturated mixed media images. Some are made using traditional methods, others are computer generated digital altered images.

From the mixed media with collage in ‘Wiltshire Landscapes’, to the abstract ‘Magic Tree’ series and the collection of magical ‘Esoteric’ digital images, all the work has hidden depth that the artist hopes will connect with the viewer.

Caroline Duncan

Caroline Ann Duncan is a Scottish Artist living in Aberdeen City. 

Since leaving School in the 80's with an A in Art & Design and 6th year Studies Art, Caroline has enjoyed many years painting and exhibiting. She worked in Finance for major Oil Companies but recently left her career to pursue an Art career. 

She is part of the Forecourt Art Group and Deeside Artists in Aberdeen. 
She displays her Artwork in and around Aberdeen in shops, galleries and hotels. She is also listed on Scotland's Artists.

My inspiration comes from one of the greatest artists Gustav Klimt.

Leigh Herndon Rozome

Leigh’s award winning mysterious rozome paintings tell a story, evoke an emotion, or give an impression and lend themselves to metaphor, and sometimes ambiguity. By being atmospheric and not being too literal, the viewer is left to complete the story as desired or needed, based on personal experiences. Leigh does not try to be too representational, and although she likes imagery, it is just a starting place. One reviewer described her work as poetic.

Leigh Herndon works daily in her Naples studio dyeing silk using rozome (Japanese kimono design techniques). Silk accepts dyes more brilliantly than any other fiber fueling Leigh’s experimentation with color and nature-inspired paintings. Rozome, or Japanese wax-resist dye painting, is infinitely more intriguing, much more flexible and painterly, and presents a new fluidity to the dye process which is captivating to Leigh and changed her creative process.

After learning traditional batik at the University of Montana, and obtaining a Master’s Degree in Fibers at Southern Illinois University, Leigh studied rozome with Kiranada (Betsy) Sterling Benjamin who learned from the Japanese kimono masters, while spending sixteen years in Japan. Mixing her own dye colors from the primaries results in custom colors that can’t easily be found elsewhere. Overlaying one transparent dye color over another creates an entirely new color, which she finds exciting. The versatility of hot wax used in creating the designs lends unique textures to the creations.

For Leigh the design process is a blend of planning, spontaneity, and experimentation with a great interest in the inter-relationship of edges of shapes within the designs. Frequently the process begins with a drawing on the silk, and progresses and changes with ideas that occur while working. This unforgiving medium doesn’t allow for covering up one’s mistakes, so some of the works are scrapped. Creating art is an exercise in problem solving and it carries into daily life with novel approaches to solving problems. She believes that art experiences are vital to children and adults, not only for personal expression, but for the lesson that there are many creative ways to solve a problem.
Leigh’s award winning works and wearable art have been exhibited in numerous juried national and international shows and solo shows in more than 12 states as well as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and her work is in several private collections.