"My intention is to transfer the intimacy and vulnerability of my human experience into a painted surface. I like mine to be as intimate as possible, each brush stroke like a fossil, recording every gesture and decision."
Greg Gibbs is an Australian based hobbyist photographer who has a passion for capturing the beauty of the night sky.
Tran Nguyen is an award-winning illustrator and gallery artist. Born in Vietnam and raised in the States, she is fascinated with creating visuals that can be used as a psycho-therapeutic support vehicle, exploring the mind's landscape. Her paintings are created with a soft, delicate quality using colored pencil and acrylic on paper.
Firmly committed to animal welfare, German photographer Manuela Kulpa transcribed the animals sensitivity by this photos series. From that, she hopes to raise awareness and convey a true message about species extinction and present images that she captured at the right time and in the best way.
Oliver Charles was born in London, United Kingdom and shortly after moved to Kent, in the South East of England. His interest in photography began at a young age and has since built a collection of work, which expresses the surreal and often dark stages of human emotion. Oliver creates emotional and whimsical stories through his images. He captures people in dream-like scenarios, adding natural environments to the piece, where he juxtaposes dreaming and reality.
Born in Croatia, living in Norway, Dino Tomic is an extraordinary visual artist who creates, among other things, sophisticated tattoos and photo-like drawings. His works seem to be living their own lives and you can’t help falling in love with them at first sight.
Talented artist Phan Thu Trang was born in Hanoi in 1981 and has been winning awards as a child artist from the age of five. A graduate from the Theatre and Cinema University, Hanoi, Trang’s stylized and elegant depictions of landscapes and sceneries have appealed to art collectors around the world.
The use of unusual pastel colours and flat broad controlled strokes and her constant experimentation with compositions and different unique moods created on the canvas, lends a special freshness and pride to her paintings.
Her work brings out the inner joy and beauty in us and invariably puts a smile on the viewer’s face.
Surrealist painter, Vladimir Kush was born in Russia, in a one-story wooden house near the Moscow forest-park Sokolniki. But after an art dealer from France noticed the originality of Kush’s work and organized an exhibition in Hong Kong. Success surpassed all expectations. In 1995, a new exhibition in Hong Kong at the Mandarin Fine Art Gallery brought more success. In 1997 he had a new start in the USA exhibiting in the galleries in Lahaina, Hawaii and in Seattle. In 2001 Kush opened his first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii. He now has 4 gallery locations in the USA with future plans to open more galleries around the world. Following in the steps of Salvador Dali and J. G. Ballard, Kush is the heir to the throne of surrealism.
In her paintings, Redd Walitzki focuses on the balance between the inevitable entropy of nature, and the unattainable beauty invented through high fashion and technology. In her work, she brings to life a compelling world of haunting, fleeting beauty. Her creations are an equal mixture of the breathtaking, the ethereal, uncanny and unsettling. She is fascinated with flawless female forms and detailed natural elements, which she combines to create a daydream of lovely aberrations. Redd pushes herself through her use of materials as well, creating a multilayered process that includes elements of watercolor, acrylic layering, digital flourishes, rice-paper transfers and oil glazes. Her delicate swirling panels evoke themes of neoteny, the desire for perfection, and the fine line between the abject and beautiful.
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Jason de Caires Taylor was born in 1974 and divided the earlier part of his life in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Much of his childhood was spent on the coral reefs of Malaysia where he developed a profound love of the sea and a fascination with the natural world. This would later lead him to spend several years working as a scuba diving instructor in various parts of the globe, developing a strong interest in conservation, underwater naturalism and photography.
In 1998, Taylor received a BA Honours in Sculpture and Ceramics from Camberwell College of Arts, but his scuba diving qualification would prove equally important to his art career”in May 2006 he created the world”s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies, furnished with underwater sculptures of his design. These sculptures create a unique, absorbing and expansive visual seascape, highlighting natural ecological processes while offering the viewer privileged temporal encounters.