There are times in life when you intuitively perceive that you are in the presence of someone that radiates an aura of artistic genius. An artistic soul that has tasted the wine of life, both...
Recreating the look of old Moscow ART REESTR artist, Alexey Shalaev, relies on knowledge of history and architecture of the city. Looking at paintings Alexei Shalaev, you find yourself in the past. Familiar from childhood cozy Moscow streets and squares seem, somehow, even lovelier and more beautiful. Warm glow of lanterns, fancy breaks shadows on the pavement, stately buildings and bent tree branches, waiting for the rain...
Ana Cabrera is the first Fine Art Registry® member in Argentina, although she and her partner Segismundo Ulanowicz have been spreading the word and others are following suit. Ana's story is...
Well, for all its problems, America can still be a land of opportunity, if you ask painter Anna Kurowska. Growing up in the small city of Ozorkow in central Poland, Anna did not have much...
FAR ID: 33428 | Title: Hangin' Out
Annette Salrin received her degree in Fine Arts from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Her professional career started as a commercial artist with an advertising agency in Marion, Ohio and continued on with one of the country's largest calendar company, Shaw-Barton, in Coshocton, Ohio. Today, continuing as a professional full time artist, with a career spanning over 40 years.
Beth has always been an artist in some form or another. She painted on clothing and jackets when she was young and picked up a paintbrush after the birth of her daughter 15 years ago. She fell in...
From his Pressed Duck to his Spaghetti Flag, Bill Czappa of Burbank, California, is as original as they get. With a flair for the unusual, his sculptures communicate, and carry, his famous signature...
How an artist has turned tragedy to survival through her art.
Carolyn (Carri) Miles, Johns Island, South Carolina painter, had been involved in art in one way or another all her life...
When asked what she intends with her art, Chicago based artist Catherine Puma replies, "I love recreating beautiful landscapes of places I've traveled to before because I'm able to relive...
Dividing her time between residences in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Sedona, Arizona, abstract expressionist painter Celesty Claudio lives and works in intensely artistic communities, enjoying being...
"If I could make one statement about art, it's that the essence of art is that it's a verb, not a noun," says Charles Sherman. "It's a process. And when you fully understand that it's a process, you...
This is more than a story about an artist and his art. You look at Christian Early's portraits of animals and each one seems to possess a distinct personality. While you're gazing at them...
FAR ID: 28599 | Title: Camp Car Christmas
Christopher Jenkins is an American Painter who specializes in transportation equipment and landscapes. He has been employed in the transportation industry for over 25 years, allowing him to be very familiar with his favorite subject material.
Fate is a word that painter Dan Koon might not use in describing the sometimes winding and varied but always interesting path he followed to becoming a painter. Intelligent and analytical, with...
"Nothing Like Scraping on Old Bones to Connect with Your Caveman Deep Inside". The art of scrimshaw is an old tradition amongst seafaring men, mostly whalers. It refers to the art and...
China has an extensive tradition of landscape painting, with recorded and preserved works going back almost to the beginning of the first millennium A.D. The earliest landscape painting appeared...
Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1976, Denton is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Denton spent his youth in Eagle Butte, South Dakota and graduated from Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School. Upon graduation he moved back to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with his father and enrolled in the local tribal college. Based on his instructor's guidance and his own artistic goals, he was selected to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts...
Artist Donna Peters is a charming woman who has immersed herself in rich cultural and historical experiences that are dramatically displayed in her compositions. Watercolor painting, crisp and clear...
"I know I am always in a state of learning. And thus always look forward to studying new aspects of art. I therefore am continuously excited at what I might discover tomorrow, in a month, or even in five years...
Edward W. Gilmore is one of the more recent artists to join the Fine Art Registry®. A prolific abstract expressionist artist, Edward only began following his passion in 2003, but has had an...
Esam Pasha never considered himself a political painter. But when he painted over the first and largest mural portrait of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, covering it with...
Ettina A. EmcVonEakin was born in Eugene, Oregon and has been fortunate to live throughout her life in scenic locations throughout the West. Recently, she moved back to Oregon after residing in...
"I try to be independent in art as much as in life generally," says Eugene Liskin, a Russian painter now living in Moldova. "I don't think I belong to any stylistic or ideological movement...
Frances Lee Pineda, from Arvada, Colorado, didn’t plan to become a self-taught artist. Her background, education and life experience were in technical fields that didn’t inspire or nurture her...
Francis Hogan ("Frankie") Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides... In 1999, in celebration of his 20th year of painting in the splatter-dash genre, which he began...
Dreaming lovers, seductive women and color-drenched landscapes beckon you to enter a world where the fantastic and the everyday mingle in a wonderful flight of fancy - the art of Gabriele Perici...
FAR ID: 34114 | Title: Big Cats
Gale Lambert is a native Texan who has been painting for over 30 years. Her media is primarily acrylics and oils. Her paintings embody many subjects from Eagles flying high in the sky to African animals with their young to the incredible expression in the eyes of a young girl.
...not Grandma Moses. It's more from this freer, more serendipitous branch of the self-taught tree that Guy Lindenmuth is emerging onto the scene. While most in the self-taught, Outsider, folk...
Whether portraying the delicate petals of a perfect rose, the thundering majesty of a great waterfall or a rich autumn landscape, Pennsylvania-based artist Hilary J. England strives to capture...
Huanbin Cai, nicknamed Chase, was born in a working class family in the city of Shantou in Guangdong province in 1980. But from an early age Chase had a great interest in painting. He often used comic...
Born in El Paso, Texas, Phoenix-based artist Humberto Valle, Jr. can hardly remember a time when he wasn't creating art. "I remember trying to draw characters from my favorite cartoons...
The recurring themes in the work of painter Jacques D’Auteuil are amplified when meeting the artist in person. Jacques is warm but intent, the warmth and intensity spilling onto his canvases...
I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000, but have been a student of art from a very young age, heavily influenced by my father, renowned California landscape painter Jim Caldwell. I have always loved cars, as I became more serious about painting they seemed to be an obvious subject matter choice. I continue to find that capturing the complex reflections and distortions of light and color...
Mademoiselle Jane Adams would never have known her potential as a successful artist if a few silver lined clouds hadn't floated her way. A Southern Belle is Born. Jane Demaris Adams was...
Jane Loveall always wanted to become an artist. Even when told there was no money or career as an artist, she was not deterred, knowing instinctively that what she could communicate through art...
Living in a wide valley between two mountain ranges is about as good as it gets for artistic inspiration. Then too, Oregon's beaches are only an hour away. I paint at home usually supervised by...
Fine Art Registry® member Jessica Leach is a multi-talented artist from New Jersey whose creative drive springs from highly emotional experiences and a passionate commitment to using art as...
Art that does not "Just Sit on its Ass" - Spend a few hours on Jim Pallas' web site and you will see that an attempt to write a comprehensive article on this prolific, innovative, multi-talented and...
Most visitors to this website know Joan Altabe from her continuing series An Open Letter to Artists (from an Art Critic). Newspaper readers in Florida know her as the highly knowledgeable and...
Talk to John Daab about art for any length of time and the conversation will traverse from Greek philosophy and crime investigation to green construction and the importance of inspiring art...
"I have used oil, ink, acrylic, watercolor, all the usual media," she says. "Then I met pastel. I do not remember when exactly I discovered pastel as a serious method of dispensing color to paper. I love...
An arresting gaze and luminous eyes insist that you look into their depths, explore the soul behind the vibrantly hued visage and find inspiration in their multi-colored beauty. It is impossible...
Artist Julie Newdoll sees the world from a vantage point that is hard for many of us to conceptualize. Through her paintings, Julie has found a medium for marrying science and human mythology...
"I paint what I call 'fashion art,'" says artist Karen Brown, "because it's refreshing to see images of elegance and femininity in a world of casual conformity. I believe these are qualities that...
Katerina Stamatelos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is an accomplished pianist holding a PhD in Composition. As a pianist she has performed in Greece, Austria, Germany, the United States, and Canada. She has appeared as a soloist with all major orchestras of Greece and on National Radio and TV. As a painter she is self-taught. Works of hers are found in private collections around the world...
Fine Art Registry is proud to feature one of our latest registered artists – the legendary Western painter Kenneth M. Freeman. Ken was truly "larger than life" and we will be profiling him in a...
Art in many dramatic forms has always been the driving force of Linzi's life. A gifted performer, she began working on stage at age 11 and traveled the world as a professional singer and dancer...
One could easily make an argument that the Impressionist movement in art would never have happened had it not been for the invention of the collapsible tin tube in the 1840s. Before then, artists...
"Being unable to sleep at night I sometimes wish I had a long enough paintbrush to paint on the ceiling." (adapted from Gilbert K. Chesterton) This quote embodies the reflections of a talented...
Not finding what she was looking for as an art collector, Lorna Wallace took matters into her own hands and began to create the missing art herself. In just a few years, marketing her paintings...
"Painting is definitely my passion, that's where all the good stuff lies!" says artist Marco Nunes, with obvious enthusiasm. Born to a mother who was a painter herself, Marco spent his early childhood...
Waves of glorious color wash over the canvases of Marilyn Woycenko, effortlessly summoning seascapes and starscapes and wondrously expansive universes - glimpses of worlds of creation. Peering in...
"When I paint, the canvas directs the action. It's all about the release of energy. Shapes cling to the edge of reality, their meanings formed by a growing collective imagination. The transference of energy...
From delicate scenes of the natural world on canvas, to rugged movie icons on tee shirts to skulls on motorcycles, the vivid artistic world of Arizona native Mike Royal is vibrant, bold and full...
FAR ID: 35752 | Title: Along the Blanchard River
Nancy Cupp has always been interested in the arts, with an equal passion in music and visual arts. In college, she majored in Art Education and taught high school art.
Dramatic life events can awaken in an artist a desire to chronicle them for the future, to share observations and invite commentary. For Fine Art Registry® member Peter Worsley , this awakening...
The works were created, as he puts it, "in a glass box overlooking the Arabian Sea." The pressure cooker atmosphere of desert transformation and frenetic city existence, adds piquancy to his profound understanding of light, contrasted as it is against his plumbing of the depths of his soul. Prodeep describes his journey into the visual arts, a feast of colour, form and deep insight. He reveals "it was by sheer coincidence...
A celebration of the natural world, an explosion of color and a dream of joy and inspiration. All these elements go into the bright, summer-infused paintings of North Richland Hills, Texas artist...
This month's featured artist, Soniei, from Nova Scotia, paints serene, contemporary Japanese-inspired
art and is a successful full-time artist. Read our profile on Soniei....
Enter the world of painter Stacy Mark, and discover an organic and textured land, a land where the glowing light behind silhouetted trees heralds an illusive twilight or a dawn rich with...
Before you read this article, please take 2-3 minutes to relax and gaze upon the painting above. And then, read on... Did you feel anything? See anything? Stephen Miele's hope is that you did. What you...
Someday, not too long from now, judging by the way things are going, Georgia folk artist Steven Chandler will be able to rock back and forth contentedly on the porch of his art empire, wave an arm to indicate all he sees...
Musicians are fond of saying that music is a universal language. And it is. But not more so than art. You can place the earliest cave paintings, a Greek marble, a Rembrandt self-portrait and one of...
FAR ID: 32069 | Title: Tatanka Yotanka / Chief Sitting Bull
Internationally acclaimed artist, Sunti Pichetchaiyakul, specializes in bronze portraiture and is recognized throughout Asia for his forte in creating realistic fiberglass resin sculptures. Born in Nakhon Rachasima, Thailand, Sunti has been a professional artist for the past 20 years, with expertise creating fiberglass resin, bronze, wax, plaster, and concrete sculptures, in impressionistic, realistic and surrealistic styles. He has completed commissioned artwork for over 50 temples throughout Thailand, enhancing their interiors with wall murals, paintings, and sculptures. Having relocated to Montana since April 2008, Sunti aims to re-instill life and honor into Native American Chiefs.
Levesque is beginning her career as a painter – the right way
Although her mother is a great artist, her sister is also a talented painter and art has been "in her blood" since she was a kid...
It may be the most famous light in the world - the light of Provence. It has tempted and inspired and captivated artists for centuries. Many hope to visit one day, or nurture a secret dream...
There's no telling what will spark a person down a certain path in life. In the late '60s a young teacher walked into the classroom of a small community school in Newark, New Jersey. She opened...
Contemporary Chinese master of the Yunnan School of painting, Wei Kan, who hails from Shandong Province, creates beautiful frescoes and modern pen and ink and wash drawings. Taught by Zhang...
Eight thousand years ago, near the Yellow River basin in China, the Ci Shan and Fei Ligang cultures emerged. In these areas, Chinese archeologists have unearthed pottery covered with...
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