Paul Bennett

Alena Koziol

Salja Jahovic

Melisa King

Giorgio Cole

Josh Foley

USA

Russia

Germany

Turkey

Canada

USA

The seascape / Landscape paintings created are inspired by memory and experience and are developed using artistic intuition. They are not tied into any specific region or time, they are an eclectic synthesis of place, weather and season. Paul choose ' s to capture and communicate the experience this way as it reflects life with its unceasing process of observing, experiencing, interpreting, storing – and ultimately – reflecting. The result he strives for is a unique and original visual experience that has captured not only the sense of somewhere / sometime, but also the more subtle notion of recollection.

I try to create artworks that make a particular environment for the audience, like an open window. Not all my work is reflect reality, but its simple forms, unnatural colors and complex textures translate my emotions and attitudes to the image. I think art is my calling, international language, which helps me to speak out and seek new forms of expression. I can range from sculptural depiction to semiabstract images, reaching myself. Constantly being tested, my style can’ t be defined uniquely, but evolves in ascending order. From work to work my language becomes stronger.

My process starts often with the creation of structures. They have( beside their optical effects as part of the picture) a significant role for the behavior of the acrylic color on the canvas. I love the facets that the colors create when they have the possibility to fusion within the structures. Depending on the viscosity of the color, the outcome is a rich spectrum of nuances even on small areas. The structures are mostly made out of surfacer, foils or even acrylic color, formed by water drops, paper or sunlight. A nice example is my painting“ Rainmaker”, the water effects on the painting are coming from real rain drops. The set up itself is very simple.

" The Sun is God”: These precious words belongs to Joseph Mallord William Turner, the painter of light, as his last words in his death bed. These words describes my perception of life in the process of painting. I symbolize the sun as the source of creation and I interpret everything it’ s light touches as divine. I adore natural forms and feel enthusiastic about transferring them on to a canvas to share and celebrate this beauty with the viewer. I have a passion of painting the sky, landscapes animals, flowers as well as I love to paint human beings as natural forms.

How can one simply not be profoundly fascinated and autogenously evoked with the seemingly pure abstraction of legend and mysticism? Whether it be a devout atheist or a dedicated spiritual being, I believe that we all at some point in our lives question our own faith. Not necessarily speaking of simply religion but faith as a means of essential. In saying so my current work positively attempts to query just that, as an entirety? Do we believe? Do we want to believe? Are we too scared to admit we believe and can one truly believe to the fullest extent of his rationalistic self?

Predominately the texture represented in my images is an illusion and the paintings surfaces are actually flat. This is not evident if the viewer cannot observe them in the space that they hang. This trompe l’ oeil( trick of the eye) that I work with is not to deceive but to confuse the haptic expectations and bodily position of the audience. I want to disrupt the usual relationships that someone viewing a painting has to create a schism within their mind and in turn the corporeal reality they are situated in. Easel based painting is the material, perceptual and philosophical heart of my art practice.