Painter's Keys Art Directory

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Zelimir Stanojev

Zelimir Stanojev

Zelimir Stanojev was first inspired to draw by his father, who used to be an art teacher at elementary school. But Zelimir chose a career in Mechanical Engineering rather than follow in his father's footsteps. Interest in painting reappeared in 1998. His first drawings were done by ink & pen on paper. Later, he specialized landscape painting. He is best known for his genre painting of rural and urban landscapes, which he paints in realistic style. He exhibited his works at several shows and exhibitions in York Region, Ontario, Canada and won Honorable Mentions in 2006 and 2008. In 2009, “Aurora – Yonge St. 1940” painting was a Winner in Preserve Aurora category at 2009 Art Aurora Show held by Town of Aurora. The Town has purchased the painting for its collection. Zelimir is a member of Society of York Region Artists (SOYRA) and participates enthusiastically in their activities.

Robin O'Neal

"Creative energy expressed through Art is a universal language My Art speaks to you!" Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University Hayward, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of California Berkeley Studios, currently living and painting the beautiful areas of Northern California and Sierra Nevada.

Sharon Isaacks

Sharon Isaacks is an imaginative illustrator, painter, and artist who is driven by an incredible passion for self-expression through art. Her works are often noted for their unique style, elegance, and technique. Sharon has developed an innovative style that blends precise realism with abstract expressionism. Her use of vibrant colors and strong lines make her work an excellent choice for a wide range of projects and purposes. Sharon is accomplished in using traditional methods as well as modern technique. Her paintings have been featured in Houston and Tomball area galleries. Sharon's illustrations have also appeared in children's books. Although Sharon loves to express her vision through art, she is also adept at creating commercial works and readily communicates the vision of her clientele.

Rowan Hill

Rowan Hill

Rowan Hill was fortunate enough to be born into a family who supports creativity and loves a good adventure. Rowan combines her eye for design with her excitement for colour to produce bold and confident oil paintings. Attending a variety of workshops from acclaimed artists fueled her passion for painting while starting a family. Rowan paints from a studio she shares with 2 other oil painters where feedback, guidance and sanctuary are readily available.

Maria Grossbaum

Maria Grossbaum

My work as an artist comes from a close observation and from my admiration of nature. Colors, forms, textures of trees, flowers, shrubs and landscapes in their natural state have always been the inspiration for me to express the beauty of life. My paintings is the creation of opposites in a variety of rhythms and textures. I combine different materials in order to overcome the challenge of achieving harmony and unity in my work. Some of my paintings are highly textured and have imbedded objects. I explore this fine line of ambiguity between pure abstraction and implied realism through the process of layering color and organic texture. My objective is to evoke a sensation or memory in the viewer, of a place remembered or imagined, without literal reference to landscape.

Marilyn Muller

Marilyn Muller

Presently, Marilyn Muller is pursuing a career in scenic art, until the tutelage of Joe Forbes and Janet Stapleman's Studio and Forum of Scenic Art, at Scenic Art Studios, Cornwall, NY. She is represented by Rye Art Gallery & Framing of Rye NY, ryeart@optonline.net and Kent Caboose Gallery, info@KentCabooseGallery.com of Kent CT. Her fine art consists of large abstract oils depicting the sea and landscapes. Older pieces and some small new works are on view through Kent Caboose. Muller is focused on the craft of painting for the stage and film, a departure from the creative effort of painting from the imagination, but nevertheless a challenging and uplifting enterprise, given the excitement of collaboration with other artists and craftsmen.

Cathal OMalley

Cathal OMalley

I am a self taught artist living in a beautiful part of the west of ireland known as connemara.i paint mostly in oils/acyrlics,a variety of subjects mostly landscapes but sometimes animals people still lifes.....creep in to my work.please view my paintings and if you are interested commisions ,prices etc..n all be easily arranged.

Tatiana Myers

Tatiana Myers

Tatiana Myers, originally Russian, lives and works in United States from 1999. Like an artist she likes to work with very different kinds of media. Some of her favorites are watersoluble oil, pastels, oil pastel, egg tempera and modern sculpting compounds. Some of her favorite subjects are landscapes, animal portraits, illustrations and miniatures. In her art work Tatiana pays a lot of attention to very small details, vivid colors and light. She describes her own style as modern realism with tint of romantic mystery.

Scott Serafica

Scott Serafica

I am a full time artist living in San Antonio, Texas. My work centers around the integrity of a subject. I want to tell the truth about what is in front of me. The portraits I paint are a direct reflection of the character, the soul of the sitter. I try to empathize for what is in front of me. I choose oil paint because I love the history involved with this medium. Art history is a major interest in my life. From Caravaggio to John Singer Sargent, I feel the history of oil painting is bigger than I could ever be but leaves me constantly striving to become a part of. I Graduated Florida State University in 2001 with a Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art/Graphic Design.

Cecelia McRoberts

Cecelia McRoberts

As a student of the visual arts for decades I was finally able to return to doing my work after raising my children. I have developed a love for the abstract. I am in the constant process of approaching my pieces to convey movement, contrasting color and value. I want my work to intrigue the viewer and bring forth a beauty thru color and motion.

Micah Mullen

Micah Mullen

My style of painting involves creating a complicated background of hundreds of grids of varying colors. When done the background will loosely look the intended composition, From there I concentrate on adding detail to segments of the painting. This method allows me the most expression because different parts are all done at different times. Patience and time allows my paintings to reflect my varying emotions and moods and in a strange way create a sense of balance and harmony in what are sometimes very detailed and confusing compositions.

Ramnath Benegal

Ramnath Benegal

Hi friends,

I am a retired Bank executive.I love watercolour and oil painting. I have traveled quite a bit in India and abroad and have painted from Nature.

I was interested in painting from my school days and was encouraged by Late Shri. K.C.S Panicker,the then principal of Govt. Arts college, Chennai.I took some drawing and painting classes at the College.

After retiring from the Bank, I took up my childhood hobby seriously.I underwent training from a reputed senior artist,Late Shri.M.S Chandrasekhar,some years back.With his blessings, I had exhibited my work at Centaur Hotel in Bombay,which was appreciated by many.Some of my paintings were sold at the exhibition.Not exhibited my work thereafter, due to the heavy expenses involved.

I have uploaded some of my recent work on my website; would be adding some more soon.Hope you like my work; would appreciate your comments.

Thanks and regards,

Ramnath Benegal

Michael Jell

Michael Jell

Michael Jell lives in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. The area is known as The Okanagan Valley.

The beautiful mountains, sparkling lakes, sunny summers and snowy winters create an interesting and diverse landscape.

" The majority of my work is inspired by my surroundings.
There is something very special about the Okanagan.
I am very thankful I live here."

Michael paints in oil & acrylic, interests vary from landscapes, wildlife & western. I have paintings in private collections in Europe, USA & across Canada. The past few years my Giclee prints have become popular. Commissions are welcome

Chris Everest

I am 51 years old,male, Partner Val, daughter Carrie and have never sold any work of art in all my years of creating. I finish very few pieces and I am never satisfied with what I create. I enclose one A4 abstract which I did and will add more. I live in Sheffield Yorkshire and am a librarian at the University of Sheffield. I want to get the work inside of me out there. I try to do Landscapes, portraits, abstracts and have a large collection of pebbles which one day will become an installation of a waterfall.

Ivan Fernandez-Davila

Ivan Fernandez-Davila

Lima, 1983.

Peruvian painter and writer. He has made five solo show -the first of them with text of the master Enrique Polanco- in Lima and numerous collective both at home and abroad. In 2009 he was invited as representative of Peru to the international exhibitions: "Mendoza the Universe" (Mendoza, Argentina) in February and "Primitivism Women" (Valencia, Spain) in October. It went in early August and exhibited in group show "Young Peruvian Painting in London" in The Portable Gallery of the Embassy of Peru in London, England. By mid-year he directed and participated in publishing the first book of erotic art by Peruvian artists "69", directed and performed months after the publication of the book "The image of the words" that fuses poetry and art.

Among his group exhibitions include those in the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Daedalus Art Gallery, Art Gallery Amelia Pinz�s, Native Community Art Gallery, Goethe-Institut Lima, Centro Cultural de la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Centro Cultural Antares , Centro Cultural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Exhibition Hall University Federico Villareal, Independence Hall of the Municipality of Pueblo Libre, Arts Festival Jesus Maria, Arts Festival of San Bartolo, Metropolitan Pancho Fierro Gallery, Cultural Center Ricardo Palma of the Municipality of Miraflores, Artemisia Foundation (Spain), among others.

As a writer has published in several journals of the medium and his work has been included in anthologies of poetry as: "Slap a Corpse: Anthology of Bizarre Literature (Bizarro Ediciones, Lima 2007) and" Cat�stasis "(Editorial OREM, Trujillo 2009) In September 2008 he published his first book of poems: "Seventh Epistle to Martin Adamn (Bizarro Editions) nowaday plans to publish a second collection of poems "The destruction of all things" on dates to be determined.

He has received several awards and has been invited as a jury, director, speaker and consultant in various activities related to art and literature.

His paintings are in private collections in Peru, Mexico, Spain and the UK.

He currently lives and works in Lima. Prepare his next solo exhibition to be held in the Cultural Center of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, La Casona, in October 2010.

"IFD has posted the picture of the feeling among a known person, talked, loved, to the barren canvas that gave birth to a relationship with us. This ratio almost dark but seductive, arises from the interplay of poetic thoughts moved to their small worlds-room occupied by a single being: The Women. Element sweet and pleasant, but also complex for any person, a superior on the merits or homogeneous landscape appears almost imperceptible. Usually have only one companion, and himself, as a cat, cherry, glass, table, city and atmosphere, is intended to tell us Ivan mudamente through your palette blue or green to violet, pink, red or passion is the soul of every party staff often does not bring excitement, but sadly, a thought, a shock, a memory and a simple table captures a mimesis with the reality of the small world of its four walls.

"Like all poetry has its soul in the whole of verses that describe an image stuck on the dream of the poet, the quick strokes of the artist and fortuitous landing the urban hierarchy harebrained us on the streets, with the harshness of the treatment of the city towards us, a nostalgia that we almost drowns in a glass of water and remember feeling lost. That loss probably reflected in the darkening of the atmosphere in his paintings, worthy of a poet from bar to bar, which swarm in the thoughts and rebels in the most nostalgic. Thus we come to understand that while FD chapters tells of his days floating lost, his works are set before us as painless subtle marks of wounds, wounds that lovely time and let us make a female character the cover. This femininity, which is sometimes smiling queen, is also a slave's naked body with rags and clothes that cover the skin so anxious to be free. We are not to blame for our passions, and these efforts to move us to do, full of flowing our emotional, our pain and our enjoyment. In these paintings we see the flow of that energy Lugubrious of that vitality which noctambulant timidly at first appeared in an abstract language and has opted, as secure in the figurative expressionism as Polanco said the first individual to Ivan this flow that ensures a vision and made paint.

"IFD is an accomplished artist with an almost polychromy patented substances that language every artist tries to honor female characters before the eyes of a prisoner of the shape and color. However, texture results in a partial disposition of the body toward outsourcing dialogue that comes to us and we will gradually be strengthened in shades full of intent and provocation that will eventually result in constant motivation for this artist. Thus we come to appreciate with some confidence the hidden scenes that we have kept secret and now, Ivan, shows for us. "

FELIPE MAYURI POMA
Critic and art historian
Lima, March 2008.

Therese Lydia Joseph

Therese Lydia Joseph

"Being creative is a way of life for me." I was born in Bern, Switzerland, where I studied and developed my skills in many forms of art. In 1982 I moved to North Vancouver, Canada, where I have been teaching art to children of all ages through community based and private workshops. I am an accomplished author and illustrator of five children's books in French which are presently used in French Immersion Schools across Canada. I am involved in a group of 5 artists, who paint and exhibit together, critique each other's work, challenge and support each other on our journey as artists.

Artist statement: Every day I stumble upon the hidden beauty of ordinary, often unnoticed and disregarded subjects. I get caught up in the unexpected wonder of its form, shape and colour. My aim is to grab hold of the intense feeling this provokes in me and capture it on canvas. Using acrylics and mixed media allows me to approach the subject with great creativity. I love bright colors, texture and detail in my paintings. Ultimately I seek harmony between "strength and fragility" and "vibrancy and serenity". When I feel the same awareness of wonder stirring in me as when I first came upon the hidden beauty - I know the painting is done and art is created.

Rodney L. Fifer

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Rodney is a self-taught artist. His art comes from visions he receives and is inspired by his life’s experiences and emotions.

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He specializes in Contemporary Abstract Paintings Original Paintings on Canvas, Paper, Board & Walls. There are thousands of good artists and pieces to choose from-but only a few design with you in mind. We are passionate about our art and take every measure to provide you with quality, original artwork.

Kathryn Ragan

Kathryn Ragan

My name is Kathryn Ragan. I am a dental hygienist by profession, living in the Fraser Valley. I live on a small farm, with Bruno[my horse] and the two chinchillas. I paint in watercolor, in a fairly realistic manner, creating portraits and intimate scenes of the area.

Jon Simone

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