Merve Hasman

As an artist, you are a hunter. You are hunting in an elusive and rare game called the “Art”. As an artist, you are a fighter, because you never give up regardless what you face. As an artist, you are the cherry on top that offers sweetness to this life. You don’t wait for the right moment, you simply jump into it… It doesn’t really matter where you are coming from, all it matters is where you are headed to, the rest comes along… And then you have a chance to make a statement of your own. A great photographer friend of mine once told me “All we do is beg, borrow and steal somebody else’s life…Just to add more colors onto our canvas, just to be able to see the picture bigger than it really is” Due to the choice of pursuing different lives, an Artist is often called mad… Did you ever think what is behind this so-called madness? Did you ever think that, maybe, s/he is trying to find a way to her actual being trough somebody’s perception? MERVE HASMAN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mervehasman.com

Antoni Kowalski

(…) Antoni Kowalski realizes his passion with great vocation. I am sure that painting is not only a kind of therapy for him, but also the life itself. Nowadays, you have to be highly motivated to withstand the pressure of so called “the latest art”, which brings aggression, banality and emptiness surrounded by the media publicity. In his paintings he creates a very personal and unique world, which we discover with surprise. We immerse in this world being fascinated with the beauty and the mysterious climate. While communing with his paintings we are taken into their reality, which is built with unreal objects. This restless world of mysterious forms creates strange aura shining through unearthly glow.Despite the absence of living beings we can feel the presence of life. We feel the breath of these stone forms, stream of water, rustling of drapery put in layers on spiry columns.
We discover amazing solutions referring to old masters, but living their very mysterious lives, all created by the artist. Kowalski’s art cannnot be fully specified in the rational sphere. We are accompanied by secret areas full of unreal space, light and astonishing forms in their unique existence. Communing with his art, we get deeper in the spiritual world, which is so important nowadays, especially for people sensitive to these profound and everlasting values.(…)
Prof. Adam Myjak
www.antonikowalski.art.pl

Aydin Arkun

While I use a variety of motifs in my works, I choose, as my main subject, the act of painting itself. I therefore consciously avoid insisting on the use of just one particular style. www.aydinarkun.com.tr

Isabelle Tuchband

Isabelle Tuchband comes from a long line of artists in her family. 'Destiny, DNA and mystery' she calls it. Tuchband lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been painting over forty years; living through her art as she defines it, passing on her happiness, kindness and strength; feeding, praying, dancing and singing painting... www.isabelletuchband.com.br

Margot De Ruiter-Hooykaas

Margot De Ruiter-Hooykaas is an internationally renowned artist who dedicates her art to charitable causes for disabled children around the world by her own trust, in memory of her elder sister. Margot was born in the Netherlands on the 17th of November 1967 and started her painting career around 1992 after years of extensive traveling. After working in Amsterdam and the painters village Laren (The Netherlands) for several years, she moved to Monaco with her husband and two young children where she became a member of La Maison L’ Amerique Latine. Between 2003 – 2008 various paintings were auctioned at charity events in Monaco. She conducted art classes on request and was very active during this period. In 2008 Margot and her family moved to Dubai (UAE) which gave her new painting inspiration which clearly shows in the oriental gallery of her website. Margot’s paintings are expressionist and come directly from the heart in order to preserve directness. Beauty is always sacrificed to expression in the process. The aim is always that “you are TOUCHED by my works”! At present Margot works from her ateliers in Dubai and Amsterdam. She voluntarily dedicates part of her time to Mawaheb (which means talented in Arabic), an art studio for young adults with special needs, which is both a joy and a perfect combination of balancing life as a mum and artist in an evolving city. De Ruiter Hooykaas Fine Art www.deruiter-hooykaas.com

Barbara Hardmeier

Cosmopolitan inspiration… Every art work is a travel through my mind and soul. It’s a mirror of my reflections. When I’m painting, I enter an endless space; a world filled with forms, movement and colors. Meditation is the source of the flow where art comes from. Is art about the emotions of technical skills? The earth is not asking for anything. I give what I can offer and that is the energy and inspiration running through my works. www.barbara-hardmeier.com

Frederic Walperswyler

Born in Boudry, canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1944. From 1978 to 1998, to paint and to be at sea were one harmonious experience for Frederic. Existentially, both sailing and painting were essential. Without them, Walperswyler says, he could not have survived. There was a break from painting between 1998 and 2007 because of a combination of multiple factors. One of these was his significantly important move from one continent to another. Beginning in the fall of 2007, in his studio in Stonington, Connecticut, he is back to what he calls “his pictorial sailing”. Painting and sailing remain the core of his work and his life. In the past, Walperswyler’s painting offered a perspective from which he would anticipate sailing. Today, his painting experience is enriched by other influences. Books and writing have become the third element of his survival. Books, the Sea, and Painting form the chronology in the need “to do”. In reading, the impact of a story leads to a discovery which, for Walperswyler, in turn generates and promotes his best creative work in the studio. On his list of most influential writers are Michel Serres, Jacques Lacarrière, Philippe Sollers, Wajdi Mouawad, Cormac McCarthy, Claudio Magris, Annie Ernaux, Arturo Pérez-Reverte… www.artnet.ch/walperswyler

Albert Weber

Weber’s paintings migrate between abstract forms, quirkly realities and serious subject matter. His world of images undergoes cyclical change, reflecting the influences of his environment and the media. His diverse scope ranges from reductive planes to systematic geometric forms to naturalistic portrayals of animals and people…Regardless of style or subject matter, the blocks of color are a constant throughout his works. Rectangles of various sizes and hues appear as independent components in his paintings-this formal element, unrelated to subject and style, is the key concept of the multi-faceted artwork of Albert Weber. Verena Zeiner M. A., Germany Free Berlin www.modern-art-x.ch

Richard Lewsey

Black dust fallen in the leaves of winged angels concurrence by the eagle’s dream remorse searching for mercury and sulphur sequence of ideas art without space and time the artist is trying to return to reality dust settling in darkness closes the screen philosophical questions die the fashion of science and the closed garden. www.richardlewsey.co.uk