Abstract Artist: Rathi Thevi R
Medium: Acrylic, Mixed Media
Website:  www.facebook.com/RathiTheviArt

Two things that I adore most in life are colors and music. Having these two combined, I believe most joyful things in life can be achieved. Pouring vibrant colors upon one another, layers of textures and depths, music to my ears and a smile on my face: a typical scenario when I do my paintings. I have been into art (drawing /sketching / traditional indian dancing / mixed media art) from a younger age but it took me a while to find a particular style of art, where I can relate myself the most. I wanted to share my experiences and thoughts through art freely without having fear nor being judgmental about the outcome at the end. Basically, I wanted to express. I started painting modern abstract paintings, using a special signature technique (layered freehand strokes) since 2008 and first exposed them for public viewing in 2009 through exhibitions. I consider painting as process of testing my own creativity and curiosity towards something that’s so unique and unprepared. I Simply love the challenge and learning process. I have made them in a way that they has many different layers and depth of techniques and colors. Almost a 3D effect. I see my painting pieces as bold yet fresh, vibrant and fearless. Each and every pieces is precious for me.

Rathi Thevi R is a Modern Abstract Artist and a freelance Graphic Designer. Been into arts and media for many years. Have been working on a special abstract technique for 4 years (which she calls it as the ‘layered freehand strokes’) and made some breakthroughs with her art. Her artwork have been published in local medias in Denmark newspaper and TV) as the new inspiring artist. She have also won the Best Abstract in December 2011 (TalentOnline.dk) with her piece called, Color Eruption.

Abstract Artist: D.U.R.A
Medium: Acrylic
Website: www.helloartlover.com

I consider myself as a multidisciplinary artist. I draw and illustrate female figures combined with nature and intricate patterns and work on abstract paintings which I consider as a therapeutic medium. Seeing the world has been slowly crumbling down, I’d like to believe that life could be more joyous and colourful. I see human body, their expressions, minds and thoughts are a living library filled with lots of stories and those stories are the one that I want to tell. My subject matters always reveal and explore the ying and yang, black and white, love and hatred and they are beauty in them that I embrace in my body of work. When I paint, it’s all about being, impulsive, free-form, gestural strokes and organic. The colourful seasons, the light of the day and the moods of the surroundings that flicked my emotions made me want to get my hands dirty with paints, runs the brushes, and gracefully dance the palette knives on the canvas. My paintings and illustrations usually starts with a colour idea, then patterns and then evolve into compositions in which the colours will tell stories. I love the famous quote by Joan Miro sounded which is, “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” And I’d like to do the same…

D.U.R.A is an independent designer, illustrator and abstract artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a self-taught artist, she begin to experiment drawings, illustration and abstract paintings using water colour, gouache, graphite, and acrylic as her main medium. It’s all started when she worked as a Fashion Graphic Designer with the local street wear brand back in 2005. Since then she began her own journey in art; drawing and painting.

Abstract Artist: Elf Evans
Medium: Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photography
Website: elfevans.zenfolio.com

Abstract Expressionism is my chosen method of communicating, to an observing audience, the many twists and turns existing in my
imagination and the previously non thought idea of how the final result would appear.

Elf began his career in Los Angeles California, after standing guard in LACMA, overlooking many of the world’s finest works of art.  Inspired by the works of such as Piet Mondrian, Hans Hoffman, Jackson Pollock and countless others He became hooked. Elf studied at Hollywood Art Centre School on the G.I. Bill as well as Santa Monica College. His drip paintings are the most recognizable of his abstracts, usually done on stretched canvas. Most recently including twigs, branches and found objects since moving from Seattle Washington to Saint-Malo France. His most recent works have included White on White paintings from the “Less is More Series” Stay tuned for more to come.

Abstract Artist: Karo Evans (Caroline Caux-Evans)
Medium: Mixed Media
Website:  www.chasingthelightgallery.com

Art is Heart! Art is for EVERYONE not only the Elite. Art is an Offering from the guts of the Artist/Heartist to the Recipient, the Receiver. It is a Story of emotions, feelings,colors,shapes,impressions,light,textures, which convey an experience from the “Giver” to the one who is sensing, experiencing,drinking, what the artist has given birth to. A piece of art is like a foetus, growing inside the womb,nurtured day by day by the soul, the spirit, the body and the surroundings of the “Heartist ” which can open a new dimension into the life of the one who is “dancing”, with what has caught his eyes, his attention,his soul and spirit.

Caroline Caux-Evans is a Photographer and an Abstract Expressionist Painter who has been raised in different cultures and has been “shapped” by them. She has had the opportunity to work in refugee camps, take care of the terminally ill patients and the “down trodden and left-overs from society.

Abstract Artist: James Hamilton
Medium: Acrylic
Website:  www.jameshamilton.artistwebsites.com

I try and try to come up with something witty and/or worldy to state, but it all seems hollow. Picasso said “Art is not meant to decorate apartment walls, but to wage war against the enemy.” Quite honestly, all I want to do is decorate apartment walls! There are so few Picasso’s…..

By day James is a civil engineer. By night he is a self taught painter. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.

Abstract Artist: Sandi Neiman Lovitz
Medium: Mixed Media
Website:  www.sandineimanlovitz.com

My earliest memories are of color: a robin’s egg, dandelions, rainbows of fractured light from the sun on a crystal bottle. I wanted to eat those colors; I wanted to be them. My paintings are about color, particularly the way colors interact with one another and change our perception of them. Painted in layers, each layer influences the next, in the same way that the choices and decisions we make throughout our lives makes us who we are. I’m willing to take chances with my work, just as I’m willing to take chances in my life, because I’ve learned that little that is unique or precious is gained without risk.

Sandi graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelors degree in Art Education, and taught art in the Pittsburgh public school system for two years. She attended summer art classes at Carnegie Tech and was a juried member in the Pittsburgh watercolor society before moving to Philadelphia. Sandi continued to teach private classes and exhibit her paintings. Her passion for art led into various businesses that all involved the creative process. Plastic Fantastics was started with a friend, where they designed and manufactured acrylic functional art pieces. This, combined with her business connections resulted in her decision to learn sign painting as a trade.  She did free style hand lettering on windows, tractor trailers, paper and wood for approximately 10 years. Following that she developed a line of hand painted clothing that was sold throughout the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Because of business connections she was asked to do murals in personal and commercial areas and also created a line of hand-painted furniture which was represented by several galleries in the area. During this whole time Sandi continued to exhibit her paintings in various shows and and was part of the Merrill Collection, a gallery in West Chester, Pa. She was asked to take the position of President of the Tri-State Pennsylvania Artists Equity for a year and has continued to serve on the executive board. She is also involved in ARTsisters, a group of women who are professional visual artists that not only support each other, but also reach out to women and children in the community. Sandi is a faculty member at the MAIN LINE ART CENTER in Haverford, Pennsylvania and now paints full time in her studio.

Abstract Artist: Brian J. Potter
Medium: Oil
Website: www.brianjpotter.com

My primary interest is to explore what relationships are possible with content free art- which i feel can be a diversion from artistic intent. I am strictly concerned with pure creative thinking through oil paint, a canvas, and sometimes drawing.

I have a degree in psychology from Vassar College in psychology. After graduating I attended School of Visual Arts. That was the beginning of my interest in art. I painted representationally for years, but over time evolved to paint abstractly.

Abstract Artist: John Cullen
Medium: Acrylic, Mixed Media
Website:  www.abstractvenues.com

Art requires inspiration, commitment and hard work. I have arrived at an aesthetic which is threefold: process, product, and post-product. A painting is conceived, worked on, and resolved. From this point on, regardless of its venue, it is kept alive by the viewing public. I paint with acrylics and occasionally mixed media. The majority are on wood panel. Subject matter is primarily landscape inspired with fantasy elements dominating the final expression. Most recently, I’ve been inclined toward a more intimate view of nature and how it relates to my work, that is, exploring close-up views of water, leaves and grasses.

John has studied at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, NYU, and Pratt Institute from which he received a masters in Art Education in 1970. He has been a professional artist and teacher all his adult life on both a secondary and college level. He would describe his art as abstract impressionistic with the subject matter derived from scenes of land and water. They are moderate in size, about 20 x 30 inches, acrylic paintings on wood panel. What keeps him going in the studio is the habit of working on concepts either imagined or from photographic reference. He has done some digital manipulation, film photography and collage, but his prime interest is painting with acrylics in an imposto manner and also with the use of colored pencils and sponge to achieve texture.

Abstract Artist: Fennel Blythe
Medium: Ink, Salt, and Water
Website: www.fennelblythe.com

My current series in ink, salt, and water seeks to emulate the transformative aspect of nature. I see these works as ethereal snapshots taken during the creative process much like a scientist capturing a particular phase of cell division on a microscope slide.  Subtle forms of fluctuating pattern and energy emerge from the application of ink and salt to water and paper. These complex tapestries of color, line, and texture are then transformed into an infinite variety of recognizable forms by the viewer.

Fennel is an emerging artist fully engaged in abstraction utilizing a unique media combination of ink, salt, and water. She completed a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of South Alabama in 1996 and recently went back to school to study art at the University of New Mexico. The complex patterns and forms seen in nature inspired her as a biologist and continue to do so as an artist. Her creative process yields a final expression that is totally unknown from its onset and it is that aspect of her work that continually intrigues her and inspires her work.

Abstract Artist:  Mauro Maris
Medium:  Acrylic
Website:  www.mauromaris.com 

I am an Italian abstract painter with over 40 years of experience, my teacher was Mario Schifano. I paint abstract art in my studio located in the informal world’s most beautiful cities, Florence.

Mauro Mari, aka “Maris” was born in Siena on March 24, 1940 during the course of World War II. During adolescence he began to paint, but especially to seek his ideal method, considered unique even now, in 1968 began to exhibit his works first in Tuscany and after throughout Italy getting excellent results in both the public and critics Among his supporters there is the master “Mario Schifano”, who believe in his talent, took it under his arm at the beginning of his career and became his teacher and believing in him enough to create several works in collaboration.

Maris in 1972, opened an art gallery “San Frediano” that becomes a reference point for the Tuscan painting of the 70 and 80, at that time his works reach very high values of the market and therefore he moved to Florence, symbol of the city and an international reference point of the culture of that period. Since the 80′s to mid 90′s he work for art programs broadcast on national television, his experience is made available for the support of other colleagues, and its exhibitions are interrupted, the paintings produced in this period are few, but the study of new techniques proceeds away from the scene. With the arrival of the new millennium, he started to paint with more frequency and a new style took shape, his technique has been classified under the genus “Dripping”, but the originality of his works make it a single author in the world. Every picture of Maris is completely original, but in its collections are recognized his touch bold and unconventional. Each opera contains an introspective created by the combination of colors that create surreal images where each individual who observes it, he discovers a fantasy world differently, that belongs uniquely.

Abstract Artist: Jenny Hunter Groat
Medium: Oil, Acrylic, Ink
Website: www.jennyhuntergroat.artspan.com 

Though I am completely able to make representational art, I prefer to paint abstractions because of its ability to convey worlds of meaning, feeling, and poetry beyond words or descriptions. I consider myself a 2nd Generation Abstract-Expressionist, since I was living, as a young Modern Dancer, in the 1950′s San Francisco, at the height of that great art movement, and my aesthetic impressions and ways of working were formed at that time. I had two other full art lives: 19 years as a pioneering modern dance performer/choreographer, then as an internationally known artist in fine art, western calligraphy. My return to full-time painting in these past years has been a synthesis of these earlier fields, based in the early Abstractionist years in San Francisco.

A native Californian, Jenny Hunter Groat spent 3 years as a Conservatory-trained musician, then moved to San Francisco 1n 1950. She was there amid the excitement and passion of the greatAbstract-Expressionist movement, may well be considered now a “Second Generation Ab-Ex” artist, since all her aesthetic preferences, impressions, and ways of working were formed in the ferment of that time.  After living out her complete art life as a nationally recognized Modern Dance performer, choreographer,innovator and teacher, she resigned from the field in 1968 for personal reasons, and took a 5-year Retreat,renewing her interest in Zen Buddhist practice and the psychology of Carl Jung. In 1974 she re-entered the art world in the field of Western Art Calligraphy. She taught and her work is known throughout the world, even now, and is includ- ed in many collections, books and periodicals. In 1997, however, she returned to the painting world, and that has been her focus since. Abstractions are now informed by all her previous fields, music, dance, and calligraphy. She, like most other artists of her time, is now self taught in this field, where she will continue to work for the rest of her life.

Abstract Artist: Bregje Horsten
Medium: Oil
Website: www.bregjehorsten.com

Some wisdom is unspoken but strongly felt, not ignored but lost in a language of signs. Seen by those who give it attention.

Bregje Horsten graduated in 2004 at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda. In 2007 she graduated Summa Cum Laude at the Art Academy of Tilburg. Bregje is a 30 year old Dutch artist with a contemporary abstract expressive style. Combining the ‘old world’ with the ‘new’. Bregje uses the same exceptional paints and pigments as did the old Dutch Masters. In a complex style that is rarely practiced anymore; much layers and great depth make her work unique and genuine. In 2008 Bregje started her own art studio in Berkel-Enschot. She currently has a variety of expositions in galleries throughout the Netherlands. Her paintings are in private as well as in business
collections.

Abstract Artist: Lorraine Fossi
Medium: Oil
Website: www.lorrainefossi.book.fr

The textbook classification of my work would be abstract-impressionism, although by branching out to create something unique to me, I use a palette-knife to carve, sculpt and layer the paint. For the past few years I have progressed onto creating a series oflarge oil paintings commemorating my  embodiment of marvel: the Sea. Their innate strength lies in the ability to immerse the viewers’ sensibility and exert a strong meditative influence. Each stroke is inviting you to a deeper depth, going beyond the surfaces and revealing a sea equally universal and unique, lyrical and unprecedented outside these visions. Adding intuitive and powerful use of colours, such paintings possess an inherent sense of mystery while simultaneously emanating an intimate familiarity.

Lorraine Fossi was born in Paris in 1964 to a family of artists and architects. Initially she followed in their footsteps by delving into an architectural career, earning Fossi success and recognition. Meanwhile, and since childhood, Fossi was spending her idle time in Normandy, near the beaches of Omaha. Walks and swims developed and nurtured a passion for big waves, moody weather and fearless intrusions in the sea. It was as if Lorraine was already looking for a daring sense of belonging.

When Fossi moved to London in 2000, she became immersed in the city’s world-renowned arts culture. It was here that she ‘met’ with painting, participated in studio training and developed her vocation. In 2008, Lorraine was commissioned to create a large painting representing the Sea. Through this unique painting project a new pictorial questioning was uncovered enabling connections with the past, and a very special relationship was born. This formed the foundations of what would become Fossi’s ‘Sea Abstractions
Collection.’

Growing success has seen several of these paintings being bought by private collectors across the world. A fact that has persuaded Ms.  Fossi to be based in a bigger venue, her new Studio Space in Vauxhall Street, London, where she’s determined to consolidate her career. It certainly is a must-see for art lovers wanting to experience her compositions in a state of intimacy.

Abstract Artist: Gabor Csaszar
Medium: Acrylic, Mixed Media, Plexiglas, Collage
Website:  www.sites.google.com/site/gaborcsaszarweb

As an artist painter, I am inspired by different materials when I create paintings and other art objects. Through this work I find problems and I realise some projects reflecting on that.

Gabor Csaszar was born on 15th november 1967, in Budapest, Hungary. After his academical studies he became a well educated painter and a young teacher. He began his career as a non-figurative artist, his works have been inspired by 20th century’s modern tendences. He was influenced by some great contemporary painters e.g. Malevich, Kandinsky and also his Hungarian masters, like Ilona Keserü or others as well. He has began to find new ways, astounding forms and to find new references in his artistic career. Some decades later his works showed motifs of Hungarian folklore, mixed with geometrical and individual forms. His paintings and mobile objects are excellent representation of this trend. He tried to expand his pictures to the three-dimensional space by turning to those objects, and he also used different materials to make extraordinary effects.