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Art is the only reason for living for me

Artwork by Maria Wegorzewski Grotek

My life is ART. I have been drawing since 6 and using paint when I was 10 I was asked to paint posters and class mural painting for special events with a couple of other students. I continued my art through high school won a province wide competition to enter Ontario Art College on scholarship in Grade 12 unfortunately my parents were poor and there was no money to buy supplies for the course. I was also told by my mother I did not need an education because my career would be to marry and have children not to fill my head with learning that would only make trouble. …

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Art is all my life

Artwork by Exsekias Trivoulides

I am a sculptor, jewel maker and painter. I come from three generation from both sides artists. I was born in Egypt from Greek parents. I am an artist influenced by Hellenic mythology and my subject matter are Goddesses… Nymphs… Amazon… and Eros.

Art is all my life… It is not just a part of me it is me, in my dreams I invision artistic ideas.

Even though, I have an extensive experience in art, my challenge is to learn techniques of old long gone masters. I would like to learn the materials and the artistic approach, as well as the execution like the old masters. …

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I design experience to tell fantastic story

Artwork by Daigo

“Any attempt to express the unknown will utterly fail. How can one express something beyond expressions? BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS. May be a failed attempt, it is a beautiful one. That’s the beauty of living, the essence of the superconsciousness flowing through stream of consciousness. Why not express that even sky is not the limit? Spread to the every corners of possibilities this body is capable of.” Says Daigo.

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A great passion for learning oil painting techniques and everything related to it

Artwork by María Villa

… In my opinion studying the Old Masters is essential for this task. As far as I Know, precisely the arrival of the Oil Painting Medium enabled to paint the human flesh in the more realistic way, never seen before (grisaille and glazes of Primitive Flemish Masters of 15th century) With the ages, other contributions were made (sfumato of LEONARDO DA VINCI in 15th and 16th centuries, scumbling and impasto of TITIAN in the 16th, which was carried to their greatest expressions in REMBRANDT Works in the Baroque period and chiaroscuro style… What I find amazing is how despite all this different techniques and ways of painting, the resulting portraits can be so realistic.
After this, I find it would be very interesting to learn how to paint in “Alla prima” and in the Impressionist and Postimpressionist way of Direct Method, and so on. …

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After twenty years I want to finally pursue my true passion

Artwork by Adrian

… I loved to draw and paint every day, every chance I had. I learned from whatever books I could get – I loved to copy Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Family and friends told me I had a natural gift. But there were no art classes available where I grew up, so I didn’t have the opportunity to get disciplined training or develop my skills.

And somehow twenty years passed by, filled with work as a manager and family commitments, and no way I could find the time or resources to go to art school. But I never let go of my first passion, which has stayed inside me all this time. …

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I am only 65, I have still much to learn …

Artwork by Ross Cochrane

… As an artist and Chaplain in Aged Care, I lament this tragedy; and I challenge it. I resolve to quieten the insecurity of the aged, to lift their heads, survey their weathered skin, and tell them emphatically, “You are beautiful. Let me see your face and let me hear your voice” …

… It is the creative part of me that is surprised by the process of creation and gets lost in time and space, caught up with seeing the beauty and complexity of a face and the accompanying colours, textures and tones I see around me. I would like to grow in this and since I am only 65, I have still much to learn. Winning this course would enable me to grow.