Candace Charlton

Biography:
Candace Charlton Born 1968 25th December Natal, South Africa.
Residence: Volterra, Italy and Norg, Holland.
EDUCATION
1983-1986 Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama & Music,
1987-1990 University: Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA)
Major Subjects: History of Art and Sculpture.
Distinctions: Basic Art and Sculpture.

Slava Prishedko

SLAVA PRISHEDKO. Born 1957.
National institute of art for stage organization, Odessa / Ukraine
Academy for Visual Art in Kiev/Ukraine
Member of the professional association of visual artists (BBK) Germany
Member l'ART Contemporain /G.-D. de Luxembourg Asbl.
AWARDS
1999 2.Prize for Scenery/ Republican theatre festival, Odessa / Ukraine
1.Prize for Scenery / Republican cinema festival of the youth, Kiev / Ukraine
1.Prize / "100 Years Sail Sport" (Art competition), Kiev / Ukraine
"Diploma of the yearly" in the academy of arts in St.Petersburg
Prize of Public in Gallery "Artitude" in Paris.

Laurie Kaplowitz

Biography:
Laurie Kaplowitz.- In this body of work I explore the universal and daily rituals of personal adornment. I've traveled to many remote parts of the world and watched people of varied cultures all go through the same daily rituals of applying paint, paste, and mud to their faces.

Victor Muller

Biography:
Victor Muller (Den Helder, 1976) graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam.
Victor Muller’s paintings evoke the world in which he would ideally like to dwell. During the act of painting he searches for silence, the eternal in the present, the place where to flee from the cacophony of human existence. In this search, the ambience is the determining factor. A surplus of light or sound drowns out the atmosphere and denies the depth of the human soul.
The light in Victor Muller’s paintings is always toned down and filtered. There is never a “blackest” black or a “whitest”white. He relates to painters who look for the “coloured grey”, from Vermeer to Chardin, Hynckes, William Baily, but also Fra Angelico, the contemporary Pietro Annigoni and of course his source of inspiration: Giovanni Bellini.
In his paintings, Victor Muller presents the background as a still life in its own right, complementing the still life in the foreground. Against the backdrop of the strictly organised Tuscan landscape, he places a composition of objects which appear to be from times long past. The still life, literaly “natura morta”, in the foreground strenghens the feeling of absence of motion, which is captured in the
background. All this creates an almost palpable, ageless admosphere. As the artist himself puts it: “ the ambience is extremely important to me, the idea that the landscape, as it were, came to a standstill, no sun, no wind, no rain, no time, just an eternal constant.”

Georgi Chachanidze . Artista

Steve Cieslawskis

Biography:
''Many of the elements in my paintings pertain to the journey of the individual from life to death, and, symbolically' the growth of the psyche through rising states of consciousness. I'm interested in the world of our own created reality as opposed to the existing reality created around us. It's a beautiful and somewhat amusing view of the individual quest for answers and that relationship with the collective unconscious. I find this fascinating, inspiring and also quite comical. My most successful work is in the balancing these ideas.
I use a variation of the technique of the 17th century Dutch Master, Johannes Vermeer. Each painting is done with many glazes of different colors. The effect is one of light traveling through perhaps 20 layers of glazed pigment and bouncing back through layers to form an inner light source. Every inch of the canvas is meticulously painted so that each day, with the changing light, the viewer will invariably see something new and different.''.Steve Cieslawskis.