31 de diciembre de 2013

Josef Jan Michnia

Josef Jan Michnia






















Biography:
In May 1942, Josef Jan Michnia was born in Waldbrücken/Silesia. At the age of six, he started painting. He visited the art school in Oppeln and was assistent of the well-known master of art Marek Jennert where he worked for five years between 1967 and 1972.
At the time of the communist regime in Poland, Michnia had plenty of work to do: His jobs included wall paintings and posters. However, he could not pursue his real inclination, that means expressionism and the art of Paul Cézanne.
His decision to immigrate to the Federal Republik of Germany in 1988 was largely due to the wish to develop his own style without external harassement. During the first time as an independent artist in Germany, he earned his living as an with graphical works, postcards and posters.
Since 1999 Michnia has been lecturer at the LKG, an art school in Mönchengladbach.






Suresh Chaudhary

Suresh Chaudhary












Biography:
SURESH CHOUDHARY Nació: 1943 Indore (MP), la India GD Art (JJ Escuela de Artes Sir Bombay), Pintura MA, Dip (Hons) Bellas y Artes Aplicadas. Estudió en Fine Arts College, Indore.






Alan McGowan

Alan McGowan










Biography:
Alan McGowan was born in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, in 1964. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and did a post-graduate at Newcastle Polytechnic.
From 1987 to 1996 he worked mainly as an illustrator producing drawings, paintings and portraits for The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, The Independant, Orion Publishing, Canongate Books, McMillan publishing, Scholastic press USA, and many others. During this period he also taught illustration, drawing and printmaking at The University of Northumbria, and as a visiting lecturer to Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art and Hull School of Art.
In 1997 he produced a suite of large scale charcoal drawings as illustrations to “Faust” by Goethe (see picture gallery for images) which was exhibited and toured within the UK.
Since that time he has been more actively involved in exhibiting painting and his works appear in private collections in the UK and in the USA, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland. He is currently based in Edinburgh and his work is represented by Gallery Heinzel in Aberdeen.





30 de diciembre de 2013

Alexander Dobrovolsky

Alexander Dobrovolsky














Biography:
Alexander Dobrovolsky 1957 Born in Leningrad. Lives and works in St.-Petersburg.
1985 Graduated from the High Art School named by V. Muchina (at present the Academy of Industrial Art). Department of monumental-decorative painting of Prof. V.G. Lekanov.







Juan Jr. Ramirez

Juan Jr. Ramirez






Biography:
My name is Juan Jr. Ramirez, and the above quote is the last few sentences I wrote in my autobiography almost two years ago. Since then I've had five solo shows of my oil paintings in my home state of Illinios, taught classes and workshops, and traveled to meet other artists and paint with them in their studios. I have met so many wonderful people. Now I'm 22 and visiting in Vermont with artist Andrea Scheidler. I'm working on a book of my notes on John Singer Sargent's painting techniques and will be in my first gallery show in April, thanks to Greg Worden of Vermont Artisan Designs in Brattleboro.