Martijn Hesseling was born in Ede, Holland in 1971. From 1991 to 1997 he studied at the Academy of Art in Enschede and graduated at the Dutch Art Institute. His work goes back to the tradition of painting. More precisely it has a similar visual result by using a different medium: varnish treated newspaper or book sheets which he applies on transparent plexiglass plates. Thanks to the treatment with varnish, the paper sheets become translucent and generate, when placed on top of one another, the impression of depth even on a bi-dimensional surface, just as several superposed layers of paint do. The result of this creative process are collages – actually almost reliefs – in which images are constructed by mean of the overlapping and the juxtaposition of thousands of newspaper scraps.
Costa Dvorezky (1968) is the Russian-born and Toronto, Canada-based figurative painter. He draws inspirations from his many travels around the world. Over the years he has developed his own style of art through his studies at the Art College and the Academy of Arts in Moscow. Costa’s art has achieved international recognition. It has been featured in many private and public exhibits on European and North American stage, and has been sold to many private collection in Europe, the United States and Canada.
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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans,Michael Pangrazio,Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.
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Michal Karczaka Karezoid (featured previously) born in 1977 in Warsaw, Poland is a photographer and graphic designer who graduated from the High School of Art in Warsaw and then from Advertising School. It was at this time that his interest for photography grew. He therefore studied all the techniques: traditional, darkroom, negative developing, analogue printing. He currently works successfully as a freelance photographer and graphic designer in his own studio.
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Stephen Knapp’s Lightpaintings are a new art form, a new beginning and the next step in the evolution of painting. Dispensing with traditional media and narrative content he is one of a small group of artists who work with light. Formed at the intersection of paintings, sculpture and architecture, his lightpaintings are intangible, multi-dimensional compositions of pure radiance making visible the light that surrounds us and transforming it into something physical yet inherently transcendental.
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2: They find the silver lining in any cloud and never really get tired of life
3: Sagittarians tend to be animal people, and love active pets who can keep up with them and replenish the genuine, unconditional Sagittarius affection
4: Without the opportunity to wander, the Sagittarian is tired, ill at ease and discontent
5: They have an engaging and hilarious quick wit - they not only enjoy a joke, but can tell one very well
6: Sagittarians are generally interested in everyone and everything. They are fascinated by eccentricity, cultures, languages and universal secrets
7: For a lot of Sagittarians <i> seeing is believing </i>
8: They are impulsively playful in youth and branch into philosophy and intellect in their later years
9: Sagittarians are on an eternal quest for knowledge and wisdom
10: The kiss of the breeze blowing against their faces and the sound of ocean waves echoing in their ear is romance to Sagittarius. The universe is their playmate and lover
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