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Abad, Pacita - Link to the Pacita Abad website. Pacita Abad (1946-2004) was born in Basco, Batanes, a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines, between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began when she journeyed to the United States to undertake graduate studies. After that trip, Pacita never stopped traveling or painting.

Antonio, Marcel - Marcel Belleza Antonio is a figurative painter residing in the Philippines. His works are almost exclusively done in acrylic and in oils. He has had several one-man shows and group shows in major galleries and museums in the Philippines and in other countries in a span of almost two and a half decades. He works with various themes and motifs, frequently citing from literary sources and pop culture, disparate imagery of love and desire, nature and culture, heroes and villains. Much of his picture myth making process may be indebted to literature and writing, but it is still in the heroic tradition of painting in the manner of the great moderns that keeps him inspired and going. Born June 28, 1965 in Quezon City, Philippines. Art Studies: Studied painting at the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts. Selected Solo Exhibitions: Cultural Center of the Philippines; Brix Gallery, Manila; Liongoren Art Gallery, Manila; Langue et Parole, West Gallery, Manila; Dialogo, The Drawing Room, Manila; Les Petites Histoires, Ad Infinitum Galleries, Manila; Märchen, Jasmine Fine Arts, Singapore.

Cox, Patrick Otis - Link to the personal website of Patrick Otis Cox. Born in 1955 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States: In my mid twenties I saw a vision of where I want my work to go. It is an abstract view of how the emotional inside can be seen on the outside with the use of color and technique. That is why I love French Impressionism. They started the modern movement of showing the breath of life through their work. Life is so much more than just what we see. Inside we all have rushing feelings of love, hate, happiness, pain, and so much more. It is the responsibility of artist to put those feelings on canvas. An example of this is how the inside stirring caused by heartbreak can actually make us feel a live and somehow better. Patrick Otis Cox. International Award Winning Painter for 42 years Working in Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. Based in Philadelphia, PA and New York City. Producer of Artists of Beijing Documentary

Crisafulli, Carmen - Link to the Carmen Crisafulli website. Carmen Crisafulli vive ed opera a Messina, perla romantica dello stretto dai paesaggi unici. In piu di trent anni di attività ha prodotto opere di rilevante successo artistico. I suoi quadri, dipinti d'arte naif dal sapore mediterraneo, proiettano l'osservatore nel calore e la passione della calda terra di Sicilia, con i suoi colori vivi ed il risalto della natura. Le sue donne mediterranee sono l'essenza della femminilità, la maternità e l'amore. Molto toccanti le sue opere che rappresentano i clown, cui se ne consiglia un'attenta osservazione e partecipazione.

Du Lavy, David - An American, David Du Lavey studied at the School of Fine Arts, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. He has lived in Washington, Barcelona and Cairo. Du Lavey maintains a summer house in Tunisia and an apartment in Paris where he lives and paints. DuLavey's current series, NAKED TRUTHS or LES VERITES NUES, combines his long fascination for abstract or geometric constructions and the human form. The images are meant to provoke and capture the attention while commenting on current human relationships. They are today's images showing our society's obsession with youthful beauty as an antidote to the boredom and routine found in our culture of material abundance. In the West, frontal nudity in art is still a taboo, particularly of the male. Our male dominated societies have long decreed that the hirsute man with his banal genitalia is not an acceptable or appropriate artistic image, in contrast to a general approval of the female nude. DuLavey's paintings endeavor to banalize and satirize this taboo by showing realistically both female and male forms. They are meant to provoke but they do not attempt to invite or seduce the viewer. The paintings show the trend towards egoism, alienation or violence in our society. His figures while superficially attractive reveal their inability to communicate. DuLavey's NAKED TRUTHS include his reactions to political and social correctness, to racism, rampant commercialism and nationalism; they comment on the manner our society copes with new technologies, friendships and intimate relationships, fantasies and frustrations. The compositions show a personal reality - a quasi-mystical quality - with conventional pretense removed.

Fountain, Ellen - Link to the personal website of Ellen Allgaier Fountain. Watercolor and Watermedia Paintings, Limited Edition Giclée Prints and Reproductions by Ellen Allgaier Fountain, NWS. WATERCOLORS FOR SALE featuring Ellen's southwest landscapes, still life "fabricscapes" (fabric art,) toys and collectibles, cat paintings, giclée prints, note cards, posters, reproductions, and other artful gifts. The GALLERY Features Original Watercolor and Watermedia Paintings, and Giclée Digital Paintings, Prints and Reproductions The focus of my work is still life (Fabricscapes and Appropriations series), plus southwest and plein air landscapes and other miscellaneous subjects. THE WATERCOLOR LEARNING CENTER offers watercolor painting techniques, tips and instruction – available online and in my watercolor videos and workbooks.

Emmanuel Garibay - Link to Filipino artist, Emmanuel Garibay's own web site. The Contents page also carries a link to Emmauel's site at Multipy.com. Emmanuel Garibay was born: Novermber 17, 1962, Kidapawan, Cotabato, Philippines. Education: MA Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, Cavite; BA Fine Arts, University of the Philippines, Diliman; BA Sociology, University of the Philippines, Los Banos.

Mark Justiniani - Link to the website of Filipino artist, Mark Orozco Justiniani. Visual Artist Los Angeles Ca. 90027. Born April 25, 1966 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Arts Education - University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts, Diliman, Quezon City

Susan Kennedy - Link to the personal website of artist Susan Kennedy. Susan Diefenthaler Kennedy is an artist living and working in North Georgia. She specializes in traditional landscapes which evoke a gentle, lyrical feeling; the mountains, lakes, marshes, and shores of her native Georgia, Edisto Island, South Carolina, and rural Pennsylvania are favored subjects. Trees positioned against a dramatic sky are also a favorite and recurring subject, as are crisp afternoon scenes with long blue shadows. Other specialties include still lifes in primary colors, vivid florals and the occasional seascape. Also, Susan is a member of the Miniature Art Society of Florida and paints miniatures in transparent watercolor which combine the fine detail of traditional miniatures with a painterly approach which preserves the spontaneity of classic watercolor. Susan's goal in all of these subjects is to capture the incredibly beautiful design of creation. Susan's work has received local and national awards, most notably in the Rocky Mountain National Watercolor competition; she has sold commissioned watercolor paintings in the Atlanta area and on the internet for many years, both to private and corporate collectors. Her representational style is largely self-taught, stemming from her childhood fascination with painting nature in painstaking detail. Susan's watercolor and acrylic paintings are done on fine quality archival watercolor papers, canvases and boards using paints with the highest permanence rating. They will be bright for generations to come!

Pol Ledent - Oil paintings and Watercolours by Pol Ledent Born on 23 October 1952, Pol is a self-taught painter. I started with a few watercolours in 1990 and began painting with oil in 1995. I generally paint landscapes of my country which is called "Ardennes" in the South of Belgium. People mostly appreciate my paintings for their colours. Loin des routes balisées - et trop fréquentées - de l'académisme, loin des sentes périlleuses du modernisme, Pol Ledent continue de tracer un chemin original. Sujet de prédilection pour cet artiste houyetois : la nature , " la nature vive " sommes-nous tenté d'écrire, car l'expression nature morte n'est vraiment pas ici d'application. Le peintre nous invite donc à re-découvrir avec lui des coins de campagne que nous pensions connaître, et dont les charmes - trop familiers ? - nous avaient souvent échappé. " Quelle vanité que la peinture qui attire l'admiration par la ressemblance de choses dont on n'admire point les originaux ! " disait Pascal, prouvant ainsi que, pour génial qu'il fût, il n'avait sans doute pas compris grand-chose à l'art. " Quelle merveille que la peinture, dirons-nous plutôt, qui nous fait percevoir la beauté dans les choses où l'on ne pensait pas - ou plus - la trouver ! " Nous voici donc sur les bords de la Lesse ou de la Meuse, au plus profond d'un bois, dans quelque jachère aux confins d'une prairie, sur une colline dominant un modeste hameau… Saisonnière, la peinture de Pol Ledent nous fait assister à l'explosion printanière des arbres fruitiers, des aubépines et des genêts, sur un fond de tendre verdure. Et puis voici l'été : la lumière jaillit de partout ; la couleur éclate en taches multiples. Coquelicots, bleuets, campanules, berces… les humbles fleurs des champs mêlent leurs coloris pour enchanter notre regard. Mais déjà, somptueux, s'annonce l'automne : sous le pinceau de l'artiste, les feuillages et les ciels se parent des couleurs les plus inattendues. Les brouillards noient le fond des vallées, les nuages virent au noir, la neige se met à tout envahir : l'hiver est là ! On l'aura compris, l'art de Pol Ledent, que les spécialistes qualifieraient sans doute de postimpressionniste, mérite d'abord l'appellation de romantique, au sens le plus noble du terme, car il s'adresse prioritairement au cœur : sans mièvrerie ni affectation, l'artiste donne libre cours à une sensibilité authentique. Sensibilité ou sensualité ? La question mérite au moins d'être posée, tant semble perceptible l'attachement quasi physique que porte le peintre à son sujet. Techniquement, si la couleur et la lumière dominent, le dessin, discret, n'est jamais absent, et l'on devine, préalable à l'exécution de la toile, une étude minutieuse de sa composition. Bref, par l'authenticité de son inspiration et la qualité de sa réalisation, la peinture de Pol Ledent est de celles qui transcendent les modes et ont toutes les chances de passer à la postérité. C'est tout le mal que nous pouvons lui souhaiter… Francis JACQUES, novembre 2001

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