Sabrina Fiorella Larson:
I always loved to draw. Since my childhood age, I
spent a lot of my time drawing. My dream work was to draw fairy tale books for
children. In 2004, I took up watercolour painting with Alan Lugena at the Community
college of Mission Viejo, California. Upon my transfer to Madrid, Spain, I
switched to paint oil colour under the mentorship of artist and teacher Hanoos,
at the Taller del Prado of Madrid, and joined a group of Spanish painters
“El color Han”. Life once more transferred me to another country: Canada, where
I attended classes with our teacher, mentor Mark Vazquez-Mackay at ACAD, and
joined a great group of people: the GoFigure! Group. Additionally, I am
following an online course from NYC, DTO ( Drawing tutorials online) and
founded an International drawing group OSAC ( Overseas Artists Comany) of 37
people from all over the world sharing the same passion.
While previously I concentrated mainly in landscapes
and still life, in Canada I started experimenting with figure painting and
drawing.
If you are interested in my works, please visit my blog at:
lagalleriadisabrina.blogspot.com
Painting and drawing are an essential part of being me. Painting
has taught me to see the beauty and symphony of colours, shadows, light and
composition that resides all around us, from a cityscape, to a landscape, from a
human body, to an expressive face. Nature and society talk to us through
shapes, colours and light: it is up to us "to listen", capture their
essence and record it on canvas.
Karen Alderson:
Karen’s artistic career
started at age 2 …. her mom claimed that she always had a crayon hidden
somewhere, and the walls of her bedroom were a vast canvas. Now combining
art with a career in education, Karen values the untainted freedom of
expression children so willingly share and try to capture that in her own practice.
Her Zen-like Haiku painting “Monty Reclining” exemplifies this freedom. She
feels that: “Drawing the figure allows the artist seek out the essence of what
it is to be human, free of artifice, and to know him or herself in the
process.”
Teresa Coulter:
Teresa has always had the
desire to explore art in all forms. In the past year she has become very
passionate about truly being able to connect with the human form, body and
soul, through her paint and canvas. The time spent painting all the
contours, shapes and shadows of a person’s form, as the seconds pass, are one
of her true desires. To capture the humanity and vulnerability that lies behind
all of us is what drives her to expose the bare essentials. “Through art, I see
people differently now. I see how light dances on and around them.”
Rafael Allocca:
I started painting a few
years ago and recently joined the group Go figure my approach to my work is a
raw abstract experimental method. I like to push and pull the medium onto the
surface with a brush, palette knife, squeegee, charcoal graphite,
until the work speaks to me.
My influences are first and
foremost everything I see, feel and experience
To me Nudity is the pure essence of art.
Rita Reddy:
Rita has been studying art
part time for about 15 years. She has worked in many mediums
but is mainly an oil painter. She loves the fluidity and motion
of oil paint. Pair this with a subject such as the figure, and true organic
magic can ensue. "I feel that the live model is a thing that
evokes spirit and life in a painting." After learning from Mark and
others in the classes she has taken, she began to notice a clear difference
between painting from life and painting from photos. Rita’s “Two Figures”
expresses the vitality of the live figure. There is something to be said for
being able to see around and under and behind an object.
Sona Sandhu :
I have always been
interested in art, even as a child. Just over a year ago I was
reintroduced to drawing and had my first lesson with the Go Figure Group.
As someone new to drawing and live sessions the group has taught me a great
deal. Over the past year I have been working on discovering my own
individual style. Through studying the human form I am uncovering a great deal
about myself as a person and an artist. I mainly work with graphite, charcoal,
and conte. I enjoy using them as a medium because they allow me to work
on precision and detail as well as experiment with light and shade. I am
learning to let go a lot more and my approach to art is best reflected in a
quote from one of my favourite artists, Dali: "Have no fear of perfection,
you'll never reach it."
John F. Ross :
I am a Studio Art graduate from the lovely and romantically
picturesque York University who spends a foolish amount of my time constructing
various forms of visual stimulus in my cold, messy studio. I exhibit work, paint
on commission AND I thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking a few
minutes away from what you are creating to engage yourself in what I am
creating.
If you are compelled to see any of my work in its true form contact me immediately, I would love to have you by the studio (there is most likely a beer in the fridge.)
Until then, I am sneaking up on creativity, I'm fairly certain I found him this time.
http://cathedralsky.com/
- John
Bruce Watson :
… and our fabulous mentor,
Mark Vazquez-MacKay:
Mark earned his Masters of Fine Art from the Instituto
Allende, and has been teaching at ACAD since 2004. “My practice is based on
the observation of my environment, the surroundings of my studio and the people
who come into it. As a humanist, I am drawn to how life interacts between me,
the artist and the painting, the spectator. The spectator enters the dynamic by
virtue of confronting the painting. This process and perspective guides me to
realize my reality - the reality of how I exist within the environment that
includes other people and the physical world. In order to understand my world,
my work demands the most honest and naked approach.” Mark’s website can
be viewed at: www.markvazquez-mackay.com
Mark likes to draw on Picasso
who said: “Art is the only lie that attempts to tell the truth.” … Go Figure!
