Interview with Miles Phillips O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Miles Phillips: Art is the essence of life. It is a reflection of our spirit, passions and insights. For me, it’s the ultimate way of expression. O-A: What wouldn’t you do without […]
Post-painterly Abstraction
Interview with Rob Gruner
Interview with Rob Gruner O-A: What is art for you? Rob Gruner: Art is for me…, the inner feelings, obtained from inspiration, to be realized visually with painting, in abstract forms. Because these impressions, which I experience while painting, have a stimulating effect on my sensual zest for life, they form an essential factor in […]
Ana Ksamit – abstract art in Confluence series
As an idea, what distinguishes abstract art from non-abstract art is the lack of recognizable objects. Therefore, we can talk about associations on other levels. In its essence, abstract art comes close to music. What is similar in both these areas of art is an illustration of a topic that is constructed indirectly. Artists creating […]
Interview with Paal Bugen
Interview with Paal Bugen O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Paal Bugen: I have made art since I was a child and my grandmother bought oil paints and canvases to me to keep me busy. My production really increased after I god […]
Interview with Yvette Swan
O-A: What is art to you? Yvette Swan: I find art is an extension of truth through a creative form. The source of this creativity is what I have become aware of. This source of being is the life force of every living creature, everything we see and don’t see. Call it source, consciousness, awareness […]
Yvette Swan new paintings
This new group of paintings have been created in 2020. When Covid-19 hit it gave people a chance to stop. I heard many people say they felt grateful to be able to get off the mouse wheel of life and be able to stop – to be still, and to open to themselves. There has […]
Bryan Prillwitz – Quarentine Drawings
Interview with Erwin Rios
O-A. What is art to you? Erwin Rios: You have to feel art. It’s something that comes from inside, an urge to express something, to let something out … When I have a good day, I get into the flow with painting and everything is fine. But the next day I am dissatisfied and critical. […]
New artwork by Ana-Maria Panaitescu
I am very interested in the ways that an object can be tangential to the borders of the canvas and I study this, often. A very simple composition and a very simple chromatic scale, a grisaille: white, black and ochre. When the things are simple, it can happen to be boring for the spectators. So, […]
Interview with Ana-Maria Panaitescu
O-A: What wouldn’t you do without art? What did you discover, achieve with it? Ana-Maria Panaitescu: For sure, art is a way of knowing myself. Is not the only way, but without art, I would know myself less. O-A: What is a vivid memory of a remark concerning your art that got stuck with you? […]
Interview with Barbara Kemp Cowlin
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or something else for you? Barbara Kemp Cowlin: Art is an integral part of my life. From the time I was a young child I’d be overtaken with the need to create something from nothing. Sometimes I had a clear picture of what I […]
Interview with Anna-Maija Rissanen
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life? Anna-Maija Rissanen: Art for me is a way of living. Everything I do is somehow linked to art. It is an urge, a necessity, a way to communicate. Not only it empowers, art also heals. A […]
