Mike Bartlett studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. As Lecturer in Fine Art at Exeter College of Art he became interested in kinetic art and time-based media eventually heading Media Arts at the University of Plymouth, England A period with the English Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education followed entailing numerous visits to monitor art, design, media and architecture departments as well as other subjects
He has worked in a variety of media including stained glass, and was represented in the Arts Council touring exhibition �Modern Stained Glass�. Mike is represented in private collections and has had a number of one man shows.

These images are distillations of stories that are a blend of fact and conjecture.

He tends to work in series. The focus of each series may be an event, a news item, a place, an idea, say about buildings or perhaps a notion about scale. Research uncovers facts, but poses more questions. A series tends to be inspired by asking �what if� about something that interests him.

As he contructs an image he edits as he goes encouraging shadows and reflections of things and events to appear. In this way a story is formed that helps the painting on its way.

While the artist can’t know how each image is interpreted; what the viewer sees, the artist knows the route the image has travelled which is its story.

Website: mike bartlett
Contact email: mgbartlett@talk21.com

Long Island fine artist Janet Hirsch explores the use of texture and the powerful contrast between light and dark in her paintings and photography.

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Long Island University, CW Post Campus
Painting and Photography

2006
“Separating Shadows”
Hillwood Art Gallery
Brookville, NY

Website: Janet Hirsch Fine Art
Contact email: janet@janet-hirsch.com

Ghassan Ghazall, born in 1961 in lebanon. He holds a Bachelor and a master degrees in Visual Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). His main artistic practices are: painting, sculpture, photography and installations. Recipient of numerous prizes, he made over 20 solo and collective exhibitions in Canada and abroad. His pieces are part of many private collections in Canada and abroad. At present time, he lives and teaches at the Lebanese American University in Beirut
EDUCATION

1994-1997 M.A. Fine Arts June 1997
Quebec University in Montreal
1989-1992 B.A. Fine Arts April 1992
Quebec University in Montreal
1986-1987 C.E.C. Computer Science October 1987
Herzing Institute in Montreal
Computer Analyst Diploma
1979-1981 D.E.C. May 1981
College Fran�ais, Montreal
High School Diploma

PUBLICATION

GHAZAL, G.: Prefabricated object and painting-sculpture: The manipulation of the object and its relation with the frame and space, Thesis, Quebec University in Montreal, 1997 (research director: Jean-Pierre Gilbert, PhD)

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS

Oct.-Nov. 2006 NAFAS
Gallery Espace SD, intallation
Dec 2005 D�p�t DareDare
Objets s�riels
Mars 2002 Arts N.D.G.
Mix Medias �02
August 2000 Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena
(Colombia), Installations 2000
January 1996 Gallery of the Quebec University in
Montreal (UQAM), Installation �96
Oct. 1995 La Biennale D�couverte 1995, National
Museum of Quebec, Installation �95
September 1995 Quebec University in Montreal
Diffusion Center (UQAM),Installation �95
Feb.-March 1995 Graff Gallery, Installation �95

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS

June 1997 UQAM Gallery in Montreal
Installations �97
April-May 1994 St-Lambert Cultural Society Center Gallery
Painting and installations �93-94
October 1993 Saint-L�onard� Port-Maurice Gallery
Painting and installations �93
Jan.-Feb. 1992 C�te-des-Neiges House of Culture,
Montreal, mixed medias �91
August 1989 Mont-Royal Courts, Montreal
Mixed painting �89

CONTESTS, SCHOLARSHIP AND SUBVENTIONS

May 1992 Winning of � Atelier In Situ � Contest March-
Sept. �93, organized by the Association for the
Development of Visual Arts in Mtl (ADAVM)
January 1995 Quebec University in Montreal
scholarship Program PAFARC
July 2000 Quebec Arts and Letters Cabinet� Scholarship Program for Professional Artists � Department of International
Commerce and External Affairs Ministry

July 2000 Subvention for the exhibit � La migration de la
culture � in Colombia (Cartagena and Bogota)

Website: Portfolio
Contact email: g.ghazal@hotmail.com

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Website: www.darrilorenzen.net
Contact email: mail@darrilorenzen.net

Elayna Alexandra
Artist Statement

One day in the doctor�s office, looking at another set of x-ray films of my disabled body, I was struck by the strange beauty of my bones�the soft, delicate shading of grays and blacks and then the starkness of the metal materials pieced through the bones. When the doctor stepped out, I snapped some digital photos of my x-rays, and later at home I worked with them in Photoshop. Suddenly, these pieces of bone came to life. What was hidden beneath layers of skin and muscle became exposed. I began looking at the contrast between my photography of bones and pieces of nature and paintings I had made depicting a variety of subjects. Layering these diverse images together reminded me of the complexity of life�what we hold covered up and hidden now lay in front of me uncovered. Comparing bones with ordinary pieces of beauty�a rose, leaf, or a moth�s wings arrayed with detailed designs�I was reminded how in our crazy lives we pass by so quickly the details of the natural world as well as the complexity of our bodies. The intent of my digital work is to bring attention to hidden layers of life, asking viewers to continue to look deeper, into both my work and into their own lives.

I also wanted to use my hands with paint and other mediums to explore this relationship of our human insides, disabilities and emotional desires with the natural world more. I have completed many pieces now in acrylic, sculpture, and watercolor. I use each of these mediums for different reasons and with each find the ability to explore my interests in new ways. The unforgiving branches of a pine tree stretched and tied with wire to a wheelchair wheel expose my own personal fight, as well as humanities� fight to be or not to be tied down or restrained. Mirrors hung to this piece reflect viewers as they examine this sculpture creating a dance between art and personal experience. Large canvases dripped with paint, sculpted with gel mediums, wood, and metal deconstruct all the details and leave my exploration to an impulsive expression. Then stepping into the veils of watercolor, I can capture again the layers that our lives encompass. But now I capture them in new colors and with purposeful inaccuracy, instead of exact representation, choosing to draw attention to the interactions I see among body, color, and nature. Through this mixture of mediums I am able explore the human condition with broader expression, encompassing emotions, thoughts, pain, and structures contrasted against the natural world. Through this diversity a larger picture can be created.

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Website: Elayna Alexandra by Design
Contact email: elaynaalexandra@gmail.com