Growing up in Sicily, I was constantly struck by the rich colors and forms surrounding me. Now, these colors and forms mold themselves into my work, creating modern designs out of classical ideas.
When I create a piece of jewelry, I like to think that every time it is worn will be like the first time. I enjoy making jewelry from unexpected combinations of precious and non-precious materials in forms that go far beyond traditional jewelry. I design shapes that are linear and geometric, but soft enough to wrap around the body like a second skin.
In 2005, I became a member of the Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (AGC). AGC is an organization active in Italy with the aim of promoting and giving value to jewelry as a form of art.
My work incorporates high-karat gold, silver, wood, aluminum, plexiglass and stainless steel with gemstone beads, because I love the contrast this creates in my design. I recently moved to New York where I have my own studio.

Website: Rosario Merola Modern Jewelry Art Studio
Contact email: info@rosariomerola.com

Website: Don’t Panic Competition

Scott explains the mindset behind each piece;

Happy Cycling -

“Kids love their wheels and everyone surely remembers their first bike or trike with its gleaming paint job (mine was purple with white wheels!). It’s a fundamental part of childhood to ride a bike, and kids are always eager to ride around on their beloved machine, lost in their own adventurous world. It introduces them also to their wider surroundings, they learn about the areas where they live, they meet up with friends, they go places…albeit just to end of the street and back!”

Kid For today -

“There is a myth that doing nothing is wasting time, when it’s actually extremely productive and essential. During empty hours, kids explore the world at their own pace, develop their own unique set of interests and indulge in the sort of fantasy play that will help them figure out how to create their own happiness. When they are watching television, even if there is nothing particularly on, you just know they are sitting there lost in their own imagination. However, always the inquisitive, a kid will stop and stare at something that they feel is far more interesting!”

Artery Gallery has been a major supporter of contemporary Scottish artists over the years and continues to boost up and coming artist profiles, as well as the well established.

Original, accessible and affordable art at Artery Gallery that may very well become your future antique!

Website: arteryuk
Contact email: crieff@arteryuk.com

Scott Carruthers is currently exhibiting his new series of works at Artery Gallery in St Andrews. His work is inspired by a mix of the nostalgia from his own childhood along with watching his own kids grow from day to day. Not necessarily making any comparisons, but being reminded of his nostalgic years and how their life today differs in these modern times, yet somehow mirror his own childhood.

Scott explains the mindset behind each piece;

Happy Cycling -

“Kids love their wheels and everyone surely remembers their first bike or trike with its gleaming paint job (mine was purple with white wheels!). It’s a fundamental part of childhood to ride a bike, and kids are always eager to ride around on their beloved machine, lost in their own adventurous world. It introduces them also to their wider surroundings, they learn about the areas where they live, they meet up with friends, they go places…albeit just to end of the street and back!”

Kid For today -

“There is a myth that doing nothing is wasting time, when it’s actually extremely productive and essential. During empty hours, kids explore the world at their own pace, develop their own unique set of interests and indulge in the sort of fantasy play that will help them figure out how to create their own happiness. When they are watching television, even if there is nothing particularly on, you just know they are sitting there lost in their own imagination. However, always the inquisitive, a kid will stop and stare at something that they feel is far more interesting!”

Artery Gallery has been a major supporter of contemporary Scottish artists over the years and continues to boost up and coming artist profiles, as well as the well established.

Original, accessible and affordable art at Artery Gallery that may very well become your future antique!

Website: arteryuk
Contact email: crieff@arteryuk.com

Gabrijel Savic Ra born on 01.01.1978. Lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.

Education:

-1997-2003, studies of philosophy at Philosophical faculty, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, Marketing, menagment and PR of the cultural institutions at the Center for professional development & consulting-University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, studies of Management of mass media, Academy of Fin Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Professional engagements:

-From 2003, founder and curator of specialized gallery for video, installations and performance, �V.I.P.ArtGallery�, Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

-From 2003 to 2005, Editor of �Speak out� art forums (with Paula Muhr), Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

-From 2005, curator of specialized gallery for photography, �Circus� gallery, Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

-2005, producer of visual arts at Belgrade Summer Festival, Serbia

-2005 - 2006, one of editors in �Pop Cult�, Alter pop magazine for art and culture

-2006, founder of art group �Corpus Artisticum�

-From 2007, founder and curator of �Art@Art Gallery�, Students Cultural Center

-From 2007 contributive editor for web site Creative Europe

Solo exhibitions:

-2007, �Les Symboles�, Golden eye Gallery, Novi
Sad, Serbia
-2006, �Under The Reason�, Atelier Momas Gallery,
Brussels, Belgium
-2006, �Introspective reprogramming of
perception�, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Novi Sad, Serbia
-2005, � Neubauten Der Natur� (with Andjela
Stevanovic) Artget Gallery , Belgrade
Cultural Center, Serbia
-2004, � Fortuna impact�, IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad,
Serbia
-2003, � Retro futurum�, Gallery of SCC, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2003, � Aoristos dias�, Gallery Circus, SCC,
Belgrade, Serbia

Performances (selection):

-2007, �The End Of Program�, 9th International
Multimedial Art Festival, Odzaci, Serbia
-2007, �Capital�, 13th International Festival Of
Alternative And New Theatre, Novi Sad,
Serbia
-2007, �CremArtorium� (with group of artists),
public space, Belgrade, Serbia
-2007, �Black is the color of innocence� (with
Maja Zivkovic), April Meetings festival,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2007, �Post Apocalyptical Humans� (with Marco
Nektan), public space, Belgrade, Serbia
-2007, �Balkan Opera � Third Act�, SCC, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2006, �Balkan Opera � Second Act�, Atelier Momas
Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
-2006, �Balkan Opera � First Act� (performed by
VojislaV Radovanovic), Youth Cultural
Center, Skoplje, Macedonia
-2006, �My hart is empty, but�� (with Gordanom
Trajkovic), FONA - Festival Of New Art,
Rijeka, Croatia
-2006, �Lament for Maria Farmosa�, Church of Maria
Farmosa, Pula, Croatia
-2006, �Nihil Algorithms (Paul Gaugin�s Hand)�,
IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
-2006, �Consumed By The Rose�, 8th International
Multimedial Art Festival, Odzaci, Serbia
-2006, �Zos Alter Ego�, Open Mind � Open World,
International Multimedia Art Project,Home
of Cultural Center �Student Town�,Belgrade,
Serbia
-2006, �Feather Signalization� (with Nela and
Lidija Antonovic), 18th Independent Art
Festival, Sint Niclaas, Belgium
-2006, �Reflexion�, April Meetings Festival, SCC,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �Printing Machines� (with Tatjana T.
Bajovic), Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi
Sad, Serbia
-2006, �Ra-Hoor-Khuit Chromosomes � Empty Space
For Cyber Wisdom�, Ozon Gallery, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2005, �Dancing Footsteps� (with Goran Micevski),
Little Hall, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �To Supervise Or To Punish�, within the
project of Mimart Theatre, Festival
Night Of The Museums, Military Museum,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Four Elements � Burning The Fifth�, 7th
International Multimedial Art Festival,
Odzaci, Serbia
-2005, �Silent Word As Everlasting Understanding�
(with Milica Lapcevic), Academic Film
Center, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Mandala of Creation�, within the project
of Flexible Art Network, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �De profundis, my cyber Lord - downloading
the Gods�, IETM meeting, Gallery of Youth
Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Ma Longue Misere�, Little Hall, SCC,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2004, � Spectrum�, IZBA Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
-2004, � Satori cyber Adonai De Profundis�, BELEF
04, Barutana, Belgrade, Serbia
-2004, � Kunst uber alles� (with Slavko
Timotijevic), Big Hall, SCC, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2003, � Spying out the shadows/ Naked us you
come� (with Mirjana Stojadinovic),BELEF 03,
Barutana, Belgrade, Serbia
-2003, � The Marriage Cpoyrighted�, Federal Agency
for cultural property, Belgrade, Serbia

Group exhibitions:

-2007, �CremArtorium�, SCC, Gallery, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2007, �Structure Design Modify�, Design Week,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2007, �DEEVEEDEE No.3 part two�, Pasadena Museum
of California Art, California, USA
-2007, �DEEVEEDEE No.3�, Artists’ Television
Access, San Francisco, USA
-2007, �We�re # 1�, Smoke Gallery, Niagara Falls,
Canada
-2006, �Displaced people�, Independent Museum of
Contemporary Art, Cyprus, Greece
-2006, �Identity Redesigned� (inside of the
project USOD), Design Week, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2006, �Art Of Sin�, Altered Aesthetics Gallery,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
-2005, �Performatiques�, Videopak, MX ESPAI,
Barcelona, Spain
-2005, �The Audio Speaker Art�, Smoke Gallery,
Niagara Falls, Canada
-2005, �Visions Of Utopia�, Changing Room Gallery,
London, UK
-2004, � The life in Color�, Artegt Gallery,
Belgrade Cultural Center, Serbia
-2003, � Media, Art and Gender�, H.Arta,
Temisoara, Romania
-2002, � Time Codes�, 5th International Biennial
of young artists, Vrsac, Serbia

Festivals:

-2007, �Till Death Us Do Art�, ACT ART 5, London,
UK
-2006, ‘Performance Art in Serbia � The Choice Of
Ten’ (Nenada Bogdanovic project),
Rencontre Internationale D�Art Performance
De Quebec, Quebec, Canada
-2006, Terminal00, Ljubljana, Slovenia
-2006, 2nd Athens Video Festival, Athens, Greece
-2006, Presentation of the awarded films and
videos on the 2005 Belgrade festival
Alternative film/video, Multimedia Center,
Mala Stanica, Macedonia
-2005, Alternative film and video festival, Home
of Cultural Center �Student Town�,Belgrade,
Serbia
-2005,�Loop�, The Video Art Festival, Barcelona,
Spain
-2005, MOBILeye, Revial GSM film festival, Museum
of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, Zemos98 Audio-visual festival, Seville,
Spain
-2004, Alternative film and video festival, Home
of Cultural Center �Student Town�,Belgrade,
Serbia

Videography:

-2007, �Balkan Opera�, 13.00 min
-2006, �@�, 2.47 min
-2005, �Sound Of Silence�, 6.00 min
-2005, �Alter Peace (Native)�, (with Milica
Lapcevic and Vladimir Sojat), 4:08 min
-2005, �Misere�, 8.00 min
-2005, �Transmission�, 5.10 min
-2004, �Die Innere Notwendigkeit� (with Ana
Zivancevic Ra), 4.49 min
-2004, Spectrum, 21 min
-2004, �Argentum Vivum-The Alchemical
Wedding�(with Andjela Stevanovic),3.32 min
-2004, �Chant�, 2.12 min
-2004, �My Thoughts Are Red�, 2.39 min
-2003, �And Again End Again�, 3.34 min

Curator projects:

-2007, �inter-art-city�, Brussels � Belgrade,
Belgrade � Brussels, Belgium and Serbia
-2007, �Modify Video Experience�, April meetings
festival, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2007, �INTERMEDIA�, mix media group exhibition,
SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �World Video � New Form Of Beauty�, MKC,
Skoplje, Macedonia
-2006, �Frame�s�, exhibition of video still�s,
SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �Ars Mystique II�, group exhibition and
lectures, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �Ars Mystique�, group exhibition and
lectures, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �IN-DIFFERENCE III�, International video
festival, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2006, �Video Mode�s�, April meetings festival,
SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Focus� � Photography and Theory, SCC,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Video Integrations�, BELEF 05, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2005, �IN-DIFFERENCE II end again�, SCC, Beograd,
Serbia
-2005, �Terrorism � work in progress�, group
exibition, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2005, �Video Web�, April meetings festival, SCC,
Belgrade, Serbia
-2004, �System�, September salon, SCC, Belgrade,
Serbia
-2004, �IN-DIFFERENCE�, festival of mix medias,
SCC, Belgrade, Serbia
-2004, �V.I.P. Art for All�, April meetings
festival, SCC, Belgrade, Serbia

Published books of poetry:

-2002, �The Power of Fallen Angel�
-2002, �The Last Lovers�

Published in yearbooks and magazines:

-2006, Remont Art Magazine no. 14 (article �Body
Art � Painful Body Of Art�)
-2006, Collection of the Short stories for the
year of 2005
-2005, Remont Art Magazine no.12 (�Frames Lost In
Time�, article about Serbian video scene)
-2004, � Writings27�, Yearbook for Poetry and
short Novels of young writers from former
Yugoslavia
-2003, � Writings26�, Yearbook for Poetry and
short Novels of young writers from former
Yugoslavia

Website: Gabrijel Savic Ra
Contact email: gabrijel.savic.ra@gmail.com

? Born in Czech Republic
? Resides in Vancouver, Canada
? Studied art in Czech Republic then mainly self-taught
? Main style: Fauvism, Expressionism
? Influences and inspiration: Picasso, Matisse, Pop Art, Old Masters
? Active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists
? Internationally collected
? In the collection of the Supreme Court of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), York University (Toronto, Canada), Miroglio S.p.a. (Alba, Italy) and many others.

Martina�s female figure paintings first captivate the viewer by their sumptuous, exuberant color and the feeling of movement and vitality.

The graceful, feminine lines and fluid strokes contrast with the texture and dynamic intensity of the paint application.
Women in her paintings are both vulnerable and strong, secure in their femininity. Their expressions represent a fleeting moment in time, a space between thoughts. Looking at them you might feel a subtle connection as you recognize an aspect of yourself in them.

Website: Abstract Female Nude Paintings
Contact email: martisart@shaw.ca

Born in London in 1971, David King has always had an interest in art. Even from a young age his school teachers would tell his parents that he was able to draw and paint.

He studied GCSE Art & followed that with an Art A-level. He then left school to work at a nearby screenprinting company (screenprinting was part of his A-level course).

After working several jobs, he then started work with a local photographic printer. He had always had an interest in photography- which was something he says he �gets from his Dad�. He spent several years working at the photo printer�s but he still carried on drawing and painting in his spare time.

�Art has just been a hobby of mine and I didn�t really think my work was anything special,� he says but after several people expressed an interest in owning some of the paintings he had created, he realised that some of them were better than he thought.

He paints in a variety of styles and likes to �experiment with colour.� He gets his inspiration from everything around him and the slightest thing can spark something from inside his mind.

He hopes that people can find the inspiration in his work and now, with the aid of this site, he hopes to reach a wider audience.

Website: kingscanvas
Contact email: enquiries@kingscanvas.co.uk