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Ginette Callaway

Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Contributors, blogs, news | Leave a Comment

Lost World - Okefenokee - Mixed Media
 
Okefenokee Swamp Sunset - Mixed Media
 
Unnamed - Mixed Media
 
Venice Sunset - Oil Painting
 
 
Born 1967, France
the artist lives and works in Georgia, United States

I am French born, spend many years in Germany and ended up in the United States where I live and work in the great warm state of Georgia. I paint in oil and watercolor, but I also experiment with other media and my experience in design can be found in some of my art creations. I am mostly self-taught. My motivation to paint was not to make money. My motivation was a strong desire to work with paint and have total creative freedom.

I worked in the digital field as a designer. After years of working digitally, I desired to get my hands dirty. I wanted to mix paint in a real, touchable, messy way.

I knew how to mix colors in my painters software, I knew what to do to get all kinds of shades of green but I really wanted to do that with tubes of paint and paint with real brushes. I wanted to smell paint, touch paint and work up paint on canvas.
Soon I realized that I had found the creative field that most satisfied me. I did less and less design work and I was driven to paint full time.

I took drawing classes at a local college, but that is where my formal art education ends.
I wanted to develop my own style. I wanted to develop my own intuitive creative process and did not want to distract myself by learning how to paint like someone else. Over the years I studied through books and practice.
I own a large library of art education, history and instruction books but my best teacher was and is the brush, the pencil, the ink pen, the paper, the canvas and most of all my subject. There is nothing that compares to the actual act of painting.

I paint landscapes, flowers, animals and many travel destinations and people. I’m inspired by places, things and people, I paint the scenes and things that matter in my life now and from times back in my twenties when I lived and traveled in Europe. I am beginning to feel the urge to alter reality.

My art is becoming increasingly popular.
Today I live my dream, painting my visions.

I have more then 400 individual collectors all over the world.

Website: Ginette Fine Art
Contact email: ginette@ginettefineart.com

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Artes Plásticas / La 52 Bienal de Venecia, pensada para superar

Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under blogs, news | Comments Off

El numero total de visitantes fue de 302 mil, cifra que comparada con Documenta 12 es muy inferior ya que en ésta participaron más de 754 mil personas en cien días. REGRESAR A LA REVISTA.

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