Mostly self-taught, I use Corel Photo-Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and a few others.

Website: Geek Girl Graphics
Contact email: shandakr@bellsouth.net

Artist Statement

The traditionally composed paintings of flowers and Greek icons, express the peace, relaxation, and spirituality I connect with the act of painting. Rendering oil-on-canvas floral subjects in hues reminiscent of the Renaissance tradition and painting Greek icons with egg tempera on wood, my works may appear starkly divided in two categories, but they are intrinsically linked by a personal symbolism influenced by my deep faith and personal story.

Rather than paint to express the sorrows of the past, my paintings help the viewer escape the stresses of everyday life and retreat to a simpler time where forgotten values are embraced.

Biography

The art and talent of Marinella

Marinella paints both Greek Icons and beautiful oil-on-canvas paintings of flowers using lush and vibrate colours. Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975, her Greek and Italian origins represent her major influences, a Greek sense of beauty and religious faith together with a deep felt sensibility for the Italian Renaissance painters.

Drawing since her early childhood, at the age of 15 bought her first canvas and oils. In 1998 moved for two years to Hania, a town on the Greek Isle of Crete, there she studied the art of Greek Icons in a convent. Consequently decorated a small chapel on the outskirts of Hania with superb Icons, clearly demonstrating her natural talent for colour.

On her return to Switzerland she experimented with many styles and techniques, in 2004 began a series of outstanding floral oil paintings. Having found her own particular language, based on traditional techniques but with a decidedly modern sensibility, the images simply flowed out of her with an ease that only highly creative people can experience.

She found the reaction of those fortune to see the works as strange, �these painting relax me�, �they give me a sense of peace and quiet�, �the personal symbolism reflects a spirituality rarely seen in today’s art�, strange because that is what she felt while she was painting them.

2007 is the year Marinella decided she was ready to become a professional artist. She opened her own atelier-gallery in Switzerland and her works can now be seen on several online art galleries. In 2008 her paintings can be seen in exhibitions in New York, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Marinella is to be considered an emerging artist, however, with her knowledge of Renaissance techniques, her talent for colour, and the profound and powerful reaction people have to her paintings she will not remain unknown to the international art public for long.

Exhibitions

2009 GALLERY BOEHNER, Mannheim, Germany
2009 ART FAIR, (Kunstmesse) Akzenta Graz,
Austria
2008 ART FAIR, (Kunstmesse) Salzburg, Austria
2008 �ELEMENTAL REALMS�, AGORA GALLERY,
Chelsea, New York
2008 �FORGOTTEN VALUES� Marinella Art
Gallery, Locarno, Switzerland
2007 Marinella Art Gallery, Locarno,
Switzerland
2001 AMAG GARAGE Winterthur, Switzerland
2000 ZUERICH AIRPORT, Z�rich
1996 CREDIT SUISSE (Bank) Z�rich,
Albisg�etli, Switzerland
1994 EVAG (Winterthur Versicherung) Z�rich,
Switzerland

Competitions

2008 �SCHEDULE�, PALM ART, Leipzig, Germany
2008 CHELSEA FINE ART, AGORA GALLERY,
Chelsea, New York
2008 EXQUISITE EXPRESSIONS, ARTROM GALLERY,
Rome, Italy

Website: Marinella Owens
Contact email: info@marinella-art.ch

Visitors will include collectors, buyers and corporate decision makers and HNI’s. These important visitors will be specially invited to attend the show. At least 10,000, quality visitors are expected. Non-invitees would have to purchase the show visitors directory before entering the fair .

Mumbai has been chosen as the location for Artexpo India 2008 as it is the premier art market of the country and also the home of well known individual and corporate art collectors. As a city it has the highest per capita income and is also the highest tax paying region in India.

At Stall no - 15 you will find Ashok Art Gallery, a place for hunting some quality works from all the young fine art stars like Pratul Dash, Binoy Verghese, Sajal Patra, Jenson Anto, Pradosh Swain, Dharmendra Rathore, Baladev Moharatha, Sanjoy Bose, Amna Ilyas, Tapan Dash, Bibhu Patnaik, Sunita Anand Rao, Anup Kumar Chand,Somanath Raut, Kanta Kishore and Gadadhar OJHA.

ASHOK ART GALLEY � THE NEW HOME OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Website : www.ashokartgallery.com
Email : ashokartgallery@gmail.com

STALL NO - 15
Expo - Center the exhibition hall of World Trade Centre, Mumbai.. Area : 25,250 (sq. mt.) of air-conditioned exhibition space

Dates: March 14th - 16th 2008

Time: 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.

Website: Ashok Art Gallery
Contact email: ashokartgallery@gmail.com