Born in London, England, studied at Epsom Art School 1960-64. Awarded the Surrey Certificate in Art & Design. Worked as a Graphic Artist,in Ad agencies in London & Denmark. Taught graphics at East Ham College, London,and Art & Photography at Ruam Rudee International School Bangkok. As a freelance has illustrated children’s educational publications and teenage romance stories. Also worked as a cartoonist, journalist, designer & photographer for a wide variety of periodicals.
Exhibiting drawings and Photographs, extensively since 1980, in England, Germany, Holland, and Thailand.In 2000-2002 took time out to rediscover his painting, in London, and in Amsterdam 2002-2003. Moved to Kent in 2005,and continues painting.

Website: iandavidbaker
Contact email: mail@iandavidbaker.com

DRAGOS BADITA
www.dragosbadita.com
dragos@dragosbadita.com

Date of birth:21.04.1987
Studies:- High School of Music and Fine Arts “Constantin Brailoiu” Tg-Jiu,
-now student of University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca,Romania

Professional experience:
- First Prize at the National Art Contest organized in 1999 by Canson
-group exhibitions at the Art Museum,Galeria Fondului Plastic,Casa de Cultura in Tg-Jiu,Romania
-participations at the National Olimpiads of Visual Arts in Arad,Iasi and Timisoara
-participation at the ‘Europe is my country’ project in Domaine de la Frayse,Saint-Hillaire,Franta,with the organisation “Youth without Frontiers”
-cultural exchange at Habay-La-Neuve,with works exhibited at Maison de la Culture d’Arlon,Belgia ,with the project Medi@rt
-Petrosani art summer camp
-”Europa Artium” group exhibition,Cluj-Napoca,Romania
-”Maniphesto-Cluj school of painting”,group exhibition at “Preview” gallery,in Cluj-Napoca,Romania
-Erasmus Mobility at Athens School of Fine Arts,Athens,Greece
-”Artower Athina 2008″ group exhibition,Artower Hall,Athens,Greece
-”Passport” group exhibition at ASFA exhibition space,Athens,Greece

Website: www.dragosbadita.com
Contact email: dragos@dragosbadita.com

Mieke van Ingen (born 1962, Delft, the Netherlands) studied painting and graphic art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands. She lives and works in the Netherlands and in the South of France as a painter and a printmaker with a special interest in the cross over between the two disciplines.
Using motifs extracted from plants, water and clouds, Van Ingen incorporates these forms in her drawings, paintings and graphics with a painterly fluidity.
There is a division of horizontal and vertical lines; the same division which was highly emphasized by the members of The Style movement (De Stijl). For the members of this movement the belief in this division, originates in western theosophy; the vertical lines are the active element and the horizontal lines the passive elements; as both are the visual equivalents for the basic facts of life.
Van Ingen creates the contrast Piet Mondriaan, the movement’s leading figure, called for; fields of color created by horizontal and vertical volumes on the one hand and a clear poetic painting on the other hand. The use of water and earth colors, as much as the sensation that the works engage in construction and destruction -and create something new out of the void- all these are associated with obvious existorial issues.
It seem’s that Van Ingen’s work brings together both ends, modern and tradition, abstract and figurative, graphical and painterly. They form a continious effort to transcend knowledge and the techniques to the one’s hand to the traces of man’s search for truth and beauty on the other.

Website: Artiste contemporain, Mieke VAN INGEN

“Oversized” Women

The weather and seasons have a clear influence on the senses of humour of most people. Though the weather in the Netherlands is not always cause for happiness, the paintings of Suzan Wolters most certainly are.
When looking at the paintings of Suzan Wolters, the sky breaks open as laughing, sizable women in an atmosphere of sun, sea and beach give short shrift to any feeling of depression.
In combination with her good-humoured, chubby ladies, Suzan plays with the cliché that happy people and a vacation atmosphere give a positive feeling and joy in life.

Dutch citizen Suzan (1958) comes honestly by her creative talent. Her mother Niesje, as a young girl, was educated at a school for graphic design and later at the Art Academy. Her father, Max, also followed an education in graphics.
You could say it had been genetically determined. Suzan also started at a young age in modelling and painting. Suzan won various prizes with her modelling work at trade fairs in New York; her sculptures are popular in Japan, Australia, Russia, America and Europe.
Suzan’s work is filled with humour, joy and happiness and is very open as a result of that. For both her sculptures and her paintings Suzan consciously shows positive subjects, which has everything to do with Suzan’s outlook on life. Her preference for painting sizable figures is stylistically motivated and obviously a positive statement of their splendour. Suzan’s paintings celebrate the natural beauty and diversity of sizes and shapes. The chubby ladies are often accompanied by a cute looking dog.
“Adding a little dog is only natural; the dog brings emotion and movement into the painting. It is essential to me that a piece of art is a source of positive energy.
If someone looks at a painting and experiences the same sense of happiness that I experienced when painting it, then I have achieved my goal!”
Suzan paints with acrylic paint on canvas and is a fulltime artist and have been for the past 25 years.

A number of paintings are also offered in high-quality ‘Giclée Fine Art’.
This manner of reproduction makes it possible to hang a piece of art on your wall at an affordable price. It also serves as an alternative if the original piece of art has already been sold but you still want to have a reproduction. The reproduction is of museum quality and is printed on canvas in limited editions, assuring exclusivity.
Interested parties can contact Suzan Wolters.
E-mail: info@suzanwolters.com
Internet: www.suzanwolters.com
Tel: (0031) 578 628767

Website: Suzan Wolters
Contact email: info@suzanwolters.com

Based all over the world (Bulgaria, Sao Paulo, Miami), it is no surprise that Edgar Gomez should work in mixed media and collage, creating works made up of a variety of elements, and styles. At times his message is urban, at others very pop, but always vibrant and expressive. Evident in Gomez’s work is a sense of humour and an affinity for a retro esthetic (not to mention leanings towards the burlesque), all of which combine in some very contemporary offerings.
ArtMoco(Canada)

1969 born in Sofia, Bulgaria
Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Solo Exhibitions

2006″Nothing is easy”-Posters&Flyers Show-Comics Lounge Bar,Varna,Bulgaria
2005 “Mermaids” - Cafe des Arts(Galerie & Restaurant) - Praslin,Seyshelles
2004 “Who the Giants kill?”-La Plata Gallery -Buenos Aires,Argentina
2004 “Nostalgy Porn” - Prestes Arte,Porto Alegre - RS Brazil
2003 “Utopia” - Staroup Art Lofts- Sao Paulo,Brazil
Halison ART Gallery - Lugansk,Ukraine
2002 “Interval 23″- Hanson gallery - Miami,FL USA
2000 “Out of Target” - ArtCool Gallery - Amsterdam, NL
1999 “Panic/Relax” - Large Format Photographs
Gallery 222 - Breda,NL
ASA Gallery -New York, NY USA
1998 “Blink”-Galleria Silechia-Sarasota,FL USA
1996 “Despair” - Galeria Lopez Perez-Mexico City-Mexico
1994 “Mad Real” - Hose Gallery - Madrid,Spain

Group Exhibitions

2005 Nanyang Academy of Arts - Singapore
2004 Marpan Art Gallery - Valparaiso,Chile
2004 Centro d’Arte Mas Pi - Verges -Girona,Spain
2003 Art LA - Los Angeles,USA
2003 Courtyard Gallery - Dubai,UAE
2002 OMNA Center of Contemporary Art - Crete,Greece
Gruppo KRoma Galeria - Madrid ,Spain
2001 Galerie 13-Wien,Austria
2001 ACP Galerie-Wien,Austria
2000 CAFE NOD - Prague,Czech Republic
1998 Bulgarian Culturge Centre
Gallery Witgenstein - Vienna, AU
1996 Bulgarian Glimpse Show - BCIC, Moscow RU
1995 Appolonia Festival of Arts - Sozopol, BG
1994 5th International Print Biennale - Varna, BG
1993 Triennale of Contemporary Art - Sofia, BG

Bibliography

NAVIGATOR (Bulgaria LifeStyle Mag) - 2005 BG
STAROUP ART LOFT (Brazil)-catalogue
year 2003 Sao Paulo
FACE FOR SALE-(catalogue) London,UK 2003
CAMPUS JURNAL Dubai (UAE) -magazine
year 2003 - by Myrna Ayad
ARTnews-art mag march 2002
STYLE (Germany)-fashion mag 2002
NEW GRAFFITI (Holand) - independent wallpaper
issue 3, year 2001 - interview
THE REALITY (Holand) - srtreet magazine
issue 12, year 2001 - interview
THE CITY ART (Bulgaria) - art magazine
issue 53, year 2000 - interview
EGOIST (Bulgaria) - lifestyle magazine
issue 28, year 1999 - interview
T WIST (Hungary) - art and fashion magazine
issue 11, year 1998 - interview

Website: The Dazed Art of Edgar Gomez
Contact email: contact@gomezvisual.com

Lewie is a working class youngster from London England.

These drawings are part of his Puzzle… Love Money War Death.

The puzzle is a combination of Art, Poetry and Music.

See the website for more information.

Website: Lewie
Contact email: info@lewiemusic.com

Born in 1954 in Switzerland, Willoft is Painter on Glass and Acryl Glass, mainly and Plastician with recycling Materials.
He lead firstly a career in Advertising and since 2004 is focusing exclusively the contemporary artistic Field.

He established his workshop in Uruguay in 2008.

Website: Painting, Sculptures and photography
Contact email: contact@willoft.com

I “came out” pretty late in life as an artist. I have always sketched and painted but due to a demanding life-style could never take it to the next level.
I now have the time and am indulging myself.
I am an aircraft engineer to trade and find my comfort zone is in exactness. I am trying to develop a more casual and romantic flow. I still want to carry on the Scottish themes but am looking at the old masters just now for tips on expression.
My wife, who actually studied art, and I have started a web gallery to display our works. Hopefully this will give us more space in our small house and also help to fund our excursions.

Website: Scottish Art - Castle and Landscape Paintings
Contact email: peter@scotlandinoils.com

Expressionism on a personal level

Website: Rafael Arriaga website

Each work is a theatrical spectacle in which I paradoxically stage nightmarish scenes, disagreeable beauty and theaters of abjection to reveal the intent behind my work. Reoccurring themes throughout my work involve abandonment, life, death, extravagance, and the macabre.

I work in a surrealist state of mind, often described as ‘pure psychic automatism.’ Thus, the objects I use within these images are based on intuition rather than literal symbolism. Most surrealists experimented with the objet trouve, producing unsettling, illogical combinations of objects divorced from their normal settings and functions. While playing with allegory, I want to create curious arrangements on a controlled stage.

Website: Lauren Bockow Photography