Künstler
Ágnes Zászkaliczky
Agnes Zaszkaliczky is hungarian born visual artist based in Vienna. Since a couple of years she paints mostly portraits. Years of practice and education has helped her to reach the level where she is able to paint anybody`s portrait. She acquired the technique of classic portrait painting, which she learned of Russian experts. Therefore, when creating a portrait she uses the methods of Caravaggio and the masters of old age as well and she creates the composition with abstract elements. However, for her a portrait means much more than only a technical challenge. Besides the appearance, the real objective there is the visualisation of the character, the human being and the soul which is present on every face and expression. The portraits thus awaken with an ethereal complexion and we find ourselves gazed upon by the eternal and the unique.
Carys Evans
I graduated in Fine Art in the Faculty of Arts and Design at Swansea Metropolitan University in 2013. My field is painting, mainly of the female human figure. I work in many media, including oil, household emulsion, pastel and drawing. My paintings are usually the result of prolonged working and reworking. I have a studio in the centre of Swansea.
David A. Kilvington
I was once told, by one of my tutors, that things came too easily for me, it was not meant to be complimentary. Thirty odd years later I have come to realise how wrong he was. As I often have little or no contact with the outside world I can ignore the social restrictions that curtail most, and can often be found in my nightshirt, dressing gown and slippers, peeling oranges at ten minutes to mid-day.
David trained in fine art painting at the University of Brighton. Since leaving in 1991 he has held a number of successful international solo and group shows. He deploys formal composition, lustrous colour and a superb painting skill to create artworks that push the boundaries of figurative art, displaying a strong painterly quality, supported by observational skills, drawing and a highly inventive imagination. His paintings often examine the abstruse unfolding of characters, always friends, confidants and his familiars; the paintings involve elements of eroticism, dark humour and keen observation. The narrative can be equivocal and double-edged. Disquiet, watchfulness and tension are implicit. ‘I am fascinated in how people are, the way they occupy space, how drama might be locked in the seemingly unexceptional, and to see if it can be revealed. I am intrigued by the alchemy at this moment of transformation.‘
David Gunther
I have made many decisions in life, good, bad and indifferent. My personal vision of being creative involves making important choices in deciding what road shall I walk down? The one that winds to and fro, not being able to see the end, or the one that is straight with the end visible to the naked eye? I create sculptures and installations by contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, I try to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, involving the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical. Believing in the idea of form and movement in my work.
Eva Hradil
Eva studied art – in the painting and graphics class – from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She lives as a freelance visual artist in Vienna and Lower Austria.
Her preferred motives are people and things made by/for people. She rarely uses photos for this, but needs her models in the studio.
„The subject is less important than the painting itself.“
As artist in residence she has been in:
China (2001), Ireland (2006), Budapest (2008), Principality of Liechtenstein (2009), Buenos Aires (2017), Frankfurt (Oder) (2019), Salzburg (2020).
For symposia she has been:
Sweden (2009), Valtice / Czech Republic (2005), Krumau / Czech Republic (2010).
Mittagsschlaf
Eitempera auf Halbkreidegrund, 110 x 130 cm
Julie Davis
I use traditional methods, but I like to be playful in my approach to paint and eclectic in my subject matter. I try not to analyse my ideas too closely, although these days my work sometimes creeps toward magic realism and the relationships we have with the (un)natural world, and other creatures. I am based in Wales, UK, have a Master‘s degree in Art and Art History, and have been an exhibiting artist for over a decade.
Lara Bandilla
I use traditional methods, but I like to be playful in my approach to paint and eclectic in my subject matter. I try not to analyse my ideas too closely, although these days my work sometimes creeps toward magic realism and the relationships we have with the (un)natural world, and other creatures. I am based in Wales, UK, have a Master‘s degree in Art and Art History, and have been an exhibiting artist for over a decade.
Maria Pierides
Having grown up in Greece, Cyprus and the UK, living between two different worlds and the search for home, are themes that influence my work. My actual painting process relates to these themes as I use mixed media, building up and scraping back areas of paint to capture the atmosphere, mass and light of the different places I have called home. Objects collected on my walks and through my travels often make it directly into my work, and I am also inspired by myths and poetry. Having studied at The Central School of Speech and Drama and Goldsmiths University in London, I now live in Wales, working as a full time artist.
Mark Goldsworthy
Mark grew up in East Anglia and studied at art schools in Great Yarmouth and Manchester. He is now based in the Suffolk market town of Bungay. A figurative style based on sound drawing and heightened colour was prevalent in the early large scale works. A move to a series of figures in fields of colour and stronger definition was the direct influence of experiments with sculpture. Latterly, paintings have become much smaller and introspective. Delicate drawings and designs for commissioned sculpture have also attracted admiration.
Work has been shown on Anglia Television and has appeared in arts reviews in the Guardian, and regularly in the Eastern Daily Press. Mark has exhibited in London, Norway, France, Austria, USA and South Africa and work is held in private collections throughout the world..
Marc Bodie
The first inspiration for wanting to make figurative sculpture was as a child having watched the wonderful Ray Harryhausen films, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, etc. The stop motion animation of figures of myth and legend was a captivating feast for any young imaginative child. When his Father said that they were made from models, that was it. He was straight to drawing and plasticine model making, He was full on. Then he discovered Artists and sculptors whose theme of choice was the figure. From Michelangelo through to Rodin onto Germine Richier and Elisabeth Frink and all in between and after (still discovering). He is not only influenced by all these great sculptors but also by the forces of nature, eg clouds, plants, sea, landscape etc. As well as books; fact and fiction, poetry, plays and films etc. He expresses all these influences through his use of the male figure.