Author Archives: jolanta

I claim my inspiration from pure emotions; powerful and oftentimes personal, ranging from love, anger, betrayal and the scores in-between. I feel honoring the human soul, spirit and determination wholeheartedly breathes life into my creations and my hope is that the images and expressions fuel the desire for life and walk a path of their […]

By far, the most powerful characteristic of photography for me is its unbreakable bond with reality. By far, the most powerful characteristic of photography for me is its unbreakable bond with reality.  "Painting can feign reality without seeing it," explains Roland Barthes, but "in Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there." […]

Born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1960, Abraham Michael Dayan, now a French national, at the age of 33, felt a burning urge to paint impossible to repress. Symbolically most of his paintings have been the fruit of the passage to a new century, they were born at the turn to the new millennium : more […]

Sounds, colors and shapes have accompanied my journey through life, since the dawn of my childhood. Sounds, colors and shapes have accompanied my journey through life, since the dawn of my childhood. It was clear to me even then, that art would be a way of life for me. I have studied painting, sculpting and […]

I make sculptures to go into peoples lives, I talk a timeless universal language about things from our common roots. I make sculptures to go into peoples lives, I talk a timeless universal language about things from our common roots. I make pieces to be lent on, loved and played with. I would rather a […]

How in this world does something get from dark to light, empty to full … or beautiful to ugly? These transitions happen at the edges where colors interact… How in this world does something get from dark to light, empty to full … or beautiful to ugly? These transitions happen at the edges where colors […]

Ron van den Boogaard portays emotionality through colour and a personally derived caligraphy. Working in various media like oils, encaustics, monoprints, oilpastels and colour pencil. Ron van den Boogaard portays emotionality through colour and a personally derived caligraphy. Working in various media like oils, encaustics, monoprints, oilpastels and colour pencil. Reflections of daily life translate […]

I have enjoyed the impressionist styles of Gauguin and Monet and learned from artists who were also students of contemporaries of Monet. I have enjoyed the impressionist styles of Gauguin and Monet and learned from artists who were also students of contemporaries of Monet. They have passed down to me the techniques of basic impressionism, […]

Throughout my work there is a consistent concern for the ways that perception constructs one’s world.This consideration generates work that explores… Throughout my work there is a consistent concern for the ways that perception constructs one’s world.This consideration generates work that explores, on the one hand, the physical structures that we create to organize our […]

Although I paint feminine figures, my primary desire is to express the soul essence of the model:  through the eyes, the mouth, and the gestures. Although I paint feminine figures, my primary desire is to express the soul essence of the model:  through the eyes, the mouth, and the gestures.  I deeply enjoy the interplay […]