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This month’s featured artist, Soniei, from Nova Scotia, paints serene, contemporary Japanese-inspired
art and is a successful full-time artist. Read our profile on Soniei... Read MoreArticle, November 2, 2008
Beth has always been an artist in some form or another. She painted on clothing and jackets when she was young and picked up a paintbrush after the birth of her daughter 15 years ago. She fell in... Read MoreArticle, October 1, 2008
Contemporary Chinese master of the Yunnan School of painting, Wei Kan, who hails from Shandong Province, creates beautiful frescoes and modern pen and ink and wash drawings. Taught by Zhang... Read MoreArticle, September 1, 2008
Fine Art Registry® member Jessica Leach is a multi-talented artist from New Jersey whose creative drive springs from highly emotional experiences and a passionate commitment to using art as... Read MoreArticle, August 1, 2008
Fine Art Registry® member and special guest, Edward Gilmore, art creation at NAMTA Tradeshow in Reno, Nevada. Play VideoVideo, July 31, 2008
Fine Art Registry® member and special guest, Edward Gilmore, art creation at NAMTA Tradeshow in Reno, Nevada. Play VideoVideo, July 31, 2008
Fine Art Registry® member and special guest, Edward Gilmore, art creation at NAMTA Tradeshow in Reno, Nevada. Play VideoVideo, July 31, 2008
The recurring themes in the work of painter Jacques D’Auteuil are amplified when meeting the artist in person. Jacques is warm but intent, the warmth and intensity spilling onto his canvases... Read MoreArticle, July 1, 2008
Edward W. Gilmore is one of the more recent artists to join the Fine Art Registry™. A prolific abstract expressionist artist, Edward only began following his passion in 2003, but has had an... Read MoreArticle, May 1, 2008
"I paint what I call ’fashion art,’" says artist Karen Brown, "because it’s refreshing to see images of elegance and femininity in a world of casual conformity. I believe these are qualities that... Read MoreArticle, April 3, 2008
Ana Cabrera is the first Fine Art Registry™ member in Argentina, although she and her partner Segismundo Ulanowicz have been spreading the word and others are following suit. Ana’s story is... Read MoreArticle, March 1, 2008
Most visitors to this website know Joan Altabe from her continuing series An Open Letter to Artists (from an Art Critic). Newspaper readers in Florida know her as the highly knowledgeable and... Read MoreArticle, February 1, 2008
Someday, not too long from now, judging by the way things are going, Georgia folk artist Steven Chandler will be able to rock back and forth contentedly on the porch of his art empire, wave an ar... Read MoreArticle, December 31, 2007
Huanbin Cai, nicknamed Chase, was born in a working class family in the city of Shantou in Guangdong province in 1980. But from an early age Chase had a great interest in painting. He often used... Read MoreArticle, December 5, 2007
"I know I am always in a state of learning. And thus always look forward to studying new aspects of art. I therefore am continuously excited at what I might discover tomorrow, in a month, or even... Read MoreArticle, November 6, 2007
China has an extensive tradition of landscape painting, with recorded and preserved works going back almost to the beginning of the first millennium A.D. The earliest landscape painting appeared... Read MoreArticle, October 1, 2007
...not Grandma Moses. It’s more from this freer, more serendipitous branch of the self-taught tree that Guy Lindenmuth is emerging onto the scene. While most in the self-taught, Outsider, folk... Read MoreArticle, August 16, 2007
"When I paint, the canvas directs the action. It’s all about the release of energy. Shapes cling to the edge of reality, their meanings formed by a growing collective imagination. The transferenc... Read MoreArticle, July 9, 2007
Musicians are fond of saying that music is a universal language. And it is. But not more so than art. You can place the earliest cave paintings, a Greek marble, a Rembrandt self-portrait and one... Read MoreArticle, June 26, 2007
This is more than a story about an artist and his art. You look at Christian Early’s portraits of animals and each one seems to possess a distinct personality. While you’re gazing at them... Read MoreArticle, June 4, 2007
When asked what she intends with her art, Chicago based artist Catherine Puma replies, "I love recreating beautiful landscapes of places I’ve traveled to before because I’m able to relive... Read MoreArticle, April 27, 2007
Well, for all its problems, America can still be a land of opportunity, if you ask painter Anna Kurowska. Growing up in the small city of Ozorkow in central Poland, Anna did not have much... Read MoreArticle, March 27, 2007
Esam Pasha never considered himself a political painter. But when he painted over the first and largest mural portrait of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, covering it with... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
Bombs. Death. Destruction. Not the usual environment one might imagine an artist to create in. For Iraqi painter, Ghassan Ghaib, the realities that unfolded in Iraq following the U.S.-led... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
There’s no telling what will spark a person down a certain path in life. In the late ’60s a young teacher walked into the classroom of a small community school in Newark, New Jersey. She opened... Read MoreArticle, January 2, 2007
Mademoiselle Jane Adams would never have known her potential as a successful artist if a few silver lined clouds hadn’t floated her way. A Southern Belle is Born. Jane Demaris Adams was... Read MoreArticle, December 5, 2006
Francis Hogan ("Frankie") Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides. Play VideoVideo, November 18, 2006
Francis Hogan (“Frankie”) Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides… In 1999, in celebration of his 20th year of painting in the splatter-dash genre, which he began... Read MoreArticle, November 18, 2006
Before you read this article, please take 2-3 minutes to relax and gaze upon the painting above. And then, read on… Did you feel anything? See anything? Stephen Miele’s hope is that you did. What... Read MoreArticle, November 1, 2006
"I have used oil, ink, acrylic, watercolor, all the usual media," she says. "Then I met pastel. I do not remember when exactly I discovered pastel as a serious method of dispensing color... Read MoreArticle, November 1, 2006
"I paint because I am insane — I have to. I think if you ask any artist you will get that answer." Everyone except the government and telemarketers call her Jake, even though the name... Read MoreArticle, September 29, 2006
"Painting is definitely my passion, that’s where all the good stuff lies!" says artist Marco Nunes, with obvious enthusiasm. Born to a mother who was a painter herself, Marco spent his early chil... Read MoreArticle, September 29, 2006
"I try to be independent in art as much as in life generally," says Eugene Liskin, a Russian painter now living in Moldova. "I don’t think I belong to any stylistic or ideological movement... Read MoreArticle, August 30, 2006
Artist Julie Newdoll sees the world from a vantage point that is hard for many of us to conceptualize. Through her paintings, Julie has found a medium for marrying science and human mythology... Read MoreArticle, August 30, 2006
How an artist has turned tragedy to survival through her art. Carolyn (Carri) Miles, Johns Island, South Carolina painter, had been involved in art in one way or another all her life... Read MoreArticle, July 26, 2006
Nadia Pronina, Ukrainian Painter–A Self-Portrait. Nadia Pronina was born in 1956 in Kiev, Ukraine and now lives in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Several months ago she... Read MoreArticle, July 26, 2006
Levesque is beginning her career as a painter – the right way. Although her mother is a great artist, her sister is also a talented painter and art has been “in her blood” since she was a kid... Read MoreArticle, June 14, 2006
Not finding what she was looking for as an art collector, Lorna Wallace took matters into her own hands and began to create the missing art herself. In just a few years, marketing her paintings... Read MoreArticle, June 1, 2006
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