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Featured Artist - Amarilli Arenosto

I found this talented artist over on Facebook when she joined my 1stAngel Creatives group We have some awesome creative people there but Amarilli caught my attention with this awesome picture.  She has gone on to put up more and you will be in awe too :)  Here she tells us a little about herself in her own words…..

Blue Suspect ©Amarilli

Blue Suspect ©Amarilli

I am a person who have done and could do several other works in this life (between others in relation to languages, of which I speak 4), yet I’ve always felt I should have the courage to renounce to everything else, even to other possible more secure careers, in order to be able to paint, because something has always been telling me that’s where I can create value in life.

It has been difficult for me to believe, first in my capacities and potential, then in the value of art itself: I am full of doubts, at times reinforced by the typical “starving of the artist”. But in researching inside and outside myself, in my artistic path, I see that those doubts are also the very reason of my growth.

I was so lucky to find a partner who believes in me and literally prohibits me to think about any other work than painting, which is what gives me most joy!!!

After winning over the first doubts, which were about my capacities (I was helped in this by all the persons around me who encouraged me since childhood, and by my good but honest and very strict teachers) I am now discovering a new potential in doing art……..

This is a new stage for me, where besides working on “finding my inner world and my own voice” I have discovered that art can really put individuals in communication on a subconscious and more profound level.

I have learned how to reach into my creativity by other and better means than “my head” or “my mind”. Through my visions I am able to get in touch with sides of other people which were unreachable to my conscious self.

That is why I am especially thrilled, lately, by commissions and portraits: because the act of creating is not only my personal research, but it becomes also a communication between souls, on a subtle level, and an occasion for an exchange and enrichment.

I have also started to communicate more consciously with “my muses” and the results have been surprising. There is definitely more to reality than we know or imagine.

Once again I had a confirmation that the way to use my gift is to explore the Invisible and make it visible for others: as I’ve always stated to myself: “Art is for me a Bridge between the Visible and the Invisible. I’m trying to be a ‘maker of bridges’”.

If you are interested in knowing more about me and my work, you are more than welcome to visit my website and my blog!”

Amarilli Arenosto
Website –www.amarilliart.com
EBSQ –http://amarilli.ebsqart.com

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Sleeping Beauty

This week’s featured art is Sleeping Beauty by Elizabeth Edwards

I dont often put up one of my own, but I am quite pleased with this one, so here she is….

Sleeping Beauty

Hope you like her :)

Prices for Sleeping Beauty begin at $21.23, subject to change.

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Joan Jonas: Inferno Paradise / The Juniper Tree

5 April - 18 May 2008

Wilkinson Gallery is pleased to present a solo show by the acclaimed performance, video and installation artist, Joan Jonas.

The exhibition premieres a new installation, entitled Inferno Paradise, alongside The Juniper Tree (1976). Whilst taking inspiration from Dante, Inferno Paradise is not merely a visually seductive retelling of the story. It instead uses the classic’s themes to transform the gallery space into an immersive presentation of filmed footage taken from a performance and Jonas’ own travels. Five screens and a monitor display subtlety intercut film scenes- which include a shadow performance piece, a Mexican Modernist stone circle, a toy museum and an archive Jonas performance- which, though ambiguous in their meaning individually, assume an energetic aesthetic language when taken as whole. Read more

Freud painting ‘will set record’

A painting by Lucian Freud is expected to become the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction when it goes under the hammer next month.

The 1995 work, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, is estimated to fetch between $25m and $35m (£12.7m to £17.7m).


Freud painted Benefits Supervisor Sleeping back in 1995

The current auction record for a picture by a living artist is Hanging Heart, by Jeff Koons, which sold for $23.6m (£11.3m) in November 2007.

Freud’s painting has never been seen in public in the UK before. Read more

PAULA PEARL SHOWS IN ALFA ART GALLERY

Alfa Art Gallery, 108 Church Street, New Brunswick, NJ:

Paula’s Fiber Arts and Pastel Landscapes will be displayed at the reception and there will be a presentation of how she got started on her path to becoming an artist. This will begin with her study of photography at Syracuse University, which included a semester spent in London and follow her through her years of creating art quilts which lead to her passion for pastels. In the last few years, Paula has pursued her study of art at the duCret School of Art in Plainfield, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit, and ArtSpace Studio and Gallery in Morristown, and has studied with Bill Senior, Rhoda Yanow, Dannielle Mick and Julie Friedman. Read more

GREATEST LIVING ABSTRACT SCULPTOR SHOWS FOR THE FIRST TIME FOUR PORTRAIT HEADS OF HIS WIFE

The man who took sculpture off the plinth now puts the portrait back on a pedestal - National Portrait Gallery displays Sir Anthony Caro’s figurative busts for the first time

Four heads in bronze and steel by Sir Anthony Caro, who is widely regarded as Britain’s greatest living sculptor, go on display for the first time this weekend at the National Portrait Gallery. The portrait sculptures depicting the artist’s wife Sheila, were made in 1988-89, a major instance of the occasional ventures into figurative work for an artist whose reputation is closely linked with abstract sculpture.

Famed for his pioneering sculptures in welded steel, Caro’s epic but tender busts reveal a little known aspect of the celebrated artist’s work and will be placed on specially built beech-wood plinths for their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery’s Balcony Gallery. Read more

Interview With The Artist Welcomes Naomi Starzinski

This lovely lady is an up and coming oil painter. Her work is very different from any I have seen in a very long time and her Interview can be read by clicking HERE

Thank you Naomi for taking part :-)

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