Shelton Walsmith is a mixed media artist working in Brooklyn, New York. 

His work has been published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Denver Quarterly, 

Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others. 

He has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin.

His most recent one man shows was at Seven Minus Seven Gallery In the US Virgin Islands.

Artist statement

A body of work should not be a cadaver evidencing life 'that was but rather the flashpoint for life which ignites anew on each renewed encounter.

Represented by:

2000-2001 Virgil Skye Gallery San Francisco, Ca

2004- 2013 Causey Contemporary Fine Art Brooklyn, NY

2009- 2012 Art For Film online

2016-present 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019-Bathers,Waders +Apparitions 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2016-The Amphibian’s Daughter 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2016-The last Two Years 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2015-The Provisional vs. The Dubious , Queens College Art Center, NY

2012-The Uses Of Literature , Cyrus Co., Manhattan, NY

2011-Collage Paintings, La Esquina, Manhattan, NY

2010-Day For Night, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2009-Mirada Fuerte, La Esquina, New York, NY

2004-14 Days a Minute, Plexifilm, New York, NY

2000-Tindergroth, Virgil Skye, San Francisco, CA

1999-Cibachrome Addicts, Incommunicado, New York, NY

1999-Akin, DTUT, New York, NY

1998-Man, Hat and Transfers, DTUT, New York, NY

1993-Mezi Hrady, The Globe, Prague

Painting comes in easy way — one trifle meets a trick, a Rube Goldberg machine starts a chain reaction, like a reaction on some vaccine, and it goes on and on. So I’m starting to realize that if I’ll change something once again, then I get a brand new work, for which, perhaps, I already have a new meaning and new canvas. This mechanism runs by my presence — a common story for all the artists. But still it all has a great meaning — the smell, the sound, the state, the color of the walls, the air — and when all this substances focus on me, the work emerges, lives, breathes.

Alina Maksimenko was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine

1985 - 1988 studied in Art School named after T.G. Shevchenko
1993 - graduated from Kiev Art College named after M. Boychuk 

2019 – graduated documentary class of Sergey Bukovsky, Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute; Kiev, Ukraine;

2020 – graduated Wajda School/Studio, Doc Pro department; Warsaw, Poland;
Since 2001 member of the BG-Art union of artists;
Since 2003 member of The Art Union of painters of Ukraine;

Solo projects:

“Asya”, Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2019 

“Local time. Second episode”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Not the place. Cohort 1972 ”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2018
“Titles”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“No title”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
“Time loop”, Art-14 gallery, Kiev, Ukraine - 2016 

I am a Northern California painter of oil, watercolor, pastel or ballpoint pen (whatever the project calls for) My past work leaned more toward realism, but after taking a second job years ago as a caricature artist, I found the freedom of improvisation to be more rewarding. I work mainly from reference material, as opposed to plein air, or sittings. Half of the enjoyment in my painting process is to piece a scene together with sketches of props and photos taken from life. I will either use family or friends as models, but lately have been using more high-tech methods to model my characters using posing and 3D image development programs.   

Subject Matter...

I like to paint an occasional "still life" or landscape, but nothing takes the place of painting or sculpting people. And what would be  better than just painting a person? It's painting them doing things. Walking, sitting, stretching, dancing... and all the emotions that come with it. 

https://www.duaneabrownart.com/

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Paolo Borile is a passionate Italian painter who has exhibited his work Internationally. His primary focus is on expressing the nature of the human figure through realistic paintings. His style is figurative and expressive, occasionally photorealistic, and often recalls the classics. Each painting boasts a nostalgic quality and a narrative, sometimes surrealist touch, allowing each viewer to immerse themselves into every colour and architectural element with both recognition and imagination.

Education: 

2010 - 2014 Davide Avogadro school of art, Vigevano, Italy

Events:

2019 Grandart, The Mall, Milan, Italy

2019 Contemporary Art Sale, Galleria Alessia Formaggio, Vigevano, Italy

2019 Lucca Art Fair, Lucca Polo Fiere, Lucca, Italy

2019 Arte Cremona Fair, CremonaFiere, Cremona, Italy

2019 Pavia Art Fair, Palazzo Esposizioni, Pavia, Italy

2017 Painting vernissage, Why not? Café, Vigevano, Italy

Exhibitions: 

2020 Group exhibition, Mulieribus – 7th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Vernissage, La Riseria, Novara, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 6th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Ho visto un genio!, Spazio B, Vigevano, Italy

2018 Group exhibition, Summer show, The Chimera Gallery, Mullingar, Ireland

2018 Group exhibition, Urbanità liquide, Galleria Previtali, Milan, Italy

2018 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 5th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2017 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 4th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

Awards: 

2017 Grottaglie Koiné Cultural Organization plaque

2016 Grottaglie Ceramists Union plaque

https://www.paoloborile.it/en/ 

Theo Matoff grew up in Vancouver Canada, before studying architecture and art at the University of Southern California. During his military service in Paris, he attended the ateliers of André l'Hote and Ossip Zadkine, while drawing at La Grande Chaumière. He completed a Doctorate in Architecture at the University of Florence, also attending studios at the University of Fine Arts. 

After teaching architecture at the University of Manitoba, Theo came to England as a senior lecturer at Leeds Polytechnic School of Architecture. Later he became Head of Schools of Architecture at Plymouth and Leicester, while continuing to paint. When Theo retired from academia he moved with his wife Sue to Bushey Heath in Hertfordshire where he built his studio. 

Theo's work has been exhibited in group exhibitions and one man shows in London, Tunbridge Wells, Plymouth, Glasgow, St Ives and Wiesbaden Germany. His work is also in private collections in Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United States of America as well as in the United Kingdom.

One Man Exhibitions

Blackfriars Gallery, Plymouth
Montpellier Gallery, London
Hof Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
Berkeley Road, London
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, 2011

Stables Gallery, Bushey Heath, 2021

Group Exhibitions

Penwith Gallery, St.Ives

Compass Gallery, Glasgow

Royal Institute of British Architects, London

Berkeley Square Gallery, London

Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

White Gallery, Hove, Sussex

Thompsons Marylebone Gallery

Rowley Gallery, Kensington, London

Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Glos.'Vision 05', Left Wing Gallery, London

Education

Uni. of Southern California USA

Uni. of Florence, Italy (Doctorate)

Painting Ateliers: Andre L'Hote, Ossip Zadkine, Paris

Publications

"Don Quixote's Dance/La Danza de Don Quijote" 

Pub: Tov Associates

Theo 
www.saatchiart.com/theomatoff

www.matoff.com

I have been painting professionally for over 30 years, undertaking both portrait commissions for private clients and producing artworks shown in art gallery exhibitions. 

My previous engagements include helping create large-scale painted designs for interior projects in historic houses such as Buckingham Palace, Goodwood House, Petworth House and Hatchlands Park. My  skills have enabled me to undertake many varied projects including period decoration and exhibition design in such places as Christies, St James (William Beckford Exhibition) and the Building of Bath Museum.

At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, I worked with Alec Cobbe, restorer and interiors expert. ‘The experience was something that defined how I wished to work.  Living in a country house amongst historic keyboard instruments, producing hand-painted schemes for some of England’s finest houses and surrounded by hundreds of beautiful paintings allowed me to think upon my own work, quietly and studiously, in an environment that promoted beauty and rigorous thought.

I am perhaps something of an old soul. My works are restful and somehow quiet, demure, elegaic. I enjoy the evenings of autumn and winter by the fire, painting smaller, more intimate and reflective works, although in the past few years I have enjoyed working on a much larger scale.  Perhaps this is a distant feeling of past roots of the north.

 Christine Connelly is an Irish artist, living and working in Paris for many years. She studied figurative painting in the Ateliers of the City of Paris for several years under the guidance of Mâitres Antoine Petel and Gonzalo Belmonte.

As a figurative painter, the human form takes centre stage in her work and the aim is to create interesting and thought-provoking pictorial scenarios for the viewer to engage with.

Christine takes a break from her studio to hone her drawing skills  at  a variety of life-drawing sessions in Paris including La Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse. She is a firm believer that drawing is the basis of figurative art. 

As an antidote to the solitude imposed by Covid lockdowns, she joined a number of online portrait sketching clubs that sprung up and continue to flourish to this day. These sessions provide invaluable practice drawing in all techniques: charcoal, pencil, ink, acrylic, pastel and water colour. Not to mention the wonderful camaraderie with artists in all languages and across all time zones.

Her work is included in private collections in Europe, USA and Australia.

Selected exhibitions.

2022 – “Les Voix de la Terre” with the association Au Perigée des Art, Noyon France

2021 – Group show with Au Périgée des Arts, Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, France .

2016 - GMAC Paris

2015 – Salon du Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

2014 – Solo show, “Souvenirs”, Galerie rue de la Tour, Paris

2013 - Group show, Brick Lane Gallery, London

2012 – Group show, Gelebert Gallery, Manhattan, New York

2010 - Solo show, GaleriaZero, Barcelona

2005 - International Salon of Contemporary Art, Luxemburg

2004 – Solo show, Mona Lisa Gallery, Paris

2003 - Solo show “Fleeting Moments”, Maison de la Jeunesse et Culture, Paris

Awards

2018 – Won International Life Drawing Marathon, Montmartre, Paris

2009 – Won Public Vote at GaleriaZero’s International Online Competition

2007 – Jury’s special award, Salon des Artistes du 15ème, Paris

2002 - Gold Medal Winner, Salon des Artistes du 15ème, Paris Juried show

Christine:

Website: https://www.connelly-art.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/connellyart/

Rosalind Adam is a Leicester, UK, writer. She has had many women’s magazine stories and articles published and has co-ordinated several Heritage Lottery funded writing projects. These include Jewish Voices, a memory-based project which resulted in Rosalind’s first published book in 2008. In the same year she had a picture book, Bathtime Rap, published by Franklin Watts. Using her history background, she went on to write two children’s history books, the most recent being The Children’s Book of Richard III. Her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, including Welcome to Leicester, and on online poetry sites. In 2018 she won the G. S. Fraser poetry prize for Fresh Canvas and was awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at The University of Leicester. Rosalind blogs at rosalindadam.blogspot.com and tweets as @RosalindAdam.

Wendy Brandmark writes short stories and novels. She won the Bridport prize for the short story, and her collection of short stories, He Runs the Moon: Tales from the Cities, was longlisted for the Edgehill Prize. Her stories have appeared widely in journals in Britain and America including Riptide Journal, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Stand Magazine. Her last novel, The Stray American, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She has had writing residencies at the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and has been awarded a fellowship at Hawthornden. She’s a tutor on the Oxford MSt in Creative Writing. She is working on a new collection of short stories.

Jason Brennan returned to his hometown of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after living in Melbourne Australia. While in Australia he hosted a poetry workshop and had poems published in a number of magazines, including the literary and cultural  journal ‘Overland’ (issue 177),  and contributed two poems for the Going Down Swinging CD (issue23), one of which was a collaboration with Australian screen composer and producer Cornel Wilczek. He was interviewed on Melbourne Triple R’s, radio show ‘Aural Text’ by the broadcaster and writer Alicia Sometimes and also read one of his poems out, live on air.  His work featured in award nominated animator Nik Kallincos’ ‘Restriction Site Poetics’ animation. He has been published in a number of UK magazines including, Anon the anonymous submission magazine. He is currently working on a collection of poems about historical landmarks in his home town.

Sean Chapman is a British writer living in Cornwall beside the capricious Atlantic Ocean and amongst the blur of a blue Whippet and a red fox Labrador. His prolonged and wayward adolescence included working in a Taiwanese astrophysics department, on a Salford mental health ward, running a rum bar on the Liverpool docks and in a Manchester disability support office, before washing ashore in a Cornish surf shop. Between daydreams of cowboy adventures and surfing escapades he writes poems, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Marble Poetry, Raceme, Squawk Back, Prole, Dreich, Fenland Poetry Journal, Quince, The Pomegranate London, The Opiate, Allegro, Anti-Heroin Chic and others. He can be found on twitter: @seanchapman_1

Judy Darley is a British fiction writer and journalist who can't stop writing about the fallibilities of the human mind. Her stories are widely published by literary anthologies, magazines and websites, including Cypress, The Mechanics' Institute Review and The Cabinet of Heed. She is Flash Fiction Editor at Reflex Press. Judy is the author of short story/flash fiction collections Sky Light Rain (Valley Press) and Remember Me To The Bees (Tangent Books). You can find her at http://www.skylightrain.com; https://twitter.com/JudyDarley.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and have lived in Kildare for the last twenty years or so. I've had lots of different jobs from programmer to corporate detective and been terrible at all of them. I have always enjoyed writing but only started submitting around three years ago so I was very late to the party. It's gone alright though and I've a few books and chapbooks behind me. Now it's just a case of waiting for the billions to start rolling on in.

Mike Doherty. Born in 1954. Can I really be that old? The last year of rationing after the Second World War. I seem to have lived through a lot but always looked within for the words to explain my condition. We are islands assailed at every turn by conflict. Poetry has been my comfort and comforter and other peoples words have been my inspiration. Faith and love ultimately will get me through the prose of life. Poetry is and will be, the blessing.

I am a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction from Halifax, West Yorkshire. In 2019, I won the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize with The Telegraph, and in 2020 I won two awards in the Walter Swan Poetry Prize. At present, I am studying an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, funded by the Isaac Arthur Green scholarship. My current work-in-progress is a narrative non-fiction about deafness and dementia.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Amy Gordon’s family lived in London when she was very young and one her earliest memories is of the London fog of 1952. She has published ten books for young readers, among them When JFK Was My Father (Houghton Mifflin) and The Gorillas of Gill Park(Holiday House) After a career of teaching theater skills to middle school students, she pursued an MFA in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and the Blue Nib, among other places. She published her first chapbook, Deep Fahrenheit, in 2019 with Prolific Press. Gordon currently lives in Western Massachusetts on the Connecticut River.

Terence John lives in Scotland and writes full time, as he has done since studying politics and philosophy,  working in the City of London and for the Ministry of Agri-culture in Wales.   He was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize  2018  and  also the Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Award 2019.His poems have appeared else-where,  or are  forthcoming, in Orbis, The London Magazine, Acumen, Glasgow Re--view  Of  Books,  Stand Magazine,  The North,  The Poetry Review,  Sarasvati,  Blue Moon Literary and Art Review  (USA), Poetry Salzburg Review  and regularly online throughout the USA at medium.com

Breda Joyce’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Anthony Cronin and Over the Edge Awards and for the Fish Lockdown prize 2020 and commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition 2019. She won the Judith Aronson competition UCC. Breda’s poetry appears in Poems for Pandemia, The Honest Ulsterman, Kilkenny Broadsheet, Crannóg, Crossways, Skylight 47, Bangor Literary Journal, The Quarryman, The Galway Review, A New Ulster, Dodging the Rain, Tales from the Forest and The Waxed Lemon. Her first collection Reshaping the Light will be published by Chaffinch Press in 2021

Josh Lefkowitz received an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, Washington Square Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Electric Literature, Rattle, and many other places including journals in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. His poems have been read aloud on NPR and the BBC, as well as printed on the side of a bus in Nashville, Tennessee. He lives in New York City.

John T. Leonard is an award-winning writer, English teacher, and poetry editor for Twyckenham Notes. He holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University. His previous works have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, december, Chiron Review, North Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, Punt Volat, High Shelf Press, Rappahannock Review, Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Genre: Urban Arts, Stonecoast Review, and Trailer Park Quarterly. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife, three cats, and two dogs. You can follow him on Twitter at @jotyleon and @TwyckenhamNotes.

I’m a single parent living in Devon, UK. I’m working towards my first collection, Wolf Daughter, about the impact of parental suicide. I also have several other poetry books and pamphlets in development. One of the wonderful things about being an artist is that you can transform grief and suffering into something meaningful, beautiful, funny or helps to connect people who may be disconnected, alienated and inarticulate.

I have been published widely including or upcoming in Atrium, Lighthouse, Magma, New Welsh Review, Prole, Proletarian Poetry, Stand, Under the Radar and the 84 Anthology etc. I rarely enter competitions (I’m poor) but, with Gram Joel Davis, I won 1st prize in the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Compound Poetry Competition 2015; was Highly Commended in the Prole Laureate competition 2015; one of the Exeter Poetry Festival Competition winners 2015; and longlisted in The Rialto Poetry Nature Competition 2018. Twitter: @hannahl1n

Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of 6 books of poetry. Her most recent book is BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY, available from Deerbrook Editions. She is the author of NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE ( from Deerbrook Editions), and TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (Unsolicited Press). She is also the author of WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions). LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions) and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems (Red Hen Press). 

She has been included in "The Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018" (Black Mountain Press/The Halcyone Magazine editorial staff). 

Newberry has been included in The Cenacle, Cog, Blue Nib, Braided Way,Roanoak Review, THAT Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, and many other literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is included in the anthologies Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Moontide Press Horror Anthology, A Decade of Sundays: L.A.'s Second Sunday Poetry Series-The First Ten Years and others. 

She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo Colony for the Arts, Djerassi Colony for the Arts, and Anderson Center for Disciplinary Arts. 

Passionate in her love for Los Angeles, Martina currently lives there with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative. 

Mary Paulson's writing has appeared in Slow Trains, Mainstreet Rag, Painted Bride Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Arkana, Thimble Lit Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Metaworker Literary Magazine, Months to Years, First Literary Review-East, Speckled Trout Review, Fleas on the Dog, Chronogram, Swamp Ape Review, Pine Hills Review, Backchannels, Discretionary Love, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Poetica Review, Orchards Poetry Journal, Sparks of Calliope and DASH Journal. Her chapbook, Paint the Window Open was recently published by Kelsay Books. She resides in Naples, FL where she is working on completing a full-length poetry collection