Artists

As an artist, Abhishek Kumar, my work is a testament to the transformative power of vibrant colors, bold knife techniques, and a deep connection with the natural world. Through the interplay of oils and acrylics, I embark on a creative journey that delves into the intrinsic beauty of landscapes, capturing their essence in a dance of light and color.

Inspired by the awe-inspiring wonders of nature, my artistic exploration centers around the majestic forms of mountains, the graceful elegance of trees, and the dynamic energy of waterfalls. Each series of works is a contemplative journey into the heart of these natural elements, seeking to understand and convey their profound beauty on canvas.

My creative process is a meticulous study of the intricate textures and patterns woven by nature. Observing the play of light during different moments—whether it be the fleeting impressions of the sun or the transformative hues of a sunrise or sunset—I translate these nuanced experiences into enduring artistic expressions. The result is a collection of paintings that embody the emotions and sensations inspired by the ever-shifting weather and seasons.

Central to my artistic vision is an unwavering focus on the source of light in each composition. Light, as a transformative force, shapes the atmosphere and mood of the artwork, creating a vivid interplay of shadows and highlights that breathe life into the scenes I depict. In addition to my paintings, I extend my exploration of form and texture to stoneware sculptures. With a bold application of thick, textured colors using a knife, I celebrate the vividness and richness of the landscapes that serve as my muse. Cityscapes, mountains, and the intriguing forms of trees become the primary subjects through which I express my unique visual language.

My artistic journey is a continuous experiment with distance and depth, inviting viewers to embark on a visual voyage through layers of color and texture. I aspire to convey not only the external beauty of the landscapes I explore but also the internal landscapes of emotion and experience. Each piece serves as an invitation to step into a world where color, form, and texture converge, creating a vibrant tapestry that speaks to the profound connection between art and the natural world. As I delve into the creative process, my artworks become a fusion of observation and introspection, blurring the lines between reality and inner imagination. Sunrises and sunsets, symbolic of the eternal cycle of life, hold a special place in my heart, often finding expression in my paintings as poignant reminders of the beauty and impermanence of existence.

In essence, my artworks are a harmonious symphony of colors, textures, and emotions—a representation of my deep connection with nature and a desire to share its enchantment with the world. With each stroke of the brush and each sweep of the knife, I aim to transport viewers into the captivating realm of nature, inviting them to experience its majesty and contemplate the profound interplay of light and life.

GROUP SHOWS:

-“Palette of Prosperity” curated by Kala Care at American Center, K.G. Marg, New Delhi (2024)

-“SETU” India-Sri Lanka artist exchange exhibition at Kalasrot Art Gallery, Lucknow (2024)

-“ART ATRIUM” curated by The Great Eastern Home at ACE TECH Goregaon, Mumbai (2023)

-Biennale Viterbo/Venice: “Arti Vi.Ve – un ponte fra Viterbo e Venezia (2022)

-“BLUISH” a pop-up virtual exhibition at IKOUII, Atlanta, USA (2021)

-“Small Works: The Art of Gifting” virtual exhibition at IKOUII, Atlanta, USA (2021)

-“A Message for You” virtual exhibition at IKOUII, Atlanta, USA (2020)

-“Dot Dot Dash” virtual exhibition at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom (2020)

-“ Summer Solace” at Gallery Du 808, Bristol, United Kingdom (2019)

-“In an Artist’s Mind X” by Trinity Arts at Nirlon Knowledge Park Mumbai (2019)

-“The Coloured Horizon” by Apparao Galleries at Magnolia, DLF 5, Gurgaon (2019)

-“ The Summer Art Collection” by Apparao Galleries at The Lodhi, New Delhi (2019)

- International Post-Card show at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom (2019)

- “CIMA Awards” The Kolkata Art Festival at CIMA Gallery , Kolkata (2019)

- "LINEAR CONTOUR" group exhibition by Vernssage Art, New Delhi (2018)

- Annual Art Exhibition Sahitya Kala Parishad , at Lalit Kala Akademi , New Delhi (2017)

- 89th Annual All India Art Exhibition at AIFACS, New Delhi (2016)- ART35 (IInd Edition), Young Affordable Art at The Great Eastern Home, Mumbai. (2016) - Dhoomimal 25th Annual at Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi. (2016)- MONSOON 2016 at Nine Fish Art Gallery, Mumbai. (2016)- 5th , 6th All India Digital Art Exhibition, AIFACS, New Delhi (2015,2016)- 8th, 9th All India Portrait Exhibition, AIFACS, New Delhi (2015,2017)- The Grand Trunk Show, at Taj FalaknumaPalace, Hyderabad (2014)- The Grand Trunk Show, at The Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi (2014)- “100 Years of the City New Delhi’’ at AIFACS, New Delhi (2012)- KALPITATVA at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi (2012)- VIGNETTE ARTS at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi (2012)- WORLD BREASTFEEDING CONFERENCE by BPNI at Convention Foyer, India Habitat Centre, Delhi (2012) AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS:

- Junior Fellowship Award for Outstanding Person in the Fields of Culture by CCRT, New Delhi (2020-2021)

- North Zone Bronze Medal Award for Digital Art by Prafulla Art Foundation (2017)- Fellowship Award for Painting by Dhoomimal Gallery (2015-2016)

-First Award by BPNI on their 20th Anniversary (2012)ART CAMPS:-Senior and Junior Artists Camp 2022, AIFACS, Delhi (2022)-”Rangeshwari” an Art Camp celebrating Sh. Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 100th Birth Anniversary, Delhi (2020)-ALL INDIA ART FESTIVAL, Art Mall, Delhi (2009-10)

PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES:

Znyax Magazine, UK Art Blog and Magazine (Artist of the Month) November, 2018.

Edgy Minds (Artist Featured) (March 2017)Rolling Stone, New York, USA (November-2013)Emaar MFG Calendar-2013 , Gurgaon (2013)Mtv Article (November-2013)It’s in the Details, Texas, USA (September-2011)

Verse On Canvas , Kolkata, India (July-2010)Art of the Day,  Arizona, USA (October-2010)COLLECTIONS:Vitruvian Partners – London, U.K. Scapewise – Sydney, Australia Gameloft- San Francisco, USA CTN Communications, London, U.K.Verse on Canvas- Kolkata, India. The Great Eastern Home – Mumbai, India.Emaar MGF – Gurgaon, India

Lady Gaga (American Singer) - USANagarjuna (Indian Actor) – Hyderabad, IndiaPiyush Goel (Ministry of Commerce and Industry) – Delhi, India

and many private collections worldwide.

Andrea Benetti, born in Bologna in 1964, is a visual artist (painting, photography, drawing, installations, video art) who has redefined the connection between contemporary art and prehistoric origins. In 2006, he drafted the Manifesto of Neo-Cave Art, which was presented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. In this manifesto, he reinterprets the earliest human artistic expressions through a contemporary lens, using an innovative and symbolic language. His works, characterized by stylized zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs, abstract geometries, and the use of natural pigments, recreate the ancestral bond between humans and imagery, fostering a dialogue between past and future. He has exhibited in prestigious international venues, and his works are part of significant museum and institutional collections, including those of the United Nations, the Vatican, the Quirinale, and the Italian Chamber of Deputies. His artistic research has been studied by Italian universities such as the University of Bologna, the University of Ferrara, and the University of Salento (Lecce), which have analyzed his work in depth. Additionally, he has collaborated with various universities on research projects exploring contemporary art and its relationship with ancient iconography. His renown is further affirmed by his presence in the Treccani and De Agostini encyclopedias, on WikiArt, and in over 30 language editions of Wikipedia. In 2020, he was awarded the Nettuno d’Oro Prize by the city of Bologna for his contribution to contemporary culture, confirming his prominent role in today’s artistic landscape.

Andrew Aarons is a painter and printmaker. His preferred media are oil paint on canvas or paper and mezzotint prints. He graduated from Camberwell School of Art after having been a full time student from the early age of thirteen. From then he taught art and worked as an artist full time; something he wanted to do from the age of three. Andrew’s studio is in South West London where he makes his art most days of the week. He is delighted to have visitors but prefers that you telephone or email to be sure that he will be there to welcome you. Over more than 60 years of making art Andrew has concentrated for lengthy periods on the figure and portraiture, the urban and rural landscape, music, sport, war, memory and the human condition. You can discover the vast range of his work by visiting his website: https://andrewaaronsart.com For the last few years he has chosen to explore the non-objective (abstract) world. He is discovering something that is beyond the every day. His paintings are a world of images that, while they are familiar and seem to lurk in the memory they have never actually existed anywhere except in the painting. They exist only on the canvas or the paper and in the memory. He invites you to spend time with the paintings and to talk to him about your response. Andrew is making new paintings for his next exhibition. It will be in 2026 at the J/M Gallery on Portobello Road, London. That is where he held a recent, and very successful solo exhibition. The paintings he’s including here are oil on paper. The paper is 300gms, acid free, Fabriano Artistico. It will not yellow. The best colour man in England, Michael Harding, makes the oil paint that Andrew uses. Studio address: The old Laundry, Phipps Bridge Studios, Phipps Bridge Road, Mitcham, CR4 3PL. Email: alaarons@gmail.com Telephone: +44 (0) 7752 368906 Website: https://andrewaaronsart.com Instagram: andrewaaronsart

Anisa Neto is a contemporary artist, illustrator and a designer living in Denmark. She is based in Kolding and best known for her acrylics and watercolor paintings. She’s been participating in exhibitions worldwide since 2004. Since I was a child, I always liked to paint, a passion that is always with me. Her paintings express a merge of the different worlds of imagination, fantasy and reality. They suggest the observer to imagine and interpret what’s happening and complete the undefined elements. Her watercolors are figurative with a natural water flow, creating new shapes and merging colors. In her latest paintings, she’s been focusing on fashion patterns and cultures She is inspired by figurative and impressionist artworks, fairy tales, movies, cultures, patterns and other amazing artists out there!

My name is Emmanuel LINFORD Adjei, I am I was born on the 22nd of May 1980. My love for people, places, and culture encourage me to paint what I paint. My works captures a variety of human emotions in an oeuvre that seems very much of day to day activities. My coloristic simplicity and roughness are appealing to an audience that yearns for beauty but questions how it is done. After junior high school, I worked for a while and attended a technical school with the funds acquired. I chose to study architectural draftsmanship, because of my flair in drawing and art. After 4 years, I graduated from the technical school (Modern School of Craftsmanship). I later worked as a foreman with a company that did fabrication and interior design. Now I work on my own; and from time to time, I practice my God-given talent, which is painting. I paint with acrylic on canvas and my inspiration is derived from my happy moments--I paint when I am happy.

I am intrigued and driven by the journey from the narrative to the image. This journey guides me to explore form, colour, perspective and depth in the overlapping consecutive layers. The narrative feeds the different layers of the painting, just as in a conventional way of designing on tracing paper, transporting my words onto the canvas. The narrative is constructed much like designing, from observation, to research, to sketching, and finally to testing the proposed solution. Using printing rollers, and mixing the paint on the canvas, I place my words through the different media and the outcome informs the text. As a response the narrative is updated and consequently another layer is created on the canvas. This dialogue eventually concludes. I was born in Athens, I now live and work in London.

I graduated in Architecture but I never thought of myself as an architect. I started to work as a lighting designer but also this job is a palliative because I feel good and free only when I hold a pencil or a brush in my hand. I am a self-taught artist based in Udine, Italy. I love to paint principally with oil colors. My subjects are above all elaborations of my mind, always based on human being.

After my artistic studies, I dedicated my career to image : illustrator, art director and finally history of Arts teacher, and applied arts. Since 1995, I paint, sculpt and exhibit. Nourished by the works of painters such as Caillebotte, Hopper, Vélikovic, Freud, Bacon, as well as those of Narrative Figuration such as Monory, I followed this advice: "don’t learn to paint, paint!" My double American and French origins are definetly influencing the choice of some of my subjects. My inspiration is fuelled by our technical civilization and its relationship to the natural world. The figurative paintings combine natural motifs in dialogue with my own inventions. The images are imaginary representations, metaphors that express truths beyond their visible form. I like to confront fiction and reality, nature and artifice. I consider my images to have achieved their purpose when they blur interpretations and cause confusion in the viewer. I feel close to the approach of the Narrative Figuration’s artists. I don’t seek to make "beautiful" paintings but meaningful images. I paint to tell sensations, moods, stories that are beyond me. I let myself be guided by my brushes, they teach me something about me, about the world too. It is a demanding work, parallel, pervasive, transcendent universe." But as had said Francis Bacon: "If you can say that, why bother painting it?"

A self-taught multidisciplinary artist, known for his surrealist paintings and sculptures, Hisham Echafaki has been exhibiting internationally since 2012. Between realism and surrealism, his artworks transport us into a universe where the beauty and diversity of fauna and flora are celebrated in all their patterns and colours, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary. Without being moralising, they become the medium for a potential narrative from which a fiction or an analysis of the animal's status in a declining nature, threatened by human activity, can be constructed. While paying tribute to ecological diversity, his art sensitively and poetically, sometimes with dark humour, tackles themes of habitat destruction and artificialisation, pollution, and the overexploitation of natural resources. In 2015, Hisham presented his solo exhibition 'Lusus Naturae' in London with Butterfly Art News. In 2016, he created works for the prestigious Donmar Warehouse theatre company in London, which were exhibited in several programs. In parallel, he has participated in numerous exhibitions with Opera Gallery in Paris, London, Dubai, and also regularly exhibits at contemporary art fairs with Saatchi Art in Los Angeles, Bristol, and London. In 2019, Hisham Echafaki created a monumental 13-meter work on the façade of the Musée de la Poste in Paris to celebrate its reopening after six years of renovations. In 2022, the Museum Jean Larcena in Val d’Ocre held a monographic exhibition dedicated to him titled Mirabilia Naturae. In December 2023, Hisham signed an artistic collaboration with the international jewellery brand Pandora for their Christmas collection 'Love Unboxed,' designing a pendant as well as creating a temporary immersive art installation in London. In May 2024, he presents a retrospective of his art at the Cultural Centre of Joigny with over 50 paintings and sculptures and creates a mural for the Music Conserva of the town. His works are present in several private and public collections in the United Kingdom and internationally.

JULIO TAPIA GASCA was born in Zaragoza in Spain, 1957. Versatile artist; painter and sculptor. The monumental sculptures and paintings of JULIO TAPIA GASCA link art with landscape, whether in a natural space or in an urban space, with largescale sculptural, pictorial or landscape interventions, in a romanesque look at the great civilizations. Numerous highways, roads, urban parks, public and private buildings display his monumental sculptures and paintings in Spanish territory. He also does work in a smaller format for galleries and collectors. Many collectors around the World enjoy his works. YouTube Links:

Julio Tapia Gasca Sculptor and Painter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhjirGQlaZQ

Julio Tapia Gasca Lovers in the City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvDDUG-8Ps

I am a licensed architect in the State of North Carolina. I have a Master's Degree in Architecture from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I am a design/project architect providing services for a wide variety of construction projects. I love to produce abstract art whenever I can carve out some time. I live in Mocksville, North Carolina and I am married to Susan, my high school sweetheart. We have a beautiful daughter, Hazel, a handsome son, Silas, and adorable twin girls, Ruby and Iris. Being that my work is digital, I feel like on the surface my process might seem a little blasé (I mean, I sit in front of a computer and press buttons and move a mouse around:)). In actuality, I think it is quite fascinating. I do enjoy sketching with pen and pencil, and that is how my digital art journey began. I scanned some pen and ink drawings and then applied color to them using Adobe Photoshop. With these scanned and colored images, I found that using certain filters and effects I could create more impressionistic pieces as well as abstract ones void of any figurative content. With my early abstract experiments, I discovered that I could zoom into a particular area within a piece, crop it out, enlarge it and then add intricate detail to it to create a new piece. And then I did it again, and again. To date I have created hundreds of new pieces of art using this method of zooming, cropping and enlarging. Essentially I have large pieces that quite literally originated from less than a single pixel of an earlier piece. After trying to print these pieces to canvas and being very disappointed at the loss of detail and vibrancy due to the texture I found Vivid Metal Prints, a company close to me in Lexington, NC, that dye sublimates images to Chromaluxe aluminum panels, and the results were stunning. I’ve been using them ever since for my original work.

Award winning Lancashire based intuitive artist, Kirsten Todd, paints expressive, energetic and expressionist portraits, and abstracts. Painting since a child, and after gaining her degree in graphic design, she has had a career in the design industry for 30 years, whilst continuing to paint. For the last 7 years she has concentrated on painting professionally. Painting intuitively, Kirsten finds creating her pieces a working meditation, becoming in flow, in tune with the piece, Her spiritual side having a great influence on her work. Working mainly in acrylics, her portraits celebrate strong women, female empowerment, cultural diversity: giving women a voice. Expressing the divine feminine and the divine human form to show, inner strength, human resilience, their inner power and realisation of the true power that we humans have within us, our emotion, energy, our connection with each other and all that exists. Her abstracts highlight the forces of nature, the natural elements of this plane of existence and our intrinsic connection to nature and this living breathing entity in which we reside symbiotically. Her artwork highlights the fact that everything is energy, has a vibration and frequency and is connected to everything that exists creating an intertwined cause and effect, (quantum entanglement). Everything therefore has a consciousness, and our plane of existence is a conscious living entity. Kirsten’s recent achievements include; WINNER of the British Art Prize Edding Acrylic Award 2022, Finalist in the Society of Women Artists Open Exhibition 2023, Winner in the Galeria Moderna London Invitational Art Contest 2023 at Castle Fine Art, Mayfair, and obtaining a Certificate of Artistic Merit from Luxembourg Art Prize and the Pinacotheque Museum for 2023, 2022 and 2021 consecutively. Kirsten has shown her work in exhibitions in the Mall Galleries, Gallery@oxo, Castle Fine Art, London, around the UK and internationally, with solo shows in the UK. In addition to being the winner of The British Art Prize Acrylic Award she has also gained several emerging artist awards, has featured in 4 art books, features in The Huts Magazine, World Wide Art Magazine, The Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, Women United Art Magazine, ArtistCloseup, Living North, Arts 2 Hearts 101 Artists Portraits Edition, and Artists and Illustrators Magazine. Kirsten’s work is collected nationally and internationally. Kirsten is also a member of the Visual Artists Association.

Mark Sheeky (b. 1972) is a multi-disciplinary artist and polymath from the North of England. His career began designing and developing computer games for the Amiga computer, then PC games, publishing over 50 titles by 2006. In 2008 he became a full time artist, an oil painter in the surrealist/fantastical genre, and has one painting in the U.K. National Art Collection, and one artwork in the Nietzsche-Dokumentationszentrum, Naumberg. Art awards include The Grosvenor Museum's 8th Open Art Award, The Barracks Trust Award, and The Jobling Gowler Art Award. Though primarily a painter detailed oil works, his visual art oeuvre includes hundreds of watercolour and ink illustrations, digital work, paintings in acrylic, and a wide gamut of media. His painting can include sculpted frames, cabinets, or other elements of craft including plaster casting, gilding, work in clay, plastics or contemporary materials. A meticulous record keeper; as of 2024 Sheeky has produced over 1,400 works of well documented visual art. After early experiments in synthesizer music, Sheeky’s first music release was Arcangel in 2000, the CD soundtrack to his first Windows PC game. Second release Synaesthesia was released by REV Records in 2001. Since then, all of his music remains self-published and, perhaps uniquely, created using software of his own design. This software, Prometheus, which began development in 2001. Each algorithm, from the sample playback, to filters and reverb algorithms has been personally developed for this bespoke music workstation. Early releases were electronic instrumental music influenced by computer game music. In 2009 he collaborated with vocalist Tor James Faulkner to produce two albums of synth-pop songs. A self-taught pianist, Sheeky began to perform in art venues from 2015, collaborating with visual artist Sabine Kussmaul and poet Tim Watson to produce the piano-based album The Anatomy of Emotions, and performing a few experimental piano sonatas in local venues. From circa 2020, Sheeky's music became increasingly vocal orientated in the art-rock/art-pop genre. As of 2024, Sheeky has published 70 music releases, 39 of which are original albums; 4 with Deborah Edgeley as part of contemporary lieder duo, ‘Fall in Green’. From 2015 to 2018 Sheeky was producer and host of weekly arts radio programme ArtsLab, for community station RedShift Radio. The show’s groundbreaking format involved listeners creating new content for each episode. After leaving RedShift, the format was translated to YouTube for two years as ArtSwarm. Published books include the novella The Many Beautiful Worlds of Death (2015), the art treatise 21st Century Surrealism (2018), and several illustrated works including a contemporary set of illustrations for William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

Namita Panchal, a visionary artist hailing from India, breathes life into her vibrant and imaginative creations, weaving art and poetry into a seamless tapestry. Her expertise spans traditional, contemporary, and digital painting, with a particular flair for Mandala art and poetic expression. Each of Namita's works is a celebration of nature's sublime beauty, infused with ethereal imagery and poetic depth that resonate with the soul. Her artistic journey began during her school years, blossoming into a lifelong passion. Armed with an MA in Painting from England and BVA Painting from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India, Namita carved a path in the creative arts, blending academic rigour with unbridled imagination. She is the founder of Sublime Arts and a Brand Ambassador for DIYvinci, a renowned American art company. She has held numerous art exhibitions in England and India. Additionally, She has self-published The Little Book of Sublime Poems, three series that pairs her mesmerizing paintings with deeply personal poetry, offering a profound glimpse into her creative mind. Namita’s art is more than just a visual experience—it’s an invitation to explore the limitless realms of imagination, one brushstroke and one verse at a time.

Nina Valetova is an internationally acclaimed award winning artist, based in New York. After graduating with a master's degree in art and art history, she began her freelancing career by creating artworks on paper and oil paintings. Nina's work seamlessly weaves together ancient cultures, mythologies, fantasy, metaphysics, and philosophy. The theme of science is also presented in artworks, like a homotopy and mobius strip. Her paintings and drawings cannot be classified within a particular framework of definitions or styles. In general, Nina’s art defies categorization, and each piece is often created in several styles. Nina is constantly searching for new ways to create art, and as a result, she has established the Synthesis Art Style. Her unique style, Synthesis Art, combines suprematism, surrealism, cubism, abstract, and figurative arts, pushing boundaries in contemporary art.

Of Armenian origin, Peggy Hinaekian was born and raised in Egypt. Attended the Beaux-Arts in Paris, The Leonardo Da Vinci Academy in Rome and the Print Institute in Geneva. She is an internationally recognized artist living and working in California. More than 100 solo and group shows worldwide. Her paintings are in the collection of numerous multinational corporations in Europe and in the United States. Several write ups on her artistic career have appeared in American and European newspapers and magazines. Peggy has also done radio and TV interviews on both continents. Her paintings are best described as color field paintings in blues and orange/reds. They have been captioned as “Blue Reveries and Red Desert Scapes”. She was the only American artist invited to participate in the Milan Universal Art exhibition. Her paintings of the deserts and the oceans were projected on giant monitors throughout the exhibition. Her paintings are in three Museums in Europe and in the U.S. and she has gallery representations on both continents. Peggy also teaches art in her studio and in other venues.

Robin Reynolds works in pen-and-ink and watercolour. His best-known works are his historical panoramas of London and New Orleans. Robin was born in Zimbabwe 1952. He spent most of his working life in journalism and business communications in the United Kingdom. Latterly he was responsible for the BBC’s art and history collections. Initially he pursued drawing in spare time between work and family commitments. But since 2010 he has been developing stories in pictures full-time, along a number of themes – notably fantasy townscapes and disasters, and, more recently, city panoramas. Recent projects include a pictorial history of the Tower of London, a study of do-it-yourself dentistry, and his own Life Misremembered, a visual autobiography set inside a human brain.

Born in 1962 in Pulheim, Cologne, Germany. Especially since a crucial time in hospital in my early youth I felt the need expressing myself via drawing and painting and developed it further. In 1979 moved to Cologne - the big city. In 1990 I invented the Recycling-Art-Concept, which basically is founded on the principle to use only used and found material for creating art and developing it to a better self - looking and feeling brand new. In order to be authentic and also to show aspects of sustainability, my works show visible traces of an engagement with my vision of the finished work, my own life and the mostly used material that I process and give it new life, as if it was reborn. Exhibitions in the 90th in Cologne followed, as did my 1st. Internet- exhibition “Back to Basics“ at the beginning of the year 1997. Going on international ground since 2020, having exhibited in Barcelona, Dublin, London, and last not least Venice and Rome, here with my new recycled ART_ViDEOs: GEN224 & REV87. The idea was and still is to create sustainable Art and at the same time saving resources due to the responsibility modern man has with regards to material and nature; long before this was discovered by the public. 1996 Dr. Erich Franz, former deputy artistic director of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster, wrote about Rolands artworks in 1996 said, that he liked them and stated that they are… put together carefully and do so also in leading to different moments of stability and movement. Also the clashes of colors are not without a silent form of energy. 2020 Art Baazar Magazine interview issue 11 - "What I have found" September 2020 2021 Colin Balmain, Art Professional and Curator, Gallery Balmain, London, England wrote in 2021: '[...] Roland’s concept [ Recycling Art Concept 1990] is way ahead of its time. 2025 Dr. Carmela Loiacono, Art Historian and Independent Curator, Italy wrote about Roland's artworks in 2025 after analyzing his biography and all artworks, that she - according to the historical-artistic criteria of quality, originality and uniqueness of the works - is more than glad to present his ART_ViDEO: offTheWaters-THE.GREAT.FLOOD during the exhibition NATURAL FLOW in Matera, Italy. 2025 Award of Merit by Gallery Ring, USA for the piece “GOLD_SCARs” in April

Samuel Cornillet, born in 1974, is a French photographer. "Unlike some who work hard to become artists, I have become unintentional. Photography captured me without my desire, and that without even realizing it at the beginning. She insidiously took all my available time and it took me five years to realize that I had abandoned all my other artistic activities. " It is on the sidelines of high school from 1992, year of his first exhibition, he received a solid training provided by three professional photographers in activity. Then, over the years, in constant search of perfection, he will document and experiment with the characteristic bulimia that animates the passionate. In 1997 he moved to Nantes, a city he loves for his quality of life and tranquility. Demanding, he will finally wait for thirteen years of practice before inaugurating in 2005 his studio set up in the heart of the city in a former dance school. His style is not to master one, but several, with as a common point: rigor and great aesthetic quality. This faculty allows him to distinguish himself by presenting both seductive originality and convincing productions on his ability to adapt to various subjects. His portfolio, of a quality superior to that of his colleagues, earned him today the reputation of being the best photographer of Nantes. His mastery of composition, frame and light, with his acute sense of speech and emotion, are important features of his photographic approach. The results are appealing and this ability to attract attention makes his work particularly attractive. Samuel Cornillet, established photographer, still passionate after 27 years of practice, evolves in the fields of fashion, advertising, and art photography. Expert in the most demanding photography: studio photography, a skilful combination of technicality and creativity, he is cited as an example in photography schools and his notoriety earns him the trust of prestigious clients.