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www.meshasendyk.com MeshaSendyk”I believe that in the present work by Mesha Sendyk, we are offered an opportunity to accessthe realm of the eternal where space and time are informed by consciousness. These worksseem to act as a portal into a deeper view of the world beyond action and reaction I perceivethem as devotional works referencing the primal essence of existence.” – Robert Bleakley –Founder & Former CEO Sothebys Australia and former director of the Tribal Art Department,Sothebys London. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 149

JonathanMavuaLessor www.mavuart.com After The Massacre oil on canvas 40x40 inches 2012Jonathan Mavua Lessor was born on 26th November, 1960. Studied art and design at the AuchiPolytechnic School of Art and Design Auchi, Nigeria. Majored in painting and graduated in1986 with a Higher National Diploma (H.N.D) in painting. Foremost Nigeria artist widely col-lected around the world.Art is my passion, as well as my profession. My work is characterised by heavy, warm, vibrantcolours, often on texturised surfaces depicting subjects ranging from social, economic, culturaland environmental interest. A medium and an instrument of bond, my art helps to contact andunite me, my people and my environment with the rest of the world, even when they are be-yond my material senses. Generations mixed media, cord, fibre, acrylic, oil on canvas 16x45 inches 3 panels 2012150 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.galerie-meli.at MeliHuszarI started painting in 2006. I was The beauty of nature Lonely Cottageborn and raised in Bosnia. As a kid acrylic on canvas acrylic on canvasI always wanted to be an artist, but 30x30 cmgrowing up in a family with 7 kids 2009 80x60 cmwasn’t always easy. I couldn’t effort 2009myself an art study. After I moved toAustria, I started painting, because Irealized it helped me through hardtimes. Painting, for me, feels like atherapy. I can relax and it’s a goodway to calm yourself. I try to showpeople the beauty of our worldthrough my paintings. I always seethe good and beautiful in everyoneand everything around me. As amother of three children I have a lotof work, so I really enjoy the timeoff. I get myself a coffee, sit downand let all my thoughts flow into apainting. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 151

ARINA www.arina-art.com The Smile oil on linen 122x92 cm 2013The Red in my works has adeep meaning. In Russianlanguage the word ‘red’often has an equal mean-ing to the word ‘beauti-ful’. Russian writer FyodorDostoevsky said ‘Beautywill save the World’, so Ibelieve that in my worksI transform my perceptionof the ‘red’ as ‘beautiful’into a symbol of ‘savingthe world’. I believe that a purpose of art is keeping the world in balance and harmony. It’s anhonour, but also a huge responsibility to be an artist. Artists are responsible for what we arebringing to the world within our creativity, for every single brush stroke we produce. I believethat images and objects created with passion can transform reality. We all create the worldaround, and the more positive and beautiful art created today, the better will be the world tolive in tomorrow. Beauty will Save the World and Art IS this powerful tool to bring the Beauty tothe World – to Save it. Renaissance as Augury 1 oil on linen 92x122 cm 2011152 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.spyroskolyvas-art.blogspot.gr SpyrosKolyvas Old house in Mantouki, Corfu watercolor 35x20 cm 2012 Spyros Kolyvas was born in Corfu where he took his first lessons in paint- ing at the School of Fine Arts of Corfu under the famous painter Nikos Zervos. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the 1st Painting Workshop under the famous teachers D. Mytaras and Z. Arvani- tis. In academic year 1997-98 he received scholarship and grant from the State Scholarship Foundation. He is a Member of the Greek Chamber of Visual Arts. His work can be found in public and private collections in Greece and abroad. The boatswatercolor67x65 cm 2010 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 153

JohnSzabo [email protected] Ultraviolence at Walmart oil on canvas 2009I am a full time concep- Warning Signstual designer. In addition, pencil on paperI have my own businesswhere I also work as a con- 19x24 inchesceptual display designer. 2013I studied art history atRider College and MercerCounty Community Col-lege. I obtained an Asso-ciates degree in advertising design. In whatevertime that is left for me, I enjoy painting and draw-ing. Some of my work hangs permanently in theSquare Peg Round Hole gallery in Bordentownas well as private collections around the world.I have won several awards. I am inspired by sci-entific, ecological, and political ideas, shortcom-ings, and prejudices. I feel that artwork for me isan extension of my innermost dreams and night-mares as well as a representation of life’s manydisappointments and inequities. I like to use ab-stract symbolism to convey what I am thinking.Since I do not possess the gift of writing I find art-work to be a great conduit for expressing myself.The best feeling for me is watching somebodystare at my artwork and comment on it while Iobserve in the background.154 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.paintingsinlove.com/artist/johnszabo JohnSzaboOne Step Backward, Beyond the Forward oil on board 36x48 inches 2012 Unfit Survival 155 oil on board 36x48 inches 2013Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

GaetanneLavoie www.gaetannelavoie.com I am working to express my personal philosophies of spir- ituality in relation to being hu- man by developing composi- tions that project emotional contrast. I use bright, saturated colors, and feminine patterns combined with a somber and introspective mood, projected by the figure to enhance the contradictions that I’ve experienced in seeking a different vibrational plane of existence. I hope to create naratives that are relat- able on several different levels. I received my BFA from York University, Toronto, MFA from The Acad- emy of Art University in San Francisco and a second MFA which I consider to be my personal Ph D from The New York Academy of Art. No I Won’t Dance Happy Pills oil on board oil on board 30x16 inches 40x60 inches 2013 2012156 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.gaetannelavoie.com GaetanneLavoie Freedomoil on canvas70x35 inches 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 157

IshiButcher www.rasishi.comJourney Ras Ishi ‘Secret Diary’ series (2001-mixed media on canvas 2010) a new chapter opened in195.6x195.6 cm Barbadian art history. Ishi – a well-2005-2010 known member of the Caribbean post-colonial avant-garde – had so far been associated with the repre- sentation of the Black Diasporic ex- perience. In these works, however, form and scale itself became the mes- sage. These austere, black and white paintings consist of multiple icons and patterns, which are inverted, repeated and adjusted in ever-changing combinations. Given the difficult condi- tions under which artists like Ishi exist, the most compel- ling aspect of the series is its virtually architectural scale, and the unapologetic insistence on their own materiality.Art Conquerors mixed media on canvas129.5x129.5 cm 2005-2010158 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.aofsmith.com AofSmithMonker Honker First Sightoil on canvas oil on canvas150x150 cm 180x200 cm2013 2012 Every single journey of lifetime, a man ex- periences various sit- uations arousing his happiness, suffering, sadness and loneli- ness. Moreover, the fast approach of sev- eral temptations se-duces those men into obsession of corpore-ality, taste and scent of dream. However, thehuman emotion varies. It depends on manyfactors; inside and outside of his mind. Onlyephemeral and instability of moods canfade away his obsessions in each day. But ifwe scrutinize them, they define themselves.Those are lingering experiences in his mindwhich lead us to contemplation. They cre-ate the world of imagination awaiting you todiscover them. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 159

BekirSmolski www.bekir.orgGraduated from Belarusian Academy of Art, Department of Monu- Shadowsmental-Decorative Art in 1994. Member of Union of Artists of Be- oil on canvaslarus since 1996 and of the Stained Glass Association of Americasince 2007. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Light, with its trans- 50x40 cmformations and changeability, variety of forms, uncommonness of 2012structure has always been the source of inspiration for artists. Thereare a few good examples of it throughout the centuries – rangingfrom the elegant play of light in the paintings of Dutch artists of theseventeenth century to the harsh, at times exaggerated, chiaroscuroin the work of some contemporary artists. The Leading Light oil on canvas 120x80 cm 2013160 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.naturalfantasy.co.nz CarolBanner Hybrid pencil on paper 53x36 cm 2010 Carol is a self taught artist whose work is influenced by the Art Nouveau era and the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. Art Nouveau was mainly based on nature with natural shapes and forms. Escher also based a lot of his arton nature but used distortion, fantasy and metamorphosis to produce his outstanding work.Carol works in coloured pencil, pastels or a combination of both as well as black and whitedrawing. The foundationfor her work is naturewith slight variationsso anything different orunusual appeals to her,hence the name for herwork “Natural Fantasy”.After Midnightpastel on paper 43x58 cm 2009 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 161

DavidJones davidjonesart.co.uk Kimono my House acrylic on canvas 52x71 cm 2012David’s recent work explores thesubliminal effects of media suchas billboards, logos and computergames on our cognition and in turnour relationship with our physicalenvironment, be it a landscape,motorway flyover or the decora-tion in an interior. He regards hiswork as a synthesis of an inner andouter world. Paintings of a highlystylized abstract landscape may have an unnatural intervention imposed on them or the op-posite where figurative scenes of nature encroach upon an urban setting. His work is influ-enced by SF writers such as Olaf Stapledon, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick and Charles Stross.One Hundred Years of Sleep No 2, acrylic on wood, 50x30 cm, 2013162 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

[email protected] TeresaKerin Tango Fire oil on board 30x46 cm 2013 The Chat, Lifeu Island oil on board 40x55 cm 2011Tess’s paintings are inspired by the 163emotion she feels when she sees some-thing beautiful or witnesses beauti-ful things taking place and wishes toshare that emotion. She was inspiredby the Dancers in Buenos Aires. Shealso loves to discover new places withtheir own magic. Rather than make herpaintings busy, she prefers the silenceof the paintings to whisper ‘visit me’.She loves painting her ‘Red Umbrella’series, each one depicting a differentstreet from different cities from aroundthe world, conveying the solitude andjust enjoying the walk in the rain. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

YaroslavKoporulin www.yarkoporulin.comLa Danza Macabra I, silkscreen on wood, 38x48x3 inches, 2011Growing up in Moscow during the post-Soviet Era, I witnessed a dramatic transformation ofRussian people and culture. This societal change, reinforced by my personal experiences,influenced my interest in an individuals’ way to self recognition, emotional conflicts andstruggle with the indoctrination that accompanies modern life. With the use of metaphori-cal characters and surreal setting, I portray man and the world as a complex tangle of stringswhere each character consists of polar emotions and unpredictable reactions. Humanitybalances, blindfolded on a thread of existence between dualities – love and loss; life anddeath – in the search for values and purpose. Cloud Hunt graphite on paper 20x16 inches 2013164 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.yansart.com WeiYan Wei Yan was born in Beijing, China 1968. He graduated from Beijing Normal University Fine Art department with B.A degree in 1991. Wei Yan’s art studio was found in 1995 after he im- migrated in Canada. His work can be found in public and pri- vate art collection in China and Canada, and has been seen in numerous exhibitions both Can- ada and China. He is the mem- ber of Portrait Society of Canada, Portrait Society of America and Federation of Canadian Artists. He currently lives and works in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.Face Timeoil on canvas24x36 inches2013 Depart 165 acrylic on canvas 16x20 inches 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

VikePedersen www.24-7-366.eu City life acryl/silkscreen on canvas 80x80 cm 2012I have worked with art for at least 40 years. First abstract motives printed with serigraphy insmaller print runs. Now, I do acrylic painting and serigraphy on canvas, solely one-off pieces.I want to show you my world of images as I see life unfolding in town and country in manyplaces around the world 24-7-366. – Often with a touch of poetry and moods! How to run a bike acryl/silkscreen on canvas 80x80 cm 2012166 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.24-7-366.eu VikePedersenCross the Bridgeacryl/silkscreen on canvas80x80 cm2012 Meeting point 167acryl/silkscreen on canvas 80x80 cm 2010 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

BirgitL.Dörfer www.amandasart.dePeony – the Queen of Flowers Love of animalscut from paper and applied to the substrate acrylic and mixed media on cardboard29x21 cm2009 29x21 cm 2009 Birgit L. Dörfer creates scenes of nature. Riv- ers, lakes, mountains and trees have the air of Japanese miniature draw- ings: whispered, outlined, shaded. Her works exude meditative balance and inner peace. The artist uses predominantly acrylic paints and is thus capable of depicting natural phenomena in a most inspiring and orig- inal fashion. The painter is best known, however, for her unusual and delicate Feng-Shui-Collages. The technique behind their manufacturing was de- veloped by her and combines the Far Eastern science of Feng-Shui with modern art, render- ing her works unique in Germany. The aim is to evoke positive feelings and to instill calm and serenity. Moreover, her works are imaginative decorations for any kind of living space.168 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.g-urumov.com GeorgiUrumovSacrament Georgi Petrov Urumov, born on Novem-mixed media ber 12, 1954 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is a31.5x23.6 inches member of the Bulgarian Artists’ Union2012 and member of Plovdiv Artists’ Group. He has many a solo exhibition and over sixty group participations in numerous Bulgarian and international exhibitions and private gallery expositions: namely ART COLLAGE International Art Exhibi- tion in Paris, International General Ex- hibition in Liege, the XXth International Collage Salon in Paris and many more. Georgi Urumov currently resides and paints in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Many of his works are owned by private collections and galleries worldwide. Prehistory mixed media27.6x19.7x1.2 inches 2012 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 169

LucilleMarcotte www.lucillemarcotte.comIn 2000, Lucille Marcotte began her Bach- Regarder ailleurselor’s degree in Visual Arts at Laval Uni- oil on canvasversity. She had previously completed a 152x152 cmBachelor’s and Master’s degree at the Uni- 2012versity of Quebec in Psychology, as wellas a degree in Education and Cultural Re- Seule sur le sablesearch. Several years later, she decided to oil on canvasleave her career in Psychology to follow 121x91 cmher dream and work as a painter. She has 2013had 7 solo exhibitions among them thesolo exhibition « L’invitation au voyage »at the gallery « Le Violon Bleu « was sup-ported by the « Délégation du Québec » inLondon (UK). During this event, the artistwas rewarded for the remarkable quality ofher work. She has had also at the 14 groupparticipations in Boston, at the Jules Placegallery, Belgique, Prague, Toronto, Mon-tréal and Québec and recently at the Car-rés d’artistes gallery, Strasbourg (France).170 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.marekemuellerkunst.de MarekeMüller Blow oil on canvas 100x100 cm 2012 Mareke Müller was born in 1967 in Leer, a small town in the north of Germany. She moved to Berlin after finishing school and started the High School of Fine Art in Berlin in 1989. After her degree in 1993 she started a new period of painting in oil colours. To this day the subject stays the development of the society and the human characters inside this society.Pillenkasperine oil on canvas 140x100 cm 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 171

DerekCulley www.derekculley.com/golgotha Untitled mixed media on canvas 60x30 inches 2009 Self-taught artist, born and educated in Dublin. Culley was a founder member and chairman of Celtic Vision with the painters John Bellany and Denis Bowen, and participated in the group’s exhibition tour in 1986-7. He took part in many other group shows including The London Group tour 1987; Modern Irish Painting, Dillon Gallery, 1995; and Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Republic of Macedonia, 1996. FIS 2008/9 Liverpool. Gal- lery Different–London2012/13. Selected Solo shows include “FiveYears of Culley” The Royal Hospital Kilmain-ham, Dublin Ireland, 1989, “Golgotha” Liver-pool Anglican Cathedral-2011, Tamh Lacht”RUA/RED Gallery-Dublin 2011, Golgotha’Prayer Room IEC2012 Congress RDS-2012Lives in Southport – Merseyside.”Awards: Art Colony Galicnick residency:Macedonia 1994 BIRD2005 InternationalArt Award – China, The Cill Rialaig ProjectIreland – residency 2008, Recipient of a Pol-lock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2006-2007for artistic merit. Tamh-Lacht The Wall (series of 14 canvas’s) 8/14 microcemento and acrylic 30x48 inches 2011172 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.martinakolle.eu MartinaKolle Every topic, the colours and com- position of each single painting, are given to me in quiescence and are then transferred onto can- vas. The interplay of the objective and the non-objective generates tension: The real importance lies in the disconnection of the paint- ing from possible associations. Apart from their positive effects on the atmosphere in the room, the painting also leads the viewer to his own inner life and feelings. If a painting appeals to someone in such a way, there is an inner resonance to the topic and the viewer finds mental balance at a deep emotional level.Ful daily program, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm, 2012Farewell and anticipation, oil on canvas, 100x70 cm, 2010 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 173

IvanaDolejs [email protected] All is in One – 2x oil on canvas 70x70 cm 2010 Ivana Dolejs was born in 1961 in the Czech Republic. She lives and creates in Prague. Until thirty three years of age she was employed as a financial clerk. To paint she started when she was near- ly thirty six years old. Together with her three years old daughter they created colour aquarelle abstracts, and at that time she experienced for the first time that strange, mysterious force, which lit- erally led her hand. Since then the paint- ing became an unseparable part of her life. She works with her subconscious, intuition. With the use of imagination by music and of meditation she penetrates into the unconscious. Gimmell-Despair oil on canvas 85x100 cm 2008174 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.ostapcev.com PAVELOSTAPCEV Rezekne, Cityskape, oil on canvas, 50x40 cm, 2011He was born in 1958 in Rezekne, Latvia. In 1979 he graduated from Penza Art School in Rus-sia. In 1984 he joined the Artist’s Union of the Latvian Republic. The artist constantly partici-pates with his graphics and paintings in the exhibitions of Latvian artists as well as abroad. Theworks have been exhibited in Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Byelorussia, Cuba, England,Korea. The beauty of native land nature is the source of inspiration and the main theme inthe artist’s works. The artist unites the influence of Russian artistic school and the traditions ofLatvian artists in his creation.Self-portraitoil on canvas 50x40 cm 2012 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 175

VictorHagea www.victor-hagea.de Rebus oil on canvas 80x100 cm 2008The focus of my artistic creation is the human being in connection with his activities, actionsand desires which determine and form his fate – the human who creates his ‘surreality’. If Ihad to characterize my style, I should call it ‘magical surrealism’ with indefinite boundariesbetween reality and dream. So I would like to invite the spectator to be witness to the interac-tion of the states where the reality escapes into the dream and the dream will turn to some as-pects of the reality. In contrast withother representatives of the variousart movements, I do not doubt thetraditional values of art, but I try tofind a new way and to use them inan updated context. The assertionof Delacroix “The painting must bea feast for the eye” is for me still upto date and significant and it opensup for me new perspectives to im-plement my artistic ideas. Waiting for Icarus oil on canvas 100x85 cm 2008176 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.jenneglover.com JenneGlover Flower Child mixed media collage 12x16 inches 2012Daddy Long LegsPlaying with the Kingmixed media collage12x16 inches2011 My evolution from a figura- tive, expressionist painter to mixed-media collagist evolved over 30+ years. And, over the past five years, mixed media collage has become my primary medium. I am inspired by the human spirit; and work- ing colors, patterns, rhythm, and repetition into my compositions. I like seeing how many ways I can use an element yet keep it fresh and dif- ferent from how I used it previously. Lately, I’ve been repurposing earlier works because I like seeing the essence of older works transformed anew. Attention to detail and storytelling bring fluidity, movement, and a cinematic quality to my art – each piece reading like the part of a greater whole. Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 177

DorotheeColditz www.design-malerei.de Info-Flut acrylic on canvas 80x120 cm 2011 Dorothee Colditz was born in 1944 and she is now living in hear adopted country Baden-Baden. First there was the writing, since school poems. 1983 she published the first volume of poems and the first story. 2012 she published the second volume of poems “Le- ben mit allen Sinnen” and “Mut zum Gefühl”. Then the colors and shapes came. Her acrylic on canvas paintings are provocative, abstract and full of energy. An ap- peal to the sens- es. She calls her images ”design painting” Crea- tivity is her life motto.Würfel, acrylic on canvas, 80x120 cm, 2012178 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.anarisingart.com PAULSCOTTMALONERED #3, Composition 557, oil on canvas, 72x48 inches, 2012 Malone was born and reared in Houston, Texas USA. He holds an MFA in creative writing and contemporary literary from The University of Ari- zona. Malone has worked as a newspaper journalist, an antiques dealer, a literary writer of fiction, poetry and criticism (published three books of fiction and edited a textbook while in graduate school), as well as a university lecturer in English literature and writing at five institutions of higher learning. Currently he earns his living as an art dealer, the owner of a small gallery which exhibits his own work only, and, of course, an oil painter. By and large he is a self-taught visual artist. Now he lives and works at his studio in Benson, Arizona.STORM #1, Composition 517, oil on canvas, 60x36 inches, 2011 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 179

HeeSookKim www.heesookkim.comHer work is about her experiences as a femaleimmigrant and spirituality from nature and cul-ture from East and West. “I create to share expe-riences I’ve had in America filtered by the cultureI grew up in. When people ask me what artistsinfluenced my work the most and I mention oldKorean paintings, it puzzles and confuses thosewith only knowledge of Western art and its art-ists. I know it especially challenges those whofeel superior to Asian culture. I use Sumi ink,water based colors, Calligraphic brush strokes,strange marks, and texts in foreign languages. Asa result, they see waxy surfaces and numerousmysterious layers. A work that doesn’t belong toany categories of art makes them wonder. Is ita painting or a print? Where is the root comingfrom? There is no connection to Western art tra-dition that they can easily refer to. The strangeforeign object has something they never knewbefore. Something that they cannot clearly de-scribe or explain makes them uncomfortable, yetcurious.” Transformation 1 prints, acrylics, sumi ink on wood panel 30x80 inches 2013 Beosun pritns on Korean traditional female socks 8x6 inches 2013180 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.vaultproject.com HerbSellin Challenging the Sun God acrylic on canvas 48x48 inches 2012The paintings shown here are part of a series of 24 contemporary (abstract) Artworks entitled“Spirits of the Rockies” which have recently been completed with the assistance of a generousgrant from the Canada Council for the Arts. The paintings are the artist’s spiritual response tothe power and majesty of the Canadian Rockies, the undulating repetitious contours of thefoothills and the vast loneliness of the rolling prairies. Herb is as well-versed in the Fine Artsof painting Realism as he is with painting Abstraction. His hobbies include Theoretical Physicsand all the Arts. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Chaos Theory acrylic on canvas 48x48 inches 2012 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 181

JOEFUR www.joefur.com Headache of London Marker on Wood 594x841 mm 2010Sense MePigment Ink297x420 mm2013 Joe Furlong is a self-taught ‘live’-drawing artist and printmaker based in London, UK. Drawing in front of audiences under the alias of JOEFUR, Joe is also co-founder of the new and exciting ‘Minesweeper Collective’ Artis- tic Co-Operative in Deptford, having being personally immersed in other autonomous DIY projects. Without shrouding his upfront work in concept, he states his current graphic based endeavours are “a personal search for creative purity which is open to interpreta- tion”. Specializing in organizing collabora- tive exhibitions and artistic residencies for in- ternational collectives with The Minesweeper, the live spontaneous creation is just the start of Joe’s energetic practice.182 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.kriszlen.com KrisztinaLencsés A moment oil on canvas 72x102 cm 2012Krisztina Lencses was born in 1976. She is a uk based hungarian artist currently living inExeter, Devon. Krisztina has been drawing and painting for more than 20 years starting hercareer back in Hungary. Krisztina never went to art school, she was a member of a local artsociety led by a famous artist, Albert Soltesz. At that time Krisztina had her first solo exhibi-tion as well as other joint exhibitions. In 2004 Krisztina moved to England. Here she joinedthe Exeter Art Society and has been a member for a number of years and has had a few joint exhibition with them. To take herself to another level Krisztina took an online course with Linda Huber, an american graphite pencil artist who she highly recommends to anyone who takes in- terest in drawing in the style of realism. Krisztina paints and draws all subject matter: portraits, landscapes, still life, murals, etc. She creates her works in very detailed style mostly for commis- sions using many different mediums: oil, acrylic, graphite pencil, charcoal, gouache. Tiger 183 oil on canvas 90x90 cm 2013 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

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www.martimoreno.com ManuelMartiMoreno If we analyze his sculp- tures, even though they seem very physical, they awaken a special sensibility in the spec- tator nearly instantly: the smooth flow of the shapes, the rhythm of the outlines of the bod-ies which in a vast majority start disintegrat-ing, provide a continuous melody, whichcombines both calmness and surprise at thesame time. His works wants to leave thespace occupied by the void free, the essencewhich they contain. He speaks to us throughhis sculptures of physical, material, fragilitybut it is easy to discern that for Martí Morenothe void is stronger, it is permanently there,between spirit and body. This may be the rea-son why they are disintegrating, maybe theyare always opening. Body - matter, yes, butalso, Essence - Void. (Carmela Falomir Ventura) Caminante iron 200x75x125 cm 2012 Eternidad iron and stainless steel 200x53x53 cm 2010 Ícaro iron 31x123x57 cm 2012Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 185

Annick B. Cuadrado www.annickbcuadrado.com Annick b. Cuadrado is a French art- ist, born and working in Paris. Her inspiration mostly comes from our most famous and usual consumer products: there is some piece of art in each of these products, brands and logos that she reveals to us with elegance, vigor and humor. The image and memory of these well-known candies, soft drinks, washing powders, is an actualappeal to our taste buds: Coca-cola, Heinz Ketchup, Tide,Tagada strawberries, Car en Sac, Marshmallows, HariboDragibus, Pez, La Vache qui rit, etc… The art of paintingof Annick b. Cuadrado is just like the Tagada strawberries:a pleasure at any age, for kids and adults, which can beenjoyed as much as you like.Vache qui rit Bonbon PEZ,acrylic and plexiglas acrylic and resin130x130 cm2013 110x66,5 cm 2013186 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.cmthornton-sculpture.com CatherineMontgomeryThornton Bull 1&2 sculpture 60x60 inches 2013I’ve always been a visual person and spentcountless hours drawing as an adolescent.I earned my Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degreefrom Rowan University and subsequentlystudied Computer Graphic Design in Ari-zona. College awakened my fascination forcreating sculptures. After college, I was em-ployed as a graphic artist in South Jersey andin 1983 joined the US Air Force. I receivedan honourable discharge and attained a ci-vilian position as an illustrator in Hunsruck,Germany. After four years, I returned to thestates pursuing other occupations whichlead me back to the arts. By 2010, I was self-employed as a designer and sculptor. Thesculptures are abstracts derived from proto-types I’ve created and are expressed by lineand colour. They are a composition of con-tinual lines that are built using layers creatinga relief. The intent of my art is to keep evolv-ing into more movement and symmetry butstill focusing on simplicity and non-chaoticcompositions. Stripes 11 187 sculpture48x31 inches 2011 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

LeifNielsen www.artleif.dk Musical cock made of old violins and a cello anything from a rattle one violin bow height of 53 cm Vinder scrap metalAdventure narrator as Hans Christian Andersenand La Fontaine often used birds in their storiesto tell about people. It’s the same thing I strivefor. All my little birds sculptures are created fromauthentic recycled materials that have served ushumans. Now reborn into something completelydifferent and can now tell a completely new anddifferent story. In this way, I am a visual story-teller. The viewer forms its own story throughthe title and the seen and thus even interpret myvisual “adventure”.188 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.klaba-online.de KlausBast Playboy diabas 20x40x20 cm 2011 Klaus Bast was born in Heidelberg Germany and is living nearby. Since his days of youth he is interested in art. He started his artwork with paint- ings in oil and acrylic in the style of the “fantastic realism “. Curious of the possibility to press in the three-dimension he changed the field of activ- ity and began in 1994 as a sculp- ture working with stone. The love of fantastic he re-tained. Sociological subjects are oftenbasis for his works. However, he alsomakes sculptures containing an amus-ing statement, which brings a smile tothe viewers face. Catching the light marble 57x20x10 cm 2010 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 189

MelindaCrider www.melindacrider.com Enchanted multi fired red clay, beeswax and graphite 18x14x9 cm “I find the activity of creat- ing necessary to me so I can liberate emotions and express myself. Perceptions of the self and the psyche also provide inspiration.““My work is predominately figurative in nature ex-pressing a celebration of life’s mysterious intrica-cies that intrigue and fascinate me. I fire my workseveral times using underglazes, slips and stainsand sometimes beeswax. Each step in the processis carefully considered as the work evolves whileconsidering clay as my canvas.” The Jester multi fired earthenware with gold luster 23x11x8 cm190 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.mariansava.com MarianSava TENTATION white marble 79x29x04 cm 2009 “In the ceaseless quest for the universal, for what is permanent and essential, the truths that hide in the cores of things, the art of Marian Sava is an art of intellectual concentration, of concept, of almost mathematical precision and sobriety. His goal is to capture and retain an instant, to represent an idea, a movement, a momentum, or a state of mind, to being able to show the im- ponderable. The process of purification of the form through gradual elimination of unnecessary details which is absolutely necessary to obtain such conciseness, and the construction of the future sculpture are entirely coming from the art- ist’s mind. It evolves in his head to the smallest details.“ (Paris, France February 1998 Lionel Scanteye) HIBOUlittle belgian granit 30x30x30 cm 2006 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 191

PariRavan www.pariravan.deCatlady Pari Ravan was born in 1942 in Iran. Sheresine studied art at the Fine Arts Academy of Te-41x41 cm heran (Iran) and Mayence (Germany). She followed a two years ceramic school at Valauris (France.) She graduated with medals of art in Ja- pan, China, Iran, Germany, and France. She has participated in many group and personal exhibitions in the USA and other countries. She had more than 130 group and personal exhibitions up today and her works belong to private and public collec- tions in many countries. She is an award- ed artist. The access to the painting of Pari Ravan is only at first glance unmistakably indicated. Her pictures tell stories. And certainly, the very consciously chosen ti- tles offer a key to entering these stories. However, here the clearance of meaning begins to gradually disappear. This is be- cause none of the stories is really told to the end in the pictures. Only the observer can do so (Prof. Dr. Uwe Henrik Peters, professor for psychiatry and psychoanaly- sis university of Cologne/Germany). Danger oil and acrylic on canvas 60x50 cm192 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.sharonbrill.com SharonBrill Flow 2 porcelain 19x26x15 cm 2013, NY USASharon’s current works are abstract organic sculptural shapes. Theirscale varies and some can be held in your hand and observed from anyangle. The lines and movement leads the eye around the shape and intoit. Her work is create out of personal vision, as if emerging out of itself.What intrigues her is how she merges herself into the object, how shesteeps herself into the process to create spontaneously and intuitively,opening the layers, in search for what lies behind the overt, what is hid-den within. The concept of her works exists in the marriage betweentwo poles: aspiration for meticulous and restrained aesthetic on the onehand, and unrestricted spontaneous and intuitive search on the other,the understading of the integration between perfection and freedoom.The forms are made from wheel thrown and altered porcelain. Conch 25 porcelain 16x35x16 cm 2012, NY USA Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 193

AramHan www.aramhan.com Grain of Truth, digital c-print, 24x36 inches, 2012 Everyday, the pace of life gets quicker as it fills up with mindless errands and tasks. In reaction, Aran Han makes slow work; she hand-stitches. It calls for tremendous diligence and discipline. Though tedious and often futile, she dedicates herself to patiently build a line, image, and sur- face, stitch by stitch. The politics of invisible labor is a subtext for her work. As an immigrant, she is interested in under-appreciated, invisible, and Sisyphean labor practices. In solidarity, she uses her art practice to symbolically mimic her mother’s labor as a seamstress. Additionally, through the repetitive use of materials such as rice, denim scraps, salt,and sweat, she pulls upon rich social histories and meanings, and utilize these to create apersonal mythology of materials.Sweat Shirt, white and black rice stitched into a white collared shirt with cotton thread,soaked in sweat, 27x24x2 inches, 2013194 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.ayiszita.net AyisZitaArtist’s work mantra: “My artis all about clarity, it’s laconic,sometimes aggressive, some-times peaceful, or both simul-taneously but always intense.”It is also a research on howsimplicity and complexity in-terchange and/or are embed-ded in one another, in every-thing. My artistic influencesstem from minimalism, ab-stract expressionism, construc-tivism and the Chaos theory. FLIGHT assemblage 210x40x14 cm 2013META-CUBEassemblage35x33x30 cm2012 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 195

JaneTPayne www.janetpayne.webs.comRing me media Paynes work crosses the boundaries of Finemixed media art, needlework, paint and embroidery, theconstruction, using stitch and the brush. All used in the contextpvc fabric, cord and ideology of Fine Art. Before taking herand found object. degrees in Fine Art at Central St. Martins college of Art in London, she trained in soft furnishings and upholstery, so her work con- tains a multiplicity of ideas. The PVC fabric that she uses is shiny like paint and the cord- ing gives the work its very tactile quality. The repetitious use of pattern and aesthetics is reminiscent of the Pop Art movement, artists such as Bridget Riley and some of the artists of the sixty’s. The sculptures are made from very mundane found objects mirroring the Dada movement, and are transformed into colourful unique works of art. A women’ s work is never donemixed media construc- tion, using pvc fabric,cord and found object.196 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook

www.williamsteinberg.ca WilliamSteinbergDrawbridge, cast bronze on steel beam, 44x4x24 inches, 2012Spar, cast concrete and steel, 37x25x5 inches, 2012 As an architect, William Steinberg de- signed for steel and concrete, but he now sculpts it directly; he is his own iron worker and mason. His immer- sion in the act of making involves a myriad of experiments and reactions that send his pieces in unexpected di- rections. Beneath his patinas we see structures that function as memorials to ingenuity, or as prophetic shards of future ruins, where the facade of veneer has eroded away leaving only skeletal members exposed, like con- ceptual lines in space that architects once drew (From George Rammell review – William Steinberg/Architect of the Ruin). Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 197

RobinAntar www.rantar.comRobin Antar’s passion as asculptor involves a techniqueshe coined more than 20years ago – the precise artof creating “virtual records”of contemporary culture…capturing everyday objects incarved stone. She is ambiva-lent about what she sculpts...these foodstuffs, yet she lovesto carve them since she rec-ognizes their significance farbeyond what they representon a store shelf or on some-one’s table. Who can knowif a bottle of ketchup will ex-ist in 4025AD? Or if a canof soda can stand the test oftime as well? In the nature of Vanitas paintings, she strives for an absolute realism in textureand form from a solid block of stone. Her sculptures are a record of the present; a preservationof the mundanities and morbidities of our culture for references in years to come. „Essentially,I replicate these items on a real life-scale, complete with meticulous detail. I achieve thisabsolute realism by incorporating parts of the actual object, as well as custom-made stains,paints, plastics and gold leaf. It’s more than art imitating life; it’s art-mirroring life.198 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook