Spontaneous action is probably the most important aspect of Zen Buddhism that I bring to my artwork. I have travelled around the world, from Australia to Thailand to Israel, and all over Europe, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. I create my artwork from memories of the places I have been that have inspired me. These memories come to me like a spark, igniting the quick burning fire of my brush. My brush flies around the canvas in a whirl, spontaneously flicking and flickering colors from my memory. The landscape around me inspires me the most to paint, like the landscape inspired the Buddha to become one with nature. Time is one of the major challenges in my life. There is never enough. Spontaneity is a neccessity.

I try and not think about what I want to create. But, I do think about life. You can say so much with one simple painting or picture, which allows people to use their imagination to interpret. Using words can help magnify the mind. I try and use words as much as I can as well as an abundance of colors, which in turn, magnifies my mind.

It's not the camera, but who's behind the camera.

Exploration of identity is what fuels my work with intense meaning and symbolism.

I think it's easy to take a photograph of something beautiful. There are many things people might walk past and ignore, view as trash, or find repulsive. The challenge is turning those things into images that are enjoyable and amusing to look at.

My work is my answer to mortality. It is an expression of the desperation of our situation with the only beautiful answer there is to a losing situation: fight anyways.

I love what I do and I love sharing it with everyone I meet. I photograph because I love it. I love everything about it from ...

Brett J Rosenberg paints with acrylic on canvas. He doesn't paint face cause he doesn’t know how. Hands are tough too. Brett lives in Hollywood CA with his girlfriend Kat. She is a photographer:

My worked is influenced and inspired by my everyday experiences and observations, as well as discoveries I am excruciatingly curious, and pay incredible attention to detail—constantly filled with intrigue and fascination, I will repeatedly ask why.

Sri Lankan/American Artist, Charles Indika Perera also known as “Artro2”was born and raised on the beautiful island of Sri Lanka, has been painting more than twenty years. Migrated to the United States with his award winning talents and has been tirelessly working on achieving his artistic transformation. His paintings mainly consist of mixed media with abstraction in mind. His artistic talents extend to poetry, songwriting, photography, movie screenwriting and acting. *Winner of the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, *Fine Arts Abstract Division: 2001/2002/2003&2004. *Winner of the International Poet of Merit Award 2001. *Honorary member of the International Society of Poets. *Selected nominee by the Governor’s Office for the Title of Poet Laureate for California. *Winner of the Prestigious Exceptional Performance Award from the Sri Lanka Foundation, in Los Angeles, California 2005. *City of Redondo Beach Mayor’s Commendation, 2008 for contributions to the arts.

"My creations explore a fantasy world painted with love, hope, movement, and color. All my life I've wanted to create art that shows a piece of me, no matter how small or big it may be. When starting a painting, I often have no clue where it will take me. It all starts as I throw ink on canvas, spray it with water, and let the colors drip into something beautiful. I use acrylic ink and paint and often write poetry that is incorporated into my pieces. Texture is added by using different types of papers, paints, and mediums. I find myself painting mostly dancers, buildings, and silhouettes of women as I find these things beautiful. The buildings I paint come from my love of the energy that cities embody all over the world. I am completely driven by color and emotion, and I feel things very deeply. This is a trait that I have grown to love and want to share with the world through my art."

"I was born in the US when the USSR was intact. I grew up, went to film school. Got a BFA in Film Production. Lived/Worked in NYC, LA, OC. Crashed a hot airballoon in China. Drank weasel-shit coffee in Vietnam. Lived in an Anarcho "safe house" in Brooklyn. Etc. I try to take pics of places and people most haven't seen, with a gonzo attitude and a digital camera, there's no stopping me".

"I think it's important for people to have their own reactions and feelings rather than worry about what my emotional state was when I painted something. That way I always get to look at my work from a different angle...from their perspective, and that keeps it interesting for me."

Was born in Hong Kong, China in 1984 and moved to the United States at the age of six. He grasped 3-D space at a very young age and began training under a traditional Chinese artist. This eventually laid the foundation for his path into architecture where he would discover ink on mylar drawings. His ink on mylar drawings began as design presentations that showed architectural ideas. And over the next three years, he developed a new method of painting that achieved very unique results. David began his ink on mylar paintings during his thesis year of architecture school. It was in this last year of David’s thesis that he discovered and began painting in ink, water and mylar. The process itself was very much related to one of his thesis ideas from a practice in Japan known as “do-nothing” farming. The farming methodology is based on trying to do less and less but keeping the results the same and also allowing nature to nourish itself. David transferred this idea over to painting with india ink through the creation of configurations that the india ink would slowly evaporate over days in order to achieve natural forms and compositions. At this stage of his career he is not particularly interested conveying any meaning through his paintings. Instead his obsession lies in discovering what nature itself has to reveal and to simply show this hidden beauty through mylar. Eventually his goal is to combine his interests in architecture with this art process to produce something new and beautiful to the world.

I play the mad scientist with art. A surrealist at heart, I juxtapose forms based on nature, known and unknown, microscopic and macroscopic. My artwork is an orchestration of chaos; colors, shapes, plants, landscapes, animals, figures, collected and layered into a two dimensional spirit.

Painting is my way of keeping a journal. I often paint from candid photos that I took of my friends. Other times I paint what can't be photographed.

It is a rare day when I do not encounter something that flicks an emotional switch connecting what I see or experience to how I will express it on canvas. For me, absolutely everything is connected to color, texture and light. That is why I paint. Artists I both admire and am influenced by are Anthony Murphy, Wolf Kahn, James Michalopoulos, Mark Rothko, Marc Chagall and Edvard Munch — in no particular order. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t painting or drawing. Though I have no formal resume or training, traveling, especially to France and Italy, has served as both inspiration and instruction. I am inspired by an immense range of visual artists, as well as musicians, authors and composers. I am particularly drawn to structures and windows which show up regularly on my canvases.

I call myself “The Plumed Serpent” because it means the re-birth dragon.

Germano Sardinha was born in a small beautiful European Island called Madeira, Portugal. He was raised in the smallest village in the country called “Jardim do Mar”, Garden of the Sea. His work has already traveled all over the world, from Brazil to England, South Africa to Germany. With two previous successful exhibitions, back home, this will be the first time showing his work to an American audience. He sees his art more as a mark of individuality and singularity and with that maybe a discovery of similarities in individuals regardless of any boundaries society and humanity mapped out for them.

As an engineer I saw myself as a technical artist with creative ideas using technology to solve problems in the most elegant way possible. Literally pushing the limits of design beyond their engineered function. I saw this structured environment in an abstract and colorful way with endless possibilities for me to extend my mind beyond the limits of my extremities and solve complex problems through simplicity, which is extremely complicated to achieve! This freedom of expression kept me fascinated with art and the ability to express ones thoughts and ideas into material things. Living in Europe and in having experienced many cultures I was exposed to art at an early age and have been captivated ever since.

In a frenzy of red and white light pilgrimages...electronic billboards and meta-text. In a world where the projections of a future 20 years ago are starting to affirm themselves, I try to explore approaches to painting/image-making that coincide with the values of the 21st century, the convenience parade on the way to nowhere. Much of my inspiration is fueled by memetics and technological dystopia. Throw in a little cynicism on top, and you've pretty much got me summed up completely

My abstract photography mostly depicts landscapes, nudes and still life subjects. The images are all conceived through the play of focus and light exposure capturing a surreal vision that is beyond. I paint with the camera, it becomes my brush. I go beyond what is commonly seen with the naked eye by manipulating the camera to achieve the desired effects while respecting the integrity of the captured subject. The photographs become an experiment of light and form, a dance of shapes and colors all attending to a more romantic and captivating view of reality. The images are for the most part minimally altered in color or rendition, though some other photographs are easily recognized as a study in color of the same subject, and these photographs speak further of the sensuality of color and our attraction to it.

My first introduction to the encaustic medium was while taking a class called “Techniques of the Old Masters” at SMFA. I knew that there were modern artist who worked with the medium, but to me it was all but forgotten. Reconnecting with encaustic medium was my “eureka” moment. Everything that I had worked on or studied up to this point had prepared me for working with this amazing material. Encaustic has all the elements that inspire my creativity and push my boundaries. I love the feel of the wood and the heat of the wax. The medium gives me the space and time to be open to the creative journey. It is the desire, process and attitude that brings me to that creative place that exists universally outside of myself that I believe all creative people tap into. It is the process and being in the moment - that magical place - that gives me the most satisfaction. My current work is the most personal it has ever been. It is about the celebration of connecting to who I am and how I feel in an honest and vulnerable way.

I live for illustrating the ideas in my mind and heart onto the paper or canvas. Being an avid music lover, I live for capturing the moment through my lens at concerts as well as in everyday life. The ink & lens rule my execution. I thrive off of the creative process and execution. I've photographed some of my favorite rock bands and artists multiple times and made some of my creative dreams come true, but I'm just getting started. My objective is not just self gratification but to inspire others to make their creative ideas come to fruition. If I can inspire one person while I'm alive in this world, I'll know I've done something right.

I believe I have two goals, artistically speaking. The first goal is to publish a book with my images and poetry illustrating a theme. My second goal is to have my printed work on display in a gallery. I will enjoy every second of the process, for it is truly my passion to create.

When photographing landscapes and still life, my two approaches are different, yet similar. With landscapes, I search for something that moves me, something that "speaks" to me. Photography for me has always been more about expressing a feeling or response from within, rather than just taking a pretty picture. When I photograph a still life subject, the view is magnified. I'm moved by the intricate details, the natural shapes or lines found in subjects like botanicals or seashells. I create the light, the mood, and the environment. Here, I attempt to render even the smallest and subtlest details of the subject.

The following consists of observations and preservations captured in art, environments, and people that are both beautiful and wicked. Like in any great work of art or stimulating piece of literature, I leave it to you, the viewer, to decide whether it is poetry or poison, aesthetically pleasing or repulsive. I would like to preface this collection with the notion that I have nothing to hide. I simply offer you my brutal honesty and shameless introspection as a refreshing point of view. I believe that our existence is constantly surrounded by an intangible majesty and it is the natural drive in all of us to seek it. Therefore, if there is any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it is almost impossible to achieve but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

"a passion for the lines, curves and shades of life around me -- from urban and industrial architecture to ordinary sidewalks and shrubbery. my camera goes where i go."

My mixed media collages are an act of breaking down mass produced commercial images into their base elements and reorganizing them into new compositions. I like rescuing magazines, scraps of paper, and post cards from the garbage by giving them new context and life. Pieces of the photoreal become building blocks for the surreal. The inspiration for my pieces comes from comics, animated films, and grafitti art. Even though I work as a digital artist in my professional life, collage puts me back in touch with physical materials. Working with scissors, paper, and glue allows me to create work that's more than pixels on a computer but pieces with real world dimensions.

I started out by learning the basic fundamentals of painting and drawing and quickly became fascinated with graffiti and street art. I now use a special technique that includes spray paint which has become my favorite medium. My work is a fusion of Abstract Expressionism and Graffiti Art.

Studied at Pratt Institute as an Illustration major. After graduation I decided I wanted to get into film making... got involved with Disney and so far I’ve worked on ten Disney films as an animation designer . I've worked on several other live action and theater design projects. Taiwan was my latest adventure, I just got back from there doing Visual Development on a CG feature... I have written and directed several award winning short films. I also teach film design and sculpture at Cal Arts and Gnomon. Additional studies include: Transportation Design - Art Center - Sculpture Design - Jordu Schell Studios - Production Design - UCLA - Film Grammer - NYU My illustration work has been showcased in the book Spectrum "The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" 2006 and also in the book Erotic Signature: "The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today" 2008... I recently taught Concept Sculpture, Creative Figure Drawing, Film Design, and Creative Writing, in an intensive 2 month program at Lucasfilm Singapore. I had an opportunity to meet George Lucas and he was very excited about the project. I hope to continue to work with Lucasfilm in the near future.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars

Sushi. Photography. Dope Beats. Traveling. Design. Dive Bars. Money. Debating. Swimming. Jazz. Hip Hop. Hats. Make-up. Feathers. Sea creatures. S. Frank cat. Paper. Champagne. Adventures. Passion. Romance. Ink. Zebra print. Well Mixed cocktails.

Magical Mystical Tour Since my childhood in New York, I've had a recurring dream in which the expansive highways leading to gigantic bridges turn into roller coasters as I travel over them. The Magical Mystical Tour series stems from this idea of highways turning into roller coasters.

Sufi poet, Rumi once wrote, “Let the beauty we love be what we do”. I cling to these statements because of this truth. There is a reason why I love certain things, people, colors, etc. That attraction plays a role in my life’s path and how I am going to make a difference. My work is derived from a nostalgic place. I look at elements of my art as remnants of my experiences. It represents memories, emotional scars, conversations, habits, breakthroughs and lessons. A great influence for my artwork is related to my past summers spent in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I spent a lot of time watching nature and being immersed in oceanic life. I took in countless sunsets, noticed low tides leaving sand formations on the bayside and then being swallowed up by the ocean at high tide. I dripped wet sand into castles, collected driftwood, and sea glass the ocean had formed into soft gems. My process reflects this world. I continue to watch nature and specifically am drawn to the element of water.

My inspiration is the world around me. I get inspired when I see life. Whether it’s a busy city street, or a little village with old houses surrounded by trees. I’m trying to search for a beauty in everything I see: in a puddle on the road, in a ruined building, in a wrinkled old face. Moving to another country made me look at my past in a different way and made me realize the importance of my roots and history. In my art, I’m expressing emotions mostly through color, but structure and the vibration of the artwork’s body are very important too. Recently I’ve started developing my author’s collage technique. I’m using newspaper as a canvas and magazines pages cut in pieces as paint. These two materials reflect today’s world, full of information, that’s so hard to apprehend and organize.

My background as a traditional and 3d computer animator has inspired and influenced my artwork greatly. I wanted to create something that has depth beyond a 2D plane and has a tangible feel to it. At the same time I did not want to create figurines or toys since those have been explored by other artists before. The decision to use fabric as a medium came from my fascination with patterns and textures. Also, crafting is one of my favorite things to do. I realized that I can create artwork by using the right pattern and fabric with thorough crafting skills and still demonstrate my design and art. Many times I get inspiration by animated projects that I have created or have been involved in. Similar to short films, I want to tell a story through my pieces. My goal is to tell a story and evoke some emotions from viewers that they can relate to. Another way to involve the viewer with my work is related to my decision to use shadow boxes instead of traditional frames. This way the viewer can touch and feel the fabric, unlike a painting that is not supposed to be touched. Two of the pieces that I feel exemplify my work are the following: Interior: This city was created by small things we see everyday that we don't dwell on. I wanted to show them with my own interpretation and sense of design and try to depict them in an appealing way. Roxy's Dream: This piece was inspired by my CG short film called "Roxy's Dream" I always want my work to contain some type of story.

“I approach art as my own infinitesimally small contribution of service to the world by taking abstract expressionist methods and trying to put them into the context of the spirit. In creating, I explore, experiment, and express, while also aiming for the spiritual enrichment of both artist and viewer, as well as humanity as a whole. I believe artist and viewer are meant to find meaning and purpose in art together, because while we are all searching for universal truth, we are also all singular subjective individuals in a world of billions, each having our own unique perspectives and experiences from which we draw, none having any more import than another. However, in sharing a personal search and spiritual expression, there is the hope that greater unity may arise from such efforts. Diverse interpretations and found meanings in a work of art can actually add to greater unity in the appreciation of it and an increased awareness of the universal oneness of the human spirit. In all forms, art at its best can act as a unifying force between subjective experience and universal truth…”

I'm here to share beauty with the masses I'm a photographer who is open to anything, I've been told that my style is clean and simple, with very little "Tom Foolery." For the most part I intend to keep it that way...but dabbling a little in the extreme is always fun! So come look & submerge yourself in the natural beauty of those that come to me. I bring out nothing but the best in every model. While on this site I want you to fall in love. Nothing more.

I crave challenges and set high standards and goals for myself and my work.

My present work centers mainly on the female form. I’ve been inspired by many Fashion Illustrators who focus on the female body and the clothing worn by them. Everything from the flowiness of a blouse to the curve of a hip, I’ve studied it all very closely and have brought some of that to my own work. I am interested in exploring women wearing nothing but minimal clothing - lingerie or a corset. They are faceless because I want to see to what degree the person exists outside the form. Are they sexual objects to others as well as to themselves? That is the question. I've chosen to present these women in a classy manner. They are self-confident, seductive and powerful in their undergarments. What do they project when they have a face? Does the body betray the face or does the face project something weaker? Are the faces interchangeable? Until I have answers, I paint the bodies independent of the faces. I sometimes begin working by taking posed photos or simply start by sketching with pencil. I use acrylic to add color to the articles of clothing worn by the women in my work. I feel that these colors make the women pop, stand out and give them life. My exploration of the value or non-value of women as sexual objects will continue for some time. Eventually, I will find the value in connecting the face to the body to create the full woman. She will be strong and whole. But, will she be sexually vibrant? That is the question.

Without directly referencing the natural world, I strive to convey a sense of place and underlying atmospheric presence. I want the viewer to inhabit this space and use it to move beyond the constraints of the rigid, thinking mind and into a visceral experience of color, shape, and movement. Within this realm the concrete and physical fade, leaving the plane of an inner landscape. It’s my goal that through communion within the more broadly interpretive scope of this abstract realm, my work offers a respite from our habitual way of interfacing with the world, encouraging people’s examination of the forces that govern perception and experience.

As an artist, and as a woman, I am about gathering: fragments, feelings, friends . . . our many selves, colors, and shapes. Captivated by color and the human form, my paintings express my passion for life. They reveal personal and collective history in layers of possibility, layers of truths uncovered. My work is a vehicle for constant conversation between the seen and the unseen. My creative process is a bridge between unconscious and conscious experience. In the sensual exhilaration of putting paint to canvas.

My intention is to emphasize that beauty holds no special place. The aim of photography is to capture a forgotten truth that beauty can easily be found anywhere. This vision can be applied to all aspects of our reality. The maturity of a vision carries us beyond the imaginable. A sublime thought of visualization depends on one thing alone: the capability to see a unifying force in everything. In times of obscurity where we find ourselves in the sounds of dissonance, beauty yearns for its return. Let us accept that darkness will fade away. Let us accept that the light will come fourth.

"My work is focused on revealing emotional elements of human interaction or of the experience of living. Emotions have always confounded me, unsettled me, and are something I prefer to keep to myself most of the time. The drama and tension generated by high emotion is difficult for me to endure ... I prefer to keep an even keel. And yet, life shows that this is not always possible. Emotions rise, things get stressful, or blissful, passion or anger comes and takes control when least expected. And so in my art, I explore emotion in an effort to understand myself, others, and the relationships and interactions between people."

It is in photography that I can find my sense of awareness in the world and my contentment in creating images that inspire and intrigue.

Everthing started when I decided to write down things I couldn't understand in me... some things were about trying to get out, but I didn't know any instrument to express myself until one day when I remembered I had a camera from my grandfather. After I discovered this box through which I could grasp parts of my inner world, I started to move at the same time with my projects needs (all kind of media).

I am soul of an artist who takes pleasure in sharing itself with the world, for I so admire Essence and Creator. Essence itself is me and me in this moment is known as Matej Anzin. Spend the moment in my light – it is my honor every time.

It's all about having fun with art.......and everyone's an artist, really.

I am a curious person with nothing to hide. My art is the way i express these curiosities. Is it important? Maybe it is or isn't. instead of talking about it, how about creating a painting of it, or drawing? A work of art makes curiosities worth mentiong."

I was born in Kishinev, Moldova, to a family who did not believe that Art could be a valuable undertaking. Throughout much turmoil, through multiple migrations, I had always been able to carve out a safe haven from reality, by filtering it all through the lens of my dreams. I have always seen the grotesque aspects of daily life as a natural source of inspiration. My family’s everlasting discouraging input was a welcome added source of frustration, which fueled my passion and direction. I first exhibited my art at The Tel Aviv Museum, as a student at an art high school. Upon arriving to California, I participated in the mentor program at Santa Monica City College. Since then, I graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Character Animation department. In May 2004, my animated short film City e-Scape was featured in Anifest – International Film Festival – Czech Republic and Austria. I was a co-owner and curator of the Milla Angelina Gallery. I illustrated numerous books; my art is exhibited in Galleries in Southern California.

I consider myself an artist with a background in the Healing Arts, Performing Arts, and Fine Arts. My early oil and soft pastel artwork emerged during art therapy, largely informed by the unconscious. It represents a safe and calm core untouched by the chaos surrounding it, allowing for play, exploration, and growth. I love the interplay of color, line, shape, and texture of medium and paper, marveling at the product resulting from my creative process.

Walks around with paint on her fingers and brushes in her pocket. Wears pink socks and sweatshirts while staring out the window with a Cat who goes by the name Niko. I wish I had bright white Angel wings, but then realize reality has me tethered to the ground.

As an artist I am interested in the questions which arise during the making of art like form, composition, layering, aesthetic qualities, and concepts of the beautiful and the sublime. While I make my art and while I concentrate on building a painting my choices are led, consciously or unconsciously toward a gestalt. As a painting or sculpture for the most part is a static experience, my attempts at making art work toward the experiential, the overall emotive feeling, a social/theological contemplation, a sensory experience and less toward the narrative which I feel is better served by written or time based media. I’m looking for a moment plucked out of time. A moment where I feel a sense of peace, contemplation, enlightenment, humor, disorientation, focus, depth contrasted with the flatness of the canvas, juxtapositions of subject matter or concept, this and that, whose or what’s it, randomness/looseness and control, abstraction and representation, reflective or matte, general and the specific, light and dark, love and hate, anxiety and calm, salvation and damnation, determinism and free will, traditional and contemporary, natural and artificial, personal and public, inside and outside, insider and outsider, etc. etc. Although it sounds like I am very general in my conceptual basis, during the process of making a work I move toward specificity. Each image performs a function during and after its making working together to function as a source of contemplation or introspection. In the contrasts or boundaries I look for the questions. I find meaning in the practice of questioning as well as an opportunity for learning. A question can also be an answer. The questions we ask can be an indicator of what we believe and how we see the world. I aim to learn about and process my own, and others’, perceptions and beliefs, hopefully, through dialogues that may arise from my practice.

To inspire emotion and feeling through artistry is my life passion and my joy. My artistic playground includes writing, sketching, jewelry design and now Sensual Photo Artistry. Having lived many lifetimes in this life, my artistic journey has led me to a form of sensual artistry that I have put my heart and soul into. I believe the beauty of sensuality can be expressed instead of exploited. Every woman was created with her very own beauty of heart, mind, soul and sensuality. It took me 43 years to be confident in something I was born with. My message….Love…..yourself as you are and other as they are….

Neysa Lopez is a Fine Art photographer graduated from St. John’s University of New York. She is currently living, working, and exhibiting in her hometown of Los Angeles.

Art is a painterly extension of the photograph, where I can modify, change, and develop additional commentary. I feel this raises the level of 'first-glance' perception, where the viewer might be entertained and compelled to look longer to share the mood I've evoked."

I make art because it inspires me. I think of it as a expression, an outpouring of emotions. I learn from it, its’ history and hope; all the good and all the the bad that makes up our world. I want to be a apart of that and I feel good when I do.

Hi, my name is Randi, and I’m a shopaholic. I was also a cat in a past life. When I’m not painting, I’m listening to Lady Gaga. Or sometimes, I listen to Lady Gaga while I’m painting. As you can see, I live a fairly complicated life. My nocturnal self is eager to move to New York City for graduate school; I’m city hungry…nom nom nom. Of course, the East Coast winters will demand the acquisition of a warmer wardrobe…and for that I am most excited.

Painting lets me express myself to the fullest; I don't have to hold back. To create something that you feel inside without using words is a powerful thing! Being able to unlock your mind, dig in deep and pull out any emotion with a brush and some color satisfies me. I consider myself lucky to have such a gift. This is my way of sharing...

I use patterns I find and patterns I create to connect the world I live in to the world inside me. Creating my work is about the process of emotional reaction between the inner and outer self. Through this process I find an emotional balance. In the end my emotional reactions create bold, colorful, textural, paintings.

Leaving and escaping reality and the outside world I enter into this very special intimacy with both the camera and the light. It's here that I yearn to capture my favorite of all subjects; the battle of good vs. evil. Here I poke at the all the bad and good within us; That wall we put up to the world, fear, rage, the heaviness of sin, that hole and void within. In contrast; the surreal, mystery, passion, a search for true intimacy and new vision, seeking, whether consciously or subconsciously; Christ, capturing the intricate architecture of the body, and through play still yearning for the heart of a child. What a great joy it is for me to create, that through this tool called the camera I can attempt to capture the intricacies of what we are, and how we were made.

I create paintings that drip rich with color, filled with excitement and curiosity. The paintings are figurative and capture a secret moment or a curious action that another might be fascinated to see or possibly embarrassed to stumble upon.

Like most American children of the 80's, Speedway J grew up on a steady diet of Atari, Saturday morning cartoons and MTV. A natural born artist, he won his first art show blue ribbon at the tender age of five and has been drawing and painting ever since. As an only child growing up in the boring suburbs of Dallas, Texas, 70's rock album art became his closest friend. He inundated himself with painting and design while earning his degree in communication design from Texas A&M - Commerce. His visual influences range from the simplicity of Paul Rand, Saul Bass, road side signage and Dr. Seuss to the complexity of M.C. Escher and Robert Rauschenberg.

JUJU COLLECTION The birth of JuJu collection is a Gift from GOD that was given to Tamani Elliott after the death of a dear friend. But in death there is a new life that was born, it's the JuJu Collection. Bold vivid colors that sparkle & make you feel love & happiness, with a child like smile. It's “feel good” art created from LOVE.

World of Motion I play with the idea of painting colors in motion. Using common symbols as we all move in the universe around the sun that allows us to see in color. Color, is one of the main reasons I continue to paint. One of the symbols I often paint is the “world.” I live in it, I move in it, and it moves around the sun. There is a parallel relationship between people moving-around something bigger in size, and the world circling something even bigger, the sun. Thus exemplifying life is full of movements; a colorful motion. In my paintings, colors and symbols play with each-other as motion, inevitably telling stories of me and the people around the world.

I made a concerted effort to focus on true love of painting.

Art is a continuing quest and the road never ends.

Drawings, like dreams, are meant to be experienced. It is in paintings where I give my ideas the beauty of life - free to be seen and free for interpretation.

"My work reflects who we are: nude, beautiful, alive. It is about truth, strength, grace and the miracle of life. The pieces are stripped of extraneous elements – there is nothing else in the picture. There is no story – presenting a pure beauty."

William Kaner is a writer, editor and photographer who grew up in Seattle during the grunge movement of the '90s. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Patagonia, RedBlue Magazine and The Tombstone Epitaph as well as on The Bonnie Hunt Show. When he isn’t working, he spends his time exploring the coastlines of Southern California and the Pacific Northwest searching for waves and documenting life in analog film.

Art has always been my escape. I take pride in being able to move someone with a piece of artwork. it has been my source of theraphy and guidance. from a doodle to a painting, to carving and sculpting. i enjoy being creative no matter what material a person presents to me.