Inko Ai Takita is a UK-based manga artist. She was born in Kyoto, Japan, and studied art at Kyoto Zokei University of Art & Design, before moving to England, where she studied at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design. Since then Inko has worked as a Manga artist delivering workshops around UK, including British […]
Born in Caracas, Fernando studied at the Instituto Neumann and he complemented his studies with professional practice in carpentry and industrial design. In his recent work, the dialectical tension between representation and materiality in his work seems to capture one photographic instant, a present built from different dimensions of time providing an environment of architectural enclosure in […]
Flor was born in Venezuela and lives in the United States. Her driving force is “to communicate through the joy of art”. It is this commitment to explore nature of ‘joy’ that shapes her work. She travels widely and inspiration comes unexpectedly. There is delight in an architectural structure, a loved dwelling, a city’s geometry, […]
Francisco Itriago exhibited in Encounters in 2012. He has enjoyed a long career which has mainly developed in Venezuela. His works have been shown in the US, Europe, and the Czech Republic.
For Encounters 2017, Garcia-Garcia developed new work to illustrate architectural universes, a tribute to Venezuelan kinetic art, full of lights and tropical colours. His pieces are composed of several layers of architectural plans, which are juxtaposed, colouring and dialoguing between them, through new lines. All this forming a kind of “palimpsestos” of traces of an ever-evolving […]
Gisseline was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied architecture for two years, and made some works of art, design and decoration, including jewelry design. She describes her work: “I can express myself as an artist through lines, curves and geometric shapes. I get inspired when I experiment with light, shadows and reflections that produce geometric […]
Mette Maya Gregersen exhibited in Encounters in 2012. She writes: “Lost in a world that builds itself around the making process, and finding the physical form of that world manifest itself in the clay, is what makes the structure and gives it energy. I work in two quite different ways. One is the making of waves […]
John Pakapoukas exhibited in Encounters in 2012. He writes: “As an artist, my aim is to bring into light the untold truth behind forms, shadows and ideas. In an age were everything is in the public domain (social networks etc) and everyone believes they have the right to respect, individuality and privacy, when at the […]
Luke is a professional photographer based in Sussex. After working on contract for 10 years with the global news and picture agency Reuters he has expanded his portfolio with a wide range of magazine, newspaper, business and corporate clients. Luke has won national and international awards including the Reuters Photograph of the Year 2012, the […]
Mark Griffiths showed his furniture in Encounters in 2012. He has been designing and creating his unique furniture for domestic and corporate clients since 1991. His work is regularly shown at the prestigious ‘Celebration of Craftsmanship’ exhibition in Cheltenham. Throughout his career, Mark has written for several woodworking magazines and has featured in several books, most […]
Miguel Prypchan. Caracas, Distrito Capital, 1974. He resides and works in Caracas. Plastic artist, pilot, and lawyer from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, (UCV). With studies in Social Communication and Museology; Director of advertising agency Propela Creativa, passionate about architecture, self-taught in the treatment of brass and paint for collector cars, lover of nature and […]
Born in 1960 in Paris, Patrick Rubinstein is a contemporary French artist from the world of fashion working his paintings on a concept of OPT ART (Kinetic Art). Thanks to an innovative technique his works offers you 3 different views depending on your angle vision and giving you 3 times more emotions. You would like […]
Born in 1947 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rafael studied Fine Arts in Canada, the United States and Venezuela. His artistic trajectory dates back to a very early age. He took drawing and painting at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, achieving his first recognition with the award “National Youth Painting” in 1963. Upon […]
Rafael exhibited in Encounters in 2012. He was born in Caracas in 1977 and is a Sociology major from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and a laureate from a Postgraduate course in Art History and Theory at Universidad Central de Venezuela. As a photographer his learning has come from a mixture of the finest Photography workshops […]
Sotis Fillippides exhibited in Encounters in 2010 (the first Encounters Artists Open House) and one of his ceramic instalations is a permanent exhibit, on the kitchen wall of 12 Langdale Road. He writes: “I spent childhood summers in the family’s house beside the sea in Greece. The shapes and colours of pebbles and shells, and the […]
Zsuzsanna Ardó is an Arts Council Award-winning visual artist, curator, writer and the founder of Creatives without Borders. Her studies as a visual artist include training at the Royal Drawing School and the Royal Academy of Arts. Her work has been selected for various awards and artist’s residencies by Arts Council England, Canon Fellowship, Arctic […]
THE ARTIST’S STATEMENT… “My unique art style – using mediums such as oil, sculpture and graphite, has developed over the last 45 years. My inspiration is found through looking at the magic wonders of the South American culture, looking within its cities, towns and forests. My travels to south / central America and the Caribbean Islands […]
Andrea Schulewitz is an artist and design professional whose studies began at the West College of Art and Design in Worthing. She writes: “Carving stone is how I started. It was very simple stuff, about things seen in my immediate environment, or sometimes artifacts from ancient civilizations or found things that engaged me, and still do”. […]