Showed in Busan and in Encounters in 2015 and again in Encounters in 2016. Edgar Sánchez shaped major developments in 20th century Venezuelan art. His influence continues unabated in the 21st century. Most recently, the exquisite poetic dimension of his landscapes brings the emotional depth of a great symphony into colours, shapes and forms. Sánchez was […]
Felipe Herrera is a Venezuelan visual artist who was born in 1947. From 16 years of age he began to build his artistic personality exploring the world of totemic sculpture and achieved early success, participating in prestigious salons nationwide, one of his first exhibitions took the name: Sculpture and its Possibilities. Later, he studied art […]
Francesca Seravalle is an award-winning curator and project manager. Over the years she has worked on a number of high profile art projects and exhibitions all over the World. Majored with a first class degree in History of Art, assistant of the critic Ando Gilardi, she has studied in Venice and Paris winning a University […]
Isabel Cisneros is an award-winning artist with works in Europe and New York. She also teaches pottery, sculpture and firing at the Graduate School, Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela. Isabel was born in Venezuela in 1962 and studied with established artists and more formally at the Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann and the Asociacion Venezolana […]
Jacob is a Dutch artist living in Hove who sculpts primarily in wood. He mixes his own pigments with linseed oil to make the paint. The original pigments have been bought from a traditional windmill in the Netherlands. The paint is applied following the contours of the sculpture. Jacob creates sculptures that stand by themselves but […]
The featured image is the Life in the Time of Corona porcelain sphere that conveys the beauty of nature contrasting with the forbidding reality of the pandemic. She began working on this piece when the first lockdown commenced on March 24th 2020. The virus spelt doom and gloom and we were all finding our way […]
ARTIST’S STATEMENT Miladys Parejo writes: “My installations are transformations. Things that we see in one context are given a new place. My aim is to surprise, delight and provoke: to bring new life and ascribe new meanings to objects, shapes and textures. “This dialectic flows through my work. When I begin to work on a […]
Paul Smith was born Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1950 and he was educated at Whitelands College London. It was in the year 1970 that he began painting seriously. He writes: “Each of my paintings is a result of experimentation. Sometimes I begin with a basic form, sometimes with a gesture in paint. I begin to […]
Pedro Luis Fermin is a painter and installation artist. Born in 1950, he studied at the Cristobal Rojas School of Visual Arts in Caracas and became a Professor of Drawing and Painting. In 1990 he was awarded the prestigious Antonio Herrera Toro Award. In 1994, his work, Labyrinth, was installed in the Church of the […]
Song Soo Ryun will exhibit in Encounters Open House in May 2015 for the first time. Song Soo Ryun leads a search for modern expression in Korean painting using traditional materials. Employing native pigments, Korean paper, and traditional techniques such as painting on the back of the paper or applying glue or egg for areas […]
il-yong Kim exhibiting his work for the first time in the UK Encounters in May 2015. il-yong Kim is a Korean artist who has specialised in life-casting, which he describes this way: “unlike like the general casting technique of applying plaster on a mold made of clay, lifecasting applies plaster directly to body parts. A […]
Carlo Alessandro Mazzocchi was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. He comes from an Italian family with a long tradition in the fields of painting, scenery, sculpture and restoration. His first masters in artistic and decorative painting were his own father and the prestigious artist Ugo Gnocchi. In 1976 he entered the Academy of Fine […]
Lise Moller exhibited in Encounters in 2012. She is a Chilean artist who works with large and robust seaweeds or “cochayuyos” harvested on the shores of Chile’s wild coast from the Pacific Ocean that, with special treatment, can be fashioned like leather and become sculptures. She studied at the Loughton College of Further Education and […]
Jonidel exhibited in Encounters in 2014 and in 2015. Jonidel Mendoza (Born: Maturin, State of Monagas, Venezuela, 1975) has a body of that stands out immediately, in part because of its exceptional coherence. It has an ambiguity that allows multiple ways to express its contents. It is more than a way of expression. It is a philosophy […]
Noemí Márquez exhibited for the first time in Encounters in May 2015 and her work returns in 2018 with new pieces, recently shown in a major exhibition in Caracas. She wishes to say that: “Earth… it is magic word that holds much significance… belonging, motherhood, country, fortitude, union, passion, sand, dust. “My sculpture is closely bound […]
Showing in Busan and in Encounters May Festival in 2015, she has exhibited in Encounters every year since 2012. Gaudi Esté was born in Los Teques, Venezuela in 1947. She studied painting in Richmond (UK) and at the School of Visual Arts in Venezuela. Her early career was devoted to handmade wooden toys. Since that […]
Rafael Berrio showed his work in Encounters in 2015. Rafael Berrio comes from the Colombian Caribbean region of Barranquilla and Santa Maria. His sculptures speak of human archetypes with parallels in Africa and the Americas. More recently, Rafael’s work opens spaces of feeling and knowledge that are co-creating Britain’s multi-cultural society. Rafael’s work relates directly […]
Patricia Davenport exhibited her work in May 2015 in Encounters Open House. Patricia Davenport writes: “My Muse has always been my travels. Whenever on the move I used to carry around my sketchbooks, which later, in the studio, would re-kindle the fascination I had experienced on site. On a recent journey to Thailand and Cambodia […]