Showed in Encounters May Festival in 2015. Now living in Hove, Graham’s love of art goes back many years. He attended the Harrow School of Art (1970); Chelsea School of Art (1971-74); Slade School of Art (1974-76) followed by a studio scholarship at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He has been a working artist ever since. Also, he is a practising […]
Abelardo Giron exhibited in Encounters in 2013 and in May 2015. Much of Abelardo Giron’s work uses oil paints. He explores the symbiosis of a luxurious semi-tropical landscape, previously inhabited by indigenous tribes, with powerful surrounding industrial elements, which now dominate his native land, El Tigre, in Venezuela. Here strong forces related to the vast industrial complex […]
Ricardo is a Venezuelan photographer whose has a gift for enlightening us about the world around us. His wonderful photographs of the montains that surround his home city is far from conventional. The mountains are a presence rather than a photo opportunity. They are always there, impacting how the city functions but never front of […]
Showing in Busan in 2015 and exhibited in Encounters in 2014. Rubén Darío Monsalve is a man deeply connected with the natural forces that surround him in his native South America. His talents lie in translating these forces into stunning canvases of vivid colour that captivate the viewer. His artistic journey began at the age […]
Eider Zabaleta exhibited in Encounters in May 2015. Often Eider Zabaleta’s subjects will be moments from everyday life in the Basque Area of Northern Spain. She is deeply connected with the ancient Basque kingdom and feels that its heritage lives within her: in art, in song, in poetry and infused into a way of being […]
Gorka Zabaleta showed his work in Encounters Artists Open House in May 2015. Gorka Zabaleta is a Spanish artist from the Basque region with a wonderfully enquiring mind, an extraordinary breadth of talent and a relentless interest in exploration. His media for sculptures includes wood, found materials, clay, rocks, wool, artfacts made by 3D printers […]
Andrea was born in 1973 and she trained as an architect at the Central University of Venezuela continuing as a student of Fine Arts, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Bordeaux in France amongst other places. She has worked as a set designer for films but has spent the last ten years working as an illustrator, including large-scale murals. Email: andreahoposani@gmail.com Web: www.andreahoposani.com
Stefan Mildenberger is an artist based in Hamburg whose art practice aims to capture our media saturated world by scanning audio-visual information from TV and other sources and transforming it into abstract prints. Stefan’s works have been included in several group shows in Europe and are part of private art collections. He recently had his […]
Benoit exhibited in Encouters in 2014. I sculpt wood in France, in the region of Picardie. I choose my wood when the trees are just cut down. My inspiration is connected with the shape and the veins of the wood. I choose round and undulated volumes to give life to my sculptures that represent human […]
Miladys Parejo is an installation artist whose recent work has been inspired by political and environmental issues. Her creations often involve colour, form, sound and constructed works. For her 2018 installation she will work with Zsuzsanna Ardó.