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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]