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 […]
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 […]