Born in The Netherlands, Lita van Engelenhoven has developed a personal way of painting. Her paintings offer a silent view on reality. A reality that gives a certain feeling, an atmosphere, a silence. Van Engelenhoven says: \'I paint the silent things that surround me\'.

The mixed media paintings of Michael Sandstrom question the way perceived reality - on the part of the individual - is affected by the social construct in which he or she lives. Social, political, and philosophical questions surface as the viewer explores the literal and figurative layers of meaning embedded in the labor intensive mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and installations that make up this artist\'s offerings. Many of the formal elements (color, gestural marks and \'scars\', ethereal passages that look like smoke or fog, etc...) point to an overworked earth that is very well on the brink of collapse; yet, in every piece their is a quiet but very present instance of hope that contradicts the overall-feeling that would make his work seem apocalyptic were it not for this subtle glimpse into the future.

Hélène Amram is a figurative painter living in Montreal. Her paintings are mostly portraits of people that she knows or has known. "It's difficult to put into words what I'm trying to depict in my artwork... I think it's better not to over-articulate what it means to try to capture a person's essence, their psychological character or the weight of their presence. All of these have a lot more to do with with the silent, subtle qualities that belong to the connections we have with people in our lives." - Hélène Amram

Dynamic female nudes explore the human condition in oils and mixed media works by Catherine Rogers Jonsson. She is influenced by the art of Gerhardt Richter, Albert Oehlens, Kandinsky, the philosophy of Nietzsche and the revelations of Emanuel Swedenborg.

A great deal of her work shows her fascination with light and her attempts to capture various aspects of light in paint. This preoccupation with the qualities of light can be seen in a series of paintings she have completed during 2006 on the theme of glass and windows. She have a particular fondness for viewing her subjects from a close perspective which can produce in a rather claustophobic but compelling result.

Work in a figurative style inspired by surrealism and pop art. Explores symbolic meanings of characters and events from the past and their influence on the present especially in regard to Canadian history.

From the storkes of his knife, he spreads with passion the rich powerful textures of colors onto the canvas. His favorite flower -called Coquelicot 'poppies'- createds fusions between classical compositions and movements of contemporary color schemes. Since 1962 Copon paints and thinks painting is his duty to immortalize the beauty of happiness and dreams.

Vince Callagher's stipple pen & ink and watercolor paintings capture the often overlooked, wonderfully minute details of natural scenes while still enveloping the dramatic scope of Hawaiian and Californian wetlands and mountains. Often appearing in Vincent's art are herons, dragonflies, and birds of prey. His impeccable renderings are awe-inspiring.

Its painting has exerted a great influence in later generations, between which they do not even follow the lines of the realism. This has been possible thanks to the enormous plasticity of its compositions and to the treatment of the pictorial matter, full of gentleness and precision cromáticarealismo, until the Mediterranean landscapes or their emblematic realistic pictures, that gave international fame him, this exhibition in the Museum of the city presents/displays to us of complete form, and through the greater selection never before Vista in Spain, the different stages and styles from which the painter participated.

Through texture, gesture and color, Sumner attempts to paint the animal in the animal, and in some cases, the human in the animal. By giving his critters an almost human personality, he finds that people can relate to his work on an emotional level.

Timothy Herron focuses on landscape and portrait drawings and paintings taken from live sittings with creative additions. Old Masters style mixed with an impressionistic use of color and technique.

Narrative Dark surrealism. New Contemporary figurative paintings and drawings. Cyber art. Odd vision of reality, man and machine, and hopelessly realistic manipulations. Drawing and painting pictures gallery by Scott Hutchison.

The artist doesn't require that his paintings make 'sense' anymore than he would require a tree or a sunset to make 'sense'. He's grown very comfortable with ambiguity. Grays paintings are like little rhetorical questions, thrown out into this wonderfully complex and mysterious world. -- He doesn't expect an answer.

Painting and art is his passion. He uses colored grout and oil to create portraits of people with a touch of tragedy. Moreover, Bagozzi makes relics which are telling a short story. Take a look and you will understand.

Marco Pessa is a hand-action painter, seeking for anima and animality, today. BECAUSE THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE before anything, in my painting! AND MORE, my action tell me I am, and answer me to the question: Is my painting an useless illusion or just the reason of the universe?

Claude-Max Lochu, great-grandson of Peter Pan, preserves nostalgia to fly above the cities of the world. Lochu loves also the night and dedicates a worship to the large Reverberator: the Streetlight, which is for him the luminous totem of our streets.

Joan\'s work is a combination of fine art and landscape. She sees the world and its beauty and elegance mixed with other patterns within it. She also works in painting and drawing in acrylics, water colour, pen and ink and pastels.

A surreal artist twisting the parallels of life experiences to a different plane. Brightly colored work. Oil paint on canvas that only NASA scientistcan see in their interpretation of color from the universe.

She uses a lot of bold colors and unique subject matter to create works that people haven\'t seen before. She trys to make each painting completely different from the last. She is an identical twin from Ohio and a 26 year old mother of three. She likes watching her kids use color in their paintings to somewhat interpret what colors she will use that night in her works. She loves shapes and colors coming together into something original and new.

Her style is very original since she is an experimental artist that uses a variety of media and techniques in the search for new textures and images. The content is usually lyrical and imaginative, often with a symbolic undertone, yet the format strives to be intriguing and bizarre, without being unfathomable.