Can you tell us a bit about you? I’m a Dutch artist born and bred in The Netherlands. I grew up in a small village in the green hart of Holland. My parents house was huge and surrounded by a big mysterious garden were we kept all sorts of animals…. horses, dogs, chicken, goats, hundreds of pigeons, mice, ducks etc.…
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How did you come to art? When I was fourteen I started a photography-course at a local community centre. Mostly I took portraits of friends in a home-build studio in the attic using all my parents lampshades. I was very lucky this class was taught by a very passionate photographer. He made me explore all kind of techniques and genres…
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Can you describe yourself in a few sentences and how your Iraqi roots have influenced you as both a person and an artist? I think as a human being I came to this life, not for anything other than to work art and live with art, I was born in Baghdad 1965,I studied fine art there and then completed it…
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Can you tell us a bit about you? I’m a visual abstract artist painting in mixed media. My main inspiration is landscape, but I’m more interested in expressing my response to a place than creating a recognisable image. I was born in 1957 in Manchester and grew up close to the brooding Pennine hills in the northwest of England. I…
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When working on a new project, what are the first steps you take? In principal I’ll first of all explore the idea and concept for a new project on it’s values of transformation and contradiction. The process of creating a new series of work is fundamental to developing a visual language through which I can communicate the feeling of experiencing…
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Please introduce yourself to us! Pavel Wolberg (born 1966 in Leningrad, [St Petersburg,Russia] USSR) I am a visual artist and a former photojournalist living in Tel Aviv. What does art mean to you and what story do you want to tell with your art? To me art in general is an empty word and it means nothing to me, I…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? Over the years I have been experimenting with a variety of techniques, mostly painting. I evolved over time, putting my learning along the way into one comprehensive style that is mine alone. My artistic journey started in 2012 when I decided to experiment with mixed media. I worked for almost a…
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Can you describe your typical working day? It depends on what point I’m at with my work. I usually start a piece/series of work by taking photos. This means choosing the best time depending on the light – I usually prefer a bright sunny day when the shadows on buildings are strong which can be quite difficult in Britain. If…
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What is your artistic singularity ? My artistic singularity is probably my style and choice of motif. I choose a powerful, consciously confrontational pictorial language. I call my paintings loud. I have tried to create my own kind of contemporary art with a high recognition value and a lot of aesthetics. With my works I confront the viewer with boundless…
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How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? Since I was a child I have loved drawing, it was my real environment and the moments I felt the best were when I was drawing. I kept that passion, and after school, it was pretty clear to me that my studies would have been in that…
