"Lagoon" by Dorotea Marciano, Italy
Dora Marciano (Tea) was born in
Diploma from the National Institute of Art sez; Fashion and custom from the
For 15 years she has intensively elaborated dyes on fabric, developing a technique of overlap of the colors that they create pre-arranged sketches. The technique is a long procedure and manual, their replicas are impossible for the different concentration of the color, that changes of dye in dye.
The bindings are programmed and the sketches develop with the aid of colored string, the forms and tones that create them determine fantastic and naturalistic environments.
Recently she has begun to experiment with techniques of overpainting by hand interesting details using watercolours or acrylic on the dyed cloths. These interventions amplify the sketches and they offer a more complex but exclusive image.
Tea lives in the country, in close contact with nature, busy with didactic projects on the theme of creative recycling, video didactic and commercial producer.
8.25" x 11.75" watercolour on paper
Olga was born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), former USSR, and is currently living in Manchester, England.
She studied Art at one of the top art schools in the country and also has a degree in Law from St Petersburg State University. She has started to paint again quite recently and already participated in two exhibitions of Everyman gallery in Manchester.
Her influences include Emile Nolde, Japanese artists, Egon Schiele and many others.
Olga also writes fiction, short stories about everyday life, and she hopes one day her stories and an autobiographic short novel will be translated into English.
I like to reflect in my paintings the ideas of birth and growth, illness and health, density and transparency, spontaneity and randomness, austerity and abundance. My pictures are often colorful, but I also like muted colors and monochrome.
My preference of watercolor as a medium is aimed at reflecting the idea of ever-changing transparent world that we live in. I paint still lives, portraits and figurative art, and have recently started painting landscapes as well. I believe one never paints what one sees – instead one paints something that one can see beyond the visible. I try to reflect the ideas of strength or fragility or calm, and I pass the energy. “You don’t look for anything… You don’t look at anything. You look with” (Lisa Dierbeck, “One pill makes you smaller”).
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30x22 in. watercolor, gouache and Indian ink on watercolor paper 2009
a mixsy
a little bit a lipsy
a puddle
wine subtle
a flirtsy
huddle huddle
mmmmmmmm
what a little daydream
and
wine
can do!
(poetry by Ainhoa)
Born in Spain, I migrated to the United States at the age of six and have long since pursued art as a means of self expression and reflection. I am challenged and inspired daily in finding different ways of expressing my life through art. I enjoy stretching my imagination in this roller coaster called life and live for those spontaneous moments that paint new wonders on my canvas. The world of emotion, daydreams and the unspoken become alive to me through the use of colors, gestures and line. I also dabble in spontaneous poetry sensitively connecting to the moment’s inspiration.
