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Membership: exclusive member since Sep. 06, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Medium: traditional drawing/painting, digital art, photography
Website: KatiAstraeir.com
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Biography

Kati Astraeir from a very early age was using her art for exploring and expanding her inner worlds. Learning from life experiences, and following her intuition, she transformed her creativity into a powerful journey of healing, and transcendence. Art became her path, the language of her spirit and a great magical tool for creation of her reality. From music she started to learn about flow, creating in surrender, and modulating frequencies.

Nature became another great and very important teacher. Through her continued healing and explorations of darkness she was able to discover a great light within her, and to connect to her divine self. Transforming energies, dying and being reborn many times, she continues her path, the journey to primordial spirit, opening her heart deeper into her full divine and infinite potential.

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Membership: exclusive member since May 18, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic abstractionism
Medium: oil on canvas
Website: WardArtz.com
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Artist Statement

My work at present consists of a rendering of abstract expressionist applications of paint and brushstrokes to create veristic surrealist landscapes that ooze from the canvas with aesthetic organic form and a flowing energy, saturated in exuberant colour. Sometimes showing automatist qualities in larger pieces, I have experimented with various techniques to create paintings that capture the viewer’s eye, to provide them with a window into my interior self, away from this world of mutual destruction.

These paintings, although sometimes different in method and appearance, share the same fundamental purpose. By providing a spiritual or aesthetically beautiful experience, I wish to bring unique images of our fragile natural world and beyond to life but also to remind us that we will not be here forever and that we must cherish what we have got.

Biography

Born in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh in 1981, I spent a lot of time visiting the west coast of Ireland and painting some of the amazing scenery it has to offer. I moved to Belfast in 2000 to study for a Foundation Certificate of Art and Design and later a Degree in Fine and Applied Arts in the University of Ulster. My work consisted of detailed traditional landscapes such as those of the west coast and of some darker imagery influenced by artists such as Giger, Bosch and Beksinski. During my time in college, I developed a style of painting that refrained from my usual methods but maintained an attention to detail.

Influenced by automatisic qualities of surrealist and psychedelic artists such as Max Ernst, early works of Tom Blackwell and Bernard Saby and by applying paint to canvas through techniques such as decalcomania, bulletism, eclaboussure and soufflage. I brought detail, depth and organic line back into my paintings by rendering or manipulating some areas of paint with a fine brush.

I began to create large canvases (chance configurations), each named simply with the first word that was invoked when viewing the finished painting, that contain organic forms, thrusting energies, electric, vibrant colours and a use of line that attracts the viewer to gaze at the image. These unfiltered scenes of my subconscious invite the viewer to interpret the work as he or she wishes.

I now live in Carlow, in the south of Ireland with my own family, where the work I am currently involved with combines this method of painting, with my interest in landscapes to again create art that is noticed for its aesthetics instantly. Sharing veristic surrealist qualities these paintings depict many typical Irish and British countryside or coastal scene. The places that I have visited have left a lasting impression on me. Trees savaged by the elements, vast open fields, valleys and dramatic skies. Again these works, filled with intricate pictorial spaces, allow the viewer their own interpretation but leave a subtle message in their title relating to a journey I have experienced.

I anticipate painting different parts of the world. Places where the landscape is completely alien, the earth a different colour and vegetation unfamiliar. It’s a big world out there and I look forward to every new encounter, to provide the viewer with another window into my interior self.

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Membership: exclusive member since May 1, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Medium: oil on canvas, digital art
Website: nrgizr.com
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Artist Statement

“Most of all values, I believe in that of the great Old Masters, who have never failed to strive for technical expertise, whether in color, form, or composition.

- January of 2009

Biography

As a boy growing up in the countryside, Giorgio admired the exuberant beauty of nature. While becoming more mature however, his desire for envisioning and expressing ideas unseen in nature, has led him to realize the necessity of abstraction, which if handled properly, can open doors to a myriad of amazing worlds, richer in many ways than our own. Proper handling for him, means setting his standards high in both self-expression and technique.

Born in 1980 in Hungary, his childhood interest in art was instinctive, much like his development in his youth. His desire to learn, evolve and mature, led him to explore thoroughly the course of art history, acquiring knowledge of the different styles and techniques of both the Old and Modern Masters on his travels, while allowing his personal style to develop on its own.

His arrival to Canada in September of 2007, marks a milestone in both his life and his career, as he plans to exhibit and sell his work to a broader community of connoisseurs. In May of 2008, he has founded the Energy Art Movement with a few young artists who shared his vision of creating conceptual high-quality energetic artwork.

In December of 2008, he chose digital painting as his primary medium, after painting in oils for several years. His new works are thus available as high-quality limited-edition prints.

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Membership: exclusive member since Jun. 2, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Personal style: neogothic surrealism
Medium: acrylic / watercolor / rapidograph pen / ink on paper / board
Website: JoeMacGown.com
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About the Artist

I am originally from Maine where I lived until I was about ten years old. My family then moved to Starkville, Mississippi, where I still live with my wife Julie and our son Joseph. I have been employed for the last twenty years at the Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University as a research technician/scientific illustrator. I am a self-taught artist and I began drawing and painting at a very young age. By the time I was five years old, I had already begun a style of art that was to become a life long pursuit - surreal art. Even with my first drawings and paintings I remember trying to do my best to twist reality. Throughout the last 25 years, I have continued to develop my surrealistic drawing style, which I refer to as “Neogothic Surrealism” or “Subconscious Meandering.” I usually work with black India ink, using fine-tipped Koh-i-noor Rapidograph pens, but also do mixed media color works. I do highly detailed drawings, building layers by crosshatching, stippling, and other methods. Some of these drawings take up to 300 hours to finish. I draw whenever I have free time, which usually means nights and weekends. The structure of my artwork is based on the drawing of random shapes, after which I then draw shapes in the negative spaces created by the first shapes, and so forth. Although I find subject matter everywhere, much of my inspiration comes from my love of science fiction and from my studies of nature. For example, it should be obvious that I work in entomology, as my art is often intermixed with various insectoid body parts. All of my observations are thrown into my mind where they are intermixed with memories and other thoughts. They are later expressed in random ways in my drawings. When I begin a drawing, I usually have no preconceived idea of what I am going to draw, other than at most a minimal idea or a basic shape. I do not do underlying pencil sketches, but instead start working directly with the pen. This allows for more spontaneity and subconscious flow, which is the basis for all of my surreal art. Does my art mean anything? Possibly, however because I typically put minimal to no thought into what I am doing, any meaning has more to do with who I am as an individual and where I am in life at any given time.

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Membership: exclusive member since Jul. 17, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic abstractionism
Medium: acrylic on canvas / masonite
Website: RollinKocsisGallery.com
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Artist Statement

The process of making art is central to my life; it is my passion. It seems I have always had a desire to paint, draw, or create some other type of visual art. I love the process and the product of art. Creating art provides me with challenges that involve the skills I have learned over the years.

My goal as a painter is two-fold: to enjoy what I am doing, and to make something that someone else will enjoy. What is art without an audience? Art is to be shared. I hope my work brings something of value to those who view it.

Biography

Rollin Kocsis was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington where he graduated with honors in 1970 with a B. S. in art education. That same year he moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

Rollin Kocsis began his teaching career with the Memphis City Schools in 1971, and he currently teaches at Westwood High School. He has taught for 37 years.

Rollin holds two advanced degrees in the arts. He earned a Masters of Teaching in Art Education and a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis).

In his long artistic career, Rollin Kocsis has exhibited in juried exhibitions, group and solo shows throughout the United States. He has won a number of local, regional, and national awards. Rollin is an independent artist who is also represented by the Maison Rouge Galerie in Chicago, Illinois.