Watercolor International 5

Participating artists: Anne    Abgott Donna Achesson Juillet Yannis Adamantides Anne Marie Alexandre Daven  Anderson Anders  Andersson Roberto Andreoli Natalia Andreychenko Linda Baker Giovanni  Balzarani Angela Barbi Matthew Bird Aimee Birnbaum Didier Brot Alexandra Bryksa Michel Calembert Stella   Canfield Claude Carretta Jocelyne Chauveau Anthony Cheah Jansen Chow Katerina Christou Christine Cilli Kathleen Conover Francoise Croigny-Manier Elaine  Daily Birnbaum Catherine De Ryck Caroline Deeble Lorraine Dietrich Veneta Docheva Michel Dt Myriam Dury Frank Eberle Andy Evansen Odette Feller Pasqualino Fracasso Christa Friedl Jose Herrera Gallegos Rukiye Garip Agnes Geets Kathleen Giles Angelo Gorlini Irene Gravender Victoria Grigorieva Xi Guo Fotini Hamidieli Hideki...

Born in Moscow region of Russia dipl. artist and childrenbook illustrator Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts and Artschool for Youth traditional watercolor technique. Member of German Watercolor Community "DAG" and Federal Association of Visual Artists "BBK Bonn" Working since 1986 as a freelance artist and picture book Illustrator as well as an art teacher, while holding occasional international art exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Italy (Fabriano), France, Belgien, Luxemburg, Malaysia. Took over leadership in the studio community for artists "DieKunststation" in Bonn (2011). Living since 1996 in Germany.

I am a Figurative Arts painter with an Abstract Flair, Art Educator based in Rhodes, Greece with my husband and teenage daughter. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. My studio is based in a light- filled room overlooking my garden from which I draw inspiration and serenity.  Painting offers me the chance to express the beauty I see in both Greek landscapes and people's expressions therefore my principal theme is nature and portraiture. My highest goal is to create a moment of stillness followed by an emotion in my viewer’s eyes. My favourite medium is watercolours, with which I fell in love with during the 2020 pandemic. Previously, I made figurative and almost abstract art pieces, using acrylic paints as my medium. As an exhibiting member and founder of the local art group VAN GeNS we have held exhibitions in order to promote the work of local artists in collaboration with local organizations. 

  Irena Noreikaite Petraitiene   USA/ Lithuania    I was born in Riga Latvia, grew up in Lithuania. In 2002 moved to San Diego California USA.  In 2008 I started taking classes at San Diego community College continuing education, watercolor class.  In 2014 i became member of San Diego watercolor society and Watercolor West.  I like growing flowers and I like painting them.

  Lorena Massa is an Italian painter. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cuneo in "Restoration and conservation of cultural heritage" in 2005, and in “Painting” in 2009.   Since she became a member of the Italian Watercolor Association in 2014, she have been participating in exhibitions, selections, and competitions at national and international level collecting many recognition and awards.   Her favorite subjects are humans, animals and flowers. She is in love with colors and the hidden simplicity and beauty confined in small things.   She lives in Robilante, Cuneo, Italy where she works and teaches art classes and workshops.

Agnes Geets, born in Mechelen, Belgium, is now based in Duffel, Belgium.  Throughout her life she always loved drawing but around 13 years ago, she got fascinated by watercolors after seeing a painting exhibited in the hallway of the hospital and decided to make a start in this wonderful medium.  A challenge, because she had to divide her time between her daily job, family and then painting.    Mainly self-taught, Agnes started to participate each year in a workshop given by a renowned artist.  It taught her to hone her natural ability and skills, influenced and inspired by them, making her the artist she is today.   The subjects Agnes paints are varied, but figure and portrait painting are her first love and her main strength. She is fascinated by how light and shadow can express features in a face and always tries to capture the personality.     Agnes is member of AIB, the Belgian watercolorsociety and IWS Belgium

My name is Ira Kukrusova.     I am an animal painter from Russia. As a child I loved modeling with plasticine.  Especially horses and dogs. But as a profession I chose a completely different activity.  I have no art education. I participated in many watercolor and pastel exhibitions.

Howard Eberle is a self- taught American watercolorist who uses drybrush to create the realistic detail found in his paintings. He considers himself a portrait painter of objects and is often drawn to simple, weathered subjects ravaged by time. The peeling paint of wood, rust and stone are all elements that challenge him to create texture with his brush. Eberle is a Signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor USA Honor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Watercolor Society of North Carolina. He is also an elected member of the Allied Artists of America. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he moved to Pennsylvania for a career as a department store display director. He worked alongside architects and developed an eye for negative space that has influenced his style of painting. His professional career as a watercolor artist began 30 years ago and two of his paintings reside in the permanent col...

It's an art where regret is impossible. I love the spontaneity, this osmosis between water and colour, this evanescence, this impalpable something, this continuously renewed challenge.   Being an enthusiast of large formats wich allow total liberty of movement, I just have to exploit the unexpected and let go. Everything that evokes an emotion can be painted. This medium is so subtle It lets us dream in the deepest parts of our subconscious, and there lies the pleasure and that is everything...

  Joel Popadics has been a professional artist for over 30 years. His watercolors have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States. He is the recipient of numerous national awards and has been featured many times in AMERICAN ARTIST, THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE, WATERCOLOR ARTIST, and WATERCOLOR MAGIC MAGAZINES.     Popadics is an advocate of watercolor and has dedicated his career to the advancement and appreciation of the medium. He is Vice-President and Treasurer of the prestigious American Watercolor Society (AWS) in New York City and a Past-President of the New Jersey Water Color Society. He has also served on the board of the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, NJ, where he currently teaches watercolor and drawing to adults and children.    Joel Popadics was born in Passaic County, NJ in 1961. He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is represented in some of the finest galleries in the ...

  Mike Kowalski bases his watercolors on personal sketches. Sketching in pen, pencil and watercolor he captures the moods, and compositions close to his home in Melbourne, Australia. Born and raised in California, Mike started entering art shows as a teen and eventually earned a BFA from Utah State University.  He lived and worked as an illustrator in California and Washington in the USA for 50 years before moving to Australia in 2014.  Mike still works as an illustrator specializing in architectural subjects, however spends most of his time painting internationally award winning watercolors and oils, as well as teaching workshops world wide. In 2015 Mike won the coveted Silver Medal of Honor at the 148th AWS International Exhibition in New York. His art work is influenced by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Emile Kosa Jr.  as well as the Australian watercolorists , Hans Heysen, and Harold Herbert.    Memberships include: American Wate...

An expressive Australian artist painting ‘contemporary nature’. Her unique style explores a variety of ways to share her love of the natural world. Often called ‘the rock artist’, her artwork has included paintings from natural water courses to ocean reefs and Australian bush scenes. Her unique style created on her artistic journey of 30 years, explores layers of colour and shadows, while capturing the essence of aromatic forests and free flowing waters.  Caroline has spent more than 20 years working with adults and young people in Fine Arts Education, showing her artwork in local and national, solo and shared exhibitions. Caroline holds a vast knowledge and technical skill in a variety of mediums, however she has chosen to specialise in the beautiful but often challenging medium of watercolour. Her artwork is included in many private collections nationally and abroad. She has a genuine passion for the importance of Art in our lives. Her artwork connects the viewer with nature, it’...

Artist Tatyana Dzhus (St. Petersburg), member of the Union of Artists of Russia, member of the Union of Artists of Estonia, member of the Union of Watercolors of Russia Tatiana Dzhus was born in Leningrad, lives and works in St. Petersburg. Graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (LITMO), St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after V.I. Repin (drawing classes) Creative nickname "Tatyana Juice" Works in various techniques and genres. The closest are the portrait genre in a realistic manner of performance. She is a participant, finalist and winner in various international competitions held abroad and in Russia: - Winner of the international competition in America, organized by AMERICAN ART AWARDS in the category "Portraits of famous people" in 2017 and in 2019, in the category "Watercolor Human Figure" in 2020. - Winner and multiple finalist of the intern...

Born in 1979. Started drawing watercolors in earnest from 2018. Currently publishing works on YouTube and Instagram.

I was born in Milan ( Italy ), where I still live, in 1962. After the artistic school, I worked as a free- lance illustrator, for advertising and magazines. When my two sons were born, I predominantly dedicated myself to maternity, just decorating furnitures, doors and everything that could be painted. After some years, I went back to work on paper; may favourite techniques are graphite and watercolour. I paint most of all nature, especially trees and I love to paint portraits of people, catching their look. My website is www.annapluda.it  Account Instagram annapluda

I started watercolor about 10 years ago. This quickly turned into a real passion with a thirst to learn and practice. My work is sometimes towards the figurative and sometimes towards abstraction where I completely free my imagination which allows me to find a very personal style of expression. My artistic practice is an essential source of freedom; working with water requires  " let go ". Whether in the wet, on fully or partially wet paper, the pigment spreads, diffuses, mixes with others, finds its way in unpredictable ways. I particularly like those moments when the mixtures are made, sometimes unraveled without my knowing it ... when the unexpected arises and where beauty is to be grasped just there when it passes ... Making nature our ally and accepting with great humility our complementarity also reveals all our possibilities, our beauty at the same time as hers. With it, as in any human relationship, making an alliance, becoming an accomplice and complementary can thus...

My name is Brenda Tenk from the Philippines.  I   always loved to draw and sketch. I learned that from my dad and from art teachers who always starts you off with basic sketching.  The first medium I learnt to use was oil.  Then, I shifted to acrylic because most of my friends were into it in Ghana.   But, when I came back to the Philippines,  I shifted to watercolor as it does not irritate my allergies. In my travels, I was always fascinated by great artists I see in the museums. Mentally, as I go through the museums in Holland and Germany and England, I asked myself, can I do what they are doing?     I like the colors of Gaughin and Van Gogh so I go for the yellows, the orange and the turquoise.     I use it often too in my paintings.     Like any other new artist I have tried different subjects, but, I always drawn to painting     faces, animals and birds.     I was always fa...

  " To pause, observe, meditate in a contemplative silence upon nature's beauty has become a necessity to man to safeguard his equilibrium from today's life-styles and to remind him that he also is part of the immense wholeness of the precious yet fragile natural structures."   (L. Dietrich) Born in 1952, Trois-Rivières, (Québec), Canada, worldwide awarded international artist Lorraine Dietrich, lives now in Shawinigan. She has been painting with transparent watercolours since 1988.  The public appreciates her serene watercolour paintings, whose dynamic, yet romantic floral compositions combined with glowing and excellent light-fastness colours are painted on high-quality paper. Flowers have been her main inspiration because of their diversity, sensuousness and symbolism, which she relates to the blossoming life around her. She focuses on the individuality, essence and spirituality of flowers. She likes to draw and paint from life and her elegant and timeless florals...

Full-time painter, Herrera Gallegos ( Oaxaca, México)  is one of the most active watercolorists in his country. Member of the Mexican Society of Watercolorists (SMA). He is not an academy artist as he only learned seeing some artists in the streets of his city.  He has also been a teacher in public and private schools. In recent years he has given numerous workshops in Mexico and abroad and has participated in several watercolor festivals getting some prizes. His theme is based mostly on the work of the human figure portraying the ethnic groups of his country mainly. Herrera Gallegos currently shows his work in his own gallery located in his hometown. 

Kathleen is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society, American Women Artists, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society and is a member of the Watercolor USA Honor Society and the International Guild of Realism.  The artist is an award winning artist, teacher and workshop instructor and has been painting in watercolor for more than twenty six years. Her realistic and sensitive portrayal of everyday life has won her many awards around the country. Her painting “Life Is Looking for Crayfish” won the National Watercolor Society First Place Purchase Award and will be featured in the Splash 23. The painting “Vanity” also received the NWS First Place purchase award in the 2019. Kathleen won the Grand Prize in International Artists Magazine for her painting “Perfect Peony” in 2021. “Life is Fragile” was a finalist in the ARC Salon 15 th  International Exhibition. ...

My preference has always been to express my feelings and impressions through drawing and painting. I attended the artistic community college in Vienna and took part in advanced courses of European and American artists, to expand my artistic perspective. Living part of the year in Europe (Vienna) and part in the US (Florida) I try to express the beauty that I see around me. I love the wonderful sense of freedom and slightly controlled chaos that watercolor provides.   All of my paintings begin with choosing a subject, whether I am on location or painting in the studio.  I look for interesting shapes, designs, and light patterns or meaningful interpretations. After a small value sketch where I plan my composition, I lightly draw on my paper for a general guideline.  As I apply paint, I look for inspiration in the scene, in the people I see, and in the paint on the paper.  I start to look less and less at the scene in front of me and more at my evolv...

Un été 1994  un stage aquarelle est organisé à Gerpinnes avec l’artiste Roger Lorand, à partir de ce jour je ne quitterai plus jamais mes pinceaux, avide d’en savoir toujours plus je participe à des stages, ateliers  avec de nombreux artistes reconnus. Sélectionnée à diverse expositions internationales, j'expose en Belgique au Luxembourg en France et bientôt en Grèce. Je partage la passion de l’aquarelle lors de stage et cours privé car depuis plus de 20 ans déjà comme véritable centre d’intérêt. Une liberté artistique par laquelle je réalise tous les sujets : marine, paysage, portrait, abstrait etc. avec  un  renouveau constant afin d’exprimer mes coups de cœur.