Candidates FW2022
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Since 2013 I have been passionately dedicating myself to the spirit and essence of watercolor, using its transparency, lightness and mixing of colors to reinterpret the landscape.

Tere Lojero was born in Mexico City and studied architecture in her native country. From 1998 onwards she follows the steps of Watercolor and completely devotes herself to this specialty.

I am currently working on a series of watercolors in which I explore aesthetically and conceptually with still lifes composed of dolls from different periods, styles, materials and scales

Painting means to me learning to see, love and become one with what surrounds us. It is a connection to an inner energy that allows the release of thoughts and emotions into a dimension where peace and relief are abundant.

I believe that true art comes from the soul. No matter what the style or subject, it's a reflection of the artist's most intimate feelings and thoughts. Those are not to be questioned - or changed. When you experience a piece of my art, you are experiencing a part of who I am.

Most of my paintings have taken place in the park, surrounded by the chirping birds, fallen leaves and swaying trees. My art is a response to the trees, a communication that is always taking place.

Although I was born as a figurative artist, I define myself as a Curious Creative, that is why my Art is eclectic and experimental. I am always ready to accept the challenges, to face the problems to create something new and different.

I am an artist exploring nature as an entity that obscures and distorts reality.

He follows technical studies, however, always cultivating a passion for art and taking care of his artistic training at the Cignaroli academy in Verona.

What appeals to me most about painting is the exploration and the rediscovery of the form and the colour of everyday objects that we grow accustomed to and often forget to see with fresh eyes under ever-changing light conditions.

An indefatigable watercolourist selected by this technique to exhibit at the 13th and 17th editions of the Clermont Ferrand Travel Book Biennale (2012 and 2016) and at the 10th and 21st Bagnols-en-Beaujolais Festival des Aquarellistes (2006 and 2017).

Professional Artist born at Bagnols sur Cèze (Department of the Gard) in 1961, self-taught in painting and drawing, he lived at Bagnols, then in Lyon and Saint Etienne where he studied ingeneering.

Watercolor painting is capable of making complete expressive statements and as such, my work deals with ideas that I explore by developing a series of related works.

I love to paint anything that grabs my attention: situations, light and shadow, texture, people.

Born in Russia in 1972, Michael has chosen Montréal as his home since 2011. From there, his works continue to add to the beauty and value of both public and private collections around the world.

I am a self-taught watercolorist. I was born in the Arctic. And it shows in my work and my love for winter plein air. It would be a great honour for me to take part in a competition of such magnitude.

After many years of painting and exhibiting I realised that what I loved most were skies. They set the mood of the painting.

My work arises from the evocation of my time at sea, of happy and tragic moments, both on board and on land, the sensuality of lovers/models-models/lovers, and my personal vision of our society, in solitude, the one that always is present.

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Peter Quinn is an artist who seeks subject matter both in the everyday of his own locality and in more far-flung locations.

The sky for me is a source of inexhaustible inspiration, as well as the changing colors of the Venice Lagoon, which I have always been lucky enough to admire.

I paint all kind of different artworks since i was a kid. I'am an Historian and Artist painted many battles and religious moments as well as abstract modern contemporary Art, watercolour,pastel ,pencil .

I work in transparent watercolor. My style is illustrative and surreal.

I am a watercolorist who has always cultivated a passion for watercolor since childhood

Primer premio Alfredo Guatirojo Santa Marta Colombia,2021, Seleccionado en Caudete Albacete,2021, Seleccionado premio Julio Quesada 2021, Seleccionado premio Puig Roda,2021

Lucia Zamburlini is an Italian watercolorist. She loves to paint meticulously. Making portraits. Often they are children who immediately express joy, fear, surprise. Or elderly people...

teacher of art and animation

I am attracted to apparently contrasting subjects: flowers, unspoiled nature, urban views and architecture.

I am inspired by the environment - the nature, landscapes of differing characteristics, spaces and their defining traits. I’m interested in how the environment affects humans and vice versa.

Jan loved to draw and paint when he was a child already and has returned his passion as soon as his medical career ended in the 2000 s

TEvery present carries a transit map traced in our memory. "Soy tú" and "To those who love despite their pain and the pain that time makes bloom in the soul", are works that take place in the field of universal themes, such as the questioning of feelings and the degree of attraction or separation between people and the ephemerality of life.

I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating with a BA(Hons) in 1986. Since then I have been a professional artist with regular solo and group exhibitions around the UK and abroad.

I have been a visual artist for over twenty years with several individual and collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. Having been awarded several distinctions in oil and watercolor works.

I have been painting for over 20 years

Passionate about watercolor, I especially love portraits, I am attracted to human figures, for the stories they tell, the personalities they bring and the emotions they express.

My interest in watercolor is portraits of people.

I create my work on various surfaces: some seem stone-like, others are on handmade paper, while others are on canvas.

The desire and the beauty of investigating faces and expressions are the springs that transport me to a world where I incessantly continue to search for the "inside" of everyone ... sometimes I can sometimes not.

I love nature and its essence. I love light, air and space. I love the feeling of immensity that you feel immersed in it and I think that watercolor allows me to portray these emotions with the same freedom and lightness.

The essence of watercolor is, for me, the full expressive and emotional freedom experienced by the explosion of the pigment in the wet paper surface, freeing both physical and mental cages from any trace of the drawing.

Natalia Ushakova is a professional artist from Moscow, Russia.
She received master of art of Moscow State Pedagogical University Fine Art Faculty.

I primarily turn to watercolor to interpret the world I see around me. What most interests me are quiet and overlooked things. I sometimes have to hunt around with my sketchbook to find them.

I'm Medical Professor, Artist & Art Educator. I'm a Passionate Artist with a soul and Art Educator with a vision & mission.

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I studied at the B. V Ioganson's art school in the St Peterburg academy of arts. After art school I begun art history studies in Repin college of painting, sculpture and architecture. Member of SAy since 2015.

I would like to express full beauties of flowers which are harmonized with the color in nature with surrounding sunlight. I wish that the whispers of flowers would bring peace, happiness and healing to everyone.

I consider myself an intermediate artist who still has so much to learn. So I make an effort to study the works, techniques and teachings of. I find this habit very helpful for my own work and skills.

Watercolor is the path to calmness in the world of stress.

Painter in watercolour

I am from Quito - Ecuador. I have my Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Master Degree in Art Studies. My pictorial artistic work is made in watercolor and in acrylic.

Watercolor is my life! I am Membre de Mondial Art Academia, Vice President of the Bukovina Watercolor Association, member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, member of the Union of Designers of Ukraine

The world of art has always fascinated me especially when I paint in watercolor.

The works applied are all my own

For about thirty years I have been following the world of watercolor, carrying out numerous internships with established painters, mainly following Master Pedro Cano with numerous internships in Spain and Italy

Danielle Beaulieu enjoys giving renewed life to antiques.

My watercolours are at the crossroads of a deep reflection: how to represent what touches me in order to extract the detail that will catch the eye.

By observing the details of everyday surroundings, I find endless ideas from Nature.

Art is everything in my life, being able to express what you feel by painting, bring back memories of trips in watercolor or with a drawing, is something wonderful.

Plastic and audiovisual artist, teacher in the areas of design and photography

Giovanni Balzarani is an Italian professional watercolor painter, graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome.

I’m mesmerized by the fluidity and mingling of colours. They possess a physical weight and tension. Their movement is affected by gravity and by the forces of mutual interaction.

I am 64 years old artist from Bulgaria, working in watercolor and acrilic media.
I have graduated Veliko Tasnovo City University Of Fine Art 1982

I am mainly a watercolorist and the lines of the Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman provoked me.

In my paintings I try to express the light and therefore the color that is the protagonist.
Each watercolor has made me dwell in that place where you feel the stillness of the moment.

I am a free lance watercolor painter and participated in many international contest and in most of them my painting has been selected.

I paint what attracts me in the hyperrealistic style since 2017.
I like to surprise the spectator, to make him dive into the heart of my painting.

WITH WATERCOLOR IN SEARCH FOR LIGHT AND SHADOW IN INTIMATE AND URBAN SPACES, REAL AND IMAGINARY

I paint in watercolor with passion and love for art.

“The footsteps of light, the strings of being, the breath of the earth, the sound of silence – all this can be depicted in watercolor”.

In my painting I put heart and emotion on my head

-GRADUATED IN PLASTIC ARTS (UNC). PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER, ILLUSTRATOR, DIPLOMA IN COACHING. I COURSE SUBJECTS OF THE CAREER OF CINEMA (UNC)-I HAVE TAKEN NUMEROUS COURSES OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Ana Munoz Munoz has gone deep into several watercolour techniques by using different supports, combination with other media and distinct ways to apply watercolour pigments

In love with mediterranean light and colors. I’m interested in spontaneous, in one go watercolors. The more unpredictable is the effect, the more exciting the process of creating. Always trying to reach the maximum impact on the viewer.

Born in 1973, Juan-Carlos Zeballos Moscairo is a Peruvian painter. Juan-Carlos Zeballos Moscairo studied art at the National University of San Agustín, in Peru, then at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in Brazil. Juan-Carlos Zeballos Moscairo is inspired by his daily life to initially make a large number of sketches.

When you come in contact with a person, the eyes and the lips are the elements that focus the attention, that direct the communication.

In color I drown my suffering, from color I draw my strength, with color I dye my dreams, I have color inside.

The main theme of my work is a man. Man as a human being and man as a sexual being. His behavior, emotions, sexuality, sadness, fear, pain. At the beginning of my artistic research of bodies and human behavior I was impressed by drawings of Egon Schiele.

My name is Elena Palmroos. I live in Finland. I’m watercolour artist and a teacher. Selected for International exhibitions and festival of watercolour.