Jean Michel Garczynski
2007 Pastel
50 cm x 32 cm

Horizon de Lumiere

Found through La Passerelle.

Will Wilson paints still life, portrait, figure, illustration,trompe l'oeil and various self portraits. His work is extraordinary. Have a look.

Asolutely Nothing is a photography site that makes one want to continue to explore. Says the author of the site, "this website is where i post my own attempts at taking pictures and it also aims to keep cyril campbell's memory and photography alive." I love the layout. Most images were taken with a canon eos 20d, 5d, eos 1n, nikon f601, or a rolleiflex.
(This must mean something to some of you) I heartily recommend a glace at this varied and beautiful site!

Nicoletta Tomas Caravia Madrid (Spain) is a selftaught painter. A virtual gallery of her figurative painting, mostly about love and passion~ Images of her beautiful work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel can be found on her website. She says that:

I didn’t realize it before, but now I know, that for me painting is the best way to discover my own essence, to take the rocks out of my load; to live, to be alive and to be my own self, definitely. It is fascinating to know that I do not know anything, that every day I learn.

...has a fabulous site created by Lessrain. Sound included. Best website of the year 2006 by Creative Review. Sonja herself was voted "most up and coming new Photographers of 2007" curated by Getty Images/Cannes.

When you look at fashion Photographs again and again, it's hard to find an image that you haven't seen before. So I remember when I see something that I'm a bit jealous of. Sonja does that. It's that ability to create an iconic image without it looking unnatural.

~ Rankin about Sonja in the Independent 06/2006

Interview in Bak Magazine in 6 of 03 - Says Sonja

"The excitement does not lie in the big, the obvious, but in what is hidden. The things you don't see in daily life."
- Sonja Mueller / Bak 03

The entire interview is here (in English).
A small part of it is

In response, here is a quote from Gustav Vigeland, 1932: "My goal is to be better, better in myself and to become better in my work.

And the path, the means to this, I do not see or find outside myself: not among people but inside me. And therefore I keep to myself - not in quiet meditation, but in motion, at work. The more I work, the more clearly I see, the greater my imagination becomes. My hands are slow, they cannot keep up."

She also received a 2006 Art Director's Club award.

This is The Witch found under portfolios/ Alter Ego. Also by a tree....