Interview with Seize Happywallmaker

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Interview with Seize Happywallmaker

Seize Happywallmaker is self-taught painter living in a geometric and colorful world. His experience and inspiration come from urban arts, where he began. he developed a very personal graphic code and uses the energy from the colors as a therapy. He has been working for many years on reflections based on networks and connections. His symbolic language speaks of nature and the universe. He believes that geometric forms associated with the simplicity and the strictness of structures and composition can lead to a great purity...

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Interview with Nina Mae Fowler

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Interview with Nina Mae Fowler

Nina Fowler was born in London in 1981. She graduated with a first in sculpture from Brighton University in 2003. In 2008, she was nominated for the BP Portrait Prize with her painting of the Royal Ballet dancer, Carlos Acosta, and in 2010 her work was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. More recently she was shortlisted for The Young Masters Prize 2012 as well as being commissioned by Oxford University to depict Professor Richard Dawkins and Hermione Lee. She has worked as archivist and assistant to John Dunbar (founder of Indica Gallery) alongside being part-time Art teacher at South Hampstead High School. Her work is admired and collected by British film, music and fashion luminaries such as John Maybury, Jude Law, Sharleen Spiteri and Caroline Issa. She is included in private and public collections in Europe and the USA and is represented in France by Galerie Dukan. This year saw see her first public exhibition as part of the group show “Starke Frauen” (Strong Women) at Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg.

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Interview with Ian Johnson

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Interview with Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson was born in Syracuse, New York and lives and works in San Francisco. He is the Creative Director of Western Edition Skateboarding…

Ian Johnson’s style and visual language has an instantly recognizable character and unique voice.
His work draws its structures and graphic impact from his scope of influences that includes Jazz music, literature, and film.
Johnson adds elements of abstraction giving his compositions the expressive immediacy and elevated moods that are rooted in the culture and histories he references.
His paintings and drawings incorporate elegantly drafted elements of figurative line work and abstract patterns that combine with color building on his established and ongoing visual narrative.

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Interview with Dale Grimshaw

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Interview with Dale Grimshaw

Dale was born in Lancashire. He studied at Blackburn College of Art and then went on to achieve his Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Middlesex University. As a student Dale won the Apthorp Fund for young artists and then went on to win the Liquitex Student Award in the USA. As a result, he was able to exhibit at the Academy of Arts in New York and in the Cable and Wireless exhibition in London. After a break from his artwork, when he pursued a career in the music industry, Dale returned to painting and was quickly featured in the TV show ‘A Brush With Fame’. In 2006 Dale was a finalist in the both Pride in the House and Liberte D’expression competitions. More recently, he has contributed to the Street Art scene with a series of striking and dramatic woodcuts prints that he has pasted up in London and Europe. Dale has established himself over a period of six years as being one of the most respected and individual artists on the London art scene. Dale’s work has been seen in a number of group shows internationally in Paris, Berlin and in the USA.

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Interview with Carl SCREWTAPE Paoli

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Interview with Carl SCREWTAPE Paoli

Veteran Hollywood stuntman Carl Paoli, known for stunt doubling Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Swazey and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few, has translated his fearlessness into art.  His intrepid lifestyle is expressed on canvas as raw, intimate, figurative portraits delivered in an urban, contemporary style, while drawing influence from the masters. His art has been seen in the streets, galleries and museums of New York, Los Angeles, Florida and Chicago and sold world wide. 

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