Interview with André Monet

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Interview with André Monet

Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of text texture and color exudes eccentricity and empowerment of its time, exemplifying the characters and personalities of its icons. Monet explored various mediums such as mosaic, collage and acrylics. More recently, he turned to the portrait. But not just any kind of portrait: blending collage of old newspapers and books, painting and varnishing, the traits of his characters are recreated with such precision that one might see a realistic photography arising from a distance. This new production reveals the strengths and weaknesses of individuals appearing on the canvases. With much success in recent years, Monet’s work has been exhibited in Paris, London, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Miami, Toronto, Montreal, Dubai and Hong Kong.

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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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