The
“Romantic Anonymous” Fellowship Organizes The First Stuckist Event in
“Under
the Cover of Romantic Anonymity”
A Fine Arts Group Show
We invite
all fine artists interested to submit
Paintings,
Prints, Sculptures
and works of Architectural Design
First quarter of 2007
Scheduled Venue: One of the galleries of the
Cultural Organisation of the
Community of
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Application for the use of one of
the community galleries at the community's Bureau for the Organization of Visual
Arts Events is still pending for approval of the Bureau's Visual Arts
Committee. Application bears the protocol number 7232 of |
Contents:
Participants
List (Click on names for
details) (to top of page)
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Stuckist Artists |
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Guest Artists |
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Eleutherios Yakoumakis (4th yr. student of Fine Arts) |
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Ilania Abileah (to
Participants List)
(Of
The “Romantic Anonymous” Fellowship, Athenian Group of Stuckism International)
Bachelor's degree, Studio Arts from
In 1996 I exhibited my work (which was primarily paintings that say it
with flowers and, some landscapes and miniatures) at Gallery "910" in
Member (and past president) of "Arts Morin Heights" participated
in solo and group exhibitions in the Laurentians, as
well as the Lower Laurentians Art Tour Route
des Arts since its inception in 2000. Vice-President of the Board
of Directors of Route des Arts. Have been contributing to the
local English paper main street
and now write a monthly report entitled ARTS Etc. as well as some
individual profiles about artists in the region.
Artist's
Statement:
My paintings
are inspired by my heritage, my experience as a woman artist and my flowers.
I paint in various techniques (acrylic, oil, egg-oil
emulsion, egg tempera, watercolour, mixed media, collage and, prints) and draw
my subjects from traditional symbols, poetry and, my rock garden. I am a
pacifist and through my art wish to put emphasis on the importance of
understanding, empathy, respect and love towards humanity, nature and, all
living creatures on earth.
Anthe (to
Participants List)
(Of
The “Romantic Anonymous” Fellowship, Athenian Group of Stuckism International)
Anthe says, ”Creating work
is much like breathing, you just simply do it because you must to stay
alive. The creation of my art is a means for me to express my faith in
God, glorifying him, and giving him honor through my
work. I have always had a love of the Mexican & Greek Iconography. My
travels to both countries have enabled me to incorporate their color sense into my imagery. I have felt the desire to
convey multiple meanings in much of my work and to provoke thought.
Nothing in life is exactly what it appears to be and art in my estimation
should reflect the same as life, the unexpected.”
She would also like to say," Thanks for all of you who have offered your support and that of my Lord that has enabled me to continue to create. As many of you know the past few years have been trying for me in the least. Several car accidents have left me with chronic pain. However I have triumped over darkness. Thank God and I am back to creating new and exciting works. It has been a great comfort for me that so many of you continue to support my efforts by attending my exhibitions and through adding my work to your collections. I just want to say thank you.This keeps my work very much alive."
Anthe’s original works vary in
size and materials and can be found in many local
She is very versatile in her
applications and the media she chooses. Other series include; 8 Virtues, which
consist of original hand pulled prints allegorical in nature, scenes of Greece,
Paris, France and scenes of and surrounding areas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
which consist of landscapes & buildings originating both from original prints
and water color paintings.
Godfrey Blow (to
Participants List)
(Of
the
Godfrey
Blow is an artist who has had many solo exhibitions beginning with his first in
His
most recent work is concerned with exploring symbols derived from natural forms
that give an insight into the nature of existence. The artist believes that the
truth is just as likely to be found in mythology and as relevant to our
appreciation of the world as scientific facts. Although elements in the work
are highly personal, the images used will strike a universal chord. The
development of a more spiritual approach to his painting is becoming
increasingly significant. Although spiritual in nature the work is not
religious and seeks to understand the world in a meaningful way.
The
work is also concerned with responding to natural events that shape our lives.
The sudden and recent death of the artist's parents has had a profound
influence on his work. The inevitability of death which is perhaps still a
taboo in our society, is dealt with in several of the artist's later work. This
is not to say that the paintings depict a pessimistic view of the world. The
work, in fact, presents life in all of its various facets and hopefully touches
part of our intellect and emotions.
This
work is the language of the visionary artist and we need to put aside set
ideologies and view his art in a new light. Personal truth sought with a
genuine desire and integrity is the important factor in the development of this
artist's work.
Jaime Braz (to
Participants List)
(Of
the
Jaime’s primary vocation is Biology; it appears though
that the Renaissance Man in him is not content to limit his creativity in the scientific
field only, so he paints, using with surrealistic humour a realistic visual
vocabulary – in great part “drawn” from his science - and expressing with it
his scientific experiences, his ecological concerns, his love for nature, for
his family and friends, for all those great little things that make life on
this planet worth living.
Jaime is a Stuckist painter par excellence, his works
of art being as honest as works of art can be.
Odysseus
Yakoumakis on the art of Jaime Braz
Ian James Burkett (to
Participants List)
(Of
the Ealing Stuckists, also of The “Romantic Anonymous” Fellowship, Athenian
Group of Stuckism International)
STATEMENT:
"In early memory
...music Was ringing 'round my nursery door"*
My earliest memories are
made up of a cocktail of music and art. The two have been inextricably linked
ever since.
The first song that I can
recall hearing was 'Buffalo Soldier' by Bob Marley, released in '76, the year
that I was born.
As a child I would spend
my days drawing and listening to music. I was always fascinated by the past and
would take references from history books. I had a teacher in primary school who
fueled the link of working to music. In her class she would play classical
compositions and ask us to draw to the music, expressing whatever images we saw
within the sounds.
To this day, that memory abides and makes up much of my working practice. I
still take pictures from sounds.
When I paint, I don't
start out with any set plans. I pick up pieces subconsciously or take them from
the last image worked as a way of breaking the blankness. The use of repeated
imagery links each painting to the past.
The busy nature that my work has, is an expression of the fast paced condensed
living that I see around me. The symbols that I use come from primitive and
ancient high cultures. My main inspiration is taken from 'Rock Art' by
indigenous peoples from around the world as it is free flowing, pure and
'touches my primal buttons'.
My use of figures with
'arms raised' comes from a vision that I once had when I was living in
They appeared to me as being human in form, with arms raised, basking in the
sunshine and celebrating life under the sun that fell upon them in what looked
at first to be a barren wilderness. In some way they were the souls of many
collected and captured together without feet to move, yet positioned in a
paradise.
I feel that painting is
like dancing, in that it is natural. There are no wrong steps, and when it
flows it is possible to dance across the canvas to a universal beat and rhythm
which we all hold within.
"These are the roots of the rhythm
And the roots of the
remain" *
* Quotes taken from the song 'Under African Skies' by Paul Simon, from the
album '
Susan Constanse
(to Participants List)
(Of
the
Susan’s accomplishment is not her powerful graphic
style, nor her masterful composition and use of colour and tonality. A huge
number of fine artists world-wide achieve a high level of craftsmanship.
It’s the very personal way in which Susan puts her
craftsmanship in good use, conveying thus to the viewer sentiments of tender
nostalgia, elegant irony, dignified melancholy, intelligent optimism, all
characterized by such a mysterious and simultaneously familiar femininity to
render her works “art by a true Lady”, in the most literal of senses.
Odysseus
Yakoumakis on the art of Susan Constanse
Elsa Dax (to
Participants List)
(Of
the
Who am I: Lives between
Statement: Most of my
paintings are inspired by myths, especially Greek and Roman Mythology. The
reason for this is that it provides scope for the imagination. A lot of artists
(painters, writers, architects, sculptors, filmmakers, etc) were also inspired
by this tremendous domain.
Terry Marks (to
Participants List)
(Of
the
TERRY MARKS is an internationally exhibited, award-winning
painter and printmaker.
Born and raised in
Terry lived in
Most recently, she has become apprentice
tattooist at Cherry
Bomb Tattoo, in Greenpoint,
* at the Central/St.Martin’s
€ North American translation: drunken soccer fans looking for
trouble
† the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of
Art
‡ for more information, see Stuckism
on the links page
Selene de Packh (to
Participants List)
(Of
the
Selene “… is a classically
trained artist who has mastered a variety of media. Her representational and
fantasy work may be found in regional public ollections
around
influences
… include the line drawings of Aubrey Beardsley; Dave Sim’s
Cerebus Comics; Max Earnst’s
Freudian collages; the haunted luminously desolate paintings of Paul Delvaux; and Angela Carter’s melancholy, lusciously savage
stories. Ultimately, though, the work is most indebted to those ferociously
intelligent ranks of sex warriors like Annie Sprinkle, Pat(rick)
Califia, Tristan Taormino
and Susie Bright ho have cleared a territory where womwn
can own their own sexuality with fierce pride …”
Extracts from
the archives of the “Blue Ruin Gallery”.
Daniel Pincham-Phipps (to
Participants List)
(Of the Southend Stuckists)
A fitting comment to a figurative charcoal drawing I sold to a friend, came from their son the morning after it was hung in
their home. The three-year old said “ Oh what a lovely picture mummy“!
Odysseus
Yakoumakis (to Participants List)
(Of The “Romantic Anonymous” Fellowship, Athenian Group of
Stuckism International)
I view art as a means for experiencing
the sacredness of the Cosmos. Consequently, my art aims to express ideas,
ideals and feelings and to convey messages at the personal, social, political,
philosophical and mystic levels. I paint my everyday experiences transformed
into myths, using the symbols of the world's ancient traditions and of my
subconscious. My style aims to be multifold, to
assimilate and combine elements mainly from the schools of the Italian
Renaissance, the Flemish and German “Primitives”, the Japanes
Sumi-e and the Chinese Gonbi and Xieyi, the movements
of figurative Expressionism and Surrealism, and from certain genres of European
comics.
“Narrative in a
multidimensional manner” would be the key-term for the interpretation of my
work. In each painting I attempt to illustrate - invariantly in a strictly
Figurative manner and using a multitude of symbols - multiple events which
occur simultaneously and compose major events. Moreover, I group my paintings
in “sequences” so that the major events they illustrate will constitute the
narration of a structured story, with a beginning, a culmination and an ending.
In order to bestow on my
paintings a “theatrical” or “cinematographic” atmosphere, combined with a
dream-like element of “slow motion”, I twist space, mostly by using wide-angle
perspectives with a too high or too low view-point, often by applying multiple
view-points which shift from one area of the canvas to the next, creating thus
for the viewer the illusion of seeing the work from the view-point of a moving cinematographic
camera.
One of my primary
intentions, “coded” in everyone of my paintings, is suggesting to the viewer to
take time and calmly peruse a work of art since I attempt, through my
work, to challenge the post-modern model of an artist(?)
“in angst”, rather than passionate
inspiration, who “produces”, instead of creating, an “art-product”, rather than an artwork, to be “consumed”,
instead of experienced and perused, by accordingly anguished viewers, too busy
for dedicating more than “a minute per art-item”.
As a remedy to the above deplorable
proposal of “post-modern artistic life-style” I attempt to counter-propose the
traditional ideal of the artist, who enters in an emotional, intellectual and
perceptive state of deep meditation, in order to create an artwork which the
viewer will fully experience only by entering in a similar state.
Annunziata Fiumi – Loosli (to Participants List)
Annunziata Fiumi, born 1946 in Passignano
at the
Matilda Hultgren (to Participants List)
Matilda
Hultgren, borne 1982, lives together with her husband
at Råslätt in Jönköping,
where she works with her art.
In her art she mostly describes what life is mostly about, relations; Relations
between humans, mankind and God, and the relations of humans towards themselves.
Other things that she encounters in life, big and small circumstances and
thoughts, find their way into her art.
Ray Wilkins (to
Participants List)