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allows me to see images in a very special way," she says.
TIM TIM GAGNON GNON WWW.TIMGAGNONSTUDIO.COM Tim Gagnon likes a wide canvas to
tell his stories. "I love painting the land- scape, but I also love to tell a story," he says. He achieves this through careful composition, the use of bright colors and capturing as many details as he can within each frame. "I like subtle mes- sages in my paintings, especially when it comes to politics." But even when deliv- ering a political message, Gagnon says "I prefer to make people smile and think, rather than be in your face telling you what to think. My goal as an artist is to present the landscape in a diff erent way. I want people to fi nd beauty and peace in my paintings, but I also want them to think about them beyond just being landscapes.... I paint from my imagina- tion to ensure that I'm not restricted by what I see in a photograph." For Gagnon, the fact that a landscape is constantly changing is what intrigues him; he need only go for a walk or quick car ride to fi nd a whole new source of inspiration. "T is gives me the freedom to use my own emotions and thoughts to infl uence the painting," he says.
H G SARAH OODNOUGH
SARAH GOODNOUGH WWW.SARAHGOODNOUGH.COM
Contemporary, self-taught Northwest
artist Sarah Goodnough lives for the moment. "I work in an intuitive style of painting," she says. "I do not plan or have an exact predetermined outcome. I allow the creative process to evolve and spontaneity to fl ow from a painting's beginning to end." With a kaleidoscope of colors at her disposal, Goodnough uses glazes, splatters, scratches and drips to tell her story, which is how her paint- ings evolve "into an exciting picture with energy and a life of its own." Inspired by nature and the strength of the human spirit, Goodnough believes "it is impor- tant to create art that upliſt s the viewer. I try to capture the essence of life in a way that is fresh and unique [in] our every- day experience, celebrating and honor-
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ing it. I think by challenging what we view as real, we free our imaginations. Stretching our minds visually, and look- ing at the essence of a subject, we begin to recognize the beauty and possibility in everything."
K G CQUIE OUVEIA
JACQUIE GOUVEIA WWW.JGOUVEIA.COM
T ough her educational background
is in business, "I believe I was born an artist and have always had a need for expressing myself with pictures," says contemporary abstract artist Jacquie Gouveia, who cites natural landscapes and music as her two main sources for inspiration. "Color and the creative pro- cess are what really drives me to paint," she says. "I'm fascinated by how colors interact with each other and have the ability to create the essence of light or a mood. I'm also humbled by the creative process and how it off ers me the chance to connect to something bigger than myself. My biggest hope and goal as an artist is that I will always have this relationship with making art and that I remember to appreciate the journey."
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TIBI HEGYESI WWW.TIBI.CA
EGYESI Using rich colors and depth of fi eld to
capture the world he sees around him, Toronto-based visual artist Tibi Hegyesi is never short on inspiration. "Life in all its complexity is the endless source of inspiration for me," he says. "T ere is a story worth telling about a place, a face, a state of mind and certainly about a smile. Even the most mundane act occurring in a person's life is part of a unique and intricate adventure that's worth telling or painting in my case. In- terpreting and transferring these stories on canvas while evolving with each new piece I do is what's keeping me creating something new everyday." Hegyesi's personal approach has connected him to collectors near and far; his work can be found in in private and corporate collec- tions in North America, Europe and the Far East and he regularly exhibits in art galleries and at art events in Canada, the U.S. and beyond.
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ABBIE KOZIK OZIK
WWW.ABBIEKOZIK.COM At the heart of Abbie Kozik's art
are two ideas: T at there is beauty in resilience and survival. And that to recognize that beauty, we must also ex- perience that which is ugly. To explore this dichotomy, Kozik draws inspira- tion from the balance between growth and destruction and beauty and ugli- ness in nature. "Events in nature are not random, but happen for a reason," says Kozik. "In looking at our world, we have to ask, 'What are we willing to see?'" Kozik's connection to the environ- ment extends to her technique as well. "I hate to waste paint," she says. "When I'm done with a piece, I scrape off paint from the palette and, right then, another painting is developing. I smear these colors onto another canvas." In doing so, Kozik creates a one-of-a-kind layering technique that brings life and depth to her eco-conscious work.
RAY RA ARSEN Y LARSEN
WWW.RAY-LARSEN.COM T ere are few creative techniques that
Ray Larsen has not mastered. He's well- known for his lively paintings, sculp- tures and woodworking, as well as for the uniquely sculptured frames he cre- ates for each of his pieces. "I love color," says the man who has been called the "Picasso of Florida." "I have to do every- thing in color. I dream in color, I work in color," Larsen's whimsical, tongue- in-cheek style has a language all its own, but it's one that Larsen says has taken a lifetime to evolve. When inspiration calls, Larsen is ready to answer. "[When] I get a sudden urge to make a new paint- ing or sculpture, I can't wait," he says. "I have a preconceived idea, but the details emerge as I go along—shapes and colors juxtaposing almost intuitively."
PATTY MILLER HANCOCK WWW.ARTEXPOSTUDIO.COM/PATTY-MILLER- HANCOCK
TTY ILLER ANCOCK T ey say that those who can't do
teach. But in the case of Connecticut- born artist Patty Miller Hancock, she does both, claiming that having taught
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