Special Moments

Dianna Ponting Life Time - Signature Member                 Web Site      Canada   It was Dianna's love of Canadiana that resulted in an exciting invitation to display her works for the Queen and visiting heads of state during the 1987 Commonwealth Conference. This fondness for our heritage is evident in the stirring paintings she shares with all of us. In an image of a derelict automobile, children in a washtub or flowers in an antique vase one can sense her invitation to close our eyes, smile and remember when .... Childhood memories of life on the Canadian Prairies are interwoven with the present to inspire work that is timeless and renowned for the realism and detail used in expressing it. Created via many different mediums, Dianna's use of light, shadow and texture combined with rich color or subtle washes results in a wonderfully distinctive style.

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Styling

Wim Heldens Life Time - Signature Member Web Site   Netherlands   The Dutch painter Wim heldens was born in 1954 in Sittard, in the south of the Netherlands. Heldens explored renaissance techniques and three- and two-dimensional form, including abstract structural patterns (the influence of abstract notions of form is always very close under the surface). Also, the treatment of light by masters of Dutch 17c painting like Vermeer, Terborch and Nicolaes Maes held his fascination. He began to be asked regularly for exhibitions in galleries in the Netherlands. For him, painting is a psychological analysis, a narrative of inner life and experience. His realism, which is rooted in renaissance painting but never a stylistic pastiche, gives form to the tragedy of the human condition in the fragmentation which characterizes much of 20c life.

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Dan Simoneau Web Site    United States   I have been creating art for over 30 years. Art has always been a major part of my life. I make an attempt to work on something  creative every day. I have been fortunate to have several of my pieces win awards in major juried shows and to have pieces in  several collections throughout the country. I want my painting to make people look closer at the beauty around them. Beauty is present in many forms. In today's fast-paced  world I want people to slow down, relax and enjoy the abundance of beauty in the World. My recent work has been figure studies  in Acrylic. While my paintings may appear to be diverse in subject matter, they all really are concerned with one subject, light. I  have always been fascinated with the way light (natural and artificial) impacts the subject it falls upon and creates a mood. I try to capture the many moods of light in my work.

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