Kazi Ghiyasuddin
Kazi Ghiyasuddin is a contemporary artist from Bangladesh, who works in both Dhaka and Tokyo. He believes that merely copying nature is not creation. “I am inspired by the words of Paul Klee, who said that somebody will be a good painter, not creator. Turner's realistic watercolours are fabulous, but, I am moved by the abstract works of Paul Klee,” he says. The music of nature in its infinite splendour is a constant inspiration for the master painter, who captures nature's underlying harmony of colours in his arts.
Kumi Ito
Kumi Ito paints children's fantasy world with Japanese guache on paper. She says, "Children are the common treasure as any ethnic groups. Their innocence has settled our mind at rest and their smiles recall our feeling of human love and heal our injured hearts naturally. I left my job as a designer and began to create my idealized fantasy world, and to invite many viewers into my Art Show."
Leah Roff
Leah Roff creates illusions out of photographs that she takes. She plays with digital photography tools to make, out of a naturalistic photograph, a comic book world.
Lillian Kennedy
Lillian Kennedy is interested in the beauty and power of nature. Her landscapes continue to hone closer to her vision of nature which she sees with rhythm and luminosity. They go from abstract to naturalistic, which depict the luminosity and rhythm she sees.
Lou Ponderosa
Lou Ponderosa creates monochromatic acrylics paintings on canvas. His application of paint and the use of white and black to create a darker or lighter blue give the artworks a watery feeling, as if it was part of a body of water, like a river, lake, or sea.
M F Hussain
M F Hussain was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after The Partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.
M. Charmas
M. Charmas creates abstract acrylic paintings on canvas. The choices of colours, placement, and aplication of the same create an illusion of a landscape that can be interpreted as mountains on a lake or the beach depending on the viewer's vision.
M. Sivanesan
M. Sivanesan's works depict the daily lives of Indian culture, done in free forms showing people, especially women, and landscapes.
Martin Barooshian
Martin Barooshian is an American painter and printmaker. He is known for his ability to weave a tapestry of art historical influences with modernist elements and a contemporary sensibility. His work frequently dances the line of Surrealism and Expressionism, often with a pop and op art edge, incorporating aspects of primitive, Romantic, and Renaissance art. He has worked in a wide variety of media from miniature etchings to oversized oils on canvas. These have included woodcuts, lithographs, etchings and engravings with aquatint and soft ground, monotypes, gouache and watercolor paintings, and oils. He is also known for his technical skill and innovation.
Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald makes an oil, gold ring, plate glass and steel bolt combination on a group of canvases. Her work is mainly monochromatic and very vibrant. The cloudy look on the work makes the piece speak to the viewer and discover little changes every time the viewer looks at it.
Michiyo Yamamoto
Michiyo Yamamoto creates abstract striking works in silkscreen on paper. Her pieces have high contrast between light and dark colours and "splashes" that give an unorganized look to an organized background like a drop of water falling in a calm lake.
Min Soon
Min Soon creates acrylic on canvas paintings. Her paintings are somewhat dark, with a cloudy effect and sharp edges in the geometry depicted. The main geometric shapes depicted are triangles, but also lines are shown in harmony with cloudy -like colours that overlap with the geometry.
Miyoko Miyamoto
Miyoko Miyamoto creates mixed media sculptures with very specific characteristics. Her dolls are a living image of horror movies. They depict deformed human beings that could easily be found in horror movies.
Nao Nakamura
Nao Nakamura's art is done on saddle leather as opposed to on paper or canvas. For fifteen years she studied various techniques under professional artists: drawing, painting, oils, and inks, but, after her experience working in the fashion industry (and experiencing the endless cycle of producing new things only to have them be reduced to sale prices and then thrown out to make way for a new round of the next season's “latest thing”), she became frustrated. She thinks of her art as akin to tattooing one's skin; permanent, everlasting, cannot be erased, and genuine. For her, using paper or canvas is not daring enough (as that could easily be thrown away); she likes the metaphor of a tattoo and the courage it takes, to contemplate her art.
Nicol Rodriguez
Nicol Rodriguez makes mixed media collages on paper using warm colours. She creates a texture in her collages that the eye keeps exploring. The off-focus quality of the image makes collage more and more appealing to the audience.
O sholola
O sholola does monotype works on paper. His monotypes use dark pastel colours with black lines to make abstract worlds with lots of depth created by overlapping the colours with black lines and shadows.
Orko
Orko's art is focused on acrylic painting on canvas. He studies the use of line to convey an emotion and a state of mind. His lines make a 2-dimensional plane look like a 3-dimensional space in which the viewer can dive and experience different emotions.
P MansaRam
Panchal Mansaram, known as P Mansaram, is an Indo-Canadian artist whose art is primarily collage-based. His prevalent use of mixed media collage is known as Mansamedia. He uses overlapping to gain the viewer's attention and repetition of abstract forms and colours.
Pauline Gagnon
Pauline Gagnon creates monotypes and acrylic works on paper. Her monotypes are linear and with a great use of warm colors and overlapping technique. Her acrylic paintings on paper are linear with warm colours, but evolve to bright colours and plane shapes and lines receding in space.
Peter Dittmar
Peter Dittmar's works are based on "early education, the influence of the tropics, the power of meditation and Balinese spirituality forms a mixture of Eastern and Western influence."