Anothony Emmolo

Anthony Emmolo takes a fully immersive approach to his art seeing the experience that leads to the creation of a work as part of the work itself. Having lived much of his life throughout various areas of Asia Anthony’s masterpieces tell a rich story of tradition and culture through a beautiful pallet of soft and vibrant contrasting colors. The precise and elegant arrangement of objects throughout each piece exemplifies their individual importance but also creates a harmonious balance compositionally. Read more about Anthony’s amazing journey and how they influences his art below which is from www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

In Support Above

The silence of the world of Asian temples would be the perfect setting for sincere self-study and self-expression. Knowing this, Anthony moved his studio to Taipei, Taiwan with the aim to remain in Asia for ten years. The year was 1988; he was 24 years old and had just graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City…

Since that point in his life, he has visited many countries, walking everywhere with his sketchbooks. Writing notes and drawing pictures helps to open his mind to a world of different sights, sounds and smells that are uniquely Asian. He paints some of the objects that have come closest to his heart. The refined handle of a Chinese calligraphy brush with its horsehair. Teapots and Sake pots that were there with him during his moments spent with friends and the moonlight. Many of these treasures traveled with the artist to The Great Wall of China, Yellow Mountain, along the Yang Tze River, to Korea and Japan, to temples and on train rides throughout the countryside, as drinking tea has long been his way to commune with nature, or with the people of a village.

An object loses significance when it is displayed as a part of a large group. In a Zen temple, the Japanese monks will display one piece of pottery on a shelf that could hold many. In this way the pottery is revealed and the viewer is able to celebrate the color, texture, its perfections and imperfections. This is the essence of Emmolo’s work.

After a six year Taipei, Taiwan experience, the artist moved to Kyoto, Japan where his art changed forever. “The refined impressions of Kyoto are a teacher in themselves. They feed a person with a harmony of color, space and texture in a way that I’ve not seen in any other culture.” When he visited a Noh drama theatre for the first time he saw clearly that divinity can speak to a person through art. It was on that evening that he created the aim to never pick up the paintbrush until he could “be there” with the brush. “And that is when painting took on a higher meaning for me.”

In the year 2003, after four years in Northern California, the artist embarked on yet another Asian experience. This time home became Shanghai, China. Shanghai, a modern city bustling with 20,000,000 people is situated an hour or so away from a number of classical Chinese villages. It was there that Emmolo could penetrate some of the deepest of the ancient Chinese arts. Tea ceremony, dance, flower arrangement, sculpture and painting became his newest interests.

It was in Shanghai that he created his beloved Art For The Heart, which is a charitable project that allows his art to serve society.

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Denis Ribas

Born in Perpingnan France and now living in Catalonia Denis Ribas has seen much beauty throughout his life and as an athlete who spends time outdoors it is no wonder that he developed the desire to paint his surroundings, both urban and natural. Unique in his method is a modern impressionistic style of thick paint much like impasto painting infused with an art deco palette. As an active person in life he likes to see art as a process and to him a painting is not complete until he sees and hears the reaction of the viewer. This is the moment he enjoys the most about a painting because it reminds him of his reactions to his subject matter and his ability to approach life with youthful wonder as if it is being experienced for the first time. Below is an excerpt from our website, http://www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

A proud Catalan, Denis Ribas was born in Perpignan in 1954.During his childhood his father, a famous mountaineer

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and writer, instilled in him his passion for nature.

Denis originally trained at the Perpignon School of Fine Arts. Denis only paints
en plein air (outdoors).

As soon as the artist has selected the landscape based on the angles, the hour of the day, and the brightness of colors he paints on the finest linen.

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Hines

The beautifully nebulous quality of Hines artwork captures a visceral moment that begs to be seized. Much depth is achieved through the composition of colors as they transition through a range of values lending to a sense of voluminosity with passages waiting to be explored to a far off distance that can be seen through an fading diving line. The colors themselves are transcendent and calming in their ethereal environment. Coming from a background that places him at the epicenter of two of the biggest movements of Abstract Expressionism, New York and San Francisco, Hines has distinguished himself through a fusion of multiple influences. Below is an excerpt form our website www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

The Artist Hines is a full time artist living and painting in Sausalito, California. Hines began as a pencil artist but in 1994 he began exploring painting. By 2000, bored with the rigidity of representational painting Hines became interested in abstraction and began studying works from the New York school of abstract expressionism particularly the artists Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman and Franz Kline. In 2003 Hines moved to the Bay area to be with his now wife, Dinene. He joined the Artists Guild of San Francisco and began regularly exhibiting his abstract paintings. His abstract paintings evolved to include mixed medium, collage, figurative abstraction and what he terms “intuitive painting.

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“Boundless Color”

In June of 2010 responding to changes in his personal life and wishing to return to a more classical approach to painting, Hines decided to abandoned texture and focus on color and expressive brushstrokes. The edges in his paintings softened or disappeared at the same time he began to intensify and expand his range of colors. The style of these new paintings is ethereal having an atmospheric, sometimes celestial feel to th

em, reminiscent of J. W. Turner. Hines’ approach to color and blending creates beautiful transitions of colors while his flowing brushstrokes express the spontaneity of emotion and movement.

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Pietro Piccoli

Pietro Piccoli

This time we stick with the same theme of European port cities as we did in the last post but in a new vein as we discuss recently introduced artist, Pietro Piccoli. Piccoli has taken a classic theme and popular style of modern impressionist painting and reinvented it with unique broad brushstrokes and palette knife applications that abstract the environment with cubist undertones. Often times he will experiment with the way light dances on the trees in the foreground giving his painting a unique sense of depth and lush amount of color. Please enjoy Picocoli’s works on our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com and read more about him below.

Pietro Piccoli was born in 1954 in the small town of Montopoli di Sabina in central Italy. At a very early age, he became fascinated with the arts and, at the age of sixteen, was enrolled by his parents in Latina’s high school for the arts.

Luci e Vele a Bosa Sardegna

By the age of twenty, Piccoli was off to Rome, which in the early 70’s was an exciting place for a young artist. It was a hotbed of new ideas and on the cutting edge of the international art scene. Piccoli immediately immersed himself in this new environment, experimenting with new ideas and absorbing the innovative concepts of the many artists whose studios he frequented and to whom he apprenticed himself. Moreover, for a year or so, he traveled in the north of Italy and visited Paris and Zurich.

The 80’s comprised a second period of active experimentation in Piccoli’s career. He investigated new mediums and sought new ways of weaving together the major strands of his style, realism and abstraction, visual detail and imagination. Variously, he tried impressionism, expressionism, and fauvism. Within ten years, he had found a definite direction toward the synthesis he was seeking. His colors became brighter, his brushwork more free. Soon he began adding patches of pure abstraction as a sort of “out-of -focus” overlay in front of the pure landscape. These patches serve as a visual relief from the strongly geometric architectural forms. In his most recent works, the subject matter has become incorporated into the abstraction.

Tim Cantor

Once in a great while an artist comes along that revolutionizes the art world in a completely unique and innovative fashion and Tim Cantor is just that. His works tell compelling stories layered in metaphor and symbology often focusing on the perseverance of the human spirit and within the past eleven years poetry now accompanies his work lending context to an ever expanding reservoir of expression and creativity. Starting as young as age six Cantor quickly gained momentum as an artist and by the age of fifteen already had a piece entered into the White House. With his unique illustrative surrealist style, he is an artist that will no doubt leave his mark on the world for many generations to come. Read more about his fascinating history and those who influenced his career on our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

Tim Cantor was born north of San Francisco in the summer of 1969. In 1975, Tim Cantor’s father recognized his son’s uncommon knowledge with drawing and went into his attic in search of a box of oil paints and brushes that once belonged to Tim’s great grandfather. Tim immediately began painting with the same supplies that his British ancestor had made a way of life with as he traveled throughout Asia, Europe, and America nearly a century earlier. Tim’s comprehension with oils was instantly visible, and his obsession began. His first oil painting came at age five.

By age fifteen, Tim Cantor was given his first gallery exhibition where one of his paintings was acquired to hang in the White House, thereby instigating an immediate demand for his unusual talent. Throughout the following years, his paintings would travel the world with exclusive exhibitions in Athens, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, Venice, New York, Beverly Hills and San Francisco. Creating meaningful works of art became intertwined with his survival, his

Beauty's Privilege

desires, and his greatest affections. The majority of his time creating his paintings has been lived in the solitude and quietness of night. Thusly, his underlying concentration gained a connection to his personal senses that aided in the development of his own writing style that explains much of the profound imagery within his compositions.
While the future of his art is unknown, what can be assured is the determination that he has to his undeviating obsession; an obsession that was born into his infancy and has dwelled in his blood without end; an obsession that merged with the fondness for his bride Amy, and will forever embody that love in the painted images that exist because of her adoring bond.
Today, the diverse enthusiasts and collectors of his art comprise of people from all parts of the world. If he lives an average length life, he will likely have one of longest authentic art careers known. One could say that this mysterious artist possesses a rare combination of extraordinary talent, unpredictability, and pure artistic nature to set his name in the history books of tomorrow. Yet for now, Tim Cantor keeps far from the madding crowd, shrouded in his studio, painting every night from midnight until morning.

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Fernando Alcaraz

The brilliance of Fernando Alcaraz’s works are in their simplicity. He captures that rare delight all of us experience now and then when we stumble on to a beautiful place to discover we have it all to ourselves. This Spanish artist focuses much of the time on painting a quiet beach after people have left for the evening and have parked their boats on shore. Read more about this varied artist below which is an excerpt from our website, Hanson Gallery Fine Art.

Beachscene

Fernando Ibañez Alcaraz was born in Alcoy, Alicante Spain in 1969. As a child he was drawn to the artistic side of life which drove him to begin studying forms of art at the age of 15. For six years Alcaraz worked under his mentor, who was also an artist and teacher, studying artistic techniques and focusing on his drawing abilities. At this time he also began attending classes at the local art school, Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Alcoy.

Although his years of studying left him with skills and interests in pastels, watercolor, and pencil drawings, Alcaraz chose to focus his studies in oil painting.

Alcaraz has participated in several collective and individual exhibitions throughout his career along with winning several awards for his inspiring canvases. In 1985, he placed second in the IV Concurso de Careles de Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos in Ibi, Alicante; he exhibited his work at the Encuentro Mundial for the Fraternidad Hermana, in the Palace for Exhibitions and Congress of Granada in July 1992; in October 1992, he exhibited his work in a collective exposition in the Sala de Arte EMECE of Alcoy; in 1994, he participated in a collective exhibition at the Casa de la Cultura of Sollana in Valencia; and in 1996, Alcaraz participated in the Sala de Arte EMECE of Alcoy’s Grand Collection of Contemporary Teachers of Realism.
Ancient Spanish villages with their stucco buildings and tiled roofs, budding roses growing along weathered walls, and romantic beach scenes are Alcaraz’s forte. His unique use of light and shadow create depth against his textured canvases. Viewers are enticed with the reality of his subjects and feel as though they too are able to experience his soft-hued, quaint Mediterranean afternoons.

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Damon Hyldreth

With industrial grade steels of all sorts ranging from Cor-Ten steel used on bridge construction to polished stainless steel Damon Hyldreth is both an engineer and poet with his masterful creations. Damon has the ability in his art to capture the quintessential moment where energy in a state of rest begins to manifest into a kinetic force. When observing his steel works that can be seen publicly throughout the world, one can not help but see a transformation or metamorphosis, an inspiration to become something more. Read more of Damon’s own words from our website Hanson Gallery Fine Art.

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My work stands as a reminder of the connection between man and nature, even as the world around us becomes increasingly removed from this essential and most basic union. While the metals I use are clearly man-made, the result of my collaboration with them is a blurring of the divide between nature and structure, space and form. This results in a strong symbiosis between the formal elements of my sculpture and it’s surroundings, both architectural and natural.

My work in sculpture is highly linked to the process of transformation. I consider the potential energy of my materials and lure out of them the sensual and organic forces of nature. I blend emotion with form, allowing the work to evolve, probing shapes, investigating their capacity to change. I seek to reveal the nature of the material, allowing it to take on a life of it’s own.

I create art that challenges people’s expectations. My sculpture embodies the tension between stasis and impending movement; despite its weight and volume, or perhaps because of it, metal can dance and even suggest song. Ideally a viewer engages with my work on a subliminal level enabling them to have an experience of a uniquely personal nature. I work with Cor-ten steel, stainless steel, bronze, and carbon steel. These diverse metals, with their varied looks, suggest forms individualistically.

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Javier Mulio

Javier Mulio keeps it simple. He sticks to the classical and timeless theme of still life and is one of the best in the world. Nestled in Alcoy of Spain, this world renowned and highly awarded painter presents a contemporary spin  on his still life paintings that are both elegant and whimsical. Enjoy the skills of this painter’s use of a fan brush and detail brush on our website www.hansongalleryfineart.com as well as view his bio as seen below.

Internationally known simply by his first name, Javier was born in Alcoy (Alicante), Spain on Christmas Eve, 1957, and soon began demonstrating his prodigious creative gifts.

Fragile Thoughts

At the age of 16, he was enrolled in the noted academy of Mila Gomez where he studied and perfected his technique under that classic Spanish master.

Upon graduation in 1976, he became a professional artist, eventually achieving international recognition, first at an international exhibition in Granada, Spain in 1982; then later at other international exhibitions, notably in Chateauroux, France in 1996 that led to the introduction of his work to the United States in 1997. Since then, his work has been regularly shown in New York, Atlanta, Sausalito and Washington, DC.

His art has been acquired by major collectors worldwide from a Saudi Prince to corporate executives in Saudi Arabia, Japan, Jakata, Bahrain, Holland the United States.

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Donna Young

No one creates a beautiful  hybrid of classical and contemporary styles better than Donna Young. To add to her repertoire is a series of themes that span from lucid colored expressive water scenes to expansive impressionist landscapes. Read more about this amazing Washington artist below as seen from from our website Hanson Gallery Fine Art.

Still Water

Donna Young’s devotion to startling jubilant color is contagious. Inspired by the French Masters, such as Monet, Matisse and Van Gogh, Donna invigorates her canvases in dynamic immediate brushstrokes. Sparkling tones used in her lush landscapes and opulent water reflections are layered with expressive rhythm. Her scenes are poetically textured with spirited energy and allow the viewer to connect to a stunning appreciation of our natural world. Sensuous pattern, tempered with vigorous color, tell a story of an impressionist vision through the use of an abstracted contemporary approach, giving the viewer a sense of quiet harmony and space. Her experience of life, passion for color and refinement of technique combine to offer incredible works that are rich in energy, a celebration to the eye, and seem almost as timeless as nature itself.

Donna is a graduate of Burnley School of Professional Art in Seattle, WA (1976), and has exhibited constantly while received numerous artistic awards. Her visions of nature have resulted in exhibitions in major corporate headquarters as well as having earned a strong following among private collectors and celebrities.

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Carolyn Reynolds

Many years ago at the request of a client, Carolyn Reynolds created a commission incorporating gold leafing and immediately fell in love with the medium and has produced a great many works with gold or silver leaf serving as the backdrop for her beautiful and expressive paintings ever since. The mastery she wields over this delicate metal is unparalleled and this month she is being featured for the first time in our gallery alongside her son, Eon Burchman whom she has passed down this unique trade to. Where her sons work is more subtle and airy, Carolyn’s work has striking contrasts and vivid colors. Here is a link to the show featuring Carolyn and her son, Familial Treasures. Also, find out more about her below from our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

Carolyn has been painting, drawing and sculpting since she was a child. Graduating from University of California Irvine with a BFA Fine Art and Art History, Carolyn believes her nature themed pieces bring a healing quality, as well as a sense of well being, harmony, and tranquility through her subject matter and use of color. 

Having been commissioned to do an Asian themed art piece Carolyn fell in love with Gold and Silverleaf as a medium. She now works almost exclusively with the medium.

The physical process begins with coating and sanding the canvas until it becomes a silky surface. Then she smooths on a traditional red paint, lays the gold or silver leaf, and coat it with layers of varnish. Using the finest quality sable brushes, Carolyn paints layer upon layer of paint and varnish developing the image until it culminates in a moment of light! Carolyn’s biggest inspiration is her grandaughter who paints anything and everything she can imagine.

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