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Sue Halstenberg | American symbolist visionar painter



Sue Halstenberg's paintings are vibrant portraits of love, beauty and healing energies. Her artwork is in Dr. Doreen Virtue’s oracle cards is also reproduced as stitchery kits, pillows and tapestries. Sue's art studio is in Ojai CA. Sue Halstenberg began her career working as a fashion illustrator for the Southern California department stores. A few years later she started her own business, accepting commissions for portrait and figure paintings in pastel and acrylic.

One of Sue's paintings, “Victoria”, was featured on the cover of American Artist Magazine and the Pastel Society of America, in New York City, juried her into their national association as a “Signature Member”. Well-known author Dr. Doreen Virtue asked Sue to paint five original pieces for the Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards in 2003. A dozen of Sue’s paintings have been included in Dr. Virtue’s Hay House projects. Sue’s original pastel of “Lakshmi” is in the collection of Dr. Virtue and now hangs in the healing room at her home. Sue paints and teaches classes at her art studio in the beautiful Ojai Valley of California. Her original artwork is on display in Ojai at Soul Centered and Janis’ Art Gallery, and in Ventura at Things From Heaven. Sue hold s a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Johan Messely 1927 | Belgian painter

Johan Messely grew up in the artistic world of his father Paul Messely, also a painter, who served as his great example and motivation. After his studies into technical engineering and later photography, Johan settled as a proffessional photographer in Menen, Belgium, but eventually decided to turn painting from being just a hobby into his main occupation. Johan aims to create scenes in which the subtle play between light and shadow takes the central stage. His oil paintings are sunny and colourful, and depict optimism and the joy of life. They can be descibed as figurative art, but with an impressionistic touch. Apart from oil on canvas. Johan also has a passion for pastel, in which he depicts the woman in a natural pause. Again here, the combination of light and shadow are an important part of his work.

Watercolor by Takashi Akasaka

Takashi Akasaka was born in Yokohama in 1953.
After his graduation from the university, Takashi Akasaka worked for 30 years in architectural illustration.

But in 2006 he began to paint using transparent watercolor, so he had to learn a new way to paint using this artistic medium.
Takashi Akasaka had to change his point of view, going from illustration that must match the reality to the artistic watercolor painting where he wants to express the feeling of the scene and take care of composition and pallete to use.

Since 2009 he has had private exhibitions in Yokohama and he has already scheduled one exhibition for 2012 in Kyoto.

Guido Borelli painting

Guido Borelli da Caluso is an Italian painter. He was born in Caluso in 1952. He comes from an artistic background, and his family always encouraged him to develop his talent, as early as childhood. He won a contest at 13 and held his first exhibition at the age of 17 at Ars Plauda Gallery in Turin. After high school, he received his artistic training at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. Today, he has permanent exhibitions in art galleries, in Italy, France, the United Kingdom and in the U.S.

Markovtsev Tatyana painting

Russian painter Tatyana Markovtsev [Татьяна Марковцева] is becoming one of the most interesting artists-Minimalists of today. She is able to express powerful and complex human feelings just via a few elegant lines, capturing a wide variety of human emotions with amazing simplicity and clarity. Tatyana literally makes viewers feel the lines of her works. Now, her original Minimalistic style is finding many fans around the world.

Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family over 16 years ago, settling just northwest of Chicago. Tatyana, an engineer by trade, has never imagined that one day her works would have universal appeal and touch hearts of virtually everyone who has seen them. She only discovered a strong desire to drawing and begun her journey to mastery less than 2 years ago, 2010, completing over 200 works since.
Her truly unique, Minimalistic style brings lines to live, combining fresh elegance and dynamics of movement in each eternal moment. Tatyana is able to communicate complex emotions without ever drawing faces. She doesn’t name her works, believing that viewers should not be affected by her interpretation of the scene, but make their own minds. People often see themselves and their feelings or life situations in Tatyana’s art, making it relevant to many individuals.
She is masterfully using India ink on cold press paper and various materials to reach the hearts and minds of modern art lovers.

Christina Nguyen painting

Watercolor by Vivek Prabhukeluskar

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916)

Kennington was one of the founder members of the New English Art Club in 1886, and its first Secretary. He was well known for his compelling pictures of the urban poor, although he also painted less emotive scenes from everyday life, and portraits. The rich colouring, smooth handling of paint, and subject were probably inspired by the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish artist Murillo, who also painted poor children.

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The Wedding Dress

Robin Erickson painting

Robin is a Fallbrook resident specializing in watermedia painting. She's been painting for 15 years and has studied with nationally known painters Judi Betts, Sandi D'Allesandro, Judy Morris, Ted Nuttall, Carla O'Connor, John Salminen, Sally Strand, and Donna Zagotta. Her work is a synthesis of realism and abstract design; her interest is in reflections, street scenes reflected from shop windows that can be viewed as layered abstractions.

She has received awards in watermedia shows around the country, and has attained Signature Membership in the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, and San Diego Watercolor Society.

Elena Yusheva painting