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Katherine Newbegin
E-mail: kathnewbegin@earthlink.net
Name of artwork: Cafe Milan I - 2006
Technique: C-Print
Size: 76.2 x 101.6 cm

The idea of family vacation has changed significantly in the past few decades and across several cultures, both in the East and the West. The fulcrum of the project lies in the exploration of the architecture of vacation. The photographs are deeply informed by the human relationships which took place in these spaces, but now only remain in the evidence left behind. This project has taken place across several countries including Cuba, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, and the US. As a child, we often traveled together and it is these times that I remember so vividly the feeling of being connected to my family and the excitement of exploring an unknown world. It was these vacations that we always looked forward to as the escape from our lives. And it is these memories that I still long for as an adult. Somehow in traveling to new countries I hope to capture the loss of that family vacation and those memories.
Monika Bielskyte
E-mail: monikabielskyte@gmail.com
Name of artwork: from series doors windows & walls: homes 16.
Technique: Lightbox photography
Size: 200 x 120cm.

I think true art is beauty, beauty in its large meaning, which doesn't include prettiness, decorativeness, functionality, financial profit, notoriety or any other so called contemporary qualities. Art should be some truth, & the truth always comes naked, with no unnecessary adornments. It should say something about life & world &
their fragility. It should serve not for the comfort of anyone, but for living itself. I do believe some works of art can save life, can make you believe in beauty.

I had a childhood I'd never like to come back to. Indeed if I'd have to choose whether to go directly to old age or to repeat the same humiliations again I'd never choose the latter. I have forgotten many things and there's no use bringing the dirty laundry back. I was lucky enough, & my wings weren't totally cut off but the knowledge
I learned was bitter & says that a small being can break apart very easily.
Rosario Pascuzzi
E-mail: rosario.pascuzzi@tiscali.it
Name of artwork: Lentino - 2006
Technique: Plaster cast, plastic lens, metal structure
Size: cm 20x20x25h

The idea was to re-interpret in a contemporary way the character of the dwarf made in plaster cast that we can see in the gardens of various houses.
I wanted to create a metropolitan version of this tiny dwarf that is projected to the dynamism of our present times.

Since I was a child I was keen on making objects, creating things for my child world for the desire to have new things around and for my amusement, I think this [continues] with age and articulate my creative process.
Violeta Juskute
E-mail: donatas@paintings.lt
Name of artwork: A Clothe - 2004
Technique: Hand paper
Size: 150 x 150 cm

For me, drawing is freedom. It offers a wide range of possibilities, more so than painting. In drawing, I can work with my emotions and convey them. It's like playing: a half-conscious activity where the material dictates part of the work. It is a dialogue. The paper itself inspires me, with all its different grains and textures. So does the drawing material, whether it's simple markers or something else.

Like the frosted windows that you were writing on when you were little: That too was a play with texture and many other factors dictating what you drew. Where you drew, the window became transparent again.
So it is with my drawings: Something becomes transparent, and it allows you to look inside your inner world once more.
Algis Griskevicius
E-mail: algis.griskevicius@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Aquarius-2006
Technique: Color Photo/ RC Paper
Size:

By participating in this project I would like to share my artistic, creative thoughts and ideas. Art - is shared and spread all over the world and open for all the countries and nations so I strongly support this main idea. All artists are equally able to produce and create different ARTS [and] share wonderful ideas and thoughts despite their nationalities.

In childhood every one of us was persecuted by various fears which appear ridiculous in our adulthood. In my creation I try to convey those empathies I experienced in my childhood. Those empathies are joined with ironic experience of an adult, that is why I would describe my creation as the materialization of tragicomic images. I wish every adult would not be ashamed to remember his own childish fears because those remembrances will help to preserve [sensitivity towards others].
Anat Hollaender- Klein
E-mail: analice@arteam.de
Name of artwork: Alice in Windows land - 2007
Technique: Photography/Collage
Size: 50 x 75 cm

If my work will talk" to anybody and - as a result of that - will help to put a smile on a single child's face
Joey Holder
E-mail: joanneholder24@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Rain Brain - 2005
Technique: Oil, enamel and marker pen on canvas
Size: 112 x 143 cm

The main focus of research and source of inspiration for me has always been nature. I believe a painting reflects nature in its creation, inheriting characteristics from the last, becoming part of a process, which never begins or ends. I paint by selecting elements from nature and transform and manipulate them, forging them with my imagination into a world very much my own. This gives the viewer a fresh look at the world, where they can explore something that they never knew existed.

I remember the way that I looked at the world when I was a child where everything was fresh and new. My imagination could create an adventure in anything.
I have tried to keep hold of this feeling throughout my life and want my artwork to reflect this.

I get into this childlike state of mind when I draw and paint whilst not thinking about the outcome of the finished piece. Using near subconscious actions I can create a primitive expression which gives me natural direction in my artwork.
Nataliya Slinko
E-mail: nslinko@yahoo.com
Name of artwork: Giving is better than receiving
Technique: Hard candy (sugar)
Size: 9 X 9 X 28"

I want to explore further the ideas of coexistence, re-conciliation, and acceptance within dualities, because I believe that such study can lead to a greater understanding of the world in which we live. I hope to expand the use of visual language as a mechanism for communicating ideas in their purest and most universal form.

As [an] only child I spent most of my time by myself. I relied on my imagination to fill in any lack of interaction or stimulation. My childhood was the most uninhibited time to create, dream, explore.
Thomas Edetun
E-mail: t.edetun@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Red house
Technique: Oil on board
Size: 50 x 50 cm

My art works deal with the meaning of what it is to be a human being. My thoughts, reflections and my own life's experience influence a great deal what I am trying to express in my art. I use or maybe it's better to say that I find different kind of images that I can use in my work. The images reflect something both individual and more common. I like to use figurative picture elements in away at the same time both serious and hopefully a bit playful.

The feelings and thought of my childhood is in some way still with me today, it's something that i can work with as an artist [my] whole life through.
Michiel Hogenboom
E-mail: michielhogenboom@planet.nl
Name of artwork: Soutine as a bum - 2004
Technique: Oil on Canvas
Size: 150 x 100 cm

Male peer group pressure fascinates me. I recognize the gaze of the men who know they are watched. I painted fisherman showing their catch, serious business. The image of the trophy hunter has an analogy with the classic pose of the painter, photographed alone in his studio. The artist with the strong gaze, scrutinized by an invisible tribunal of dead and contemporary fellow artists. The look over the shoulder of the photographer filled with mild paranoia and an enormous competitive fire. Encountering the visual word as a 10 year old - Zap comics, Suske en Wiske, Little Nemo, Anton Pieck, Captain Marvel, Mad, Gustave Dore, Creepy, Rien Poortvliet and loads of album covers - was crucial. Its shadows still striding beside me
BRIJESH Patel
E-mail: CONTACT@BRIJESH-PATEL.COM
Name of artwork: My mum and my grandmother - 2005
Technique: Medium format film scanned
Size: 12 x 12 cm

My work is a mix of documentary and fine art. I want to show that when these two ideas come together it can result in work that can have strong human narrative can be visually exciting. Within this I am creating work about India of 21st Century. And this is what I want to show the public, an India that is not about poverty, Bollywood or palaces. This work is about breaking away and attempting to change the perception of the public about a part of the world that is often misunderstood. My childhood was spent between India and England. Summer, Easter, and Christmas holidays were in India with my uncle and aunt. These times were essential for me to gain the understanding and love for India as a country that I had left at a very young age. We traveled around the country on adventures where I witnessed the diversity and many of its strange and inexplicable contradictions which even to this day are important in what makes me want to go back and create new work there.
Yuval Yairi
E-mail: yairi100@013.net
Name of artwork: Russian Tales - 2005
Technique: C-Print
Size: 107 x 113cm

My artistic work derives from a very personal place, but deals with subjects shared by many. I investigate Memory in relation to spaces, objects and time, ranging from intimate thoughts and memories to collective or common memory. I attempt to combine techniques of memorizing, starting from ancient Greek's Art of Memory methods for memorizing and recollecting, through medieval philosophers and thinkers, (Ricci, Bruno) with modern, digital technology, building my own Palaces of Memories. The work Russian Tales" which I chose to submit
Alejandro Mos Riera
E-mail: alejandromosriera@gmail.com
Name of artwork: Farewell Angelina - 2006
Technique: Digital collage
Size: 83 x 100 cm

All the graphical testimonies of all the epochs are false! They represent the life dress for the artists". All the images that we have of 'nature we owe' to the artists. We perceive them for them. This already should make them suspect. It is necessary to double carefully the objective reality
Alexander Caminada
E-mail: alex@caminada.co.uk
Name of artwork: Josh - 2006
Technique: Digital-laminated print mounted on a 3mm Foamex (rigid pvc) base fixed to a hidden 15mm deep wooden frame
Size: 61 x 92cm

My awareness of photography and art started around the age of 10 when I was given the opportunity to take photographs at school after one of my teachers discovered that I had an interest in it. The access to a camera and darkroom and the first images captured and printed are still the most vivid part of my childhood memory. I have been a photographer for the past 22 years and my commercial work is widely published in magazines, newspapers and a multitude of other publications. I was born in Amsterdam in 1963 but now resident in the UK since 1978, I?Äôve received no formal education in photography and left school in 1979 at the age of 16. I spent the following years as a member of an alternative community in Scotland where I was in charge of the photographic department. It was a time when I had to teach myself all the skills required to do photography with occasional guidance from visiting professionals. A few years later I started work for photographic laboratories in London specialising in black and white printing. During this time as a printer I received first prize for the one and only competition I have ever entered, the Ilford Young Printer of 1985. I turned freelance photographer in 1987 and started taking commissions in editorial, news and corporate photography. In addition to the commissioned work I have been very active in producing stock photography for several picture libraries. Fatherhood is for me perhaps the ultimate source and inspiration for my work. From the moment my two daughters were born they have been the strongest influence in my personal work as a photographer. The trauma and joy of birth, the anxiety of being a young parent to the development of them as young adults going through teenage changes are a constant supply of imagery and influences for new material.
Andrea Zarraluqui
E-mail: azarraluqui@yahoo.com
Name of artwork: Looking up - 2006
Technique: oil and enamel and acrylic
Size: 120 x 120cm

In my work I try to integrate nature's landscapes and peaceful elements of nature into our daily lives. A personal interpretation, using enamel to create textures and patterns within the painting that resemble and exaggerate those of nature with a special emphasis on smooth and rough contrasts. A western tradition with an oriental influence both in theme and materials can be noticed in all recent works, giving the same importance to shapes as to the materials used. Having lived in 2 very different places in my childhood, both London and the south of Spain, I would say it has influenced my palette in a very clear manner. The strong colours of Andalusia and the happiness of the people from Cadiz 'contrast with colder landscapes and characters of the Brits. This difference is a trait of my character passionate and cold and is very present in my work, due to a double-city upbringing.