Vladimir Zhdanov, 1959 | Siberian landscape painter

Russian painter Владимир Жданов was born in Omsk and currently lives in Gatchina, St. Petersburg.
Theme of creativity: the Siberian landscape, the images of ancient Russian cities and royal residences, still life, female and children's portraits.
His works are in many private collections in Russia and abroad, in particular: the German foreign minister, the mayor of New York, the consul United States in St. Petersburg, at the American Embassy in Moscow. About the artist filmed two movies, one of which was presented at the All-Russian Festival TV film in St. Petersburg in 1998. In 2000, the chief researcher on the art of the twentieth century. Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, DM Dmitrienko recommended purchase of contemporary art two works by the artist as having high artistic value.

Stanka Kordic ~ Abstract/Realist figure painter

Stanka Kordic is an American painter born of Croatian parents. The cultural tradition provided to her by her family armed Kordic with a strong work ethic, and a passion for life that can be seen reflected in her success as a freelance artist. After graduating the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1985, Kordic traveled Europe, taking in as much art as humanly possible - searching for her own voice as a painter.

Ildiko Neer ~ La foresta incantata

"Per sfuggire al mondo non c'è niente di più sicuro dell'arte e niente è meglio dell'arte per tenersi in contatto con il mondo".

Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1749-1832

Matthew Scherfenberg | Figurative photographer

Matthew Scherfenberg is an American photographer.

"Most of my work focuses on the human body, the form I think is most beautiful to human eyes.

Often I attempt to distill out all the identity and emotion and present only the aesthetic element. This is not meant to be sterile. I want to provoke. I want to stimulate. I want whatever the observer feels to come from inside themselves. I make art for the sake of art.

I do some commercial work, but mostly art for gallery shows".

Frode Nyboe, 1980 | Surrealist /Minimalist painter

Norwegian painter Frode Nybø, a full-time-painter, was born and live in Aalesund, Norway, a place where mountains, fjords and wheater gives inspiration. In recent years painting as a hobby has developed into a passion.

I`ve explored both oil and watercolor as medium - but these days I only use acrylics for my paintings. It suits my patience better. The natures colors, phenomena and lights are my resources for inspiration.

Ildiko Neer ~ Dreamland

Budapest-based photographer Ildiko Neer enjoys composing impressive natural environments retouched photos all together in the series called “Dreamland”. With beautiful colors, beautiful landscapes and enigmatic paths are discovered later in the article.

I started taking photos in 2009.

My pictures express the feelings and moods what I felt during my trips in the last few years. If I try to imagine myself, I see someone walking on the road straight to the light.

This kind of light the photography and the post-processing in my life.

In the dreamland that I create I feel myself at home.

I belong to the forest. I am under big trees, waiting for the miracle to begin.

I invite you to take a trip with me. Just relax and fly with your thoughts.

Thanks for visiting...

Velichko Roman, 1968

Russian painter Velichko Roman /Величко Роман was born in Biysk. In 1993 he graduated from the Aircraft Institute, Flying Apparats Department in Harkov. More than 15 years he has been indulged into graphic design.

His creative work picks out with romantic features such as striving for the concentration of philosophy with art, the expression of freedom of rational, use of symbols independent of rational interpretation. Each of his works is the expression of unique emotional state that makes the audience get deep in thoughts and involved into the creation. The painter's creative work is the reflection on himself, the connection of inspiration and skills.

Claude Debussy / Paul Verlaine | Clair de Lune, 1869

Clair de Lune is a French poem written by Paul Verlaine in 1869.

It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque of the same name.
The poem has also been set to music by Gabriel Fauré.

Your soul is a delicate landscape

Where roam charming masks and bergamasques

Playing the lute and dancing and seeming almost

Sad under their whimsical disguises.

While singing in minor mode

Of victorious love and easy life

They don't seem to believe in their happiness

And their song is mingling with the moonshine,

With the sad and beautiful moonshine,

Which makes the birds in the tree dream

And sob with ecstasy the water streams,

The great slim water streams among the marbles.