Margareta Lilleskold

Noir e Blanc

Group Exhibition Of Contemporary Art

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IndexInterartex page 2

Galerie Thuillier page 3

Catalogue page 5

The artists page 43

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The GalleryGALERIE THUILLIER is a family business that has existed for over

fifteen years. It is located in the heart of the Marais near the Place desVosges and the Picasso Museum in the gallery district of the capital. Thefirst goal of the gallery is to present the main artistic currents present onthe European market, in the context of twenty-one shows a year, a wide

and varied clientele who regularly attends the neighbourhood.

The gallery gives professional artists or promising amateurs theopportunity to exhibit and sell their creations in this area predestined.

As a true place of trade and privileged meetings, it has an internationalclientele in a space of 150 square meters, on two floors, with varied

works for reasonable prices.

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Embrace the soul, Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2014

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Stone Flower, Oil on canvas, 70x50 cm, 2014

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Metamórphosis, Oil on canvas, 90x75 cm, 2015

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Notte Toscana, Acrylic, 68x68 cm, 2007

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The Funeral, Acrylic with mixed media, 46x55 cm , 2014

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Still on the roses, Oil on line, 41x66 cm, 2014

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In the garden, Oil on linen , 46x61 cm, 2014

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Stillness, Acrylic and tempera, 90x96 cm, 2014

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You call me out upon the waters, Acrylic on canvas, 50x50 cm, 2014

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The Sacred Garden, Acrylic and mixed media, 40x40 cm, 2014

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Rendez-vous, Oil on canvas, 100x75 cm, 2013

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Nordic light, Watercolour, 54x41 cm, 2014

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Peony, Watercolour, 66x72 cm, 2013

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Girl, Oil on linen, 85x56 cm, 2014

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Sunbeam, Oil painting, 75x94 cm, 2013

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America, Paper, charcoal & oil on panel, 69,5x31,5 cm, 2013

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Noir et Blank I, Acrylic on canvas, 50x70 cm, 2014

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Noir et Blank II, Acrylic on canvas, 70x100 cm, 2014

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Teddy Bear Hug, Acrylic on canvas, 70x70 cm , 2014

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Ballerina, Watercolour, 50x40 cm, 2013

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Love Rider, Acrylic, 100x100 cm, 2012

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Il pleut, Acrylic on canvas, 61x50 cm, 2015

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Shared Feeling, Acrylic, 57x79 cm, 2014

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Recollection, Acrylic on D'Archas 300 paper, 50x72,5 cm, 2014

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Everything changes with you, Oil pastel, 35x50 cm, 2014

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La Sfida, Acrylic, 50x70 cm, 2010

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A happy butterfly, Aquarelle, 58x48 cm, 2014

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Tenerife, Aquarelle, 58x48 cm, 2012

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White anemones, Aquarelle, 58x48 cm, 2014

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Notturno # 12, Oil on canvas, 100x85 cm, 2012

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Notturno # 20, Oil on canvas, 130x95 cm, 2012

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The Gates Open, Acrylic, 100x100 cm, 2014

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L'Orto di Mariuccia, Oil on canvas, 90x70 cm, 2014

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The Cup, Acrylic, 80x90 cm

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The Empty Room, Acrylic/screenprint, 92,5x102,5 cm, 2013

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The Room at Farmer's Square, Acrylic/screenprint, 92,5x102,5 cm, 2013

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Small and scared, Acrylic painting, 80x80 cm, 2015

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Gianluigi Alberio

Sara Theres AnderssonSara Theres Sandberg born in Sweden 1971. A countrygirl thatgrew up on a small farm with her family youngest of four children.Early in life she learn to work hard. In childhood,she made aportrait of an older man and she realized what a pen in her handcould do on a piece of paper. To her it was magic. The art was inher life to stay. And she bought watercolours. But she wantedmore. And at the age of seventeen she made herself familiar withoilpaint. She began to paint on canvas with her fingers directly inthe paint to get to know the colours soul. When they found eachother and become friends,she began to use brushes. She gotgood response from others and started to show art at Artexhibitions. Nowadays,she paints mostly with painting knife. SaraTheres expresses her feelings in a dynamic and powerfulexpression that tells the viewer a unique story. Often layers ofthick paint on the canvas and sometimes on the same artworkthere could also be small parts of unpainted canvas. Sketchingand drawing has allways been close to her since that magicmoment. She paint from her deepest memories and emotions andeverything that makes an impression on her shows in her art.Sara Theres showed her art on a international Art exhibition forthe first time in Grimaldiforum in Monaco 2013 and later sameyear at Louvren in Paris. Sara Theres has also participated in Artexhibitions in New York,Manhattan and Italy 2014.Website: www.saratheres.seMember in Swedish Art Assosiation and BUS

Simona Antonelli

Gisella Battistini

Kamen BonevKamen Bonev was born in 1978 in Varna, Bulgaria.He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy. Since 2002, he isassociated with the International Association of Art (IAA) –UNESCO and also a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.He is currently the exhibition director of Gallery 76 in Dubai. Hehas won numerous awards, including first prize in 1997 by thethen-mayor of Veliko Tarnovo, Dr Rumen Rashev. In 2013, hebecame the recipient of the first prize of the fine arts festival inRas Al Khaimah, UAE, held under the patronage of the SheikhSaud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation. His artwork has beenexhibit in Art Monaco, Louvre – Paris, Rome, Berlin, USA,England, UAE, Bulgaria.

Isabel Carafi

Maurizio Caruso

Maurizio Caruso was born in Italy. He paints since time immemo-rial, from childhood he drew everywhere, spattered, leaved hismarks and, as he did not have the money to buy paper sheets, heused anything that could be used: even the bread wrapping.After junior high school he went to the Liceo artistico statale ofCosenza (an art vocational school). After his art diploma, hemoved to Padova for work, hanged out in nearby Venice were he

painted the panorama’s beauty, glowing in the watercolour andthe charcoal technique.Later he moved to Florence were he ran in some design contests.Then, for a while, during the eighties, he lived in the north-west ofTuscany, on the Riviera Apuana of Byron’s memories, where hesettled in Carrara as well as in Massa where he came to be partof the accademia; there he was among Massimo Testa's andCorrado Guderzo Genova’s Group. In 1988, he moved to Bolo-gna where he learned the techniques of all times masters likeGuercino, the Carraccis, Guido Reni, Morandi, etcetera.He has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions,he authors design pages, books and pamphlets covers, postersfor other artists as well as for cultural events.He is continuing his work, searching for new painting themes, anendeavour that have brought quite a number of reviews fromhigh-flying names in Bologna’s and Italy’s cultural arena.Contact information:Maurizio Caruso's Postal Address: V. B. Monterumici 36/3 –Bologna. Phone: 0515877590. Mobile: 3386006141E-mail: mauriziocaruso@fastwebnet.itWebsite: www.mauriziocaruso.it

Alba Catarsi

Sidsel CookSidsel Cook was born in Norway but grew up in Sweden. She hasbeen living abroad for more than 20 years. She was raisedamong artists and started to paint in oil at the age of 12.Her grandfather told her “If people are moved by your art, youhave succeeded”. Ms Cook has attended several courses inSweden, Spain and UK but consider herself autodidact and wantsto follow her own path. But she has also done other things in lifesuch as worked within The Hair Care Products Industry for manyyears and she has also been the first Licensee for Matrix in GreatBritain. While living in London she was working as a free-lancejournalist, writing for Scandinavian Press. Her first exhibition wasin Fuengirola 1996. Ms Cook moved back to Sweden and hashad solo exhibitions and she has also participated in yearly groupexhibitions since 2007.Exhibitions that stands out are:World Art Foundations Exhibition in San WAF in Santa Fe, USA2010.She became one of ten finalists in a Talent Competition arrangedby Art Now Gallery in Gothenburg 2011.InterArtex International Exhibition in London 2015 where herpainting “The Family” was sold, a painting which illustrate the firstChapter in her newly released book, “97% Blue Jeans & 3%Champagne”.Website: www.sidselcook.hemsida24.se

Davide Cristofaro

Anders Ekelund

Anna EngebrethsenBorn in a little coastal town in Sweden called Falkenberg, AnnaEngebrethsen is a well-traveled artist.At only 27 years old, she has already exhibited her paintings ingreat places around the world. She has participated in exhibitionsat the Grand Louvre in Paris, at Grimaldi Forum in Monaco,Gallery 69 in New York, Art Gallery ADA in Barcelona and latestat Dubai International Art Center in Dubai, to name a few.

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With thick layers of oil, she tells the story of the often forgottenworld, the world that keeps all the forest creatures and containsthe spirit of life. With her unique technique she takes advantageof the Scandinavian color scheme and lets the abstract structureon the canvas create clear pictures of a flourished nature in ourminds. She finds her inspiration in the nature, in humans and ourhearts. Doc. Riccardo Baldelli wrote in an art critical review"Artists like Anna Engebrethsen could be the bridge betweennature and humans that we have lost and that only a young soullike Anna can give us back."Visit her website www.annaengebrethsen.com for moreinformation and pictures of her art works.

Rachele Falcini

Lena Frykholm

Michelina GattiMichelina Gatti was born in a village in the north of Toscana, Italy.As a child she moved with her parents and siblings to the town ofVästerås in Sweden. Art has always been her passion since herearly years. First she combined a working life in a privatecompany with her painting activities. Nowadays she is able tofocus entirely on her artistic occupation.She uses oil paint, water colour and acrylic paint. Her paintingstyle is figurative but not in a detailed and photographic way. Theimages, forms and motives are depicted in a blurred and floatingway; she wants to express feelings and emotions and she tries tocatch the soul of her motives when she paints.She has attended many courses led by different artists inVästerås. She has also joined several painting courses at aschool of art called Gerlesborg in the county of Bohuslän,Sweden, where artists like Lars Holm, Anders Wallin and HasseKarlsson were inspiring teachers. She has attended a one yearcourse in an art program at Skinnskattebergs Folkhögskolawhere she took classes in oil paint, water colour, acrylic paint andsilk screen printing/serigraphy.She is a member of the Swedish Art Association (SvenskaKonstnärsförbundet, SK), the Water Colour Art Association(Nordiska Akvarellsällskapet, NAS) and she is also a member ofa group of artists called Änglagruppen with a studio at the schoolof Sörby in the outskirts of Ängelsberg. Her paintings have beenshown in several individual exhibitions (about 20) and severalother group exhibitions. Some of them were juried exhibitions.For more facts, please contact Michelina Gatti by e-mail or on herwebsite.E-mail: michelina43@gmail.comWebsite: www.michelinagatti.com

Anna-Stina GerdinAnna-Stina Gerdin was born in Lindesberg, Sweden, in 1967. Inher early years she had the opportunity to learn different craftssuch as plant dyeing and making birch bark. This had greatimpact on her creativity and artistry. For many years she workedwith metalwork and now she often uses textiles and differentmaterials in her work. She makes imprints of it on her paintings orshe finds a way to include them in her creations.She uses acrylics which she mixes with water and pour over thecanvas. In the wet paint she experiments with different kind ofimprints she gets from materials such as lace, fabric, stones etc.In this particular painting you can see the imprints from horse-shoes. In her work she prefers to stay with the impulse for as longas possible. She let the colour lead the way and paint intuitive.

After many layers of paint she finally decides what to bring to thesurface to be seen by others. In her work different people seedifferent things and the artist finds that very interesting. Sheenjoys hearing about what you see when your imagination flows,your eyes go deeper, beyond the surface and let forms, shapesand figures reveal themselves before you.Since 2011 Anna-Stina has her own studio in Åby outside ofNorrköping where she paint and hold classes for all ages. She isinvolved in a project where schoolchildren can come to her studioto get inspiration to create and to be able to feel the flow ofcreation.If you are interested in seeing more of Anna-Stina Gerdins work,please visit her website: www.annastinagerdin.se

Giuseppina Giuntinelli

Rebecka Marie GustafssonRebecka Marie Gustafsson was born 1975 in Köping, Sweden.She moved with her family to Japan and lived there between1976-1990.In May 1990 she and her family came back to Sweden for good.Rebecka Marie has been painting since childhood and shedecided at an early age that she wanted to become an artist.She had her first art exhibition in the corridors of high school. Afterthat she continued to work with art assignments and art projects.She graduated from Oland School of Art in 2009 and got severalart assignments and art exhibitions right after graduation. Herbiggest art assignment was at Guldfågeln AB Restaurant, whereshe worked with four huge landscape paintings, photo art andwall paintings.Rebecka Maries first major solo exhibition was at OskarshamnHall of Art in January 2011. It was a success and fournewspapers wrote about it. The Swedish Radio P4 Culture invitedher to come and talk about her art and it was a great experiencefor her. Over the years she has had various art exhibitions inSweden and abroad.Rebecka Marie has her own way of painting and likes to workwithout brushes to challenge herself to work more from the heart.Rebecka Marie Gustafsson is also a photographer with a portfolioat the American site art+commerce and at Vogue Italia'sPhotovogue.Website: www.rebeckamarie.com

Eta Hedman

Freja HjälmbågeFreja Hjälmbåge is the Swedish artist that feels her roots arepartly coming from the original shape of a rock engraving fromFossum in Bohuslä in Sweden, 3114-2614 years ago, from TheBronze Age. ”A Dancing Sacred Goddess”.Because of her huge interest in the spieces homo sapiens, andthe development of this spieces, Freja Hjälmbåge studied toanthropologist (the science of humans/homo sapiens), she alsomade a lot of fieldwork. It was her own inner knowing that foundwich places to go. And she always found great ”power-places” outin Mother Nature, who had also been used back in the humanstory of time for various ”healing-aims”. In the year 2009 FrejaHjälmbåge made a big installation that was part of the exhibition”media art”, in the Arthall of Trollhättan, Sweden. It was called”The Big Mystery” and included screen prints on exclusive wovencottonweb hand crafted by herself, where one of the designswhere the original engraving ”A Dancing Sacred Goddess”.Painting, dancing, singing, storytelling, reading and playing music

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is the childhood background Freja Hjälmbåge comes from. She isalso an educated designer/manageress/textile-engineer, and aqualified healer. She have been working with her own classes intopics like colour science, shape science, construction science,individual development, drum journeying and meditative andsacred dancing. She has been working with children as well asadults.As an artist Freja Hjälmbåge is mostly autodidact, even thoughshe studiously learned some fundamental knowledge throughworking along with experienced artists. She was working withmodellpainting, portrait, still life, in various media, graphic andlinocut. But as the years went by she began dreaming of beeingable to release the concepts she had learned, because shewanted her feelings, deep emotions and spirituality to come outmoore freely when she painted. It took many years, and FrejaHjälmbåge worked in periods of time with the new way of painting,simultaneously along other things, like partly her own indiviualdevelopment and working with clients personal development andgroup meditations.Today Freja Hjälmbåge is a very bold artist who loves glorious,vibrant and strong colours and she find it practical for her to workwith different acrylic mediums. Her works come from her love andpassion, from her heart and spirit and she is alwaysexperimenting with new ways to express herself. It is the sacredpath of her life – ”FREJA ART Sweden”, love, positive energy andawareness.

Marie HolmströmMarie lives in Uppsala, Sweden. She is a mother of 5 children andhas also a background as a teacher. Her interest in art started1986 with a non-degree education in oil painting at the People’sUniversity in Umeå Sweden.Since then she has participated in a lot of courses andexhibitions. Still, she considers herself as mostly self-taught.Abstract is currently her form of expression and the inspirationflourish when the colours end up on the canvas. Painting hasbecome a lifestyle and her biggest passion in life.Website: www.konstgalleri.se/marieholmstrom

Lisbeth HäljesgårdLisbeth Häljesgård is a self-taught watercolour artist fromSweden, born in 1952, and she has participated in manyexhibitions in Sweden and in different countries, as in Iceland,Austria, Monaco and Great Britain.Watercolour is for her a fantastic means of expression. Shepaints mostly nature and landscape; it is her inner feeling thatusually determines most of the subjects. By suggesting motivesand sentiments, she wants to make the viewer complicit.

Kickie HögströmKickie Högström is a watercolor artist and a printmaker. She isalso working halftime as an art teacher at Stockholm UniversityShe almost creates images of cats, flowers and landscapesShe’s watercolor painting is largely autodidact but she has anartistic education from Gerlesborgs Art College, Grundskolan förkonstnälig utbildning and several courses.Selected Exhibitions/ Solo: Kunstisalong Alle, Tallinn, Estonia(2014) Ramboden, Stockholm, Sweden (2011), Saltsjöteljé-Grunewaldvillan, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden (2005, 1999) GalleriGreger, Stockholm, Sweden(2005, 2002) Galleri Max, Ystad,Sweden (2002).Selected Exhibitions/ Group: Antica Fornaze Grazia, Deruta,Umbria, Italy (2014), Galleri Tersaeus, Stockholm, Sweden

(2014), 3RD Lessedra International Painting & Mixed MediaCompetition, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012) Kista Art Fair, Stockholm,Sweden(2009) Falsterbo konsthall, Sweden (2009) MarziartInternationale Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (2007) 3rd LessedraArt Print Annual, Sofia, Bulgaria (2004) Kelekian Art Gallery,Beirut Lebanon (2004) UNESCO-palace, Beirut, Lebanon (2003)Högström is represented in several public halls (Sweden) and incompany and private collections.

Liudmilla Johansson

Monica Johansson

Josefine Julén

Ann-Louise Järvklo

Ann-Louise Järvklo is a Swedish artist. Her paintings often showspeople in different surroundings. She paints portraits and picturesof imagination, sometimes with inspiration from TV, newspapersor a dream. She also has done some history and mythologicalmotifs. She starts her paintings with doing a grisaille on a draw-ing, after which she continues with many layers of oil colours. Herpaintings take a long time to produce. For some years she hadher daily profession as a decoration painter with techniques likeimitation of marble and wood. In Sweden she is represented withpictures in official places like schools, office entrances, hospitals,restaurants and in ordinary apartment houses entrances. Shehas also worked with restoration of wall paintings. She has donesome big paintings for one special place, wall.Her education is from several art schools for a total of five yearsand a Bachelor of Arts in art pedagogical in theoretical studies forthree years, art history and art pedagogic. She has participatedin many exhibitions in Sweden and some abroad exhibitions.Phone +468-7749598, mobil +4670-5899598,e-mail: arvkloartdeco@ownit.nuWebsite: www.jarvkloartdeco.se

Margoth KarlssonMargoth Karlsson was born and raised in Malmö, Sweden. Since1961 she has lived in Markaryd, by the historical border in south-western Småland, near forest and lakes that gives her greatinspiration. Margoth studied commercial art design, drawing andpainting with the Famous Artist's School and private of artist L.Lindberg (KRO) and worked as an art teacher in the 1970's.Her first official exhibition was with the Southwest Småland ArtAssociation in 1970. Since then she has exhibited her works innumerous exhibitions, including solo shows, joint exhibitions andjuried competitions. Margoth works in her own studio since 1974and currently paints exclusively in oil and the knife is her “brush”.She describes her works as “Abstract blue feelings in a greenworld”, where the blue colour stands for freedom and longing forthe sea, in the green world where she lives every day.The inspiration retrieves Margoth within herself, spontaneousrecollections, a poem, a journey or feeling. Nature, poetry andmusic as well as encounters between people are important partsof her life. In recent times Margoth has incorporated her passionfor the climate and environment in colourful works.Margoth was awarded with Markaryd´s Municipality CultureAward 2009 and also starred in the art book “Survivor” in 2009.She is a member of the Swedish Artists Association SK, the artistgroup AMIBEart and BUS, the Swedish branch of iffro (Interna-

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tional Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisation).Organisations that bought paintings by Margoth include munici-palities, businesses, art societies and many private persons inSweden and Europe.

LambarriLambarri, with a unique vision and approach about our role in lifeand the drama of loosing reality´s compass, express himself withthe simple argument allowed by substances and colors.Lambarri enters into the Arts in a committed and total way, afterstrolling through the different techniques and themes that suggesthim a fertile ground, finds the way or try to understand thepresence of being at this physical plane, so complex as thoughtand its programming and so simple and infinite as unconditionallove. It is therefore a journey in the sensations and emotions,more than in the intellectual interpretation.In society like in the human body, actions and movements are infull performance, these are part of the organism to which theybelong; artistic expressions are nothing but a way to understandour Universe and the elements comprising it. No subject isoutside the interest of people, curious, proud and arrogant inaddition to a long list. Entering the field that interests him, theemotions, and trying to find shortcuts to get directly to thesensations, in order to avoid the dangers of being received byprejudice and its complex system of knowledge, it is not easy toget out of the path of methodical programming systems causedby cultural, family and religious beliefs. The adventure is wellworth the risk of being rejected, criticized, accused and evenworse, not being able to demolded. We did not realize howinsensitive we become the more we intellectualize.He wonders if there is anything that human beings provide orinfluence on the great social movements of a humanity that couldact under the influence of a planet that generates changesaccording to their own needs. This leads him to wonder if perhapsthe human being is an actor with a script. Are we actors orwriters? Do we write a script or so we think? Do we just move? Itseems that even in our annoyance and disapproval changesoccur, the course of history continues to progress, we keep fillinglibraries, museums and galleries, the works still, the creatorsdisappear, time is responsible for cataloging a piece either astrash, decorative object or a piece of art.

Margareta LillesköldMargareta Lilliesköld was born in Stockholm, Sweden and nowlives in the Tuscan-Emilian Appenine mountains in Italy.She is fluent in Swedish and English and with a workingknowledge of Italian and German. She started her career as anapprentice in a Stockholm fashion studio and after qualifying, sheachieved her aspiration to work in Paris for the Chanel fashionHouse and also completed a one year course in fashion designat the Chambre Syndicate de la Haute Couture Parisienne.After two years in Paris she left for Copenhagen, Denmark whereshe took a course in pattern construction and fashion design atthe Kobenhavns Tillskurer Akademi. To realise her ambition shereturned to Stockholm, where she started a boutique and studioin the heart of Stockholm. Next step was a three year course atBeckman’s School of Design and after graduation together with afellow student she established a design company working forcustomers like IKEA, Boda Shop, Rorstrand and also manyoverseas clients. The next change was a move to Londonestablishing a Scandinavian shop in Regent Street, sellingcrystal, art glass, tableware and fabrics and regularly holding artexhibitions. In London Margareta took life drawing classes atFroebel College and portrait painting at Putney Art School. To livein Italy had always been her dream and in 2006 she decided withher husband to move to Italy, where they designed and built their

own house. Not finding many models, she worked with still lifeand 2010 started to paint abstracts mainly in oil and on bigcanvases. Her best time is spent in her studio overlooking thehills and mountains of the Apennines.Since living in Italy, she has participated in several localexhibitions and 2010 London summer and winter exhibitions atRussell Gallery / London, 2012 Bologna 2 artists at Galleria SaintIsaia / Bologna, 2013 stand at Scandiano Artfair, 2013 exhibitedwith 7 Italian artists Art&Co gallery / Parma, 2014 exhibited with2 artists Audomedica / Parma, 2014 Collective exhibitions in N.Y. Dubai and London, Currently contracted with Art&Co. galleriesin Parma, Milan, Lecce and Caserta.Website: www. margaretalillieskold. eu

Susan Lindström

Ulla LodestenUlla Lodesten. Born 1947 in Västerås, Sweden. Educated inBerghs School of Communication, Stockholm as illustrator. Shehas worked in her own company as art director and photographerwith private customers and publishing houses. She paintsportraits of pets and people and also portraits of houses andgardens. Author to the book Teckna Djur (Draw Pet Portraits),ICA Bokförlag 2003. Adult educations in watercolour, acrylic, drypoint and bronze. Today she works mostly in watercolour (animaland nature) and acrylic on canvas (teddy bears for instance). Herart is realistic and delicate with a kind heart for the subject. Whichcan be a beautiful landscape in spring, a romantic oldfarmerhouse or wild animals and pets. To see the light andshadows is important, she thinks and to be a good drawer.Website: www.loart.se.

Tanya LundmarkTanya Lundmark was born in Russia 1957 and lived in SanktPetersburg until she moved to Sweden 2002.Her education in Russia never had any connection to art. She hasgraduated a Technical University and later became a specialist inEconomy and Audit.Though drawing has been companions of her since childhood,she never painted. Tanya started painting 2011 after buying abook about watercolor art. She can say that she is mostly aself-taught artist but she met several painters in Sweden whoseadvice and guidance were very helpful in the shaping of herartistic approach.She has got a big fascination for watercolor as painting medium.To paint watercolors is for her a magical act. She believes thatwatercolor art is a very powerful way to express the feelings andcan be effectively used to represent the artistic vision on a pieceof paper. Watercolor paintings are considered an unique way tocreatively represent dreams, illusions and emotions using water-soluble pigments. This highly dynamic process makes eachpainting an exciting adventure. She likes to paint primarily intransparent watercolor because its character allows for awonderful blending of spontaneity and control.Tanya enjoys painting a variety of subjects including flowers,figures, wildlife, abstracts and landscapes. She finds theinspiration in light, texture and shapes of her surroundings.

Tatiana Markarkina

Mona-Lisa Melkersson

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Harriet MorlinUndergraduate education in the arts is Dalarö, People’sUniversity Stockholm, Goete's colour theory and RudolfSteiners’s philosophy Florence Italy, Vedic Art Stockholm etc.The people who influenced her as an artist and human being isartist Curt Källman, founder of Vedic Art. Since childhood, shehas had the insight she is an artist’s soul, but other parts of herlife meant that she had to wait to take the step to become aprofessional artist. She paints her pictures from inside their heartand soul ”ART FROM HEART” and shows her awareness in allaspects of life. She paints according Vedic Art, it is a paintingmethod which helps one to achieve a higher state ofconsciousness through creativity, beyond the limitations of theintellect and the demands of technique. Her painting ”Power inLove” represents her as an artist, and human being, the paintingis filled with her strong inner energy. She held her solo exhibitionat Gallery Knight Stockholm 2012, Group exhibition at the RoyalGarden Stockholm 2013, Gallery Quirinius Köping 2014, GalleryMowitz, Stockholm 2014, Group Exhibition Gallery 76, Dubai2014.Group Exhibition Gallery Pall Mall, London, etc.Harriet explores and heals herself through her art, and inspiredby all the meetings with new people. Her plans for the future of artis to give her paintings around the world, to touch people on adeeper level, and also to spread harmony and peace between allcultures on mother earth. She is open to all that is positive andcan please other people.

Gianni Muntoni

Rosy Muntoni

Elisa Muzzillo

Gabriella Nilsson

Gabriella Nilsson is an artist, born 1973 in Avesta, Sweden,where she still lives and works. Painting has become a veryimportant part of her life, above all because it makes her feelgood, but if the viewers like her art it makes her even happier.She works mostly with acrylic and oil colours and the motives andtechniques vary greatly. A lot of things inspire her, but you canoften find a sense of nostalgia in her art. Through the years thethemes have been everything from dancing couples, café paint-ings and cats, to nature scenes and also some Vedic art. Latelyshe prefers to create her “rain paintings”, where the motive oftenis a lonely woman walking in the rain with an umbrella and with adiffuse background. She sees herself mostly as an autodidact,but she has taken several courses both in art and graphic design,and also at a folk high school. She has participated in multiple artexhibitions the last couple of years, among others Stockholm ArtSalon 2014, but this is her first exhibition abroad.Website: www.galleriella.dinstudio.se

Domingo ParadaBolivian-American Artist born in 1941 in Sucre, Bolivia. StudiedArt at the Universidad de San Francisco Xavier of Sucre, Bolivia.Attended classes at the Museo de Arte Moderna of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil with Brazilian artist Ivan Serpa.Considered a pioneer, and one of the most important figures incontemporary art in Bolivia he moved to the U. S in 1966 wherehe continues his creative career. He has exhibited his work morethan seventy times.

His paintings form part of the private collections in severalcountries. His work also figures in cultural institutions. Herepresented Bolivia at III Biennale de Arte Americano, Cordoba,Argentina in 1966. He received an Honorary Mention in the 1965Salon Nacional Phillips, in La Paz, Bolivia.In 1969 he received an Honorary Mention at the "Art & Soul"Exhibition in Chicago. He also received an Honorary Mention inthe 1959 Poster Competition for the 350th anniversary of theArchbishopric of La Plata, Sucre, Bolivia. He received a FirstPrize at the 1963 Competition of the School of Medicine,University of San Francisco Xavier, Sucre, Bolivia, and the1964Gauguin Group of Ceara, for his artistic work in Brazil. In 1969 hereceived The Davina Wilson Prize at The 15th Annual Exhibitionof The Society of Painters in Casein, New York City, U. S. A. In1970 he was given The Fabian Zacone Prize by The 29th AnnualExhibition of The Society of Painters and Sculptures of NewJersey, Jersey City, U. S. A. In 1971 he was given the M. J.Kaplan Prize at the 17th Annual Exhibition of The Society ofPainters in Casein, New York City, U. S. A. In 2012 he won theVisual Arts Society Award in the 33rd Annual Mini Works onPaper Exhibition at Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville,Alabama.In 2013 he received Third Prize at the Colorful CompositionsExhibition, Leading Artists Online Gallery. U. S. A.He represented the USA in two international art exhibits: “LisboaInternational Contemporary Exhibition” in 2013 at the Meeting ArtGallery, Lisboa, Portugal. And at the“Downtown Chiado 14”in2014 also at the Meeting Art Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal. In 2014 hewon First Prize at the “35th Annual Mini-Works on Paper” Exhibitat Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Alabama. USA. Hereceived an “Honorable Mention” at the “38th Annual Beverly ArtsCenter“ Competition & Exhibition” in 2014.

Renata Magdalena

Eva-Lotta Persson

Jadwiga Podgorska

Patrizia Poli

Marketta Rokka

Marketta Rokka was born and raised in Lammi, Finland. Shemoved to Trollhättan in Sweden in 1976 with her husband Jukka.Together they have a son named Tim. Marketta has an educationin design and artist from Helsinki, Finland and has worked in theFinnish textile industry and in the Swedish car industry, SaabAutomobile AB. Marketta is a member of the Artists Associationin Trollhättan and part of the association’s election committee.She is also a member of the Nordic Watercolour Society.Marketta has always loved to paint and draw. Her main interesthas always been to create with fabrics and colours. Markettaloves to design and sew home textiles, patchworks andapplications. Marketta began to take courses in painting with oilpaints in 1983 by the artist Hans von Groothest and then paintedoil paintings for 15 years. In 1999, Marketta wanted to go intoherself and just release the feelings she had. She also wanted totry something new. Marketta changed oil colours to water coloursand it was a very positive experience. Marketta love paintingwatercolours. Marketta began to take courses in watercolour

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painting by the artist Thomas Niklasson in 1999. Later, she alsotook courses in watercolour painting with the artist MarionGustavsson and the artist Ingrid Graminsky in Gothenburg inSweden for several years.From 2010 Marketta paints in both oil- and watercolour.E-mail: marketta.5142@mac.comWebsite: www.marketta.rokka.dinstudiose

Andrea Branca Sargeant

Mikael Schmidt

Patrizio Serra

Chie Shirafuji

Marit Simborn

Margareta SkogsbergMargareta Skogsberg is an artist who lives and works in a smalltown named Arboga in Sweden. Today she works mainly as anartist and also as a light and color therapist. She has beenpainting for 25 years. Mostly in oil colour. Three years ago shechanged to acrylic and let go of the control of the painting. Nowshe mixes different materials into the paint for structure andchooses colors and shapes by impulse. She has had manyexhibitions in Sweden and for the last two years, several interna-tional exhibitions. In 2014 she has been selected for five interna-tional awards. Throphy ‘’Knights of Malta’’, ‘’La Palma d’ Oro’’ inMonaco, ‘’Arte Catania’’ in Sicily ”Europa in Arte” in Paris and”Botticelli Prize” in Florence, 2015.Website: www.margaretaskogsberg.com

Marika SoldatiMarika Soldati: ortensio.blu@virgilio.itFacebook: Marika Soldati

Annette MA Stocker

Mette Strand

Magnus Säker

Inga Tomenius-WihlborgBorn in Sweden 1944, live in Stockholm.Studies: Åke Pernbys Målarskola, Stockholm, 1965 – 1966.Beckmans Konsthögskola, Stockholm, 1966 – 1969. Studies inThailand, 1973 – 1976. Studies in Italia, 1978 – 1982.Public Collections in Sweden: Statens Konstråd, Eskilstuna StadsSamlingar, Härnösands Stads Samlingar, Västernorrlands LänsLandstings Samlingar, Örebro Kommuns och Läns LandstingsSamlingar, Värmlands Läns Landstings samlingar, DalarnasLäns landstings Samlingar.Public Collections in Bangkok, Thailand: Bhirasri Institute ofModern Art.Private Colletions: In Denmark, England, France, Italy, Canada,

Sweden, Thailand, USA.Contact:Riddargatan 72, 114 57 Stockholm - tel: +46 8 661 99 58. Studio:Enkehuset, Nortullsgatan 45, Stockholm - tel: +46 73 6975271.Website:http://www.ingatomeniuswihlborg.jimdo.com,http://www.svenskakonstnarer.seE-mail: inga.tomenius-wihlborg@hotmail.com

Susanne WikströmSusanne Wikström lives and works in Västerås, Sweden.She has studied art for four years. She now works mostly withscreenprinting and painting, and preferably both screenprintingand painting in combination on canvas and in large format. Shefeels that an exciting mix is created by combining various tech-niques. She most often uses acrylic for her paintings, as theseare water-based and dry quickly, and she also uses acrylic forscreenprinting.The colour scale she uses leans most often towards the rathermuted range, and Payne´s grey is one of her current favourites;she likes it and thinks that the colour feels beautiful, yet brings atouch of melancholy. Susanne enjoys working with a theme, andfor several years now her paintings contains interior environ-ments and older houses.The rooms she creates most often have influences of the pastwith traces of history. Susanne explains that when she was ayoung teenager she received a painting assignment from hergrandfather, which involved repainting his recreation room.“Guess how surprised my grandfather was,” says Susanne,“when he opened the door to the room and saw the walls decorat-ed with animals of all forms and colours. He burst into heartylaughter. My explanation was that the animals needed a houseand a room. That is something we all need: a physical, spiritualand historical room. A room is not just a room, nor a house. Itcarries something with it, for instance memories, a history. Thereare always traces of something, not only physical things such asinterior furnishings, but also the social interaction it has experi-enced, some person or people who were there previously.”Susanne hopes that her rooms, each in their own way, inspirethought, imagination and reflection and she leaves the interpreta-tion over to the eye of the beholder.

Annika ZetterbergAnnika Zetterberg (1965), Västerås, Sweden. Inspired by nature,animals and fairytales and Swedish folklore Annika loves to paintin acrylic, watercolor, and by working with clay. She hasdisplayed both ceramics and paintings at several expeditions inSweden, and also in Fano (2012), Pisa and Barcelona (2013),and Tuscany (2014). Her work as a teacher of ceramics allowsher to inspire other people to create, which bring her as much joyas creating art herself. See more of her art and crafts:www.azetterberg.webnode.se

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Editorial: Köping, Sweden, February 18, 2015